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Esoteric Data Science Investigations @weirddatasci@sigmoid.social In more mundane moments, also @josswright

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The OII's second annual Halloween Lecture, delving into the statistical horrors of the untranslated Voynich Manuscript. Now online: weirddatascience.net/2024/01…
Readings from the Book

Readings from the Book

Once again, the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford — through madness, or through omission brought on by horrified incredulity — saw fit to expose its students to the …

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Hoping for an open dataset... theguardian.com/world/2023/n…
‘We’ve uncovered some things’: Pentagon’s UFO online reporting tool launches

‘We’ve uncovered some things’: Pentagon’s UFO online reporting tool launches

Move signals US government slowly opening up about what it knows, or doesn’t, about unidentified anomalous phenomena

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Come and see Weird Data Science in person.
Oxford Internet Institute (@oiioxford) profile pictureOxford Internet Institute@oiioxford26 Oct 2023
Join us next week for our @oiioxford event: "OII Halloween Lecture, Illuminating the Illuminated: Uncovering Patterns in Indecipherable Books – The Voynich Manuscript" with Dr @josswright. Online and in-person. Book your place today: oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/eve…
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Analysing UFO sightings using Stan? The movement is growing: jumpingrivers.com/blog/ufo-c…
Using Stan to analyse global UFO sighting reports

Using Stan to analyse global UFO sighting reports

UFO sightings are a mysterious occurrence! We're going to use Bayesian methods via Stan and R to analyse UFO sighting reports over the past century.

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I'm open to offers, @UniofExeter. theguardian.com/education/20…
British university offers master’s degree in magic and the occult

British university offers master’s degree in magic and the occult

Course exploring impact of magic and witchcraft on society comes amid growing interest in folklore

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Mexican senate hears testimony on extraterrestrial life: ‘We are not alone’

Mexican senate hears testimony on extraterrestrial life: ‘We are not alone’

Alleged remains of ‘non-human’ mummies presented at hearing, in country’s first official event on UFOs

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The Cryptid Conjecture

The Cryptid Conjecture

They're in the woods.*Links*Bandcamp: https://chasingghosts.band...

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US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles

US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles

Whistleblower former intelligence official says government possesses ‘intact and partially intact’ craft of non-human origin

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What could possibly go wrong? theguardian.com/world/2023/m…
Harvard physicist plans expedition to find ‘alien artefact’ that fell from space

Harvard physicist plans expedition to find ‘alien artefact’ that fell from space

Avi Loeb organizing $1.5m search to Papua New Guinea to look for interstellar object that crashed into ocean in 2014

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Everyone's missing the key qualification: "... about these craft". Mr. Biden, you know where I am and how to contact me.
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) profile pictureAaron Rupar
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Replying to @atrupar
"I don't think the American people need to worry about aliens" -- John Kirby
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"Meteor" reported blazing across sky in parts of UK theguardian.com/science/2023…
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Whisperings in the Academy. Inaugural Halloween lecture at the Oxford Internet Institute - "Bayes vs. the Invaders". weirddatascience.net/2022/11…
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Fluttering, moth-like swift, to the flicker of a newly emerging incandescence. Weird Data Science will resume its injudicious statistical explorations of the horrors that lurk beyond the veil of mundanity in another place. The blog remains at… sigmoid.social/@weirddatasci…
UFO reports and darkly arcane statistics? I will be giving a Halloween lecture at @oiioxford: "Bayes vs. the Invaders", at 17:00BST on the 28th October. Online here: oii.zoom.us/meeting/register…
First known map of night sky found hidden in Medieval parchment nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Exponential, you say? vice.com/en/article/3adadb/c…
Clearly the ancient origin of Die Glocke: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Gl…
Nina Willburger (@DrNWillburger) profile pictureNina Willburger@DrNWillburger17 Jul 2022
The splendid gold hat from Schifferstadt (Rhineland-Palatinate). The purpose of this Bronze Age object is unknown. There are four gold hats, three of them found in southern Germany and France, the exact provenance of the fourth is unknown. They are all similar...1/3 #archaeology
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‘Something’s coming’: is America finally ready to take UFOs seriously? theguardian.com/world/2022/f…
‘Aliens in bedroom’: UFO sightings on the rise in Northern Ireland theguardian.com/world/2021/d…

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