Yep. I think the only reason I was aware it was a big thing was via @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social noting that they would be covering it on Newswatch.

This is most revealing part of @matthewcobb.bsky.social's piece on Rosalind Franklin: "Franklin did not succeed, partly because she was working on her own without a peer with whom to swap ideas. She was also excluded from the world of informal exchanges in which Watson and Crick were immersed."

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

@oldenoughtosay.com FYI

So, the BBC has the Executive Summary of the investigation by Penningtons Manches Cooper into Oxford Brookes University Boat Club.

It’s also up (with redactions) on Reddit at the moment.

It does look bad - not least the interference with the investigation.

But the club is clearly very divided.

Apple Maps really doesn’t like Canary Wharf does it?

Quite.

The lack of coverage of the BL cyberattack and its consequences has been dispiriting.

There are multiple angles to it but apparently none of that has been found by editors to be especially newsworthy.

Whoa Rebecca Lawrence has resigned as Chief Executive of @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Sorry that this might mean more turmoil at an institution that is a critical part of UK research infrastructure
www.bl.uk/about/press/...

Sad that Yolk on High Holborn didn’t last long.

The food was good and the staff super friendly.

Huh.

I am listening to Gary Numan ‘The Pleasure Principle’ for the first time, and I hadn’t ever realised that the main riff from Basement Jaxxs’ ‘Where’s Your Head At?’ is a sample.

This makes me wonder. Are paywalled media sites in scope of the UK Web Archive? Does Legal Deposit mean that publishers have to give full access to the British Library and its partners in that Archive?

Can’t easily check because #enrg.uk/#en" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">https://www.webarchive.org.uk/#en is still down after the cyberattack.

It is amusing to me that some people were speculating that The Times had been taken in by a deepfake as part of some shadowy political interference campaign.

Nope. They just emailed and then interviewed the wrong Bill DeBlasio.

Also: other allied projects of the Wikimedia Foundation are great too.

Most people aren't really aware of Wikidata which is an increasingly useful resource with even greater potential.

I implore everyone to donate to Wikipedia.

Just think how often you use it.
It's packed with reliable information.
It's run by passionate volunteers.
There are no ads on it.
It's free.

I am clearly far too invested in US politics and journalism, but as soon as Bari Weiss’s arrival at CBS was announced, I strongly suspected that John Dickerson would depart early.

He’s a fine journalist and a thoroughly decent man.

It's interesting that, while Copilot integration with Outlook is now active in 365, it's rubbish at the one thing I'd want help with, which is staying on top of emails that require me to do something.

Who knew!

Years ago, @georgemonbiot.bsky.social presented the idea (can’t recall if it was his own) of having coach terminals out of town, near motorway junctions.

The idea being that it’s the first and last bits of long distance coach journeys that are the slowest, as the coach gets to/from the city centre.

Well, A House Of Dynamite is cheery.

And then one imagines what Trump, Hegseth et al would be like in this situation.

Mrs Blurt Goes To Washington

At the end of Captain America: Brave New World a news anchor says:

"Back in our nation's capital, ground was broken on the restoration of the White House, marking a significant step towards normalcy for the country."

I laughed out loud, not knowing it would soon become even more on the nose.

Turned off automatic updates as I don't have iOS 26 yet and it sounds like there's such a backlash that they could conceivably roll back the changes and I can avoid them.

It'd be nice of Downing Street would wholeheartedly condemn the Lam mass-deportation stuff, but it's also an enormous failure of the centre-right to maintain a cordon sanitaire against this slide.

Am finishing Walter Scheidel’s The Great Leveller which is, it must be said, pretty depressing.

Near the end he references work by Tony Atkinson on possible ways of reducing UK inequality. I think it must be this:

I’ve never heard of it before. Has it had no influence in UK policy debates?

This is such a good read.