Richard G Clegg
@richardclegg.bsky.social
Academic studying complex networks at Queen Mary University of London and amateur scuba instructor. I do a lot of research using the Raphtory software for temporal networks, a fast efficient way to analyse network data:
https://www.raphtory.com/
He/Him
https://www.raphtory.com/
He/Him
Halloween papercraft. Fun model to make. @robives.bsky.social @threadsaplenty.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Halloween papercraft. Fun model to make. @robives.bsky.social @threadsaplenty.bsky.social
I really love this -- inferring Anglo Saxon history from linguistics, place names, geography and network science:
keithbriggs.info/AS_networks....
keithbriggs.info/AS_networks....
Keith Briggs: : Anglo-Saxon communication networks
keithbriggs.info
October 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I really love this -- inferring Anglo Saxon history from linguistics, place names, geography and network science:
keithbriggs.info/AS_networks....
keithbriggs.info/AS_networks....
Fascinated by how ChatGPT does at my exam questions. It managed to extract a correct transition matrix from a text description of a Markov chain "consider someone doing x with probability of doing y". It had a damn good go at drawing the chain -- in ASCII art! The later choice is wild but I love it.
October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Fascinated by how ChatGPT does at my exam questions. It managed to extract a correct transition matrix from a text description of a Markov chain "consider someone doing x with probability of doing y". It had a damn good go at drawing the chain -- in ASCII art! The later choice is wild but I love it.
Maybe 2020 was somehow emotionally exhausting looking at the Markov chain exam question I set: "Sisyphus is pushing a boulder up a mountain which is 3000 metres tall. He will move every hour according to the following rules. With probability 1/2 he will go 1000 metres up the mountain..."
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Maybe 2020 was somehow emotionally exhausting looking at the Markov chain exam question I set: "Sisyphus is pushing a boulder up a mountain which is 3000 metres tall. He will move every hour according to the following rules. With probability 1/2 he will go 1000 metres up the mountain..."
Little bit of signal processing humour for a Monday morning.
October 13, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Little bit of signal processing humour for a Monday morning.
New addition to my teaching slides: "where LLM will mislead you". ChatGPT and FFT/DFT is interesting. It got a 4 point correct (I only tried one). On an 8 point it got it wrong (but showed working). When I said it was wrong it got it right (when pressed admiited to internal python fft routine).
October 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New addition to my teaching slides: "where LLM will mislead you". ChatGPT and FFT/DFT is interesting. It got a 4 point correct (I only tried one). On an 8 point it got it wrong (but showed working). When I said it was wrong it got it right (when pressed admiited to internal python fft routine).
Editing colleague's powerpoint and thinking about typesetting crimes. Co-worker created a beautiful graphic but spelled temporal with no l. We superimposed a powerpoint leter l as it was last minute. Four years later I'm still using that graphic and adding the l every time. #feelsbadman
October 12, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Editing colleague's powerpoint and thinking about typesetting crimes. Co-worker created a beautiful graphic but spelled temporal with no l. We superimposed a powerpoint leter l as it was last minute. Four years later I'm still using that graphic and adding the l every time. #feelsbadman
I crack me up (nobody else but I find it funny). [Writing a presentation about tracing crypto dealings.]
October 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I crack me up (nobody else but I find it funny). [Writing a presentation about tracing crypto dealings.]
Always a pleasure to work with @computerphile.bsky.social - this week it's back to basics with the layers model of the Internet:
youtu.be/eelvWAURfdI?...
youtu.be/eelvWAURfdI?...
Network Layers Model (Networking Basics) - Computerphile
YouTube video by Computerphile
youtu.be
October 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Always a pleasure to work with @computerphile.bsky.social - this week it's back to basics with the layers model of the Internet:
youtu.be/eelvWAURfdI?...
youtu.be/eelvWAURfdI?...
Today's meeting
Me: "I have an early draft of the grant on topic X we discussed for previous six weeks. Do not be afraid to criticise."
Five other academics: "X is dull we want to do Y instead."
Me: "You bunch of buggers."
Now writing a draft of an grant on Y (which is > X).
Me: "I have an early draft of the grant on topic X we discussed for previous six weeks. Do not be afraid to criticise."
Five other academics: "X is dull we want to do Y instead."
Me: "You bunch of buggers."
Now writing a draft of an grant on Y (which is > X).
October 9, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Today's meeting
Me: "I have an early draft of the grant on topic X we discussed for previous six weeks. Do not be afraid to criticise."
Five other academics: "X is dull we want to do Y instead."
