Alex J-W
@alexjw.bsky.social
Maths educator. Often confused by the world. Follow me if you are interested in maths and stats education or professional development in general.
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Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
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February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now.
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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1/ New paper! Invisible Saboteurs: Sycophantic LLMs Mislead Novices in Problem-Solving Tasks
Sycophantic LLMs aren't merelt annoying, they actively sabotage novices trying to learn complex tasks. We ran an experiment to find out how bad it actually is.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03667
Sycophantic LLMs aren't merelt annoying, they actively sabotage novices trying to learn complex tasks. We ran an experiment to find out how bad it actually is.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03667
February 13, 2026 at 1:32 AM
1/ New paper! Invisible Saboteurs: Sycophantic LLMs Mislead Novices in Problem-Solving Tasks
Sycophantic LLMs aren't merelt annoying, they actively sabotage novices trying to learn complex tasks. We ran an experiment to find out how bad it actually is.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03667
Sycophantic LLMs aren't merelt annoying, they actively sabotage novices trying to learn complex tasks. We ran an experiment to find out how bad it actually is.
arxiv.org/pdf/2510.03667
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... it really is a death cult…
Analysis: Trump takes victory lap after biggest climate rollback yet
The move marks the culmination of a decade-long push by the president to tear up climate policies he argues stifle industry.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 13, 2026 at 2:44 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... it really is a death cult…
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Given Wes Streeting's links with Mandelson and Palantir, both stronger than Starmer's, the question MPs ought really to be asking themselves is, if we replace Starmer with Streeting are we hopping out of the frying pan and into the fire?
February 10, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Given Wes Streeting's links with Mandelson and Palantir, both stronger than Starmer's, the question MPs ought really to be asking themselves is, if we replace Starmer with Streeting are we hopping out of the frying pan and into the fire?
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/... I hated this book as part of my GCSE and I hate how it is often seen as a genuine piece of social/psychological research - hopefully it will be presented as more of an indictment of the class system/public schooling than my experience of childhood and people
Lord of the Flies cast and creatives on bringing William Golding's book to screens -
The story of schoolboys stranded on a tropical island with no adults following a deadly plane crash is adapted for television for the first time by Jack Thorne
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February 9, 2026 at 8:10 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/... I hated this book as part of my GCSE and I hate how it is often seen as a genuine piece of social/psychological research - hopefully it will be presented as more of an indictment of the class system/public schooling than my experience of childhood and people
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The will of mainstream media to normalize Donald Trumps blatant racist remarks and bizarre behaviour is what’s killing the USA. Until ABC, NBC, and CBS start exposing his fabrications and insane rhetoric for what they are, you’re fucked.
February 7, 2026 at 9:55 PM
The will of mainstream media to normalize Donald Trumps blatant racist remarks and bizarre behaviour is what’s killing the USA. Until ABC, NBC, and CBS start exposing his fabrications and insane rhetoric for what they are, you’re fucked.
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If pouring one's love into a project matters, you can find pretty much all of mine in this Season 2 opener.
From Aeschylus to Blade Runner, Goethe to The Hulk, and Frankenstein to Musk, some stories are simply so cosmic they alter how we actually see the world.
From Aeschylus to Blade Runner, Goethe to The Hulk, and Frankenstein to Musk, some stories are simply so cosmic they alter how we actually see the world.
🆕 PROMETHEUS: I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire
One man; several contradictory myths.
Is he protector or disruptor? Genius or arsonist?
Season 2 of Podyssey kicks off with an absolute belter.
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One man; several contradictory myths.
Is he protector or disruptor? Genius or arsonist?
Season 2 of Podyssey kicks off with an absolute belter.
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/0s0L...
🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
PROMETHEUS: I Don't Want to Set The World On Fire
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 08/02/2026 · 1h 28m
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February 8, 2026 at 11:08 AM
If pouring one's love into a project matters, you can find pretty much all of mine in this Season 2 opener.
From Aeschylus to Blade Runner, Goethe to The Hulk, and Frankenstein to Musk, some stories are simply so cosmic they alter how we actually see the world.
From Aeschylus to Blade Runner, Goethe to The Hulk, and Frankenstein to Musk, some stories are simply so cosmic they alter how we actually see the world.
Were they the face, Hannibal and BA Barracus? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
February 8, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Were they the face, Hannibal and BA Barracus? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.
Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
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Undercover of other news this week, some horrifying information has come out about suicide rates among young trans people, along with some worrying political context. If you're not au fait with these issues, this is a great place to catch up.
I've written a blog aimed at cis ppl, on the recent revelations of rising trans suicide rates since NHS England removed gender affirming care for u18s, in particular about my involvement with trying to seek the truth and the trauma the gaslighting by Appleby, Streeting, Cass and the media causes.
Trans youth suicide - the truth we've always known. What it means to me and what I've been doing about it.
Last week Queer AF broke a story that revealed the suicide rate in trans under eighteens is around fourteen times higher than you might expect from census data.As the parent of Alice a trans woman who...
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February 7, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Undercover of other news this week, some horrifying information has come out about suicide rates among young trans people, along with some worrying political context. If you're not au fait with these issues, this is a great place to catch up.
