Andrew W Moore (he/him)

Whatever the context, this is an eternal and undeniable truth:

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Her progress from those early days is such a delightful to see.

Tell the Government: Protect VPN use in the UK Take action! Protect VPN use in the UK VPNs help people to stay private and safe online. Young people use them to avoid harassment, or protect location data. Companies use them to make sure remote log...

Protect VPN use in the UK action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-governm...

I wonder where this ends - I can imagine this causing even pain for hobby setups ones like @spiny.org.uk which don't offer a VPN service as such but with SSH tunnelling could certainly be used as one.

A new space race could turn our atmosphere into a ‘crematorium for satellites’ Planned ‘megaconstellations’ of satellites could cause unforeseen harm to the ozone layer and climate systems. Global regulation is needed before it’s too late.

Excellent piece from @astrokiwi.bsky.social @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy & Laura Revell.

This one sentence is the crux of it all 👇

"There is no public mandate for a single company in one country to make changes on that scale to the planet’s atmosphere."

Highly recommended.

🔭🧪

so you've probably heard about the London measles outbreak. A lot of people are talking about anti-vax misinformation, but that's not actually the problem here. The problem is austerity. 🧵

America's vaccine wars are shaking Australia, driven by 'sticky' myth With immunisation rates declining and outbreaks of infectious diseases like measles increasing, the consequences of vaccine hesitancy in Australia are becoming clearer.

Australia’s fight against vaccine hesitancy

Addressing vaccine hesitancy requires skill & patience: some days, the people who do it feel like they’re drowning in a sea of lies.

I was born BEFORE most vaccines. The anti-vaxxers of today have no fvcking idea what it was like. VACCINATE! #health

A war foretold: how the CIA and MI6 got hold of Putin’s Ukraine plans and why nobody believed them Drawing on more than 100 interviews with senior intelligence officials and other insiders in multiple countries, this exclusive account details how the US and Britain uncovered Vladimir Putin’s plans ...

Silence your phone, put the dogs out and the kids down for a nap. Then curl up and read this article/-it’s a long one, but very good.

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Plan 9 from outer space - clearly 🤣

Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way.

Supportive thoughts.

You are a good person.

This matters.

An image of Star Wars Princess Leia bent as if to programme r2d2 (episode 4) overlaid on the thickening walls of a cholesterol filled blood vessel. Beneath is the text “Help us, cholesterol. You’re our only hope”

🍰 Happy birthday to David Skinner who turns 94 years young today.

🗺️ "I've got a United Nations heart bypass to prove it. And it was done by a Syrian cardiologist, a Malaysian surgeon, a Dutch doctor, a Nigerian registrar"

"And these two people here, talk about sending them back."

🤣

Totally!

Decades ago my awesome colleague Denis Zuev introduced me to neat ML technique called fcbf - forever referred to as FuSBar

It occurs to me now I wonder if it shares heritage with FUBAR. 🤔

Quite enjoy the libre.fm experience for audiobooks; drm free and support a nominated local brick and mortar store too

People aren’t afraid of the Prince of Darkness anymore.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Blasting through the Rivers of London series. Most enjoyable. It is a series but the first is delightful and stands alone well.

Fun stuff with a delightful attention to detail by
@benaaronovitch.bsky.social

I consume mostly via audiobooks and the narrator Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is masterful.

Glad I wasn't the only one….

What is a silverback doing in Dartmoor?… (peering)…. Oh… Should have gone to opticians of choice… hmmmm

as a left-wing American, I feel the need to warn the British something they already know: if you have a choice between milquetoast centrist fucks everyone hates and literal Nazis, please don’t make the same mistake that we did

a cartoon monkey wearing a pirate hat is playing drums in a band with other monkeys . ALT: a cartoon monkey wearing a pirate hat is playing drums in a band with other monkeys .

Love it.

Here is a current view of the Matterhorn in Switzerland with bright red aurora and green proton aurora spots.

Solar wind data are turning a bit sour for extreme low-latitude aurora for the U.S., but the system is still pumped up enough for Europe!

go.theauroraguy.com/webcams

How Effective is Australia’s Social Media Age Limit? w/ Cam Wilson - Tech Won’t Save Us

A decent perspective; covered in broader terms.

The implementation (in Australia) was not the plan nor trial; merely a political expediency. Maybe the uk can do better.

techwontsave.us/episode/307_...

Your son earned a Pulitzer? Well that seems awesome

Dear Sir Paul, Re: Royal Society Code of Conduct I am sure that many scientists have written to you about the specific question of Elon Musk’s Fellowship and whether, under the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct, his retaining that Fellowship is appropriate. I will not rehash these issues. Instead, as a female scientist with extensive experience of activities aiming to increase equality, diversity and inclusion in the engineering and physical sciences sector, I am writing to you (in a personal capacity) to ask you to reconsider the statements you have recently made in this context to the UK press about the Royal Society’s Code of Conduct and how it is applied. A 2018 report from the joint National Academies of the United States of America, concluded that “sexual harassment is common in academic science, engineering, and medicine” and that “greater than 50 percent of women faculty and staff and 20–50 percent of women students encounter or experience sexually harassing conduct in academia”. This report described codes of conduct that make clear that sexual harassment is unethical and will not be tolerated as a “powerful incentive for change”. The authors also noted that sexual harassment can have significant and damaging effects on the integrity of research. In my own praxis, I have found that clear and consistently-implemented codes of conduct that address these issues make female scientists and engineers safer, and allow them to focus more effectively on their research. For codes of conduct to have such a positive effect, it is vital that sanctions for actions which transgress the code are meaningful and substantial.

I was hence aghast to realise that in an interview with the Financial Times published on 9/1/26, you appear to have suggested that the Royal Society “should only expel fellows if their science proved “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective””. Moreover, in a further interview with the Guardian on 11/1/26 you suggested that the code “may need to be looked at again”, with the implication that your aim would be to remove the option of sanctions on Fellows for reasons not strictly related to faults or defects in their research. I suggest that changing the Royal Society’s code of conduct so that the likelihood of serious sanctions for sexual harassment is reduced, would directly endanger women who interact with the Royal Society at events or otherwise, and would provide a licence to harass to the already powerful people on whom the Society bestows fellowship. The implications of your words - that under your leadership the only infringements of the code which are likely to receive the sanction of the Fellowship being removed are those related to research misconduct - already risk empowering harassers. You stated, in the Financial Times interview, that “there’s many bad people around, but they have made scientific advances”. Given this awareness of the possibility of bad actors in our scientific community, it is wholly irresponsible to suggest that the Royal Society would not act to sanction these people if they harass more vulnerable scientists. I am hence writing to request that you retract any suggestion that the Society’s Code of Conduct should be changed so that the only reason a Fellow might be sanctioned by the removal of their Fellowship is “faulty or fraudulent or highly defective” research. This action is necessary to safeguard female scientists, a requirement placed on the Society by safeguarding legislation and UK statutory guidance. Yours sincerely, Professor Rachel A. Oliver.

Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.

Oh everytime. ❤️❤️❤️ this big one

…a vibe based list….

Nice phrase