Dino Martens

Data folks. Please help! In Excel, Countifs formulas don’t work at all with cells that have a descriptive entry with the word black, unless I changed it to B, Blk, or Black group etc. Why?! The cells are not colour coded. Thought I was going out of my mind (early on in 2025)! 🫣

Cambridge University urged to apologise over jailing of thousands of ‘evil’ women without evidence or trial A 1561 charter granted powers to imprison young working-class women found walking with undergraduates after dark

😳🤯😱 That’s a different level of town and gown.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

My supermarket Christmas pudding has a best before date of June 2026. Should I be scared? 😆🎄

A night of comical auto transcription. ‘More governance’ became ‘Moral dominance’. 😂 Oh, Word. You do struggle with certain speech pattern-accent combo. Or perhaps you’re on to something…..

Goodness. THANKS!! Excellent distraction 🤓

And as this gains attention outside of scientific circles, as it surely will, @deevybee.bsky.social will undoubtedly face a great deal of harassment. Other fellows of the @royalsociety.bsky.social will have to decide whether she faces it alone or not.

The algorithms on that Bird site are so funny. My 5-year old tweet that referenced my age range keeps attracting bots pretending to be young women. Sinister.

I like employment law but some suggest that I suit Chancery. Always wonder why and what that says about me.

It can be so frustrating to encounter a poorly conceived referee form from academic or research institutions! Just saying.

EU top court to review Denmark's 'ghetto law' for potential breach of anti-discrimination rules On Monday (30 September), the EU supreme court will hear arguments on whether the Danish law limiting the concentration of ethnic minorities in certain neighbourhoods violates EU anti-discrimination l...

CJEU hearing yesterday on whether Danish "ghetto law" is racially discriminatory www.euractiv.com/section/poli...

iPhones Are Allergic to Helium This is the kind of tale that you don’t hear every day. During the installation of a new MRI machine, a technician started getting calls that iPhones weren’t working—but Androids wer...

Turns out iPhones and Apple Watches do not like Helium! This is good to know if, like some STEM academics and folks in industry, you are sometimes around evaporating helium.

www.ifixit.com/News/11986/i...

Friday essay: Bad faith FOI requests can be annoying. Discuss.

a man with his hands on his head says yeah well you know that 's just like your opinion man .. ALT: a man with his hands on his head says yeah well you know that 's just like your opinion man ..

CJEU hearing upcoming Oct 15

Did Hungary breach EU law by voting against the agreed common EU position on reclassifying cannabis at the UN?

Main arguments by the Commission here - eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/L...

Independent inquiry finds serious governance failures at the Royal College of Physicians of London > “… a range of collective failures in leadership” (page 3) > > “… a clear lack of accountability and due process.” (page 4) > > “[T]here is a pervasive lack of trust and confidence in the College’s...

BREAKING
Our new paper: Independent Inquiry finds serious governance failures at RCP London. Read this and weep.
www.bmj.com/content/386/...

Post Office scandal victims given route to appeal unfair financial ... Subpostmasters that feel they received inadequate financial redress in the Horizon Shortfalls Scheme can appeal the settlements through independent appeals process.

Subpostmasters can now appeal the financial redress they received if they think unfair #PostOfficeScandal www.computerweekly.com/news/3666099...

This’s consistent with empirical research tbh. Words to support graphical presentation of data. Can make it more interesting 😉

Vacancy details | About | University of Stirling

Calling philosophers and cognitive scientists. Six, four year postdocs available at the University of Stirling for interdisciplinary work on place and memory with John Sutton. www.stir.ac.uk/about/work-a...

Tribunal criticises BSB for prosecuting "sleeping" barrister A disciplinary tribunal has sharply criticised the Bar Standards Board for how it approached the prosecution of a barrister who struggled to stay awake during an inquest.

Tribunal criticises BSB for prosecuting “sleeping” barrister zurl.co/A95v

Transcription fun. Word algorithm appears to have a ‘modesty’ filter?! Snowballing was replaced by asterisks. What did the algorithm think it was? Or is that an euphemism that I’m not aware of? 😆 #balls

Federal labor regulator says delivery drivers are Amazon employees The decision in a Palmdale, Calif. National Labor Relations Board case could widen Amazon’s legal liabilities and force it to bargain with the Teamsters.

Huge win for Amazon drivers and the teamsters at the nlrb

Overcoming stigma as an academic with schizophrenia I've finally secured tenure after a bumpy road through academia. I overcame the stigma and discrimination but others weren't so lucky.

Lots of stigma in academia. This example is hard to read. Many congrats! She’s @viscidula on the other site.

UK’s new science minister on budget battles, Brexit and AI leadership Former clinical scientist Patrick Vallance speaks to Nature about his priorities as the minister overseeing the nation’s research. Former clinical scientist Patrick Vallance speaks to Nature about his...

'I need to protect and grow the basic, curiosity-driven part of the science work — which I think is so fundamental — while making sure we bolster the ability to translate that into development and economic success.' Good interview with Science Minister Patrick Vallance www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. - Vincent van Gogh. [Signature]

Magnificent - both the experience and the recounting. Appreciate this! #MondayMood

Fair comment.

So I'll share @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social's great Substack on long COVID with Independent SAGE. It's a summary of her Lancet review with colleagues, published this month.

She's now active on BlueSky again, part of the Xodus. Perhaps MedSky will rise like UK LegalSky.

Scientists find humans age dramatically in two bursts – at 44, then 60 US findings suggesting ageing is not a slow and steady process could explain spikes in health issues at certain ages

Explains a lot. Will retire early if I can.

X to close operations in Brazil 'effective immediately' X claims a judge threatened one of its legal representatives with arrest if it did not comply with orders to take down some content.

A non-paywalled version of the story on X closing operations in Brazil to avoid compliance with court orders
www.reuters.com/technology/x...

Droplet or airborne? WHO says it’s ‘through the air’  - Healthy Debate The WHO is slowly moving forward on airborne transmission. But language changes seem forced and unnecessary.

Want to catch up on the WHO paper on new terminology for airborne respiratory infections? Read this cracking blog by
Joe Vipond 🧪
healthydebate.ca/2024/04/topi...

Oh I think most of the multimedia cards for computers had that name. Back in the days. No idea what they do now.

Wish I can attend!