Stephen Curry
@scurry.bsky.social
Proud Ballymena Professor. Senior Strategic Advisor at RoRI; Emeritus Prof at Imperial. Former DORA Chair. Husband, father, carer. Also cares about science & equity. Personal a/c. Writes occasionally at http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/.
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Stephen Curry
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· Oct 31
22nd Probably didn’t help that I read Hammett’s “The Thin Man” in hour-long snatches last thing at night but this New York whodunnit never quite caught alight for me. Contains an impressive amount of drinking though. #BooksOf2025
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Jeffrey Epstein is coming to town.
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December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
He’s making a list
He’s checking it twice
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Jeffrey Epstein is coming to town.
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UCL’s @geoffmulgan.bsky.social kicks off tonight’s seminar on ‘Science in a populist age’ at @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with a stellar line-up inc @helenpearson.bsky.social @senseaboutsci.bsky.social @alokjha.bsky.social. We’ll post the video online soon. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/science-ad...
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
UCL’s @geoffmulgan.bsky.social kicks off tonight’s seminar on ‘Science in a populist age’ at @wellcometrust.bsky.social, with a stellar line-up inc @helenpearson.bsky.social @senseaboutsci.bsky.social @alokjha.bsky.social. We’ll post the video online soon. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/science-ad...
All this media attention on the OBR and what Rachel Reeves did or didn’t say is a total snoozefest. But I guess it must mean there are no other big public policy challenges for the U.K. right now. So that’s good…
December 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
All this media attention on the OBR and what Rachel Reeves did or didn’t say is a total snoozefest. But I guess it must mean there are no other big public policy challenges for the U.K. right now. So that’s good…
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He wasn't actually due to resign until an hour later
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
He wasn't actually due to resign until an hour later
Panto season started early this year.
🔴 Your Party’s Chaotic Conference Exposed a Movement at War With Itself
Heckling, expulsions and a power struggle between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana dominated the first major gathering of Britain’s newest socialist party
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/y...
Heckling, expulsions and a power struggle between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana dominated the first major gathering of Britain’s newest socialist party
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/01/y...
Your Party’s Chaotic Conference Exposed a Movement at War With Itself
Heckling, expulsions and a power struggle between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana dominated the first major gathering of Britain's newest socialist party, reports Josiah Mortimer
bylinetimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Panto season started early this year.
Good luck to Paul Nurse as he starts his 2nd term as President of the @royalsociety.org. I hope that, under his leadership, the Society can rediscover the core scientific values it lost sight of in failing to deal effectively with Elon Musk’s breaches of its code of conduct.
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Good luck to Paul Nurse as he starts his 2nd term as President of the @royalsociety.org. I hope that, under his leadership, the Society can rediscover the core scientific values it lost sight of in failing to deal effectively with Elon Musk’s breaches of its code of conduct.
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As someone who criticised the government back in January for not having a clear growth strategy it is good to see Torsten set out in plain language what the govt’s strategy is and how it hangs together. This is much better and clearer communication.
That is a lot of tweets. If you got this far you deserve a prize. Reasonable people will debate this growth strategy. But claiming there isn’t one is lazy nonsense. Higher growth matters because rising living standards are the goal, and higher investment is a key tool.
December 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
As someone who criticised the government back in January for not having a clear growth strategy it is good to see Torsten set out in plain language what the govt’s strategy is and how it hangs together. This is much better and clearer communication.
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Its almost as though he were "the most openly corrupt president in US history"
"Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims."
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Its almost as though he were "the most openly corrupt president in US history"
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Some photos taken on the night before the #MerseyMeetup in Liverpool with the Ricoh GRIIIx
November 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Some photos taken on the night before the #MerseyMeetup in Liverpool with the Ricoh GRIIIx
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not true
Few self-respecting scholars choose to become university administrators.
It is populated by swimmers in the shallow end of the intellectual pool, would-be and real fascists, and people of limited imagination.
