Richard Chin
@richardchin.bsky.social
Interested in stuff.
Particularly interested in history, science, nutrition, fitness, AI, brain and behaviour. And Wimbledon.
Like a good podcast, BBC R4 & World Service.
Particularly interested in history, science, nutrition, fitness, AI, brain and behaviour. And Wimbledon.
Like a good podcast, BBC R4 & World Service.
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🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants
The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President
bylinetimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
🧵On our revelations today about the BBC Coup and the Prescott Dossier.
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
The leaked ‘BBC Bias’ memo Trump used to attack the BBC was authored by Michael Prescott — a Hanover lobbyist paid by US tech/media giants tied to Trump. Full story: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/b... 1/12
I've had a look on X to see the reaction there... nothing.
If the X algorithm is boosting right wing posts, what is it suppressing?
If the X algorithm is boosting right wing posts, what is it suppressing?
This is an excellently conceived and presented piece of journalism.
(I assume @skynewsrss.bsky.social will be removing themselves from Elon's fash factory forthwith?)
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
(I assume @skynewsrss.bsky.social will be removing themselves from Elon's fash factory forthwith?)
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I've had a look on X to see the reaction there... nothing.
If the X algorithm is boosting right wing posts, what is it suppressing?
If the X algorithm is boosting right wing posts, what is it suppressing?
A gold crown was a coin introduced by King Henry VIII in 1526.
1 gold crown = 20 pieces of silver
1 gold crown = 20 pieces of silver
November 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
A gold crown was a coin introduced by King Henry VIII in 1526.
1 gold crown = 20 pieces of silver
1 gold crown = 20 pieces of silver
Absolute bargain.
By the way, if you rather not make Bezos even richer Kobo offers a perfectly usable alternative.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
By the way, if you rather not make Bezos even richer Kobo offers a perfectly usable alternative.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Absolute bargain.
By the way, if you rather not make Bezos even richer Kobo offers a perfectly usable alternative.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
By the way, if you rather not make Bezos even richer Kobo offers a perfectly usable alternative.
www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/...
Thing with the piggies with their snouts in the trough - they see all the other piggies slaking their greed, and this one is squealing
October 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Thing with the piggies with their snouts in the trough - they see all the other piggies slaking their greed, and this one is squealing
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Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
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Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
October 1, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Javier Milei had to beg a bail-out and already needs another. Argentina's economy is in a tailspin. Gov't bonds and peso in freefall. People starving, throwing rocks at him.
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
Farage last year: "He's amazing. It's Thatcherism on steroids. Cutting and slashing expenditure. That's leadership."
SHARE!
Is it just me, or is the BBC very GB News-ish lately?
Can't think why...
Can't think why...
September 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Is it just me, or is the BBC very GB News-ish lately?
Can't think why...
Can't think why...
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Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology
Arousal as a universal embedding for spatiotemporal brain dynamics - Nature
Reframing of arousal as a latent dynamical system can reconstruct multidimensional measurements of large-scale spatiotemporal brain dynamics on the timescale of seconds in mice.
www.nature.com
September 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Super proud of this collaboration with rockstar Ryan Raut - born out of playing in the sandbox in our last year of grad school! Multi-scale brain activity can be predicted from a simple measure of arousal like pupil diameter. Out with linear causality, in with dynamic systems to explain neurobiology
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🧪 I have a new TV offering: a 2-part Horizon special on BBC2 going out on 29th Sep and 6th October. It is called Secrets of the Brain. See
See www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
See www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Two - Secrets of the Brain, Series 1, Episode 1
Jim Al-Khalili reveals how the staggeringly complex human brain evolved.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
🧪 I have a new TV offering: a 2-part Horizon special on BBC2 going out on 29th Sep and 6th October. It is called Secrets of the Brain. See
See www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
See www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
September 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA
Hmm, will they follow through though? Or will the tech companies make the right donations and the program somehow never gets implemented 🤔
September 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Hmm, will they follow through though? Or will the tech companies make the right donations and the program somehow never gets implemented 🤔
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Cats with dementia show brain changes similar to Alzheimer's in humans
->News-Medical | More info from EcoSearch
->News-Medical | More info from EcoSearch
Cats with dementia show brain changes similar to Alzheimer's in humans
Cats with dementia have brain changes similar to those of people with Alzheimer's disease, offering a valuable model for studying the condition in humans, a study says. Scientists discovered a build-up of the toxic protein amyloid-beta in the brains of...
www.news-medical.net
August 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Brilliant
I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better
July 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Brilliant
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🚨PSA: Do NOT use SciDB — a database of 92M+ research papers freely available (including those published after 2021 when Sci-Hub stopped).
SciDB makes latest research freely accessible and keeps billion-dollar publishers from profiting off of academics' work. It's truly insane.
SciDB makes latest research freely accessible and keeps billion-dollar publishers from profiting off of academics' work. It's truly insane.
July 6, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🚨PSA: Do NOT use SciDB — a database of 92M+ research papers freely available (including those published after 2021 when Sci-Hub stopped).
SciDB makes latest research freely accessible and keeps billion-dollar publishers from profiting off of academics' work. It's truly insane.
SciDB makes latest research freely accessible and keeps billion-dollar publishers from profiting off of academics' work. It's truly insane.
I totally missed the wider consequences of the court's decision that Anthropic's use of copyright material to train AI is legal under the American fair use provision
A Win for Fair Use Is a Win for Libraries: blog.archive.org/2025/06/29/a...
What the Anthropic decision means for preservation, access and the future of libraries.
What the Anthropic decision means for preservation, access and the future of libraries.
June 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I totally missed the wider consequences of the court's decision that Anthropic's use of copyright material to train AI is legal under the American fair use provision
Too good not to repost.
Henning Wehn, Wehn Diagram
Henning Wehn, Wehn Diagram
Mine from Twitter a few years ago: the Wehn Diagram.
June 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Too good not to repost.
Henning Wehn, Wehn Diagram
Henning Wehn, Wehn Diagram
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May 17, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Magic from Neufville
May 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Magic from Neufville
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Tints in silent films could be literal (red for fire) or symbolic (rose for romance). Thanks to some rather overbuttered Kodak marketing materials for pre-tinted films, here are the tints and what they could mean!
Rose was nearly always symbolic, used for romance and romantic settings.
Rose was nearly always symbolic, used for romance and romantic settings.
May 16, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Tints in silent films could be literal (red for fire) or symbolic (rose for romance). Thanks to some rather overbuttered Kodak marketing materials for pre-tinted films, here are the tints and what they could mean!
Rose was nearly always symbolic, used for romance and romantic settings.
Rose was nearly always symbolic, used for romance and romantic settings.
Jatta played the ball with his right foot but catches him with his left. Shudder to think what would have happened to Smith if he hadn't jumped.
May 11, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Jatta played the ball with his right foot but catches him with his left. Shudder to think what would have happened to Smith if he hadn't jumped.
Who is this American pope I'm hearing about?
Was it this guy? ... or did they choose a Christian?
Was it this guy? ... or did they choose a Christian?
May 8, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Who is this American pope I'm hearing about?
Was it this guy? ... or did they choose a Christian?
Was it this guy? ... or did they choose a Christian?
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