Trevor
@davistruk.bsky.social
Just some guy who likes movies and the arts in general. Fellow of the RSA - the royal society for the encouragement of arts, manufactures and commerce. Ex IBM Distinguished Engineer. The views here, all my own.
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We’ve launched a new space on our website to help you explore upcoming UKRI funding opportunities.
The page gives a longer-term view of more than 45 opportunities opening between now and December.
Explore the page: www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
The page gives a longer-term view of more than 45 opportunities opening between now and December.
Explore the page: www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
Future Research and Innovation Funding Opportunities
YouTube video by UK Research and Innovation
www.youtube.com
June 15, 2026 at 9:05 AM
We’ve launched a new space on our website to help you explore upcoming UKRI funding opportunities.
The page gives a longer-term view of more than 45 opportunities opening between now and December.
Explore the page: www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
The page gives a longer-term view of more than 45 opportunities opening between now and December.
Explore the page: www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...
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In the 9th century, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero. n.pr/49V5Exj
How 'algorithm' got its name from a 9th-century Persian mathematician
In the 9th century, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.
n.pr
June 11, 2026 at 10:23 AM
In the 9th century, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero. n.pr/49V5Exj
You have a point there 🤦♂️
If you're still on Twatter, you're part of the problem mate.
June 8, 2026 at 6:33 PM
You have a point there 🤦♂️
On the hellscape that is X these days, I am being bombarded with advertisements featuring Farage. Anyone else getting bored with reporting these ads?
June 8, 2026 at 3:33 PM
On the hellscape that is X these days, I am being bombarded with advertisements featuring Farage. Anyone else getting bored with reporting these ads?
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Could you make a difference in a cemetery or burial ground near you to stop the plastic merchandising of death and grief? Please consider signing the petition, if you live, work or study in Kingston upon Thames
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ecologist calls for plastics ban in Kingston Cemetery
Alison Fure is asking the council to begin phasing out plastic decorative items, including flowers.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 8, 2026 at 2:08 PM
Could you make a difference in a cemetery or burial ground near you to stop the plastic merchandising of death and grief? Please consider signing the petition, if you live, work or study in Kingston upon Thames
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Here in the UK we have an annual glove watch…time for a US one? www.facebook.com/homage.defro...
March 25, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Here in the UK we have an annual glove watch…time for a US one? www.facebook.com/homage.defro...
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Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
New Post: Innovation, Alignment, and Circular Transformation: Revisiting a 2009 Study Through the Lens of the Circular Economy curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 AM
New Post: Innovation, Alignment, and Circular Transformation: Revisiting a 2009 Study Through the Lens of the Circular Economy curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
Innovation, Alignment, and Circular Transformation: Revisiting a 2009 Study Through the Lens of the Circular Economy curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
Innovation, Alignment, and Circular Transformation: Revisiting a 2009 Study Through the Lens of the Circular Economy
What can a 2009 innovation project teach us about circular transformation today? More than you think. Learn why processes, metrics, and alignment decide whether CE ideas thrive—or die early.
curiousdemon.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Innovation, Alignment, and Circular Transformation: Revisiting a 2009 Study Through the Lens of the Circular Economy curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
New Post: LF2025 What Marielle Knows curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
October 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
New Post: LF2025 What Marielle Knows curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
New Post: LFF2025: The Secret Agent curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
October 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
New Post: LFF2025: The Secret Agent curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
🎉 New preprint alert!
Delighted to share our new paper: “Creative Industries and the Circular Economy: A Reality Check Across Policy, Practice and Research.”
🔗 Read the open-access preprint at lnkd.in/eWjdTGia
Delighted to share our new paper: “Creative Industries and the Circular Economy: A Reality Check Across Policy, Practice and Research.”
🔗 Read the open-access preprint at lnkd.in/eWjdTGia
October 17, 2025 at 8:32 AM
🎉 New preprint alert!
Delighted to share our new paper: “Creative Industries and the Circular Economy: A Reality Check Across Policy, Practice and Research.”
🔗 Read the open-access preprint at lnkd.in/eWjdTGia
Delighted to share our new paper: “Creative Industries and the Circular Economy: A Reality Check Across Policy, Practice and Research.”
🔗 Read the open-access preprint at lnkd.in/eWjdTGia
New Post: LFF2025: Ballad of a Small Player curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
October 12, 2025 at 5:36 PM
New Post: LFF2025: Ballad of a Small Player curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
Updated Post: The London Film Festival is underway without us this year curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
October 9, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Updated Post: The London Film Festival is underway without us this year curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
New Post: The London Film Festival is underway without us this year curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
October 9, 2025 at 9:57 AM
New Post: The London Film Festival is underway without us this year curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
New Post: An unusual autumn curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
October 6, 2025 at 9:57 AM
New Post: An unusual autumn curiousdemon.com/WP/index.php...
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Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.
Why Gen Z protesters worldwide are flying an anime pirate flag
Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.
n.pr
October 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Gen Z protesters from Indonesia and Nepal to Madagascar and Morocco, are rallying behind an unexpected banner: a grinning skull in a straw hat.
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We're at the Royal Society celebrating this, with a stellar line-up, including Wendy Hall, Alan Kay, Gary Marcus, Abeba Birhane and more royalsociety.org/science-even...
October 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
We're at the Royal Society celebrating this, with a stellar line-up, including Wendy Hall, Alan Kay, Gary Marcus, Abeba Birhane and more royalsociety.org/science-even...
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"after a long slumber, signs are emerging of an entrepreneurial awakening: the number of tech start-ups in Europe more than quadrupled in the last decade to 35,000."
cf the House of Lords report on UK's need to support innovation (incl. creative industries)
committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
cf the House of Lords report on UK's need to support innovation (incl. creative industries)
committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
August 11, 2025 at 5:47 AM
"after a long slumber, signs are emerging of an entrepreneurial awakening: the number of tech start-ups in Europe more than quadrupled in the last decade to 35,000."
cf the House of Lords report on UK's need to support innovation (incl. creative industries)
committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
cf the House of Lords report on UK's need to support innovation (incl. creative industries)
committees.parliament.uk/committee/17...
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The poster for the 52nd Telluride Film Festival has been revealed, created by celebrated cartoonist and graphic novelist Daniel Clowes.
The Telluride Film Festival runs August 29 – September 1, 2025.
The Telluride Film Festival runs August 29 – September 1, 2025.
June 11, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The poster for the 52nd Telluride Film Festival has been revealed, created by celebrated cartoonist and graphic novelist Daniel Clowes.
The Telluride Film Festival runs August 29 – September 1, 2025.
The Telluride Film Festival runs August 29 – September 1, 2025.
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SINNERS fucking rules, a vampire dance epic about muscled gangster twins taking on capitalism and living corpses, where history haunts through song and dance; beware of evil Irish jigs and threats of assimilation. just a stomping, bloody dream of a big budget genre movie. loved it
April 18, 2025 at 9:55 PM
SINNERS fucking rules, a vampire dance epic about muscled gangster twins taking on capitalism and living corpses, where history haunts through song and dance; beware of evil Irish jigs and threats of assimilation. just a stomping, bloody dream of a big budget genre movie. loved it
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Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating
April 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Steve Jackson Games posted this to their blog and the post is getting so many hits their site is effectively crashed but the point is worth repeating
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"Bold, defiantly feral and immensely entertaining"
SISTER MIDNIGHT is @wendyide.bsky.social's Film of the Week for The Observer! 💜
🌕🐐 In Cinemas Now
🎟️: www.altitude.film/sister-midnight
#SisterMidnight
SISTER MIDNIGHT is @wendyide.bsky.social's Film of the Week for The Observer! 💜
🌕🐐 In Cinemas Now
🎟️: www.altitude.film/sister-midnight
#SisterMidnight
March 16, 2025 at 10:41 AM
"Bold, defiantly feral and immensely entertaining"
SISTER MIDNIGHT is @wendyide.bsky.social's Film of the Week for The Observer! 💜
🌕🐐 In Cinemas Now
🎟️: www.altitude.film/sister-midnight
#SisterMidnight
SISTER MIDNIGHT is @wendyide.bsky.social's Film of the Week for The Observer! 💜
🌕🐐 In Cinemas Now
🎟️: www.altitude.film/sister-midnight
#SisterMidnight
Do you work in the Creative Industries? Do you supply the Creative Industries? Help the Centre for Sustainable design understand what the Circular Economy means to you: www.surveymonkey.com/r/bskysocial
The Circular Economy and the Creative Industries
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March 16, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Do you work in the Creative Industries? Do you supply the Creative Industries? Help the Centre for Sustainable design understand what the Circular Economy means to you: www.surveymonkey.com/r/bskysocial
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Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes:
March 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes: