Kevin Pimbblet
@kevinpimbblet.bsky.social
Professor. Astronomer, Data Science, AI, Author.
Director of DAIM.
Director of DAIM.
Pinned
Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree? Making a case for reformation of assessment of undergraduate degrees - IOPscienceSearch
Can ChatGPT pass a physics degree? Making a case for reformation of assessment of undergraduate degrees, Kevin A Pimbblet, Lesley Morrell
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Can ChatGPT pass an entire degree?
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
There’s been a lot of opinion and talk about the impact of AI on education for a while, so a colleague and I set about to test ChatGPT against an entire BSc in Physics.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
There’s been a lot of opinion and talk about the impact of AI on education for a while, so a colleague and I set about to test ChatGPT against an entire BSc in Physics.
A new podcast based upon our recent publication about a NLP study of vasectomy and post-vasectomy pain syndrome. Touches additionally on informed consent, sampling problems, and issues associated with the procedure.
"Never Mind My Bollocks" episode 11, "That might be straight forward to pull out." In this episode James and Kurt speak to @kevinpimbblet.bsky.social about his AI study on vasectomy.
The only podcast dedicated to vasectomy in the world.
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The only podcast dedicated to vasectomy in the world.
open.spotify.com/episode/1OuG...
Ep. 11 - "That might be straight forward to pull out."
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September 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
A new podcast based upon our recent publication about a NLP study of vasectomy and post-vasectomy pain syndrome. Touches additionally on informed consent, sampling problems, and issues associated with the procedure.
I recently published a double-blind refereed data science article about the taboo subjects of vasectomy and post-vasectomy pain syndrome.
Following this, The Conversation reached out to write an article about this. It has now been published here: theconversation.com/vasectomy-pa...
Following this, The Conversation reached out to write an article about this. It has now been published here: theconversation.com/vasectomy-pa...
Vasectomy, pain and regret: what online forum Reddit reveals about men’s experiences
Vasectomy is safe for most but a study analysing 11,000 social media comments shows that some men are regretful and in pain months after the procedure.
theconversation.com
August 1, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I recently published a double-blind refereed data science article about the taboo subjects of vasectomy and post-vasectomy pain syndrome.
Following this, The Conversation reached out to write an article about this. It has now been published here: theconversation.com/vasectomy-pa...
Following this, The Conversation reached out to write an article about this. It has now been published here: theconversation.com/vasectomy-pa...
The first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory are simply amazing. The sheer discoveries that lie ahead of scientists in the years ahead are, without exaggeration, incredible. Asteroids, variable & moving sources, very low surface brightness relics, cosmology, and more
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Ever-changing Universe Revealed in First Imagery From NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory - From distant stars and galaxies to asteroids whizzing through the Solar System, this next-generation facility ...
Ever-changing Universe Revealed in First Imagery From NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory
noirlab.edu
June 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The first images from the Vera Rubin Observatory are simply amazing. The sheer discoveries that lie ahead of scientists in the years ahead are, without exaggeration, incredible. Asteroids, variable & moving sources, very low surface brightness relics, cosmology, and more
noirlab.edu/public/news/...
noirlab.edu/public/news/...
Having been on the UK:LSST board since I returned to the UK, these images are simply amazing. I keep staring at them and finding new exciting galaxies and shapes and thinking about how the next generation of scientists will use and exploit them to advance our understanding of the Universe.
Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!
Can you guess these regions of sky?
This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪
#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
Can you guess these regions of sky?
This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪
#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
June 23, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Having been on the UK:LSST board since I returned to the UK, these images are simply amazing. I keep staring at them and finding new exciting galaxies and shapes and thinking about how the next generation of scientists will use and exploit them to advance our understanding of the Universe.
Reposted by Kevin Pimbblet
Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!
Can you guess these regions of sky?
This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪
#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
Can you guess these regions of sky?
This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪
#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
June 23, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Introducing...your sneak peek at the cosmos captured by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory!
Can you guess these regions of sky?
This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪
#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
Can you guess these regions of sky?
This is just a small peek...join us at 11am US EDT for your full First Look at how Rubin will #CaptureTheCosmos! 🔭🧪
#RubinFirstLook
ls.st/rubin-first-look-livestream
Congratulations to our @uniofhull.bsky.social student, Dr. Sophie Eden, who successfully defended her thesis today; "A search for HI absorption at intermediate redshifts in star-forming galaxies with ASKAP-FLASH".
