If he had talked about 'one central tenet'....?

That sounds great. And give a wave to my old home town. Or the nearest big town to our village. 👋

Years ago @mikeduncan.bsky.social told me "you can rewrite shit but you can't rewrite nothing" and it's made every draft easier since.

I wonder if that would extent to natural intelligence

I really admire your persistence to make your blog persist!

OMG, if only I understood computers, I'd love to be able to preserve my blog. I saved it to WP when the uni destroyed their blogging site, where I thought it was safe. For me, that was a complicated process. Some have been archived, I have been told, by the BL, but wow, one could do so much more...

The Sacred Geometry of Ivermectin A review of miracles that a wonder-drug CANNOT accomplish

It comes from a blog and I am pretty sure it was meant ironically: "The sacred geometry of Ivermectin" substack.com/home/post/p-...

If you are remotely biology-minded this is well worth a read. Thanks @philipcball.bsky.social for unpacking a fascinating and very very cool paper. I suspect the synbio nerds are already on the case working out how to hack this into a de novo oligo printing factory...

Sandboxes and moats: Wrestling with AI metaphors After this morning’s (17 April 2026) news reports, most of you will know about the furore surrounding the non-release of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI model and its implications for cybersecur…

For weekend readers some reflections on technical #metaphors in #AI research in the context of the debate about Claude Mythos and what that might mean for #scicomm
makingsciencepublic.com/2026/04/17/s...

Wow 🤯

Darwin would be proud!

this person knows a lot about heat pumps @richarderskine.bsky.social

I'm interested in reading Gothic-ey/creepy texts about the creation of artificial life (in whatever form that takes), beyond Frankenstein. Do you have a favourite or other suggestions? Got the contemporary Frankenstein in Baghdad already, too...

This is literally how I met my husband! (1985)

That made my day!

MetFuse: Figurative Fusion between Metonymy and Metaphor Metonymy and metaphor often co-occur in natural language, yet computational work has studied them largely in isolation. We introduce a framework that transforms a literal sentence into three figurativ...

This is a bit niche, but for those interested in metaphor and metonymy research, here is one of the first articles I have seen using LLMs as research tool! #cogling #metaphor #metonymy arxiv.org/abs/2604.12919 Oh, they have also done something on visual metonym arxiv.org/abs/2601.17706

One of my favourite pics

WHAT???

Sandboxes and moats: Wrestling with AI metaphors After this morning’s (17 April 2026) news reports, most of you will know about the furore surrounding the non-release of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI model and its implications for cybersecur…

For weekend readers some reflections on technical #metaphors in #AI research in the context of the debate about Claude Mythos and what that might mean for #scicomm
makingsciencepublic.com/2026/04/17/s...

Sandboxes and moats: Wrestling with AI metaphors After this morning’s (17 April 2026) news reports, most of you will know about the furore surrounding the non-release of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI model and its implications for cybersecur…

This post is about Claude Mythos, but about technical metaphors and my difficulties getting them, rather than about cybersecurity... #AI #metaphor makingsciencepublic.com/2026/04/17/s...

It sustained me through many failures... they sort of just went into the bag

oh yes!!

I still remember going to a science communication conference in Germany many years ago and being handed a blue cloth bag with Beckett's "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better" emblazoned on it. I used it so much, it fell to pieces in the end.

Oh that sounds fascinating!

Sandboxes and moats: Wrestling with AI metaphors After this morning’s (17 April 2026) news reports, most of you will know about the furore surrounding the non-release of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos AI model and its implications for cybersecur…

This post is about Claude Mythos, but about technical metaphors and my difficulties getting them, rather than about cybersecurity... #AI #metaphor makingsciencepublic.com/2026/04/17/s...

it's more a lucky dip than a feed...

neat!

Memory as the Brain's Slime Trail Your brain is a scratchpad for your future selves

My new favorite concept: stigmergy!
It's how ants build complex nests without any central plan. One ant drops a dirt pellet, and that pellet becomes a signal for other ants to drop pellets there too. The environment itself becomes the blueprint cognitivewonderland.substack.com/p/memory-as-...

sounds really interesting!

I was actually just thinking, if it wasn't for health problems, perhaps I could do a retirement PhD.... hahaha