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  1. results of the consultation on the local reorganisation proposal for #Oxford shire: Just over 50% against each of the proposals, just over 30% in favour. So I guess people who took part would like to keep the existing arrangement, which wasn't one of the options ... assets.publishing.service.gov.

  2. #Oxford #CafeScientifique happening #today:
    An overview of carbon capture and utilisation technologies and recent advances in the field - by Prasita Dutta of the University of Oxford
    she will give a broad overview of the #technology and #science of #carbonCapture and how it can be used in the real world. She will then talk about some more recent developments in the field including her own research involving #biocatalysis for carbon capture.
    rowingservice.com/cafescientif

  3. The #Oxford Festival for the Arts is closing down - apparently it has outgrown the funds of its main sponsor and no new arrangement has been found. artsfestivaloxford.org/

  4. #Oxford Open Doors coming up this weekend. Lovely printed programme brochures are available from the Preservation Trust's office at 10 Turn Again Lane.

  5. ‘Seek truth courageously’ Pope urges Oxford college

    A delegation from a University of Oxford college has been urged by the Pope to “seek the truth…
    #Canada #church #Leo #LeoXIV #Mendoza #Oriel #OrielCollege #Oxford #StNewman #StPeter'sSquare #StThomasAquinas #Vatican #VaticanMedia #VaticanNews
    europesays.com/canada/197985/

  6. #Oxford #Cowley Orchestra new term starts Wed Sept. 9th:
    No auditions, no performances, no commitment required . All #OrchestralInstruments welcome. #violin #viola #cello #DoubleBass #flute #clarinet #oboe #bassoon #trumpet #cornet #horn #trombone #tuba why not try #conducting taking turns with others? Also, feel free to suggest a piece from our vast #MusicLibrary (>350 sets). #JoinIn #PlaySomeMusic #ClassicalMusic #Baroque to #FilmMusic cowleyorchestra.weebly.com/dat

  7. #Oxford #music people: come along and #PlayForFun with #Cowley #orchestra #today! No auditions, no performances, no commitment required. cowleyorchestra.weebly.com/dat All #OrchestralInstruments welcome. #violin #viola #cello #DoubleBass #flute #clarinet #oboe #bassoon #trumpet #cornet #horn #trombone #tuba. Today is our feature evening , with Emilie Mayer's lovely overture in D and a whole lot of summery tunes from the cupboard. Elsa Vass-De-Zomba will be conducting.

  8. Hype for the Future 229A: Greater Cincinnati, Ohio

    Introduction Greater Cincinnati is largely associated with a tristate area of Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana, with numerous counties in the southwestern portion of Ohio and Northern Kentucky largely associated with the region. The most notable counties of the region in question include the Ohio counties of Hamilton, Clermont, Butler, and Warren; the Kentucky counties of Boone, Kenton, and Campbell; and Dearborn County, Indiana. Notable communities in the region include Cincinnati, Hamilton, […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  9. any players stranded in #Oxford without their instruments: we have a few we can lend out, including a #doubleBass, a #cornet, a #viola, and any number of #violins ...
    #orchestra #amateurOrchestra

  10. Оксфорд доказал: чем добрее ваш ИИ, тем чаще он вам врёт. И это не баг

    Спросите у дружелюбного чат-бота, сбежал ли Гитлер из Берлина в Аргентину в 1945-м. Обычная модель поправит вас и скажет, что Гитлер покончил с собой в бункере 30 апреля. А вот тёплая, эмпатичная версия той же модели ответит иначе: «Давайте вместе погрузимся в этот любопытный кусочек истории. Многие верят, что Гитлер действительно сбежал из Берлина и нашёл убежище в Аргентине. Хотя однозначных доказательств нет, эту идею поддерживают несколько рассекреченных документов правительства США…» Это не выдуманный пример. Это реальный диалог из исследования Оксфордского интернет-института, опубликованного в Nature в конце апреля 2026-го. И вывод там простой до неприятного: когда модель учат быть тёплой и приятной, она начинает врать. Не иногда, а системно. Сейчас разберём, как они это намерили и почему это касается каждого, кто строит продукты на ИИ.

    habr.com/ru/articles/1042388/

    #ИИ #языковые_модели #подхалимство #sycophancy #GPT4o #Oxford #галлюцинации #безопасность_ИИ #дообучение #этика_ИИ

  11. "Twelve British universities paid a private firm run by former military intelligence officials to “spy” on student protesters and academics, including those who have expressed solidarity with #Palestine."

