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Austen Lamacraft
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As long as I don’t click this link I can keep imagining it’s Ebeneezer Goode
November 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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From Norman Lewis' "Voices of the Old Sea". Sadly I can't find any online reference to this Geoffrey of Ipswich dude
Although Geoffrey of Ipswich may have introduced arithmetic into England after his thirteenth-century visit to Barcelona, few rural Catalans could now even add up, let alone multiply or divide.
August 31, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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TIL Dirac has a cone in Bristol. That is all www.about-bristol.co.uk/fam-12.php
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July 31, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Quahog clams can live to an age of 500 years! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_(c...
Ming (clam) - Wikipedia
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June 18, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Agree that “screentime” is a useless notion. We need a snappy name for media with tight feedback loops designed to strip you of agency. The reason why TV is better than TikTok in this regard is that the former learns slowly and in aggregate what you like, not instantly and individually
lottelydia.bsky.social Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Jun 16
“screens” in parenting is such an ill-defined topic — telly, computers, kindles, iPads (and then whatever they’re doing on them), “the internet”, social media… — and I think a lot of the backlash comes when people try to have one policy on all of them
June 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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We're swimming a 12 hour open air swim relay in the Jesus Green Lido in Cambridge! We're raising money for Level Water, an incredible charity that provides 1-to-1 swimming lessons for children with disabilities. Send us a few pounds if you can!
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The Wild Wets fundraiser for Level Water
Help Austen Lamacraft raise money to support Level Water
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June 16, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Enjoying all the updates from #Helgoland2025
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June 13, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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I did @pintofscience.uk last week. My talk was about Heisenberg's abandonment of Newton's classical orbits 100 years ago on Helgoland. Around the time I found myself describing Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum as his pre-breakbout concept album I realised I might be a massive ham. Loved it
May 27, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Incredible work from everyone involved here
May 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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The whole discourse about LLMs to write / review / read science (or anything else)never seems to engage with the key question about what should replace the paper
brwilder.bsky.social Bryan Wilder @brwilder.bsky.social · May 26
Should LLMs be used to review papers? AAAI is piloting LLM-generated reviews this year. I wrote a blog post arguing that using LLMs as reviewers can have bad downstream consequences for science by centralizing judgments about what constitutes good research.

bryanwilder.github.io/files/llmrev...
Equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing
Equilibrium effects of LLM reviewing
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May 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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With thanks @thamesandhudson.bsky.social, we have a copy of REPAST by @jennylinford.bsky.social to give away with one of our 9" sauteuse prospector casseroles, worth £118. Follow us, share this post and then find entry details here
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A copy of REPAST by Jenny Linford on a grey linen cloth A Netherton Foundry 9 inch sauteuse prospector pan on a linen cloth, with the matching lid propped up behind
April 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Spotted in Cambridge: a sleek BMW with the number plate UKRI. Brilliant
May 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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The new bane of my existence is being emailed for feedback after visiting a restaurant. What is the best way of avoiding this pox?
May 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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It smells of rejection, grading, and committee work
A photo of a scented candle labeled “Dark Academia”
May 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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🎬… and cut. We are done recording lectures for my course “Quantum Computational Physics”.

Tune in if you want to do “quantum on quantum”: concepts, algorithms, and practical computational skills to simulate quantum many-body systems on digital quantum computing platforms.

vimeo.com/showcase/Qua...
January 29, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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We'll be celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Theory of Condensed Matter group in Cambridge on 25th July! Here's the booking page if you are interesting in attending. Reposts appreciated

Hoping to see many alumni and friends of the group there!

www.alumni.cam.ac.uk/events/theor...
Theory of Condensed Matter 70th Anniversary
Join us in celebrating the 70th Anniversary of TCM at the new Ray Dolby Centre.
www.alumni.cam.ac.uk
May 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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April 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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A wonderful letter from a neigbour of Dirac's in Cambridge grahamfarmelo.com/dirac-family...
The Dirac family – by a friendly neighbour in Cambridge - Graham Farmelo
New insights into the extraordinary Dirac family emerge in a remarkable letter by Rosemary McGregor-Wood, who lived directly opposite them in Cavendish Avenue.   Dirac family in c. 1946 Read Mo...
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April 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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LOVE IT
April 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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New book tour poster, updated with events in UK with @nigelwarburton.bsky.social and Jessie Munton, and in Spain with @jordigraupera.bsky.social !
March 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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🚨 Outrage as 20 police officers break into Westminster Quaker Meeting House and arrest six. 🚨
This shocking violation of a place of worship is a direct result of crackdowns on protest and dissent - freedom of speech, assembly and democracy are at risk.🕊️
👉 www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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March 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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zoop, print ad (1995) archive.org/details/Comp...
an ad that is lovingly mocking of very old ad imagery with illustrations of people that look like they come from the 50s or something. in the centre there is a huge illustration of a man and the top half of his body. it shows his inside organs and vessels. he is staring at a circular shot of zoop. top text reads: america's largest killer of time zoop - you may already be addicted below is a square featuring the colourful title font. it also says: (picture of mom and dad's head): the word 'parents' with an arrow pointing left and right on either side towards the heads (picture of children ie. brother and sister's heads): the word 'children' with an arrow pointing left and right on either side towards the heads text above this reads: no one is immune below this an illustration of a healthy iris and an iris after zoop (it's blotchy red). a section called 'the stages of zoop' shows 4 in game screenshots. right hand sections: 'known carriers of zoop' is presented like a chart of bugs except each bug represents a system that the game has been developed for 'how zoop affects the brain' 'output of the heart' 'zoopx10¹⁰' essentially the whole ad is a bit like reverse psychology to market it as being cool in a mock old style.
March 14, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Is it correct that one’s reward for using the YouTube mobile app is watching ads? I don’t see them on Chrome on my iPhone…
December 25, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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Happy holiday to those who celebrate
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December 25, 2024 at 2:58 PM