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I have found out the hard way that brand distinctions are an important factor in successful baking.
There simply isn’t enough Banjo Beale content in the world, even with the new Ulva hotel restoration series on BBC. Can I subscribe to a dedicated Grampa-the-dog cam feed? Take my money you impetuous, ambitious, visionary pair of adopted Scots!
One of my favourite holiday filmed is “Spirited” with Will Ferrell. His big song, and the question the whole movie turns on, is “Am I Forever Unredeemable”. Of course, it should have been “Am I Forever Irredeemable”, which is ironically something they can never put right.
I'm reading around on vibe coding to develop some teaching materials for my undergrads. The first book starts with a canonical example of writing an app to estimate the time to read a podcast script, based on its word count.
GENUINELY who would *write an app* to solve this problem? This is insane!
Don’t forget the reason for the season - it’s the tilt of the earth’s axis! So I’m about to watch sunrise over Stonehenge on the English Heritage YouTube channel www.youtube.com/live/FEnQmoc...
From Aunty Beeb to Aunty Trans is a heck of a shift to government censorship.
Happy Christmas to all my university colleagues. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
An responsible science reminder at Christmas www.instagram.com/reel/DSM-8yy...
It’s terrible that @robinince.bsky.social has had to leave the BBC because of his public pro-trans opinions. Science comedy isn’t always funny. www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/12...
Hey ChatGPT show me a successful publisher to invest in
vm.tiktok.com/ZNReHWCh2/
A still frame with me (the interviewee) and a caption "the problem" underneath
My university students interviewed me about LLMs and this is the key frame that they chose on YouTube.
Some physics humour for your timeline: Heisenberg, Schrödinger and Ohm in a car…
vm.tiktok.com/ZNRJWJRN7/
Recent anecdotal evidence* shows it’s impossible not to feel happy when listening to this clip
*listening to it on a rainy Monday morning
youtu.be/CLP15B43uNA
Enjoy Christmas Science Comedy cheer with Dr Paul Conway explaining the Moral Psychology of Santa's Naughty List! Our professional comedy headliner is a cancer scientist that The Guardian described as "deliciously funny".
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...
My iPhone’s FaceID is refusing to recognise me today and my ego is taking it badly.
A bit of musical science comedy for your timeline - what could be better? vm.tiktok.com/ZNdEgoqU2/
Calling all Women in STEM!
November's Southampton Science Comedy features women in STEM who rap, control AIs and electrocute men - because science! Come along and bring your friends!!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...
Southampton Science Comedy is back this week, on Thursday 16th October. Get your tickets to see the brilliant Farah Sharp perform with researchers and students from @unisouthampton.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...
Photo of workshop on sociological engagement with Large Language Models
Photo of workshop on sociological engagement with Large Language Models
Brilliantly thought-provoking workshop on critical and ethical sociological engagement with LMMs in Naples this morning led by @jessogden.bsky.social @lescarr.bsky.social @sociodigfutures.bsky.social @bdfi.bsky.social #rc33 #isa #11ICSSM #Methodology
I just got a fast train from Milan via Rome to Naples that serves Napoli Afragola - a new mainline station that has no facility for taxis and that no-one in Naples has ever heard of.
I’m in Naples for the 11ICSSM conference to run a workshop on LLMs and give a paper about social scientists responses to AI with @susanjhalford.bsky.social .
Scraping tools like @digitalmethods.net Zeeschuimer, @lescarr.bsky.social WDRA are *vital* for social media research but how widely are they used? 🤔
If you use these tools or similar in your work, please reply 'teaching' 'research' 'both' 👇🏽 or via email if preferred 🤗
#AcademicSky
Southampton Science comedy is back in October. Get your tickets to see the brilliant Farah Sharp perform with researchers and students from @unisouthampton.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/southampto...
Me: my research demonstrates the benefits of large language models for qualitative research
Also Me: The Last Teams Meeting
I’m just planning a computer science undergraduate training session called “friends don’t let friends vibe code” @softwaresaved.bsky.social
Also “Sam Altman said GPT5 is like having a PhD-level expert answer all of your questions, which might be true if the expert in question lives somewhere with a gas leak.” @gregk.co.uk
Please stop all this “PhD-level” nonsense when talking about how much an LLM “knows”. A PhD is about being able to systematically create new knowledge. Knowing everything in that field is just a small part of the qualification.
Screencap of python invocation Module not found error: no module named ics.
Who says LLMs can’t do comedy? I just tried to use ChatGPT to convert my little #edfringe spreadsheet of shows into an ICS file for my calendar. It wrote a python program with a missing import module, and blamed my data formatting. Now that’s funny!
Let me get this straight… scientists discovered a radioactive wasps nest outside a abandoned military research laboratory and declared it safe because there werent any wasps in it… ANY MORE? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
