Dr. John Vidler
@johnvidler.co.uk
Senior Research Associate at Lancaster University, UK
UCREL Systems Administrator | Ex. Embedded Engineer for the Micro:bit Educational Foundation (MEF)
https://johnvidler.co.uk/
https://github.com/johnvidler
UCREL Systems Administrator | Ex. Embedded Engineer for the Micro:bit Educational Foundation (MEF)
https://johnvidler.co.uk/
https://github.com/johnvidler
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We are excited to announce that our final speaker is... Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social from Lancaster University! You can read more about Elena and her work here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/... #CAD2026
July 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We are excited to announce that our final speaker is... Elena Semino @elenasemino.bsky.social from Lancaster University! You can read more about Elena and her work here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/... #CAD2026
Today marks the start of the 2025 @prosquared.org Workshop at Lancaster University! See you all there soon 😁
July 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Today marks the start of the 2025 @prosquared.org Workshop at Lancaster University! See you all there soon 😁
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Very proud to have been sponsors of this year's Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh!
Two action-packed days full of fascinating people and talks, including a presentation on an accessible one-handed keyboard by our very own @lmcunderwood.bsky.social
@oshwassociation.bsky.social #OHS2025 #OpenSource
Two action-packed days full of fascinating people and talks, including a presentation on an accessible one-handed keyboard by our very own @lmcunderwood.bsky.social
@oshwassociation.bsky.social #OHS2025 #OpenSource
June 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Very proud to have been sponsors of this year's Open Hardware Summit in Edinburgh!
Two action-packed days full of fascinating people and talks, including a presentation on an accessible one-handed keyboard by our very own @lmcunderwood.bsky.social
@oshwassociation.bsky.social #OHS2025 #OpenSource
Two action-packed days full of fascinating people and talks, including a presentation on an accessible one-handed keyboard by our very own @lmcunderwood.bsky.social
@oshwassociation.bsky.social #OHS2025 #OpenSource
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So excited that The Usuals will be joining us again at the 2025 Device Prototyping Summer School!
Attendees can catch their rock/indie/pop cover show live on 15 July. Want a sneak peek before the show? Visit theusuals.co.uk
#pro2summerschool2025 @lmcunderwood.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
Attendees can catch their rock/indie/pop cover show live on 15 July. Want a sneak peek before the show? Visit theusuals.co.uk
#pro2summerschool2025 @lmcunderwood.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
July 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
So excited that The Usuals will be joining us again at the 2025 Device Prototyping Summer School!
Attendees can catch their rock/indie/pop cover show live on 15 July. Want a sneak peek before the show? Visit theusuals.co.uk
#pro2summerschool2025 @lmcunderwood.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
Attendees can catch their rock/indie/pop cover show live on 15 July. Want a sneak peek before the show? Visit theusuals.co.uk
#pro2summerschool2025 @lmcunderwood.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social
Ffffffff... I just spent many hours working on what I thought was an embedded serial port bug when in fact it was just using dead batteries the whole time.
...
Aaaargh!
...
Aaaargh!
June 25, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Ffffffff... I just spent many hours working on what I thought was an embedded serial port bug when in fact it was just using dead batteries the whole time.
...
Aaaargh!
...
Aaaargh!
... So a "DHLEvri" company ... ? 😸
May 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
... So a "DHLEvri" company ... ? 😸
Well this quote from an article I'm reading this morning hits a _little bit_ too close to home 😬
"... I started a spreadsheet, which is what middle-class professionals do when faced with systemic problems ..."
"... I started a spreadsheet, which is what middle-class professionals do when faced with systemic problems ..."
May 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Well this quote from an article I'm reading this morning hits a _little bit_ too close to home 😬
"... I started a spreadsheet, which is what middle-class professionals do when faced with systemic problems ..."
"... I started a spreadsheet, which is what middle-class professionals do when faced with systemic problems ..."
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Registration now open for our 3.5 day, hands-on summer school at Lancaster University this July!
30 places available with accommodation, meals and all course content for just £50, plus £4000 in prizes. Open to all interested in low-volume device creation.
Learn more & apply: buff.ly/mX7ihRV
30 places available with accommodation, meals and all course content for just £50, plus £4000 in prizes. Open to all interested in low-volume device creation.
