Richard J Hewitt

The key question is whether he had also been drinking the wine before he “missed a bend on his bike on his way home from the supermarket on a lonely road in the mountainous Cevennes region”

Oval intaglio engraved with a skeletal human figure resting on an amphora and holding a jug, carved in translucent amber-colored stone.

Happy #Halloween
This intaglio depicts a skeleton resting on an amphora and holding a jug. Such representations were intended to remind to enjoy life to the fullest since pleasure ends irrevocably with death.

Photo: Museum August Kestner/Christian Tepper

#RomanArchaeology

Not much consolation for the AI generated shark problem, but if you haven’t read this I do recommend.
philarchive.org/archive/GUEATU
Good to see at least *some* high quality critical pushback against the injection of AI slop into everything from some directions…

“Not everything that is buried is dead.” Heinrich Heine

Papyrus or vellum perhaps? Looking forward to the next “call for parchments”

Very pleased that @groene.nl translated a @projectsyndicate.bsky.social piece by @olivia.science and me into Dutch 😌

www.groene.nl/artikel/ai-h...

S5 E11 - Steven Shapin on the Social Life of Scientific Knowledge Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 19/10/2025 · 50m

This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️

We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges

No, what is happening is that everyone is using chatgpt to write their grant applications because writing all that turgid robotic crud was a barrier before & now it isn’t

GRANTA The Unspoken David Hayden Horror from David Hayden. "A shuddering, wordless voice rose in the distance, and another, and another; a chorus, a lament, which ended in a low grunt. There was a coda of sobbing. There was silence'

My short story ‘The Unspoken’ online @grantamag.bsky.social granta.com/the-unspoken/

DC 😍😍

Today the US honors the man who discovered Columbus, Ohio.

Yup, me too. Hard not to add extra stuff

Sensible advice which I try to follow

Green Infrastructure

Great read. Just the tonic I need to deal with multiple rejections

Important new study by the @doughnuteconomics.bsky.social team in @nature.com finding that "the richest 20% of nations, with 15% of the global population, contribute more than 40% of annual ecological overshoot" doi.org/10.1038/s415...

doomscroll break

How many reports have found exactly this now? Have to be more than a dozen.

Clarification: how do ICE thugs get away with pulling people off the street in broad daylight?

Almost unbelievable. How do they get away with this shit?

AI: the ultimate human ingenuity in service of producing an abundance of mediocrity.

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

This is what I want to hear from a politician and why I am a Green Party member.

Vote for real change, #VoteGreen 🌍💚

IIRC the awesome “Who Would Win” books called this match in favor of the squid

Amazing work! Congratulations!

Poster of the Open Letter: Stop the uncritical adoption of ‘AI’ technologies in academia, with QR code

Ran into this poster on our campus today 😊

Fantastic initiative!

Sorry but you are talking nonsense. Just because Bluesky is a generally amiable space doesn’t give you the right to call people who don’t vote the way you do “fools”. Other parties exist because people don’t feel represented by Labour. Their voters are different to you, but they are not stupid.