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John Russell @johnrussell40.bsky.social · 12h

That's the whole of North Devon under that cloud.
Boxing Day 2024. @seismatters.bsky.social

Looking north from Dartmoor. The whole of north Devon is underneath cloud due to temperature inversion.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 14h

This sounds well dodgy 😂

a statue of a woman with her mouth open and the website scandyfactory.com in the corner

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 16h

#TBT yesterday's amazing day climbing at the (Carboniferous) gritstone mecca that is Stanage in the Derbyshire Peak District, high above one of the best cloud inversions I've ever seen 😍 🧗🏾

And soup to follow with my bestie seconder 😊

A view down across a valley that is filled with cloud. Above it is a blue, slightly cloudy sky. On the left is a gritstone crag/cliff with a climber sitting at the top.

A small girl, smiling, sitting at a table with some orange soup and a bread roll in front of her.

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PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 18h

Green leader Zack Polanski praised for ‘refreshing’ response to Piers Morgan’s trans questions

Green leader Zack Polanski praised for response to Piers Morgan's trans questions

Green leader Zack Polanski has been praised for how he handled an anti-trans line of questioning by Piers Morgan during an interview.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 20h

Went to Hathersage, which is in the middle of the Derbyshire Peak District, at the weekend.

Didn’t see any Black or brown faces.

Is that a failure of integration? 🤔

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 22h

Overall, very. Just a little dense towards the centre, but I’d buy it from a shop 😊

Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 22h

For example: bsky.app/profile/jlyo...

John Lyons @jlyons1991.bsky.social · 1d

Mock-REFs already filter what reviewers see, and lbh, almost nobody in this whole process is actually a specialist on the majority of what they are reading. I had a piece read by an external and rated 2*. But why should a professor of palliative medicine know anything about Ancient Israel?

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 22h

I’m still interested in: 1) how long a panel member gets to read, digest, and report on a paper/output; and 2) how close to their area of specialism each paper/output is? I looked it up for the last REF and didn’t really find anything concrete.

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Kirsty Grainger @kirstygrainger.bsky.social · 1d

Bristol are doing some work on AI and REF but I don't think they have that as one of their key questions... maybe you should suggest it to them!! chet.bristol.ac.uk/research/ref...

Research: REF-AI project | Centre for Higher Education Transformations

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Caroline Gauchotte-Lindsay @drcgl119.bsky.social · 1d

I have been thinking that a AI model should be able to predict REF outcomes and I believe that whatever papers are chosen for a submission outcomes won’t change much… anyone prepared to run an experiment?

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 1d

But REF, by virtual of the fact that every paper is read, does a great job of identifying bestness…

Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 6d

Research excellence: We don't know how to measure research quality and we sure won't be reading any papers. So please make our jobs easier by providing some metrics that look good and a lot of publications, just to be on the safe side, and have demonstrable impact (by some terrible metric) and...

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 1d

Put it in the Louvre

Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 1d

I can send some 😂

Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 1d

These crisps are better than all that 😂

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 1d

Labour spads looking at the massive increase in support for the Greens, "obviously this means we need to be even more like Reform".

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Green party reaches 100,000 members for first time after Polanski becomes leader

Green party in England and Wales has had near-50% rise in membership since since Zack Polanski took over last month

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 1d

It’s taken my three months or so, and about five attempts to get this far, so I’m 100% not a natural!

Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the earlier tips and offer of a starter! I got mine going…eventually.

I’m all ears for your top tips!

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 2d

🤖 If you use LinkedIn, please be aware that they automatically use your profile to train their GenAI. To turn off, go to Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Gen AI improvements.

Screenshot of LinkedIn’s menu: “How LinkedIn uses your data”. Near the bottom, is the option to turn off “Data for Generative AI improvement”, shown with a red arrow.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 1d

Genuinely have no idea how people spent any time during lockdown perfecting this shit

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 1d

👀

A loaf of sourdough bread on a chopping board with one slice cut off it

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 1d

It’s like listening to people speak another language…

Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 2d

All this, “universities have colleges and it kinda matters” is making me laugh

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Mike Prior-Jones @drmikepj.bsky.social · 6d

Every time I see this in academia, I’m reminded of an “alternative prospectus” produced by students at York, which featured the lines “Alcuin College is the best college, under a system of bestness that scores alphabetical order, height above sea level and proximity to the library”

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Izzy Jayasinghe @ijayas.bsky.social · 5d

Everytime I need to submit a business case, I know it is about submitting a “bestness case”.

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve only been climbing for 30 years but yeah, sure, please tell me how it’s done…

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