Andy Buckley
@agbuckley.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Particle-physics prof at Glasgow Physics & Astronomy. Author of those physics codes you like, and that one you don't. Enthusiast for dirty QCD physics, data […]
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Google has quietly shut down the curating of climate change news.
This rubric used to yield a long list of news items related to climate.
Now, an empty page.
This rubric used to yield a long list of news items related to climate.
Now, an empty page.
November 16, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Google has quietly shut down the curating of climate change news.
This rubric used to yield a long list of news items related to climate.
Now, an empty page.
This rubric used to yield a long list of news items related to climate.
Now, an empty page.
Wow, this is a very compelling piece on how universities, acting on OfS incentives, have inclusion initiatives the wrong way round: https://wonkhe.com/blogs/efforts-to-build-belonging-may-get-the-problem-the-wrong-way-around/
"What universities have delivered is well-intentioned, carefully […]
"What universities have delivered is well-intentioned, carefully […]
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mastodon.social
November 16, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Wow, this is a very compelling piece on how universities, acting on OfS incentives, have inclusion initiatives the wrong way round: https://wonkhe.com/blogs/efforts-to-build-belonging-may-get-the-problem-the-wrong-way-around/
"What universities have delivered is well-intentioned, carefully […]
"What universities have delivered is well-intentioned, carefully […]
Oh did it? And without permission, too? Hard pass. (Click, click... all AI disabled.)
November 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Oh did it? And without permission, too? Hard pass. (Click, click... all AI disabled.)
"Badenoch" => drowning. Nominative determinism strikes again
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
"Badenoch" => drowning. Nominative determinism strikes again
Heading up to Inverness for particle physics outreach events tonight (come to Science in the Atrium at Inverness Royal High School!) hence the very normal move of packing the car with both a mountain bike and a load of dry ice...
November 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Heading up to Inverness for particle physics outreach events tonight (come to Science in the Atrium at Inverness Royal High School!) hence the very normal move of packing the car with both a mountain bike and a load of dry ice...
I see us reminiscing in the future about when "AI" was so dumb but omnipresent that every web-search return was prefixed with confident explanations of e.g. how ME and MD are the first two letters of Maine and Maryland. Trillions of dollars thrown at it, and […]
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November 6, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I see us reminiscing in the future about when "AI" was so dumb but omnipresent that every web-search return was prefixed with confident explanations of e.g. how ME and MD are the first two letters of Maine and Maryland. Trillions of dollars thrown at it, and […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
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Again - and again and again - this could be avoided simply by the Trump regime releasing funds it has the lawful right to release. But because of its tremendous concern for feeding children, says the regime, it cannot feed children. 11/
November 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Again - and again and again - this could be avoided simply by the Trump regime releasing funds it has the lawful right to release. But because of its tremendous concern for feeding children, says the regime, it cannot feed children. 11/
I realised that the reason I love the Tweeter and the Monkey Man (Travelling Wilburys' best track) lyrics so much is that they don't make any sense. Just a set of detective-movie-cliches vignetted together into what sounds like the rollickingest film you'll never see.
It came paired with The […]
It came paired with The […]
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mastodon.social
November 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
I realised that the reason I love the Tweeter and the Monkey Man (Travelling Wilburys' best track) lyrics so much is that they don't make any sense. Just a set of detective-movie-cliches vignetted together into what sounds like the rollickingest film you'll never see.
It came paired with The […]
It came paired with The […]
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Chris Philp opens by gymnastically framing the train attack with relation to asylum seekers, concludes that the reason for knife crime is foreigners in prison, then LOSES HIS RAG when LibDem Home Affairs spox @maxwilkinson.bsky.social pulls him up on it.
"Withdraw! Withdraw!" Utter clown. 🤡 ~AA
"Withdraw! Withdraw!" Utter clown. 🤡 ~AA
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Chris Philp opens by gymnastically framing the train attack with relation to asylum seekers, concludes that the reason for knife crime is foreigners in prison, then LOSES HIS RAG when LibDem Home Affairs spox @maxwilkinson.bsky.social pulls him up on it.
