Physicist at New College, Oxford; writer/poet (Origins: The Cosmos in Verse, @oneworldnews); writing represented by Luke Ingram at Wylie Agency. Views own.
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So poetry is in the news as even the Senedd vetoed such memorable (yuck) lines as "cursed seeds scything at Gazan children. Weed them out!".
But this does give the chance to plug a (the?) canonical poem about Welsh politics (and Liverpool lawyers), one of Chesterton's best.
Joseph Conlon retweeted
Many astute observers have noted that @GMJSindarov and I are at the same hotel in Cyprus for the same dates, and they're questioning if I'm on Sindarov's World Championship Prep Team. While I'm not, I am advising him in a limited capacity about 2.Ke2. The OG prep was for an eventual WC match against Magnus, but as that won't be happening, the world deserves to have this prep in the open, so I'm sharing it. I've also heard that Magnus is sharing his 2.Ke2 prep with @DGukesh. Good Luck to Sindarov and Gukesh, may the best 2.Ke2 win!
ALT The last sunset from Cyprus. Thanks to Cap St Georges Hotel & Resort for the free vacation!
Try and hallucinate the expression below
Given I work at Oxford and have not been told this, I had a look ( shorturl.at/mu5sR)
There is very little here -- this is guidance for formal communications, it's common sense not to use idioms when writing official-ese.
Toby: put your noggin in gear and use your loaf.
Oxford University has told staff not to use common phrases such as "learn the ropes" or "find your feet" over fears they confuse foreign students, sparking concern at the new scheme of language policing. dailysceptic.org/2026/10/12/…
When worrying about current two-tier justice, the death of Lord Archer is a reminder that the old ways also had two-tier justice:
i.e the famously biased wouldn't-I-like-to-roger-the-plaintiff's-wife judicial summing up in Archer vs The Daily Star
Same physics, sign reversed.
I don't agree with all the details here but this is a useful thread and the overall conclusion is correct 1/9
But this isn't a hard cash cost to the university which owns the buildings, and neither is the space easily fungible to cash -- you can't just rent out the space occupied by an undergraduate chemistry laboratory to Starbucks. 8/9
Even when you think you've seen it all in academia, the list of proposed possible titles for writing a Rhodes recommendation letter is wild.....
Joseph Conlon retweeted
THE FIRST-EVER 11-YEAR-OLD WGM!!!! 🥳🥳🥳
Congrats to Bodhana Sivanandan on becoming the first 11-year-old in chess history to earn the WGM title! 🏴
She just made her final WGM norm at the Olympiad! Only Hou Yifan & Kateryna Lagno were even WGMs at 12! 🤯
📷: R Oleksiewicz