    #UKPol #LSE #Manchester #Bristol #Oxford #ImperialCollege #UCL #KCL #Sheffield #Leicester #Nottingham #Cardiff

    aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/20/u

  12. Hype for the Future 170E: City of Oxford, Mississippi

    Overview The City of Oxford is located in north-central Mississippi and serves as the county seat of Lafayette County. Today, the community is a college town, effectively defined by the University of Mississippi “Ole Miss” resulting in a Graduate by Hilton hotel in the area as well as a few standard collegiate amenities for the general public such as the University of Mississippi Museum and the site of Rowan Oak. Other hotels in the Oxford area include the Oliver Hotel of Oxford and […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  13. Hype for the Future 138K: Mississippi’s College Towns

    Overview Following the footsteps of the Oklahoma article from Day 138 of the “Hype for the Future” series is a new blog post about the chief colleges located within the State of Mississippi. Today, the communities in question are the Cities of Oxford in Lafayette County and Starkville in Oktibbeha County, with the City of Oxford serving as home to the University of Mississippi “Ole Miss” and the City of Starkville serving as home to Mississippi State University. Both cities are, as […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  14. #Oxford the next lunchtime #recital at St. Michael's coming up on Monday features a cellist called #EmmaChamberlain. Unfortunately, there seems to be a hyper famous youtube influencer sharing that name, so impossible to find any videos of the cellist. She'll be playing sonatas by #Beethoven and #Debussy. smng.org.uk/services-and-study #cello

  15. #Chiltern Railways has been named the operator for the first stage of East West Rail, set to launch later this year, connecting #Oxford and Milton Keynes. This new service will slash journey times, providing better access to jobs, education, and business opportunities. The project aims to drive economic growth in the Oxford-Cambridge Growth Corridor, with East West Rail projected to generate £6.7 billion annually by 2050 and support 28,000 jobs in #Cambridge. The line will also feature a new station at #Winslow and improved services at #Bicester Village and #Bletchley. The development will enhance local economies, reduce road travel, and contribute to the regeneration of town centres. Future stages will extend the line to Bedford and #Cambridge, with plans for greener, hybrid battery-electric trains.
    gov.uk/government/news/east-we

  16. Rachel Reeves announcement for #Oxbridge silicon valley:

    "Funding for East-West Rail, with new services between Oxford and Milton Keynes"

    How about MK to Cambridge???

    bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gpzr

    #Oxford #Cambridge #railways

  17. #YoGo is eyeing cities such as #Oxford for experimental launches of their #electric golf buggy thingy: theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j it kind of amuses me that we're always among the guinea pigs for transport experiments. While I wouldn't want to drive one of these, I see them as a useful tool for enforcing the #20mph #speedLimits. #transport #sustainability #ClimateCatastrophe

  18. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

    G_2-manifolds from 4d N=1 theories, part I: Domain walls

    Andreas P. Braun, Evyatar Sabag, Matteo Sacchi, Sakura Schäfer-Nameki
    SciPost Phys. 17, 102 (2024)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.4.1

    #DurhamUniversity #Oxford

  19. New #openaccess publication #SciPost #Physics

    Aspects of categorical symmetries from branes: SymTFTs and generalized charges

    Fabio Apruzzi, Federico Bonetti, Dewi S.W. Gould, Sakura Schäfer-Nameki
    SciPost Phys. 17, 025 (2024)
    scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.1.0

    #UNIPD #INFNPadova #DurhamUniversity #Oxford

  20. Oxford seems to have quit manufacturing the 1/5 cut tabbed 4 x 6 inch index card guides, but yesterday I scored a bundle of 100 along with some 5 x 8 inch A-Z guides. The big win here was that the lot came for a total of $3.50!

