Nicky Nicolson
@nickynicolson
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Biodiversity informatics: research & software. Mobilising data from our global specimen collection. Learning with @OpenLifeSci. @[email protected]
Kew, London & Dorset
Joined July 2009
šthat you missed the echinopscis @obsdmd #OpenScience demo? Check out a narrated version of my slidedeck, demo at 08:10. što @GBIF, @IPNI_UK, #GRSciColl, @BionomiaTrack & @CrossrefOrg for data access. Explore & join us in the #TDWG2022 #unconference... https://t.co/zvjXsP0wNn
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. @NRSHealthcare you were booked to attend our house today and install a stair rail. A safety aid ordered weeks ago as part of a hospital discharge. No contact, no show. 45 minutes on hold on your phone line only for your end to drop the call. Can you explain this?
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. @giffgaff ongoing fault, total loss of service. I'm paying you for a service that I'm not receiving, how will you refund me
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š“Would you like to help make Collaborations Workshop 2025 (CW25) the best one yet? We are currently looking for volunteers to join our Steering Committee. If you would like to participate or know someone who would, head to our website to find out more: https://t.co/DjqW47mG5S
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Given that we know that coercive control is something insidious and manipulative and that people often donāt realise they have been victims until years later, the Assisted Dying Bill is an enormous threat to vulnerable people. There are no adequate safeguards here.
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in retrospect, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords really might've been a better basis for a system of government.
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āļø Registration is now open for a selection of free online workshops and panel discussion, as part of theĀ Research Software Camp: Digital Skills for Research Technical Staff (Tue 19 - Fri 29 Nov). Find out more at https://t.co/SwVfO9FvN6
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I woke up seeing 60+ people are dead, thinking Valencia will be a turning point, will dominate the news, wake everybody up to climate change. Itās not though is it. The budget is dominating reporting in the UK. Public donāt care. We are determined to send our children over a
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Songs as horror comics day four, Talking Headsā Psycho Killer.
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RT @TheCiderShedPod one for Brad
Treating myself! For the record, I'm only even entertaining trying this beer because the brewery is local, fantastic, and I trust them implicitly (and I love Custard creams).
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š¢ The first chapter of the AI snake oil book by me and @sayashk is now available online. https://t.co/LsjLhak6Yb It is 30 pages long and summarizes the bookās main arguments. If you start reading now, you won't have to wait long for the rest of the book ā it is available to
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Couldn't possibly be that the arts actively discriminate & freeze out working class people therefore becoming less about talent thus becoming narrow & mediocre
The precipitous dip in quality of new music, movies and books is because musicians, filmmakers and authors are, like us, always on their phones, and thus no longer forced to creatively contend with the silence and boredom which used to be an inescapable reality of everyday life
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My latest post for @LSEImpactBlog and one of my last here as I will be elsewhere (see bio for links). If āacademic Xā is sinking, where are research organisations going? I have compiled a spreadsheet (that can be updated) includes over 250 of them 1/12 https://t.co/zKRRrrjp6f
blogs.lse.ac.uk
As a number of academic and civil society organisations question their presence on the platform, Andy Tattersall assesses why research organisations might stay on the platform and where they have...
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It really does not bode well for our society that politicians and corporations keep trying to destroy both entire repositories of knowledge and culture and our access to them while also championing AI tools that consistently plagiarize and provide incorrect information
BREAKING: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books. Full story to follow.
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The new Qwen2-VL-7B Instruct model gets *100%* accuracy extracting text from this handwritten document. This is the first open weights model (Apache 2.0) that I've seen OCR this accurately. (Thank you @fdaudens for the tip!) https://t.co/AB9r3bKDF0
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BREAKING: The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette v. Internet Archive, the long-running, closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books. Full story to follow.
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Maybe #TDWG2024 should recommend that we document carbon costs of AI models that we develop in biodiversity @huggingface have a nice set of documentation about this
huggingface.co
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