I’ve got the oven,
you’ve got the rye flour
Let’s make lots of mämmi
David Weir
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Another queer doing a science
• gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place
• aspiring infracrepidarian
• my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me)
• pääruokavegaani🍦
• they/them (mostly)
• 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈
• "functional but messy"
• parent
• puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä.
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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David Weir
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Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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David Weir
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Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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Mar 07, 2026
What was so obviously bad about it?
The tell which meant I lost all ability to take it seriously wasn't em dashes or three-point lists or any crap like that, it was two sentences which had a perfect meter and rhyming scheme. I can't remember what they are now (and I don't want to call it out directly anyway) but it was totally unmissable when read aloud, even by a non-native English speaker.
It broke the serious mood that the opening paragraph was trying to evoke, which was generally okay up to that point, even though there was some really cringeworthy imagery about (I paraphrase) the emptiness of space staring into a space station.
How did I spot this, and how could I put words on it? I like to think it's because I did Higher English (i.e. one year of lukio-level English philology, for the Finns reading this). For teenage David it was an awful struggle, but for fortysomething David it gave them the words and tools they need to explain why some English texts are just more interesting than others, and why large language models write such crap.
That, and it gave me a lifelong love of Norman MacCaig's poetry.
https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/basking-shark/
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Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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Mar 04, 2026
Onneksi DVV estää minua tekemästä huonoja valintoja pikkutunneilla.
(Olisin halunnut vain muokata ammattinimikettäni)
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David Weir
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Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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Feb 25, 2026
I’ve been asked to sign a declaration of solidarity with academics at Ilia State University in Tbilisi, in response to legislative measures in Georgia that will cut student admissions and limit academic freedom. Does anyone have any good English-language resources about what these changes entail and how they are being receive?
#AcademicChatter #Georgia #ISU #IliaStateUniversity
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David Weir
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Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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Feb 12, 2026
My enjoyment of Fedi went way up when I started being very liberal with my use of the “mute” feature…
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Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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Feb 12, 2026
British public sector being perfectly normal: expecting me to be available 24/7 for a week to discuss my giving them more money voluntarily.
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Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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Feb 11, 2026
Today is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science.
It’s important to remember that actively working towards a welcoming safe environment for everyone in science isn’t just the decent thing to do (I’d argue it’s the bare minimum), it also means we do better science!
Take, for example, this study showing underrepresented groups innovate more than their peers (but their work is not taken up by the wider community):
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915378117
#AcademicChatter #WomenInSTEM
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David Weir
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Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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Feb 09, 2026
Ahh, our new paper draft is coming nicely. ☺️
(I think I blame VSCodium’s built in PDF viewer for this)
#TeXLaTeX
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David Weir
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Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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David Weir
@davidjamesweir@mementomori.social
Another queer doing a science • gravitational wave cosmology ∩ trying to make academia a nicer place • aspiring infracrepidarian • my own opinions here (and probably anywhere else you find me) • pääruokavegaani🍦 • they/them (mostly) • 🇫🇮🏴🇪🇺🏳️🌈 • "functional but messy" • parent • puhun suomea n. B2-tasolla. Käytän kuitenkin pääosin englantia täällä. I generally accept follow requests (if you have an empty profile, maybe message me first!) Formerly @ davidjamesweir
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Jan 28, 2026
RE: https://mastodon.social/@vitaut/115974966972211601
Today I learned you can turn off clang-format inline in the code: https://clang.llvm.org/docs/ClangFormatStyleOptions.html#:~:text=The%20code%20between%20a%20comment,will%20not%20be%20formatted
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