"Withdraw! Withdraw!" Utter clown. 🤡 ~AA
"Withdraw! Withdraw!" Utter clown. 🤡 ~AA
Oh good lord this is good. At least the first 9m40 very much worth your time*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Z4cg5Fyu4
* Even if you _already_ don't need much convincing that AI is a slop-centric bubble about to pop and take down the international economy
* Even if you _already_ don't need much convincing that AI is a slop-centric bubble about to pop and take down the international economy
November 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Oh good lord this is good. At least the first 9m40 very much worth your time*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Z4cg5Fyu4
* Even if you _already_ don't need much convincing that AI is a slop-centric bubble about to pop and take down the international economy
* Even if you _already_ don't need much convincing that AI is a slop-centric bubble about to pop and take down the international economy
Oh my actual god: https://martinrobbins.substack.com/p/how-hs2-built-a-bridge-to-nowhere #hs2 #nimbys
How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere
A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.
martinrobbins.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Mahmood says Home Office 'not yet fit for purpose' – https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl20gw4y2o
I mean yes, it's obviously toxic, divisive, dysfunctional... oh wait, this is in response to an "independent" review for the Tories by (drum roll) FFS, Nick Timothy?!
Tory MP, Telegraph […]
I mean yes, it's obviously toxic, divisive, dysfunctional... oh wait, this is in response to an "independent" review for the Tories by (drum roll) FFS, Nick Timothy?!
Tory MP, Telegraph […]
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mastodon.social
October 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Mahmood says Home Office 'not yet fit for purpose' – https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl20gw4y2o
I mean yes, it's obviously toxic, divisive, dysfunctional... oh wait, this is in response to an "independent" review for the Tories by (drum roll) FFS, Nick Timothy?!
Tory MP, Telegraph […]
I mean yes, it's obviously toxic, divisive, dysfunctional... oh wait, this is in response to an "independent" review for the Tories by (drum roll) FFS, Nick Timothy?!
Tory MP, Telegraph […]
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The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get.
#nckf25
#nckf25
October 24, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The incredible tragedy for #ArcticScience of NOAA shutting down their #methane monitoring data. 5th May 2025 is the last data we'll ever get.
#nckf25
#nckf25
Very good points about recruitment agents for international students: https://thepienews.com/what-universities-dont-know-about-their-agents-could-cost-them/
I have no idea what our PGT students are hearing, but it's often clear that they don't know which modules are in the programme in their […]
I have no idea what our PGT students are hearing, but it's often clear that they don't know which modules are in the programme in their […]
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mastodon.social
October 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Very good points about recruitment agents for international students: https://thepienews.com/what-universities-dont-know-about-their-agents-could-cost-them/
I have no idea what our PGT students are hearing, but it's often clear that they don't know which modules are in the programme in their […]
I have no idea what our PGT students are hearing, but it's often clear that they don't know which modules are in the programme in their […]
Excellent piece in WonkHE on the shameful abdication of responsibility by the Covid enquiry's decision to completely ignore impacts on university students despite then being in the remit and devastatingly affected. This could have been a detailed evidence submission […]
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mastodon.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Excellent piece in WonkHE on the shameful abdication of responsibility by the Covid enquiry's decision to completely ignore impacts on university students despite then being in the remit and devastatingly affected. This could have been a detailed evidence submission […]
Good piece, interestingly positive about Russia's inability to win militarily in Ukraine, while still sanguine about the needless terror, death and destruction: https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-big-countries-shouldnt-go-to
October 23, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Good piece, interestingly positive about Russia's inability to win militarily in Ukraine, while still sanguine about the needless terror, death and destruction: https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/why-big-countries-shouldnt-go-to
After a chat during hiking with a teacher friend recently, he brought up the hive amount of duplicate assessment work done by universities vs schools because we don't have standardised national exams. It's a really good point... and also links to the fact that a degree with the same name and […]
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mastodon.social
October 20, 2025 at 6:50 PM
After a chat during hiking with a teacher friend recently, he brought up the hive amount of duplicate assessment work done by universities vs schools because we don't have standardised national exams. It's a really good point... and also links to the fact that a degree with the same name and […]
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@agbuckley The only thing I’d like to know is who are the other mouthpieces that OEUK are happy with, so they can be discounted in future.
