From today’s Guardian, unhelpfully conflating ethnicity and nationality. “the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) and the College of Policing have backed plans to release details of nationality”. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Citizen Science in a nutshell xkcd.com/3118/

#ESRA25 two excellent hours of metadata and infrastructure discussions on Thursday “New Developments in Using, Sharing, and Re-using Metadata” co-organised by @kwoid.de from a great set of organisations who oil the wheels for European social science to make everyones lives easier.

Today, the Science and Technology Secretary confirmed how UKRI's budget will be allocated to all our councils and key programmes. Find out more and read our budget explainer: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-bu...

@gruber.foo Dear sir Regarding your recent post daringfireball.net/linked/2025/... Desert island is a “national treasure” and I demand an immediate retraction of the use of “gimmick” unless you wish the full force of good minded people of the UK to be unleashed upon your veritable publication!

The @cdsp-sciencespo.bsky.social is organising with the Finnish Data Archive and HUN-REN and online free webinar on NLP data curation and FAIR data. Registration, free but mandatory, here : docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #LoveData25

@closer-uk.bsky.social away day, mixing it up with Duplo & Lego.

It's gonna be a good one.