Jack Stilgoe

@jackstilgoe.bsky.social

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Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk) .. more

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 10h

Saw the Headhunters live last week. Same drummer and percussionist as in this vid (50 years ago). Still absolutely crushing it. Mike Clark's technique (aged 79) is extraordinary. www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6u4...

Herbie Hancock & The Headhunters – Watermelon Man and Chameleon (Live on The Midnight Special, 1975)

YouTube video by Jazz Video Guy

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Reposted by Steve Peers, Andrew Jacobs, Steven Fielding , and 1 more Steve Peers, Andrew Jacobs, Steven Fielding, Jack Stilgoe

The Onion @theonion.com · 10h

Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit Of ‘The Vicar Of Dibley’ https://theonion.com/trump-threatens-to-sue-bbc-over-misleading-edit-of-the-vicar-of-dibley/

Reposted by Jonathan Hopkin, Jack Stilgoe

Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 10h

A piece I wrote about the manufactured ‘impartiality’ panics that greeted Tim Davie’s arrival just over 5 years ago, when GB News was still a glint in Robbie Gibbs’ eye www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Short Cuts: Woke Conspiracies

A British equivalent of Fox News, wherever it may come from, would have its own distinctive character – less...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Paweł Ausir Dembowski @ausir.bsky.social · 10h

US-EU copyright law differences mean that The Hobbit will be in the public domain in the US before the EU but The Lord of the Rings will be in the public domain in the EU before the US

Reposted by Rob Marchant, Jack Stilgoe, Aleksandra Urman , and 1 more Rob Marchant, Jack Stilgoe, Aleksandra Urman, Jason Williams

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 15h

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe!

We are uniting two research powerhouses.

For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more.

Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

Reposted by Lesley A. Hall, Jack Stilgoe

Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 1d

Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter)

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456

Professor of History | H-Net Job Guide

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Reposted by Jack Stilgoe, Iwan Rhys Morus

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Investors’ ‘dumb transhumanist ideas’ setting back neurotech progress, say experts

Fascination of investors such as Elon Musk with uploading their brains to computers is hindering progress in curing disease, say scientists

www.theguardian.com

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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 1d

I'm delighted that Nell Greenfieldboyce used my quote about "Corn flakes Jim" in her obituary of James Watson on @npr.org. I got that from my interview with @ewanbirney.bsky.social. Birney nobly tried to persuade Watson that the science on race + IQ did not hold up. Sadly, Watson couldn't hear it.

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA, has died at age 97

James Watson, who co-discovered the structure of DNA has died at age 97. He was a scientific superstar until he made racist remarks that made him an outcast.

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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 2d

Race was the issue that exposed the bankruptcy of Watson's genetic determinism. In the 20th century, he made his reputation by staunchly championing the power of DNA. In the 21st, he torpedoed that reputation the same way. That is the great tragedy of James Watson.

19/n #JDWxNC

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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, here are some first reflections on Watson.
Watson's life is a tragedy, really of Shakespearean proportions. He did not, as most bios will tell you, do one great thing when he was young and then collect laurels for it for the next 60 years. His career arc was unlike any in science.

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 2d

One thing that gets overlooked is that Watson's racism was intimately connected to his misconceived ideas about genetics.

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty much www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure

Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

www.nature.com

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Michael Veale

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d

James Watson was not just a scientist who was a racist. He was worse - a scientist who offered other racists the comfort of scientific authority.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers

James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

www.statnews.com

Reposted by Ariadne Vromen, Jack Stilgoe

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 3d

Pretty interesting job to run @jrf-uk.bsky.social - social change organisation proposing policy interventions that address poverty; and supporting social innovation. £165k. Based in York
starfishsearch.com/jobs/jrf-gro...

Group Chief Executive Officer - Starfish Search

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d

Phew

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d

We should all remember that Musk’s ‘pay package’ definitely isn’t a cool trillion because those robotics targets are hilarious. Unless of course he can redefine what counts as ‘robotaxi’ and ‘humanoid’

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d

I've been a bit distracted at work, so I've asked my manager for a trillion dollars in exchange for doing my job

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d

It's up there with "change the culture"

Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

For political hacks like myself, 'put it in the curriculum' is the oldest and hattiest of old hat policy ideas.

Why do we think schools should solve all our problems? What if we thought differently about life skills and civic education?

howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/schools-ca...

Schools cannot solve all our problems

The limits of ‘put it in the curriculum’ politics

howtorunacountry.substack.com

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d

Beautiful. May this be bigger than Totoro!

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d

New study suggests a creepy thing is correlated with a monetisable thing if you squirt in enough snake oil. Until people realise and start gaming it, at which point the whole thing obviously collapses.

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d

Why did Walkers' absolutely baller move of trying to restandardise Cheese and Onion as blue never catch on?

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Polly Mackenzie @pollymackenzie.bsky.social · 3d

Schools cannot solve all our problems

The limits of ‘put it in the curriculum’ politics

howtorunacountry.substack.com

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3d

I've been a bit distracted at work, so I've asked my manager for a trillion dollars in exchange for doing my job

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d

Hmm. Not sure I agree. The hype is such that lots of people are likely to take the money while privately thinking 'it'll never work'...

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d

Took it seriously or took the amount of money on the table seriously?

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d

Let’s not forget it was also where we tested a bunch of Hydrogen bombs

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 4d

Google plans secret AI military outpost on tiny island overrun by crabs

Christmas Island facility would support naval surveillance in strategic Indo-Pacific waters.

arstechnica.com

Reposted by Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings , and 6 more Jonathan Portes, Ben H. Ansell, Will Jennings, Steve Peers, Julian R. Betts, Michael H. Whitworth, Mark Robinson, Gary Sheffield, Jack Stilgoe

Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 4d

For anyone still tempted to take Dominic Cummings at all seriously, he's now an advocate of Donald Trump-style open racism.

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d

Yes. And Eric Klinenberg's "2020" book was a pretty nice example.

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d

😮. So they bought their own story but couldn't sell it to others? BTW, the reporting is excellent, and the visuals are gorgeous. The hazards of architecture by autocrats.

Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 4d

I'm genuinely interested to know if anyone ever took The Line seriously. Did anyone truly invest their hopes and/or millions in this Vapourtown?

Alison Killing @alisonkilling.bsky.social · 4d

NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled

Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

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Reposted by Simon Burgess, Jack Stilgoe

Tes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 4d

A quota of 15% of school places should be given to pupils eligible for free school meals to ensure they have an equitable chance of attending an effective school, @bristoluni.bsky.social research suggests

Call for schools to have FSM pupil places quota

Giving pupils who receive free school meals priority for 15 per cent of places in schools could create a more equitable admissions system, researchers suggest

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