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Memories of Carol Frances Richardson, 1946 - 2023 – George Richardson
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I started a new blog to post longer pieces about science, technology and politics, but the first thing I've ended up writing is an homage to my Nan, Carol, who died in 2023.
People like her don't get write ups, but she deserves one so here it is georgerichardson.net/blog/posts/0...
People like her don't get write ups, but she deserves one so here it is georgerichardson.net/blog/posts/0...
Researchers have been developing new metascience project ideas in the MS Labs at #metascience2025.
Maria Aleksandrova developed her idea yesterday and then spent 24 hours interviewing researchers and funders at the conference to make her pitch in the final session today. Heroic effort! 🚀
Maria Aleksandrova developed her idea yesterday and then spent 24 hours interviewing researchers and funders at the conference to make her pitch in the final session today. Heroic effort! 🚀
July 2, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Researchers have been developing new metascience project ideas in the MS Labs at #metascience2025.
Maria Aleksandrova developed her idea yesterday and then spent 24 hours interviewing researchers and funders at the conference to make her pitch in the final session today. Heroic effort! 🚀
Maria Aleksandrova developed her idea yesterday and then spent 24 hours interviewing researchers and funders at the conference to make her pitch in the final session today. Heroic effort! 🚀
@dashunwang.bsky.social "my team has been playing around with the science of science"
Understatement of #metascience2025?
Understatement of #metascience2025?
July 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
@dashunwang.bsky.social "my team has been playing around with the science of science"
Understatement of #metascience2025?
Understatement of #metascience2025?
What is the impact of AI om science is a big question at #metascience2025
Extend your curiosity by finding my colleague @ampudia.bsky.social at tonight's poster session with an excellent study of AlphaFold2's impact on science.
Here's a sneak preview... 🧵
Extend your curiosity by finding my colleague @ampudia.bsky.social at tonight's poster session with an excellent study of AlphaFold2's impact on science.
Here's a sneak preview... 🧵
July 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
What is the impact of AI om science is a big question at #metascience2025
Extend your curiosity by finding my colleague @ampudia.bsky.social at tonight's poster session with an excellent study of AlphaFold2's impact on science.
Here's a sneak preview... 🧵
Extend your curiosity by finding my colleague @ampudia.bsky.social at tonight's poster session with an excellent study of AlphaFold2's impact on science.
Here's a sneak preview... 🧵
Easy to feel you're at the centre of a growing universe at the 4th #metascience2025 with >800 attendees.
CASSSP (Chinese Association of Science of Science and Science & Technology Policy) had its 21st conference in 2024 with 1600 attendees. All serving one rapidly growing national ecosystem
CASSSP (Chinese Association of Science of Science and Science & Technology Policy) had its 21st conference in 2024 with 1600 attendees. All serving one rapidly growing national ecosystem
July 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Easy to feel you're at the centre of a growing universe at the 4th #metascience2025 with >800 attendees.
CASSSP (Chinese Association of Science of Science and Science & Technology Policy) had its 21st conference in 2024 with 1600 attendees. All serving one rapidly growing national ecosystem
CASSSP (Chinese Association of Science of Science and Science & Technology Policy) had its 21st conference in 2024 with 1600 attendees. All serving one rapidly growing national ecosystem
At #metascience2025 for day 2
Come find me if you're interested in:
- tracking the impact of funding on the direction of science
- AI in science
- open source code and science
Come find me if you're interested in:
- tracking the impact of funding on the direction of science
- AI in science
- open source code and science
July 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
At #metascience2025 for day 2
Come find me if you're interested in:
- tracking the impact of funding on the direction of science
- AI in science
- open source code and science
Come find me if you're interested in:
- tracking the impact of funding on the direction of science
- AI in science
- open source code and science
Q at #metascience2025 - Funders create a lot of value just by putting out calls and soliciting great ideas from researchers. How can we capitalise on that?
Reminds me of 'research dark matter' and another approach I thought about for capturing it academic-idea-exchange.replit.app
Reminds me of 'research dark matter' and another approach I thought about for capturing it academic-idea-exchange.replit.app
This One for Free - Share Your Research Ideas
Share your research ideas within the academic community
academic-idea-exchange.replit.app
June 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Q at #metascience2025 - Funders create a lot of value just by putting out calls and soliciting great ideas from researchers. How can we capitalise on that?
Reminds me of 'research dark matter' and another approach I thought about for capturing it academic-idea-exchange.replit.app
Reminds me of 'research dark matter' and another approach I thought about for capturing it academic-idea-exchange.replit.app
What if researchers could share ideas they might never do, but still get credit for them? What if they could trawl the ideas to discover your what other researchers in their field thought was most impactful?
