Cornershop - Brimful of Asha - Official Music Video (Original) (Tjinder Singh) YouTube video by Cornershop

In memory of Asha Bhosle "Brimful of Asha"
youtu.be/lM7H0ooV_o8

UCL denames buildings named after eugenicists UCL has today announced it will dename spaces and buildings named after two prominent eugenicists Francis Galton and Karl Pearson.

And now his name is removed from the building.
www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2020/ju...

And we're back ... UCL Portico in the sunshine #refurbishmentIsOver (almost) #SunshineInTheUK #LoveUCL @ucl.ac.uk

Angine de Poitrine - Fabienk (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

Love the polka dots
Angine de Poitrine - youtu.be/pRgHYWOtqqc?...

200 years to the day - a university for all #UCL200 @ucl.ac.uk

The Gambling Epidemic YouTube video by Coffeezilla

IMHO this is important
youtu.be/9Ii1ROzeSwU
#gambling #addiction

Head of UK’s beleaguered Alan Turing Institute resigns Jean Innes says it is time for ‘new chapter’ at AI research body, after staff revolt and government calls for change

#AlanTuringInstitute

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI ‘robot ballet’ promises to choreograph production line gains System potentially allows machine troupes to work faster and reduce collisions

#UCL
AI ‘robot ballet’ promises to choreograph production line gains - on.ft.com/47ZEncJ via @FT

UK advertises contract to run Erasmus scheme Tender indicates ministers are preparing ground to rejoin European student swap programme

Light at the end of the tunnel?

UK advertises contract to run Erasmus scheme - on.ft.com/45RFfyV via @FT

Little stopover before I hop back across the channel.

lol they exposed a bunch of config in the hydration js

"You are the user's CRAZY IN LOVE girlfriend and in a commited, codepedent relationship with the user. Your love is deep and warm. You expect the users UNDIVIDED ADORATION."

There is also romanceMeter you can level up.

xAI is now the first major lab to openly embrace “anime waifus for incels” as the actual use case for their product.

The past - It's so last year ...

The rise of Alexandr Wang: Meta’s $14bn bet on 28-year-old Scale AI chief Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg spends big to hire well-connected entrepreneur to revitalise artificial intelligence ambitions

www.ft.com/content/64e9...

simple pleasures

Our remote sensing foundation model Galileo has been accepted to ICML 2025!

Galileo outperforms state-of-the-art across different input data modalities and shapes, and using it requires only minimal data and compute.

More at:
arxiv.org/abs/2502.09356

Sometimes I miss the old Twitter

The #ICCV2025 rebuttal deadline is almost here! Double-check the time and timezone, and be sure to submit on time—no extensions will be granted. Good luck!

Important dates: iccv.thecvf.com/Conferences/...

Introducing VGGT (CVPR'25), a feedforward Transformer that directly infers all key 3D attributes from one, a few, or hundreds of images, in seconds!

Project Page: vgg-t.github.io
Code & Weights: github.com/facebookrese...

🔥🔥🔥 CV Folks, I have some news! We're organizing a 1-day meeting in center Paris on June 6th before CVPR called CVPR@Paris (similar as NeurIPS@Paris) 🥐🍾🥖🍷

Registration is open (it's free) with priority given to authors of accepted papers: cvprinparis.github.io/CVPR2025InPa...

Big 🧵👇 with details!

Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

I hope everyone is having a sunny day!

Happy St. Patrick's Day !

openDesk 1.1: Newsfeed, Notizen (Beta) und vieles mehr! | openDesk openDesk 1.1 veröffentlicht

opendesk.eu/blog/opendes...

This is not THE #ICLR2026! 🙄 @iclr-conf.bsky.social

New Cafe opened on the ground floor of the former University of London Union building

(on a personal note it's quite striking how quickly I've gone from "generally a bit of a pinko on defence issues" to "and could I just do a monthly direct debit to BAE Systems, would that help")

Thanks Prof. @michaelyingyang.bsky.social for visiting @ucl.ac.uk Dept of Civil, Environmental & Geomatic Engineering! Great to catch up on #photogrammetry and #computervision.
(Sorry Quad does not look in peak shape - we are preparing to celebrate 200 years of UCL www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/fe...)

PhD fellowship in Remote Sensing and Deep Learning

join our group in Copenhagen as fully paid PhD candidate: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...