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Dr Paul Matthews
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Academic, writer, techie - UK

The meta-rer the betterer

#AcademicChatter #DataScience #KOS #dh #RStats #nujazz #downtempo #amreading #scifi #ballardian #modernism

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · 1d
Lovely piece found in my #lrb backlog about handwriting, the brain and the “line that is not stupid”

Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#psychology #amreading
Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
This​ is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like...
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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · 3d
My biggest is multi-authored papers where some authors don't want to use a reference manager and dump a load of references on you to sort out !

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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · 5d
Massimo Belardinelli

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 7d
This took me fucking ages
1 [Scene is a GREGGS interior. A lone MAN, the only customer in the shop, is standing at counter] MAN: Please can I have a sausage roll. 2 GREGGS SHOP ASSISTANT: Certainly sir [She pulls a leaver on the panini machine and WOOSH the man disappears through a trapdoor]. Whoosh 3 [The MAN appears through a chute in an underground bunker. A voice from off-scene greets him]: Welcome, friend 4 [We see the voice is of a military-looking resistance COMMANDER with a moustache] COMMANDER: You said "please can I have" instead of “can I get”… So now you're one of us. 5 MAN: W-where am I ...? [We see him looking at a hi tech UNDERGROUND MILITARY BUNKER - it has resistance vibes, and has lots of screens with maps etc] 6 COMMANDER: You've joined the resistance… ...against people saying things all American. 7 COMMANDER: We are an underground network of sleeper agents poised to have a right go at young people the moment they say "mom" or "bangs”. 8 LIEUTENANT [Staring at screen]: Agent 244 has just given a Zoomer in Halifax the “could/couldn't care less" speech, sir COMMANDER: Very good 9 [Show the map of the UK with digital pop ups on it saying ‘GOTTEN’, ‘ZEE’, ‘MATH’ etc COMMANDER: You may have heard our name... We are... 10 COMMANDER: ...the Fight Against New Yankee Pronunciations and Americanisms Corrupting the King's English! 11 [Show the military command center panel. It says on the wall in big metal letters]: F.A.N.Y.P.A.C.K.E. 12 MAN You've called yourselves the 'Fanny Pack' COMMANDER: We didn't spot the acronym [/end]

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Tim Davies @timdavies.org.uk · 20d
Alongside the #GenerativeAI for #Education summit in London yesterday, the DfE updated their ‘Product Safety Expectations’ for #EdTech developers, and for schools to consider when deciding which tools are safe to use. www.gov.uk/government/p... A quick thread on the updates (1/15)
Generative AI: product safety standards
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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · 24d
If you are in the Bristol, UK area next week, please join us for the fantabulous #bristolr
Great speaker, refreshments and R chat ! #rstats
Bristol R, Weds 21st Jan 6-8pm, will be held at DeskLodge House, Bristol

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Jan 10
Enjoying some old tech CD goodness, including this absolute gem

#amlistening
Cover of the source by Ali Farka Toure

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Jon Nichols @jon276.bsky.social · Jan 7
I’m in this meme and I don’t like it.
#academicsky #academiclife

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Jan 6
Expanse s2e1 : can’t believe the head of the UN would wear deely boppers to a council of war #inappropriate

#scifi
UN roundtable, with head of UN pointing to colleague while appearing to wear novelty headgear, though it might just be the door knobs behind him

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Jan 1
2020s: AI "System Prompts" are lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "prompt engineers".

1980s: AI "Expert Systems" were lengthy, carefully constructed sets of expert rules about a particular domain, created by "knowledge engineers".

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Jan 1
My StoryGraph 2025 mood map, a descent into the dark side! Will have to remember to read more uplifting & #cosy stuff this year
A graph showing my reading mood map, starting green up to April, then gradually descending into the red

Reposted by Paul Matthews, Alan Richardson, Kathleen Kennedy

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Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · Dec 27
Every pedagogical argument I see is essentially "You could use it to do something you already do but you will also have to do a lot of setup and double check everything it does."

