Alex Nurse

This is wild. I've sat on peer review colleges and I would say that maybe 20% of what you see is solid enough you'd happily fund it.

It's such a crushing waste of time - especially when you see it metricised as a vehicle to determine "performance". Even submitting is a herculean task...

After a series of community events in Sept/Oct, the JUST Centre has been launched in West Cumbria, Merseyside, Gtr Manchester, West Yorkshire & the North East. Big thanks to all who participated. Looking forward to working together for an inclusive just transition in the UK @justcentre.bsky.social

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

It's handy though, and I'll use it in my transport economics lecture to the first years.

Induced demand/reduced demand, and this.

You can draw your own conclusions...

I opened the article to read it. Oh it's Tim Leunig*. I understand everything now.

*Since I've been aware of his work, I don't think we agree on much...

2000 consecutive days of duolingo

What started as something constructive and positive to do for my mental health during the first lockdown has sprawled into 2000 days of duolingo (which ironically has not alwaysbbeen mission achieved).

Am I any better at speaking Polish now?

Nie.

This added cost will inevitably be passed on to patients, making private care less accessible and discouraging doctors from continuing or entering private practice"

Don't threaten me with a good time.

Glad to see some evidence that shared space isn't really the answer either (I've long, long, thought it was usually just a cop out).

Please put this under the nose of every highway authority in the land.

Pick your kids up from school.
Don't reply to that email at 10pm. It almost certainly can wait until the morning.
Not every conference is worth it.
Call bad behaviour out.
Don't be afraid to stick up for yourself.
You're not the only who feels that way.

"No." is a complete sentence.

A few years ago, during a project meeting, I had one of my most formative experiences as an academic. A table of mid(ish)-career folk agreed we a) didn't like the toxic 'norms' of academia, b) we would do more to both speak up against it and c) act differently.

I try to embody it every way I can.

As the nights draw in, the clocks get ready to go back, and I need to light my bike up like a Christmas tree, I'm (once again) starting to think about the Messi Principle.

Your bike infra might be great on a sunny Sunday afternoon, but can it do it on a cold rainy night in Stoke*?

*your town.

Entirely apropos of nothing, but why is the 'constant' setting of fairy lights always last.

I don't want the rave setting, and never will.

As I said on my own timeline...

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Pretty much spot on - the parking strategy is more of the stick (which I think IS needed) and public transport is the carrot.

Oyster-style ticketing, circular routes, better movement across/around the city centre is all still needed.

I think the big picture is right here. In recent chats with officers we've often spoken about how Liverpool has a transport network of multiple modes, rather than a true multi-modal network.

The individual parts are (mostly) ok, but could be better. And, crucially, they don't connect well.

@stuartwilksheeg.bsky.social Hi Stuart - a summer or so ago I remember you had a solar charging battery box. Would you still recommend it? What one do you have?

I'm looking at getting some stuff while demand is lower.

Betfred says all its shops may close if Reeves hikes gambling tax The company's co-founder says it would be forced to close all its sites, putting 7,500 jobs at risk, if gambling taxes go up.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I noticed it would take longer and longer to switch off, especially if I was going South out of the city. Probably one of the few things I missed about life in a smaller town.

I also really missed riding with my friends during covid. There's something about not looking at someone so you can talk.

Finally, I have broken my cardinal rule (headwind put, tailwind home, that's the way I like to roll), and I will shortly suffer every bit of those 35 miles home into a block headwind.

Fair play to you for calling it out too. I get it *a bit* and it can be a proper joy sapper, but it must be really hard for public figures (that from last night stuck in my mind but you see it all over).

I generally like the Everton ground (though I think it's boring), but they completely tapped out of doing any decent public realm works/planning gain outside of the physical site. The city will pay the costs of that for decades.

I've been thinking about the King edward triangle. I'm sure there will be something about it that will do my head in likely cycle routing) but burying strand seems like a good thing to me...

The pleasure but sometimes absolute tedium of social media. We've been watching a lot of Stath Let's Flats recently and this little line stuck with me.

You don't have to tell people you dont like their posts. You're free to keep moving on...

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Jesse from the fast show

On today's ride i have mostly been thinking about...

A straight tarmacked road stretching out over farmland

Also a tip of the hat to @mounsey.bsky.social who put me onto a failed bridge that has turned my favourite place in the world to ride into a car free zone.

A very rare full morning out which I have taken complete advantage of. Currently sat 35 miles and 2hrs into what will be the longest ride since my youngest was born.

I reckon my commuter bike plays a huge part in keeping me sane, but it's hard to describe the deeper place you go on longer rides.

I don't think I'm particularly special, but I'm of the view that we talk a good game on this, but there are big parts of the sector that are tell but don't show.

I could go on about the 1001 ways colleagues chip away at it. It's not just old school toxic male culture either - some of the worst offenders have been women: "you don't go to enough conferences", in person meeting at 9am on campus etc.

The article is great and the tone of the post is good too. Even talking with my wife about it, it's complicated and I imagine every family wears it slightly differently.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says channel 4 news team . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a sign that says channel 4 news team .

His dad took him the footie when he was 5, 6, 7. Maybe he did, and maybe I'm wrong, but...