Learn more & apply: buff.ly/mX7ihRV
April 10, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Registration now open for our 3.5 day, hands-on summer school at Lancaster University this July!
30 places available with accommodation, meals and all course content for just £50, plus £4000 in prizes. Open to all interested in low-volume device creation.
Learn more & apply: buff.ly/mX7ihRV
30 places available with accommodation, meals and all course content for just £50, plus £4000 in prizes. Open to all interested in low-volume device creation.
Learn more & apply: buff.ly/mX7ihRV
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What if the Earth rotated 90 degrees?
Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with MinuteEarth!
youtu.be/WH4g1ptJ-70
Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with MinuteEarth!
youtu.be/WH4g1ptJ-70
What if the Earth rotated 90 degrees?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
youtu.be
April 2, 2025 at 6:54 PM
What if the Earth rotated 90 degrees?
Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with MinuteEarth!
youtu.be/WH4g1ptJ-70
Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with MinuteEarth!
youtu.be/WH4g1ptJ-70
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Save the dates! Learn to make refined digital devices quickly & easily with hands-on instruction from global experts.
🍎 Open to all experience levels
⚙️ 30 spots available for £50 including accommodation, meals, & instruction
🏆 Prize competition!
Registration opens soon. Learn more: buff.ly/nZAawVm
🍎 Open to all experience levels
⚙️ 30 spots available for £50 including accommodation, meals, & instruction
🏆 Prize competition!
Registration opens soon. Learn more: buff.ly/nZAawVm
March 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Save the dates! Learn to make refined digital devices quickly & easily with hands-on instruction from global experts.
🍎 Open to all experience levels
⚙️ 30 spots available for £50 including accommodation, meals, & instruction
🏆 Prize competition!
Registration opens soon. Learn more: buff.ly/nZAawVm
🍎 Open to all experience levels
⚙️ 30 spots available for £50 including accommodation, meals, & instruction
🏆 Prize competition!
Registration opens soon. Learn more: buff.ly/nZAawVm
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March 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Exciting news: there'll be a wmatrix & PyMUSAS workshop at @cl2025.co.uk in Birmingham on 29th June run by me, @johnvidler.co.uk and Daisy Lal including discussions about open source software and #corpuslinguistics #CL2025
March 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Exciting news: there'll be a wmatrix & PyMUSAS workshop at @cl2025.co.uk in Birmingham on 29th June run by me, @johnvidler.co.uk and Daisy Lal including discussions about open source software and #corpuslinguistics #CL2025
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After a soft launch in the last couple of weeks, #wmatrix version 7 is now completely freely available worldwide for academic users plus UK government and NHS email addresses. This is the largest revision of the software since it was created 25 years ago: ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/
Wmatrix corpus analysis and comparison tool
ucrel.lancs.ac.uk
March 25, 2025 at 9:29 AM
After a soft launch in the last couple of weeks, #wmatrix version 7 is now completely freely available worldwide for academic users plus UK government and NHS email addresses. This is the largest revision of the software since it was created 25 years ago: ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/wmatrix/
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1. Don't code when you're tired.
2. Don't login as root on your Linux/Unix boxes when you're tired, guys.
3. See # 1 again.
4. With time you will forget these rules again.
#programming #life #IT #devlife #wisdom
2. Don't login as root on your Linux/Unix boxes when you're tired, guys.
3. See # 1 again.
4. With time you will forget these rules again.
#programming #life #IT #devlife #wisdom
January 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
1. Don't code when you're tired.
2. Don't login as root on your Linux/Unix boxes when you're tired, guys.
3. See # 1 again.
4. With time you will forget these rules again.
#programming #life #IT #devlife #wisdom
2. Don't login as root on your Linux/Unix boxes when you're tired, guys.
3. See # 1 again.
4. With time you will forget these rules again.
#programming #life #IT #devlife #wisdom
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Very happy to be part of the CLARIN ParlaMint team which updated the parliamentary corpus recently, and our new paper is out now: doi.org/10.1007/s105... including the description of the #PyMUSAS semantic tagging of the whole corpus by @johnvidler.co.uk
ParlaMint II: advancing comparable parliamentary corpora across Europe - Language Resources and Evaluation
The paper presents the results of the ParlaMint II project, which comprise comparable corpora of parliamentary debates of 29 European countries and autonomous regions, covering at least the period fro...
doi.org
January 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Very happy to be part of the CLARIN ParlaMint team which updated the parliamentary corpus recently, and our new paper is out now: doi.org/10.1007/s105... including the description of the #PyMUSAS semantic tagging of the whole corpus by @johnvidler.co.uk
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Merry Christmas! Hope your year has been a wonderful one!
