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Michael Larkin
@ipanalysis.bsky.social
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Researcher, phenomenologist, parent to various creatures, some sort of musician, baker, reader, breaker of stuff, liker of seas and hills, sufferer of Boro.

https://collaborativeresearch.co.uk/

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ipanalysis.bsky.social
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 5h
Allow it. Let it work

ipanalysis.bsky.social
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 5h
Or they lose interest in hair as hair loses interest in them?

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Michael Shackleton @michaelshackleton.bsky.social · 8h
Reading a book called Stasiland at the minute by Anna Funder. A huge recommend and a really good example of how we can learn lessons from history. Can’t think why it feels quite relevant now…

ipanalysis.bsky.social
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 8h
I got one!

ipanalysis.bsky.social
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 8h
Yeah, the author does not, which is ... fine. 'Carry doing your thing, it's not about you'!

ipanalysis.bsky.social
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 8h
This response to a claim about the incompatibility of AI and 'Big Q' seems to be built on a lot of examples of 'small q' work. It fundamentally misunderstands or misrepresents where the initial letter was coming from, and who is choosing to reject AI.

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Thomas Gladwin @tegladwin.bsky.social · 8h
Interesting and IMO reasonable response to the Big-Qual anti-AI letter, although I feel like the central issue is whether you actually agree with hardcore big-Q in the first place...

www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/qual...
Qualitative researchers’ AI rejection is based on identity, not reason
The claim that AI can’t make meaning contradicts what researchers are finding when they put these tools to careful, critical use, says James Goh
www.timeshighereducation.com

ipanalysis.bsky.social
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 1d
Amazing

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d
Really - how did we end up with a system that's failing students, graduates, universities AND the Treasury? Mathematically, how is that possible?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d
The single biggest thing (in cost terms) I’ve changed my mind about is UK tuition fees. Dreadful system, need to scrap it.
jdriver89.bsky.social Jeremy Driver @jdriver89.bsky.social · 1d
This is clearly depressing and radicalising in a way a tax wouldn't have been.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d
Holy hell, what an obituary
Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program
www.nytimes.com

ipanalysis.bsky.social
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 1d
Mine too

ipanalysis.bsky.social
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 1d
That record is a belter

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Hearing Voices at Mind in Camden @hearingvoicesmic.bsky.social · 2d
EVENT: Spotlight on Experiences of Holding Psychosis
Soteria London, Sat 17 Jan 3-7pm Elizabeth House N5 1ED

Hear about new research by Safely Held Spaces into the experiences of people supporting family members through psychosis, followed by a meal.
soterialondon.co.uk
www.safelyheldspaces.org
Home | Safely Held Spaces
Safely Held Spaces, based in the UK, aims to help people going through mental and emotional distress find a safe place where they can receive compassionate support
www.safelyheldspaces.org

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Jason Sinclair @jsinclair.bsky.social · 2d
People who are interested in trains are ambivalent about maps, I'm sure it'll be fine.

ipanalysis.bsky.social
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 2d
Really interesting event coming up in March birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com/2025/12/netw...
Network Seminar: "Hearing voices, suicidality, and AI-psychosis", 20th March, Birmingham and Online
Location In person: Assembly Room, The Exchange, 3 Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2DR. Online: Teams meeting. Date and time 20th March 202...
birminghamphenomenalnetwork.blogspot.com

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Dr Matt Lodder @mattlodder.com · 2d
Incredible article which points out that it often collectively costs more to apply for scarce research funding than the funds awarded to the successful proposals.

What an absurd system we've built in the service of efficiency and competition.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ipanalysis.bsky.social
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 2d
Flash company .. youtu.be/Y-QTg3CWp9c?...
Flash Company
YouTube video by Waterson:Carthy - Topic
youtu.be

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Aquarium Drunkard @aquariumdrunkard.com · 2d
Wussy :: Funeral Dress

aquariumdrunkard.com/2026/01/13/w...

Released twenty years ago, Cincinnati band Wussy’s gritty and homespun debut Funeral Dress established the beginning of a remarkably consistent discography.
Wussy :: Funeral Dress - Aquarium Drunkard
Released twenty years ago, Cincinnati band Wussy's gritty and homespun debut Funeral Dress established the beginning of a remarkably consistent discography. With a distinctively midwestern blue collar...
aquariumdrunkard.com

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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 3d
This short piece is very good.
I Can’t Stop Thinking About the Last Thing the ICE Agent Said to Renee Good
He said it after he killed her.
slate.com

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pogue.omg.lol
𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚎𝚝 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚐 𓆏𓋼𖤣𖥧𓋼𓍊 @pogue.omg.lol · 3d
Good news. It sounds like the majority of those studies showing we were full of microplastics in all our organs were probably bullshit.
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com

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Philip Sherburne @philipsherburne.bsky.social · 3d
I interviewed guitarist @shaneparish.bsky.social about his incredible new album of Autechre covers for @billorcutt.bsky.social's label futurismrestated.substack.com/p/fr-150-gui...
FR 150: Shane Parish on Autechre Guitar, His Improbable and Virtuosic Covers Album
An epic interview with the fingerstyle guitarist about translating silicon circuits to steel strings.
futurismrestated.substack.com

ipanalysis.bsky.social
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 3d
Strawberry cheesecake (vegan)

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 3d
Me in 2025: Don't use AI note takers in meetings because they can lead to unchecked errors and unfair and discriminatory outcomes
Me in 2026: Don't use Grok in military planning unless you want to accidentally start a war

Not a fan of this rate of change

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 3d
I'm working on a foresight review on the use of AI in safety-critical, cyber physical systems, and very sensible engineers keep saying to me, "Well I can't see untested and unsafe AI being deployed in safety critical systems!"

Got news for you buddy abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...
Pentagon is embracing Musk's Grok AI chatbot as it draws global outcry
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s AI engine inside the Pentagon network
abcnews.go.com

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James Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 3d
Here's the other side of the story you won't read in today's headlines about the cost of meeting net zero targets. The reality is the IEA report is deeply flawed and based on some pretty blatant cherry-picking of clean tech costs. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524063...
'Cherry picking data': Government and analysts hit back at latest Tufton Street attacks on net zero
Right wing think tank accuses Climate Change Committee of overly optimistic clean tech cost estimates, but supporters of climate action counter that latest criticisms fail to recognise risks associate...
www.businessgreen.com

ipanalysis.bsky.social
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 3d
Not so small a moment maybe, but the bit in The Holdovers after they leave the cinema ...
jmritchey.bsky.social Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 3d
This is a favorite question to ask. Favorite little moment of kindness in a movie? I'm thinking of Tim Blake Nelson leaving money on the sill after they steal a pie in O Brother.

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Ian @brocktoon.bsky.social · 3d
Something primordial moving, productive of nothing but death and ruin. Gods whispering in our ears telling us to do awful, unspeakable things.
We are, perhaps only aspirationally but still meaningfully, little Agamemnons underneath the thin cloth of civilization we all wear. Recognizable but not. Primeval. Destructive without direction for any number of reasons, because someone didn’t hug us when we needed it, didn’t fuck us when we asked, didn’t give us that raise, didn’t flinch when we charged them. Took Briseis from us. It’s every old story come alive, vibrating with the awful possibility that we are nothing more than what we’ve been. Unheimlich.

ipanalysis.bsky.social
Michael Larkin @ipanalysis.bsky.social · 3d
Thank you 🙏

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 3d
This is a favorite question to ask. Favorite little moment of kindness in a movie? I'm thinking of Tim Blake Nelson leaving money on the sill after they steal a pie in O Brother.