I'm intrigued, why has this been set up, what's the Ipswich/Vilnius connection?

It took me a long while to figure out what my Ghanaian research was about. Migrants with demeaning urban jobs took pride in their home ties. Dual affiliation did not make them anxious. They knew who they were. By studying my negation there, I was learning how to become whole, not part-human."

Tim Jenkins' Of Flying Saucers and Social Sciences is an excellent critique that imo gets to the heart of the matter, esp. a) the distinction between prediction and prophecy, b) the problem inherent in describing what was obviously social dissonance as "cognitive dissonance"

There are a lot of reasons to despise the Starmer government, but one of them is the sense that they took The Thick of It as an instruction manual - everything is messaging and responding to the polls. They're meant to be governing the country, and instead they seem to have given up on that.

I hope somebody is on hand to give you a good slap for that one

One of my friends is presenting at it, unfortunately can't get there myself because there's a open day for prospective students today

@emmacrewe.bsky.social Hiya, do you know who's convening the seminars this year?

Tankie fuckwit

"Do you support genocide" asks the fucking Stalinist.

Are you and @profdanhicks.bsky.social familiar with one another? Seems like you should be

Indeed; I looked it up; "If, in the opinion of Council, the conduct of any Fellow... is injurious to the character or interests of the Society.." etc. The President's statement moves the goalposts; but in a farcical way because it pretends Musk's appointment was something other than PR.

So it makes no sense to talk about "values that allow science to flourish" when those weren't the grounds on which he was made FRS. He was appointed BECAUSE of his public profile. So how he uses that public profile is absolutely salient to whether he should be fellow. The Royal Society are cowards.

...He's a celebrity recipient because people in institutions like the Royal Society aren't immune to wanting to cling onto relevance/ influence/ stay where the money is/ boast that they met celebs...

This sort of argument might make logical sense if talking about someone who got the FRS based on their scientific work but then turned out to be a twat (e.g. Crick being a creepy eugenicist). But it flounders here because you can't pretend Musk was given a FRS because of scientific merit...

Think they're based in Brussels these days? Not as exotic sadly.

I like Altan Gobi but the last time I was there I discovered that Sengur were making a wheatbeer and that has become my favourite Mongolian beer

We shouldn't be so harsh on them, it keeps the prices low for the customer. I mean, you can't charge the bargain price of €102 for a book if you're going to pay for cover art.

Yep, I had already disconnected from it because it was 99% bots and bullshit. Let's not forget how frequently it was breaking down in the year after the takeover. Ethics and politics is one thing; but X is just a terrible platform from a design point of view. Why would I waste my time there?

Joke of a University