John Provis

Make a band (more or less) edible: They Might Be Giant Gummy Bears

One or more human beings are responsible for the code they wrote, and those are the people who should be held accountable. These programs are not acting “on their own”

Social media is for projecting who we want to be, except for LinkedIn, which is for who we wish we weren't

It pains me in many ways to link to a Fox News article... but their take on the Aussie "Welcome to Country" ceremony before this week's NFL Melbourne match is, to be honest, about as hilariously and wildly unhinged as you'd imagine: www.foxnews.com/outkick-spor...

Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title. To be allowed to vote, young people must first reduce the insect population

I think I need a refund... the contents of the box are clearly not as described.

Given my longstanding dislike of "Graphical Abstracts" in journal articles, it's good when they're optional - but when authors point out that they don't need one, this is *not* a helpful thing for the journal to publish instead.. (not my article BTW, and no link to avoid embarrassing the authors!)

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

So it seems that the trick to becoming a trillionaire is to sell a company losing billions per year, to millionaires who take advice from your home-made "AI" systems about where to put their money, propped up by money taken from taxes paid by thousandaires and hundredaires (but not yourself)?

So the restaurant for the conference dinner last night was genuinely excellent - far better than the name of the road that leads to it would indicate...

All web designers should be forced to use their design on a tiny laptop instead of their massive monitor for a minimum of one month before they're allowed to ship it.

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

I am once again begging, praying, weeping for lists of written instructions rather than videos. I do not want to watch your two minute video in the hope of catching the two seconds where you whizz past what goddamn menu the thing is under. Write. It. Down.

Cyber trucks are now available in colors. I like the yellow racing stripes.

Perfect

Gee I'm glad this guy and his company are being handed all the data the UK NHS holds on everyone (myself included) who has ever used UK medical services. There's no way that could possibly end any way other than outstandingly well... right?

One of the best things about Switzerland is how everyone follows the rules here. Of course this means you have to figure out what the rules are... but I think I now know the correct Swiss way to use a roundabout: it's easy, you just drive as if you're blindfolded and have never been in a car before.

"One month ago, I came to you all with a dream: to build a machine that could take ocean water and make clean, potable water, sustaining life on Earth for eons to come. Some people said I was crazy. Other people said it couldn’t be done. It appears as though they were correct."

As heartening as it is to see Reform losing the Gorton & Denton by-election to the Greens, I think my favourite part is how the Tories only beat Sir Oink-A-Lot (of the Monster Raving Loony) party by 450 votes....

What have we learned from history? Would people let a Trojan Horse through their gates today?

Whoever named the "downhill skiing" in the olympics really needs an update on the technical distinctions between hills, mountains, and perilously steep cliffs.... I guess the name is more concise than "plummet down this precipice and try not to break any important pieces of yourself", though.

Adobe Acrobat I do not want to know What’s New. I do not want to turn my PDF into a podcast with my team. I want to look at the PDF. Please stop

It's rare for me to agree with every word of an article I read... but I agree with every word of this article. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

if you're surprised to learn that the Winter Olympics are just a month away, don't worry, you're not alone, the people building all the venues in Italy also appear to be surprised the Olympics are just a month away

I feel seen.....

this

Surely if they were able to so effortlessly swap out Queen for King in the England national anthem, they could just as easily do something about that ‘victorious’ bit. #Ashes 🏏

100x this...

Opinion: The fact that now-established academics survived a system built on overwork does not make it fair or well designed. We must change it, says Yu Tao #academicsky #ECRs https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/lets-not-pass-down-pain-we-endured-early-career-researchers

#ecology job alert 🎓 two group leader positions at WSL in Switzerland 🇨🇭 apply.refline.ch/273855/1813/... (conservation biology) apply.refline.ch/273855/1817/... (soil community ecology) Switzerland is one of the best places in the world, both for living and for doing research! 🧪

"Academic" is just a fancy job title for Elsevier's content creators.

That’s Elon Musk, Fellow of the Royal Society, I’ll have you know. Because the Royal Society can only seem to come up with throat-clearing noises as a response to these sorts of statements instead of actually throwing him out.

...tweaking the abstract of a paper to try to catch the attention of the editor of VeryShinyJournal...

At an academic conference, it is inevitable that the worst talk will be by a late career Professor who not only think the rules don't apply to them, but will have not even noticed the rules in the first place.

This -official Conservative policy - is essentially identical to the Reform policy that the Prime Minister described as "racist and immoral" and would "rip out country apart". Would be good if media and politicians pointed this out .

This is known as a false dichotomy, friends. There’s also “I learned a lot about this tool, I tested various versions on things I was an expert on, the results were highly dubious, & that’s before we even address the mental, ethical & environmental injuries it causes.”