Liz Batty

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

🆕 at @naturemedicine.bsky.social
How does ChatGPT Health do for appropriately triaging a person as to whether to go to the emergency room or stay home? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Not very well. Under-triaged 52% of case vignettes that are considered gold-standard emergencies

Sizing chaos The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women

Sizing chaos - an incredibly visualised look at how and why women's clothes sizing is a mess that lets down half of all women

The Recollections by Christopher Priest: Pre-Orders and Events Briardene’s next book, The Recollections: Fragments from a Life in Writing by Christopher Priest will be published on Thursday 2 April!

There's a new Briardene Book coming! The Recollections: Fragments from a Life in Writing by Christopher Priest will be out on 2 April. Read more, and pre-order, here: briardenebooks.uk/2026/02/17/t...

I bet if you stick an alert on Ebay someone will have succumbed to this urge years ago and is now flogging an unused kit.

Second date you took him to buy a bicycle?

hold on i gotta take this

[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

A personified AI agent submitted a github PR to matplotlib. The project maintainers closed the issue, then the AI (really, the developer controlling it) published a blog post on "its" blog accusing the project maintainers of discrimination, then the LLM (again, the developer) had to issue an apology

Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny - Nature Methods This Resource paper presents a global SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree of 4,471,579 high-quality genomes consistently constructed by Viridian, an efficient amplicon-aware assembler.

A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our paper, led by @martibartfast.bsky.social
a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny
b) improving representation of the Global South in public data
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Meet the Olympians: What to know about Team USA ice dancers Madison Chock & Evan Bates Meet the real-life couple whose championship pedigree makes them medal threats in Milan Cortina.

and honestly if an accident might lead to accidental severing of a tendon then I would be very picky about who I was willing to lift while they had knives on their feet? www.msn.com/en-us/sports...

I learned this from the Netflix documentary, but it seems like a shortage of male athletes and very hard to find the right partner, so quite often from a different country and lots of moving around. One of the French pair has also skated for Denmark and Canada and is newly French.

colossal stone head @colossal-head.bsky.social the alt text field is where you imagine what guybrush threepwood might say if he examined your image September 5, 2024 at 5:56 PM

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

I aspire to be more Prune www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

alas you will have to hold that thought until 2027

january 30th: a partially formed mr. blobby stands by the perimeter fence and screams for thirty seconds before disappearing

A solid thread on the wildest video game promotions ever but this one takes the biscuit

Britain's youth are living in Nick Clegg's shadow All except the richest graduates since 2012 face a bespoke additional tax. No wonder they're radicalised

"Those 18-year-olds – the first guinea pigs, the class who matriculated in 2012 – are now turning 31. And belatedly, the impact of the loans they were assured were a rock-solid investment in their futures is becoming apparent."

Some thoughts on student loans

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

I quite like the shiny one! But I have a mug I love which has a nice contrast of raw clay versus shiny glaze and this is similar.

Q: How do I unlock Sunglasses Macron?
A: It's very difficult to unlock Sunglasses Macron in the course of a normal game because it requires a specific and unlikely sequence of events. While default Macron is ruler of France, the USA must choose the monarchy path and then lay claim to Greenland.

Côte de Trough of Bowland, surely Trough de Bowland for full send?

however, disproportionately delighted to find they have fixed that tiny annoying gap in the cycle route to Cowley where you couldn't go from Hurst St to Catherine St because of 10 metres of one way on Magdalen Road.

nothing like a bracing bike ride through the freezing cold rain to remind you why you moved to a much warmer country

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

Haven't listened yet but I am a Hugo category purist and it sounds like this is fictional so not really suited for Best Related? Probably dramatic presentation?

The Forbidden Bovril

Oh I think I have definitely got the better end of this deal and I'm going to have to up the stakes to get Abigail to read the sequel.

Yes I complain all the time about books being too long and this is only maybe 100 pages too long. I would also suggest The Incandescent.

I'll bet his tācn tingled with the arrival of her deofol