Just posted tabbitR on CRAN: automates production of batches of weighted cross-tabs, exported to Excel R version of Stata -tabbit- on SSC Consistent formatting, transparent handling of missing values Speeds up exploratory analysis & preliminary reporting stage cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

I'm on CRAN! Life achievement unlocked! cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

Any Prunty relatives still around?

I'm in the wrong cluster!!! I have some work to do...

Amazing: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Governance language is very interesting, and there is too little attention to it.

Always interesting when a carefully-phrased formulation permits more than one reading.

Listening to RnaG - the lead news story is the same as over on the big island

I'm on a standing-room only train between Leeds and Sheffield. There's an elderly, slightly drunk man behind me playing 'Long Tall Sally' loudly on his phone, and shouting 'BABY!' and 'HAVE SOME FUN!' occasionally. Other passengers stoic.

'Not in any practical sense' 😂 The LLM is learning British English.

Please somebody, tell me how. How can this be real life?

NEW: Matthew Conrad, Conrad Hackett: "How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious “Nones” " sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...

I am very happy this article is out [OA to come]. It builds on work by scholars like @matthewjkelly.bsky.social, Paul Townend, Michael de Nie, @alanlester.bsky.social (and others) to suggest that Irish nationalism had something important to say about the British Empire in the 1830s and 1840s. 🗃️

#DailyPhoto #PictiúrAnLae Spring / An t-Earrach #100DaysOfGaeilge

Decorations down just in time 💪

According to online opt-in pollster YouGov, belief in God among British 18-24 year olds rose from 16% in 2021 to 45% in 2025. New YouGov data indicates it is now down to 27% in 2026. https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/trackers/brits-beliefs-about-gods?crossBreak=1824 #quietrevival

Lá fhéile bríde sona daoibh - first day of spring!!!

I urge everyone to visit this gem of a museum: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I've ruined the 12-year-old's life Dragging her along to K-pop Krazy this afternoon, because her younger sibling was going Followed by a compulsory viewing of Le Ballon Rouge this p.m. Much chuntering and snorting throughout both

I'm trying to get through 'these uncertain times' by combining strategic optimism and defensive pessimism I don't think it's a special secret. It's just 'hope for the best, plan for the worst' But. It sometimes feels like hard work 😣

Thinking about Ann Lovett today

Another important paper, now in print at AER: "Potential" and the Gender Promotion Gap 🎯Subjective assessments of employee "potential" account for about half the gender promotion gap. 🎯 This is despite fact that women go on to outperform their male colleagues. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Wonderful stuff My guess is most of us have a poor mental model of settlements over time - we make inference from what we currently see And don't realise just how *busy* and cultural, not natural, the rural landscape is Archaeology literally surfaces this :-)

This painting was on the wall next to my mum's bed for as long as I can remember. It's of her godmother, Rhoda Power, one of three amazing sisters. 1/

My life has changed completely because of One Big Thing.

This looks great:

My guess is most academics don't claim tax relief on subscriptions to approved professional/scholarly associations RES/BSA/RGS/PSA etc: you can claim tax relief on 100% of subscriptions, if not already expensed by employer UCU: you can claim on 2/3 of subscriptions www.gov.uk/government/p...

All good fun I have to admit I love this tiny museum - I first visited when I was being induced and nothing much was happening

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Interesting how long Jacobitism lasted

1980s hymns 😶

I started watching The Traitors late, enjoyed the final Very amused the winning traitors were a professional strategic communicator & cybersecurity consultant Their expertise is framing/messaging (Rachel) & adversarial reasoning (Stephen) Both with accents which aren't easily class-coded And >>

A great polymath and music scholar - I loved his work: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

In 1556 - Irish #whiskey (or its prototype) makes Mary I’s #Dublin Castle authorities sniff about for revenue...

No amount of planting can ever substitute veteran trees: as habitat, as climate regulation, and for sheer *character*. Only being wild, self-seeded, and the passage of time produces this.

Wonderful story: www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

It was very special - extremely moving - to hear Mrs Argent speak to us at work today: www.het.org.uk/survivors-he...

And they’re off. The annual mass escape from Dublin Castle, commemorating the real jailbreak of 1592 by Red Hugh O’Donnell & the O’Neill Brothers. Competitors will cover 62km through the night, across the mountains to Glenmalure Valley. That’s if they make it, unlike Art O’Neill, who died en route.

The thing that makes having accidentally ended up living in Manchester really, REALLY worthwhile is the excellence of the train network It forces people to improvise constantly, keeps us on our toes And meant lots of innovation in hybrid working long before it became common Ahead of the curve!

Thrilled to hear @drhmccabe.bsky.social (who needs to change her handle) on BBCR4's In Our Time right now One of my favourite deeply-serious people 👏

Deming featured in my final lecture on policy analysis and programme evaluation!

I love this! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Lovely! www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

#Economics is ultimately about people. In 'The importance of human happiness (in eight arguments)', Prof Andrew Oswald argues why #wellbeing data belongs at the heart of economic thinking, alongside traditional measures of progress. Read more: https://bit.ly/49cuPeJ

Also - see the great ESS resource linked within! Well done and thank you to Maksim Rudnev for creating this for us all: rudnev.shinyapps.io/Basic_Values/

This Purser chapter is linked in the Guardian piece - what a find! 4* 🎓📚🎖️- just wonderful work: www.fiddlerofstrathspey.co.uk/uploads/1/2/...

Women's Christmas - celebrating the lovely, lovely ciúnas when back in the office/children ar ais ar scoil 🤍

I love the soft power of Ireland naming the storms. 'Goretti' not a name we hear as often on the big island www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

That's it, we're moving!