That's possible with a new research idea sharing platform academic-idea-exchange.replit.app
That's possible with a new research idea sharing platform academic-idea-exchange.replit.app
This One for Free - Share Your Research Ideas
Share your research ideas within the academic community
academic-idea-exchange.replit.app
April 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
What if researchers could share ideas they might never do, but still get credit for them? What if they could trawl the ideas to discover your what other researchers in their field thought was most impactful?
That's possible with a new research idea sharing platform academic-idea-exchange.replit.app
That's possible with a new research idea sharing platform academic-idea-exchange.replit.app
Still think regularly about the talk on coastal plastic pollution I once attended where the speaker was French and said "bitch clean ups" about 50 times and I struggled to hold it together
March 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Still think regularly about the talk on coastal plastic pollution I once attended where the speaker was French and said "bitch clean ups" about 50 times and I struggled to hold it together
Planning to embed all 380k of these little galaxy images, put them through UMAP, then sit back and let the insights wash over me www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientists hail ‘avalanche of discoveries’ from Euclid space telescope
Data from European Space Agency’s mission has allowed researchers to create detailed catalogue of 380,000 galaxies
www.theguardian.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Planning to embed all 380k of these little galaxy images, put them through UMAP, then sit back and let the insights wash over me www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
TIL the "Labour" in Labour Party actually means making people work. I thought it was something to do with representing labour unions and the working class.
Thanks to Shabana Mahmood for the illuminating history lesson.
Thanks to Shabana Mahmood for the illuminating history lesson.
March 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
TIL the "Labour" in Labour Party actually means making people work. I thought it was something to do with representing labour unions and the working class.
Thanks to Shabana Mahmood for the illuminating history lesson.
Thanks to Shabana Mahmood for the illuminating history lesson.
you are currently 11th in the queue
February 28, 2025 at 9:50 AM
you are currently 11th in the queue
@graceblakeley.bsky.social points out importantly in Vulture Capitalism, it's not about states vs markets. It's about using the state for capital accumulation.
This move will be about attacking things that hinder profit for Bezos, while he simultaneously pursues gov interventions that benefit him.
This move will be about attacking things that hinder profit for Bezos, while he simultaneously pursues gov interventions that benefit him.
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
February 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
@graceblakeley.bsky.social points out importantly in Vulture Capitalism, it's not about states vs markets. It's about using the state for capital accumulation.
This move will be about attacking things that hinder profit for Bezos, while he simultaneously pursues gov interventions that benefit him.
This move will be about attacking things that hinder profit for Bezos, while he simultaneously pursues gov interventions that benefit him.
Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem really really brought this home to me. The size of space, the extent of time and the almost inevitable impermanence of anything you do. Liberating, inspiring and humbling all at once.
i don’t think we realize just how MASSIVE things in space are
February 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Cixin Liu's Three Body Problem really really brought this home to me. The size of space, the extent of time and the almost inevitable impermanence of anything you do. Liberating, inspiring and humbling all at once.
Berkeley is cutting affordable housing from 35% to 12% in its redevelopment of Peckham's Ayleham site. Shocking no one and angering 1000s.
In 2023 there were 12,000 households on Southwark's social housing waiting list.
In 2023 there were 12,000 households on Southwark's social housing waiting list.
February 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Berkeley is cutting affordable housing from 35% to 12% in its redevelopment of Peckham's Ayleham site. Shocking no one and angering 1000s.
In 2023 there were 12,000 households on Southwark's social housing waiting list.
In 2023 there were 12,000 households on Southwark's social housing waiting list.
Cannot stand cultural appropriation
February 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Cannot stand cultural appropriation
The Jam's Smithers-Jones is a top B-side.
Most of the the band's social commentary was penned by frontman Paul Weller, but Bruce Foxton succinctly sums up the everyday experience of being working class in this tune. Still relevant today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H85z...
Most of the the band's social commentary was penned by frontman Paul Weller, but Bruce Foxton succinctly sums up the everyday experience of being working class in this tune. Still relevant today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H85z...
The Jam - Setting Sons - Smithers-Jones
YouTube video by AllModConsTheJam
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The Jam's Smithers-Jones is a top B-side.
Most of the the band's social commentary was penned by frontman Paul Weller, but Bruce Foxton succinctly sums up the everyday experience of being working class in this tune. Still relevant today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H85z...
