Old joke "Last time i was on the tube I gave my dog a trumpet She went from Barking to Tooting in half an hour" (Barry Cryer IIRC)

Happy back to work day, everyone.

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

Superbly well-played. Hat-tip and “chapeau”…

Just seen Ickle Tommy Ten Names referred to as "Ewok Powell" Tremendous

Confabulated AI citations now appearing in Google Scholar. Time to limit the number of references in academic papers?

Apples xkcd.com/3180/

In Dec 1931 William Sealey Gosset (‘Student’) publishes a detailed statistical critique of Leighton & McKinlay’s 1930 Lanarkshire Milk Experiment. His comments still apply to problems seen today with both observational studies & clinical trials. 1/4🧵

Useful bit of path that will be even more effective if the project planned for Pennywell Road can be taken forward. A small step, but good to see.

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

If you need to be cheered up this evening…

Marvellous.

Lovely to hear about some good quality cycle infrastructure. Smooth surfaces, decent widths, green space. Edinburgh take note. @spokes.org.uk

I’m in Germany just now, and this is how it is- infrastructure that works, community spirit without having basic services reliant on charity. Every village has a decent sports facility. Where I am just now the cycling infrastructure puts Cambridge (“UK’s cycling capital” 😂) to shame.

The shipwreck uncovered in Sanday, #Orkney last year has been identified as HMS Hind, later the Earl of Chatham which was wrecked in the Bay of Lopness in 1788. More than 230 years buried in the seabed, before being released by a storm in 2024. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a lovely story and do read to the end of the thread (and listen to the soundfile...)

This is a fun idea (and good campaigning). Please pass this on and add your copy of these suggestions!

Monday

See also George Street, Edinburgh.

This is an image of British Commandos on a approaching Sword Beach on D-Day, 6th June 1944. War is a horrific thing; these men left their loved ones to enter its hellish cauldron. Some never returned. We remember their immense bravery and sacrifices so that they should never be necessary again.

Regularly collected, high-quality surveillance data, analysed appropriately, is a wonderful way to help understand the effects of policy changes and interventions, example # 10e148

Come on everyone, please use #Eurovision in your posts tonight so my muting will function. Thx!

A propos my previous re-post…

Very interesting blog, that justifies the School of Law at my university banning their students from using LLMs at any time. Given the possible consequences, perhaps our College of Medicine should do the same.

a little pick me up lol for the academics in the room

Beware! Not all Easter bunnies are friendly (like this one from the medieval Smithfield Decretals c. 1300). Stay safe today everybody

This. In education, "the work is what happens within you"

I'll take any excuse to post the Pokemons dancing to Orinoco Flow again.

Lovely stuff.

Time to jump on the bandwagon

Y’all just keep on driving your cars though 👍 🚗 💨 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

We might have FINALLY met our match… #WorldBollardAssociation

Yup.

I love this comment from the local council in the BBC article here (about reducing some urban speed limits to 20MPH): "None of the negative arguments in the consultation were more important than the safety of our youngest residents."

Yes, they can hallucinate papers that don't exist, discuss results that seem to be imaginary, and can be confusing and inconsistent. But talking to tenured professors may still be helpful

Infrastructure design is by far the most effective of the three. Thankfully there are quick, low-cost and effective ways to make streets safe: ✅ Pedestrian zones ✅ Bus-gates ✅ Modal filters ✅ Low traffic neighbourhoods We hope to see them on the ground very soon. Delays cost lives!

This is very funny. Love it.

Exceptional

Part of #researchintegrity is ensuring your research is transparently and completely reported. Search our EQUATOR Network reporting guideline library to find the most relevant guidance for your study design, at www.equator-network.org We've just joined bluesky too @equatornetwork.bsky.social 😀

Musk's lost the Morris dancers. It's Over.

Just for fun, let me tell you about somebody you've probably never heard of, but who was once one of the most famous people in England, a national hero, a disgraced fraudster, and an astonishingly accomplished piratical maniac. He led quite a life. (1/53)

Why did Trump win? youtu.be/epLU5-Job68

Where do you find amazing music in the ocean? On the choral reef

What’s Darth Vader’s go-to bakery order? Three loaves of bread and two fruit tarts. In other words *cue music* pain, pain, pain, tarte tatin, tarte tatin…

I've been asked what my favourite commentary is on the budget and it's unquestionably this exchange.

University Commas xkcd.com/2995

Psst…You want to know about the NASA website that spells out your name in Landsat imagery. 🧪 landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

He has a point...