Simon Li
@penguinoops.bsky.social
Lab rat. Programmer. Cyclist. Climber. Interested in #OpenData and #OpenScience.
Something you may not have thought of if you ban IP addresses when you detect abuse- IPs are more likely to be shared by multiple (maybe 100s) of independent users in countries where internet adoption was slower due to bias in IPv4 allocations
www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/c...
www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/c...
ISPs more likely to throttle CGNAT traffic: Cloudflare
: When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors
www.theregister.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Something you may not have thought of if you ban IP addresses when you detect abuse- IPs are more likely to be shared by multiple (maybe 100s) of independent users in countries where internet adoption was slower due to bias in IPv4 allocations
www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/c...
www.theregister.com/2025/11/03/c...
Worktrees: Git's best kept secret (and why you should use them) | Tom Ups
Tom Ups blog
www.tomups.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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My statement on the formal recognition of the Palestinian state.
September 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
My statement on the formal recognition of the Palestinian state.
@simonhettrick.bsky.social on the problems with the Research Excellence Framework in the UK. Software (and many other outputs) should be considered - but very few universities include them. 97.6% of submitted outputs were publications.
#RSEcon25
#RSEcon25
September 10, 2025 at 8:27 AM
@simonhettrick.bsky.social on the problems with the Research Excellence Framework in the UK. Software (and many other outputs) should be considered - but very few universities include them. 97.6% of submitted outputs were publications.
#RSEcon25
#RSEcon25
September 9, 2025 at 12:34 PM
#RSEcon25 kicks off with a keynote by @amandabrock.bsky.social from @openuk.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/book/44727
#opensource #openaccess
academic.oup.com/book/44727
#opensource #openaccess
September 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
#RSEcon25 kicks off with a keynote by @amandabrock.bsky.social from @openuk.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/book/44727
#opensource #openaccess
academic.oup.com/book/44727
#opensource #openaccess
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Longstanding followers will know I have consistently tried to unpick concepts of race / ethnicity from genetics. TLDR; Race/Ethnicity - a self identification process about a categorical group is v different from the high dimensional variation in the genome despite a thin connection by visible traits
April 9, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Longstanding followers will know I have consistently tried to unpick concepts of race / ethnicity from genetics. TLDR; Race/Ethnicity - a self identification process about a categorical group is v different from the high dimensional variation in the genome despite a thin connection by visible traits
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We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
March 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham
Should URLs in #JsonSchema IDs be resolvable? They don't have to according to the spec json-schema.org/understandin... but _should_ they be?
JSON Schema - Modular JSON Schema combination
JSON Schema
json-schema.org
March 28, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Should URLs in #JsonSchema IDs be resolvable? They don't have to according to the spec json-schema.org/understandin... but _should_ they be?
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No schadenfreude or satisfaction in seeing ‘prominent’ Trump
cheerleaders in the UK finally see the light & change their tune (Andrew Neil is just the latest). Just a low simmer at their toxic blend of arrogance, cupidity & ignorance & the knowledge that the media will still promote their ilk.
cheerleaders in the UK finally see the light & change their tune (Andrew Neil is just the latest). Just a low simmer at their toxic blend of arrogance, cupidity & ignorance & the knowledge that the media will still promote their ilk.
March 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
No schadenfreude or satisfaction in seeing ‘prominent’ Trump
cheerleaders in the UK finally see the light & change their tune (Andrew Neil is just the latest). Just a low simmer at their toxic blend of arrogance, cupidity & ignorance & the knowledge that the media will still promote their ilk.
cheerleaders in the UK finally see the light & change their tune (Andrew Neil is just the latest). Just a low simmer at their toxic blend of arrogance, cupidity & ignorance & the knowledge that the media will still promote their ilk.
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🟥 We are happy to announce that the SSI has received £4.8m from @ukri.org to launch the Research Software Maintenance Fund.
Find out more about this exciting opportunity at www.software.ac.uk/news/ukri-aw...
Find out more about this exciting opportunity at www.software.ac.uk/news/ukri-aw...
March 6, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🟥 We are happy to announce that the SSI has received £4.8m from @ukri.org to launch the Research Software Maintenance Fund.
Find out more about this exciting opportunity at www.software.ac.uk/news/ukri-aw...
Find out more about this exciting opportunity at www.software.ac.uk/news/ukri-aw...
Can anyone explain why the UK government is inviting a sexist racist climate change denier for a second state visit? www.bbc.com/news/article... (it says "invitation from the king" but it's the government that decides)
Keir Starmer gives Donald Trump state visit invitation from the King
Keir Starmer hands the US president an invitation letter as the pair meet at the White House.
www.bbc.com
February 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Can anyone explain why the UK government is inviting a sexist racist climate change denier for a second state visit? www.bbc.com/news/article... (it says "invitation from the king" but it's the government that decides)
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Welcome to Bollard World. A place where dreams come true.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
November 27, 2024 at 8:47 PM
Welcome to Bollard World. A place where dreams come true.
#WorldBollardAssociation
#WorldBollardAssociation
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Honestly Labour you have a large majority and more than 4 years to the next election. Why do you have to be so limited and limiting in your thinking? 🤦♀️
NEW: Yvette Cooper rules out a youth mobility scheme between the UK and EU: "That's not the right starting point for us at all."
Brussels is demanding one as part of the government's "reset" of relations with the bloc.
Brussels is demanding one as part of the government's "reset" of relations with the bloc.