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2000AD Randomizer @2000adrandom.bsky.social · Dec 24
Brett Ewins

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Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social · Dec 15
Today's @thetimes.com is reporting that this new book published by Springer, on sale for £180 hb, contains 'footnotes that cite scientific publications that appear to have been invented....' Who'd have thought it!
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Dec 13
The elusive Leopard Shark, at the Wes Anderson archive exhibition, magical
Leopard shark model from The Life Aquatic movie

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J G Ballard bot @ballardbot.bsky.social · Dec 4
Like those Andy Warhol films of eight hours of the Empire State Building or of somebody sleeping, ordinary life viewed obsessively enough becomes interesting in its own right by some sort of neurological process that I don't hope to understand.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · Nov 23
Actual analysis of the BBC’s coverage of Gaza is devastating for Prescott and the right wing attacks on the BBC. Ratio of Israeli-Palestinian deaths: 1 /34. Ratio of coverage of those deaths: 19 / 1.

cfmm.org.uk/bbc-on-gaza-...
BBC On Gaza-Israel: One Story, Double Standards - Centre For Media Monitoring
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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Nov 21
Tony Seale this morning on How LLMs can interoperate with ontologies to do “active inference” - build a dynamic world model

#cdl25 #ConnectedData #KnowledgeGraphs
Slide of the neural-symbolic loop

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Nov 20
Asking the audience where they are on their data journey, on a scale from Junk Shop -> Amazon

2025.connected-data.london/talks/moving...
#cdl25 #ConnectedData #Ontologies
A slide with the question "where are you in your data journey?", with audience votes: Junk Shop(0), Car Boot(3), Street Market (4), Local Market (8), Hypermarket (6), Amazon (0) Slide of talk "How to implement ontology based data management" at ConnectedData London

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Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · Nov 16
Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.
A vending machine with a snack called minis, and the brand is Leibniz.

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Future Revisitations @futurerevisited.bsky.social · Nov 15
Remembering J.G. Ballard, born OTD 1930.
I’ve been reading his work for many years & I can readily appreciate why many qualify his writing as ‘timeless’.
And I can think of no better imagery to accompany this post than the equally timeless appeal of David Pelham’s superlative cover art 🙂
Cover art by David Pelham for the Penguin editions of several books by J.G. Ballard: ‘The Wind from Nowhere’ (a stylised army tank at an angle over a barren landscape), ‘The Drowned World’ (stylised Chrysler Buikdibg submerged in a body of water, ‘The Drought’ (stylised close-up of a car at a sharp angle), ‘The Terminal Beach’ (stylised atomic binb half submerged in sand) and ‘The Four Dimensional Nightmare’ (images of Yuri Gagarin and Mickey Mouse on the screens of a antiquated television unit in a wooden cabinet).

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Nov 5
Time for learning + pizza at #BristolR yum!
Laptop with datasaurus hex sticker

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · Nov 3
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Nov 1
Beech woods in fine colour today, Hambledon, UK
Tall beeches on hillside, leaves in yellow, orange and green. Thick leaf litter on open ground below

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Belfast_Nomad @belfastnomad.bsky.social · Oct 30
In one of his lesser known dystopias, J. G. Ballard subjected America to a massive ecological disaster following an energy crisis, which has turned the country into a desert. The leftover nuclear weapons are in Las Vegas.
A brilliant book.
I also love Bill Botten's original cover.

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Oct 30
Hedge witches, assemble! #AcademicSky #AmReading
Quote from Katabasis by R F Kuang “many hedge witches scrounged up their own chalk, and organized amateur conferences, and published in poorly rated journals about their wonderful discoveries. In fact, some of these discoveries were quite interesting. The open secret, really, was that sometimes the hedge witches found stuff that even tenured professors couldn’t imagine...”

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Keith Frankish @keithfrankish.com · Oct 29
Gary Marcus was right.

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Oct 22
This was a fun paper

“We shift from viewing self‐tracking as mere data work to imagining it as an ongoing conversation; from constant monitoring to ambient, meaningful sensing; from judgmental prompts to caring guidance”

doi.org/10.1145/3698...

#tracking #hci #wellbeing #participative
Making Sense of Our Data: Exploring Well-Being Self-Tracking Through Creative Collaboration | Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Creativity and Cognition
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · Oct 19
C'est le mauvais pantalon, Gromit!
Et ils ont mal tourné !
Feathers McGraw ascending the Louvre pyramid on an unconscious Wallace wearing the Wrong Trousers

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Oct 12
My takeaway: DS academics have no more idea than anyone else where we are headed in this brave new world of the LLM 🤔
arxiv.org/abs/2509.12283

#genai #datascience #academia #academicSky
Prompting the Professoriate: A Qualitative Study of Instructor Perspectives on LLMs in Data Science Education
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shifted in just a few years from novelty to ubiquity, raising fundamental questions for data science education. Tasks once used to teach coding, writing, and…
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