did he become an arsehole after becoming vice-chancellor or was it a prerequisite for the job?
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did he become an arsehole after becoming vice-chancellor or was it a prerequisite for the job?
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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If you want to take your mind off awful politics and look at awful science stuff instead, this is a good read: www.sciencedetective.org/scientific-d...
Aiming to be someone's Irish Summer Girlfriend (only shows up for about three days in August, colder than expected, accompanied by large swarms of insects)
What is Open Research?
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Was I a priest? Am I a priest? Who knows
I once appeared on the main evening news dressed as a priest
Happening one week from today! Please join Patrick Wadden, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, John McCafferty, Catherine McKenna, me, and bunch of your best Celticists friends for the virtual book launch of An Eoraip. Register at uconn-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We are pleased to announce that the Paul Meehl Graduate School is launching the PMGS Dissertation Award, recognizing outstanding PhD dissertations that advance meta-research.
See the eligibility criteria and apply before June 1st, 2026 at:
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Grammarly's presentation of something they call Expert Review, including my name (plus Stephen King's, plus Mary Norris's), though to be sure I've never been contacted by Grammarly, much less compensated.
What in the absolute fuck is this.
I think I’ve only ever done book chapters “as a favour” for other colleagues, but that pattern has got to stop!
Never, ever, write chapters in edited volumes. No one can read them, they are trees that fall in a forest when there is no one around to see it. Do yourself a favor, and post a preprint, or start a blog. It will likely have 1000 time more impact.
That is an excellent distraction - it was epic :-D
But I do have full confidence that they would fublish my book
Table from World Cup 1994 Group E, with Mexico, Ireland, Italy and Norway all on equal points
Ireland had their own amazing memories of that world cup, including beating Italy in the group stages, leading to an mathematically extremely unlikely final table!
Oh I remember this well!
When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.
Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.
Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.
trying out a new feature, lmk if it works
Super smart of the US government to rename the Dept. Of Defence to the Dept of War, so now when the headlines read “THE DOW HAS COLLAPSED”, people won’t know if it’s about the invasion or the stock market
Dienes & McLatchie (2018) walks through some examples
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.
Pete Hegseth certainly won’t know
Super smart of the US government to rename the Dept. Of Defence to the Dept of War, so now when the headlines read “THE DOW HAS COLLAPSED”, people won’t know if it’s about the invasion or the stock market
Take from that what you will
Was chatting about AI stuff with a colleague and accidentally called LLMs “Large Magic Machines”
If you couldn't be bothered to write it, why in the name of all things holy, unholy, and mundane should I take the time to read it?
Well this is very disappointing Andrew