Most of the the band's social commentary was penned by frontman Paul Weller, but Bruce Foxton succinctly sums up the everyday experience of being working class in this tune. Still relevant today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H85z...
Not talked about enough is the need for taxation to simply curb the wealth of the ultra-rich for the sake of democracy.
The political power of a tiny class of individuals can and should be reduced. Something we're getting a hard lesson in atm.
The political power of a tiny class of individuals can and should be reduced. Something we're getting a hard lesson in atm.
February 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Not talked about enough is the need for taxation to simply curb the wealth of the ultra-rich for the sake of democracy.
The political power of a tiny class of individuals can and should be reduced. Something we're getting a hard lesson in atm.
The political power of a tiny class of individuals can and should be reduced. Something we're getting a hard lesson in atm.
My Anglofuturist vision is old school PE and screen time YIMBYism but with a national board who draw up a list of British voice actors approved to overdub foreign cartoon imports.
January 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
My Anglofuturist vision is old school PE and screen time YIMBYism but with a national board who draw up a list of British voice actors approved to overdub foreign cartoon imports.
Great thread. It's always interesting to think about the balance of True Believers and Cynics that forms a movement. In some way the fascist right seems so dangerous at the moment because they appear to have a coalition of the two, led by actors who are bridging them.
Do these guys really think they can build their neo-fascist pseudo-Roman crypto-colonies on Greenland, or is it just a scam to attract venture capital? I don't know, but maybe such questions are beside the point anyway. Everything is a grift these days, including diplomacy & geopolitics, it seems
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January 24, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Great thread. It's always interesting to think about the balance of True Believers and Cynics that forms a movement. In some way the fascist right seems so dangerous at the moment because they appear to have a coalition of the two, led by actors who are bridging them.
You don't need to have a deep political analysis to see what a terrible idea it has been for the centre to cosy up to capital and denigrate the left for decades.
It turns out that the ultra rich you helped create aren't all benign wealth creators and staunch social liberals. What a surprise.
It turns out that the ultra rich you helped create aren't all benign wealth creators and staunch social liberals. What a surprise.
January 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
You don't need to have a deep political analysis to see what a terrible idea it has been for the centre to cosy up to capital and denigrate the left for decades.
It turns out that the ultra rich you helped create aren't all benign wealth creators and staunch social liberals. What a surprise.
It turns out that the ultra rich you helped create aren't all benign wealth creators and staunch social liberals. What a surprise.
It would be nice to have
"Create List from Starter Pack" and "Add Starter Pack to List" features on here
"Create List from Starter Pack" and "Add Starter Pack to List" features on here
January 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
It would be nice to have
"Create List from Starter Pack" and "Add Starter Pack to List" features on here
"Create List from Starter Pack" and "Add Starter Pack to List" features on here
This study confirms what I've always suspected was true. That the drop in traffic I notice around the private school holidays is real not percieved.
www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/private...
www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/private...
Private schools driving a 47% increase in toxic air pollution and extensive bus delays
Private schools are driving a 50% increase in pollution and traffic, despite serving a minority of pupils, according to new data.
www.solvetheschoolrun.org
January 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
This study confirms what I've always suspected was true. That the drop in traffic I notice around the private school holidays is real not percieved.
www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/private...
www.solvetheschoolrun.org/post/private...
Just finished screening 101 job applications on our recruitment platform (anonymised, shuffled answers to 3 questions set for candidates).
So much AI slop. I read the same template answer over and over again - same points, same order, same vocab. Totally lacking any specificity.
So much AI slop. I read the same template answer over and over again - same points, same order, same vocab. Totally lacking any specificity.
January 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Just finished screening 101 job applications on our recruitment platform (anonymised, shuffled answers to 3 questions set for candidates).
So much AI slop. I read the same template answer over and over again - same points, same order, same vocab. Totally lacking any specificity.
So much AI slop. I read the same template answer over and over again - same points, same order, same vocab. Totally lacking any specificity.
The "shuffle is playing some bangers rn" to "oh it was actually me that made this playlist" pipeline
January 9, 2025 at 12:18 PM
The "shuffle is playing some bangers rn" to "oh it was actually me that made this playlist" pipeline
Eating the last of the chocolate orange frangipane mince pies. Honestly top 5 worst things I've ever eaten. Combinatorial innovation gone mad. So much going on. So confused.
January 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Eating the last of the chocolate orange frangipane mince pies. Honestly top 5 worst things I've ever eaten. Combinatorial innovation gone mad. So much going on. So confused.