As promised (threatened) these are today’s (Saturday’) pictures for the walk I recced on Thursday. Carlops to West Linton via the gorge over the N Esk and Harbour Craig. #hiking #Pentlands #Scotland

Carlops to West Linton. This was a recce for Saturday so be warned to expect more soon. #hiking #Scotland #Pentlands

More pictures from today’s circular walk from Malham with ex members of the @exeter.ac.uk OODS society #hiking #Yorkshire

Today’s hike is a widdershins circular from Malham. .#hiking #Yorkshire #OODSExeter

The annual reunion of our Ex @exeter.ac.uk Out of Doors Society (OODS) group is near Malham this year. #hiking #Yorkshire Today we did a circular from Newfield Hall taking in Gargrave and part of the Leeds Liverpool canal. #hiking #Yorkshire

For various reasons I have not been able to get out of Edinburgh for my usual hike this week so I have been reduced to wandering around the city. #hiking #Edinburgh

Rolling the dice for Table 1? Read this. www.linkedin.com/pulse/cards-...

“Because the military actions by Bern in Savoy were an invasion, the other Confederacy allies had no legal obligation to come to the aid of the Bernese.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgund...

MOT! I predict our amazing boss will say he is “proud of the lads”. #LUFC

As Helen Senn, my daughter is a conservation biologist. As Helen Watson. she is a travel writer and the author of Tea & Grit. www.bradtguides.com/product/brad... The May edition of Scottish Field has a very nice piece by Andy Dobson covering both these aspects of her life. #prouddad

We have just passed the vernal equinox but it appears that we have game of drones and I fear the stark reality that winter is coming.

“As they find their bodies aging you will find that many develop a tuck it list.” Sayings of Confuseus

Stop ignoring analysis of covariance or my head will explode. (With apologies to Christophe Lambert and David Cronenberg.) www.linkedin.com/pulse/causes...

That thing where after a long fruitless search on LinkedIn for a post you meant to reply to, you realise you saw it on BlueSky.

The horror, the horror. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I am grateful to Scott Berry for inviting me onto his podcast 55: A Visit with Stephen Senn: Time, Concurrent Controls, and the Bayesian Guidance www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnb0...

So you carried out a controlled clinical trial? Bravo. Make sure you carry out a controlled analysis. You can bin those within-group standard errors, comparisons back to baselines and dynamite detonator plots for a start. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2277879/

Today’s hike was a clockwise circular from West Linton to Wolf Craigs ending up with a pint at The Gordon Arms #hiking #Pentlands #Scotland

“Not all geology is gneiss and some of it is schist.” Sayings of Confuseus

I am at the Huxley building for an RSS paper by Daniel Farewell and others and was interested to come across David Brunt’s name here. Amongst other things he was a pioneer of what would now be called meta-analysis. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Today’s hike was from Roslin to Silverburn via Penicuik #hiking #Scotland #Midlothian

Silverburn to Flotterstone today via Carnethy an Turnhouse hills. Just a half day hike because I have a meeting this PM. #hiking #Scotland #Pentlands

“Many modern governments are composed of those who sing from the same him sheet.” Sayings of Confuseus

It used to be that only at most three or maybe four people read a PhD. The author, the supervisor, the examiner(s). Nowadays even the “author” might not have read it.

#breastcancer A reminder. If you, your family or your patients are interested in understanding the potential side effects of common treatments for breast cancer the PREDICT breast web site has got you covered. Please repost. side-effects.breast.predict.cam

The 43rd Fisher Memorial Lecture, "Design of field experiments in agronomy and plant breeding" will be given by Prof Hans-Pieter Piepho 23 April 2026, 16:30-17:30, Bush House, Kings College London as part of the British and Irish Region of the IBS meeting on DoE www.senns.uk/FisherWeb.html

Today we walked from King’s Barns to St Andrews. #hiking #Scotland #Fife

Today we are walking along The Fife Coastal Path from Crail to Kingsbarns #hiking #Scotland #Fife

Today’s walk was a circular from Carlops taking in Habie’s Howe and Harbour Craig. #hiking #Scotland

Remember folks, the show ain’t over until the fatuous statistician stings. (I despise your study and I haven’t even looked at it yet.) .#feelthehate

Today I met renowned biochemist/oncologist Bill Miller for a coffee in Queensferry and combined this with a circular walk from Dalmeny.

Jeffreys style significance tests versus Fisherian significance tests.

“You may find that some MDs leading public health policy have taken a hypocritical oath.” Sayings of Confuseus.

At any celebration, the role of a statistician, especially a frequentist one, is often that of a bad fairy. Nobody invited them, they turn up at the end, spread gloom and send everyone to sleep. My comment on the recent FDA guidance n Bayesian methods. www.linkedin.com/pulse/beware...

Research in psychology. 1) You use your students as subjects & generalise your results to all mankind 2) You assume your students are as variable as mankind at large 3) Because if they weren’t that would make the SMD a stupid measure 4) & everyone knows it’s the way you should report results.

Still trying to work out who won the Switzen versus Swederland curling match today so let’s play safe by snacking on Emmental smorgasbord.

So the women’s curling final will be between Swederland and Switzen. The bbc commentators will be in meltdown.

@macalestercollege.bsky.social I've written a Wikipedia page for Catharine Deaver Lealtad, as well as a blog post: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathari... absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/02/20/d...

Credit to the BBC ice-hockey commentators. They had no problem distinguishing Swederland and Switzen today unlike the curling commentators the other day. Hopp Sverige

Want to make your research more meaningful? Ornithology? Smear the lenses of your binoculars with vaseline. You may not be able to tell a hawk from an eagle but you won’t mistake a sparrow for an ostrich. Clinical research? Why not use responder dichotomies? pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I read this wonderful book a couple of years after its publication in 2001 and continue to be impressed by its brilliance. “They wanted to create more social room for error because they thought this would give good outcomes a better chance to emerge.” P440

Hopp Suisse! Great ski by Loic Meillard. Sad for McGrath, however. #WO2026 #Skiing

Watching CH versus UK men's curling and the Brazilian commentator keeps on saying "Sweden" instead of "Switzerland" and "Swedish" instead of "Swiss". Did I say "Brazilian"? I think I meant "British". @bbcsportsblunders.bsky.social #curling

My week’s holiday downhill and cross-country skiing in Lenzerheide is now over. The weather was very kind. I am now on my way back to Edinburgh. #skiing #Graubunden #Switzerland

I am in Lenzerheide in canton Graubunden #skiing #Switzerland

Fascinating stuff. However, IMO, the value of double blind trials is not just dealing with patient- centred biases but physician-biases and this is often overlooked. www.linkedin.com/pulse/blind-...?

Lots of new followers recently, so it's good to remind you that I wrote a book all about data centres, AI and local communities and software developers fighting back. It's available all over and here's a handy link for digital and print books2read.com/humansoftware #booksky

Die, Dichotomy. www.linkedin.com/pulse/die-di... A brief post encouraging you to read the original paper with @erik-van-zwet.bsky.social and @f2harrell.bsky.social . onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

“They who wish to take up statistics must choose whether to be frayesian or bequentist.” Sayings of Confuseus

Lots of news in my latest next generation Covid vax update: - Self-amplifying mRNA vax Kostaive approved in the UK - New trial for mucosal vax starting in Finland - Results from AstraZeneca phase 1 trial for mRNA vax ... absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/01/31/a... 1/2 #Vaccines #Covid #Covid19