Do marginal gains approaches in universities fuel REF myths? | Wonkhe
So much about what academics dislike about the REF is due to skewed interpretations and attempts by providers to game the system. Órla Meadhbh Murray's research pulls back the curtain on how damaging myths start.
People say I overthink things but whenever I listen to Slayer I wonder if you could recreate the distorted guitar sound with 18th century tech by jury rigging cellos and what would they have thought of God Hates Us All and that’s what everyone wonders right?
About time… RW media have been compliant & uncritical of @
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https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-crisis-at-the-heart-of-the-modern-conservative-party
The crisis at the heart of the Conservative party
The Tories struggle to decide what they want to do and are unable to implement the few ideas they have
I quite like this footnote in Heino Falcke's personal reflections on today's arXiv
https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.00695
The road towards imaging a black hole -- a personal perspective
The images of the supermassive black holes Sgr A* and M87* by the Event
Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration mark a special milestone in the history
of the subject. For the first time we are able to see the shadow of black
holes, testing basic predictions of the theory of general relativity. We are
also now learning more about the fundamental astrophysical processes close to
the event horizon that help to shape entire galaxies and even parts of our
cosmos. The ultimate result was only possible due to a large collaborative
effort of scientists and institutions around the world. The road towards these
images was the result of a long sociological and scientific process. It started
with early pathfinder experiments and a few simple ideas that were remarkably
successful in predicting the basic observational signatures to look for. This
was based on the premise that black holes are inherently simple objects. Here I
describe this journey and some lessons learned from a personal perspective.
Apart from the fact that Dorries ignores that 2 MPs were stabbed to death in recent years, hasn’t our esteemed secretary of state for culture also forgotten that Julius Caesar wanted to declare himself king, overthrow the senate & rule as dictator, making Brutus/Sunak…. the hero
Picture from inside Robotazia from Google
Just discovered Milton Keynes has a robot-themed restaurant, @
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Stephen Serjeant 🇪🇺 on Twitter
“Just discovered Milton Keynes has a robot-themed restaurant, @robotazia”
Spoilt and unruly children playing dress-up: how the Tories stopped being serious
Rebelliousness against any rule they don’t like has replaced political philosophy, says Alan Finlayson, professor of political and social theory
The @
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Just getting back to work after a few days off, checking arXiv. Nothing much has happened, right?