May 20, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Congratulations to our @uniofhull.bsky.social student, Dr. Sophie Eden, who successfully defended her thesis today; "A search for HI absorption at intermediate redshifts in star-forming galaxies with ASKAP-FLASH".
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Congratulations to Professor Bernie Binks, Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry, who has been recognised with a prestigious fellowship of the Royal Society! 👏
May 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Congratulations to Professor Bernie Binks, Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry, who has been recognised with a prestigious fellowship of the Royal Society! 👏
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The countdown is on to our National Astronomy Meeting this summer!
We're very excited about the science that'll be shared at Durham University from 7-11 July. 🪐💫🔭 ☀️
Have you booked your place? If not, find out more about how to do so at: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/page...
We're very excited about the science that'll be shared at Durham University from 7-11 July. 🪐💫🔭 ☀️
Have you booked your place? If not, find out more about how to do so at: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/page...
May 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The countdown is on to our National Astronomy Meeting this summer!
We're very excited about the science that'll be shared at Durham University from 7-11 July. 🪐💫🔭 ☀️
Have you booked your place? If not, find out more about how to do so at: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/page...
We're very excited about the science that'll be shared at Durham University from 7-11 July. 🪐💫🔭 ☀️
Have you booked your place? If not, find out more about how to do so at: conference.astro.dur.ac.uk/event/7/page...
Random request. I'm looking for example images of LARGE-scale "departmental artwork" that might adorn the walls of your department.
e.g., massive printouts of galaxies on the walls of physics / astro depts; fish / species / cells prints outs in bio depts; anything more than 2D?
e.g., massive printouts of galaxies on the walls of physics / astro depts; fish / species / cells prints outs in bio depts; anything more than 2D?
April 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Random request. I'm looking for example images of LARGE-scale "departmental artwork" that might adorn the walls of your department.
e.g., massive printouts of galaxies on the walls of physics / astro depts; fish / species / cells prints outs in bio depts; anything more than 2D?
e.g., massive printouts of galaxies on the walls of physics / astro depts; fish / species / cells prints outs in bio depts; anything more than 2D?
Great to have Ben Oppenheimer visit @uniofhull.bsky.social E A Milne Centre for a talk about the circumgalactic medium.
April 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Great to have Ben Oppenheimer visit @uniofhull.bsky.social E A Milne Centre for a talk about the circumgalactic medium.
Spring days with sunny skies and blossom on campus at @uniofhull.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Spring days with sunny skies and blossom on campus at @uniofhull.bsky.social
In a tight competition, my favourite new arXiv article today is this: www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.22786
"A formula for the area of a triangle: Useless, but explicitly in Deep Sets form."
Can't beat the brutal honesty of the abstract making perfectly clear the uselessness of the maths contained therein.
"A formula for the area of a triangle: Useless, but explicitly in Deep Sets form."
Can't beat the brutal honesty of the abstract making perfectly clear the uselessness of the maths contained therein.
A formula for the area of a triangle: Useless, but explicitly in Deep Sets form
Any permutation-invariant function of data points $\vec{r}_i$ can be written in the form $ρ(\sum_iϕ(\vec{r}_i))$ for suitable functions $ρ$ and $ϕ$. This form - known in the machine-learning literatur...
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April 1, 2025 at 6:31 AM
In a tight competition, my favourite new arXiv article today is this: www.arxiv.org/abs/2503.22786
"A formula for the area of a triangle: Useless, but explicitly in Deep Sets form."
Can't beat the brutal honesty of the abstract making perfectly clear the uselessness of the maths contained therein.
"A formula for the area of a triangle: Useless, but explicitly in Deep Sets form."
Can't beat the brutal honesty of the abstract making perfectly clear the uselessness of the maths contained therein.
Very much enjoyed visiting U.Portsmouth last week for a seminar on ChatGPT in assessments and degrees (see pinned publication) and a second seminar on the Hubble tension in cosmology.
Off to U.Lancaster today for another invited science talk.
Fingers crossed for no swans on the lines today!
Off to U.Lancaster today for another invited science talk.
Fingers crossed for no swans on the lines today!
March 31, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Very much enjoyed visiting U.Portsmouth last week for a seminar on ChatGPT in assessments and degrees (see pinned publication) and a second seminar on the Hubble tension in cosmology.
