Julian Fernando

Is YOUR child texting about P.G. Wodehouse? Get to know the signs:

BRB = Bertie’s Rum Bother
LMAO = Lest Maiden Aunts Occur
JFC = Jeeves Favours Caution
BTW = Bold Tie Warnings
WTAF = Well Then, Augustus Fink-Nottle
STFU = Sir, That Fedora’s...Unfortunate

I am begging every software developer to please, for the love of God, PLEASE stop putting AI in everything.

I do not want your craptastic bloat. If you must put it in, let me remove it fully instead of having to refuse it every time I use your thing.

I don't want AI anywhere. Leave me alone.

What's the problem? 429% of households have at least one of these assets.

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Our Last Fair Election?

The Australien Government has made an ad to announce the 2025 election, and it's surprisingly honest and informative. #auspol

most cutting thing you can say is "who's this clown?" because it implies they're a) a clown & b) not even one of the better-known clowns

This Cybertruck did not crash. It made a heartfelt and perhaps ill-advised gesture that, in the moment, might have been misinterpreted as a crash, but we should not rush to judgement.

Helpful!

Children's storybook illustration of the characters Frog and Toad, snug and sleeping soundly in their respective beds in their respective homes

I don't need more friends, I need whatever this is

December, 34 AD:
“I miss Jesus.”
“I’m gonna bring a tree into the house. He would’ve loved that shit.”

So they're just selling shandies now?

New starter pack! Practitioners + researchers in both mental health & societal well-being, addressing the individual and collective anxiety & grief we feel in response to the climate crisis, as well as understanding + overcoming societal & psychological barriers to climate action.

Who'd I miss?

Swedish Chef/Rapper’s Delight…

i am begging designers of ethics application systems to recognise not only that low-risk research exists but that it doesn't require the same 20 pages of questions as high-risk research

BEGGING YOU

A reminder that abstract submissions for the special issue of BJSP "No time like the future? Towards a generative, prospective and possibilities-focussed ‘futures social psychology'" are closing on Nov 30th. bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/page/2…

‘Promising’ results from first year of innovative grant awarding trial show greater diversity of... Early results from an innovative new trial in how the British Academy awards its Small Research Grants suggests that introducing partial randomisation into the selection process could lead to a more e...

The British Academy runs a multiyear trial on randomizing grant allocation among proposals that exceed quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/promisi...
Looks like a lottery increases diversity of recipients on many dimensions. 1/

Graph showing funded providing to Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, and the success rate of proposals, each year since 2002. The success rate has declined sharply since 2020, and is now at its lowest point ever (16.3%). The funding in this graph has been adjusted for inflation to 2023$. Data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AyITNrCVt7pdLiUzyvC99q7l_X99rCS68r8_3i3h85s/edit?usp=sharing

It's harder to get funding for basic research projects than ever before in Australia.

The @arc_gov_au Discovery Projects scheme now has the lowest “success rate” ever: 16.3%.

Only 1 in 6 grants are funded.

Why? The funding available has plummeted.

Please help, Jason Clare MP❗️

Odd this day Happy 41st anniversary of the day Gary Larson issued the Cow Tools Apology — or at least it’s 41 years since The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, printed this: The full story explains — in glorious…

Happy 41st anniversary plus one day of Cow Tools first appearing - which means it’s the 41st anniversary of the statement Gary Larson had to put out because the cartoon bewildered so many people

Nope. As you were. Relentless disappointment.

C'mon Australia. Remember, we don't have to be relentlessly disappointing.