Dr Cass Chideock
@hoppingbunny.bsky.social
TNO consultant in 🇳🇱: innovation, data & society. NED @CfPData. Former 🇬🇧 Cabinet Office: SMEs, data & tech. Also 🐕, 🧶, 🌱&📚. All own views. She/ Her.
The model doesn’t work well for scientists or for science, or for the evolution of research itself.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The model doesn’t work well for scientists or for science, or for the evolution of research itself.
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October 15th is Lobular Breast Cancer Awareness Day! Help us spread the word about the 2nd most common type of breast cancer that may not form a lump, is often missed on mammograms, has no targeted treatments and receives less than 1% of research funding. lobularbreastcancer.org/oct-15th-202...
October 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM
October 15th is Lobular Breast Cancer Awareness Day! Help us spread the word about the 2nd most common type of breast cancer that may not form a lump, is often missed on mammograms, has no targeted treatments and receives less than 1% of research funding. lobularbreastcancer.org/oct-15th-202...
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Got off a call with the bedrijfsarts (business doctor). I’m going to start working again very gently. For someone used to the NHS and sick notes, the whole concept of the bedrijfsarts still feels bizarre.
September 29, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Got off a call with the bedrijfsarts (business doctor). I’m going to start working again very gently. For someone used to the NHS and sick notes, the whole concept of the bedrijfsarts still feels bizarre.
Am I imagining it or has the Liquid Glass update halved my Apple Watch battery life? I’m now having to charge twice a day.
September 24, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Am I imagining it or has the Liquid Glass update halved my Apple Watch battery life? I’m now having to charge twice a day.
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we know how charlatans rise through politics and media, because both are kakistocracies swarming with sociopaths.
but I think we need to know how people like David Frost and Simon Case rose through the civil service, because we tend to assume it's better than that
but I think we need to know how people like David Frost and Simon Case rose through the civil service, because we tend to assume it's better than that
I welcome interventions by Case on the machinery of government with the same enthusiasm as those by Osborne on economics and by Cameron on, well, anything. If only he’d been in a position of influence. Another shameless grifter www.civilserviceworld.com/professions/...
Simon Case: Reform UK could bring huge change to Whitehall
Former cabinet secretary says Nigel Farage’s upstart party has the potential to rapidly unleash sweeping reforms to remove blocks to delivery
www.civilserviceworld.com
August 15, 2025 at 12:29 PM
we know how charlatans rise through politics and media, because both are kakistocracies swarming with sociopaths.
but I think we need to know how people like David Frost and Simon Case rose through the civil service, because we tend to assume it's better than that
but I think we need to know how people like David Frost and Simon Case rose through the civil service, because we tend to assume it's better than that
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👏 Exceptional front page by @scotnational.bsky.social ahead of Donald Trump's visit this weekend...
July 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
👏 Exceptional front page by @scotnational.bsky.social ahead of Donald Trump's visit this weekend...
Not surprising.
Study finds A.I. LLMs advise women to ask for lower salaries than men. When prompted w/ a user profile of same education, experience & job role, differing only by gender, ChatGPT advised the female applicant to request $280K salary; Male applicant=$400K.
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
thenextweb.com
July 24, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Not surprising.
Excellent discussion on values in technology (of all kinds) in the latest Past, Present Future. overcast.fm/+ABL7yNiIR_8
The History of Bad Ideas: Value-Free Tech — Past Present Future
For today’s episode in the history of bad ideas David talks to philosopher Shannon Vallor about the myth that technology can be value free. It’s easy to see why Silicon Valley is so keen on the idea t...
overcast.fm
July 8, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Excellent discussion on values in technology (of all kinds) in the latest Past, Present Future. overcast.fm/+ABL7yNiIR_8
Indeed a beautiful and moving essay.
This is a beautiful and beautifully written essay, and I'd love to see tons of people reading it.
Aman
For a few months when I was 21, I stood in the doorway of a Times Square movie theater every night and chatted with a man named Aman, who’d emigrated to the United States from Afghanistan the year bef...
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July 4, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Indeed a beautiful and moving essay.
Today I learned that deer will sometimes eat meat and particularly fledglings in order to obtain calcium. 😳
June 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Today I learned that deer will sometimes eat meat and particularly fledglings in order to obtain calcium. 😳
I’m in the Netherlands, where it’s only 23 degrees today. But our house is so cold I’m wearing a cardigan. Also chemo effs with the internal thermostat.
June 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I’m in the Netherlands, where it’s only 23 degrees today. But our house is so cold I’m wearing a cardigan. Also chemo effs with the internal thermostat.
Excellent thread on organisation change. Would be well considered by (in my own experience) leaders in govt, the private sector and those somewhere in the middle.
I don't disagree with the thrust of Sam's excellent piece but I'd argue that when considering ANY organisational change it's very seductive a) to focus on the diagnosis of all the things that are wrong and b) to think that a new structure will fix it (1/x)
New post just out:
"How to Fix No. 10"
The centre of government is even more dysfunctional than usual at the moment.
In this post I explore why the current set up isn't working and what needs to change.
(£/free trial)
samf.substack.com/p/how-to-fix...
"How to Fix No. 10"
The centre of government is even more dysfunctional than usual at the moment.
In this post I explore why the current set up isn't working and what needs to change.
(£/free trial)
samf.substack.com/p/how-to-fix...
June 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Excellent thread on organisation change. Would be well considered by (in my own experience) leaders in govt, the private sector and those somewhere in the middle.
Excellent column from Heather Stewart.
