Based on others work, I've created Claude Code configurations for R: modular skills (tidyverse, rlang, performance, OOP, testing), enforcement rules (security, testing, git workflow), workflow commands (planning, code review, TDD), and context management hooks. #claudecode #rstats

I went for a long walk yesterday on the Isle of Wight. I took so many photos I created a post about it.

Trying to write a new section for our (stalled) lung neoantigens paper and finding these two articles by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci very helpful. The marginal effects opening paragraph always makes me laugh. www.the100.ci/2024/12/01/w... www.the100.ci/2022/05/27/%...

#30DayChartChallenge Day 6: Florence Nightingale. A hexagonal density plot England of measles vaccination coverage for 5 year olds. There was one measles related death in England in 2024. Vaccines work.

I know it's a rough time to be talking science, but in case anyone wants some distraction, I wrote about the Tan et al (2024) analysis of heritability and polygenic indices for complex human behavior. Title: Is Tan et al The End of Social Science Genomics?

For #30DayChartChallenge Big or Small, I couldn't resist re-creating the FT Alphaville chart on US tariffs: on.ft.com/4cddkuC. See the article for their interactive version. All the tariffs are big, but some are bigger than others! Code and country data is in my repo: github.com/ab604/charts...

For #30DayChartChallenge Circles, I chose the Moon. I made a webpage that updates each day with an image of the moon phase as it appears from Southampton in the UK. Today it is a waxing crescent moon, 19% of the way through it's cycle. The wepage is at ab604.github.io/moon-phase/

For slopes #30DayChartChallenge I've made a simpler version of the Our World in Data graphic about cervical cancer and the Human papillomavirus: ourworldindata.org/hpv-vaccinat... Good news, vaccines work and prevent cancer! Source article DOI is 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)02178-4

Trying the #30DayChartChallenge for the first time. I'm going to focus on my research interests, so here's plots of UK lung cancer diagnoses between 2000 and 2021 showing how most people who get lung cancer are smokers, and how England has the largest proportion of cases.

Overdiagnosis of mental disorders is making headlines again, this time thanks to Wes Streeting. But it is true? (thread) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

New post! "To never risk a bad holiday or a crap meal is to experience a kind of living death. Without risk there is no learning, no growth, no surprise, no delight, no adventure, no anecdote for the dinner table, just the bland homogenous tyranny of ‘good’."

And I like the light on the sea at this time of day.

Beautiful sunset at Bournemouth this evening.

TIL that there is a legal alternative to SciHub for accessing academic articles: unpaywall.org . It's a browser extension for Firefox or Chrome and I wrote a short post: ab604.uk/blog/2025-02...

New post just out: "Technology vs Democracy" On the origins of Muskworld's ideology, which it's so much more dangerous than merely stupidity or corruption, and what might stop it. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

I wrote up a quick summary of a new short timescale HDX-MS paper by Michele Stofella et al. doi.org/10.1021/acs.... on my blog: ab604.uk/blog/2025-01... #HDX-MS #proteomics

There's nothing novel in my blog post, but after chatting to a couple of students this morning who are 3 months into their PhDs, I thought I may as well write up a few of my old man's opinions on doing/thriving/surviving research: ab604.uk/blog/2025-01... #AcademicChatter

There's nothing novel in my blog post, but after chatting to a couple of students this morning who are 3 months into their PhDs, I thought I may as well write up a few of my old man's opinions on doing/thriving/surviving research: ab604.uk/blog/2025-01... #AcademicChatter

Me in this week's Spectator. The misery of hope, and the despair of knowing things could be better. https://buff.ly/3ZaTcTX

How does Approximate Bayesian Computation *ABC) work? @rabaath.bsky.social has a classic nice simple intro the ABC using the problem of infering the number of socks in a sample of laundry. There's a movie and a page with all the code. www.sumsar.net/blog/2015/07...

My new post takes a look at the topic of “immunity debt” What does this term mean, and why has it been so controversial? What explains the weird reemergence of seasonal pathogens since the pandemic? Is Covid-19 damaging immune systems? Let’s find out! 💥 #MedSky #IDSky #PedSky 🧪

🚨Largest ever 🚨 survey of UK teenagers on violence. 5 facts you need to know 👇

I'm pro-assisted dying in principle, but I'm not sure about the proposed law (FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/no-law-or-...

This week’s FT column: we’re living through an information revolution of a kind not seen since the Reformation.

Interlibrary loans rule. There was an article I couldn’t access after trying *everything*, so my last resort was an interlibrary loan request. A library in Munich had the article, so they photocopied it and posted it (in the mail!) to Oslo

Today marks the 50th anniversary of @turnersims.bsky.social! 🥳 To celebrate, there's a special exhibition that explores old programmes, historic photos and memories from past performances. Visit the exhibition at Hartley Library's Level 4 Gallery. 🗓 Open until Friday 10 January.

"It is as though we give ourselves permission to acknowledge the power of adolescent love in stories, but cannot acknowledge it publicly about ourselves." My article about teenage love now online www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Not a bad day to repost our 10 minute talk (also in blog form) by @lyndseystonebri.bsky.social on Hannah Arendt www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/blog/hannah-...

The Chancellor Game: Can you run the UK economy? 📊 https://ig.ft.com/chancellor-game/

If you've been an adolescent or know one, I recommend the book Coming of Age by @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social as a humane and nuanced account of the psychology of that time of life, and it's effect on the rest of it. Also discussed on Radio 4, starts at 15m 55s www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

If you've been an adolescent or know one, I recommend the book Coming of Age by @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social as a humane and nuanced account of the psychology of that time of life, and it's effect on the rest of it. Also discussed on Radio 4, starts at 15m 55s www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Hello @historicalsoton.bsky.social. We did a small bit of local history with an intern recently that may be of interest to you and your audience. Details in this post: bsky.app/profile/ab60...

2024 marks 50 years since construction began on Southampton's Itchen Bridge. Explore previously unseen photos from then and now curated by our Ignite intern & the UoS Library Digital Scholarship Team: ab604.github.io/itchen-bridge/ #UoS #HistoricSouthampton

Saw an Allogator on my way to work today #Pareidolia #badpuns

GDS / gov digital folk, I was looking for some research and reckons on why FAQ pages are a bad idea. I can only find this blog post, was there anything else? gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/07/25/f... (Also, why does gov.uk now have FAQ pages?)

Hello @maxroser.bsky.social and @scientificdiscovery.dev Hope you don't mind, but I made a bot to post the Our World in Data Daily insight on Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/owid...

This year we did an extended induction with a full week of study skills. First up "how to study" - all the quiet bits out loud, but based on the science of learning. I've given this for years but it's had an update re: note-taking and AI. OER slides at osf.io/bkynw #AcademicSky 🧵1/4

I moved my website ab604.uk from Hugo Academic to Quarto. I wrote some notes about it and the customisations I made - including how to update my publications page using a spreadsheet - that might be useful to others here: ab604.uk/how

Based on the work of @roblanfear.bsky.social and @jbgruber.bsky.social I created a literature bot that post journal articles of interest to me. Bot: @protpapers.bsky.social Code is here is you want to make one yourself: github.com/ab604/prot-p...