John Buckeridge

With the focus on religious communities you'd think they would. I suppose logic isn't their strong point.

Interesting and informative podcast, thanks! One question i have regards Muslim communities. It seems blue labour should be very supportive, but cosying up to bannon etc suggests not. What is their position? If they are supportive it would be a clear divide with the labour right?

Why AI chatbots lie to us A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully agr...

In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail).

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

If you’re based in Britain and are hurling-curious, the final will be on BBC 2 tomorrow afternoon: www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

It might help put the article below (or indeed, my annual fretting about the fortunes of the Cork hurling team) into context.

Framed comic of 101 dalmatians (binary version) by world of moose

Claire is very happy with this present! Always love a maths joke. Thanks to @mooseallain.bsky.social !

Bjork bouncing.

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident

Conscientious SUV Shopper Just Wants Something That Will Kill Family In Other Car In Case Of Accident theonion.com/conscie...

Tonight’s huge climbdown is testament to the countless disabled people who have tirelessly fought these cuts. Yes, UC was a loss and there’s more to do on PIP, but let’s not underplay this: a government with a vast majority has been forced to u-turn. Because of the disabled community.

Well that's tonight's nightmare sorted

Kneecap set was great. Why is there only 12 mins of Amyl and the Sniffers on iplayer though? #Glastonbury

photo of the sun going down dramatically. it is very orange and there are rays of light extending out from light lilac grey clouds above and the sillhouettes of trees on the suburban skyline

yeah that's right fuck off

Comic. [Two houses next to each other. Piping runs from one underground, connecting it to the other.] [caption] A covertly-installed *Neighbor-Source Heat Pump* takes advantage of the fact that your neighbor keeps their house cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

Neighbor-Source Heat Pump

xkcd.com/3099/

Alright scrotum throat, what’s the craic?

Collage picture of bearded man in colourful suit

Collage work from today's life drawing lesson! #art

It's incredible to think that British liberal democracy is (maybe) going under because the labour party outsourced its entire intellectual apparatus to some gobshite from *Macroom.* Truly, the long tail of empire.

Exploration of crystal chemical space using text-guided generative artificial intelligence - Nature Communications The vastness of chemical space makes discovering new materials challenging. Here, authors propose a generative AI model enabling crystal structures generation from textual descriptions, accelerating m...

The first release of our text-to-crystal model, Chemeleon, is out in @natcomms.nature.com 🌈

Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Code: github.com/hspark1212/c...

You can sample an inorganic structure in minutes on a laptop thanks to @hspark1212.bsky.social - #CompChem that gives me goosebumps!

Lovely to hear from the Prime Minister that the historical policies which allowed my Mum to remain in the UK after studying here, thus enabling my existence, was a “squalid experiment in open borders”.

Charcoal and chalk drawing of a woman reclining

Charcoal and chalk on black paper drawing of a standing woman, front view

Three drawings of a woman in different poses. Charcoal and chalk

First life drawing class since January! The Saturday classes keep getting cancelled and today only 3 of us were there, but hope to have some more in the next few weeks

Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object xkcd.com/3084

Row of poster boards stretching away in centre with two people in foreground discussing second poster in row. Portraits of academics hanging from wires above

poster session B at #QCTIP on day one in Berlin

A watercolour painting in shades of green and blue of the island of Ireland, with a suspiciously large chunk missing from the south.

Was once asked to paint all 31 counties of Ireland as a commission, a task that was uncontroversial and made nobody shout at me.

Illustrative map of the theoretical power conversion efficiency (PCE) of a single junction solar cell, depending on the capture coefficient (C_defect) and concentration ([Defect]) of point defects in the bulk of the absorber material.

There are many sides to "defect tolerance" in metal halide perovskite solar cells 🛑. Our discussions with @hoyegroupox.bsky.social led to a new review in @natrevchem.bsky.social led by @ireaml.bsky.social. Out today #ChemSky: rdcu.be/egK3Z

Lovely painting of the badlands on the periphery of the people's republic

What do you mean the stock market lost 3.1 trillion dollars

Go find it

Colander shadow showing 30% partial solar eclipse

Partial eclipse!

Hmm. Probably won't plan on going to APS, MRS or ACS anytime soon

RIP to a true legend. I still have the copy of Zany Tales I got as a child and have read it to my own kids. So many great poems too

Stefan Collini in @londonreview.bsky.social, October 2013

Great thread!

It's a regular sized potato, he's just really small