UK chums, the rather great Anna & The Apocalypse is on Film 4 which features this banger: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xAk...

This is like those Tesco home delivery substitutes. "You wanted kitchen foil. We delivered courgettes."

Sven from Swiss Cottage talking to Clive Bull on LBC. "Underwater dogs", then spirals into a guide for St Pancras companions. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxXK...

Our paper on improving statistical reporting in psychology is now online 🎉 As a part of this paper, we also created the Transparent Statistical Reporting in Psychology checklist, which researchers can use to improve their statistical reporting practices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I was at a metal clubnight in Manchester wearing this jacket. The Irish guy queuing at the bar next to me loudly says to the barmaid "Nah, Judge Dredd here was ahead of me"

so I just commented on that paper in Cell Host and Microbe that is cited as evidence that the autism/microbiome link is solid: pubpeer.com/publications... (not sure what the word “precision” is supposed to mean in the title) tldr; looks p-hacked 🫤 and I couldn’t find the ethics approval 🤔

✨ Dark Feasts: The Sinister Side of Festive Dining ✨ Join me on 6 December 2025 at 3:30 pm for a talk with London Month of the Dead on the darker palate of festive food and how Christmas eating can slip into ritual, memory, unease & the uncanny. Tickets: londonmonthofthedead.com/gothicdinner... 🖤

Early morning fog at Colliers Wood Station, London. #photography #photo

Comparing music to other autobiographical memory cues in healthy aging: https://osf.io/d562b

He stees you when you're stleeping.

Weekend catch-up: The BBC has released a rare 1969 documentary in which Marty Feldman examines the nature of comedy. http://dlvr.it/TPHH44

A lucky bidder.

An evening spent in the company of an AMAZING cast and crew. R & D for Nina Atesh's new play, In League With The Devil.

Should you wish to watch "American Week" in glorious technicolour...my pals at @lbc.co.uk have got you covered. 📺: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmMk...

The most festive bus route in London this Christmas

NEW: The biggest union in the BBC, Bectu, has written to culture secretary Lisa Nandy and BBC chair Samir Shah, demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board. They say Gibb, a political appointee, is a “direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence”.

Clarivate's top cited researchers of 2025 list is out- Merry Christmas! Here are psychology and psychiatry's: clarivate.com/highly-cited...

I like the use of the word scoop here, in the sense that people rang up the FT and told them. Fearless.

If you are interested in the problem of conflicts of interest, in any scientific field, please consider filling in this survey: erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... (and please repost this for a snowball effect!)

The NYT says it's the first time, but if recent history is anything to go by, this probably means they've sat on it for 20 years.

Tempted. (via @welshbollocks.bsky.social )

The worst thing to happen to a park since white dog stools.

Instinct and/or sherry.

The only problem with this is that the 1950s dressing up fetish of the US social psychologists and the misrepresentation of data that formed the basis of a theory very much should change science. And I think Kelly's analysis is not completely entirely convincing.

I was reading a review paper about facial expression as conversational contributor yesterday and it seemed very WEIRD-centric. Not specifically, just the assumptions behind how people converse and the assumption that everyone does what the "West" does.

The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say. Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA#microbiome @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social

Maureen's in Iceland! She claims it's for some book thing. But, mark my words, by the time everyone finishes their fermented shark meat there will be a massacre.

New road, local shop, giclee print, gentlemen's league. From @sarahcoomer.bsky.social www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1...

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Just went on Radio 4 to talk about Hitler’s genitals. So glad I trained as a historian for this

Leading medical publication the British Medical Journal recognises SUVs as a danger to public health in a new editorial co-authored by T&E’s James Nix: bit.ly/4hVDlBC Large SUVs are a danger to pedestrians, cyclists & other drivers. It's time to take action to reduce their presence in urban areas.

Fred and Rosemary West, on the other hand, big fans of Jimmy Young who could get *quite* tetchy.

Sad to hear about the fire at the DoJ filing room that happened next weekend.

A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.

"These emails are cherry-picked." "Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"

Belinda Carlisle. We dream the same dreams, we want the same things. She’s outbid me 17 TIMES on eBay

Quantum of Silence: The Burden of Professional Secrecy: https://osf.io/rhdxz

hook JD up to one of those "experience period cramps" machines and watch him crumble before your eyes

New. @nytimes.com bot: Are there times when a newspaper sitting on incriminating information about a President is a legitimate act? Hank Hanksby Jnr reports.

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva

@bmj.com has issued an expression of concern for a paper claiming stem cell therapy can reduce the risk of heart failure. The move comes after sleuths and scientists critiqued the “complete mismatch” between the study data and the article itself.

Jeanie Finlay’s Sound It Out is a favorite

Beliefs in myths about psychology: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Running the [insert]* has become an impossible job on.ft.com/4oE2cwk *BBC *ONS *British Library *country

All the Epstein emails are powerful elites saying shit like “Hello my friend the pedophile, i need your advice as a pedophile, what do you think about this other pedophile? Pedophilic Regards, your Friend ;)” and instead of swinging from a gibbet most of them are still writing op-eds against leftism

Tuned into Radio 4 to hear Kirsty Wark ask "Why don't we see more women masturbating?" and now I don't know where I am.

Today's Soft Furnishing Of The Day (not mine)

I tell you what, The Spectator is one of the most backward places in the UK so let's send it back to where it came from (lalaland).