Matt Luckcuck

Ah, a name I recognise from several jobs ago.

I'd like to ask "how do we ensure that using robots in the sea does not harm wildlife or inadvertently alter their natural behaviour? Especially for electrical signals and sonar, etc."
🙂

A black and white photo of Simona wearing sunglasses and a dark jumper.

Got questions about #robots for ocean observation? 🤖

Later this season, I'll be chatting to Dr. Simona Aracri from the National Research Council of Italy about innovative robot designs for oceanography and environmental monitoring.

Send me your questions for Simona in the comments below!

Save 60% on Expelled! on Steam A School Prefect has been pushed out of a window, and everyone's blaming YOU. Can you find the culprit - or someone to take the fall - before you get EXPELLED? Mystery with a wicked twist, from the cr...

Look out! EXPELLED has fallen to its lowest ever price as a Steam Daily Deal - this window won’t last long so strike it while it’s too Good to be True!

Nice piece on one aspect of the ‘what do we think research is for’ question

Mel Stride repeats inaccurate claim about youth unemployment – Full Fact Full Fact is the UK’s independent fact checking charity

Conservative shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride claimed the UK’s youth unemployment is “the highest in Europe”.

This isn’t correct. The UK’s youth unemployment rate is higher than the EU average, but some European countries have higher rates. #SpringStatement

Majel Barrett Voice: bAsTeD BeEf BaStEd

Huh, now the ship's doing it too...

Beyond Forecasting: Using MRP (multi-level regression with post-stratification) to investigate minority political behaviour at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Beyond Forecasting: Using MRP (multi-level regression with post-stratification) to investigate minority political behaviour at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com

*Academics of Bluesky:* Do you know a great UG/PG student with excellent quants skills?

@nspmartin.bsky.social and I are advertising a great fully-funded PhD on MRP and minority voting with our friends at Ipsos, so send them our way! ✌️

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

It’s clear to me that the argument is actually about what you think the point of doing research is. If it’s papers, AI will be faster. But I don’t think it’s papers I think it’s the process and I want to do that process

do students really want spend between tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition just to be taught by professors who have outsourced their work to AI?

An infographic with weighing scales showing that the majority of universities not on X outweigh those still using the platform

If you are part of a university or UK facing research organisation, publisher, funder, learned society and they are still posting on X - they're in a rather uncomfortable minority now. Perhaps point them to the eXit.

My piece for the @lseimpactblog.bsky.social

blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
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Lieutenant Commander Data, on the futuristic star ship Enterprise, using a fancy replicator to order his chicken nuggets.

"Chicken Nuggets"

Text on the from of a soap dispenser: "foam hand wash".

Great, but what if I don't have foam hands?

Post your favourite Doctor Who, wrong answers only.

Brent Spiner as Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

All I'm saying is, if Data spoke in a weird smug approximation of Internet slang, couldn't spell strawberry and kept telling the crew of the Enterprise to kill themselves, people wouldn't have liked him as much.

WhO iS rYaN?

Theft is bad, folks - unless a multibillion-dollar corporation does it, in which case it's good. This is definitely a morally and economically sustainable operating model for society.

Some people have a guardian angel.

I have a telegraph angel.

It asks me why it should look after me when I should be looking after myself.

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.

This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.

Please spread the word.

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“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...

Can't stop laughing at a story my friend told me yesterday about going to meet a work contact at the gates of Trinity. He went up to another waiting man and said "Are you Michael?" "Yes" "Will we go for a coffee?" "Sure." Over a coffee he realises it's not the Michael he's meant to be meeting.

Black and white illustration featuring a forest setting with central hippo like creature, hedgehog in the foreground and birds flying overhead

Illustration from Tove Jansson's book 'The Moomins and the Great Flood' (1945) #Womensart

AI’s ‘memorisation’ problem: the novels it can’t forget Research that shows LLMs memorise more training data than previously thought raises questions about copyright infringement

‘The world’s top AI models can be prompted to generate near-verbatim copies of bestselling novels, raising fresh questions about the industry’s claim that its systems do not store copyrighted works.’
www.ft.com/content/e4b7...

Amazing! 😁
This will be stuck in my head for days. 🎶

What does it say Terri!?

‘Unbelievably dangerous’: experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases

Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

When will the UK government wake up to the wholesale destruction of HE that's happening?
This affects towns and cites across the UK, our businesses, the NHS, schools, young people, our global standing, everything! Higher Education, Universities, contribute over £265 BILLION to the economy.

From Einstein to Neinstein. 👍🏻

Generic white dude who programs @westbynoreaster Why then did you take down the “Einstein” chatbot? 1:22 AM · Feb 26, 2026 · 67 Views Advait Paliwal @advaitpaliwal · 16h Cease and desist Generic white dude who programs @westbynoreaster · 15h Really? Presumably from Canvas/Instructure, right? Advait Paliwal @advaitpaliwal · 7h Due to the name Einstein

In utterly DELIGHTFUL news, Adwait Paliwal, the desi techbro behind the cheatbot Einstein AI which claimed it could log into Canvas and do/turn in your assignments for you has been forced to take down his website.
He'll likely be back, and there are others like him in abundance, sadly.

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