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Graham Sleight

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In the bureau, typewriters quiet Confetti falls from every window Throwing hats up in the air A city perfect in every detail He/him

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Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · 7h

I would be very interested in whatever book- or book-adjacent things you might happen to write.

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · 7h

I blame the Jagaroth. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...

Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says - live updates

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · 7d

Stuck at home and on painkillers, for reasons, and found myself watching a documentary about Bay Area land scarcity and gentrification, called _A View to a Kill_ (1985).

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Aug 26

(To answer the serious scientific question: I don’t know, but I suspect the same Fourth Corner Conundrum may apply for opera too.)

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Aug 26

Too generous to Moulin Rouge tbh.

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Aug 22

His books are very.

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Aug 22

Counterpoint (great film): en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longtim...

Longtime Companion - Wikipedia

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Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Aug 16

(Sorry, typo in my earlier post: lecture was a decade ago not a year ago)

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Aug 16

On (2): if nothing else, 2025 politics is really not the same as 2015 politics, on either side of the Atlantic.

Also, I now want pancakes.

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Aug 16

Recalling a lecture (on UK charity and government) about a year ago in which the lecturer argued that evidence-based policy was *inherently* doomed to fail bc it didn’t take account of the political context. Felt uneasy with that then, still do, but I think you’re asking similar qs?

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Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Jul 23

I only recently discovered this, which is very. m.youtube.com/watch?v=oW8O...

Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi read a FIERY letter exchange

YouTube video by Letters Live

m.youtube.com

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Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Jul 21

OUTRAGEOUS.

[sort-of spoiler for today’s NYT Spelling Bee; in the absence of a spoiler label here, have labelled as graphic content, which it kind of is]

A screenshot of the New York Times’s Spelling Bee, showing the word “Marillion” as not recognised.

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Jul 17

Strange times in Hyrule, maybe he needs to check in with the Deku Tree?

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Jul 17

Now there’s a meme I haven’t heard in a looong time

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Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Jul 15

Um…..have you had coffee?

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Jul 12

Rare to see one of these: a warning sign that alerts you to the presence of the rock band Queen.

A green warning sign with four arrows, one in each corner, each pointing towards a group of four human figures arranged like the lads in the Bohemian Rhapsody video.

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Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Jul 11

As well as the future of the television programme Doctor Who

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Jul 11

Epigraphs for a book I’ll write at some point

“We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities. The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards."
- Tim Berners-Lee, "Information Management: A Proposal"

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
- H P Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

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Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Jun 19

….and so the two get smudged together. Bah etc.

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Jun 19

Would be nice to believe there’s a distinction between the two that could be maintained. “Forgot” implies no choice in the loss, “Memoryholed” implies a wilful:/intentional decision.

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Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Jun 17

Or all governance decisions taken by an old man in a shack isolated from all external stimuli, as in Hitch-hiker’s Guide.

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Jun 4

Changes made to news masthead:
Editor-in-chief is panda, red.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · Jun 2

Please read and share.

Verena @viralemergence.org · Jun 2

An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠

Some difficult news from the team:

In NSF's FY25-26 Budget Request to Congress, we learned that our program will take a whopping 50% cut - meaning that in September, we'll be $1.25m short of an operating budget that currently supports a cohort of seven PhD students, four postdocs, and three full-time staff.

Verena is one of the largest and last pandemic prevention-focused programs in the United States: since 2020, we've supported the training of over 60 postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates. Our researchers have established unique laboratory resources for studying animal immune systems, and discovered new antiviral immune adaptations in bats; developed risk assessment algorithms for wildlife and livestock viruses, and diagnostic algorithms for viruses like dengue, Ebola, and Zika; and quantified the effects of climate change, deforestation, and factory farming on spillover risk. Everything we develop is 100% open source, and our data has supported the research of nearly 150 external researchers in 21 countries to date.

We have three months to make up our budget shortfall. Every dollar spent on Verena supports not just our team, but the community of researchers who use our data, code, and resources. You can help us by sharing this post, and reaching out if you're able to support a unique and vulnerable program. Or just head over to viralemergence.org, and take a look at what we do. 🦟 🦇 🦠

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Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · Jun 1

Excession is most fun. Use of Weapons maybe best, but not really fun.

Graham Sleight @grahamsleight.bsky.social · May 31

Fair, if anything an understatement