David Sweeney

Professor of Research Policy, University of Birmingham, formerly founding Executive Chair, Research England

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@BeatrizGietner @Lyan82 @ersatzben Happy birthday @ersatzben

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@matthewclifford Congrats on new role. Really reassuring that Anthropic hires someone with a stellar UK record. However absolutely incompatible with remaining chair of ARIA I’m afraid. Even very good people - and you are one - can be deluded by self-interest and staying as Chair is an example.

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@joshwoodward Since Gemini Spark is not available in the UK I’m using Claude. However Gemini Notebook is my key work tool. Is it permissible to use a 3rd party MCP to link the two or does that break the Google acceptable use criteria?

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@Gemini_Notebook @radarxyzabc Please please please….. British English accent for the Podcasts feature. You do British English in other contexts.

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@eternalhopeoaks You were very good (again) on the commentary but then you are good on the board. With Nick you made it an excellent watch.

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@joshwoodward Has the Collections feature rolled out to UK Pro users? Thanks..

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@JonMinton @JDIrwinbooks Not as good as banana and apple muffins

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@timleunig huge congratulations on your elevation

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@RickyPo Yup, exactly so.

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@joshwoodward @GeminiApp Well stretching things slightly…. Provide a UK voice for NotebookLM podcasts. I’m afraid both the accents and the repartee make them useless for professional/business use in the UK. Which is a pity as the contents can be just right for senior ppl

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@lugaricano Messy Jobs out of stock at every Foyles in London

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@HerrGalloway @TiceRichard It was the summer we moved to England (from a street you know in Aberdeen). It was a lovely warm summer in Aberdeen. Nothing prepared us for the S of England.

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@mattpocockuk I presume you have to update the skill manually? I’n in cowork not code.

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@joshwoodward @NotebookLM Much appreciated that it is out - thanks to all for the hard work.

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@mattpocockuk Can you use it with Cowork rather than Code?

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@NotebookLM @_shadowintel_ Ant word yet on notebooks in Gemini in the UK.

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@joshwoodward @NotebookLM How’s the unblocking of notebooks in Gemini in UK going?

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@LizzieTao @NotebookLM When will notebooks in Gemini launch in the UK? Lots of bells and whistled on Google project but not the basics…