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🚨 PhD scholarship alert!

👉 Edna Jenkinson Studentship in Classics, in association with St Mary's College

💥 3.5 years funding & a research and travel allowance of £1,400

🔗 Full details: tinyurl.com/4eywc8f6
November 7, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Feet up after a full on first week of rehearsals for ‘A Christmas Carol’ at Leeds Playhouse, set in a Yorkshire woollen mill.
New relationships made and new skills gained.
Such a pleasure to share in our collective creativity.
Loving finding #EbenezerTheGeezer
Onwards!
October 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Day 4! Ebb from
eloveart.bsky.social
I wanted to go with the changes of seasons and ebbing away and here have a wobbly poppy.

@streamink.bsky.social
@streamink_official (Insta)
www.twitch.tv/eloveart

#streamink #streamink2025 #watercolour #gouache #hay #pumpkin
October 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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October 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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#streamink2025 is here, I've got 31 little prompts to get through and the first is Foliage from Enchanting_Elk on Twitch!

#art #traditionalart #streamink #watercolour #leaves #foliage
October 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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VACANCY closing in one week: we invite applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC

The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata.

Closing date: Sunday 5 Oct #Skystorians
Vacancy: the Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer - RHS
The Royal Historical Society seeks to appoint an Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) to join its professional Office based at University College London. The post will help support and dev...
bit.ly
September 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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September 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Another statue, with an expression that sums up how I feel most of the time! About to be away for a couple weeks so I hope to have some more stuff to share after I get back. #art #traditionalart #drawing #dotwork #statue #artist
September 14, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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September 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Classics and Ancient History at Liverpool ranked 8th in the UK

www.theguardian.com/education/ng...
The Guardian University Guide 2026 – the rankings
Find a course at one of the top universities in the country
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Looks like my calendar is free from November onward. Available for concept deign jobs for hard surface/sci fi work! Re shares appreciated!
September 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Adrian Research Fellowship, a 3-4 year paid Postdoc in any area of philosophy at Darwin College, Cambridge U, invites applications if w/in 3 yrs PhD. Submit app.casc.cam.ac.uk/fas_live/dar...
by 3 October 2025.
www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/

www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/u...
#PhilSci #PhilJobs
www.darwin.cam.ac.uk
September 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
August 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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Want to win a SDCC limited edition Rogue Trooper t-shirt from
@2000ad.bsky.social? Everyone who subscribes (for free) to Comic Frontier and/or SHARES THIS POST will be given a chance to win it! The winner will be revealed in two weeks.
www.comicfrontier.com/p/rogue-troo...
August 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Last year I organised a one-day Spirits of Place event as part of Material Matters Artists Collective take-over of the Williamson Gallery in Birkenhead for their multi-month multi-exhibition Into the Wyld.
Next month there is a free to attend final event being held in Liverpool + a book launch
Into the Wyld:Re-imagining Sir Gawain & the Green Knight is the comprehensive record of the 2024 project, featuring visual documentation, commissioned essays, creative writing, poetry, + full transcripts of selected performances.

Sat 13 Sept 25 / Open Eye Gallery

openeye.org.uk/whatson/book...
BOOK LAUNCH: ‘INTO THE WYLD: RE-IMAGINING SIR GAWAIN & THE GREEN KNIGHT’ – OEG
openeye.org.uk
August 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Slightly diminish a band: Mr. Hook BSc, MSc
Slightly diminish a band: Streamingscalp
Slightly diminish a band: Four
August 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
My favourite Doctor and companion
August 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
shorturl.at/iiiOv
116 FB 5 Research Assistant (m/f/d) field of Theoretical Ecology and Evolution or Computational Biology: Uni Osnabrück
shorturl.at
August 8, 2025 at 10:09 AM
If you need a giggle
As it stands, A.I. is just a bullshit machine.

Trillions of dollars are being thrown at a bunch of competing bullshit machines.
I've seen this on Bluesky and had to try it myself. The image below was the response to the prompt: "Show me a diagram of the US presidents since Herbert Hoover, with their names and years in office under their photos" Bravo, OpenAI, bravo.
August 8, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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😆
August 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
@katercakes.bsky.social any good for you?
EXTENDED DEADLINE 📣 Science Fiction Film and Television invites applications for the position of co-editor.
Deadline for applications: 1st September 2025
Find out more: bit.ly/SFFTV-CFE-25
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August 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Another Statue! I'm useless with titles so it's called "Statue 2". Hand stippled on A4 (8"x12").

#art #artist #traditionalart #ink #monochrome #statue
August 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Just look at this innocent plush!! If you’d like your very own Hacker T.Dog cuddly toy they are available now!!They are £25 signed and shipped to the UK, international orders will have shipping costs added, Inbox me for deets (details)
August 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM