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Michael Clerx @michaelclerx.com · 10h

Banning Banach spaces at _my_ university.
Mathematicians should expect their Cauchy sequences not to converge, even if - no especially if - it makes them feel uncomfortable

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Jack Saundrs @jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 13h

What possible use could the "People Who Teach You How To Understand and Work With Ideas and Information" have in the age of "The Machine That Punches Out Information of Questionable Quality"?

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 20h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

When Knowledge is Free, What are Professors For?

Higher Education Must Stop Competing with AI on Information and Start Teaching What Machines Can’t Do

www.forbes.com

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Michael Clerx @michaelclerx.com · 13h

Barrister. Barista. Fashionista.

That's my business cards sorted

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Pete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 13h

This. The leap from ‘there needs to be space to test ideas that may not conform to consensus views’ to ‘YOU MUST BE MADE UNCOMFORTABLE TO LEARN’ is wild, and I’m not sure I got the memo.

Apart from anything, I think it’s not at all educationally sound.

Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 1d

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Nikita Gill @nikitagill.bsky.social · 1d

The most annoying thing about the AI bubble is we can all see it happening, we all know it’s going to burst and we all know what the consequences will be. Everyone except apparently, Big Tech and the government.

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Lev Parikian @levparikian.bsky.social · 1d

Song of the year youtu.be/5VXSQQ5YDIU

The Divine Comedy - Invisible Thread

YouTube video by The Divine Comedy (Official)

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Michael Clerx @michaelclerx.com · 1d

I, um...
I went on a website - not a dodgy one - right? And
Well
And it showed me an ad

An advertisement showing six panels: two containing what looks like human intestines, one with a five-sided star shaped intestine (?), a lady with a bridal veil, a lady in costume (Hawaiian?), and the mum from Bluey

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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Michael Clerx @michaelclerx.com · 2d

Mark "Spooky" Watson

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Sanjeev Kohli @govindajeggy.bsky.social · 2d

Arachnophobia is the fear of anything with eight legs, like spiders, scorpions or ABBA

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 7d

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 5d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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wouke @wouke.bsky.social · 2d

Fijn initiatief van diverse kranten. Gratis abo voor alle studenten

www.volkskrant.nl/cultuur-medi...

Digitaal Volkskrant-abonnement gratis voor studenten: ‘Regie over hun eigen nieuws terug’

Studenten kunnen vanaf vandaag gratis een digitaal abonnement afsluiten op de kranten van DPG Media, waaronder de Volkskrant. De stap is een reactie op de dalende interesse van jongeren in traditionel...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Michael Clerx @michaelclerx.com · 2d

Dare to ask

ceej @ceej.online · 2d

any culture, at any point in history, could have invented darude’s sandstorm. the fact that they didn’t is just further proof that old times were busted generally

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Michael Clerx @michaelclerx.com · 2d

Went to t sheep dog tribulations today.
Don't know about you but I just prefer m to the trials, you know? Feel a bit more real to me.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 3d

… today, a group of 160 scientists from 23 countries is announcing that the planet has already reached its first major tipping point: the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs.

Corals are disappearing, pushing Earth to its first major ‘tipping point’

A new report says Earth has reached a dire milestone with the widespread death of warm-water coral reefs. It's not too late to save what remains.

grist.org

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Michael Clerx @michaelclerx.com · 2d

Additions to the list are HIGHLY welcome! Especially if you know of source code I missed

Michael Clerx @michaelclerx.com · 2d

So code sharing is definitely on the up in CCE, but we're not out of the woods yet!

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Michael Clerx @michaelclerx.com · 2d

A more optimistic way of plotting the same data, shows that we've gone from ~95% no-code in 2000, to 30.2% of models published with procedural code in 2025, and 14.5% published with (even better!) declarative code.

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Michael Clerx @michaelclerx.com · 2d

To make it pretty, I had to group a lot of formats under "Other". To get a better view of what "other" formats are, I made this graph excluding the big three (no code, matlab, cellml). From top to bottom it goes Myokit (yay!), C++, simBio, C, CARP, Delphi, Fortran, Visual basic, and Neuron

Myokit can be seen growing since 2016, C++ was popular around 2010, simBIO between 2005 and 2010. C is added slow and steady. The remainder doesn't show any interesting patterns.

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Michael Clerx @michaelclerx.com · 2d

So with the parsing (and a standardised format in the markdown) in place, you can start doing some fun graphs!

Fun - but heavily caveated. This is based on what is on my list, not what exists out there. But I had a go at least 🤷. The entries outside of "No code" are hopefully a good lower bound

A graph showing "author-provided code" available online, for cardiac cell ephys "models" published between 2020 and 2025. The graph shows that in 2000, no code was online (or if it was those websites are long-since deleted), while in 2025 we have author-provided code for just under 45% of all CCE models ever. The graph is further split by code type, showing 17.9% of models have author-provided matlab, 9.5% cellml, and then it gets into 5% or less. Myokit is the 4th most popular, most likely reflecting my bias in collecting this data.

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Michael Clerx @michaelclerx.com · 2d

I just recently got asked to talk at the CellML workshop in NZ (so late at night via zoom, no jet setting just yet), and then started thinking if I could maybe parse my list and do some graphs

(This is a lie. I started thinking THAT I could parse and do some graphs, and that this was a good excuse)

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Michael Clerx @michaelclerx.com · 2d

So a while ago I got annoyed that I couldn't remember a particular cardiac cell ephys model, and thought there should be a list, so started making that list... github.com/myokit/model...

(Yes it's a bit silly, yes there's PMR and others, yes it's hard to say when it's a "change" or a model etc)

GitHub - myokit/model-list: A list of (detailed, non-stochastic) action potential models, with links to papers, source code, CellML and Myokit implementations

A list of (detailed, non-stochastic) action potential models, with links to papers, source code, CellML and Myokit implementations - myokit/model-list

github.com

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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Um. There’s a woman presenting this too.

ok.co.uk @ok.co.uk · 9d

Rylan Clark is set to delve into the eerie world of witchcraft in his new show, The Witches Of Essex.

Rylan Clark slams 'misogyny' in British witch hunt as he fronts new Sky show

Rylan Clark shares the spotlight with professor Alice Roberts in The Witches Of Essex, where the pair delve into the dark history of witch hunts - and one discovery rattled Rylan.

www.ok.co.uk

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · Sep 1

It's beyond me why the PM doesn't want to put out this simple message. It's not hard. Hold a reception for prominent non-white British sportspeople, actors, etc to point out the kinds of well known and well liked people this kind of ugly nationalism is attacking. It's really not rocket science. 5/5

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