Phillip Barlow ⚒️

There's been a stall advertising the benefits of the YMCA at Cannon St the last couple of days. Sorely tempted to go and ask if they have everything for young men to enjoy, and if it's a place you can go when you're short on your dough

Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’?

Behind the Dismantling of the C.D.C.: Reform or ‘Humiliation’? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/h...

This is a crisis. A large crisis. In fact, if you have a moment, it's a twelve storey crisis with a magnificent entrance hall, 24 hour porterage, carpeting throughout and a sign on the roof saying "This is a Large Crisis" #whufc

Apologies for not responding sooner - I fear I am not worthy of any kudos, as all I can find is a reference to it supposedly being published in October 2006 in a presentation given by one of the pilot sites...

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Why medical students are choosing Bulgaria over UK The BBC has spoken to students choosing Bulgaria due to UK's strict cap on medical school places.

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Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video | TechCrunch Looks like Wikipedia isn't immune to broader online trends.

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Barrister found to have used AI to prepare for hearing after citing ‘fictitious’ cases Judge rules Chowdhury Rahman used ChatGPT-like software and then tried to hide it, wasting immigration tribunal’s time

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Hopefully I've been able to help

Libraries for Nursing Bulletin Vol 26(4) Editorial3Getting the Evidence…and Using It? NLH / NHS England LibQUAL + Pilot Library Survey 2006: The RCN ExperienceJudy Atkinson4Proving Our Worth: Evidence for the Value and Effectiveness…

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Has the United States issued sanctions against Norway yet?

Astronomers spot a massive wave rolling across our galaxy A colossal wave is rolling through the Milky Way’s stars, mapped by ESA’s Gaia telescope and reshaping our understanding of galactic motion.

Here comes the Nexus...

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Corrupted Data, Lost Data, Sensitive Data, Historical Data, Questionable Data, Suspicious Data, Biological Data, Hard Data

There's all kinds of data...

From Collections to Commons: Announcing a Wikimedian in Residence at Manaaki Whenua From Collections to Commons: Announcing a Wikimedian in Residence at Manaaki Whenua Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research Group now have a Wikimedian in Residence on board, […]

Manaaki Whenua have appointed Siobhan Leachman as their Wikimedian in Residence!

Supporting staff to share their expertise, @siobhanleachman.bsky.social will be assisting the group with contributing content from their nationally significant collections to openly accessible Wikimedia platforms.

I asked a librarian if she had a book about Pavlov’s dog and Schrödinger’s cat… She said it rang a bell, but she wasn’t sure if it was there or not.

Fixed it...

"I want to be unlimited World Ruler with no possibility of ever being prosecuted for anything ever again, and I want to remain World Ruler perpetually, so no one can take the title from me even after death"

I believe that twins are more likely to give birth to twins, so you at least had something there...

It is inordinately painful to watch this at the moment #whufc

"Once you use ChatGPT, you don't want to think for yourself anymore"

THAT IS A TERRIFYING SENTENCE

‘They said I should be purged and killed’: The librarians who stood up for free speech In 2019, Martha Hickson was told by the school superintendent to remove the graphic memoir Fun Home, by the gay writer Alison Bechdel, from her school library in Annandale, New Jersey, where she had worked as a librarian since 2005. She refused. Two years later, a small group of parents demanded during a school board meeting that two further books ...

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So, how long do we reckon before Nuno takes over? 🤔 #whufc

There is a special place in Hell reserved for all of the individuals that have left me stuck at Imperial Wharf for the last 40 minutes trying to get on a train to go home

AJP Taylor - not a referencing guy

Greenwich and Kent announce merger to form 'super-university' Universities are facing ongoing financial worries, with the regulator saying other mergers could follow.

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Kennedy, Rejecting Data, Fuels Distrust of His Own Agencies

Kennedy, Rejecting Data, Fuels Distrust of His Own Agencies www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

Missouri governor calls special session to redraw congressional maps to aid Republicans State follows Texas’s lead in Trump’s push to gain more House seats for Republicans in 2026 midterms

You know you're losing the argument if you end up pressuring your lackeys to change the rules in your favour

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There can't be many international organisations that are as stuck up their own backside as UEFA...

RFK Jr claims he can diagnose children by just looking at them Kennedy has often raised concerns about the increasing juvenile diabetes and autism rates

Now it seems America's public health system is in the hands of someone who can divine illness by simply looking at a person. If we didn't think Kennedy was a Whack-a-doodle before, we sure as hell do now.

America, you're going to kill us all.

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