Arend Bayer

Mathematician at University of Edinburgh.
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@paulmromer @paulmromers @SEASolicitorCJS @LucjaCeres @Jonthn_Wheatley @FT @TomaszUrbas @shlorenzen @Sderivet @Vis @ClareQuiro45366 @MerviHangasm @aswoboda @neos @dbroockman Reported the one with "s" - even if I doubt it will make a difference

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@gsoh31 Fundamentally, MAB was using the nuclear option in order to reject a deal the union's own negotiators had agreed to. This could never work.

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@TyLKelly That's not just an MP, that's our Minister of Science (who often goes on and on about Universities not doing enough to protect "free speech").

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@TyLKelly Wait what?

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@staffy501 @OAlexanderDK The NYTimes article did link to @OAlexander's thread (though without mentioning his name, he was referred to as an "online researcher").

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@StuartJRitchie Do we have independent confirmation about the reason for replacing Eisen? Not sure I'd jump on this having heard just one side of the story.

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@s8mb Sure. But it also would have helped a lot if IDF didn't have a history of falsely denying having killed civilians.

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@jburnmurdoch I think there is another reason - the fear to be "wrong". Reporting 'Hamas claims that...' and 'IDF claims that' can never be "wrong" (but of course can become highly misleading). When you make your own calls, even if based on expert input, you could be "wrong".

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@littmath Not just you. I mean, it sometimes takes me weeks to read just a single paper!

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@peligrietzer @littmath I think I explained myself badly. What I call a "theorem" is a mathematical statement for which there is a public proof that the mathematical community has accepted. Maybe by "theorem" you mean what I would call "mathematically true fact".

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@peligrietzer @littmath Not sure I understand this distinction. A theorem is a statement that has a proof.

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@m_artigiani @BarbaraFantechi Bulletin of the LMS happily publishes surveys. The survey being comprehensible is a necessary condition, the original result being incomprehensible isn't. </promotion>

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@zeynep Confirmation fodder.

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@littmath You didn't think their revolutionary approach to mitigating bias in subjective judgements of merits is worth publication in a top journal?

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I posted some thoughts on the other site: https://t.co/xCpRRG1s5i

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My PhD supervisor Yuri Manin passed away yesterday. https://t.co/jao1R9dGGt

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@alexselby1770 More importantly perhaps, I think any superspreading is likely to be caused by a particularly high viral load. (If the storm didn't just sink my boat, but 80% of the boats out that day, it was probably a very heavy storm!)

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@andrew_croxford @zeynep Obviously I have no business telling you how to use your free time. Just saying that there might be a bigger audience for the kind of corrective post you sometimes make than you might think.
So thanks for that - we even put up with the puns to read them!

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@andrew_croxford @zeynep 2. The point of course is not to argue with those posting misinfo, but to correct it for those who read your posts with an open mind and have seen the misinfo. Of course, the arguing might be unavoidable, but...