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It's #MEAwarenessMonth - learn about this common condition that can affect anyone www.omf.ngo/what-is-mecfs/ & actions you can take right now to help meactions.org

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I can read scientific papers extremely quickly, where by "read" I mean: identify trivial details that I find irrationally irritating

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

1. A landmark study has found major flaws in the Cass Review. Almost two dozen researchers have published their takedown of Cass in the BMC Medical Research Methodology journal. This review was cited over 100 times by the HHS report. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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We're more than five years into the pandemic, and most people still know nothing about myalgic encephalomyelitis

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

I send this snippet to every student I begin supervising: "All equations should be formatted as part of a sentence, including punctuation. For instance, you might write that f(x) = x^2. An alternative would be f(x) = w x, where w is a real number." I hope it's useful to others!

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Speaking as an immigrant, it would be nice if the most reliable political trick in the book was not simply persecuting immigrants

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Sun dog

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Who would have thought that switching the entire research community from a decentralised, distributed, network of git repos to a single point-of-failure commercial paper collaboration tool might lead to problems?

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

In retrospect, I should have asked more questions before voting for the Slightly-Fewer Leopards Eating People's Faces Party

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The UK has dropped massively in both ILGA and TGEU's rankings, which have been published today. This means a material decrease in rights. This isn't just shameful on the international stage - it means needless misery for so many LGBTQ+ people in this country. goodlawproject.org/uk-plummets-...

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

Poor Labour, who inherited such a bad economy from the previous government that they had no choice but to ban trans people from using bathrooms

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

too cynical?

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A chilling piece from @jessothomson.co.uk on what Labour's indifference or active hostility to the trans community in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision means for the Far Right's target of choice. goodlawproject.org/the-devastat...

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excluding trans athletes is both stupid and repugnant; in contrast, i would 💯% watch Short King Olympics

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Why is it "fair" to ban trans athletes because "they have an advantage" but "unfair" to ban athletes over six feet tall, who clearly have an advantage in e.g. basketball? Shouldn't the fairness to the banned athletes also matter? Why aren't more people bothered by these questions?

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I moved to the UK during "Britain's failed experiment in open borders". The company I co-founded has created >100 jobs, and my wife and I are raising two British kids. If the UK is becoming an "island of strangers", it's because the country is demonising and isolating immigrants like me

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What I find most jarring is this blithe confidence among British policymakers that the UK will always get the skilled migrant workers it needs, when in reality it is competing with Canada, Australia, Japan and the EU for a shrinking pool of global skilled workers looking for the best offer around.

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Three days into my new dairy-free diet, and I am increasingly sure that I am indeed lactose intolerant, as well as increasingly unable to hand over 6YO's tall, cold glass of full-fat milk without slightly trembling hands and slightly damp eyes

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I sometimes wonder about the doctors who dismissed my symptoms when I was really sick in 2020 (e.g. the doctor who said that my HR getting over 200 must have been a Garmin measurement error). I wonder if those doctors ended up getting Long Covid themselves

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Regardless of your gender, sex, sexuality (etc), you need to read Whipping Girl en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whippin...

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I've written a long opinion piece about the need to win over the complacent cis majority in the fight for trans rights. If you're a good ally, please don't take to the comments to moan about my criticisms of cis people. I'm not talking about you. Carve out 15 minutes. Put the kettle on and enjoy.

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

Finding it hard to stay motivated about a research field that has been so thoroughly captured by corporate interests that seem increasingly aligned with the worst political forces

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I know that there are bigger tragedies in the world right now, but I've always drunk around a litre of milk per day, eaten butter-slathered porridge every morning, and gorged myself on cheese at night—and I have just discovered I might now be lactose intolerant

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

It took decades for us to reach a place where people were comfortable talking about their autism. Where diagnosis became achievable because awareness & advocacy efforts were successful This move will undo all of that. People will fear being diagnosed & mask themselves more The cruelty is the point

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"Magnolia" by The Wooden Birds is such a classy album, perfectly extending the propulsive intimacy of Kenny's work with the American Analog Set to the dreamy evenings of the American South thewoodenbirds.bandcamp.com/album/magnolia

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I feel profound shame at turning the heating back on in mid May

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I understand people who use LinkedIn, I do not understand people who seem to enjoy it

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Go on, apply for this two-year post-doc in Oxford working (with e.g. me and Robert Trager) on Causal Systems Modeling for AI Governance! Please share this ad with anyone who might interested!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

“It is incredibly important that everybody be reminded that trans people have always been with us and always will be with us, and the only real thing that’s up for debate is whether we treat trans people with respect or we don’t.” www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/08/t...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I love AI, I work on it, I use it all day, but it still doesn't save me anywhere near as much time as our dishwasher. Helpfully, the dishwasher doesn't need three prompts and a PhD to understand what 'clean' means.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments