25 Modern Classics That’ll Actually Wreck You (In the Best Way)
25 modern classic books that belong on every reading list, from gut-punch literary fiction to genre-bending thrillers. Cormac McCarthy, Zadie Smith, Gillian Flynn, and more. These aren't dusty assignments, they're the books people are still talking about. Here's your no-BS guide to what's actually worth reading.
Were the changes in the document that I just lost in the crash superior to the half-remembered changes I just rekeyed? I guess we'll never know! Onwards!
I have just learned something new and it has surprised me.
Emoji prize if you can me, without looking it up, what GANTT stands for.
#LifeOfPI #StilWritingGrants #TooManyGrants #TooManyGANTTs
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Today's highlight (so far)
Data analysis task that was so enthralling, my cup of tea went cold.
First two months of 2026 in #PeerReview
I've reviewed:
4 papers
3 grant applications
I've submitted:
1 paper
1 grant application
so I've “requested” ~6 reviews from the system.
So I'm in credit at the Bank of Peer Review so far.
The frustration of having to convert a (beautiful) LaTeX document into a MS Word document for a journal is offset by the zotero plug-in for Word. It's MUCH better than it used to be under v7.
I hugely regret agreeing to review this paper.
Finds by David
Stephen Royle
Sally Lowell
Ko-Fan Chen 陳克帆
Angus Davison