Me and Jan Carr are prepping the campervan to start the journey up to Edinburgh today. First stop Ribblehead, where we’ll take a train across the viaduct (and back) and watch the end of Sightseers (but not enact it).

I expect to see these along the Royal Mile at #edfringe.

Kate Bush day today in Folkestone

There’s so much #AI at #edfringe this year - the robots really are starting to take over! I had the privilege of working with Ted Hill to help him create an AI comedian’s assistant to do crowdwork for his show. See more about it in The Scotsman! scotsman.com/arts-and-cultu…

The skies over Strangford Lough

Being a tech billionaire apparently doesn’t mean your staff will stop you saying things that make you look stupid.

Tear gas as a scented candle - could be very useful for Gen Z riot police.

I love Telephone Line by ELO, 5.7.0.5 by City Boy, Wichita Lineman by Glen Campbell and even Telephone Man by Meri Wilson. Where are the equivalents for the digital comms of the Internet age?

Sounds like somewhere Dr Su White and Hugh Davis 🇪🇺🚲 will have visited.

#relatable #AcademicTwitter

Thoughts on the long-term impact of AI-assisted programming: -- reduction of the start up costs/friction of development, particularly for novices -- the rise of disposable software -- the rise of personally-useful albeit economically- uninteresting software Is there value?

You need some hAIrry potter!

What do library colleagues think of this? Should map ISBNs change for a new edition? Or are they a special case? "Our maps are regularly updated even if the ISBN does not change." Michelin Editions des Voyages

Klimt Eastwood.

This is what made science Twitter magic. So many different academicians from disparate fields interacting and sharing in the same space. At its peak, science Twitter was phenomenal. Then Musk came along… and I’ll never forgive him for the damage he did to our community.