Mark Schira

Universities across the world from the US to the UK to Australia and Canada, are now "led" by an interchangeable Global Admin class who swap places every couple of years. Their blandness, lack of local roots and commitments, and general third-tier-CEO vibes are their main feature, not a bug. 2/4

I don’t think they believe it, i would hope they are not that stupid. I rather think they benefit from lying.

YouTube video by Layer fMRI Faruk Gulban: Meso-Vessel Imaging with 7 T MRI

Yesterday, @ofgulban.bsky.social gave a great talk about efficient imaging of small veins.
It was inspiring. Impressive how much information is there waiting to be harvested.
youtu.be/7wStzJNUXic?...

Always great to listen to.

How about we stop confusing power or strength with capacity? 200MW is not a capacity, it’s power or strength.
I know you did it right in your post, but the flashy video does not.

I'm thankful for Sci-Hub, even though I have access to most journals through multiple institutions.

You think it's going to happen in any substantial fashion? I am not convinced. I am struggling to see the advantage over a regular city. While I see a lot of disadvantages.

It's even simpler actually.
Supermarket car parks are starting to add solar shade systems. Install a couple of chargers attached and people charge while parking at the supermarket.
Or work carparks.
Simple things, most of them will work for some people only, together they will work for everybody.

Two figures from our manuscript:

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The highest quality MRI of living child brains. 0.5 mm resolution makes all the difference, our manuscript is on bioRxiv
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Quite the interesting shift in meaning, pretty fun! i guess when you forget what it usually means in German, and just start from the words it makes sense. learned something today!

Interesting. You're certain? The German word means literally "wedged up", meaning prude, unable to let loose and be free, silly and uninhibited.

what does verklempt mean?
You're not thinking of the German word? Because that does not seem to fit.

The rise of the green curve is not what matters. The decline of the gray/black one does.

🪑 Armchair activists, assemble! 😜

We need YOU to sign our petition to the Port to stop coal ships during the Blockade.

The Port calls itself “a global leader in sustainability” — let's pressure them to live up to that claim.

risingtide.nationbuilder.com/stop_the_coa...

No I don't!

I actually want to save time from doing useless admin stuff, so I can spend MORE time reading, understanding and writing research papers!

The same stupidity with the milk thing.
Except it won't even help the meat industry or lobby either. Well, it may help someone in the lobby group itself, because they can go around claiming to their customers that they did a great thing, while in fact they haven't. But it won't help anybody.

I upgrade to MacOS Tahoe, and it is literally broken. There so many issues, it is beyond count. The newest hit is, I wrote a file with excel and want to open it with another application. But Apple refuses.

Despite a lot of potential for cheap solar untapped, I am not 100% convinced is no need/use for seasonal storage. It would mean wasting a lot of electricity in summer. But given how cheap solar is, that may be fine.
I cannot see how digging up coal, oil or gas could possibly be cheaper…

Upgrading the solar and battery in our house is possibLe. Affordable compared to paying for the expensive grid connection. But what do we do with our excess energy in summer then?
I agree we have plenty solar capacity and it is not terrible expensive, but it is a little complicated.

We could add more panels. Easy. We could save electricity, for example using heat pump hot water. But what about an electric car in Winter.

From my own experience: I live in Wollongong, south of Sydney. Sunny, suburban. Ideal. I have 8kW on the roof. Generates about 1.5 times the energy we need. house uses no gas. But over winter we lack about 300kWh. That is too much for a battery, but we have too much electricity in Summer.

The way of the lord is mysterious?🤷‍♂️

How many frames is this?

Singlet fission research breakthrough unlocks high solar cell efficiency University of New South Wales researchers have filed patent protection and are working to scale production of a new class of photostable organic molecules proven to boost silicon solar cell efficiency...

If I understand this correctly, this is huge. It increases the theoretical maximum efficiency of solar cells from 29% to 42%.
And it’s apparently close to application.
www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2025/10/02/s...

Yea, since reality is totally against fossil fuels, they just make up lies and bullshit.
Can we please have back conservatives that care about reality?

But these numbers suggest Germany has about 0.87 MWh/ million people, while Australia has 0.56.
Where is all that power and why does it not see, to be a significant contribution to the electricity grid? Or is it, and
just nobody knows about it?

Interesting, this graph suggests Australia has an sig amount of wind power installed, when seen in context to the population. I was under the impression there was barely any because apparently there is massive prejudice against noise and other negative effects of wind power.

Interesting how much unconstructive prejudice a post with the word Oxford generates.
As per solving Oxford’s admission problems, I think interviews are the only option.
Not perfect , many drawbacks, but i see no other solution to avoid immense waste of time and electricity for AI and counter AI.

$2000? Wow, that’s super expensive, unless it also includes a decent battery.
They cost around €500 in Europe.