what deranged work-tracking habit do you do mine is scrawling 60-minute writing increments with tally marks like a prison inmate or shipwrecked sailor

Well worth reading the reflections by mathematicians at cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085...; these are almost more useful for the sociology of mathematics than AI

The value of lived experience in historical research:

It was us! www.independent.ie/life/travel/...

Great interview, though the dream dinner party sounds exhausting 😂 www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Excited to see this! I've recently built my first couple of RAPs and think it's great to build more discipline into analysis, full documentation and scrutiny of assumptions etc. Results often depend on layering of analytic judgements which individually look small/defensible, but which can add up.

Omnivorous signalling 😂

So moved - brave young girl, brave woman: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Very impressed that the findmypolitics tool is led by a 17-year-old high school student

Bob Dylan played the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, on this day 1966 prompting a shout of ‘Judas’ from the audience for playing an electric set. Dylan replied: ‘I don’t believe you, you’re a liar!’ Photo by Mark Makin.

So long as it sells tickets I guess, but ugh at the corsetry. Not great for free movement & unrestricted breathing, which musicians need! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm so tired & keep falling asleep but DETERMINED to do just this one excruciatingly boring thing because my daughter loves it so so much

This Mayo-Manchester house, post-First Communion party, is cheering on the terrible UK song 👏👏👏

This popped up on the Google news algo while enduring Eurovision Very moved by this: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p... Earlier I was playing Cuaichín Ghleann Néifinn for my father There are still so many Mayo people in Manchester

Just saw a BlueSky video interview on mute and made a good guess at the accent We all do this to an extent! Different accents have distinctive face shapes and speech cadences

O’Donnell Fellowship in Irish Studies at Melbourne University - applications close 3 July mailchi.mp/68125b86d125...

Hugely-gratifying to return to Sheffield Methods Institute yesterday and hear how well former students are doing!

Grateful for this! Watch for phrasing such as 'linked to' or 'has effects on' - makes it easy to allow the less-attentive or less-informed slide from associational to causal claims

Who could have predicted it - there has been a major injustice during the Eurovision heats yet again - San Marino very badly treated, according to 12yo (We are a family of special interests)

Ag foghlaim Gaeilge The Irish for change is athrú The Irish for sudden change is athrú tobann The Irish for restructure meeting is cruinniú faoi athstruchtúrú The Irish for change management is bainistíocht an athraithe

I'm sure this is causal www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Not while The Archers is on please

One thing I LOVE about this talk is that it is hardcore repudiating the narrative that "at the end of life, no one wishes they'd spent more time working; only relationships matter in the end." People do, in fact, find purpose and meaning in all kinds of pursuits and ways of feeling they contribute!

The Diplomat is on in the background while I'm fixing some code Brilliantly bananas - I have no idea what's happening, but love Alison Janney in a powersuit

Very emotional listening to #BBCR4 - her memories of summers on Rathlin, and her feeling embedded there though was born in Glasgow

I'm in hysterics

Now! What would the ethical optimist want to get done by lunch?

You know you're finally growing up when you switch to minimax regret

Ryan Molloy ar an raidió anois! 🎻🎹 #RnaG

Really fascinating and detailed maps on how the population of different bits of Europe has changed over the past 60 years: rural depopulation and the move from east to west being the big stories. correctiv.org/en/europe/20...

Nothing moves. Yet everything is changing.

“Like many of you, I have become convinced that disinformation is one of, if not the, defining challenges of our time.” youtu.be/mQRtxjEjis8?...

Statistical disclosure control is really interesting. Much more interesting than The News.

An extra thing to do today: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've just built my first couple of reproducible analytic pipelines Liberating to have a proper workflow rather than scattered scripts Strongly recommend!

Fascinating long read Ireland provides useful examples on the social experience of population decline & high percentages not having children When I was a child, most people in the community were old My school: 65 pupils in the late 1980s, a dozen now The nearest village: 130 in 1901, about 20 now

Listening to Shauna Mullin singing Craigie Hill on Ryan Molloy's album Pianophony Beautiful Tá mo chroí ag briseadh

We arguably have more than enough biases defined already, but the large number doesn’t mean we have identified the most important ones. Glickman & Sharot successfully used neural networks and LLMs to discover new ones: buff.ly/Q0mmxnC

At Bolton Steam Museum yesterday. This 1840s twin beam engine powered looms at Crossfield Mill, Wardle until 1953.

I have a signed copy of her autobiography!

Interesting observation by Kyslytsia on belief network structure: www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

An gcloiseann tú fuaimeanna na dtonnta ar na carraigeacha, na huain ag glaoch, agus an fhuiseog ag dul suas?

I had not heard of this - very cool!

Ruth McKee talking about her intriguing debut, Wild Iris – have pre-ordered this and am on postman-watch for its arrival. Ruth McKee: ‘Pitching a novel about a suicidal middle-aged woman getting drunk on her birthday wasn’t easy’ www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

A flurry of Irish Times letters wanting a return to seanchló This one 'never accepted' the letter h: In praise of Irish script www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

Marvellous interview! Heading to the bookshop today on the walk back from dancing www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

You feel helpless, but maybe there are always small things you can do straight away I suggested to my 8yo that she ask her teacher that class prayers today remember the Jewish community Not for divine aid - but to note urgent importance, and that we should pay attention, and protect the vulnerable

Didn't try it, but this shiny app seems a useful resource to try various text analysis techniques without coding. github.com/massimoaria/...

This is an astonishingly successful public policy reform, and so heartening. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...