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Dr Paul Matthews
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Academic, writer, techie - UK

The meta-rer the betterer

#AcademicChatter #DataScience #KOS #dh #RStats #nujazz #downtempo #amreading #scifi #ballardian #modernism

https://fetstudy.uwe.ac.uk/~pmatthew/

https://writing.transient.me.uk/
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Time for learning + pizza at #BristolR yum!
Laptop with datasaurus hex sticker
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Beech woods in fine colour today, Hambledon, UK
Tall beeches on hillside, leaves in yellow, orange and green. Thick leaf litter on open ground below
November 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Hedge witches, assemble! #AcademicSky #AmReading
Quote from Katabasis by R F Kuang “many hedge witches scrounged up their own chalk, and organized amateur conferences, and published in poorly rated journals about their wonderful discoveries. In fact, some of these discoveries were quite interesting. The open secret, really, was that sometimes the hedge witches found stuff that even tenured professors couldn’t imagine...”
October 30, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Necessary Fictions by Gogo Penguin is coagulating into my new jam!

gogopenguin.lnk.to/necessaryfic...
Album conver, showing a conical, 70's looking building with yellowish windows against a deep bluesky
October 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Spidey Tree
Oak tree framed by Spider web in foreground Misty morning.
October 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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#qotd #ThursdayThought
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. - Niels Bohr
September 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Aloe whorled

@ Kew Gardens, London
An aloe plant with spiral spiky leaves, on rocks
August 20, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Does, this cheer you up?

Windsor Great Park, this morning 😏
August 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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Does. This cheer you up?

Windsor Great Park, this morning 😏
August 14, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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Big rain here on the Bristol riviera
Rain on train platform, and a poster ironically saying “this is what summer in Bristol looks like”
July 31, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Hedgie turned up for some supper
Hedgehog with its snout in a bowl of food “lent” by the cat
July 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Heading to Bloomsbury for a tour then Hatchards Books for #DallowayDay talks. Exciting ! #vwsgb 💐
Cover of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
June 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Current harvest is curranty #allotment
Punnets of red and white currants, gooseberries and some kale to the side
June 21, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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#attention #reading
Quote from On Close Reading by John Guillory: "If the concept of attention announces this alternative mode of consumption in the instance of reading, it is also a name for what is problematic in our engagement with cultural works generally ... we are sometimes able to arrest the constant deflections of our attention; we succeed in bringing our sensory and cognitive apparatuses into focus upon a single object, a neurophysiological state that distracts us from competing solicitations of attention. The ability to achieve this state has considerable social value"
June 19, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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A nice Hay on Wye #bookhaul with a rare - for me- foray into poetry

#HayFestival #AmReading
May 31, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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An orchid seen this morning (possibly Lady x Monkey hybrid?), Thames Valley, UK;

#bloomscrolling
Closeup of a purple speckled orchid amongst moss and grass
April 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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#TidyTuesday Decided to add in worldwide box office revenues and costs from WIkidata (accuracy of costs uncertain), to look at margins over time. Declining trend, but still making 💰💰
Scatter plot of profit margins against release date for Pixar films. Shows a gradual decrease, but perhaps accentuated by the success of first Toy Story. But even the low grossers remain hugely profitable.
March 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Love how the neighbouring cyclops peer out of their caves when they hear a commotion (Polyphemus being blinded by Odysseus and his men) - like regular busybodies!

(Odyssey graphic adaptation, by Gareth Hinds)
Two cyclops look out of their cave mouths and one peeks over the top of the cliff
February 21, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Simpsons character co-occurence network using visNetwork

#TidyTuesday #Network #RStats

https://paulusm.github.io/simpsons.html
Portion of the network showing interactions between Homer, Bart and Lucy Simpson
February 10, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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#TidyTuesday affirmation #RStats
Severance Reference: "Your outie *also* loves playing with data"
February 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Realised I’ve now got a pretty good collection of “serious” graphic novels - anyone got recommendations for me based on these?
(nb Emerson’s Inferno is a real treat!)
#GraphicNovels #AmReading
Covers of 7 graphic novels: Graphic Canon (Kick); Dante’s Inferno (Emerson); Ypres Memories (Glogowski); Logicomix (Doxiadis and Papadimitriou); Moonbound (Fetter Vorm); Illegal (Rigano); Persepolis (Satrapi)
January 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Nice quote on sensory multimodality in *The Covenant of Water*

#AmReading #Perception
Uma ponders this. “Don't worry-I don't think you're mad. You have a gift, Mariamma. There's no other way to dissect like this. Our brains have extraordinary capabilities. In our simplistic understanding, we put each function in its box-Broca's area for speech, and Wernicke's area for interpreting what we hear. But the boxes are artificial. Simplistic. The senses intertwine and spill over from one area to another. Think of the phantom limb. The leg is amputated, but the brain feels pain in what isn't there. So I can see how your brain might take the visual signal and do something different with it."
January 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Frosty start
Bare trees with frosted grass and a low misty sun Close up of grass with crystalline frost
January 11, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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#ManPrep #NormCore #AmReading
"In far-sighted preparation for just such an unthinkable situation as this, Brian carried with him everywhere in his soft leather bag all the necessary information, National Health and Insurance numbers, contact details of his employer, next of kin, the name and address of his GP, together with his BFI membership and Vw cards, toothbrush, and a clean pair of underpants" (Jeremy Cooper, Brian)
December 12, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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In my #KnowledgeOrganisation class today about #dh, students built a collaborative emotional arc for A Christmas Carol. We were not sure how well the sentiment scoring has handled the Dickensian turn of phrase - the ending is surely happier! #ko #dh #DataScience
Chart showing sentiment values over the five staves (chapters) of the story. According to our scoring, the negative sentiment peaks half way through the third, with peaks at two and four also. The positive seems to peak at three, and ends lower than the start. But the overall score, due to the drop in negative scores at the end, ends slightly higher than the beginning.
December 11, 2024 at 4:58 PM