TfL's annual Travel in London report has been published: 🚴‍♂️Cycling up 40% on pre-pandemic levels, including 20/25% during week and 90% at weekends. 🚲Record "Boris bike"/Santander hires: 10.9m so far this year, including 86,000 hires of the new e-bikes.

Triggering Isolating podcast memories David O'Doherty anchorandhops

“The failure of all sides to secure the UK’s association to the EU’s research programmes has now cost UK science £1.6 Billion." Sir Adrian Smith PRS responds to the announcement that BEIS is returning unused #HorizonEurope funding to the Treasury: royalsociety.org/news/2023/02/b…

It me.

Blimey. Buried in the Mark Harper statement on HS2 is an announcement that of £710m promised on active travel in 2021, only £100m more will be spent. £230m is spent so far. That's a *£380m cut* - more than halving the spend on walking & cycling amid climate and health crises.

3⃣ Public sector pay awards have been lagging behind the cost-of-living for years. Civil servants have done particularly badly. This year the Government capped offers at 2 to 3%.

I think we can call it shut on 'Open' AI: the 98 page paper introducing GPT-4 proudly declares that they're disclosing *nothing* about the contents of their training set.

On strike with fellow Prospect Union members at Daresbury Laboratory today. ✊ You can't be a "Science Superpower" without Scientists

Bookings open! 🎉 Daresbury Open Day is back, with Science and Technology Facilities Council and Sci-Tech Daresbury opening their doors for a free day of fun for all ages. 👴🏻👩🏼‍🦰👨🏽👩🏾‍🦱👶🏿 Tickets are going fast so book early. 🎟 🗓 Sat 15 July 📍 Daresbury Laboratory Info & bookings: orlo.uk/N11RZ

Are you tuning in this morning to the #BridgeAI launch? Innovate UK is investing £100m to support the adoption & diffusion of #ArtificialIntelligence and #MachineLearning technologies in the UK economy. Be a part of it - There's still time to register 👉 ow.ly/mjFq50NRczH

🤖 Tune in live to the #BridgeAI Launch event! Join us virtually to learn about the innovative new #AI programme to boost adoption in key high-growth sectors and gain insights from industry experts and strategic partners. Watch live now: bit.ly/3AujYut Innovate UK

Bravo Phil Wiseman and the team! Love to see it.

I've got mine! Hartree Centre

On advancing AI technology, Gabriela Ramos: "Left alone, we will have a less equal world, a less fair world". We have a responsibility as experts and practitioners

Did you catch our Director Kate Royse talking about the future of AI on Radio 5 Live today? Listen now to the Adrian Chiles show at 01:19:40: orlo.uk/8rtv1 #AISafetySummit #AI #ResponsibleAI BBC Radio 5 Live Science and Technology Facilities Council

The Comms team Hartree Centre have done a great job distilling these down!

I don't get to vote in this election, but I do have to live with whoever you elect. No pressure. #GeneralElection24