Really thoughtful read on the impacts of AI in academia
“Every hour you spend confused is an hour you spend building the infrastructure inside your own head that will eventually let you do original work. There is no shortcut through that process that doesn't leave you diminished on the other side.”
IT'S A DAILY DEALLL!!!!ONE!!!
"The Unaccountability Machine" Kindle version is £2.49 in the USA www.amazon.co.uk/Unaccountabi...
and $2.99 in the USA www.amazon.com/Unaccountabi...
It is sadly no more possible to take advantage of the implicit forex arbitrage than it was for Charles Ponzi.
I think your banding aligns with mine.
I do find myself bunching around 3.5 though and wish I had a system that allows for more spread into 4.5 and 5.
Trickier are a handful of deep experimental or cult films that are objectively shoddy but I really enjoyed them. I just record them as ‘watched’
Screenshot of the first two pages of the assessment. Machine readable version at link
This week the government quietly published a 'Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security assessment': www.gov.uk/government/p...
Meant to be out last year, but rumoured to be blocked by Number 10: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The judgements are stomach-churning
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.
I can’t stress this enough: you cannot understand politics without reading this paragraph about why there’s no such thing as a 1/3rd pound hamburger
🔔We are pleased to announce the release of Volume 9, Issue 3 (2025)!
tandfonline.com/toc/rcah20/c...
This new #ThematicIssue: Policy and practice includes 19 articles. Enjoy reading!
#UrbanHealth #HealthyCities #Cities4Health #BuiltEnvironment #CitiesxHealth
A screenshot of the Amazon app showing a projector. Underneath it says “Buy 1, Get 5 Free”
How many projectors does Amazon think I need!?
Six projectors is too many projectors.
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
Infographic showing interconnections between five key elements: Climate Change, Water, Biodiversity, Food, and Health, displayed over a landscape background with wind turbines, water, and farmland. White lines connect these elements, demonstrating their relationships. Right side contains definitions of key terms like "Interlinkages," "Feedback loops," and "Trade-offs." Bottom text explains "Nexus" and contrasts "Nexus approaches" with "Siloed approaches."
The IPBES #NexusAssessment Report finds that using a ‘nexus’ approach to address intertwined environmental, social and economic crises is more effective than a siloed approach.
Read more: https://www.ipbes.net/nexus/media-release
We have a new paper in Cities:
"Health consideration in UK urban development: Systems mapping insights for interventions"
It details systems mapping that informed the design & implementation of 7 joined-up interventions to improve the consideration of health in urban development decision making.
UK gov's 10 year health plan sets out a focus on prevention to improve health.
New research in @springernature.com Health Research Policy and Systems by @geoffbates.bsky.social demonstrates how to integrate health into urban policy decision making.
Research conducted through TRUUD truud.ac.uk.
This post and the replies are great.
It would make a good topic for a ‘true or false’ pub quiz round…
…Could Charlie Chaplin have watched Eraserhead?
…Could Olivia de Havilland have had a TikTok account?
From changing mindset, to embedding health in investment and planning, we discuss how these issues interact.
The paper links to additional research describing the design and implementation of these interventions from across the TRUUD project.
www.truud.ac.uk
An image of a Causal Loop Diagram showing the interaction between some aspects of urban development decision making and health.
If #health is everyone’s responsibility in #urban development...why is it often nobody’s priority?
We mapped the system using interviews with 132 decision-makers.
It shows
- Where health slips through the cracks
- How 7 interventions could shift the whole system
doi.org/10.1016/j.ci...
Some crazy thunder in Bristol right now.
The design of your city can help make you healthier, study finds.
“A new study in Nature found when people moved from less walkable U.S. cities to more walkable ones, they increased their levels of physical activity and saw health benefits.”
Weird bit of serendipity.
I watched Sunset Boulevard for the first time last night, obviously staring Swanson and von Stroheim.
I looked up the old silent film they are watching in it and find this article published today about it finally being completed.
"When you become less polite, the alteration in your conduct can make you less happy, more depressed, and angrier about life.... Being impolite is more like scratching at your poison-ivy rash. Giving in to the urge makes things worse."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Totally agree, like Andy Warhol said:
“… you can know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking.”
IMPORTANT: Study finds electrifying SUVs/pick-ups could actually INCREASE emissions by using up scarce battery material that could otherwise be used to electrify a lot MORE smaller cars (and e-bikes). Via @sciencedirect.bsky.social
SUVs are too big. #CarBloat
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
TRUUD researchers and guests discuss some of the sticky issues around creating healthier urban places with @andrewkelly.bsky.social.
Listen to their new podcast series here: truud.ac.uk/podcasts/
Preparations are underway for today’s TRUUD project event at the MShed in Bristol.
For example, they say there was awareness of the hazard but “the mitigations appropriate to its severity were not actioned” and “the controls in place were not effective and failed to identify subsequently that action had not been taken”.
Interesting how this stuff gets reported & interpreted.
There’s often focus on technical faults immediately preceding the event, framed as the “root cause”, with the lesson to prevent that type of failure.
But the NESO report is clear the underlying issue is a system that allowed it to happen.
Moviedrome showing Ed Wood on 25th April 1999 (the Mark Cousins years) is one of those key formative memories for me.
If you came to the #CivilEngineering session at the @bristoluni.bsky.social open day you will have heard me talking about this amazing project seismically testing 3D printed structures, great to see this update: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
