CTO at @bennettoxford, vegetables, archaeology, @opensafely, @openprescribing. Views generally borrowed from others.

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I'm over here on that thing: tinyurl.com/yc85ufxb

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Finally leaving, the nazi salute was too much
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Can @darrenpjones & @StarkClimate remind @Keir_Starmer @RachelReevesMP @Ed_Miliband of the conclusions of @NetZeroUK on CCS? A government committed to deliberative democracy would surely consider the recommendations of a citizens' assembly! @GeorgeMonbiot climateassembly.uk/report/reโ€ฆ
๐“๐ก๐ž ๐”๐Šโ€™๐ฌ ยฃ22 ๐›๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐›๐ž๐ญ ๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐›๐จ๐ง ๐œ๐š๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฅ๐จ๐œ๐ค ๐ข๐ง ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ž๐œ๐š๐๐ž๐ฌ This represents massive bet on a still unproven technology locking in UK to fossil fuel dependence for decades. theconversation.com/the-uks-โ€ฆ
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We're going to combine music, data, and mushrooms. Three of my favourite things!
I'm delighted to be working with genius @sebbacon on this @BritMycolSoc commission: mushroom sound walks to put you in a place to learn and consider the mycorrhizal wonders in the UK. There's 300 miles of myco networks under a forest footstep but what's in your neighbourhood?
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This is the main course of the treasure hunt meal we've been cooking up for a year... I invite your puzzle-oriented to feast on it
15 Dec 2022
DaphneHQ is thrilled to announce that our latest game, CATastrophe, has been given a 5 STAR REVIEW in this monthโ€™s Computering Magazine! Copies will be hitting the news stands at 5pm GMT today. We will be releasing the full version of CATastrophe at the same time!
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Each year this org makes an insanely complex puzzle at Xmas. It's usually won by spooks and cryptography profs afaict. This year it's set by a team including our friend @sebbacon... Flier here, website here, buried treasure: pick up thy shovel and think! pablosath.com/
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Please tell your puzzle-nerd friends!
Every Dec since 1985, a new team has devised a devilish puzzle that locates a box hidden somewhere in England (virtual finds accepted). Enjoy tormenting yourself with baroque puzzles? Then form a team and enter! It's like catnip for puzzlers. With added retro vibes for '22 only!
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Putting the decorations up at the office. Excited for full launch of our new game. Have sent a telex to @maggiephilbin as part of the promo drive. Hoping we get good coverage in next issue of Computering Magazine on Dec 15. Sue from marketing used to roller disco with the editor.
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The "poster" for the Treasure Hunt my team's been developing for a year has dropped. It's an infuriating warmup puzzle for the main hunt, which will be out in a couple of weeks. Please form a team and tell your nerdy puzzle-oriented pals!
DaphneHQ have just released the poster for their new game - CATastrophe. Even better, you now have the chance to play the game yourself! Click on the image below for more details. There is more fun to be had when the next issue of Computering Magazine hits the stands on the 15/12
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A crack team of three of us have been working an xmas armchair treasure hunt for about 12 gruelling months x.com/PablosATH/status/15969โ€ฆ Make it worth our while by forming a team and entering!

27 Nov 2022
DaphneHQ is proud to announce that it has been featured on the No. 1 digital platform in the world - Teletext! The official poster for the latest DaphneHQ game will be released in the coming week!
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27 Nov 2022
DaphneHQ is proud to announce that it has been featured on the No. 1 digital platform in the world - Teletext! The official poster for the latest DaphneHQ game will be released in the coming week!
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Can you spot when my colleague's cat stood on his keyboard
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Just to clear it up there's a project from NHSE called SDE for R&D which is about getting TREs to ICSs (previously STPs, made from CCGs - formerly PCTs), against spec from NHSX (now NHS TD). A TRE can be called an SRE but is NOT the same SDE that GDS blogged about yesterday. OK?
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I love that we made a service that is still producing insights with very little maintenance, so many moons later...
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Interesting work with a great team...
We want an Engineer to join our team to provide Technical Support on our product @Cantabular1 (#datapublication #dataprivacy) @sensiblecodeio Skills #golang #linux #statistics #python sensiblecode.medium.com/suppโ€ฆ #belfasthome
The product of many months exhaustive research and synthesis by my colleagues @bengoldacre and @jessRmorley, and many others at @BennettOxford and beyond. Beyond the exec summary, there's lots of fascinating details in the main text.
MINISTERIAL REVIEW KLAXON My review for Sec of State on Health Data is out today - Protect privacy with secure data platforms, not red tape - More software engineers in research - Open working, shared code - Careers for NHS analysts - More! SHARE! gov.uk/government/publicatioโ€ฆ
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We're celebrating #WomenInScience today at the office. Here's @jessRmorley highlighting some of the great things done by women in our team, and discussing how we can close the gap further.
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A thread on our new paper just out. We found that people who went through a hospitalisation for COVID-19 were at higher risk of later hospitalisation and death than the general population...
Krishnan Bhaskaran and co-workers study health outcomes after COVID-19 hospitalisation in England: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmedโ€ฆ @krishnan_lshtm @darthCTR @bengoldacre @ehr_lshtm @ebmdatalab @tpp_systmone @LSHTM @PLOS #COVID19
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As boosters roll out, our group is describing which groups are being reached, and which aren't. Headline: existing ethnicity gaps grow bigger; low coverage for housebound, dementia, learning disabilities, severe mental illness reports.opensafely.org/reporโ€ฆ
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