The vast majority of flights I've taken recently have departed before 10 am, often much before. And as I don't live in London, the answer to the question of what else I'd be doing instead is "sleeping in my bed". Appreciate it might be different departing in the evening!
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Before I click through I want to make a guess: is it to do with the Postcode Address File?
Thank you Catherine!
I don't understand the question really. Plans for what, exactly? Perhaps you are looking for something like the DESI Legacy imaging surveys, Legacy Survey Sky Browser share.google/xO7M57hNVVu8...
The images in this press release aren't photos of the night sky, they are slices or projections of a 3D map of galaxies into 2D so as to display it on a screen. But the full DESI map covers something like 1/3rd of the full night sky (both hemispheres), or about 14,000 sq deg.
There are some very lovely graphics and animations in that press release which you should check out, including this one created by @clairelamman.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/clai...
An exciting astronomy milestone was hit last night, as DESI completed its original 5-year survey mapping 40 million galaxies in the night sky!
DESI continues operation, now aiming for an 8-year survey and ~60 million galaxies. 🔭🧪 #cosmology
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STFC chief commits to making no further cuts to postdoc funds
Michele Dougherty also promises top-up funding for additional early career researcher positions after outcry
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A note on a fridge saying "Today is a fresh start"
Another note, saying "you write your own story not others"
![A note saying "It won't keep you strong if you onlle [only] do it onets [once]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xrywqexhry2nbbqe2ir4e5dj/bafkreiedmvx5hjrgnuxoieg2drl2sdj52oywogomd7c2ms43fryql2kjve)
A note saying "It won't keep you strong if you onlle [only] do it onets [once]"
"Don't compare yourself from others"
My five-year old daughter has for some reason started writing these little aphorisms that now randomly appear on our fridge. It's a mystery where she's getting the inspiration from, but I do enjoy reading them - and her spelling is delightfully inventive!
Hard to describe quite why I initially disliked it - I think it felt like reading the text of a speech at a political rally (or a TED talk) rather than a blog. Just too rhetorical somehow. I found your breakdown very useful for helping explain my instinctive reaction.
Your deconstruction of the text was very interesting! At the time I read the essay I was intensely annoyed by the rhetorical style even though I was broadly sympathetic to the overall message. I couldn't quite put my finger on why though ...
Kemi Badenoch! Roger Scruton! MattGPT! Bari Weiss! Rod Dreher! Jair Bolsanaro! Howard from the Halifax adverts! JD Vance? You hear me JD Vance? Your boy took a hell of a beating! Your boy took a hell of a beating!
You may think this is very very stupid but the plan is that hopefully Iran gets confused and responds by threatening to blow up their own nuclear enrichment facility.
Something similar worked for Bugs Bunny.
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Interesting! Is that requirement 4 that you have personally submitted, or just where you later claim ownership using the paper password? Because now that I usually always have at least one more junior co-author, if it is submissions I may need to pay attention to it myself ...
The emails all have a similar quality and I suspect are AI-written too, so maybe it is just the AI that has recently started prompting them to contact me to ask for endorsements for some reason. Or maybe some submission rules have changed on the arXiv itself to prompt this?
A new development: I've recently started receiving regular emails (once a week or so) from random people asking me for arXiv endorsements for their AI-generated, nonsense physics theory papers. I got crackpot emails in the past too, but never arXiv endorsement requests - not sure what's changed? 🔭🧪
Today is one of my favourite days of the year - the day I'm down at the cricket club prepping for the start of the season: hanging sightscreens, painting the clubhouse, erecting the marquee. All in the sunshine, with friends, and the promise of a happy summer ahead.
I read it as him saying NATO wasn't there for him in Greenland
Did you get offered the job? And did you accept?
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The fabulous owl, Lady Jane Grey, with her handler, Pete, in Totnes, Devon.
Almost certainly the best thing I was ever told about owls was when I met an owl handler at an owl sanctuary and he told me that the wild owls who lived near the sanctuary worried about the tame show owls there and sometimes stopped by to leave them shrews and mice as presents.
But the fundamental truth is that travelling anywhere with small children is a pain, irrespective of the means of transport. 5 hour daytime ferry to France probably my least favourite of all.
My wife and I have taken young kids on overnight train journeys in India (would not recommend whether with kids or not) and on a longish train journey in Switzerland (100% would recommend, the train even had an on-board playground!). But most long train journeys I do on my own.
On my way home from a conference in the snowy Alps and lovely as it was, now that I'm back in England where blossoms are out on the trees and it is still bright until nearly 8 pm I have officially had enough of winter thank you very much.
When fusion power starts working we'll have endless supplies of helium!
I don't think they cared enough to mention it either way
the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes
Even less so than Trump?
But Tony what if I woke you up shortly before midnight?