Matt Burleigh

Woo-hoo this is by my now ex-PhD student Alicia Kendall and is the 100th published paper from the @nextgentransits.bsky.social project!

The least shocking thing ever is learning DOGE used chatGPT to identify which grants were “DEI.” It is critical to understand that LLMs are an authoritarian technology meant to win the millennia-long war on critical thinking and art. They are a right wing wet dream.

Can this be a solution?

Absolutely damning of those charged with funding my science

Well that was worth it Brexiters

Bye bye Borthwick

Turn down an easy penalty after 3 mins, zero points after 20. Change the team, can’t change the idiocy

And the rich OAPs still get a fuel discount while the working age have to freeze?

I’m amazed the players haven’t all gone cold it takes so bloody long to get the game started

Being made redundant by Brewdog. 15 minute call. No questions. Union reveals pay & redundancy money publicly funded via Insolvency Service Being made redundant by Brewdog. 15 minute call. No questions 38 Brewdog bars were shut with immediate effect on 2nd March and 484 workers were made redundant. Below is an account from STV of what …

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Another exercise in smoke and mirrors, just like during the 2008 creation of STFC

Full worm moon shines in UK skies The full Worm Moon rose on Monday and will be visible overnight again into Wednesday morning across the UK.

What in the name of Patrick is a Worm Moon? Where do they get this stuff? Personally I’m looking forward to Button Moon. I’ll be following Mr Spoon.
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"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Good luck! And hopefully enjoy your trip too.

Congratulations to Dr Alicia Kendall, now my ex PhD student, who passed her viva today @nextgentransits.bsky.social @physicsuol.bsky.social

All relief flights from Dubai should be met at arrivals with signs saying "HM Revenue & Customs welcomes you back to the UK"

This also has to be viewed in the framework of the dire financial situation of many universities, which are looking to cut areas that don’t bring in enough income. I don’t remember labour’s election manifesto promising to cut HE STEM subjects and departments, with all the knock on consequences

I tried the Alastair Heath Daily Telegraph headline generator. This is my favourite stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

Tomorrow I start teaching my lecture course in Astrobiology but blokes in my pub reckon Obama and Trump say there really is advanced alien life so should I cancel my course?

I’ll file it with the amazing meteor storms during full moon

Interesting. A family friend mentioned this to me at the weekend. I could only say “news to me” and it’ll be cloudy anyway. Do you know the source?

Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction? He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?

London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

So Scots, why are you so insistent on proving me right that your team can only get up for one fixture?

Bye bye Computer Steve. Worst. Performance. Ever. (Or at least, since 2015)

Worst half of rugby by England since World Cup 2015. Which cost a coach their job, and “computer says no” Steve should also go

I spoke too soon. From worse to abysmal.

England go from bad to worse. What does the computer say Steve? Bring on a new front row at 60 mins?

England just as bad as last week

Someone will cock up - HR always do….
But given we all know what’s going on, it’s a terrible look for the ECB