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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

https://fetstudy.uwe.ac.uk/~pmatthew/

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

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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 8d
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 · 9d
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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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · 12d
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 · 12d
Gary Marcus was right.

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · 20d
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 · 22d
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…
arxiv.org

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Oct 10
Necessary Fictions by Gogo Penguin is coagulating into my new jam!

gogopenguin.lnk.to/necessaryfic...
Album conver, showing a conical, 70's looking building with yellowish windows against a deep bluesky

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phyphor @phyphor.one-dash.org · Oct 5
I have a sentient coin because I ask if it's alive, telling it that Heads is Yes and Tails is No.

I flip it and, would you believe, it says Yes!

But, what's really impressive, is that sometimes¹ it shows Tails, which proves that it is so smart it knows how to lie!

¹ about half, to be honest

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Oct 2
Spidey Tree
Oak tree framed by Spider web in foreground Misty morning.

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · Sep 26
This only happens to you once

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Sep 21
Cozy
#NarcoSubs

‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
‘Insane journeys’: inside the narco-subs that cross oceans carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of cocaine
Poorly paid crews risk their lives on voyages in ‘propeller-driven coffins’ to smuggle drugs from Brazil to Europe
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Paul Matthews

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Daniel Gutierrez @ddgutierrez.bsky.social · Sep 17
Most companies don’t need deep learning. They need clean joins, honest metrics, and interpretable results.
Startups often chase GPU clusters before fixing their CSVs.

#DataScience #MachineLearning #AI #RStats

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Sep 6
GitHub Copilot on autopilot as community complaints persist • The Register

www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/g...

#slop
GitHub Copilot on autopilot as community complaints persist
: Unavoidable AI has developers looking for alternative code hosting options
www.theregister.com

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · Sep 5
AI things I love: the Merlin bird call identification app from @birdsoftheworld.bsky.social, Cornell. Screenshot of the sounds of Oxford before I wend my way home. More of this kind of AI processing, please. And we should be asking why there isn’t more of this, and where resources are to build more.
Screenshot of list of birds in Merlin app

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Sep 4
#qotd #ThursdayThought
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. - Niels Bohr

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Dan Hassler-Forest @danhf.bsky.social · Sep 1
August 31
September 1

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Aug 20
Aloe whorled

@ Kew Gardens, London
An aloe plant with spiral spiky leaves, on rocks

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Marsh Naylor @marshnaylor.net · Aug 15
#academicsky #philsky #edusky

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Aug 14
Does, this cheer you up?

Windsor Great Park, this morning 😏

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Aug 14
Does. This cheer you up?

Windsor Great Park, this morning 😏

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Robin Blythe @rbly.bsky.social · Aug 9
During my PhD I found that the main utility of prediction models in hospitals was just forcing the doctor to listen to the nurse's worries about the patient

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Aug 2
@bsfa.bsky.social please get rid of the tedious captcha on your login page. I was at it for about 5 minutes just now trying to authenticate. Why should we be training autonomous vehicle AI for free? I like taxi drivers!

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Jul 31
Big rain here on the Bristol riviera
Rain on train platform, and a poster ironically saying “this is what summer in Bristol looks like”

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Miska Knapek @miskaknapek.bsky.social · Jul 27
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I'm selling photos to raise money private medical help for a severe - quite lifeshortening - immune damaging disease I have, #MECFS, outside the coverage of public health.
There are some good nature photos in any event ;)

More info here:
payhip.com/MiskaKnapek/...

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Jul 12
Hedgie turned up for some supper
Hedgehog with its snout in a bowl of food “lent” by the cat

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John Pickering @kiwiskinz.bsky.social · Jun 30
Big shout out to ‪@thomasp85.com & the wonderful gganimate #rstats package. It enabled me to produce this gif of an exoplanet transit now on Space.com (www.space.com/astronomy/ex...) & elsewhere. #Unistellar Citizen Scientists & professional astronomers exploring the universe together.
#Astronomy

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Jun 28
Heading to Bloomsbury for a tour then Hatchards Books for #DallowayDay talks. Exciting ! #vwsgb 💐
Cover of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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Dr Paul Matthews @paulusm.jellytussle.org · Jun 21
Liked this SF Short : In the Shells of Broken Things, A.T. Greenblatt

clarkesworldmagazine.com/greenblatt_0...

#ClimateFic #Architecture
In the Shells of Broken Things by A. T. Greenblatt
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
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