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"

I feel like I spend far too much time explaining why prestige journals are not good indicators of quality. So it's no surprise that drivel was published in JAMA

It is the *mentality* reflected in this "score" that is part of the underlying problem, further reflected by the fact that this specific "solution" will only ever exist in a PUBLICATION. It would be better if they implemented this in their own institution and then wrote about why it didn't work.

This year explaining regression to the mean took forever but I’m sure next year will be better.

Much as I feel too cool* for Grammarly, this 👇 (maybe map navigation is a less controversial example)

In Oslo, four articulated buses trapped themselves in a roundabout yesterday. "I don't know what I'm most impressed with: That they managed to get into the situation, or that they got out of it."

My thoroughly gen Z daughter tells me this passes the vibe_check()

Hadley Wickham made a GenZ version of dplyr 😂 hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

Relatable. Any 'top' journal really...

Hoarding homes in a housing emergency is akin to hoarding food in a famine Irony is this is what Dunnes Stores "Better value" are doing Sitting on 20 apartments in Macroom, Co. Cork for 20 years Welcome to #DerelictIreland where protecting property rights is deemed more important than human life

calling this AI is ridiculous

Not what most people are calling out here, but I think you'll see that those grey circles over with in the North America space are most of the cities in New Zealand and Australia 😭

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

Read about our experience at the @smartcityexpo.bsky.social www.iscycle.ie/news#h.jh3tg... @ul-alliedhealth.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ajamesgreen.bsky.social @annabarrero.bsky.social @pafhul.bsky.social @seai-ie.bsky.social

Our Scientific Committee has been busy shaping plans for the 2026 Behaviour Change Conference! 🎉 💡 Don't forget the call for abstracts is open until 15 December 👉 www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-ch... 👏 Thanks to Co-Chairs Marta Marques & Felix Naughton & all Committee members for their expertise

Stumbled across this today. As someone who has tried to improve their garden soil, by adding tandem trailer loads of stuff, and barely adding a few mm, 3 inches across all of the UK is just MASSIVE

@annabarrero.bsky.social & @ajamesgreen.bsky.social travelled to Warsaw for the kick-off of #JustMobi – Digitalising Education for an Inclusive Mobility Transition 🚲🌍 @ul-alliedhealth.bsky.social @hri-ul.bsky.social @unioflimerick.bsky.social @ulresearch.bsky.social www.iscycle.ie/news#h.jh3tg...

Evergreen

I haven't seen any news sources cover this yet, but I hear that the more moderate candidate Tufan Erhürman has defeated the hardline incumbent Ersin Tatar in a landslide in the presidential election in Northern Cyprus. Thinking very much of my Cypriot friends on both sides of the Green Line tonight.

Have you been watching House of Guinness? I was in Dublin visiting our funder (SEAI) yesterday, and their offices overlook Iveagh Gardens. Edward, the second (sensible) brother from the show was made Earl of Iveagh #houseOfGuinness

More evidence that biking is really good for you: After reviewing 23 studies, researchers concluded that there a "positive association between cycling and cognition" in adults 45+. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

This is why I wrote a paper on count regression, and in general am a big proponent of generalised linear models. Almost nothing is 'normal'/gaussian. Days off sick are very obviously a count (whole numbers only, never below zero) doi.org/10.1080/2164...

Yet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122

ISCycle is on the move! From Groningen to Glasgow and Nottingham. Check out our latest updates here: www.iscycle.ie/news#h.vvo24... @ajamesgreen.bsky.social @annabarrero.bsky.social #iscycle #activetravel #ebikes

Exciting clean energy breakthrough if you missed it: Finland launches world's largest sand battery in Pornainen! 13m tall, stores 100 MWh of renewable power as heat in sand at 450°C for weeks. Heats homes/offices/schools, cuts CO2 by 70% vs old woodchip plant. www.independent.co.uk/tech/sand-ba...

Last week, our team headed to Groningen, where bikes outnumber cars, for the @ehps.bsky.social Read more at www.iscycle.ie/news#h.vvo24... @ajamesgreen.bsky.social @annabarrero.bsky.social

We're recruiting for a postdoc, suitable for psychologist, health services researcher, health economist or related discipline. The researcher will be employed on @researchireland.ie-funded project to evaluate treatments for depression & their costs my.corehr.com/pls/coreport... @fdoyle4.bsky.social

Carol Sobral using machine learning to develop a model to predict cycling mixed share in European cities. Segregated cycle lanes, lack of vacant dwellings, women in work, and lack of hills key predictors #CyclingAndSociety2025

First talk at #CyclingAndSociety2025 - Graeme Hawker modelling whether a transition to cycling could reduce the number of new power stations required in the future, especially at times of peak demand

tl;dr: open research has been co-opted by tedious corporate interests and state-led regulatory exercises. Let's reclaim the experimental spirit of open licensing and do some cool DIY and community-led stuff. Let's build our own shit. #OpenFest25

Proton claims their “Lumo” to be a fully open course AI chatbot. Luckily, there is @dingemansemark.bsky.social ’s European Open Source AI Index that makes clear that Lumo is in fact “the least open 'open' model” that they have seen so far. osai-index.eu/news/lumo-pr...

A parenting win.

We’re wrapping up with a roundtable discussion on Realising Open Infrastructures with @emmajnorris.bsky.social, @ajamesgreen.bsky.social, @mayabraun.bsky.social. Some key takeaways 👇

This made me mad earlier today. A electric two-wheel dirt bike that can do 75km/h is *not* an ebike...

i’m not saying those predicting an AI bubble are mistaken. i’m saying predictions can’t solely be based on valuation of a given company & have to look at reality outside bsky bubble. even if that company fails, numerous institutes are putting in plenty of investment to make it "work" regardless 5/

me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog

Mostly by avoiding Bayes and imputation, nothing I do every takes long... though this was mostly keeping my rate of requests down

I've never run some r code that is going to take so long that I should run it now and go to bed #rstats #lifeGoals

Motherfucking wind farms…

Come work with us! We are recruiting for a 1 year fixed term Assistant Professor in Psychology @micireland.bsky.social has a beautiful campus right in the heart of Limerick city & MICPsych is a small but beautifully formed welcoming & supportive department www.mic.ul.ie/about-mic/va...

🧵 Can you predict whether behavioral interventions will work in new contexts? … probably not, right? In our new paper with @dggoldst.bsky.social @dilipsoman.bsky.social @susanmichie.bsky.social, we dive into how to better understand and improve generalizability. rdcu.be/ewD2z Summary👇

Capel St. for the win! @tomflood.bsky.social #Dublin #Ireland

In all the discussion around AI, I wonder if Google Maps added the "road" in Western Australia that Carolina Wilga drove down, based on a path being visible in satellite imagery. I say this, because usually Open Street Maps has better trail coverage than Google, but in this case OSM has nothing

As rural areas grow more car-dependent through processes of automobility and neoliberal roll back (of, amongst other things, bus services), community transport has been rolled out to fill the gap left by a retreating state—while itself facing cutbacks.

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“I never actually thought about it”: a novel dialogical approach to qualitative interviewing combining audio-visual elicitation and member reflection techniques Lucy Prodgers, Brendan Gough & Anna Madill www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #ISCHP2025