It is populated by swimmers in the shallow end of the intellectual pool, would-be and real fascists, and people of limited imagination.
November 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
not true
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"It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing....It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong."
Tom Stoppard, on complexity theory, in Arcadia.
One of the world's best playwrights. RIP.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tom Stoppard, on complexity theory, in Arcadia.
One of the world's best playwrights. RIP.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Playwright Sir Tom Stoppard dies at 88
Sir Tom won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for the screenplay for Shakespeare In Love.
www.bbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 PM
"It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing....It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong."
Tom Stoppard, on complexity theory, in Arcadia.
One of the world's best playwrights. RIP.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tom Stoppard, on complexity theory, in Arcadia.
One of the world's best playwrights. RIP.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.
Huge respect to the papers for finding both an 88 year old worried about the tax bill on her 6 bedroom Kensington house and a 20 year old fretting about only being able to save £12k a year tax free.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
Top work all around. These are not easy case studies to find.
November 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Every case study like this should be balanced by one such as a 15-year-old with suicidal ideation unable to receive any help because CAMHS has been cut to virtual non-existence.
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“I was just following otters.”
November 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“I was just following otters.”
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Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
November 22, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Born on this day in 1819, George Eliot. Here's my favourite bit from the greatest English novel - Eliot's concluding paean to Middlemarch's heroine, Dorothea (who, among other things worked to improve the housing of the local agricultural labourers). Here's to all the Dorotheas, past and present.
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Great version of Sweet Jane with dazzling work by guitarist Steve Hunter youtu.be/LrMLt9bMd_I?...
Lou Reed - Sweet Jane (live)
YouTube video by XandetheXande
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November 28, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Great version of Sweet Jane with dazzling work by guitarist Steve Hunter youtu.be/LrMLt9bMd_I?...
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DON’T EAT THE POTATOES
November 28, 2025 at 3:13 PM
DON’T EAT THE POTATOES
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I know a lot of you will be giving books for Christmas. If you can afford to, do what Ariane’s doing and buy them from anywhere but Amazon, preferably an indie bookshop - if you don’t have a local one, use bookshop.org who support them
November 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I know a lot of you will be giving books for Christmas. If you can afford to, do what Ariane’s doing and buy them from anywhere but Amazon, preferably an indie bookshop - if you don’t have a local one, use bookshop.org who support them
The slow corruption of U.K. democracy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media ownership affect political decisions
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The slow corruption of U.K. democracy.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Liz Kendall talked about Haldane principle this week as she set out (broadly) how UKRI would spend 4-year, £38.6bn budget.
@chrisjparr.bsky.social looks at whether Haldane under threat from more interventionist govt - or whether it is misunderstood.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
@chrisjparr.bsky.social looks at whether Haldane under threat from more interventionist govt - or whether it is misunderstood.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
Is the Haldane principle under threat? - Research Professional News
Increasing political direction in the allocation of research funding is alarming some policy experts
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Liz Kendall talked about Haldane principle this week as she set out (broadly) how UKRI would spend 4-year, £38.6bn budget.
@chrisjparr.bsky.social looks at whether Haldane under threat from more interventionist govt - or whether it is misunderstood.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
@chrisjparr.bsky.social looks at whether Haldane under threat from more interventionist govt - or whether it is misunderstood.
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
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Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
November 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Love being reminded to do this every year. It's a win/win all round
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Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
November 27, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Nature Sci Rep publishes incoherent AI slop. eLife publishes a paper which the reviewers didn't agree with, making all the comments and responses public with thoughtful commentary. One of these journals got delisted by Web of Science for quality concerns from not doing peer review. Guess which one?
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Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
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Previous Prime Minister Boris Johnson was born in the United States. I'd love for her to tell me that's different and then try to explain why without being racist.
Excuse my language but …
I am so fucking tired of shit like this.
I am so fucking tired of shit like this.
November 26, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Previous Prime Minister Boris Johnson was born in the United States. I'd love for her to tell me that's different and then try to explain why without being racist.