Marcus Bussey

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Scotland is aiming to be the world's first rewilded country. It's looking to rewild 30% of the country by 2030. We have the solutions. Replenishing and protecting nature is one of them. #ActOnClimate #climate #biodiversity #GreenNewDeal

Hollywood is abuzz with the arrival of @OpenAI's Sora, a mind-blowing text-to-video AI tool. Is this a match made in heaven or a recipe for disaster? @MikeLoder7 & I discussed this on @tickerNEWSco this morning. Here's part 1 of our chat. #AI #Sora @usceduau

@PryorFrancis Left of field… when did humans start using hammers? Palaeolithic? Or perhaps homo habilus?

Great fun recording this!

@StrayRogue Hi there. This gif is the basis for a meme used by @strugglingscientist on procrastination. I am editing an academic book on early career researchers and would like to use the meme. I am seeking permission from you also as you generated its inspiration. Thanks marcus

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@PhoebeTickell @moral_imagining I’ll email for further discussion… thx 🙏🏻

@MarcusBussey @moral_imagining Let's discuss it Marcus, nothing is impossible!

Really exciting to see the work we did with @PolicyLabUK and @DefraGovUK go live 🎉. Last year we ran an Interspecies Council with stakeholders who care about the River Roding to talk about the future of the river with a more-than-human twist👇openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/2024/02/07/usi…

@PhoebeTickell @moral_imagining Hi Phoebe would that support bring you to Australia? If not I’m in Sweden May/June and we could do one in Uppsala… what do you think?

If you or your organisation are interested in running something similar, please get in touch! We have support to run three more Interspecies Councils this year in three settings. We'd love to hear from you if you feel wacky enough to try one - get in touch @moral_imagining 🐳

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000 years, we can finally read the scrolls: This image was produced by @Youssef_M_Nader, @LukeFarritor, and @JuliSchillij, who have now won the Vesuvius Challenge Grand Prize of $700,000. Congratulations!! These fifteen columns come from the very end of the first scroll we have been able to read and contain new text from the ancient world that has never been seen before. The author – probably Epicurean philosopher Philodemus – writes here about music, food, and how to enjoy life's pleasures. In the closing section, he throws shade at unnamed ideological adversaries – perhaps the stoics? – who "have nothing to say about pleasure, either in general or in particular." This year, the Vesuvius Challenge continues. The text that we revealed so far represents just 5% of one scroll. In 2024, our goal is to from reading a few passages of text to entire scrolls, and we're announcing a new $100,000 grand prize for the first team that is able to read at least 90% of all four scrolls that we have scanned. The scrolls stored in Naples that remain to be read represent more than 16 megabytes of ancient text. But the villa where the scrolls were found was only partially excavated, and scholars tell us that there may be thousands more scrolls underground. Our hope is that the success of the Vesuvius Challenge catalyzes the excavation of the villa, that the main library is discovered, and that whatever we find there rewrites history and inspires all of us. It's been a great joy to work on this strange and amazing project. Thanks to Brent Seales for laying the foundation for this work over so many years, thanks to the friends and Twitter users whose donations powered our effort, and thanks to the many contestants whose contributions have made the Vesuvius Challenge successful! Read more in our announcement: scrollprize.org/grandprize

Covid Speaks like ChatGPT open.substack.com/pub/rushkoff/p…

Looks great! What a wonderful topic!

@mcookhistory @UQPbooks Brilliant news!!

Was told today my book ‘A River with a City Problem’ made to this list. australiainstitute.org.au/initiative/the… Stunned & amazed. @UQPbooks

@ClerkofOxford @CurrentArchaeo @reaktionbooks Voted! 🙌🏻

I'm thrilled that 'Winters in the World' has been nominated for @CurrentArchaeo's Book of the Year! 😀🌞🍂🌿 Anyone can vote for the winner, so if you enjoyed my book I'd be really grateful if you would vote for it! Here's the link: archaeology.co.uk/awards/book-of… @reaktionbooks

@LouiseOFresco Was your session recorded? I’m a fan of Huizinga also… now we are in the Waning (or Autumn) of Modernity

It was a great honor to present some of my thoughts on sustainability & the lessons from The Netherlands at the conference of the Honorary Consuls, quoting the great historian Johan Huizinga “on the road forward that we must follow even if the depth & distance will make us dizzy”

@ClerkofOxford Just ordered my copy!

If you're in Oxford next Wednesday lunchtime, please do come along to this!

@ClerkofOxford Would love to attend but… 🙏🏻❤️

@romankrznaric @EburyPublishing @wh_allen @longnow This is great news! Thanks for doing this! Can we preorder?

Today, after 3 years, I finished writing my new book HISTORY FOR TOMORROW: Inspiration from the Past for the Future of Humanity. It asks what we can learn from the last 1000 years to tackle 10 global challenges, from climate breakdown to AI risk. Publication 4.7.24 This is it 1/6

Fabulous #medieval floor tiles in the Chapter House at 12th-century Buildwas Abbey in Shropshire. #TilesonTuesday english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/b…

@albericie I’m with you @albericie ❤️

I voted YES 🙌🏼

@dilek_ozturky @BACLS_official Congratulations!!! This will be fun and rewarding 🙏🏻

Delighted to share the news of my being elected as a member to the Executive Committee of @BACLS_official for the term 2023-26. Looking forward to collaborating with scholars on the space of contemporary literary studies, specifially, of contemporary drama🍀

Doctor Irving Finkel holds a 3770 year old tablet containing god Enki's conversation with Sumerian king Atram-Hasis (Noah's figure in earlier versions of flood story) and instructions on how to build an ark for him. Noah's ark was first described as round boat with diameter of 220ft. British Museum #archaeohistories

New open access article now available from @delibdemjournal On Deliberators’ Awareness of Attitude Transformation by Alexander Hellquist @SWEDESD_UU doi.org/10.16997/jdd.1…