Delighted to see this phenomenon attract attention: www.theguardian.com/education/20... I don't hunt my own ancestors, but depend on these vital efforts to research families who left no archives Amateur historians become genuine experts & share knowledge freely, a fascinating phenomenon >>

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'Tis the season - one for the neRds!

Marvellous! My heart is bursting reading this And a small plea for everyone to mine the digitised newspaper archives in their slicers of time. There is so much there that, once rediscovered, will change how we think

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Brilliant example for teaching correlation != causation

Great thread:

Just listening to Maggie O'Farrell on R4 - I didn't catch the name but she can only be talking about Michael Donaghy God, what a loss 💔

Never watched it but caught the plot nevertheless & nodding vigorously at this

Cool to see William Thompson/Anna Doyle Wheeler highlighted here Fun fact: Anna Wheeler was an ancestor of Nicholas Ridley and Elisabeth Lutyens

Santa cleared for Irish airspace! Glad to see we're keeping an eye on who's meant to be passing by 🎅🛷✈️⛴️❄️🎄 www.instagram.com/reel/DSZsR0a...

This! Not of that craic www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

A little oddity

In the midst of the darkest of times, a hero stands up for what is right. The brutal, deliberate attack against Jewish Australians celebrating Hanukkah at #Bondi Beach today is an abomination. For those murdered while celebrating the 1st day of the Festival of Lights, may their memory be a blessing.

Career objective unlocked! I'm on the SSC 😀 ideas.repec.org/s/boc/bocode... And - there's ANOTHER tab export module posted *on the same day*! Will look at their .ado when I have time Theirs is more for univariate stats, going further with formatting Mine is specifically useful for crosstabs >>

This weekend there are two Christmas shows and four children's parties The Puritans had a point

Why aren't families having more babies? This brand new paper argues that part of the reason is because childcare is so expensive. "A 10% increase in the price of childcare leads to a 5.7% decrease in the birth rate" abigaildow.com/assets/docs/...

Me vibe coding. “Wow … fck me … really? … amazing! … crap why didn’t that work … no it didn’t work … no it didn’t ... no that doesn’t work either … nup … no that’s the same thing … no …”

I'm about 40 pages into Suga's memoirs and so far it's mostly a continuation of his first book, i.e. the work of politics is making bureaucrats do things for the people.

Non-Classic Vienna. -- "Alterlaa", detail. #Vienna #photography #photographyOnBlueSky #Austria

👀 Here's Stuart Buck with some GOOD news about the research system "When all institutions look the same, their output tends to be the same as well. Tens of thousands of scientists (usually government-funded) labor within the same constraints, incentives, and pressures to conform. If we want to […]

Something I've been working on in my spare time over the past few weeks - hopefully useful! github.com/smmcandrew/t... It's a tool for producing exploratory data analysis at scale to Excel, ready-formatted. I used it to export 3500 formatted pairs of crosstabs last night

Oh no.... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

At the annual commemoration (a little early this year) in Mount Jerome for Professor Ludwig Hopf, a friend and colleague of Einstein, who fled the Nazis for a job in Trinity College Dublin but died suddenly, within months of arrival, on the winter solstice of 1939.

“If we winter this one out, we can summer anywhere” Seamus Heaney on “The Troubles” Me on the Dublin weather these days Photo of my boy running under western skies on Inis Mór one summer …

My curse upon you, world: Woe to you who do not understand your own life And who do not understand yourself Cú Choigcríche Ó Cléirigh, c.1655

Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann 🙏 www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/n...

Extremely proud of my former University of Bristol QStep student Chante Joseph - who stood out even as a second-year UG for her professionalism and excellence I'd heard about this viral article but hadn't realised it was one of hers! www.vogue.co.uk/article/is-h...

My husband's youngest daughter (7yo): 'Daddy, what is it like, the life of a boy?' (the precise phrasing) His answer: 'it's like the life of a girl. But easier'

An unusually leaden Start the Week right now

Reminded me of the perfect coincidence in Turkey this summer: a call for rain prayers after a long drought was made just as the Meteorology Service warned of three days of heavy rain across the country www.nber.org/system/files... h/t Arpit Gupta

It was a Corkman even who first debunked the Protocols of Zion

New newsletter. I couldn't get this survey result from 2016 out of my head, so I wrote about it https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/when-half-the-population-dont-trust

Though I do grumble that the Guardian tends to write about men like we're farm animals, there is a lot of sense in this. I've learned a lot about being a friend from other friends who are good at making things happen. www.theguardian.com/wellness/202...

Very sad news. I first heard of him via a brilliant, hilarious piece for the Guardian years ago. A huge loss!

I love this museum - have taken my daughters

‘There was comedy at all times’: Andrew O’Hagan on 15 years of funny, frank and champagne-fuelled friendship with Edna O’Brien www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

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Found this when searching for the SchoolsWeek piece on how it feels to pay the parenthood penalty - very useful! blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

I'm surprised this is exprssed as a question. How could the answer be anything other than that it's horrible? And no, they're mostly not finding gratification elsewhere or enjoying greater work-life balance. It's just worse pay and worse work. schoolsweek.co.uk/how-does-it-...

Remarkable piece for many reasons. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The sign-off on BBC R4 just now was 'good night and oíche mhaith' 😭 💔

Interesting. I agree with the reviewer, I think. Being a parent doesn't mean I think about the future - I don't have time or bandwidth. I would prioritise differently - probably better and more morally - if I didn't have children observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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This is very good on collective responsibility and collective shame: www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Gorgeous Corpus!

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My advisor has an effect named after him. I want that too now. The problem is I'd have to achieve something and I don't wanna do that. Suggestions? jonathanweisberg.org/post/zollman/

A clean run of BlueSkiers commenting on the hurling! The sad face from the UCC stats prof counts too... Well played Tipp who were flying in the second half Hard luck Cork