A new podcast based upon our recent publication about a NLP study of vasectomy and post-vasectomy pain syndrome. Touches additionally on informed consent, sampling problems, and issues associated with the procedure.
Happy to do so - thank you for the opportunity. Can you email me directly at k.pimbblet@hull.ac.uk to discuss / work out details & times?
I recently published a double-blind refereed data science article about the taboo subjects of vasectomy and post-vasectomy pain syndrome.
Following this, The Conversation reached out to write an article about this. It has now been published here: theconversation.com/vasectomy-pa...
The first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory are simply amazing. The sheer discoveries that lie ahead of scientists in the years ahead are, without exaggeration, incredible. Asteroids, variable & moving sources, very low surface brightness relics, cosmology, and more
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Having been on the UK:LSST board since I returned to the UK, these images are simply amazing. I keep staring at them and finding new exciting galaxies and shapes and thinking about how the next generation of scientists will use and exploit them to advance our understanding of the Universe.
A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. The image focuses on a collection of interacting galaxies connected by delicate streams of stars. At top center lies a large elliptical galaxy that is dense and smooth, like a polished stone glowing with golden light. Like delicate spider silk or stretched taffy, these stellar bridges link the large elliptical to the few larger galaxies beneath, evidence of past collisions. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
A cosmic tapestry of glowing tan and pink gas clouds with dark dust lanes. In the upper right, the Trifid Nebula resembles a small flower in space. Its soft, pinkish gas petals are surrounded by blue gas, and streaked with dark, finger-like veins of dust that divide it into three parts. It radiates a gentle, misty glow, diffuse and soft like the warmth of breath on a cold hand. To the lower left, the much larger Lagoon Nebula stretches wide like a churning sea of magenta gas, with bright blue, knotted clumps sprinkled throughout where new stars are born. Both nebulae are embedded in a soft tan backdrop of gas that is brighter on the left than on the right, etched with dark tendrils of dust and sprinkled with the pinpricks of millions of stars.
A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. All throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors against the black of space. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSFβDOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!
Can you guess these regions of sky?
This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! ππ§ͺ
#RubinFirstLook
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Congratulations to our @uniofhull.bsky.social student, Dr. Sophie Eden, who successfully defended her thesis today; "A search for HI absorption at intermediate redshifts in star-forming galaxies with ASKAP-FLASH".
Congratulations to Professor Bernie Binks, Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry, who has been recognised with a prestigious fellowship of the Royal Society! π
The NAM 2025 logo.
The countdown is on to our National Astronomy Meeting this summer!
We're very excited about the science that'll be shared at Durham University from 7-11 July. πͺπ«π βοΈ
Have you booked your place? If not, find out more about how to do so at: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/page...
I remember that very well! Exactly the sort of example I'm thinking of.
U.Birmingham and U.Portsmouth also spring to mind that have large images of the Universe along their walls.
Any others?
Random request. I'm looking for example images of LARGE-scale "departmental artwork" that might adorn the walls of your department.
e.g., massive printouts of galaxies on the walls of physics / astro depts; fish / species / cells prints outs in bio depts; anything more than 2D?
Great to have Ben Oppenheimer visit @uniofhull.bsky.social E A Milne Centre for a talk about the circumgalactic medium.
Spring days with sunny skies and blossom on campus at @uniofhull.bsky.social
In a tight competition, my favourite new arXiv article today is this: www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.22786
"A formula for the area of a triangle: Useless, but explicitly in Deep Sets form."
Can't beat the brutal honesty of the abstract making perfectly clear the uselessness of the maths contained therein.
Very much enjoyed visiting U.Portsmouth last week for a seminar on ChatGPT in assessments and degrees (see pinned publication) and a second seminar on the Hubble tension in cosmology.
Off to U.Lancaster today for another invited science talk.
Fingers crossed for no swans on the lines today!
Still time left to apply to one of our 5 Teaching Fellow positions @daimhulluni.bsky.social @uniofhull.bsky.social - full time / 1 yr posts. jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Not long left to apply for one of our Teaching Fellow positions @uniofhull.bsky.social teaching #AI #DataScience #PythonProgramming teaching in our dedicated building on a beautiful campus in one of the most affordable cities in the UK
jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...!
Daffodils in the rose bowl
Venn building
DAIM building
Sunny Equinox views from around campus @uniofhull.bsky.social
A blocky lambda symbol crumbles as it is pulled apart by creatures representing Baryon Acoustic Oscillations, the Cosmic Microwave Background, and supernovae. Caption reads "something has to give..." Credit: Claire Lamman
DESI's DR2 BAO results are out!!
TL;DR... 1/n
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A new journal from the IoP:
AI for Science.
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From 2025 to 2027, authors benefit from a full waiver of the article publication charges, so research can reach a global audience at no cost (and no: I'm not on the board!).
Another #abstract #art
Binary acrylic pour using own recipe. Monodirectional controlled feathering. Fully dried. Palette knife & paintbrush edge highlighting in crimson red. Foreground black acrylic paint palette knife appliquΓ©. Probably about 30hours to make.
Thoughts & name suggestions welcome!
Scrub a dub 𫧠...except no scrubbing the delicate observatory optics!
We don't use cloths or lens cleaner to clean the giant camera lenses. Instead, our summit staff use a high-speed stream of carbon dioxide "snow" to push debris off of the glass surface.
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Oyinkansola, one of our PhD researchers & GTAs is giving a talk at PyCon Lithuania 2025 called "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Culturally Nuanced Emotion Analysis in Nigerian Afrobeats Lyrics" @uniofhull.bsky.social #ai #artificalintelligence #research #student
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a 3D Printed Wikipedia logo in cupped hands
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The Wonderful World of Wikipedia (WWW)
If you are of a certain age, Wikipedia has been a constant in your life. It was not always so.
Here is a pre-history, a history and potential future of the world's great shared book that we all read and write. Also why is it called "Wikipedia"?
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The key thing to notice is that the probability of hitting planet Earth actually INCREASED in the interim before it became zero.
Therefore donβt be panicked just yet folks!
Yet more observations are made as the asteroid gets closer - the right hand diagram. The Earth is now outside of the yellow loop. The probability of striking the Earth is zero.
As more measurements are made, we get more certain about the asteroidβs path (middle dartboard). The area of the yellow loop has decreased because of the better measurements. But! Earth is still inside. The ratio of the areas means thereβs now an increased probability of hitting the Earth!
The yellow circle on the left hand dartboard shows the possible uncertainty following the first few measurements of the asteroidβs path. It is big. And it includes planet Earth. We can think of this probability as the area of the yellow loop compared to the area of Earthβs blue dot on the dartboard.
