That semester and a half IU took of formal logic and Gödel finally relevant

live skeets of RFK junior (B= RFK)

New team members join the ISCycle team. Read more at www.iscycle.ie/news#h.96lb2...

It’s International Haiku Day apparently and so for today’s poetry offering, here are a few assorted haiku.

Weird Cologne to Lyon flight just now by the German air force that seems to have touched down in Porto and now about to land in Shannon?! @flightradar24.com GAF938 from Cologne to Lyon fr24.com/GAF938/3f3ea...

I really didn't understand how this might work, but seems remarkable if true, that an LLM can conceal info about owls in it's numeric output

funny that it turns out the moon is much more rock coloured than we realise!

For followers who are into running and/or #RStats It's marathon season. I crunched the numbers on the 2025 NY Marathon to work out how to optimally pace a marathon. There's a general rule that works if you're going for sub-2:20 or trying to make it round in 6 hours. quantixed.org/2026/04/06/m...

Here is the same diagram for Ireland in 2017; illustrating just how much energy is lost mostly as heat from the system. The current picture would show a much stronger contribution from wind & solar flowcharts.llnl.gov/commodities/...

Good explainer by @janrosenow.bsky.social “Have we been duped by the primary energy fallacy?“ by Jan Rosenow on Medium: medium.com/@jan.rosenow...

Website of our new research team CIITÉS is out ! 🇫🇷 'Our main objective is to produce knowledge that enables a better understanding and mitigation of the health impacts of climate change, taking into account socia/territorial health inequalities' cites-irset.fr/en/homepage/ #Rennes #AcademicSky

how I feel when open science initiatives choose to publish in Nature

Very proud to have worked on the 2026 update to the CRediT taxonomy with @rbly.bsky.social

Not an April Fool’s! At age 39, I have finally learned how to ride a bike. Just had my first cycling lesson and managed to stop and start and ride without falling over, which is more than I expected. Don’t know if one can simultaneously feel proud and embarrassed, but I’m buzzing!

cargo balance bike!!! 💚🚴‍♂️

I enjoy this a lot, but in our @iscycle.bsky.social research, we've really found that bakfiets are not for everyone, especially if you are shorter or less confident, and they're not as good for taking a second adult as a longtail

Here's the link to the free pdf of my new book The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet. Access is so important and I'm grateful that the press is platforming it as one file that is easy to download. www.upress.umn.edu/978081669906...

Why isn't the government even talking about the fairly easy voluntary fuel demand constraints that are laid out in the National Fuel Plan? Makes sense to start some of this now. None of this would cost anything.

Cool little package on CRAN for adding a download data button into html files created from your Rmd. cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

We have summer internships y'all! Come work at Posit on the PyData, tidymodels, shiny, or Connect teams: grnh.se/tigz810a3us. You will have an awesome time, learn a ton, and help advance our open source and pro tools 🧰 #rstats #pydata

While we are all focussed on fuel prices; it continues to amaze me that EVs are designed with all sorts of features to improve aerodynamics to boost efficiency (and range), but car manufacturers don't seem to be interested in carrying over these innovations for fossil-fuel powered cars 1/x

This is a man who doesn't know he is in the market for an electric bicycle. Go on, it'll be every bit as much fun (and useful) as your nifty fifty! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/lett...

That's what I thought when I first heard (recent) mention of and LNG terminal: the only way it makes sense is as something to offer the Trump administration.

Went down a bit of a rabbit hole looking at why eg diesel/kerosene/jet fuel prices are more affected at the moment than petrol, and found this rather amazing picture of very different types of crude oil, which helps explain why different crudes are good for making different products 1/x

Longish thread about cycling a cargo bike around Limerick and the bike itself. After trialing a cargo bike Pat and @limerickecargobike.bsky.social - we decided to buy this bike from Decathlon. We have over 1000km done since October. We go every morning - regardless of the weather.

Never, ever, write chapters in edited volumes. No one can read them, they are trees that fall in a forest when there is no one around to see it. Do yourself a favor, and post a preprint, or start a blog. It will likely have 1000 time more impact.

Definitely not me doing campervan electrics

Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to answer 275 emails per day and argue with administrators. That’s why I chose a career in academia.

Evidence for the adept conversation skills of hairdressers (used to be funny when they would ask me about what I do (PhD era), and I'd reply that I study how people adapt their conversational style to the people they are speaking with)

I love this. I've always thought of it more as "add an ingredient" working up from crepes

This February marks 20 years since I worked in a department of psychology. I would say I still mostly define myself as a psychology person, but that's a long time being an out of discipline person where I'm working

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould

This trip through Aotearoa New Zealand has provided one illustration after another about the value of heroic conservation efforts.

Wait what theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...

Nothing like the smell of fresh data in the morning #rstats Though, that's not to say that there is not some data uncleanliness

New Zealand and Ireland continuing to have a very normal one on house prices...

“A year after the $1.1 billion overhaul,” which added a new lane each direction, “the 405’s rush hour drive times were a minute slower than they were before the workers broke ground. Five years later, traffic was worse at all times of day.” www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

So frustrating that New Zealand's electricity generation has been sitting so close to be entirely renewable for what seems like decades, but they haven't yet managed to get to 100% long term, mostly (I think) due to higher demand in winter

it would also be great if they flag that the YELLOW-legged hornets legs are less yellow than, like, wasps. If the thing you find has yellow legs, it's probably a wasp. If it's legs are mostly black, but they're yellow at the end, then worry about it being a hornet. Though also, per below, big!

Great name for a tyre, but given various loss-of-traction incidents on wet and slimy surfaces, not surprised to see the top review titled "Downright dangerous on wet roads"

Round of applause for Specialized, ‘Carless Whisper’ has to be the best ever name for a cargo bike tyre.

This is so interesting. I've always wondered why buying a car new in some countries is more likely, and this certainly qualifies as a reason! And, uh, seems like it encourages people to buy a new car on credit?????

Amazing thread here suggesting that most measures of videogame addiction are actually measuring ... read the full thread. I can't do it justice

Any parents and stats geeks with short-sighted children spent any time looking at the new prescription tech that is supposed to slow development of myopia.... Doesn't look like woo at Cochrane, but "very low certainty evidence" www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

I love (not) that New Zealand is on the edge of the #strava map, making it extremely difficult to zoom and pan

It's, um, a bit over 12 years since I last went on sabbatical, and though I'm not technically on sabbatical yet, I am about to leave the building. It somehow seems less momentous than last time

Look at this magical yoke!

I have always loved this paper, and even though I knew about it, I still foolishly bought some cutlery for my departmental tearoom... and we know how that went...

Filling a new ethics question on data deletion. Tempted to go with the overly honest version: "Even after data deletion, the data will still likely be stored on 15+ servers around the EU and accessible to various of our IT staff for at least 93 days"