Tesco's own brand stuff for the win

And what an absolute banger that cathedral is! I loved it: and got up to here (those panels fold back & you can see down into the nave!! 🤩) & thence onto the roof. New Year's Eve: b***** freezing!! Notice the Norman front. And wooden ceiling. And road absurdly near the main door 🤦🏽‍♀️ I hope you enjoy!

Watching a Radiohead cover in Ely Cathedral. Wonderful. Haunting. Awesome. @carolinefiennes.bsky.social .... A Cathedral!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1... Adding costs for US consumers seems like it's not a great foreign policy?

Last year, we made the decision to step away from X. The Royal Irish Academy is committed to creating, convening, and sharing knowledge for the public good and as an organisation we value Independence; Integrity; Curiosity; Openness and Rigour. In our view, X no longer aligns with these values

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk

British education in a nutshell

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Paracetamol (still!) safe during pregnancy as it was before the disinformation coming out of DJT

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." ― Frank Herbert, Dune cassidoo.co/post/good-br...

A new article provides evidence that Miles Hewstone was engaging in sexual harassment/assault at Oxford and other universities for 30 years. More women have bravely come forward to describe his behavior. This is the tip of the iceberg since I know other women. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...

Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Lol. SURPRISE!

Saw a lot of headlines saying "wikipedia is embracing ai" being tossed around tabloids, and I'm pretty sure they were maliciously written to make you feel a certain way about Wikipedia. What's actually happening is that wikipedia is demanding payment for data scraping and the corpos don't like that.

Here is a gift article for anyone who doesn’t subscribe to NYT. It’s an important video.

SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT The cat has already been fed.

One year RA post at @poid-lse.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... working with @johnvanreenen.bsky.social

Niche but interesting alert! The Committee on Standards has made a recommendation about the register of interests of MPs' staff It highlights the difficult balance between transparency, accountability & security interests but also possibly narrows the use of the register in an unsatisfactory way

David Frost sums up so much that is wrong with British politics.

AI tools are no longer unable to realistically render faces of real people, and can now generate face images of actual individuals that are essentially undetectable as synthetic to most human observers, research by Kramer et al concludes: buff.ly/yooYg1g HT @bxjaeger.bsky.social

London long-term homicide trends. Comparison with NY. The UK media recently headlined that London was now safer than NY on this measure. Data suggests that has always been the case.

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... person who works by visiting posh restaurants thinks food standards shouldn't apply to said restaurants. Pretty certain he'd change his mind after some mind-altering food poisoning. (Also lol at Michelin)

16-Part Epoxy xkcd.com/3194/

As before, any defection should automatically lead to a by-election. It should not be that an MP campaigns for one party/manifesto and then switches without the electorate getting a say.

Our Criminology team is expanding! Lectureship position (E&R) available @exeterspspa.bsky.social

BREAKING: The controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has been *cancelled,* I can now report. A senior official with Africa CDC confirmed the cancellation and said GB officials are working to make sure any research is conducted ethically: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

How do you measure the domestic mental load? 🧐 And how does your experience stack up against our research of 3,000 US parents? I created a quiz using the same approach we use in peer-reviewed sociological research so you can find out! Hope this sparks some conversations 💡 tally.so/r/447Xxk

Our Department at Aalborg University is hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology with a focus on quantitative methods: www.stillinger.aau.dk/videnskabeli...

'How to interpret hazard ratios', with @dominicmagirr.bsky.social and @timpmorris.bsky.social thestatsgeek.com/2026/01/15/h...

A few years ago analysts were writing that AI would devastate the workplace by replacing drivers with self driving cars. Today the drivers still have their jobs, but the analysts have been replaced.

BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.

Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers “We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.” (Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)

Come to lovely Essex this summer! The oldest research methods summer school in Europe, I believe

There's still time to get your nominations in the UKRN Dorothy Bishop Prize to celebrate early career researchers! Nominations close this Sunday, 18 January 2026.

Nudging helps people pay utility bills on time, but effects of different frames (credit harm, social norm…) vary with prior payment behaviour. Study by Araujo et al finds machine learning can tailor nudges but works no better than the best average nudge: buff.ly/1iaSeUi

What do people in England think about their local area? In this short report I take a look at surveys we conducted with @yougov.co.uk in 2022, 2024 and 2025 to gain some insights... Some key findings...

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

Could've sworn this had already been propo...oh. yeah. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Excellent use of a backronym

Check this useful systematic review on RRD on crime and justice!

Journals issuing "correction notices" for changes of licensing= no. That's not what it's for. Stop it.

become ungovernable

Slightly diminish a game: The Itcher

Following accounts like this is probably quite an effective way to convince others to move

Fantastic news that a government body is now on here. Zero excuse at this point for all others not doing the same

The catalog of ICE abuses in Noah Smith’s article is staggering.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Bravery in the face of corporate misogyny.

My 11 year old has jumped quickly to the “humour” stage of grief

Please forward to economic sociologists who’d be interested in a professorship at the @eui-eu.bsky.social. #economicsociology