I'm trying to think who this idiocy is for, who would say: I wasn't going to vote Labour but now they've blocked a clearly exceptionally bright Sudanese woman from doing a postgraduate course in computational biology at Cambridge, I'm all in?
www.ft.com/content/4493...
In a true sign that I’m getting very old, I’ve started listening to some podcasts at 0.9x speed.
I have written a blogpost about the multiset coefficient, if that's the sort of thing you might be interested in. mpaldridge.github.io/blog/multise...
My brain: "Weird thing for a 90s/00s pro cycling team to be posting about"
It's not really the FIFA Prize for Economics, it's actually the Federal Reserve Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Sepp Blatter.
The women’s bike race around Siena this morning was a banger. (The men’s this afternoon sucked.)
Bike lanes in Leeds and Bradford aren’t getting used all that much – but is this because they’re just not very good? leeds.ghost.io/leeds-is-bet...
Just discovered a three-digit number!
I would like these people to take my money, but they need another 200 pledges first. leeds.ghost.io
"If the elected government decides that a new town centre, next to a sizeable railway station mere minutes outside London is more important than protecting some spiders which aren’t even there, then it should happen." takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/its-time-t...
“There’s a big crowd of people who really, really want AI success stories. And then there’s an equal and opposite crowd of people who want to dismiss all AI progress. And what we have is a very complicated and nuanced story in between.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Watching Mandelson's perp walk, I cannot get over how much the reporter sounds like Chris Morris on the Day Today.
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At the weekend, I went for a walk and ended up getting locked in the grounds of Bradford Cathedral. (Which, it turns out, has very high wrought-iron fencing all around it.)
I’ve been hoping a new Manchester Mill-style journalism outfit would come to Leeds for a while, so I’m very pleased to be pledger number 131. Please consider joining too! leeds.ghost.io
RIP Frederick Wiseman. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m... At Berkeley, a four-hour long documentary about the University of California at Berkeley, is one of my favourite films of the 2010s (and is Kanopy, if you have access to that).
(I guess a third possibility is this is just hard-nosed negotiation to try and shame the HHS/FDA into changing course, but they don't *actually* intend to shelve already-developed vaccines everywhere permanently.)
Is the point that the US is a big chunk of the developed world, so the company can't afford with that cut out? Or is the implication of this that the super-high costs of healthcare in the US are actually good for everyone else, because they end up as an effective subsidy for drug development?
Fantastic piece in the @FT on London's poor record of building the homes it desperately needs. I added in another major global city* in the UK which seemed to have slipped out of the data during production 😉 giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
I got it thanks to the Jonathan Glazer short film “Strasbourg 1518”. www.theguardian.com/film/2020/ju...
I will say that these comments from Martin Hairer very much reflect my experience – but I worry this might just be because I’m bad at using the AI, or I don’t stick with it long enough, or I’m not paying money for the really good stuff, or…
Interesting article by Siobhan Roberts in the NYT, interviewing some mathematicians who are “mildly AI-sceptic” (at least relative to people on X/Twitter). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/s...
I appreciate this is not a healthy relationship to have to a news magazine, but I have been hoping for this, in the same way a football fan might hope their club is going to sign a talented out-of-contract player.
![Greenland sharks are born alive (a process known as ovoviviparity) after an estimated gestation period of 8–18 years.[5] This extremely long gestation rate is crucial to understanding effective conservation strategies around the Greenland shark. Given the ongoing fishing pressures on Greenland sharks, their prolonged long gestation period and slow reproductive rate may severely limit their ability to recover from overfishing.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gzx4bgaxmbpx7x4wnt5ql4ha/bafkreibfh5khrm3gxzbt27blgwiimcdb7k3pqjeowwgkdv2vxnd27zyhba)
I thought I already had a pretty good idea of how weird Greenland sharks are but what do you mean they can be pregnant for the best part of two decades.
(arguably not a true second-mention; forgive me)
To answer my own question:
Is This Thing On? £434k @ £930 per screen
Nouvelle Vague £73k @ £740 per screen
Melania £33k @ £210 per screen
Marshawn Lynch: "the Skittles-scarfing bruiser" @secondmentions.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...
