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"

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