Jo Kershaw
@jokershaw.bsky.social
EPSRC funded PhD student at the University of Leeds | Graduate of the Open University in Maths and Physics | #ActuallyAutistic | She/Her |
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Jo Kershaw
@jokershaw.bsky.social
· Nov 22
I have self-verified my Bluesky account by continually inserting typos into my posts.
(No way I’m giving up my @ alixabeth, which originated with, you guessed it, a typo.)
(No way I’m giving up my @ alixabeth, which originated with, you guessed it, a typo.)
I have self-verified my Bluesky account by writing a lot of meandering posts that no impersonator would have the stamina to emulate.
Self-verifying my bluesky account by posting brief awkwardly-worded, over-edited comments on other people's wit after everyone else has moved on.
It's really me folks
It's really me folks
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all these emails between academics and Epstein are more testimony of what women in academia have to contend with 😡
February 3, 2026 at 10:05 PM
all these emails between academics and Epstein are more testimony of what women in academia have to contend with 😡
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"We need politicians who will tell it straight..."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
February 1, 2026 at 10:18 AM
"We need politicians who will tell it straight..."
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
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BREAKING: UKRI shelves physics infrastructure projects worth £280m
Major international collaborations with Cern and US Department of Energy in jeopardy, as agency pulls back funds
Scoop by @francesjones.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Major international collaborations with Cern and US Department of Energy in jeopardy, as agency pulls back funds
Scoop by @francesjones.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
UKRI shelves physics infrastructure projects worth £280m - Research Professional News
Exclusive: Major international collaborations with Cern and US Department of Energy in jeopardy
www.researchprofessionalnews.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:57 PM
BREAKING: UKRI shelves physics infrastructure projects worth £280m
Major international collaborations with Cern and US Department of Energy in jeopardy, as agency pulls back funds
Scoop by @francesjones.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
Major international collaborations with Cern and US Department of Energy in jeopardy, as agency pulls back funds
Scoop by @francesjones.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
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Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.
January 12, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.
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Thank you, @pauloffit.bsky.social , for this well-warranted righteous indignation. open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...
RFK Jr.’s Tuskegee Experiment
RFK Jr. recently directed the CDC to fund a study in West Africa that lays bare his cruelty and dishonesty
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Thank you, @pauloffit.bsky.social , for this well-warranted righteous indignation. open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...
Sucks to be me
January 4, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Sucks to be me
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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December 25, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The pearl clutching over this is hilarious, like, ah yes, in the year 2025 there is absolutely no way that anyone could watch both of these say one after the other? If they really wanted to?
The Guardian accused me of hubris because I dared post at 3pm.
The Calais Appeal donations are shooting up.
Maybe the King might like to donate too? Or maybe the Government could actually implement a fair & managed migration system?
A Christmas miracle!
The Calais Appeal donations are shooting up.
Maybe the King might like to donate too? Or maybe the Government could actually implement a fair & managed migration system?
A Christmas miracle!
December 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
The pearl clutching over this is hilarious, like, ah yes, in the year 2025 there is absolutely no way that anyone could watch both of these say one after the other? If they really wanted to?
Kinda still feel this
I feel like I should get an extra PhD for writing this thesis whilst the world is burning down.
#phd 🔭🧪
#phd 🔭🧪
December 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Kinda still feel this
Waiting for Quanta Claus 🧑🎄
Santa Mechanics described by a wavefunction
α | Santa> + β | not Santa >
with a very low expectation value for
| Santa > provides a good explanation
But a successful observation would have catastrophic consequences!
10/12
α | Santa> + β | not Santa >
with a very low expectation value for
| Santa > provides a good explanation
But a successful observation would have catastrophic consequences!
10/12
December 24, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Waiting for Quanta Claus 🧑🎄
I am Caveat Frog
December 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I am Caveat Frog
Perhaps I shouldn't bother with writing papers. I'll just give ChatGPT my titles and journals wish-list
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Perhaps I shouldn't bother with writing papers. I'll just give ChatGPT my titles and journals wish-list
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those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 AM
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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here’s a free version:
neat_research_panel <- data.frame(
id = 1:100,
treatment = sample(c(TRUE, FALSE), 100, replace = TRUE),
outcome = rnorm(100, mean = 50, sd = 5)
)
neat_research_panel <- data.frame(
id = 1:100,
treatment = sample(c(TRUE, FALSE), 100, replace = TRUE),
outcome = rnorm(100, mean = 50, sd = 5)
)
Did you know that from tomorrow, Qualtrics is offering synthetic panels (AI-generated participants)?
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
Follow me down a rabbit hole I'm calling "doing science is tough and I'm so busy, can't we just make up participants?"
December 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
here’s a free version:
neat_research_panel <- data.frame(
id = 1:100,
treatment = sample(c(TRUE, FALSE), 100, replace = TRUE),
outcome = rnorm(100, mean = 50, sd = 5)
)
neat_research_panel <- data.frame(
id = 1:100,
treatment = sample(c(TRUE, FALSE), 100, replace = TRUE),
outcome = rnorm(100, mean = 50, sd = 5)
)
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This is one tough read.
NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya.
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved.
@annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
www.propublica.org/article/keny...
December 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is one tough read.
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In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
December 6, 2025 at 10:55 AM
In yet more devastating news, the VC has confirmed her plans to cut 80% of academic staff from Essex Pathways, our foundation year department. This would effectively close down all our existing foundation year programmes through the back door.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
But it's not a done deal yet. Please share urgently.
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How amazing is that... it's taken two days to raise 200,000
Thank you to everyone that has donated and anyone who would like to please do so here
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Thank you to everyone that has donated and anyone who would like to please do so here
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Hope is here: help us deliver it
Hope is here. In just 5 hours, we hit our £100,000 target. We're upping our target. Let's take the fight to Reform in May.
www.crowdfunder.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
How amazing is that... it's taken two days to raise 200,000
Thank you to everyone that has donated and anyone who would like to please do so here
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
Thank you to everyone that has donated and anyone who would like to please do so here
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere
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Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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I hadn't had a good laugh like that in ages. Big thanks to the economists at the federal reserve.
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I hadn't had a good laugh like that in ages. Big thanks to the economists at the federal reserve.
Why hasn't Gavin Newsom posted a video of himself taking this test? Why hasn't every Democrat in Congress?
Love to show how smart I am by bragging about my score on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment.
October 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Why hasn't Gavin Newsom posted a video of himself taking this test? Why hasn't every Democrat in Congress?
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We need to reclaim what the wealthy have stolen from us!
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 AM
We need to reclaim what the wealthy have stolen from us!
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But we have a country to save from the far right, public services to rebuild and a planet to save. We need more help:
join.greenparty.org.uk
But we have a country to save from the far right, public services to rebuild and a planet to save. We need more help:
join.greenparty.org.uk
Join the Green Party
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October 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The Green Party is now the third largest party in the UK with 124 thousand members, more members than the Liberal Democrats or the Conservatives.
But we have a country to save from the far right, public services to rebuild and a planet to save. We need more help:
join.greenparty.org.uk
But we have a country to save from the far right, public services to rebuild and a planet to save. We need more help:
join.greenparty.org.uk