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Jon Turney

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Writer & editor, mainly about jazz and popular science. Past lives in science policy, sci-comm etc. Retirement pastimes include managing climate anxieties...
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listening to James Brandon Lewis live from Unterfahrt, Munich on YouTube (It'll disappear later).He's the real deal isn't he?
#jazzsky

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As a computational neuroscientist trying to build models I find myself oscillating dramatically between believing: 1) We have too much data; we need to cool it with new experiments til we can figure out what's going on and 2) We exist in a data desert; what even happens in the brain? who knows!

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Slightly mad piece by Mail’s TV critic but not a bad advert for Bristol :)

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Agreeably surprised by how cheering it is simply to wake up each morning not thinking, "what crass, shameful or simply malevolent thing will my government try and do today"? I suppose it had gone on so long one had kind of had stopped noticing how steadily dispiriting that was...

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PS - the whole film is wonderful

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Blimey, I thought we might do it in Bristol Central. but not like this 🙂 BBC: The co-leader of the Green Party Carla Denyer wins with 24,539 votes - taking the seat from Labour. Thangam Debbonaire, second, with 14,132 votes - a 25.9% drop from the 2019 election.

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watching a bit of the tennis to calm pre-election night nerves - that works, right?

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I’m here for Torypocalypse though

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Beware of the book festivals! (My latest Guardian Books cartoon)

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One of several titles on this topic I think particularly useful

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great day for a pre-breakfast walk to the Downs :)

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I note from TLS review that the new biography of Isherwood is 850pp. I mean, I’m interested in the man but might publishers consider insisting that editors, you know, edit?

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don't wish to subscribe but would definitely buy this if it was on sale :)

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It did point me toward Wallerstein, though, so not wasted :)

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Recently noted the bookmark I used to mark my place in vol 1 when daughter was born is still in place. Elder daughter is now 37 :) (All 3 vols now gone to Amnesty bookshop, finally… )

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needs to be more like this, surely?

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Re-upping for the afternoon/evening crowd: The first excerpt from my book IN THE BREWING LUMINOUS: THE LIFE & MUSIC OF CECIL TAYLOR is up now on The Wire's website. Go read it. I think it's pretty good!
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/b...

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Interesting contemporary practitioners: Jason Moran, Fred Hersch, Brad Mehldau, Matthew Shipp, Vijay Iyer, Kris Davis, Marta Sanchez, Kit Downes, Fergus McReadie, Huw Warren, (there are a lot!)

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Deliberately undermining one of the most powerful tools against the threat of global pandemics from novel emerging infectious diseases is not only evil — it’s stunningly shortsighted zero-sum thinking that puts the US population at risk as well.

www.reuters.com/investigates...

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Only seen one of these, but glad Green Party has some £ to spend here :)

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After his trial they gave Constantine a villa, an allowance, and an executioner.

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Not heard every one, but surely the best episode of Backlisted so far :) Fascinating, funny and well-made

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Sure we musn't assume the future will be like the past but it is profoundly satisfying to see the Tories' ineptness in government mirrored in their disaster of a campaign :)

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Rishi Sunak leaves *rolls dice* Paddington’s funeral to go to *rolls dice* the unveiling of a statue of himself

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Usually in the evenings, while Traxel and Bridges drove off into the sand sea, Shelley and the old man would wander among the gutted time-tombs, listening to them splutter faintly in the dying light as they recreated their fading personas, the deep crystal vaults flaring briefly like giant goblets.

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‘They remind me of the Gadarene swine,’ Mildred Pelham remarked.

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‘The signs, Doctor! Have you seen the signs?’

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All day Forbis had been trying to reach the 100th floor.

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Again last night, as the dusk air began to move across the desert from Lagoon West, I heard fragments of music coming in on the thermal rollers, remote and fleeting, echoes of the love-song of Lenora Goalen.

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The next day, for some reason, there was a sudden increase of activity in the watch-towers.

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Dipping into Ballard’s complete short stories again. Nearly 1200pp. Maybe one can make do with just some intro sentences? (A thread)

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