Tony Leech

Education researcher in Cambridge, socialist, Labour, person interested in art and culture and stuff. he/him

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

Scientists haven’t been “frankly scared to ask the question”. There are 1000s of studies in the peer-reviewed literature showing no link between autism & the MMR vaccine.

Progress has been slow because neurodivergence is complex & multifactorial.

Jay is not being truthful.

[Tony Leech @tonyleech01]

@daisyldixon Dai-mien.

[Robert Saunders @redhistorian]

Love this Chartist account of a debate for and against universal suffrage in Leeds in 1840.

I suspect it may not be a wholly balanced report, but lovely use of the word "yclept"...

[Tony Leech @tonyleech01]

@daisyldixon All Pellings are assertions, but not all assertions are Pelling's.

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

The Kyoto International Conference Centre designed by Sachio Otani and completed in 1966

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

We know nobody will fact-check LLMs as they don't fact check anything

When given literal propaganda (an anonymous fake ballot-stuffing video), 52% of a representative sample of US high school students immediately strongly believed it.

Only 3 out of 3,119 tracked down the source

[Ed in Melbourne @HImpartiality]

Derbyshire before and after #GE2024

[tern @1goodtern]

And then it spilled out, what was actually worrying them.

It was really simple, and it wasn't about studies or jobs.

It was about the natural world falling apart.

[Bridget Phillipson @bphillipsonMP]

Getting my feet under the table at @educationgovuk - the department for opportunity.

From here, we’ll work to give every child the best start in life, drive high and rising standards and ensure that background is no barrier to getting on in life.

[Jonny Sharples @JonnyGabriel]

The Rt Hon Jordan Pickford MP @JPickford1 has been appointed Secretary of State for Defence @DefenceHQ.

[cones @praisemajus]

militant milibandite flower crown yaoi homestuck superwholock-adjacent 2014 tumblr girlies we are so fucking back

[Tom Calver @TomHCalver]

Here's another weird consequence of FPTP.

Because so many seats had 3-4 competitive parties, it often took a weirdly low vote share to win.

The average winning vote share this time was just 42%, down from 54% last time. In SW Norfolk, the winner won with 26% #GE24 @thetimes

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: EXIT POLL PROJECTS A LABOUR MAJORITY

LABOUR: 410
CONSERVATIVES: 131
LIB DEMS: 61
SNP: 10
REFORM UK: 13
GREEN: 2
OTH: 23

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Part of the reason why AI triggers accusations of "hype" is that there is a lot of focus on what AI will do next, and especially what AGI will do.

Yet the capabilities of LLMs today are more than enough for large-scale impacts, but require organizational & technical integration.

[Anna Mills, annamillsoer.bsky.social, she/her @AnnaRMills]

Can we tell when a student submission is AI?
This study from the University of Reading suggests not.
"The university’s markers – who were not told about the project – flagged only one of the 33 entries."
https://t.co/dTuSCTJnHF

[Lauren Wilford @lauren_wilford]

one simple reason Chappell Roan is popular is because she makes melody-driven pop music, which I think we are relatively starved for as a culture. the songs are fun to sing along to. they are catchy tunes you could easily plunk out on a piano. nothing airy or vague about them