Linda
@lindybop.bsky.social
I knit stuff, watch Tom Cruise movies and try to counterbalance my resting friendly face. She/her.
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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a climate report that aims to cast doubt on the severity of climate change.
Prominent climate scientists who are cited in it say their work was distorted or misused.
“This isn’t science—it’s propaganda,” says climate expert Ben Santer.
zurl.co/UELHj
Prominent climate scientists who are cited in it say their work was distorted or misused.
“This isn’t science—it’s propaganda,” says climate expert Ben Santer.
zurl.co/UELHj
Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
A new Department of Energy report “fundamentally misrepresents” climate research and leaves out key context, multiple scientists cited in the report tell WIRED.
zurl.co
August 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) released a climate report that aims to cast doubt on the severity of climate change.
Prominent climate scientists who are cited in it say their work was distorted or misused.
“This isn’t science—it’s propaganda,” says climate expert Ben Santer.
zurl.co/UELHj
Prominent climate scientists who are cited in it say their work was distorted or misused.
“This isn’t science—it’s propaganda,” says climate expert Ben Santer.
zurl.co/UELHj
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Congratulations to Netenyahu in managing to unite the Express and the Guardian in outrage.
July 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Congratulations to Netenyahu in managing to unite the Express and the Guardian in outrage.
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A new use of the asterisk in the paper author list for credit assignment
May 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
A new use of the asterisk in the paper author list for credit assignment
Absolutely grim
Can't cook, dress, eat, or toilet unaided?
Soon, that won’t qualify you for help. 1.3 million disabled people face losing support.
Read that again. #PIP 👇😞
Soon, that won’t qualify you for help. 1.3 million disabled people face losing support.
Read that again. #PIP 👇😞
Welfare changes: how to lose points and money
Labour plans to axe vital support for the ill and disabled. For many, it’s not just policy – it’s a death sentence
eastangliabylines.co.uk
April 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Absolutely grim
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Morning.
Yes, the Telegraph really did publish this yesterday afternoon.
Yes, the Telegraph really did publish this yesterday afternoon.
April 15, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Morning.
Yes, the Telegraph really did publish this yesterday afternoon.
Yes, the Telegraph really did publish this yesterday afternoon.
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A friend told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. The most amazing thing he found there was this knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck twenty knitting needles: one for every year since the man had vanished.
March 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
A friend told me he had been clearing out his gran’s house. The most amazing thing he found there was this knitted effigy of the man who had run off and abandoned my friend’s pregnant aunt. Into the effigy had been stuck twenty knitting needles: one for every year since the man had vanished.
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Please share: We are offering travel grants to researchers in geographical regions that are under-represented in the control community to attend the Swiss CLOCK Summit.
www.swissclocksummit.com/young-resear...
www.swissclocksummit.com/young-resear...
CLOCK 2025 - Young researchers
Workshop
Multiple workshops will be offered on Tuesday morning, including a workshop specifically targeted to young researchers.
More information to come soon.
www.swissclocksummit.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Please share: We are offering travel grants to researchers in geographical regions that are under-represented in the control community to attend the Swiss CLOCK Summit.
www.swissclocksummit.com/young-resear...
www.swissclocksummit.com/young-resear...
This thread is incredible.
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This thread is incredible.
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Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
February 26, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.
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“US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
www.nature.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks”
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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As grim as it gets
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 6:47 AM
As grim as it gets
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Researcher Sophie Hall recently spoke to @delevan.bsky.social on the @wickedproblems.uk podcast about the need to democratise the algorithms in our lives. Give it a listen here 🚀
news.wickedproblems.uk/p/elon-musk-...
news.wickedproblems.uk/p/elon-musk-...
Elon Musk should be afraid of this woman.
Sophie Hall of ETH Zurich is coming for unethical algos and AIs. Plus Geoffrey Hinton, killer robots, self-healing Google asphalt, and Frankie McNamara.
news.wickedproblems.uk
February 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Researcher Sophie Hall recently spoke to @delevan.bsky.social on the @wickedproblems.uk podcast about the need to democratise the algorithms in our lives. Give it a listen here 🚀
news.wickedproblems.uk/p/elon-musk-...
news.wickedproblems.uk/p/elon-musk-...
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1. If Trump runs out of immigrants to persecute, I suspect the next target for his performative sadism will be people with disabilities. Already, without a shred of evidence, he has blamed the air crash on disabled air traffic controllers, with horrible, stereotyping slurs about their disabilities.🧵
February 1, 2025 at 8:34 AM
1. If Trump runs out of immigrants to persecute, I suspect the next target for his performative sadism will be people with disabilities. Already, without a shred of evidence, he has blamed the air crash on disabled air traffic controllers, with horrible, stereotyping slurs about their disabilities.🧵
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🚨SCOOP: Starmer's ‘AI opportunities’ advisor didn't publicly declare numerous AI business interests - while he was writing key AI 'action plan' he's now charged with delivering
Concerns gov't AI policy “could be directed by vested interests”
New: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-t...
