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Plans to make refugee a status of perpetual limbo will do nothing to stop people who need help seeking it nor make it possible for them to rebuild their lives and contribute. I call for humane and effective asylum reforms because I am true Labour, not blue Labour. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

This. Completely and utterly, this.

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History teachers across the country and at every grade level should organize a teach-in this week by having students explore the Boston Massacre as part of the #America250 commemoration.

"I started laughing immediately!", "It's so practical!", "There's both metric and imperial systems". We are so happy people got the joke and had fun unboxing their bag goodie! 🤩
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DORA (San Francisco Declaration On Research Assessment) branded tape measure given out at the EU Presidency High-Level Conference on Reforming Research Assessment in Copenhagen.

I *love* the marketing from DORA in the delegate bag for the EU Presidency High-Level Conference on Reforming Research Assessment in Copenhagen. #CeRRA2025

Except that from the image used on this post, Hitler seems to have had left-handed DNA. Which is EXTRAORDINARY!

Also, it's an export industry that is immune to tariffs!!!

This is an important question that gets to the heart of how people consume and pass on information. And I'll bet the AI number is connected to the human number. Because guess who the AI learns from.

Something had indeed changed since the 80s. Jenrick should try googling, "Why were English football clubs banned from Europe in the 1980s?"

It wasn't because of good-natured rough and tumble.

Couldn’t agree more with this para from @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social

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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.

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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.