Ed Gerstner 印格致

Turns out the 20mph limit was great idea! Two years on from the controversial policy, it's becoming increasingly clear that the doubters were wrong

Great piece on the Welsh government’s 20mph policy by @willhaycardiff.bsky.social

“What is great about evidence based policy is that it has a wonderful habit of working”

Inspiration for England as DfT work on the promised road safety strategy.

Also, Young Frankenstein. Only exists on DVD.

"Boomers bought houses at a time when saving a couple of pounds per day taking a packed lunch to work would give you a house deposit in eight years. For a millennial this would take two centuries."

That's a nice piece. And feels just as relevant to the UK as the US. Though the point about the absurdness of US bureaucracy makes for less headroom in the UK case.

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Bracing myself for an intense but stimulating few days next week. A year in the planning at @rorinstitute.bsky.social but now it’s almost here! metascience.info

That's awesome. Full disclosure, the design is a refinement of a t-shirt first written by @mbeisen.bsky.social

When people claim that peer review is irreparably broken, the development of the COVID vaccine is the counterexample I offer.

Well worth a look. As I explain in my book Serving The Reich, there was very little resistance to these measures from the physicists, even in the early days. Most kept their heads down. As Chanda says, none left Germany unless they had "non-Aryan" hanging over them.

Springer Nature reported its international web survey on research integrity. Congratulations! @silentypewriter.bsky.social In Japan, many researchers recognize that "avoiding research misconduct" is research integrity. We should update our thoughts. figshare.com/articles/onl...

The main argument I've read appears to be that we need bioethanol to produce CO2 as a byproduct. But if it's cheaper to buy bioethanol from elsewhere, then CO2 is the product, and bioethanol is the byproduct.

It seems to me that if we believe in free trade, we should believe in free trade. That's not to say that there might not be nationally strategic reasons to protect domestic bioethanol production, but I'd be interested to hear them.

Here’s what a Labour government at its best can achieve - share to spread the word and ask for more.

#TrueLabour

Xi Jinping cannot possibly believe his luck. I think I need to brush up on my Mandarin.

Huh! I feel utterly disabused.

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Love this!

Not quite. You only need a fraction of those saying they'd be better off working in a factory to actually work in a factory for the US to become an industrial powerhouse. And you don't need to be one of the putative new factory workers to grasp that. bsky.app/profile/sund...

Was never going to be able to compete with Numberwang!

"If traditional computers are precision machines that struggle with fuzziness, LLMs are the inverse: fuzzy machines that struggle with precision."

💯! And crucial to deciding when LLMs should and shouldn't be used.

Suella's refusal to accept the consensus of the English that being English has nothing to do with race is at least consistent with her assertion that she isn't herself English.

Come together, right now The chaos, conflicting information, firings, and hurtful rhetoric of the Trump administration’s approach to science over the past month are causing anxiety, grief, and concern for the scientific commu...

Great minds… within 24 hrs both us at @nature.com and @science.org make similar appeals to the research community. And @holdenthorp.bsky.social and I didn’t even exchange notes about it ;-)
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3 years from when russia invaded Ukraine. When the USA told the leader of the free world President Zelensky to leave, and he replied "I don't need a ride. I need ammunition".

This is the first slide of every talk I gave in the last 3 years. This thread is about (quantum) science in Ukraine. 🧵

Every talk that I've ever given on writing — and I've given MANY — has begun with Tim Radford's first rule of writing to think of the reader. “This is because, although you — an employee, an apostle or an apologist — may feel compelled to write, nobody has ever felt obliged to read.”

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

Good character guidance amended to block refugees from naturalisation - Free Movement There have been some important additions to pages 50 and 51 of the Good Character guidance (a comparison of the new and old versions is here) that have the

This should be changed asap.

If we give someone refugee status, it can't be right to then refuse them route to become a British Citizen. To say they can have a home in our country, but never a place in our society and be forever second class. freemovement.org.uk/good-charact...

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I think @daviddobbs.bsky.social's Wired piece said it best:
"... both NASA and her mentors and former lab heads seem to have abandoned Wolfe-Simon. It appears they bought and fueled the bus; put bright lights and banners on it; cheered as Wolfe-Simon drove it ... and have now thrown her under it."

Take this #AresnicLife article with a grain of salt.

The described timeline is NOT really how it went down.

People like Rosie Redfield are obliquely called "critics."

Wolfe-Simon never says, "We made a mistake." If anything, it sounds like she STILL thinks GFAJ-1 doesn't use phosphorus.

Indeed. And NASA weren't the only ones trying to get on the viral hyperbole bandwagon. Used to drive me nuts when we'd be meticulous about being measured and realistic in describing the research we'd publish, only to have the institution put out a PR claiming to have cured cancer.

Holden is right to recognise a greater duty of care should have been exercised by Science. But a far greater duty — to Wolfe-Simon and the public — should have been exercised by NASA from the outset.