Concerns gov't AI policy “could be directed by vested interests”
New: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-t...
Starmer’s top AI advisor did not declare role at Hakluyt AI investment fund
Exclusive: Concerns that government’s flagship AI policy “could be directed by vested interests”
democracyforsale.substack.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
🚨SCOOP: Starmer's ‘AI opportunities’ advisor didn't publicly declare numerous AI business interests - while he was writing key AI 'action plan' he's now charged with delivering
Concerns gov't AI policy “could be directed by vested interests”
New: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-t...
Concerns gov't AI policy “could be directed by vested interests”
New: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-t...
Such a joy to work on this video with Sophie
What do game theory and model predictive control have to do with energy blackouts and how can they be used to distribute resources more fairly? Let Sophie Hall explain what she is doing to fill gaps in mathematical theories to make our infrastructure work better for everyone.
youtu.be/FkDRctSIAm4
youtu.be/FkDRctSIAm4
Let's play safe and fair: Receding Horizon Games improve system reliability with fairness guarantees
YouTube video by NCCR Automation
youtu.be
January 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Such a joy to work on this video with Sophie
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My dudes, turn this shit off. On iOS it's under Settings > Apps > Photos > scroll all the way down.
Apple has opted iOS and MacOS users into an AI photo scanning feature which tries to extract landmarks from your photos called Enhanced Visual Search by default with little notice.
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/a...
Apple opts everyone into having their Photos analyzed by AI
Homomorphic-based Enhanced Visual Search is so privacy-preserving, iPhone giant activated it without asking
www.theregister.com
January 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
My dudes, turn this shit off. On iOS it's under Settings > Apps > Photos > scroll all the way down.
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It also makes it harder for them to ban books.
December 22, 2024 at 11:58 PM
It also makes it harder for them to ban books.
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This sums it up, yes.
December 22, 2024 at 12:40 AM
This sums it up, yes.
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Day 20 , the final day of my fox hunt crimes countdown with @huntsabs.bsky.social . It’s the Seavington Hunt with their brutal kill of a fox , in full view of the huntsman and his riders , from October of this year .
Enough is an enough – we need a #RealBanNow
Enough is an enough – we need a #RealBanNow
December 20, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Day 20 , the final day of my fox hunt crimes countdown with @huntsabs.bsky.social . It’s the Seavington Hunt with their brutal kill of a fox , in full view of the huntsman and his riders , from October of this year .
Enough is an enough – we need a #RealBanNow
Enough is an enough – we need a #RealBanNow
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If the government shuts down Saturday, the richest man in the world will be largely to blame.
You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way.
If this isn’t oligarchy, I don’t know what is.
You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way.
If this isn’t oligarchy, I don’t know what is.
December 19, 2024 at 9:00 PM
If the government shuts down Saturday, the richest man in the world will be largely to blame.
You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way.
If this isn’t oligarchy, I don’t know what is.
You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way.
If this isn’t oligarchy, I don’t know what is.
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So here’s one of my favorite details about the very very very tiresome and thoroughly discredited vaccine-autism thing.
Not only has it been Looked Into it has been MAXIMALLY Looked Into. In fact, there is almost nowhere left to look.
In 2019, a study came out that was simply titanic…
Not only has it been Looked Into it has been MAXIMALLY Looked Into. In fact, there is almost nowhere left to look.
In 2019, a study came out that was simply titanic…
President-elect Trump, who has promoted the debunked theory that vaccines cause autism for more than a decade, suggested on Sunday that he would have his choice for health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., look into the issue.
Trump Suggests RFK Jr. Will Examine Debunked Link Between Vaccines and Autism
The president-elect has promoted the theory for more than a decade and said on Sunday that he was “open to anything” to address a nationwide rise in autism.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2024 at 9:45 PM
So here’s one of my favorite details about the very very very tiresome and thoroughly discredited vaccine-autism thing.
Not only has it been Looked Into it has been MAXIMALLY Looked Into. In fact, there is almost nowhere left to look.
In 2019, a study came out that was simply titanic…
Not only has it been Looked Into it has been MAXIMALLY Looked Into. In fact, there is almost nowhere left to look.
In 2019, a study came out that was simply titanic…
Got my office secret santa 🤶
December 3, 2024 at 8:37 AM
Got my office secret santa 🤶
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That's quite the twitter note
December 2, 2024 at 8:31 AM
That's quite the twitter note
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Definition of a woman of ‘a certain age’:
- Too old to be bullied & intimidated.
- Too young to be patronised & ignored.
Terrifying to men of a certain type.
- Too old to be bullied & intimidated.
- Too young to be patronised & ignored.
Terrifying to men of a certain type.
December 1, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Definition of a woman of ‘a certain age’:
- Too old to be bullied & intimidated.
- Too young to be patronised & ignored.
Terrifying to men of a certain type.
- Too old to be bullied & intimidated.
- Too young to be patronised & ignored.
Terrifying to men of a certain type.
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Aurora over Monument Valley, Arizona 🇺🇸
November 29, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Aurora over Monument Valley, Arizona 🇺🇸