Eugene Lim
@tukohbin.bsky.social
Professor of Theoretical Physics at King’s College London doing cosmology, gravity, astrophysics and string theory. GRTL Collaboration and UK Numerical Relativity. Views my own. Penang-lang.
https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/eugene.lim
https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/eugene.lim
My wife @sophiesampson.bsky.social is launching a thing about clothes ! Check it out !
If you too are fed up with how hard it is to buy decent quality clothes, I'm attacking the problem with research. New subscription series that a) helps you define what good looks like for you and b) connects you to suppliers www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...
How to buy the best wool sweater for you | Wardrobe Strategy
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November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
My wife @sophiesampson.bsky.social is launching a thing about clothes ! Check it out !
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If you too are fed up with how hard it is to buy decent quality clothes, I'm attacking the problem with research. New subscription series that a) helps you define what good looks like for you and b) connects you to suppliers www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...
How to buy the best wool sweater for you | Wardrobe Strategy
Get more from Wardrobe Strategy on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If you too are fed up with how hard it is to buy decent quality clothes, I'm attacking the problem with research. New subscription series that a) helps you define what good looks like for you and b) connects you to suppliers www.patreon.com/posts/how-to...
Serious question about those who think Bridget Phillipson is a serious candidate for PM: letting the treasury gut your best export doesn’t seem to a good look for your ability to advocate your positions ?
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Serious question about those who think Bridget Phillipson is a serious candidate for PM: letting the treasury gut your best export doesn’t seem to a good look for your ability to advocate your positions ?
Extra challenge : do this while writing grant proposals 😬
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 23, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Extra challenge : do this while writing grant proposals 😬
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This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
Why do people think England flags have been raised on lampposts?
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
White adults
National pride: 26%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 49%
Both: 19%
Ethnic minority adults
National pride: 15%
Anti-migrant/minority sentiment: 55%
Both: 20%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is pretty striking and makes me wonder exactly what Labour have been up to in making policy seemingly in response to / fear of the former rather than the middle group.
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This week on Wonkhe: Despite robust regulations on paper, students feel powerless to act when universities fall short. Jim Dickinson unpacks research that lays bare a culture of learned helplessness across higher education
Students don't think anything will change. They're probably right
Despite robust regulations on paper, students feel powerless to act when universities fall short. Jim Dickinson unpacks research that lays bare a culture of learned helplessness across higher education
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November 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This week on Wonkhe: Despite robust regulations on paper, students feel powerless to act when universities fall short. Jim Dickinson unpacks research that lays bare a culture of learned helplessness across higher education
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FT investigation:
Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.
If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.
If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 PM
FT investigation:
Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.
If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Tuna-fishing has among the worst working conditions of any fishing.
If you buy tuna from a UK supermarket, you may be buying the product of modern slavery. ig.ft.com/supermarket-...
Never get tired of living in one of the best cities in the world
November 21, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Never get tired of living in one of the best cities in the world
Academics! I have experienced a huge drop in student questions both online (I keep a discussion forum) and offline for my class. Attendance is good (maybe even great I’d say). Am I an anomaly? My suspicion is that student are asking LLM questions. Thoughts ?
November 21, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Academics! I have experienced a huge drop in student questions both online (I keep a discussion forum) and offline for my class. Attendance is good (maybe even great I’d say). Am I an anomaly? My suspicion is that student are asking LLM questions. Thoughts ?
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Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
Webb First to Show 4 Dust Shells 'Spiraling' Apep, Limits Long Orbit - NASA Science
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a first of its kind: a crisp mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust, one expanding
science.nasa.gov
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Very excited to share the NASA/ESA/STScI press release of our team's work on Apep! It's a terrific writeup, complete with a brand new beautiful visualisation of the nebula geometry.
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
1/? ⚛️🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/missions/web...
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Why should people who “look like” the home secretary be on the hook for immigration policy?
This is great by @stephenkb.bsky.social:
This is great by @stephenkb.bsky.social:
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Why should people who “look like” the home secretary be on the hook for immigration policy?
This is great by @stephenkb.bsky.social:
This is great by @stephenkb.bsky.social:
I know everyone is happy for Scotland and rightly so. But Haiti’s road to the World Cup is nothing short of incredible. So happy for them.
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Haiti reach 2026 World Cup despite coach having never been to the country
Haiti coach Sebastien Migne guides the country to their second World Cup, despite having never been able to visit the country.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I know everyone is happy for Scotland and rightly so. But Haiti’s road to the World Cup is nothing short of incredible. So happy for them.
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
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We all know we’ve entered the “they’re banning Christmas” season now poppy rage is over on social media.
But I didn’t expect actual newspapers would take the confected outrage by anonymous far-Right Twitter accounts and turn them into “news” stories!
But here we are in 2025🤷🏼♀️
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But I didn’t expect actual newspapers would take the confected outrage by anonymous far-Right Twitter accounts and turn them into “news” stories!
But here we are in 2025🤷🏼♀️
21/
November 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We all know we’ve entered the “they’re banning Christmas” season now poppy rage is over on social media.
