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J. Doyne Farmer @doynefarmer.bsky.social · 9d

We're looking for a postdoc for our new project on forecasting technological change - more details below

Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford @inetoxford.bsky.social · 9d

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Post Doctoral Research Associate in the Economics of Technological Change (2yr) ➵ https://www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
Join the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Prog. on Forecasting Technological Change, led by @francoislafond.bsky.social , @doynefarmer.bsky.social & @maxroser.bsky.social

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 10d

I loved this episode of #StrongMessageHere for raising the issue of news now being speculation as I have been fed up with ‘news’ programmes telling us what might happen rather than what has actually happened. Well worth a listen.

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 12d

Tragic really. If the supposed Son of God cannot teach us not to be arseholes to each other we must be pretty much doomed…

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 14d

He’s not wrong. I predict some sort of civil war in the general vicinity of these isles some time in the next two million years

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 17d

Not sure what’s worst, the comments themselves, the fact she thought it fine to say them publicly, or the possibility that rightly drawing attention to them will attract more people to their ideology.

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 20d

It’s time for him to help the police and FBI with their enquiries into sex trafficking

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 21d

It’s more than that though. We have left things so late that emissions need to drop rapidly and go negative to achieve 1.5.

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 21d

Climate Wake-Up Call🚨

New study finds UK MPs & public wildly overestimate the time left for #ClimateAction. Only a fraction knew the IPCC states global emissions must peak by 2025 to limit warming to 1.5˚C. Read the full findings ⬇️ tyndall.ac.uk/news/mps-and...

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research @tyndallcentre.bsky.social · 21d

Climate Wake-Up Call🚨

New study finds UK MPs & public wildly overestimate the time left for #ClimateAction. Only a fraction knew the IPCC states global emissions must peak by 2025 to limit warming to 1.5˚C. Read the full findings ⬇️ tyndall.ac.uk/news/mps-and...

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 24d

Whatever our political affiliation, voting for politicians because of their teeth (and similar fallacies of relevance) is arguably responsible for many of the problems in politics at present.

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 27d

No idea what this is quoting but it rings a bell.

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · 27d

Oh, is that what we’re calling empirical agent-based modelling now…?

Jeffrey Perkel (he/him) @jperkel.bsky.social · 27d

“It’s a really nice, completely closed loop where the end user is also the data provider.” New @nature.com, a fascinating read by Heather Richardson on the rising use of 'digital twins' in #ecology. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Digital flocks, predators allow ecologists to simulate real-world animal behaviour

‘Digital twins’ of real-world objects are moving from manufacturing to wildlife management.

www.nature.com

Jeffrey Perkel (he/him) @jperkel.bsky.social · 27d

“It’s a really nice, completely closed loop where the end user is also the data provider.” New @nature.com, a fascinating read by Heather Richardson on the rising use of 'digital twins' in #ecology. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Digital flocks, predators allow ecologists to simulate real-world animal behaviour

‘Digital twins’ of real-world objects are moving from manufacturing to wildlife management.

www.nature.com

IAPS 2026 Conference @iaps2026.bsky.social · 28d

🎉 The Call for Submissions for IAPS 2026 Conference is now open!

📅 Submission deadline: 9 January 2026 (23:59 GMT)

📝 For guidance on how to submit, and full details of the conference, visit our website: surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026

@iaps-association.bsky.social @eprg-surrey.bsky.social

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Oct 12

It’s people…

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Oct 7

If they talked too much about the top two causes of death they might lose advertising revenue…

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Oct 7

More time to think

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Oct 4

Once spent an entertaining train ride with a nurse who worked in A&E. The stories she had! Which included one of someone who needed an organ transplant being told by the specialist that since it was a nice day out they’d probably have one from a biker in a few hours.

IAPS 2026 Conference @iaps2026.bsky.social · Oct 1

🍂🌞

October is here! Time to start thinking about your conference plans for 2026?

In a couple of weeks we’ll be launching our Call for Submissions. Stay tuned to our website: www.surrey.ac.uk/iaps2026

🍁🍃

@iaps-association.bsky.social | @eprg-surrey.bsky.social | @bpsenvpsych.bsky.social

IAPS Conference 2026

29 June - Friday 3 July 2026, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom. The theme of IAPS 2026 is Sustainability as Wellbeing: Towards healthy, green, and equitable communities.

www.surrey.ac.uk

The James Hutton Institute @hutton.ac.uk · Sep 30

🤖🌳 Inspired by a Hutton project, Aberdeen teens Anjishnu Bhaduri, Adwait Sharma & Jayawant Sivarajan built ThistleDroid—a robot that tests land for reforestation & plants seeds!

🥇 Winners at #WROUK2025, they’ll rep GB in Singapore this Nov.

👉 ow.ly/tr9X50X4nYe

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Sep 30

You know when a piece of software does not work when its advocates start saying the problems aren’t with the software, they’re with people.

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Sep 28

Fascinating! Does growing rice on peat keep its carbon locked in?

The James Hutton Institute @hutton.ac.uk · Sep 24

⏳ Just one week to go until the 46th #TBMacLecture!

World-renowned economist Professor Kate Raworth is set give a talk on her revolutionary concept of #DoughnutEconomics

📅 1 October | 🎟️ Tickets are sold out, but you can still join the waitlist!

More: ow.ly/NYVI50X1ytj

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Sep 22

Or maybe something that messes with the minds of the sorts of people who’d give something up just in case it did cause autism. Whole foods?

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Sep 22

I’m wondering what else could be found to cause autism and whether any of them are things I don’t like. Cauliflower, for instance.

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Sep 22

Not sure about Apple’s ‘glass’ UI thing in 26.0. But maybe I’m just getting retraumatized from Aero in Windows 20+ years ago.

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Sep 20

Stew: the dish that cannot make up its mind whether it’s the soup or main course.

Computational Social Science Society of the Americas @computationalsocialscience.org · Sep 19

CSSSA September Webinar
Join us Wednesday, September 24, at 10 am (ET) or An Open Discussion on Education Needs for Agent-based Simulation with Dr. Rob Axtell and the CSSSA Team. Register here! (www.tickettailor.com/events/compu...)

www.tickettailor.com

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Sep 16

Windows and Office are productivity vampires. Fun little UX today in Outlook. A pop-up over a tab that ‘helpfully’ tells you the same text as the tab title (but in a slightly smaller font), obscuring the cursor where I’m typing. Moving the mouse interrupts my train of thought.

The James Hutton Institute @hutton.ac.uk · Sep 8

🌾 #Flax, once a staple of Scottish agriculture, could play a key role in sustainable textiles and low-impact #farming today.

We’ve been working with Soil Association Scotland through the Flax Field Lab to test this crop’s potential.

More: ow.ly/1Spp50WT7Cr

Gary Polhill @garypolhill.bsky.social · Aug 12

So what do you do when you cannot sleep?

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