It is. They refer to you as "My lovely" in shops, and strangers say "Hello". I need to move to civilization

WTF? You could swim in the fields my train passed yesterday. Do we still live in the same country?

Rules for writing scientific papers: never worry about a discussion being too short. Remember: reviewers will always ask you to make it longer no matter how long it is in the first place.

It looks like Tory strategy, if you could call it that, is to attack Labour for having policies identical to the previous Tory government. It almost feels like a trap Labour has set, especially how they have now defined they’ll 2030 electricity target

Some readers don't understand percentages. It is therefore important to provide those readers with alternative numbers they have no chance of understanding

Scanning The Telegraph is both disheartening and heartening. The heartening part is that the Tories will never win again, so long as they feel the need to keep the Telegraph happy

Seafloor marine heatwaves outpace surface events in future on the northwest European shelf Abstract. Marine heatwaves are increasingly frequent across the world’s oceans. As a result, there are growing impacts on marine ecosystems due to temperatures exceeding the thermal niche and historic...

We have a new paper, now under review, showing that future marine heatwaves will be more frequent on the sea floor than at the surface in northwest Europe. Read it here egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Looking at the Golden Globes winners and nominees. It’s depressing how none of them, except for Wicked, are part of the zeitgeist. And don’t get me started on giving Best Picture awards to TV movies. Throwing cinemas under the bus as always

You should buy them coffee and lunch at these prices

Literally works out to over £1/reader under the most wildly optimistic scenario for readers. Excellent return on investment

2025. First day in the office. The work begins. Headphones on like

It does, but too clunky. The likes of claude.ai can do it incredibly well. In fact, you can just capture an image of the table and pass it to it, and it digitizes it seemlessly. Google scholar's new pdf reader already uses AI to summarize papers, so maybe they're planning to add what I'm thinking of

Things I'd pay for: A pdf reader that can extract tables as csv. This can now be done pretty well with AI, so someone needs to get on it

You mean you didn't buy a new notebook over Xmas to 10x your productivity?

GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer GitHub Copilot works alongside you directly in your editor, suggesting whole lines or entire functions for you.

I've been using GitHub Copilot for nearly 2 years, and it has boosted my coding productivity big time. And it's now free. If you use Visual Studio Code or RStudio, you should try it. The learning curve is minimal github.com/features/cop...

If you want to understand migration I recommend reading How Migration Works, which shows that much of what the right and, yes, the left thinks about the issue is full of myths and misunderstandings

Hello back. Actually, most of the lead cast was missing for Hadestown. Probably would be 8-9. I nabbed a £150 ticket for £25 for The Tempest on rush at TodayTix. That show is flopping hard I hear

NHS App upgrade to give patients more choice over treatment Plans for an upgraded NHS app to allow more patients in England to book treatments will be announced by the health secretary on Monday.

It’s pretty mind boggling how bad the current NHS app is. Wes Streeting at least seems to want to modernise things. The comments by the BMA here show how difficult it typically is to bring about change.

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In London for some entertainment at the theatre.

Hadestown 7/10
Titanique 8/10
The Tempest 4/10, but that might have been the chilly theatre