But I didn’t expect actual newspapers would take the confected outrage by anonymous far-Right Twitter accounts and turn them into “news” stories!
But here we are in 2025🤷🏼♀️
21/
But I didn’t expect actual newspapers would take the confected outrage by anonymous far-Right Twitter accounts and turn them into “news” stories!
But here we are in 2025🤷🏼♀️
21/
I am sure this will go down well with voters with children.
BBC News: "the government believe refugees are deliberately bringing their children to avoid deportation"
As opposed to doing what with their children??
As opposed to doing what with their children??
November 18, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I am sure this will go down well with voters with children.
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"the people attracted to [Labour's] rhetoric and their policies on control notice that the UK continues to welcome some immigrants, while those who want a more welcoming position are turned off by the party’s new policies" on.ft.com/3WYQIY7
Best article on this I've read by @stephenkb.bsky.social
Best article on this I've read by @stephenkb.bsky.social
Labour needs a way out of the infernal circle of immigration policy
Politics today is about ‘open vs closed’, but the UK government’s approach risks appeasing no one
on.ft.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
"the people attracted to [Labour's] rhetoric and their policies on control notice that the UK continues to welcome some immigrants, while those who want a more welcoming position are turned off by the party’s new policies" on.ft.com/3WYQIY7
Best article on this I've read by @stephenkb.bsky.social
Best article on this I've read by @stephenkb.bsky.social
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Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2
Tories in 2023-24 : let's have a performatively cruel policy which the public knew would never be implemented, maybe they would then vote for us!
Labour in 2025 : Hmmm, that's a good idea!
Labour in 2025 : Hmmm, that's a good idea!
November 17, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Tories in 2023-24 : let's have a performatively cruel policy which the public knew would never be implemented, maybe they would then vote for us!
Labour in 2025 : Hmmm, that's a good idea!
Labour in 2025 : Hmmm, that's a good idea!
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A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
A strong immigration system doesn't need to be a cruel one.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
It shouldn't need saying - but refugees & asylum seekers are real people, fleeing war and persecution.
This daughter of an immigrant is proud of our British and Labour values of respect and not turning our backs on people in real need.
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"As another row on immigration and refugees awaits parliament, it is clear the problem is not immigrants, but politicians themselves."
Great piece, great closing line from @stellacreasy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Great piece, great closing line from @stellacreasy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
ICE-style raids on Britain's streets: that's all Labour's brutal asylum reforms will achieve | Stella Creasy
If we want to ‘stop the boats’, we need to stop the BS when it comes to what creates refugees, and how to respond to them, says Labour MP Stella Creasy
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"As another row on immigration and refugees awaits parliament, it is clear the problem is not immigrants, but politicians themselves."
Great piece, great closing line from @stellacreasy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Great piece, great closing line from @stellacreasy.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Giving a talk to 1st years students tomorrow about the consequences of LLM and Gen AI use in education…
November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Giving a talk to 1st years students tomorrow about the consequences of LLM and Gen AI use in education…
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Asylum seekers with the right to work account for less than 8pc of those in accommodation, unless I’ve misunderstood something (8,500 currently have work visas, according to the Home Office)
The government plans to remove technical statutory basis for asylum seeker support.
Govt says it want asylum seekers to work if they are allowed to. Their policy is asylum seekers can't work (but some can after 12 months).
Govt don't plan to let asylum seekers work once case is 6 months old
Govt says it want asylum seekers to work if they are allowed to. Their policy is asylum seekers can't work (but some can after 12 months).
Govt don't plan to let asylum seekers work once case is 6 months old
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Asylum seekers with the right to work account for less than 8pc of those in accommodation, unless I’ve misunderstood something (8,500 currently have work visas, according to the Home Office)
Morally bankrupt *and* electorally stupid.
Shabana Mahmood has vowed to end Britain’s “golden ticket” for asylum seekers by forcing people arriving illegally to wait 20 years before they can apply for permanent settlement
Shabana Mahmood: ‘Illegal migration is tearing Britain apart’
The home secretary is planning to introduce a 20-year wait for permanent stay to end a ‘golden ticket’ for asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Morally bankrupt *and* electorally stupid.
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A Labour Party which takes middle class professionals’ money, comes after their job perks, and rejects their values, then asks “why are these people turning against us?”
November 15, 2025 at 12:56 PM
A Labour Party which takes middle class professionals’ money, comes after their job perks, and rejects their values, then asks “why are these people turning against us?”
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This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour
"The era of permanent protection is over"
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Is this Labour government really saying it was wrong in principle to let these refugees of the last 75 years to stay, settle and become British - and they believe that should NEVER happen again in principle or practice?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiuR...
Refugees from 7 decades gather to commemorate 70 years of refugee in protection in the UK
YouTube video by Refugee Council
www.youtube.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:49 PM
This statement not acceptable and I suspect not sustainable. Large majority of public support principle of asylum, support letting people stay permanently. Majority for that among Labour and other progressive parties’ voters is overwhelming. The Reform voters this is aimed at will never vote Labour