Off to U.Lancaster today for another invited science talk.
Fingers crossed for no swans on the lines today!
Off to U.Lancaster today for another invited science talk.
Fingers crossed for no swans on the lines today!
Still time left to apply to one of our 5 Teaching Fellow positions @daimhulluni.bsky.social @uniofhull.bsky.social - full time / 1 yr posts. jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Vacancy at the University of Hull: Teaching Fellow in Data Science and AI
Please note: This is a 1 year FTC for x5 posts at 1 FTE Sponsorship is consideredThe Role:Teaching Fellow – Data ScienceBackground:We are significantly investing and contributing to the AI world of to...
jobs.hull.ac.uk
March 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Still time left to apply to one of our 5 Teaching Fellow positions @daimhulluni.bsky.social @uniofhull.bsky.social - full time / 1 yr posts. jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
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Not long left to apply for one of our Teaching Fellow positions @uniofhull.bsky.social teaching #AI #DataScience #PythonProgramming teaching in our dedicated building on a beautiful campus in one of the most affordable cities in the UK
jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...!
jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...!
Job Vacancy at the University of Hull: Teaching Fellow in Data Science and AI
Please note: This is a 1 year FTC for x5 posts at 1 FTE Sponsorship is consideredThe Role:Teaching Fellow – Data ScienceBackground:We are significantly investing and contributing to the AI world of to...
jobs.hull.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Not long left to apply for one of our Teaching Fellow positions @uniofhull.bsky.social teaching #AI #DataScience #PythonProgramming teaching in our dedicated building on a beautiful campus in one of the most affordable cities in the UK
jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...!
jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...!
Sunny Equinox views from around campus @uniofhull.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Sunny Equinox views from around campus @uniofhull.bsky.social
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March 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Up-skill this May through our fast-track masters in AI and Data Science is now open for applications.
⭐ No. 1 recruiter in the UK for Data Science & AI students
💻 Access our state of the art facilities
🎓 Graduate at the forefront of data science
Apply: www.hull.ac.uk/study...
⭐ No. 1 recruiter in the UK for Data Science & AI students
💻 Access our state of the art facilities
🎓 Graduate at the forefront of data science
Apply: www.hull.ac.uk/study...
March 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Up-skill this May through our fast-track masters in AI and Data Science is now open for applications.
⭐ No. 1 recruiter in the UK for Data Science & AI students
💻 Access our state of the art facilities
🎓 Graduate at the forefront of data science
Apply: www.hull.ac.uk/study...
⭐ No. 1 recruiter in the UK for Data Science & AI students
💻 Access our state of the art facilities
🎓 Graduate at the forefront of data science
Apply: www.hull.ac.uk/study...
We are hiring @daimhulluni.bsky.social @uniofhull.bsky.social
We are looking to recruit 5x Teaching Fellows #DataScience, #ArtificialIntelligence, and Modelling (DAIM) at U.Hull for a 1 year fixed term contract, in-person, full time.
Please fwd! jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
We are looking to recruit 5x Teaching Fellows #DataScience, #ArtificialIntelligence, and Modelling (DAIM) at U.Hull for a 1 year fixed term contract, in-person, full time.
Please fwd! jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
March 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We are hiring @daimhulluni.bsky.social @uniofhull.bsky.social
We are looking to recruit 5x Teaching Fellows #DataScience, #ArtificialIntelligence, and Modelling (DAIM) at U.Hull for a 1 year fixed term contract, in-person, full time.
Please fwd! jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
We are looking to recruit 5x Teaching Fellows #DataScience, #ArtificialIntelligence, and Modelling (DAIM) at U.Hull for a 1 year fixed term contract, in-person, full time.
Please fwd! jobs.hull.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
A new journal from the IoP:
AI for Science.
iopscience.iop.org/journal/3050...
From 2025 to 2027, authors benefit from a full waiver of the article publication charges, so research can reach a global audience at no cost (and no: I'm not on the board!).
AI for Science.
iopscience.iop.org/journal/3050...
From 2025 to 2027, authors benefit from a full waiver of the article publication charges, so research can reach a global audience at no cost (and no: I'm not on the board!).
AI for Science - IOPscienceSearch
iopscience.iop.org
March 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
A new journal from the IoP:
AI for Science.
iopscience.iop.org/journal/3050...
