Gavin Buckingham

Seat aside, I'm captivated by that art image

Another gem from Marketplace

Elicited an instant 'ew' response from me

I once had a paper reviewed, where the reviewer reconstructed the data from a scatterplot to make some point about an analysis I could do, instead of just downloading the raw data from the linked OSF 🫠

Definitely wishing I'd gotten my oil tank filled up last week...

People trying to hide themselves when taking photos of mirrors to sell is a bit of an artform, but I really love to people who decide to lean into the fact that they cannot hide

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UM YES

So after a week in Málaga and Seville, I'm curious about if anyone at these institutions would like to start a long term collaboration which would allow me to visit regularly

It's called Skye's Cafe Wall illusion (after the artist who created it, Victoria Skye www.victoriaskye.com)

The illusion people don't like it being called the cafe wall illusion, because it's not the cafe wall illusion

The tweet was just begging to be written though

Look at how hard you have to work to not find illusions impressive!

The strongest version of this illusion I’ve seen! Absolute head-wrecker!

I have this on a t shirt!

Arrgh they are like horrible worms!

Who loves Airbnb art? Because I found you some

Seville university is gorgeous

It's an interesting feeling that it generates, but I think the company has totally changed direction and doesn't make the hardware any more

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When someone on the parents WhatsApp group starts a message with "no offence to any, but..."

The Jim Carrey quadrology is now complete. Best to worst

Ace Ventura 2 (by a mile)
Ace Ventura
Dumb and dumber
The Mask

More than half of biologists serving on search committees or reviewing grants report using the journal Impact Factor to judge credibility of research articles - despite all the known problems of Impact Factors.

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Hey! Sign DORA!

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Moving to the sports science world from psychology means a lot more of these emails. Last week I taught motor control to someone who won a gold medal at the European championships a few weeks after she broke the parkrun world record on one of her 'one or two parkruns a year' she does

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

I'm in two minds about the blanket ban (I think that any culture shift away from normalizing social media use in kids would take time, and this would be one of the ways to start). But parents who feel they need the blanket ban to do their parenting, meh

Us folks with kids are famously divided about how to raise kids, so I imagine I'll cop some heat for my opinion!

And it's so easy to control access to apps and websites with just a tiny bit of effort (at least before they turn 13)

Or, Indeed, parent your children. I'm bewildered at the number of parents who think their child shouldn't be able to use social media, but who are still permitted by the parents to use social media

Doi_checker | Thomas Pollet (Northumbria University) As I anticipate I might face a wave of AI generated theses/assessments, I spent some time building a “doi checker” with some help of my silicon friends (Claude Opus - Why not co-opt the tools which br...

I pulled a basic shiny app together to check doi's - but note it comes with no warranties,... . tvpollet.github.io/2026-01-30-D...

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I enjoyed the cryptic reference to 'issues' if you check many documents at once

How I Built a Tool to Detect AI-Generated Fake References Large Language Models(LLMs) have become part of everyday academic and technical writing. But there is...

Does anyone know if there's an online version/shiny app of something like this? This is pretty much unworkable on a university computer without elevated access rights

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Indeed, I've just decided not to read it!