Me: "You bunch of buggers."
Now writing a draft of an grant on Y (which is > X).
Me: "I have an early draft of the grant on topic X we discussed for previous six weeks. Do not be afraid to criticise."
Five other academics: "X is dull we want to do Y instead."
Me: "You bunch of buggers."
Now writing a draft of an grant on Y (which is > X).
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10 AI Prompts for Academics
making those hard jobs a little easier ...
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October 5, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Here are your 10 -essential- AI prompts for academics ... make your life easy with help from @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/10-ai-prom...
Honestly @bridgecommand.bsky.social is crazy good fun. Flying our own spaceship. Accidentally killing our senior officers.
Yet another excellent mission playing at spaceships @bridgecommand.bsky.social We achieved all of our objectives! Although sadly one of our Marine Colonels died heroically disabling the shields by boarding an enemy battleship, so we were able to nuke it… but sadly not before the Colonel was clear.
September 30, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Honestly @bridgecommand.bsky.social is crazy good fun. Flying our own spaceship. Accidentally killing our senior officers.
After so many years of networks research a paragraph that begins "Let G = (V,E) be a simple, undirected network where V is the set of nodes" is like slipping under a warm blanket. So soothing.
September 30, 2025 at 2:08 PM
After so many years of networks research a paragraph that begins "Let G = (V,E) be a simple, undirected network where V is the set of nodes" is like slipping under a warm blanket. So soothing.
Writing a grant proposal and a co author told me that rigorous data analysis is not exciting or sexy. My head knows it is true but my heart cannot accept this.
September 30, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Writing a grant proposal and a co author told me that rigorous data analysis is not exciting or sexy. My head knows it is true but my heart cannot accept this.
From a teams meeting I am in right now and I am honestly infuriated.
September 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
From a teams meeting I am in right now and I am honestly infuriated.
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Absolutely fantastic. The treatment is expensive and difficult but any progress against Huntington’s disease is good and this is amazing progress. Hooray!
September 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Absolutely fantastic. The treatment is expensive and difficult but any progress against Huntington’s disease is good and this is amazing progress. Hooray!
I just found out that ISO stands for the International Organisation for Standardization (which is Standardisation in UK English). In French Organisation Internationale de Normalisation. Oh my god, they can't even standardise their name. This 1952 journal cover infuriates me.
September 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
I just found out that ISO stands for the International Organisation for Standardization (which is Standardisation in UK English). In French Organisation Internationale de Normalisation. Oh my god, they can't even standardise their name. This 1952 journal cover infuriates me.
PhD supervision is one of the most rewarding parts of my job. A completed PhD is one of the most rewarding parts of that process. Nice to have a couple of pints in the pub to celebrate a completed thesis today.
September 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
PhD supervision is one of the most rewarding parts of my job. A completed PhD is one of the most rewarding parts of that process. Nice to have a couple of pints in the pub to celebrate a completed thesis today.
Staying with my dad for a while. This small statue with spiderweb in the rain is beautiful.
September 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Staying with my dad for a while. This small statue with spiderweb in the rain is beautiful.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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This photo makes me immensely happy. With Dr Barnes, Dr Steer and Dr Arnold (three brilliant PhDs) after listening to networks talks. Great evening and all three of them have jobs where they study complex networks all the time.
September 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This photo makes me immensely happy. With Dr Barnes, Dr Steer and Dr Arnold (three brilliant PhDs) after listening to networks talks. Great evening and all three of them have jobs where they study complex networks all the time.
Japanese menus continue to confound.
September 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Japanese menus continue to confound.
Tokyo hotel room view of sign specially for those who are on the spectrum since it features both keming and a sequence of colours that is not the spectrum.
September 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Tokyo hotel room view of sign specially for those who are on the spectrum since it features both keming and a sequence of colours that is not the spectrum.
Peak show off dive photo with manta ray (right), Caron (centre) and me (left). They circled for forty minutes being cleaned by tiny fish and then one of them took a gigantic poo that filled most of my field or vision. Nature is majestic.
September 11, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Peak show off dive photo with manta ray (right), Caron (centre) and me (left). They circled for forty minutes being cleaned by tiny fish and then one of them took a gigantic poo that filled most of my field or vision. Nature is majestic.
This man coffees (Ishigaki, Japan). The nearest other one is Fuku coffee which gives a different feeling to me.
September 10, 2025 at 9:37 AM
This man coffees (Ishigaki, Japan). The nearest other one is Fuku coffee which gives a different feeling to me.