UK CS folks: this years Midlands Graduate School Christmas Seminars will be held on the afternoon of Tuesday 17th December at the University of Sheffield. Please share! tinyurl.com/mgs-xmas24

FP folks - 10 fully funded PhD studentships available in Nottingham! Please share, and pass on to excellent students who may be interested in joining the Functional Programming Lab. people.cs.nott.ac.uk/pszgmh/10-phds…

Haven't made beef bourguignon in ages, but the lost-in-time days between xmas and new year is a perfect chance to have another go. It took most of the day, but worked out really well. Many thanks to our local butcher Johnny Pusztai for the excellent beef!

FP fans - looking for some interesting new year reading? JFP has just published the latest batch of ten PhD abstracts for your reading pleasure, with links to the full dissertations. doi.org/10.1017/S09567…

New Computerphile video just dropped :-) youtu.be/OKc2hAmMOY4

Great Computerphile video on automatic differentiation by Mark Williams from the FP lab! youtu.be/QwFLA5TrviI?fe…

Registration is now open for the Midlands Graduate School (MGS) in the Foundations of Computing Science, 7-11 April 2025, Sheffield, UK. Eight fantastic courses on category theory, type theory, coalgebra, semantics and more. Please share! tinyurl.com/MGS-2025

The Shark is Broken with Ian Shaw was the best thing I've ever seen in the theatre - amazing cast and performances, and we were quite literally hooked from start to finish! TRCH

Just a few days left now to register for the Midlands Graduate School (MGS)! Eight fantastic courses on category theory, type theory, coalgebra, semantics and more. 7-11 April 2025, Sheffield, UK. Registration closes Monday 24th March. Please share! tinyurl.com/MGS-2025

Just finished teaching my introductory and advanced Haskell courses for this year! The full set of videos for each course are now freely available from tinyurl.com/intro-haskell and tinyurl.com/advanced-haske….

FP folks -- please encourage recently completed PhD students to publish their dissertation abstracts in the Journal of Functional Programming: simple process, no refereeing, open access, 200+ published to date, deadline 30th May 2025. Please share! tinyurl.com/jfp-phd-abstra…

All Association for Computing Machinery publications will be 100% Open Access as of January 2026. When we announced this at POPL and CHI this year, conference participants spontaneously erupted in applause. The CS community is excited about ACM's move to OA!

FP fans - 12 new PhD dissertation abstracts have just been published in the Journal of Functional Programming for your reading pleasure! tinyurl.com/2kj67ekn

Delighted that "The Calculated Typer" with Zac Garby and Patrick Bahr has been accepted for the Haskell Symposium in Singapore :-) people.cs.nott.ac.uk/pszgmh/typer.p…

Back from a fabulous couple of days at Morston Hall, and great to meet and be served by chef Galton Blackiston! Pics of a few standout dishes below - X only allows 4 otherwise I'd post more :-)