Joe Reddington

I've written my annual introduction post for 2025: joereddington.com/2025/01/01/h...

damn that’s fuckin racist

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

They banned Linux it's so funny

Teams meetings need to be clear about if it's acceptable to wear a snuggie.

So, this is doing numbers, and it’s mostly people correctly getting the ick about a very icky thing. My question is: can you point me at an academic setting that handles this really well? Clear policies? Good training?

As I've said before, it's only once I became a professor that I realized the entmoot, a meeting that goes on for three days and three nights, was a professor's joke about faculty meetings.

“Arty I”

Movie night

It’s been a rainy day of board games

Smartphone cameras mean people can't call Black folk liars when we describe how much racism we receive. The cost of solar panels dropped so much that it's obvious that the US government *chooses* to stay on coal and gas, not that it *can't* get off of coal and gas. China planted 66 billion trees.

I make an astonishing percenage of my decisions this way.

The slightly worrying feeling of backing up an online service and having it go fine... Maybe I missed a step?

New @spectrum.ieee.org piece on AI model “welfare”. Well-written, thoughtful article (as always) from @newsbeagle.bsky.social. Super important topic in AI zeitgeist, with input from me, @anilseth.bsky.social and Cameron Berg. Kicker is me talking about bugs ❤️ 🐞 🕷️🪲 spectrum.ieee.org/ai-model-wel...

"Why 42?" is my favourite viva question. I have a place in my heart for those students who answer so instantly and confidently with complete bullshit that I myself doubt the answer. They will go far.

I have cleared my inbox and put on my OOO. When I do this (normally once a week) it's my practice to then watch www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMqR... and really vibe with the Admiral Ackbar when he sits down.

I had to go on Twitter to confirm this was real because Ship Awesome Games In A Weekend having a hand with six fingers was so on the nose I was about to pass out

Our position is clear: the #gendergap on #Wikipedia is unacceptable, and we’re determined to tackle it. Women now make up 20.4% of biographies on English Wikipedia, up from 15.5% in 2014. There’s still a long way to go: wikimedia.org.uk/2026/10/clos...

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

i know enshittification discourse is getting boring, but 'has nobody published on this topic or is google scholar just fucked' is a really annoying part of a research process these days

*sings in Avril Lavigne* She was a skater cow/He said see you later now

Review: Forgotten Island - "This is a visual film. It is loud and complex and kinetic." Read it here bit.ly/4AVnyeW by @joereddington.com #ForgottenIsland #film #animated

I’m now working at University of Hertfordshire two days a week (still three days a week at Royal Holloway). Hit me up if you are UoH #academicsky

Happy Birthday Alan Turing

The thing is, I don’t remember any of this - there was a day when nobody thought it was an option, then a literal day when it might happen, then it was irreversibly happening. There wasn’t a persuasion phase.

This is what Turing’s statue looks like on his birthday ❤️

Vegan Jamie dodger doughnut

Pizza!

Motorways are long

This is the before of an enormous amount of attacking plants with shears today.

Me, about to do a simple Arduino project: “I spent eight years in C++, four of them squeezing every gram of performance out of it, this will be simple” Me, an hour later: “what is this unwieldy bastard language?” _throws header file across the room_ #academicsky

It's backed-up by research! "samples from the United States were less frequently specified in titles" unless "they referred to racial/ethnic/cultural minorities who may be perceived as exceptions to assumed generalizability of the White American population" #AcademicSky doi.org/10.1177/1948...