December 25, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Merry Christmas! Hope your year has been a wonderful one!
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🔈Job Alert 🔈
I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.
I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.
December 19, 2024 at 10:42 PM
🔈Job Alert 🔈
I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.
I’m looking for a Research Assistant to work with me part-time in Spring 2025 (ca. February to July) on my new Leverhulme Trust-funded project on LGBTQIA+ politicians and political polarization in Europe.
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Just submitted a couple of lightning talks to @oshwassociation.bsky.social It's sooo close (geographically) in Edinburgh and plenty of time away (May 2025) for you to build the thing you want to talk about 😀 Doooo it! I know ALL of you can talk for 5 minutes about your cool open hardware projects
2025 Open Hardware Summit
2025.oshwa.org
December 21, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Just submitted a couple of lightning talks to @oshwassociation.bsky.social It's sooo close (geographically) in Edinburgh and plenty of time away (May 2025) for you to build the thing you want to talk about 😀 Doooo it! I know ALL of you can talk for 5 minutes about your cool open hardware projects
Finally had some time to progress the ACE+mk3s project and... it moooooves!
I'm 'blind feeding' the filament through, but the combined runout/select sensor is in place, and the ACE can definitely keep up even with my terrible driver code:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pidx...
I'm 'blind feeding' the filament through, but the combined runout/select sensor is in place, and the ACE can definitely keep up even with my terrible driver code:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pidx...
Initial tests integrating an Anycubic ACE Pro with a Prusa mk3s
YouTube video by John Vidler
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Finally had some time to progress the ACE+mk3s project and... it moooooves!
I'm 'blind feeding' the filament through, but the combined runout/select sensor is in place, and the ACE can definitely keep up even with my terrible driver code:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pidx...
I'm 'blind feeding' the filament through, but the combined runout/select sensor is in place, and the ACE can definitely keep up even with my terrible driver code:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pidx...
Just found out about the "National Databank" - whereby folks with limited or no access to the internet can apply for free mobile sim cards: www.goodthingsfoundation.org/our-services...
What Is The National Databank | Free Mobile Data For Digital Inclusion | Good Things Foundation
Learn about the National Databank, a Good Things’ digital inclusion service that helps people in need access the internet through free mobile data.
www.goodthingsfoundation.org
December 16, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Just found out about the "National Databank" - whereby folks with limited or no access to the internet can apply for free mobile sim cards: www.goodthingsfoundation.org/our-services...
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Job market people: A reminder that I am searching for a postdoctoral fellow this year. postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
Open Postdoctoral position, faculty mentor Anne Charity Hudley | Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
postdocs.stanford.edu
December 14, 2024 at 11:57 PM
Job market people: A reminder that I am searching for a postdoctoral fellow this year. postdocs.stanford.edu/prospective/...
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The final #ISLE Forum of the year focuses on English #Linguistics in Japan and Australia. Join Martin Schweinberger (moderator), Laurence Anthony, and Peter Crosthwaite on December 19 (10am CET). Zoom link available at www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o... As always, open to non-ISLE members
December 14, 2024 at 8:52 AM
The final #ISLE Forum of the year focuses on English #Linguistics in Japan and Australia. Join Martin Schweinberger (moderator), Laurence Anthony, and Peter Crosthwaite on December 19 (10am CET). Zoom link available at www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/o... As always, open to non-ISLE members
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🗣💬 Major update: the corpus collection tool BlueskyScraper now comes with a live stream module which lets you collect posts in real time, either randomly or through filters, then download the results as a file in the format of your choice.
🔗 Info: fmoncomble.github.io/blueskyscrap...
🔗 Info: fmoncomble.github.io/blueskyscrap...
December 2, 2024 at 11:48 AM
🗣💬 Major update: the corpus collection tool BlueskyScraper now comes with a live stream module which lets you collect posts in real time, either randomly or through filters, then download the results as a file in the format of your choice.
🔗 Info: fmoncomble.github.io/blueskyscrap...
🔗 Info: fmoncomble.github.io/blueskyscrap...