February 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Honestly Labour you have a large majority and more than 4 years to the next election. Why do you have to be so limited and limiting in your thinking? 🤦♀️
Editor in chief of the British Medical Journal gets straight to the point on the damage being caused by the new US president, misleading information on social media, and the deliberate failure to invest in fact-checking.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Trump and the tech bros: demagogues of harm to human and planetary health
A US medical society has written to tell us that some of its members will be unable to contribute to journal activities. This followed a government mandate that initially seemed to prohibit US federal...
www.bmj.com
January 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Editor in chief of the British Medical Journal gets straight to the point on the damage being caused by the new US president, misleading information on social media, and the deliberate failure to invest in fact-checking.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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"That progressives have failed to grasp how utterly tech has changed everything in our political culture – esp. given revelations of the role of psychological profiling through social media – is exploited by the right as a new ‘Wild West’. Elon Musk, is the most logical next step in this trajectory"
The Psycho-Social-Techno Politics of ‘MAGA’ Trumps Democracy – And the Liberal Left Has No Answer
Donald Trump’s second victory in the United States is a warning sign to democracies everywhere of the centrality of emotions – and their manipulation – in the new politics of gross inequality and psyc...
bylinetimes.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:04 PM
"That progressives have failed to grasp how utterly tech has changed everything in our political culture – esp. given revelations of the role of psychological profiling through social media – is exploited by the right as a new ‘Wild West’. Elon Musk, is the most logical next step in this trajectory"
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This is, as I see it, the defining problem of our media environment.
We have more and more people doing commentary and analysis based on facts gathered by fewer and fewer reporters.
It’s can’t hold.
We have more and more people doing commentary and analysis based on facts gathered by fewer and fewer reporters.
It’s can’t hold.
Opinion can be produced fast and cheap, and it generates clicks.
Meanwhile reporting is slow, expensive and boring.
No one ever got rich selling broccoli. (And I love broccoli.)
Simple as.
Meanwhile reporting is slow, expensive and boring.
No one ever got rich selling broccoli. (And I love broccoli.)
Simple as.
January 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This is, as I see it, the defining problem of our media environment.
We have more and more people doing commentary and analysis based on facts gathered by fewer and fewer reporters.
It’s can’t hold.
We have more and more people doing commentary and analysis based on facts gathered by fewer and fewer reporters.
It’s can’t hold.
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Any "avid cyclist" who claims that the solution to road safety for cyclists is simply to be more skilled and assertive should be required to demonstrate that they are more skilled and assertive than Olympic Champion Remco Evenepoel who was, this week, doored.
December 8, 2024 at 4:55 PM
Any "avid cyclist" who claims that the solution to road safety for cyclists is simply to be more skilled and assertive should be required to demonstrate that they are more skilled and assertive than Olympic Champion Remco Evenepoel who was, this week, doored.
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NEW: How baby boomers became the least healthy generation
Until recently, bad habits were concentrated in the young. Now, people born in the 50s and 60s are drinking more than any other age group - and are driving up obesity rates too
@thetimes.com
1/7
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/4efe...
Until recently, bad habits were concentrated in the young. Now, people born in the 50s and 60s are drinking more than any other age group - and are driving up obesity rates too
@thetimes.com
1/7
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/4efe...
December 8, 2024 at 10:52 AM
NEW: How baby boomers became the least healthy generation
Until recently, bad habits were concentrated in the young. Now, people born in the 50s and 60s are drinking more than any other age group - and are driving up obesity rates too
@thetimes.com
1/7
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/4efe...
Until recently, bad habits were concentrated in the young. Now, people born in the 50s and 60s are drinking more than any other age group - and are driving up obesity rates too
@thetimes.com
1/7
🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/4efe...
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We all think plastic pollution is a problem, and it is. In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, the world produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of plastic.
But all the plastic we have EVER produced weighs as much as CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024!
But all the plastic we have EVER produced weighs as much as CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024!
November 29, 2024 at 6:44 PM
We all think plastic pollution is a problem, and it is. In the nearly 70 years between 1950 and 2019, the world produced a total of ~9.5 billion tonnes of plastic.
But all the plastic we have EVER produced weighs as much as CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024!
But all the plastic we have EVER produced weighs as much as CO₂ we emitted into the atmosphere during the first three months of 2024!
A nice talk today from Paul Behrens at the Oxford Martin School about dealing with climate change. In some areas we're ahead of where we thought we'd be (eg prevalence of solar), surveys show the public and scientists are much more in favour of action than perceived!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRMz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRMz...
'Towards a liveable planet: land, energy and food system transitions' with Prof Paul Behrens
YouTube video by Oxford Martin School
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2024 at 3:37 PM
A nice talk today from Paul Behrens at the Oxford Martin School about dealing with climate change. In some areas we're ahead of where we thought we'd be (eg prevalence of solar), surveys show the public and scientists are much more in favour of action than perceived!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRMz...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRMz...
Public Engagement in Data Research Initiative (PEDRI) have launched their new website and it's looking good 😀. If you work with data about the public (e.g. healthcare, government) and want to know how to maintain the public's trust you should have a look
www.pedri.org.uk
www.pedri.org.uk
Home - PEDRI
www.pedri.org.uk
November 28, 2024 at 10:47 AM
Public Engagement in Data Research Initiative (PEDRI) have launched their new website and it's looking good 😀. If you work with data about the public (e.g. healthcare, government) and want to know how to maintain the public's trust you should have a look
www.pedri.org.uk
www.pedri.org.uk