Ursula Martin
@umartin.bsky.social
Knows a lot about Ada Lovelace's science. University of Edinburgh and Wadham College Oxford and Oxford Maths.
So sorry to hear that. She was much loved in real and virtual life, and brought cheer to her virtual friends in the pandemic.
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
So sorry to hear that. She was much loved in real and virtual life, and brought cheer to her virtual friends in the pandemic.
Yes but were they Archers?
November 13, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Yes but were they Archers?
If I've understood correctly, calling it "AI" is a bit of a stretch - it's a data analysis comparing against schools which are otherwise "similar". With no transparency as to the algorithm. Remember the fiasco with estimated exam grades during the pandemic?
November 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
If I've understood correctly, calling it "AI" is a bit of a stretch - it's a data analysis comparing against schools which are otherwise "similar". With no transparency as to the algorithm. Remember the fiasco with estimated exam grades during the pandemic?
Probably, I was there for a talk and to check out the coffee.
November 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Probably, I was there for a talk and to check out the coffee.
Congratulations - and on the new job at Kings. Have you met Mike Cook yet - also doing cool AI things
@mtrc.bsky.social
@mtrc.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Congratulations - and on the new job at Kings. Have you met Mike Cook yet - also doing cool AI things
@mtrc.bsky.social
@mtrc.bsky.social
Love the buttons - (and the rest obvs ;+))
October 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Love the buttons - (and the rest obvs ;+))
I think it is a short-EARED owl, not a short-haired one..
October 14, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I think it is a short-EARED owl, not a short-haired one..
Wasn't it great - sorry I couldn't find you to say hi. You were fantastic - and several people around me really liked your "phlogiston" analogy.
October 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Wasn't it great - sorry I couldn't find you to say hi. You were fantastic - and several people around me really liked your "phlogiston" analogy.
Congratulations Richard - a recognition of your role, as Bodley's Librarian, and also as a public intellectual standing up for the importance of libraries in difficult times around the world.
July 18, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Congratulations Richard - a recognition of your role, as Bodley's Librarian, and also as a public intellectual standing up for the importance of libraries in difficult times around the world.
No idea why bluesky showed me this, but the picture takes me back to the 1950s we'd troop up there from Cradley Primary for school dinners. (At the time the Primary School was in a Victorian building round the corner, now moved elsewhere and the site used for housing).
June 18, 2025 at 10:10 AM
No idea why bluesky showed me this, but the picture takes me back to the 1950s we'd troop up there from Cradley Primary for school dinners. (At the time the Primary School was in a Victorian building round the corner, now moved elsewhere and the site used for housing).
There is a wood library in the Oxford Department of Plant Sciences...
February 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
There is a wood library in the Oxford Department of Plant Sciences...
Hmm, so do they ban applications by medics to medical charities like Wellcome, who do not pay overheads?
January 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Hmm, so do they ban applications by medics to medical charities like Wellcome, who do not pay overheads?
The amount of time that will be wasted by students, and even apparently their grandparents, chasing after fake AI-generated citations is thoroughly depressing
November 16, 2024 at 11:06 AM
I agree this statement is stupid but I can't see it in the article
November 15, 2024 at 7:07 AM
I agree this statement is stupid but I can't see it in the article
Also crisps. Is there a crisp angle?
November 14, 2024 at 8:48 PM
Also crisps. Is there a crisp angle?
I'm bemused by Scotland's "Secret" Bunker in Fife - so "secret" that CND were regularly outside protesting in the '60s, apparently. And how do you dig a hole that big in a fairly busy rural area without someone wondering...
October 24, 2023 at 6:40 PM
I'm bemused by Scotland's "Secret" Bunker in Fife - so "secret" that CND were regularly outside protesting in the '60s, apparently. And how do you dig a hole that big in a fairly busy rural area without someone wondering...
Wow! I rose to the giddy heights of an apron decorated with cross-stitch..
October 17, 2023 at 4:27 PM
Wow! I rose to the giddy heights of an apron decorated with cross-stitch..