Matthew Inglis
@mjinglis
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Academic at Loughborough University
Joined November 2013
Excited to discover that this important new documentary about the history of students in Leamington Spa offers two photos of me as evidence for the claim “Leamington has always offered an appealing social scene for students”. See 14:45 here.
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RT @Hair4HomelessUK: Hear Me, See Me Podcast with Chrissy Roberts. Abuse of power campaigner. via @acast.
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Have always wondered what would happen if someone submitted an empirical version of this kind of paper to @PLOSONE, given its “we ignore perceived significance” policy.
I have never looked at a predatory journal so I decided to have a look at American Journal of Medical and Clinical Sciences. Here is the first article I clicked on, in its entirety.
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I wrote a piece about David Tall, who was a big influence on my career and died in July. Part of a special issue of The Mathematics Enthusiast.
scholarworks.umt.edu
Matthew Inglis’s memories of David Tall.
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UPDATE: further investigations have revealed that this was my grandfather’s doing and that my grandmother, the librarian, found it very annoying.
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My grandparents used to do this, and my grandmother was the librarian of the Geological Society of London during the war. I take this to be evidence that the practice is acceptable.
Strengthening my previous belief that only crazy people do this.
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Currently visiting the University of Vienna where they have statues of distinguished former students and staff. But at @lborouniversity my proposed statue of Tony Croft was REJECTED.
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If you get a chance to go on a tour of the ventilation ducts in Charing Cross tube station, I recommend that you take it.
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An enjoyable attempt to explain cricket to an American audience in @TheAtlantic. They got to the bit where an explanation of the lbw law was required, but instead decided that describing it as a “complicated misadventure” would suffice.
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This is a lovely essay by Donald Gillies about Popper, Lakatos and Feyerabend. I particularly enjoyed the revelation that Popper took two postdocs to each of his lectures who had to clear the room of smoke before he would agree to start teaching.
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Sad to report that @TFrancome also graduated today, but was dismissed by the official photographer for looking rubbish.
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Two of my PhD students graduated today. Here are @Tuya_Ren and @TheresaWege posing in front of some doors. Congratulations to them!
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Can confirm that if you use a Voter Authority Certificate as ID rather than a driving licence or passport, the old ladies running the polling station will treat you like a celebrity.
gov.uk
Apply for photo ID to vote (Voter Authority Certificate) in some elections and referendums in Great Britain if you do not have an accepted form of ID.
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The people at Springer send me a copy of this cool pie chart every three months.
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