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Prof Stephen Wood
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Occasional chorister, professional academic
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THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Magnificent
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 14, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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LNP’s disarray on climate is going to give a lot of cover to Labor’s sub standard performance #auspol
November 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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We did a thing. 😬
The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say.

Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA

@wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
So well written as well. I’ve always loved the alliteration of ‘the blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds’
🚨 EXPLODING WHALE DAY🚨

November 12, 1970:

A 40 ton whale carcass lays, rotting, on an Oregon beach.

A crowd has gathered to watch the whale carcass be dynamited to dispose of it.

HILARITY*. ENSUES.

*”blubber snowstorm”

REMASTERED VIDEO!

www.youtube.com/embed/V6CLum...
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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The Day Today’s legacy is a whole generation of people who say “proof, if proof be need be” and can’t quite remember the real phrase.
November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Just here to remind you that, with “net zero”, we’re having a meaningless argument about a meaningless frame in order to distract from the single most important and meaningful issue confronting us.

This is politics today.

We should stop wasting time and energy and build a new system.
Net zero reality and the extinction of politics-as-usual
On words without meaning, meaning without worlds The sheer inanity, the ecocidal banality of our current political discourse was encapsulated perfectly this morning on the floor of the House of Repre...
in-between-days.ghost.io
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Something something market signals.
Japanese giant SoftBank said Tuesday it has sold its entire stake in tech giant Nvidia for $5.83 billion.

Click here to read more: https://cnb.cx/49LCIs8
November 11, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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What a boondoggle - the Saudi ‘Line in the Sand’, with trains with no baggage and global-cladding-gobbling bird-killing mirror finish sounds like the world’s most wasteful and expensive dumb thing
Cool
Cool cool cool
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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T­he future of Austr­alian medical research is being held back, not by a lack of ideas, talent, or urgency, but by the failure to honour a long‐held funding promise, a situation all the more perplexing given that the promised funds are already available.

Read more: www.burnet.edu.au/news/burnet-...
Burnet backs calls to fully release MRFF: media release
The MRFF was established to transform Australian health and medical research. We are calling on all funds to be released.
www.burnet.edu.au
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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"Tesla shareholder approve one trillion dollar pay deal for Elon Musk."
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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one dynamic that i think has a (minor) impact on how people perceive AI use: it's way more noticeable when it's used badly. you can tell when someone has just churned out work slop.
My own experience is that the significant number of people who are using AI in effective, profitable and non-risky ways are just getting on with it and not talking about it much, because talking about it is going to get you harassed by idiots for no particular benefit.
November 7, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Very sad to see the major university in the East Midlands 'suspending' (i.e. planning to close) key courses like Modern Languages and Music and scaling back Nursing. It's a scandal that top universities are just being left to go to the wall after years of underfunding.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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i said what i said
November 6, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Wilfred Owen died #OTD in 1918. This is the life size bronze statue of him in Cae Glas Park, Oswestry - the town of his birth. #Shropshire
November 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?
October 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Why can't we have nice things?
Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones."

cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...
Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots to Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities
Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. ...
cm.asiae.co.kr
November 2, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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Your regular reminder that the number of trans kids using puberty blockers to delay puberty is tiny, and the vast majority of prescriptions for the medication in children and adolescents are used to delay precocious puberty in cisgender kids.
Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.
November 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Remember to register for our pre-conference workshop designed by EMCRs for EMCRs. Hear from inspiring panellists, plus have your ideas assessed for a small seed fund to kickstart your next project‼️

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October 31, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Straya
October 29, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Top headlines some time in 2052:

Thousands of heat deaths as mid-winter hot cell lingers

Floods engulf Melbourne’s inner east

The top suburbs you wish you bought into

Try this time friendly crispy lemon chicken

October 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, my first rule of thumb, I don’t say where I’m going or where I’m coming from
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings, I live on the second floor, I live upstairs from you, yes I think you’ve seen me before
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. James Ozymandias, King of Kings.
October 30, 2025 at 12:45 AM