Here’s this week’s column - essentially, how can AI save us if it can’t stop making shit up? (And yes I know, chatbots ≠AI but we do seem to be investing them with quite a lot of hope…): www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Policymakers who think AI can help rescue flagging UK economy should take heed | Heather Stewart
Healthy scepticism is needed because flaw is that large language models remain prone to casually making things up
www.theguardian.com
June 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Excellent column from Heather Stewart.
Outstanding description of the value immigrants bring and how immigration rules are a relatively recent development.
Not true.
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
June 11, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Outstanding description of the value immigrants bring and how immigration rules are a relatively recent development.
Fantastic Princess Bride background.
For those who missed it Thursday, I did a long thread on the clifftop duel scene in The Princess Bride, picking out the historical swordfighting references and what they mean in context.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson.
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa!
[BIG ASS THREAD]
June 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Fantastic Princess Bride background.
Every time someone used the phrase ‘Metro Mayor’, I would hear it in my head sung to ‘Macho Man’ by the Village People, only as performed by Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy.
woke up with "cheese ravioli" to the tune of "smooth operator" in my head 🤷♂️
May 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Every time someone used the phrase ‘Metro Mayor’, I would hear it in my head sung to ‘Macho Man’ by the Village People, only as performed by Sarah Michelle Gellar in Buffy.
How have I spent my day you ask? I learned that Magenta from the Rocky Horror Picture Show (played by Patricia Quinn) was also Sylvia Pouncer in The Box of Delights; the wife of the school master in the sex ed scene in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life; and Livilla in I, Claudius. Plus parts in Dr Who.
May 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
How have I spent my day you ask? I learned that Magenta from the Rocky Horror Picture Show (played by Patricia Quinn) was also Sylvia Pouncer in The Box of Delights; the wife of the school master in the sex ed scene in Monty Python’s Meaning of Life; and Livilla in I, Claudius. Plus parts in Dr Who.
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🦦 It’s #WorldOtterDay, so naturally we had to have a little rummage through the old card catalogue to locate our copy of Tarka the Otter from 1927
May 28, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🦦 It’s #WorldOtterDay, so naturally we had to have a little rummage through the old card catalogue to locate our copy of Tarka the Otter from 1927
This would be a ‘mondegreen’ as I learned only last week! @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
www.newyorker.com/science/mari...
www.newyorker.com/science/mari...
May 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
This would be a ‘mondegreen’ as I learned only last week! @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
www.newyorker.com/science/mari...
www.newyorker.com/science/mari...
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Farage cries betrayal over access to fish stocks. But NEVER FORGET he stood down hundreds of Brexit Party PPCs to help Johnson win big in 2019 and it was Johnson who negotiated the access. There's no change to access, just an extension on existing deal for 12 years. If it's on anyone, it's Farage
May 19, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Farage cries betrayal over access to fish stocks. But NEVER FORGET he stood down hundreds of Brexit Party PPCs to help Johnson win big in 2019 and it was Johnson who negotiated the access. There's no change to access, just an extension on existing deal for 12 years. If it's on anyone, it's Farage
Begs the question, which AI-faked papers are being submitted and not spotted?
Fascinating deep dive into the MIT economics/AI paper scandal/clusterf***.
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
thebsdetector.substack.com/p/ai-materia...
AI, Materials, and Fraud, Oh My!
The red flags we should have seen earlier for a too-good-to-be-true paper on AI tool adoption at a materials research firm
thebsdetector.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Begs the question, which AI-faked papers are being submitted and not spotted?
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Calling all scientists. Please join us if you can!
Bring Science to Politics - for Climate, Nature & Our Survival
@sciencetopolitics.bsky.social
· Apr 28
Listen to @chrisgpackham.bsky.social personal invitation to Scientists to join him, notable figures & scientists from across the U.K. at Parliament on 13 May
⁉️ Find out more: tinyurl.com/Scientists2025
🥼 Pledge to join: tinyurl.com/SciParl25
#ScientistsOnSurvival
#ActOnFacts
youtu.be/sBXHiiOF5Rg
⁉️ Find out more: tinyurl.com/Scientists2025
🥼 Pledge to join: tinyurl.com/SciParl25
#ScientistsOnSurvival
#ActOnFacts
youtu.be/sBXHiiOF5Rg
An invitation to Scientists to join me at parliament on May 13th 2025 | Chris Packham
YouTube video by Chris Packham
youtu.be
May 13, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Calling all scientists. Please join us if you can!
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"We build to dominate" - the company contracted to develop the data nervous system for the whole NHS.
You don’t have to be particularly sharp to decipher the code here.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
But if you need someone to say it, this is a major technology company and a sizable defense and intelligence contractor publicly declaring, with only the thinnest patina of deniability, that its cause is white nationalism.
![Palantir @PalantirTech • 26m
Dropping at select colleges today.
[Embedded image of a billboard ad:]
A moment of reckoning has
arrived for the West.
Our culture has fallen into shallow consumerism while abandoning national purpose. Too few in Silicon Valley have asked what ought to be built - and why.
We did.
We built Palantir to ensure America's future, not to tinker at the margins. On the factory floor, in the operating room, across the battlefield - we build to dominate.
Join us.
[signed by the Palantir founder]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:on5oeywiqx32fh2zau473wz6/bafkreibnnhk4kfvgsvqnrjitt27efuetj44x5opwvjayzgrr55eqa5eive@jpeg)
April 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
"We build to dominate" - the company contracted to develop the data nervous system for the whole NHS.
Listening to Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Guardian Today podcast and his powerful arguments on the state of the US and Israel and the need for the Left to embrace stories and culture as the Right have done. Well worth a listen.
April 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Listening to Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Guardian Today podcast and his powerful arguments on the state of the US and Israel and the need for the Left to embrace stories and culture as the Right have done. Well worth a listen.