@stanislavfort Hi Stanislav - my name is Tim Cross, I cover science and technology for The Economist magazine. Would you mind following back so I can DM you about a story I'm working on? Thanks :)
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Technology editor at The Economist. Views mine. Account locked when I'm not around
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@DavidDjward Hi David - I cover science and technology for the Economist magazine. I'm working on a story about car safety. Would you mind following back so I can DM you, please?
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@TheSnowDreamer It has intuitively felt grimmer down south weather-wise than in the north in recent years, would be really interested to know if it's actually true
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Well UK wide averages are not always representative. For most of the south it was near average, if a bit duller than average it was also rainy. This seems like a frequent pattern in recent years with more unsettled weather displaced further south from the typical northern position.
Gary Prince@GaryAPrince
@TheSnowDreamer Yes but January was the 5th sunniest ever in the UK so swings and roundabouts.
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And if you’re assuming AGI -> perfected robotics, I don’t really see why you’d assume that but *not* AGI -> superintelligence. And if we have superintelligence, unemployment seems like a sideshow.
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It seems to me that most discussions of whether AGI will cause mass unemployment conflate AGI with some equivalent breakthrough in robotics. Unless that happens, why won’t returns to physical tasks just rise and rise?
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Nothing needs to be ugly. We choose to make it so.
This Is My Glasgow@is_glasgow
The western facade of the former Templeton Carpet Factory on Glasgow Green. Designed by William Leiper and bassd on the Doge's Palace in Venice, it was built in 1889. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowgreen #templetoncarpetfactory #architecturephotography
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"This election has been the worst election I have ever stood in."
Jess Phillips is met with boos and jeers from the audience as she narrowly wins her Labour seat in Birmingham Yardley.
Watch #C4BritainDecides NOW on @channel4 until 9am. #GeneralElection2024
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Be honest. You changed the title because you are total drips and didn’t have the courage to say no to a handful of mad Americans.
Cambridge University Press - History@cambUP_History
We are delighted to introduce a new OA journal: Early Medieval England and its Neighbours! As a relaunch of Anglo-Saxon England, EMEN features: 📂A broader approach 📰 Interdisciplinary scope ✔️Same high quality as ASE Find out more 👉cup.org/3Wm9mde
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I'd be interested in looking at research comparing obesity and anxiety levels in England and The Netherlands. Two comparable states, one of which teenagers cycle everywhere
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David Zipper@DavidZipper
We can't say it enough: When a city builds sidewalks and bike lanes, residents become more physically active -- i.e., healthier. doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.…
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@FondOfBeetles Great piece. It's very much religious. One of Darwin's big lessons was that humans are just another twig on the tree of life. 200 years later that still hasn't really, properly sunk in, imo, and it's still seen as a bit shocking to baldly and unapologetically say so
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“It is a peculiarly human and almost religious practice to distinguish our own species from the rest of the animal kingdom, in this case with regards to sex.
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What is a woman?
Me, Prospect Magazine, May 2022.
“It is uncontroversial to name an adult female sheep a ‘ewe’ or to know that our scrambled eggs come from ‘hens’.
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@AngelaRuggiero Hi Angela. I write for @TheEconomist in London. We're working on a piece about the growth of women's sports. Could you follow back so I can DM? Keen to discuss the reports you guys have done on this!
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@cyberleagle Hi Graham. I cover science and technology for The Economist. Was wondering if you could follow back so I can DM you?
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This has happened because female cyclists, supported by their male colleagues and athletes from other sporting disciplines, and with information about their rights, the law (and a bit of science), came together to demand they be heard.
Sean Ingle@seaningle
BREAKING: British Cycling Board of Directors has voted in favour of an immediate suspension of its transgender policy. "We understand there are concerns regarding the extent to which our current policy appropriately reflects the Sports Councils’ Equality Group guidance"
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... They also endorse F/O in a leader - that's the way out of the mess....
economist.com/leaders/2022/0…
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This piece in @TheEconomist is a good survey, which concludes that sports regulation is in a mess...
economist.com/united-states/…
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@FondOfBeetles Enodgenous T: it does nothing!
T from a syringe: So potent you'll be banned if we find even a nanogram in your urine sample
The word "endogenous" is doing a great deal of rather dubious work in all this... 🤷♂️
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So what on earth can he possibly mean when he says that performance is not proportional to natural T level? More, that is it *obviously* not and anyway who thinks otherwise must be stupid or something.
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Richard Budgett, medical director of the IOC, is saying here that sports performance is not proportional to natural (“endogenous”) testosterone level.
What do we know?
Sean Ingle@seaningle
IOC medical director Richard Budgett adds: "one of the things the framework does is move us on from just considering testosterone. Because obviously, it is perfectly clear now that performance is not proportional to your endogenous your your inbuilt testosterone."
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Instagram took down one of my posts for violating their rules on "hate speech." What was the thing I posted?
A figure from @FondOfBeetles and @TLexercise's peer reviewed paper showing male advantage in certain sports activities.
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@MForstater @ripx4nutmeg This is such an odd claim, in many ways. Just one:
"Less favourable treatment" begs the question. It assumes that PBs/XSHs work to relieve gender dysphoria. We have no idea if that's true. It's entirely possible that "watchful waiting" is in fact the more favourable treatment
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New JR by the Good Law Project with US hormone doctor trade association, Gendered Intelligence and Brook
Trying to use the Equality Act to remove safeguards on sterilising gender non conforming kids
goodlawproject.org/update/healthc…
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