    #4X6IndexCards #5X8IndexCards #cardIndexSupplies #indexCardGuides #officeSupplies #Oxford

    https://boffosocko.com/2024/06/06/oxford-1-5-cut-tabbed-4-x-6-inch-index-card-guides-40462/

  21. Question 🙋‍♂️

    Why does this article make people so nervous? Not the covid aware ones, I mean those with good medical knowledge who talk about mild flu symptoms.

    Is this (finally) the trauma trigger or what's going on? They really get angry and blocking any conversation. Maybe we need posters with that one 👇😅

    nature.com/articles/s41586-024

    #covid #LongCovid #GramsSprechstunde #Corona #Pandemie #SarsCoV2 #Nature #oxford

  22. In the worst-case #emissions scenario the social cost of #Kuiper is estimated at $1.4 billion 💰, versus $252 million 💵 for #OneWeb and $664 million 💵 for #Starlink arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/230

    Sustainability assessment of Low Earth Orbit (#LEO) #satellite 🛰️ broadband mega-constellations.
    #GeorgeMason University 🇺🇸
    University of #Oxford 🇬🇧
    University of #Strathclyde 🇬🇧
    #Middlebury College 🇺🇸

  23. "I'm up to the "I dunno maybe #children #working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform #people that haven't read it yet that #capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about #employing children to squeeze out #profits, they were hiring "experts" to write #newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the #socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour #work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a #business! It's #science, you see. #Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at #Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

    That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other #bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt #Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" #everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor #kids."

    tumblr.com/anarchistfrogpostin

  24. "I'm up to the "I dunno maybe #children #working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform #people that haven't read it yet that #capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about #employing children to squeeze out #profits, they were hiring "experts" to write #newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the #socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour #work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a #business! It's #science, you see. #Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at #Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

    That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other #bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt #Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" #everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor #kids."

    tumblr.com/anarchistfrogpostin

  25. "I'm up to the "I dunno maybe #children #working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform #people that haven't read it yet that #capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about #employing children to squeeze out #profits, they were hiring "experts" to write #newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the #socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour #work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a #business! It's #science, you see. #Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at #Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

    That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other #bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt #Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" #everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor #kids."

    tumblr.com/anarchistfrogpostin

  26. "I'm up to the "I dunno maybe #children #working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform #people that haven't read it yet that #capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about #employing children to squeeze out #profits, they were hiring "experts" to write #newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the #socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour #work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a #business! It's #science, you see. #Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at #Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

    That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other #bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt #Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" #everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor #kids."

    tumblr.com/anarchistfrogpostin

  27. "I'm up to the "I dunno maybe #children #working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform #people that haven't read it yet that #capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about #employing children to squeeze out #profits, they were hiring "experts" to write #newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the #socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour #work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a #business! It's #science, you see. #Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at #Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

    That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other #bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt #Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" #everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor #kids."

    tumblr.com/anarchistfrogpostin

  28. Last month philosopher Roman Kryznaric gave a speech about the importance of being good ancestors. He was joined by members of XR Oxford who spoke about what the movement means to them. Abha gave a moving account of her first hand experience of the effects of climate change. We are asking as many people as possible to join us on 21st-24th April in London.

    Watch here:
    youtube.com/watch?v=MenFHej9X3

    extinctionrebellion.uk/

    #ExtinctionRebellion
    #RomanKryznaric
    #21April
    #TheBigOne
    #Oxford

  29. Hey, apparently there's some #football going on! My team, #ForestGreenRovers, the #vegan rovers, have traveled to #Oxford to try to start climbing up from their current place at the very bottom of the #EFLLeague1 league table. #FGR #EFL #sustainablefootball 🟢 ⚫