Two ex-ICGer reunions in two countries in the same week! #frattonmylife

There’s no fucking way

When I lived in Portsmouth I used to get my hair cut here from time to time. Back then, everything was £9. I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and guess that wages haven't risen by the same amount since...

Man City winning the league four times in a row is a serious achievement to be fair, its up there with Lance Armstrong winning seven tours on the bounce

That's the plan.

Beyond the Main Lens 2024 workshop kicking off in Montpellier with talks from Raphael Gavazzi, Tom Collett and James Nightingale!

Hot off the presses today is this fantastic lensing paper led by Théo Duboscq: arxiv.org/abs/2405.12091. Théo derived a minimal model for flexion in strong lens images, estimated the variance of a cosmic flexion signal and showed that its inclusion is vital in shear analyses!

This was from Election Day in 2019 and seems to be getting some traction today. The sentiment remains. #toriesout

WATCH: 🗳️🔴 Keir Starmer confirms to me Labour will extend voting rights to 16-17 year olds if elected "If you can work, if you can pay tax, if you can serve in your armed forces, then you ought to be able to vote."

Regardless of the outcome of the a General Election, Gary Imlach’s opening link on stage 7 of the Tour de France on July 5th will be appointment to view television. 📺

Going to do a post doc in a different field

We had a blast performing Haydn's Creation with the London Philharmonic Choir back in March and can think of no better way to round off a sunny Saturday than with a snippet from the glorious 'Awake the harp' chorus 🌞 Head over to Marquee TV to watch the whole performance!

The Greens now have as many seats as Reform. Will they get anywhere near as much press coverage?

Taking a moment to enjoy the fact that the new PM was an exhibitioner at Junior Guildhall, who played loads of instruments growing up, who says his favourite music is Beethoven sonatas.

When you check the status of your slurm jobs that have been queued for a week

THEY HAVE NOW

the funny thing about the English countryside is that it’s full of anti-fascist monuments

Marie Curie did not have to fit 9 deliverabkes, 17 milestones and 44 tasks in a 24 months gantt chart as we, who got the grant in her name, have to do

Does astrology work? We tested the ability of 152 astrologers to see if they could demonstrate genuine astrological skill. Here is how the study was designed and what we found (including a result that really surprised me): 🧵