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#ParkRun #HampsteadHeath #London

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Lovely day today for #Parkrun #HampsteadHeath #London

Was great to work with you At Edinburgh Futures Institute this week.

Tonight at the #BarbicanCentre #London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra gave a a wonderful performance including Stravinsky’s Firebird, Bartók's 3rd Piano Concerto and Finzi's Eclogue conducted by Sakari Oramo, featuring pianist Yeol Eu

This evening David Buckingham launched his book at the @UCLKnowledgeLab London - The End of Information.
David discussed whether the end of information is caused by (dis/ mis)information, lack of trust, types of media, political ideology.

Sponsored by UCL GrandChallenges

‘An AlphaFold 4’ — scientists marvel at DeepMind drug spin-off’s exclusive new AI Isomorphic Lab’s proprietary drug-discovery model is a major advance, but scientists developing open-source tools are left guessing how to achieve similar results.

An AlphaFold 4’ — scientists marvel at DeepMind new tool. From Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The first ‘AI societies’ are taking shape: how human-like are they? Scientists are studying forms of ‘social’ interactions between artificial-intelligence agents. Will they find a fresh form of sociology, or merely a sophisticated mime act?

Studying human behaviour by training artificial-intelligence #AI agents to mimic the behaviours of people. From Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How fast does a protein fold? Real-time technique captures the moment Proteins assume complex 3D shapes even faster than does DNA, which is a simpler molecule.

Protein folding measured in real time! From Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...

At the Network Plus Spring Conference in Bristol where we’ll be talking about how our research is helping build the roadmap for the UK National Federated Compute Service. Federated compute is vital for innovation and for empowering people with data

Walked the Loch Venechar circular walk this weekend in the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park, #Scotland. Wet weather but this 20km walk was wonderful.

Sunny #parkrun #HampsteadHeath #London with coffee afterwards

Don't miss tomorrow's #CALRG talk by @allisonl.bsky.social
UCL's Pro-Vice Provost for the Data Empowered Societies Grand Challenge. She'll be exploring whether future learning for work be data driven or human driven?

Thursday 5th Feb, 11.00 am, online
Email calrg@open.ac.uk for the link

Thanks for your question to the panel this evening, Sam.

The Open University

Fostering deliberation and action in context: ana analysis of implementation research among healthcare professionals in LMICs from a post digital perspective.

Our latest article in British Journal of Educational Technology led by Koula Charitonos. oro.open.ac.uk/106411/

Could 2026 be the year we start using quantum computers for chemistry? Understanding the chemical properties of a molecule is an inherently quantum problem, making quantum computers a good tool for the job – and we may start seeing this take off in 2026

Understanding the chemical properties of a molecule is an inherently quantum problem, making quantum computers a good tool for the job – and we may start seeing this take off in 2026

#Northamptonshire #England 12km circular walk

In 2026 keep an eye on quantum

Last #HampsteadHeath #Parkrun of 2026

#Parkrun #HampsteadHeath #London Huge thanks to all the @Parkrun marshalls who work hard (like Santa’s elves) to make the run happen each week!

The future of Government Statistics Service - and the evidence it provides- should be in the hands of humans, not AI. My thought piece on human agency, vulnerability and why m #AI in work needs to be a negotiated journey.

@GrandChallenges

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Leckhampstead 12km loop walk, #Northamptonshire

#Parkrun #MiltonKeynes

On Wednesday Dec 10 11.00GMT Francisco Durán del Fierro and I will present our research on Inclusive Futures of Federated Data. Working with Eileen Kennedy, Edinburgh Futures Institute Hartree and funded by EPSRC. Join the event: research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/events/

English National Opera’s dazzling performance this evening at the wonderful London Coliseum #enopinafore

Great to participate in the UCL Grand Challenges Winter Reception at the Grant Zoology Museum where James Hetherington and I gave an update on the first year of the UCL Grand Challenge of Data Empowered Societies. Thanks to the DES Team and to Geraint Rees for amazing leadership.

Well said James!

Delighted to join today’s UCL Policy Lab Roundtable on AI, the future of Work and the Role of the University. There was a broad panel of participants with distinctive & fascinating perspectives. HE mist be relevant to student needs, but what is ‘relevant’ increasingly is difficult to predict

Delighted to be on this panel at the university of Oslo debating the education/work interface in an era of AI. With Regina Mulder, Francisvo Duran del Fierro, Koula Charitonos, Monika Nerland