October 15, 2025 at 10:27 AM
@agbuckley The only thing I’d like to know is who are the other mouthpieces that OEUK are happy with, so they can be discounted in future.
"Not intended to be interesting debates" 😂 I hope they get Streisanded over this inept cancellation. It's so dumb that parties sell opportunities to disinform their own legislators 🤦♂️ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/14/sustainability-professors-talk-at-uk-party-conferences-cancelled
October 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"Not intended to be interesting debates" 😂 I hope they get Streisanded over this inept cancellation. It's so dumb that parties sell opportunities to disinform their own legislators 🤦♂️ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/oct/14/sustainability-professors-talk-at-uk-party-conferences-cancelled
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"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."
-- Nick Clegg
#AI #aicon #exploitation #bigtech
-- Nick Clegg
#AI #aicon #exploitation #bigtech
October 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."
-- Nick Clegg
#AI #aicon #exploitation #bigtech
-- Nick Clegg
#AI #aicon #exploitation #bigtech
A friend gave me this a while back – quoting me rather than accusing, by the way! – and I randomly reinsert it in my scribble pads as a reminder of the virtuous path
October 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A friend gave me this a while back – quoting me rather than accusing, by the way! – and I randomly reinsert it in my scribble pads as a reminder of the virtuous path
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The ADL took down its glossary of extremism after Trump-aligned figures objected to its description of Turning Point USA: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/adl-deletes-extremism-database-after-receiving-backlash-for-including-charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa/
The Wayback Machine has a partial […]
The Wayback Machine has a partial […]
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mastodon.social
October 1, 2025 at 10:38 AM
The ADL took down its glossary of extremism after Trump-aligned figures objected to its description of Turning Point USA: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/adl-deletes-extremism-database-after-receiving-backlash-for-including-charlie-kirks-turning-point-usa/
The Wayback Machine has a partial […]
The Wayback Machine has a partial […]
Hilarious Michelle Mone claims: https://news.sky.com/story/michelle-mone-says-she-wont-step-down-as-tory-peer-and-accuses-chancellor-of-endangering-her-13442758
- a "vendetta" against PPE misprocurement means Labour have issued a call for her blood
- saying she/her kids received £29m profits […]
- a "vendetta" against PPE misprocurement means Labour have issued a call for her blood
- saying she/her kids received £29m profits […]
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mastodon.social
October 2, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Hilarious Michelle Mone claims: https://news.sky.com/story/michelle-mone-says-she-wont-step-down-as-tory-peer-and-accuses-chancellor-of-endangering-her-13442758
- a "vendetta" against PPE misprocurement means Labour have issued a call for her blood
- saying she/her kids received £29m profits […]
- a "vendetta" against PPE misprocurement means Labour have issued a call for her blood
- saying she/her kids received £29m profits […]
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The Comey indictment came less than a week after Lindsey Halligan was installed as the top federal prosecutor in the eastern district of Virginia,
after Trump fired her predecessor, Erik Siebert,
after he declined to bring charges against Comey over concerns there was insufficient evidence […]
after Trump fired her predecessor, Erik Siebert,
after he declined to bring charges against Comey over concerns there was insufficient evidence […]
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c.im
September 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The Comey indictment came less than a week after Lindsey Halligan was installed as the top federal prosecutor in the eastern district of Virginia,
after Trump fired her predecessor, Erik Siebert,
after he declined to bring charges against Comey over concerns there was insufficient evidence […]
after Trump fired her predecessor, Erik Siebert,
after he declined to bring charges against Comey over concerns there was insufficient evidence […]
This is great. Simple things... https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/24/it-changed-my-view-the-letter-campaign-urging-pupils-in-deprived-areas-to-try-university
‘It changed my view’: the letter campaign urging pupils in deprived areas to try university
Personalised notes from students who share similar backgrounds are designed to make higher education feel more accessible
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM