ICYMI here’s my illustrated article for The Aviation Show on the various prototypes and testbeds for the Hawker Typhoon and Tornado
A later than planned #TyphoonTuesday!
@navalairhistory.com takes us through the Hawker Tornado and Typhoon prototypes in a free article on our Patreon. Matt describes the changes each underwent and how they were used in the development of the Typhoon II.
www.patreon.com/posts/hawker...
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@navalairhistory.com takes us through the Hawker Tornado and Typhoon prototypes in a free article on our Patreon. Matt describes the changes each underwent and how they were used in the development of the Typhoon II.
www.patreon.com/posts/hawker...
#aviation
The Hawker Tornado and Typhoon Prototypes | The Aviation Show
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January 21, 2026 at 11:19 AM
ICYMI here’s my illustrated article for The Aviation Show on the various prototypes and testbeds for the Hawker Typhoon and Tornado
"faster, reproducible science across disciplines through UKRI‑supported national AI testbeds and shared methods"
Forgive me for expressing scepticism that AI will magically fix the reproducibility crisis.
Forgive me for expressing scepticism that AI will magically fix the reproducibility crisis.
February 23, 2026 at 8:04 PM
"faster, reproducible science across disciplines through UKRI‑supported national AI testbeds and shared methods"
Forgive me for expressing scepticism that AI will magically fix the reproducibility crisis.
Forgive me for expressing scepticism that AI will magically fix the reproducibility crisis.
Portugal, Slovakia and Norway join a 22-nation push for cross-border autonomous vehicle testbeds, aiming to fast-track real-world trials under Europe’s Automotive Action Plan.
EU ramps up autonomous vehicle trials with new multi-country partnership
www.brusselstimes.com
September 29, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Portugal, Slovakia and Norway join a 22-nation push for cross-border autonomous vehicle testbeds, aiming to fast-track real-world trials under Europe’s Automotive Action Plan.
Here are just some of the websites that will go dark at Midnight because of this cancelled contract.
research.noaa.gov
epic.noaa.gov
globalocean.noaa.gov
cpo.noaa.gov
seagrant.noaa.gov
testbeds.noaa.gov
research.noaa.gov
epic.noaa.gov
globalocean.noaa.gov
cpo.noaa.gov
seagrant.noaa.gov
testbeds.noaa.gov
April 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Here are just some of the websites that will go dark at Midnight because of this cancelled contract.
research.noaa.gov
epic.noaa.gov
globalocean.noaa.gov
cpo.noaa.gov
seagrant.noaa.gov
testbeds.noaa.gov
research.noaa.gov
epic.noaa.gov
globalocean.noaa.gov
cpo.noaa.gov
seagrant.noaa.gov
testbeds.noaa.gov
If big tech and edtech firms are treating schools as public testbeds and trial sites for their AI technologies, then are they going to make the data available for independent analysis? Because there are real risks here of marking their own homework.
May 15, 2026 at 7:25 PM
If big tech and edtech firms are treating schools as public testbeds and trial sites for their AI technologies, then are they going to make the data available for independent analysis? Because there are real risks here of marking their own homework.
Ukrainian Strike on Beriev Plant Destroys Russian Laser and AEW Testbeds
Two ultra-rare Russian aircraft have been destroyed in an attack on aircraft manufacturer Beriev’s plant near the Black Sea city of Taganrog.
Story: theaviationist.com/2025/11/25/u...
Two ultra-rare Russian aircraft have been destroyed in an attack on aircraft manufacturer Beriev’s plant near the Black Sea city of Taganrog.
Story: theaviationist.com/2025/11/25/u...
Ukrainian Strike on Beriev Plant Destroys Russian Laser and AEW Testbeds
Two ultra-rare Russian aircraft have been destroyed in an attack on aircraft manufacturer Beriev's plant near the Black Sea city of Taganrog. Alongside
theaviationist.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Ukrainian Strike on Beriev Plant Destroys Russian Laser and AEW Testbeds
Two ultra-rare Russian aircraft have been destroyed in an attack on aircraft manufacturer Beriev’s plant near the Black Sea city of Taganrog.
Story: theaviationist.com/2025/11/25/u...
Two ultra-rare Russian aircraft have been destroyed in an attack on aircraft manufacturer Beriev’s plant near the Black Sea city of Taganrog.
Story: theaviationist.com/2025/11/25/u...
Games are reasonable stepping stones as testbeds for AI progress. NetHack and text adventure games hit on modern AI weaknesses. I literally just gave a talk on why we should take Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games seriously as AI challenges.
This may sound odd, but game-based benchmarks are some of the most useful for AI, since we have human scores and they require reasoning, planning & vision
The hardest of all is Nethack. No AI is close, and I suspect that an AI that can fairly win/ascend would need to be AGI-ish. Paper: balrogai.com
The hardest of all is Nethack. No AI is close, and I suspect that an AI that can fairly win/ascend would need to be AGI-ish. Paper: balrogai.com
November 23, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Games are reasonable stepping stones as testbeds for AI progress. NetHack and text adventure games hit on modern AI weaknesses. I literally just gave a talk on why we should take Dungeons and Dragons and other role-playing games seriously as AI challenges.
Happening next week! Join me online for this seminar on innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds. I'll be discussing findings from my latest research on drone delivery testbeds in Australia. Link to register ⬇️
www.centrefordronesandculture.com/events/testi...
www.centrefordronesandculture.com/events/testi...
January 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Happening next week! Join me online for this seminar on innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds. I'll be discussing findings from my latest research on drone delivery testbeds in Australia. Link to register ⬇️
www.centrefordronesandculture.com/events/testi...
www.centrefordronesandculture.com/events/testi...
Forgetting both that deployment at scale comes after testbeds proved themselves (and these are out of our reach anyway), and that existing benchmarks are themselves scoped experimental testbeds (just having some track record and adoption doesn't make them different).
February 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Forgetting both that deployment at scale comes after testbeds proved themselves (and these are out of our reach anyway), and that existing benchmarks are themselves scoped experimental testbeds (just having some track record and adoption doesn't make them different).
All of this is to say that the Christian right moves slow and plans a long way in advance setting up its ducks in a line and uses different countries around the world as testbeds for different strategies to them redeploy elsewhere.
December 7, 2024 at 8:13 PM
All of this is to say that the Christian right moves slow and plans a long way in advance setting up its ducks in a line and uses different countries around the world as testbeds for different strategies to them redeploy elsewhere.
More and more convinced that an unexpected effect of AI in education is changing evidentiary practices in edu policy. "Testbeds" and live pilot tests are replacing "evidence-based" policy. This means schools are treated as "wild" sites that are modified to produce evidence for policy. >>
How come the policy obsession with "evidence-based" policy and technology in education of at least the last 20 years has completely evaporated with "AI"? ...
November 29, 2025 at 10:25 PM
More and more convinced that an unexpected effect of AI in education is changing evidentiary practices in edu policy. "Testbeds" and live pilot tests are replacing "evidence-based" policy. This means schools are treated as "wild" sites that are modified to produce evidence for policy. >>
Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony.
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
November 5, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Good to see this bad boy out in the world!! New article from me on drone delivery, AI testbeds, and the long history science and technology testing in the colony.
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
Online first and gloriously open access ✨
doi.org/10.1177/2976...
A Comment article in Nature Medicine discusses how understanding the human exposome is now possible with clinics, communities and cities acting as real-world testbeds to understand what drives human healthspan, resilience and flourishing. 🔒
Cities, communities and clinics can be testbeds for human exposome and aging research - Nature Medicine
Understanding the human exposome is now possible with clinics, communities and cities acting as real-world testbeds to understand what drives human healthspan, resilience and flourishing.
go.nature.com
March 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
A Comment article in Nature Medicine discusses how understanding the human exposome is now possible with clinics, communities and cities acting as real-world testbeds to understand what drives human healthspan, resilience and flourishing. 🔒
I just think they and their kids should be the primary testbeds for their own products. Whatever they may be.
September 24, 2026 at 11:32 PM
I just think they and their kids should be the primary testbeds for their own products. Whatever they may be.
Increasingly frustrated with the misunderstanding of basic experimental design in the community. People confuse experimental testbeds designed to show effect and answer specific research questions vs. the applicability of the approach. Leading to experimental demands that stifle research
February 14, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Increasingly frustrated with the misunderstanding of basic experimental design in the community. People confuse experimental testbeds designed to show effect and answer specific research questions vs. the applicability of the approach. Leading to experimental demands that stifle research
AI in schools could be terrible for all the reasons shared on here. Because it's *untested* and unproven. So now "AI edtech testbeds" are being designed not just to unleash and turbocharge AI into schools, but to make schools into live labs for tech testing 1/3 opendeved.net/programmes/q...
Qatar AI Edtech Testbeds - Open Development & Education
Edtech Testbeds in Qatari schools.
opendeved.net
July 18, 2025 at 9:21 PM
AI in schools could be terrible for all the reasons shared on here. Because it's *untested* and unproven. So now "AI edtech testbeds" are being designed not just to unleash and turbocharge AI into schools, but to make schools into live labs for tech testing 1/3 opendeved.net/programmes/q...
All these edtech and AIed testbeds don't follow the evidence-based "what works" policy model that's dominated education for years. They're *making* AI work in real-world school settings to generate insights for policy and tech. Schools are AI testing labs now.
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 PM
All these edtech and AIed testbeds don't follow the evidence-based "what works" policy model that's dominated education for years. They're *making* AI work in real-world school settings to generate insights for policy and tech. Schools are AI testing labs now.
fantastic talk from @thaophan.bsky.social on drone testing and nations as testbeds for colonial experimentation and dispossession: www.centrefordronesandculture.com/events/testi...
here's the film: www.careful.industries/ai-in-the-st...
with @amygaeta.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social
#sts
here's the film: www.careful.industries/ai-in-the-st...
with @amygaeta.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social
#sts
January 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
fantastic talk from @thaophan.bsky.social on drone testing and nations as testbeds for colonial experimentation and dispossession: www.centrefordronesandculture.com/events/testi...
here's the film: www.careful.industries/ai-in-the-st...
with @amygaeta.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social
#sts
here's the film: www.careful.industries/ai-in-the-st...
with @amygaeta.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social
#sts
Interesting commentary on the exposome- the combination of factors in our environment, our lifestyle and infection history that shape our longevity and disease risk- this article focuses more on exposomics and trying to unpack the exposome and links to longevity 🧪
Cities, communities and clinics can be testbeds for human exposome and aging research - Nature Medicine
Understanding the human exposome is now possible with clinics, communities and cities acting as real-world testbeds to understand what drives human healthspan, resilience and flourishing.
www.nature.com
April 23, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Interesting commentary on the exposome- the combination of factors in our environment, our lifestyle and infection history that shape our longevity and disease risk- this article focuses more on exposomics and trying to unpack the exposome and links to longevity 🧪
USS Bertram Ramsay during Underway replenishment, 2261. The costly refit of 7 Nimitz Class vessels with Marvick Drives would prove to be a resounding success: some remain in service today as tenders, training shops and testbeds.
Render by @pundus.art
Render by @pundus.art
August 14, 2024 at 11:05 PM
USS Bertram Ramsay during Underway replenishment, 2261. The costly refit of 7 Nimitz Class vessels with Marvick Drives would prove to be a resounding success: some remain in service today as tenders, training shops and testbeds.
Render by @pundus.art
Render by @pundus.art
join me on the 'cities as testbeds' panel (hopefully)? @terrefebiruk.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 3:21 PM
join me on the 'cities as testbeds' panel (hopefully)? @terrefebiruk.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social
i think also uh. ai research folk do not actually focus on board games any more. we have other testbeds. board games were just ideal when we did not have other things
September 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
i think also uh. ai research folk do not actually focus on board games any more. we have other testbeds. board games were just ideal when we did not have other things
Northrop Grumman Testbed With AIM-260-Like Nose Spotted Flying Alongside Raytheon’s VOODOO 1 at Eglin AFB
The two testbeds, known by their callsigns SCAN 06 and VOODOO 1, carried out concurrent operations in Eglin’s highly instrumented airspace.
Story: theaviationist.com/2026/03/28/s...
The two testbeds, known by their callsigns SCAN 06 and VOODOO 1, carried out concurrent operations in Eglin’s highly instrumented airspace.
Story: theaviationist.com/2026/03/28/s...
Northrop Grumman Testbed With AIM-260-Like Nose Spotted Flying Alongside Raytheon’s VOODOO 1 at Eglin AFB
The two testbeds, known by their callsigns SCAN 06 and VOODOO 1, carried out concurrent operations in Eglin’s highly instrumented airspace. For three
theaviationist.com
March 28, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Northrop Grumman Testbed With AIM-260-Like Nose Spotted Flying Alongside Raytheon’s VOODOO 1 at Eglin AFB
The two testbeds, known by their callsigns SCAN 06 and VOODOO 1, carried out concurrent operations in Eglin’s highly instrumented airspace.
Story: theaviationist.com/2026/03/28/s...
The two testbeds, known by their callsigns SCAN 06 and VOODOO 1, carried out concurrent operations in Eglin’s highly instrumented airspace.
Story: theaviationist.com/2026/03/28/s...
Then the Dept for Ed spent a few mill on an experiment in "codifying the curriculum" to be crawlable by AI for purposes of automated teaching materials - and invited schools to become testbeds for these exprriments schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-want...
Schools wanted to become edtech ‘testbeds’
Pilot to build 'evidence base' on impact of workload-cutting tech
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Then the Dept for Ed spent a few mill on an experiment in "codifying the curriculum" to be crawlable by AI for purposes of automated teaching materials - and invited schools to become testbeds for these exprriments schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-want...
Much looking forward to this online talk with @thaophan.bsky.social on "Testing-in-the-wild: innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds" at 9am on Tuesday 21st January 2025. Read more and register here: www.centrefordronesandculture.com/events/testi...
Testing-in-the-Wild: Innovation Nationalism and the Colonial Dynamics of New Technology Testbeds — Centre for Drones and Culture
A Centre for Drones and Culture seminar talk (online) Speaker: Dr Thao Phan, Australian National University
www.centrefordronesandculture.com
January 17, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Much looking forward to this online talk with @thaophan.bsky.social on "Testing-in-the-wild: innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds" at 9am on Tuesday 21st January 2025. Read more and register here: www.centrefordronesandculture.com/events/testi...