JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely! CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)

Reread a bit of a grant application I did a while ago (looking for something for whatever I am doing now)... God, I am a bad writer when I am rushed! #writing

The programme of the upcoming LSE / @kiel.institute / @cepr.org conference in defence economics in London looks very interesting — sessions 2 and 4 in particular cepr.org/events/lse-k...

Earth, seen from the edge of the Moon. NASA released new Artemis II wallpapers—“Earthset,” eclipse views, and more. A reminder that perspective still matters. www.nasa.gov/artemis-ii-m... #Artemis #Space #NASA

New blog post on maps of burger places in London over time (yes, I am fun at lunch, wdym?) #rstats antoinevernet.com/blog/2026/04...

Today, HEPI published a report. The report—and the @theguardian.com article that summarised it—included a chart of the ten highest-growth providers by raw FTE students between 2015/16 and 2024/25. I argue in this 🧵 that this graph is misleading. #UKHE #Universities 1/

I’m not saying this is what I’d be doing if I wanted several days of attention from the media, but it’s not one of the things I wouldn’t be doing

Given how bad most party leaders are, Davey could rise to the occasion… Instead fuel duty cut, literally the dumbest thing to do!

Stamp duty raises about £11b yet has a terrible impact on labour market matching in a £2.8 triion economy because it makes it ridiculously expensive to move house.

I have a journal joke, but you rejected it.

Another one who thinks the response to a global shortage of something which makes it more expensive is to subsidise people to buy more of it. Truly British politics is blessed with genius.

Sadly, I suspect that this kind of "why TF are you explaining obvious things badly" moments will continue to become more commonplace as I get older 😶

The studies are mostly fabricated by his students. Guéguen then steals a selection of them and claims to have run the study himself, even though nobody did. See steamtraen.blogspot.com/2019/05/an-u...

This wins today!

Live footage of @scientificdiscovery.dev making a joke that's more intense than intended because it turns out she thought topology was essentially geometry.

we have matured, too. We use R to infer causation from correlation now.

Today, HEPI published a report. The report—and the @theguardian.com article that summarised it—included a chart of the ten highest-growth providers by raw FTE students between 2015/16 and 2024/25. I argue in this 🧵 that this graph is misleading. #UKHE #Universities 1/

Hall of fame FT correction

how it's going

Okay folks, I think it's time that this blog post is finally written

One parent on the local Facebook page says their kid saw another student vaping at the Middle School. Immediately there’s a white hot moral panic. Some people say homeschooling might be necessary. Trump can win a 3rd term.

How can the field of organization studies help us understand how genocides happen and how corporations become implicated in human rights and other violations? This introduction to a special online issue in Journal of Business Ethics details the answer. See here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I already knew I was not German.

Not autistic, just German german.millermanschool.com

The people (all genders) Yearn for Warhammer 40k fanfic

I don't think this set is actually used for gaming, seems more like a gadget for nerds (I saw a similar set on the SPIEL board game fair last year). I myself came across house rules using huge random tables in D&D where a d1000 was used and afaik there is a similar use case in Warhammer (?)

Anyone feel the same way? George Orwell, 1949 notebook entry

A fan of my course sent me a 100-sided die. This thing is huge and of course I wonder now: Are there even larger dice?!

I wonder whether I should give science YouTube another chance, but the editing process eats a lot of time… anyone know whether there are any sort of idiot proof editing workflows? I am def not a one take wonder, so some editing will be required!!

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

vividly

oh lol actually it was probably this one

This week in Social/Developmental was about generational differences, or as I referred to it: “ @bwroberts.bsky.social and friends keep bludgeoning the zombie horse that won’t die”

I have been told multiple times this semester by other professors that the students talk about my class being a good one and they recommend me to other students. Also, yesterday I had less than 50% attendance. Make it make sense.

If I was Iran I'd set up a website counter tracking how much money was coming in from tolls with a large "THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP" next to the total and maybe a couple of Ayatollahs doing thumbs up.

My ability to tell people about things I find interesting and put them to sleep, sometimes literally, remains unparalleled

One of my favorite genres of project/blog post is "The reason I did all this work is because someone was wrong on the internet and I needed to definitively prove it" "Porting Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii" bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/p...

If seeing friends in person is making life harder, you are already in deep waters

Because the main code base is now fully in Rust, we can compile it to WebAssembly, and use it to drive a web-based collaborative writing system. This is based on www.automerge.org, and will have both open-source and commercial hosted versions. (3/)

Well back to reality, today the french parliament passed such a brutal law on "social fraud". Sometimes I wish they read social science. Lutte contre la fraude sociale : la guerre aux pauvres est de nouveau déclarée www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

Tucker Carlson: "It's vile. It begins w/ a promise to use the US military to commit a war crime. Those people who are in direct contact w/ the president need to say 'No. I'll resign. I'll do whatever I can do legally to stop this, bc this is insane. And if given the order, I'm not carrying it out'"

I completely agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sentence I never thought I would ever write.

I was told about the Mythos release, but have no personal experience to add. Two points from brief: 1) It is not built for IT software security, it is just a good enough model that it is good at that too 2) This is the first, not last, model to raise security risks red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-...

I tried to put Opus on high effort to create a skill... My tokens... They are all gone

New blog post on maps of burger places in London over time (yes, I am fun at lunch, wdym?) #rstats antoinevernet.com/blog/2026/04...

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

So much of the world works this way

I would have preferred to have the "draw the rest of the owl" meme on the cover, but this will do. Seems like it is on schedule, and we'll leave some typos so you know we didn't write it with AI.