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he/him. Dad. Into: vegan food, collaborative writing, disability, memory palaces, and my code someday working. Runs a charity. Cyber security lecturer at Royal Holloway. Glass sibling.

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I had to scroll so far down #academicsky before I found this 🀣

05.08.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Honestly stick with Excel. 90% of apps and other nonsense can be replaced with Excel. (Although I’m a Google Sheets person myself)

05.08.2025 17:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did you manage to persuade them?

23.06.2025 15:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m now working at University of Hertfordshire two days a week (still three days a week at Royal Holloway). Hit me up if you are UoH #academicsky

23.06.2025 15:44 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, England. (Just outside Manchester's gay village.) It is a bronze sculpture in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing. Alan is sitting on bench. The memorial is covered in flowers, as it is his birthday today.

The Alan Turing Memorial, situated in Sackville Gardens in Manchester, England. (Just outside Manchester's gay village.) It is a bronze sculpture in memory of Alan Turing, a pioneer of modern computing. Alan is sitting on bench. The memorial is covered in flowers, as it is his birthday today.

Happy Birthday Alan Turing

23.06.2025 08:56 πŸ‘ 177 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

The thing is, I don’t remember any of this - there was a day when nobody thought it was an option, then a literal day when it might happen, then it was irreversibly happening. There wasn’t a persuasion phase.

23.06.2025 08:37 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

23.06.2025 08:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Alan Turing’s statue in Manchester surrounded by lots of bunches of flowers and some pots of flowers. Most are on the bench and some are on the floor.

Alan Turing’s statue in Manchester surrounded by lots of bunches of flowers and some pots of flowers. Most are on the bench and some are on the floor.

This is what Turing’s statue looks like on his birthday ❀️

23.06.2025 08:16 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

Okay, but isn’t that the opposite of your original post? If 6 out of 10 wish they’d known, and 6 out of 10 wish they’d started, then surely there is nobody left (ignoring rounding) who knew it was important but didn’t read to their kids? Like, that’s amazing result!

23.06.2025 07:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s interesting. So 0 of of 10 parents knew it was important but didn’t do it (lack of time, illness, that sort of thing)?

23.06.2025 07:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hang on- the image has a different fact to the post - which is correct?

23.06.2025 06:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
As per post

As per post

Vegan Jamie dodger doughnut

20.06.2025 13:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Pizza on a table

Pizza on a table

Pizza!

20.06.2025 13:57 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Motorways are long

19.06.2025 15:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Just weeks in front of a shed

Just weeks in front of a shed

This is the before of an enormous amount of attacking plants with shears today.

18.06.2025 19:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
"One inch in from the bottom and left-hand side of the daguerreotype can be seen the two figures who remained in the same place long enough to be recorded. Daguerre’s image was presented as part of a triptych to King Ludwig I and was displayed from 20 October 1839 at the Arts Association in Munich. The daguerreotype in this book is, obviously, a copy. But a copy is all that it is possible to see of that first photograph of humanity: the original was destroyed when being cleaned at the Munich Fotomuseum around 1974. Only an empty wooden frame with the description remains as a record of the original." From Gardner, John, and David Stewart. β€œIntroduction.” Chapter. In Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s, edited by John Gardner and David Stewart, 1–16. Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

"One inch in from the bottom and left-hand side of the daguerreotype can be seen the two figures who remained in the same place long enough to be recorded. Daguerre’s image was presented as part of a triptych to King Ludwig I and was displayed from 20 October 1839 at the Arts Association in Munich. The daguerreotype in this book is, obviously, a copy. But a copy is all that it is possible to see of that first photograph of humanity: the original was destroyed when being cleaned at the Munich Fotomuseum around 1974. Only an empty wooden frame with the description remains as a record of the original." From Gardner, John, and David Stewart. β€œIntroduction.” Chapter. In Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s, edited by John Gardner and David Stewart, 1–16. Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Cleaning is dangerous!

18.06.2025 19:15 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Me, about to do a simple Arduino project: β€œI spent eight years in C++, four of them squeezing every gram of performance out of it, this will be simple”
Me, an hour later: β€œwhat is this unwieldy bastard language?” _throws header file across the room_
#academicsky

12.06.2025 16:50 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

In the sense that I do an external persons research in exchange for money. Not that someone pays me to do my own.

10.06.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Normally happens the other way around for me.

10.06.2025 15:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's backed-up by research!

"samples from the United States were less frequently specified in titles" unless "they referred to racial/ethnic/cultural minorities who may be perceived as exceptions to assumed generalizability of the White American population" #AcademicSky

doi.org/10.1177/1948...

10.06.2025 14:13 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œvim $(!!)” makes me feel like a genius

10.06.2025 11:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That’s super-useful if only because people already doing it at Royal Holloway means I can’t get in trouble for it (so not true)

10.06.2025 11:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola 'so scared' by Israel-Gaza war Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he is

Pep Guardiola delivered these comments while receiving an honorary doctorate at the University of Manchester yesterday.

www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

10.06.2025 11:25 πŸ‘ 46 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone in #academicsky successfully put snippets of lectures onto something like TikTok?

10.06.2025 11:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

my three year old just invited us onto his podcast

be like my three year old: invite me onto your podcast

10.06.2025 09:29 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Compare the courage of Greta Thunberg’s Gaza aid mission with the inaction and complicity of western governments | Owen Jones The Madleen is no β€˜selfie yacht’. It is a symbol of human compassion in a world that has decided to look away, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Greta Thunberg and the Madleen offered a heart in a heartless world.

They reminded us that Israel is deliberately starving an entire people - and the West could stop that at any moment.

New column πŸ‘‡

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

10.06.2025 08:14 πŸ‘ 1158 πŸ” 374 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 13

We should introduce a new:use of colons in formal writing for this purpose.

10.06.2025 10:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You're damn right I use commas incorrectly. That's how you know this wasn't written, by AI

#academicsky

10.06.2025 10:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
β€œNow this is an Avengers level threat@

β€œNow this is an Avengers level threat@

Today I keep having to write β€œmasters-level” and β€œ3rd year level” and I am constantly thinking this:

10.06.2025 09:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have brought the access cards for three different universities to the university I work at, which is the fourth one.

10.06.2025 08:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0