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Gordon Brown says there are systemic failings in our politics - paid lobbyists, corruption, MPs with second jobs etc
He argues we need far stronger ethics, transparency & anti-corruption powers.
Clive Lewis MP has written of the culture, the pull of money turning heads & corroding public service
He argues we need far stronger ethics, transparency & anti-corruption powers.
Clive Lewis MP has written of the culture, the pull of money turning heads & corroding public service
Gifts, temptation and the colossal corrosion of politics
At Westminster, gifts and freebies aren’t simple goodwill, but rather part of the slow pull of money that turns heads, normalises privilege and corrodes public service
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Gordon Brown says there are systemic failings in our politics - paid lobbyists, corruption, MPs with second jobs etc
He argues we need far stronger ethics, transparency & anti-corruption powers.
Clive Lewis MP has written of the culture, the pull of money turning heads & corroding public service
He argues we need far stronger ethics, transparency & anti-corruption powers.
Clive Lewis MP has written of the culture, the pull of money turning heads & corroding public service
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This is very true & also Trump is part of a far broader cross-national phenomenon of far right support surging in democracies that is clearly linked to the major global economic shocks of the last 20 years. Bad economic stuff creates a political opportunity structure for racists/xenophobes/fascists.
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
This is very true & also Trump is part of a far broader cross-national phenomenon of far right support surging in democracies that is clearly linked to the major global economic shocks of the last 20 years. Bad economic stuff creates a political opportunity structure for racists/xenophobes/fascists.
Is anyone going to admit that the ‘privatise n public services because competition will raise the quality whilst lowering the cost was the biggest pile of absolute tosh since well the old trickle down nonsense. Why don’t people talk about privately run public services the way they talk about public
February 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Is anyone going to admit that the ‘privatise n public services because competition will raise the quality whilst lowering the cost was the biggest pile of absolute tosh since well the old trickle down nonsense. Why don’t people talk about privately run public services the way they talk about public
Anyone fed up with the media and public kicking up a storm over Starmer’s foolish decision to give Mandelson the US ambassador job - a failure of judgement yes - but hardly a peep about an ever more draconian immigration policy or the failure to offer a credible industrial strategy?
February 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Anyone fed up with the media and public kicking up a storm over Starmer’s foolish decision to give Mandelson the US ambassador job - a failure of judgement yes - but hardly a peep about an ever more draconian immigration policy or the failure to offer a credible industrial strategy?
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Their 'clever' political machinations are our cost of living, faced with populism, post-Brexit malaise and loss of income. Fed up with these types. He should have been sacked as soon as it was clear he'd pushed for Mandelson democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Their 'clever' political machinations are our cost of living, faced with populism, post-Brexit malaise and loss of income. Fed up with these types. He should have been sacked as soon as it was clear he'd pushed for Mandelson democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... just ignore anything he says - wait to see what he actually does
Donald Trump signals US support for Chagos handover deal
It comes after the US president suggested last month he could withdraw his support for the deal.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 7:32 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... just ignore anything he says - wait to see what he actually does
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First they came for the billionaires and then…
Well the things seemed to get better and no one else was come for….
Well the things seemed to get better and no one else was come for….
February 4, 2026 at 11:06 PM
First they came for the billionaires and then…
Well the things seemed to get better and no one else was come for….
Well the things seemed to get better and no one else was come for….
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Mandelson revelations serve to bring into focus core failings of this government - most of all how little change there was. In public minds that was about all aspects of government, far beyond specific policies.
February 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Mandelson revelations serve to bring into focus core failings of this government - most of all how little change there was. In public minds that was about all aspects of government, far beyond specific policies.
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Bring Gordon Brown back until the end of the 2029 season.
February 4, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Bring Gordon Brown back until the end of the 2029 season.
Buckle up BBC putting Farage under scrutiny! Oh no wait LK doing the Boris thing for Farage - flashes of honesty? Yeah about stuff that don’t matter lol. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
February 4, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Buckle up BBC putting Farage under scrutiny! Oh no wait LK doing the Boris thing for Farage - flashes of honesty? Yeah about stuff that don’t matter lol. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It is pointless trying to explain anything to a kleptomaniac using metaphors; they take things literally.
February 3, 2026 at 12:31 PM
It is pointless trying to explain anything to a kleptomaniac using metaphors; they take things literally.
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Depending on the depth and nature of Epstein’s links to Russia and the Putin regime, any accusations of sharing restricted UK or EU information or documents with him may go from being serious security breaches to actively assisting a foreign agent in espionage.
February 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM
Depending on the depth and nature of Epstein’s links to Russia and the Putin regime, any accusations of sharing restricted UK or EU information or documents with him may go from being serious security breaches to actively assisting a foreign agent in espionage.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Trump is just like those debt collection agencies that send threatening letters over tiny claims but ratcheted up with potentially additional costs and ‘fines’ in the hope people will settle at a lower rate. If he does it to enough organisations enough will cough up to
Trump seeks $1bn in damages from Harvard
The announcement is the latest development in the White House's ongoing feud with the Ivy League institution.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 7:54 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Trump is just like those debt collection agencies that send threatening letters over tiny claims but ratcheted up with potentially additional costs and ‘fines’ in the hope people will settle at a lower rate. If he does it to enough organisations enough will cough up to