From 2025 to 2027, authors benefit from a full waiver of the article publication charges, so research can reach a global audience at no cost (and no: I'm not on the board!).
AI for Science.
iopscience.iop.org/journal/3050...
From 2025 to 2027, authors benefit from a full waiver of the article publication charges, so research can reach a global audience at no cost (and no: I'm not on the board!).
Another #abstract #art
Binary acrylic pour using own recipe. Monodirectional controlled feathering. Fully dried. Palette knife & paintbrush edge highlighting in crimson red. Foreground black acrylic paint palette knife appliqué. Probably about 30hours to make.
Thoughts & name suggestions welcome!
Binary acrylic pour using own recipe. Monodirectional controlled feathering. Fully dried. Palette knife & paintbrush edge highlighting in crimson red. Foreground black acrylic paint palette knife appliqué. Probably about 30hours to make.
Thoughts & name suggestions welcome!
March 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Reposted by Kevin Pimbblet
Scrub a dub 🫧 ...except no scrubbing the delicate observatory optics!
We don't use cloths or lens cleaner to clean the giant camera lenses. Instead, our summit staff use a high-speed stream of carbon dioxide "snow" to push debris off of the glass surface.
🔭🧪
We don't use cloths or lens cleaner to clean the giant camera lenses. Instead, our summit staff use a high-speed stream of carbon dioxide "snow" to push debris off of the glass surface.
🔭🧪
March 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Scrub a dub 🫧 ...except no scrubbing the delicate observatory optics!
We don't use cloths or lens cleaner to clean the giant camera lenses. Instead, our summit staff use a high-speed stream of carbon dioxide "snow" to push debris off of the glass surface.
🔭🧪
We don't use cloths or lens cleaner to clean the giant camera lenses. Instead, our summit staff use a high-speed stream of carbon dioxide "snow" to push debris off of the glass surface.
🔭🧪
Reposted by Kevin Pimbblet
Oyinkansola, one of our PhD researchers & GTAs is giving a talk at PyCon Lithuania 2025 called "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Culturally Nuanced Emotion Analysis in Nigerian Afrobeats Lyrics" @uniofhull.bsky.social #ai #artificalintelligence #research #student
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Oyinkansola Onwuchekwa PyCon Lithuania 2025
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for PyCon Lithuania 2025
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March 6, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Oyinkansola, one of our PhD researchers & GTAs is giving a talk at PyCon Lithuania 2025 called "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Culturally Nuanced Emotion Analysis in Nigerian Afrobeats Lyrics" @uniofhull.bsky.social #ai #artificalintelligence #research #student
pretalx.com/pycon-lithua...
pretalx.com/pycon-lithua...
Reposted by Kevin Pimbblet
THREAD
The Wonderful World of Wikipedia (WWW)
If you are of a certain age, Wikipedia has been a constant in your life. It was not always so.
Here is a pre-history, a history and potential future of the world's great shared book that we all read and write. Also why is it called "Wikipedia"?
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The Wonderful World of Wikipedia (WWW)
If you are of a certain age, Wikipedia has been a constant in your life. It was not always so.
Here is a pre-history, a history and potential future of the world's great shared book that we all read and write. Also why is it called "Wikipedia"?
1/30
March 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
THREAD
The Wonderful World of Wikipedia (WWW)
If you are of a certain age, Wikipedia has been a constant in your life. It was not always so.
Here is a pre-history, a history and potential future of the world's great shared book that we all read and write. Also why is it called "Wikipedia"?
1/30
The Wonderful World of Wikipedia (WWW)
If you are of a certain age, Wikipedia has been a constant in your life. It was not always so.
Here is a pre-history, a history and potential future of the world's great shared book that we all read and write. Also why is it called "Wikipedia"?
1/30
I was contacted by people who were concerned this week about the reports of Asteroid YR4 probability of striking planet Earth increasing.
This is normal.
Let me explain with a dartboard.
Imagine planet Earth is sat on triple 20 as a blue circle.
This is normal.
Let me explain with a dartboard.
Imagine planet Earth is sat on triple 20 as a blue circle.
February 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I was contacted by people who were concerned this week about the reports of Asteroid YR4 probability of striking planet Earth increasing.
This is normal.
Let me explain with a dartboard.
Imagine planet Earth is sat on triple 20 as a blue circle.
This is normal.
Let me explain with a dartboard.
Imagine planet Earth is sat on triple 20 as a blue circle.