Nick Wise

If only there were a way to make a poster without AI but alas

Another successful authorship sale. The authorship was sold before submission, so no changes to be picked up by the publisher.

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

Spreadsheets are at least 4,000 years old, btw www.datafix.com.au/BASHing/2020... #NationalSpreadsheetDay

A definite sign of ageing is that you cannot impress me with "over 20 years" anymore. Am I expected to think this sauce is ancient, because it's as old as Nelly Furtado's Maneater?

Post Modern interiors. Not many left. Free link. www.ft.com/content/431e... Gaudy, kitsch – and utterly glorious. Save our postmodern interiors

One of these things is not like the others

Every AI/HCI paper I review now just sounds like this.

@hockeyviz.com I found some beautiful data viz for you

@maxrushden.bsky.social and @phlaimeaux.bsky.social interviewing @chrislintott.bsky.social for What Did You Do Yesterday? is so good and genuine public service broadcasting. I'd love to hear a day in the life of other scientists, or other jobs! Any MPs brave enough to go on?

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

He may have written 200 papers but they're not getting through peer review. This doesn't look like someone who's become more productive. app.dimensions.ai/discover/pub...

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

Christening a baby is nothing like christening a ship. I know that now. Once again I can only apologise.

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

'You can't build infrastructure here because there isn't enough infrastructure' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

"I have received proof of my book chapter if anyone wants to add citations" shop.elsevier.com/books/federa...

There are 6 vicars behind the bar at Histon Beer Festival, feel like I've walked into a sketch

Thoughts and prayers to CFD folks today... Source: r/CFD

Good news from McCains

The Jason Arday saga made me furious and sad in equal measure so I wrote about it. The whole thing is deeply unpleasant. gidmk.substack.com/p/the-jason-...

I don't think this has been updated since 1999

The British planning culture creates horrors you couldn't imagine

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@cambridgeindy.bsky.social Do you know what's happening at the mosque? They've closed Mill Road from Coleridge to the end.

"A Cambridgeshire County Council spokesperson said: "Works to repair the sinkhole, are underway but while excavating, the team discovered a new, unknown source of water" That's handy what with the hose pipe ban, we should dig up more roads to find water. www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambrid...

"Anglian Water said it had switched off technology designed to filter out the nutrient, citing difficulties transporting the necessary chemicals." Is it difficult? Boohoo, try harder or let someone do it. share.google/pG66KTvPsJ3H...

we are one day away from the funniest VAR offsides graphic ever

Got the first train to Cambridge South

Vive la France

Forget aircon. The most important policy response to the heatwave is we need to bring back louder clothing. So many burlap sacks, so many drab, orphaned shirts.

Next time we should try and score before the 85th minute

Does anyone know if there's an equivalent of the London cool spaces map for Cambridge? apps.london.gov.uk/cool-spaces/ @philrodgers.co.uk @elliottonguk.bsky.social

Sash windows are great, but still only open them if it's warmer inside your house than outside. Otherwise you'll be warming your house, not cooling!

At least 3 Chinooks have now flown over me from Cambridge airport, what is going on.

We need to think deeper: why is this unacceptable for a 17 year old but acceptable for an 18 year old - or a 57 year old? Age controls are not the real problem.

👏Build 👏 the 👏 sewage 👏 works 👏 takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/build-stev...

Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins. forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...

'For 66 years Valerie Smith kept a bomb in her garden and invited her neighbours to play with it.' Come for the classic local news story, stay for a fine example of the full fat Norwich accent which has to be heard to be believed.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

@johanduchene.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social Spent the last hour looking, found ten more apparently manipulated Western blots in Thermo Fisher's antibody verification data (across eight different catalogued products). Thread below. www.thermofisher.com/antibody/pro...

Incredible things are happening in Canada