Exceptional essay on Kafka’s thought

On the space between waking and dreaming in Kafka’s diaries | Aeon Essays aeon.co/essays/on-the-…

Congratulations to Carola Vinuesa and Peter Ratcliffe, who were awarded a combined £5.5 million in @Wellcometrust Discovery Grants 🥳

Read more about each of their projects and collaborators ⬇️

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Spot on as ever, sarah murphy

These are not just migrants, they are asylum seekers who have not had their claims processed. They are potentially being deported to a country which is unsafe for asylum seekers but which Parliament has said by law is 'safe'.

And clearly being used for party political purposes

Hahaha

Massively honoured that Ultra-Processed People is Waterstones non-fiction Book of the Month! Thank you to the booksellers for your support and for helping spread the word about the dangers of UPF. I’ll be popping into as many stores in London as I can on Friday to sign copies 🍞

My biggest ever, 65,000-word Chile 🇨🇱 Special Report is live, full of insight, opinion, recommendations and nearly 900 tasting notes. You can download it for £20 from my site. Link in bio.

Free, in person or virtual access.

'Academia and industry converge to explore the intricate relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence. '
#AI
#Philosophy

'talks from
Lasana Harris, Geoff Keeling,
Joanna J Bryson,
Shannon Vallor,
Rafael Calvo,
Eve Hayes,
Will Fleisher, and
Matt Clifford. Organised by
Alex Grzankowski
and
Barry C Smith
School of Advanced Study, University of London
in partnership with AI&Humanity-Lab@HKU'

Back from Bordeaux this morning after examining. This evening attending an excellent meeting on science and the law The Royal Society with Olivier Sibony, who with Daniel Kahneman & Cas Sunstein wrote Noise. Walked up to Piccadilly and saw this. Where worlds
collide

Interested in doing research on research? Great opportunity from UK Research and Innovation with grants of up to £300k to work on 'metascience' - evidence on more effective ways of conducting and supporting R&D
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Don’t miss it. In person and online. Free and open to all!

Don't miss our two day conference 'Being Human in the Age of AI'.

Academia and industry converge to explore the intricate relationship between humanity and artificial intelligence.

23rd & 24th May @ Senate House, London. Attend in person or virtually.

philosophy.sas.ac.uk/events/being-h…

Looking forward to speaking this morning about the challenges for international education alongside Wendy Thomson Jo Johnson Sarah Spreitzer & Maddalaine Ansell at the International Higher Education Forum Universities UK International

Bingo!

Eight years since the vote. Still pointless. Still embarrassing. Still self-harming. Still mad.

Every few years, I search for this 2019 clip of Blair again. The bluntness of his ‚power is power!‘ doesn‘t only apply to geopolitics, but equally to energy policy & the delayed energy transition. Raw power. No longer a lack of technologies or knowledge.

Professor Sir John Curtice speaking for the nation

They really can’t help themselves: one rule for them…

It was a pleasure to welcome leader of the opposition and our local MP Keir Starmer to the Crick this morning, where he spoke to our researchers about their work and reaffirmed the need for strong investment in medical research.