A Sonatina by Grazyna Bacewicz, undoubtedly one of the greatest Polish composers of the 20th century. Hear it live this month in Chester, Sidmouth, Madrid and Cheltenham β¨ clarehammond.com/concerts/
Mind still reeling after yesterday @royalalberthall.bsky.social... An incredible experience to perform with the phenomenal @philharmonialondon.bsky.social & Christopher Warren-Green β¨πΆ Thank you to everyone at RG Live, @rayfieldallied.bsky.social, the backstage crew & friends who came in support π
Read Bronte Schiltz's take on our co-creation in prisons project with composer Michael Betteridge in the @bigissue.com! It has been inspiring to see how powerful and therapeutic music can be: www.bigissue.com/culture/musi...
The opening of Clara Schumann's concerto, composed when she was 15 and premiered with Felix Mendelssohn conducting the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Can't wait to perform this with the BBC Philharmonic and Nicholas Carter at Malvern Theatres, 9 May! π malvern-theatres.co.uk/event/bbc-ph...
HIRING!
SENIOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS!
OpenSAFELY is our huge productive platform for secure efficient management of sensitive personal data. We're doing things right: everything open source; developers and researchers pooling skills (64 of us); and... we ship!
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/04...
Come and do interesting, important, and impactful work, building the future of national data infrastructure, with me and my excellent (in every sense) colleagues!
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/04...
Let me know if you have any questions, and please share with anyone you think would be interested.
Some recent work I've been involved with:
This was one of my favourite pieces as a child, and is no less exciting now. Beethoven's thrilling finale to the 'Moonlight' Sonata! Listen to the entire piece on www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8XY... οΏΌ Alain Aubut, at the Salle Bourgie.
Thanks! I'd be really interested to know what you're using it for. Are there any tweaks that would make it more useful?
Do you know anyone who'd like to work with us on important + interesting data infrastructure projects?
You might appreciate the metaphor of low-background steel: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-bac...
This is my favourite part of Bluesky at the moment!
Great news!
I think you'd enjoy @dsquareddigest.bsky.social's Unaccountability Machine too
FT review here: www.ft.com/content/0bb1...
We're thrilled that 'Youth', my album of music by Edmund Finnis on Pentatone, has won Presto Classical's 'Classical EP of the Year' Award π π₯³ I'm so glad that Ed's evocative and enchanting music is being heard and appreciated so widely. Thank you to everyone who made this possible!
Performing at the Salle Bourgie in MontrΓ©al earlier this month β¨ (πΈ Claudine Jacques)
Do you know about the Boltzmann Brain thought experiment?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzma...
Very good
Yes in mid-nineties Somerset
Two weeks since our Global Health in the Age of AI symposium. I'm currently working on writing up my opening talk into a paper. For now, here's the synopsis (π§΅)
"Why doesn't the NHS use its GP data?". Because of privacy... Because it's hard... But we solved it. We developed new privacy protections... We built docs.OpenSAFELY.org! 181 projects! 31 organisations! Now, they come together, for the first time, in 3D!
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/10...
Excruciating barber experience please
I sold out of this print a while back, wish I'd made more. I think barbers must have been buying it lol
I wrote this!
The day job:
"Of tiny stature, he had a round gnarled, walnut face topped by silver hair. His repertoire of invective was extensively and freely used and his great love was sailing naval whalers. He worked, played, drank and smoked hard and seemed to flourish on it."
My great grandfather, Lt Cdr Mansergh Valentine "Pea" Duke, died in 1949, and his funeral was used as a dress rehearsal for George VI
As part of our study, OpenPROMPT, we quantified the healthcare utilisation of people with long COVID, and how this changed after diagnosis across the range of different types of healthcare.
Led by Liang-Yu Lin with collaborators
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
New on the blog: a guest post by our friend Miriam Samuel from Queen Mary University London, on research to investigate weight gain and obesity patterns in light of the pandemic
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/11...
Chaminade's sparkling Etude romantique π₯ I'll perform this next at the Salle Bourgie in MontrΓ©al, Friday 15 Nov! www.mbam.qc.ca/en/activitie...
I used to get postcards with Referendum Party stickers on from my Dutch Jewish grandfather in the nineties. Wish I'd known him when I was a bit older.
