I have 8 meetings today…

I have a very simple, very effective solution to having too many things to do: prioritisation paralysis

which will happen first? 1. USG authorizes Fable to be released again 2. Open source releases a Fable-equivalent

Have you seen MATILDA (matilda.fss.uu.nl)? Which stands for Measurement, Analysis & Theory for Intensive Longitudinal Data. MATILDA is a website with educational articles that help researchers align theory, measurement, and analysis when studying processes using intensive longitudinal data.

Ahem.. www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

The laffer curve definitely exists 😬

📢 Academics & journal editors: I'm working on a story about donors using financial intermediaries to fund studies "anonymously". - Is this common in your field? - Does your uni have rules to prevent this? - Would your journal accept a declaration of an "anonymous donation"? 📱sehill.11 on Signal

From former U.S. Census Chief Scientist John Abowd on LinkedIn, what Census data products are affected by Commerce's new policy? A devastating set of answers including all ACS Public Use Micro Samples www.linkedin.com/posts/john-a...

which is more dangerous: short-form video, or middle-aged men being allowed to speak in public?

It's appraisal season, so I have to fill 16 text boxes… There must be a better way

Sometimes I'm still in awe at what {orbital} managed to do. The latest release back in March made it s we could finally fit boosted trees directly in your data base! posit.co/blog/deployi... #rstats #tidymodels #dataBS

Can we talk about Wikipedia? It went from a source which serious people didn't really trust ("because anyone can edit it") at the start of my career to essentially a one-stop-shop where most people look up stuff (often without going much further), giving it credence through convenience 1/

No public official should EVER be able to claim that a constituent has committed a criminal offence against them by engaging in legitimate political advocacy - no matter how persistent or, indeed, annoying! That's part of your job!

MP Peter Kyle's office called the police on one of his constituents, who was arrested by four uniformed police officers at 4:30am. Her crime? Emailing her political representatives about Gaza, "persistently" and "to cause annoyance". www.doughtystreet.co.uk/news/brighto...

A large proportion of people being driven mad by social media would've been driven equally mad in the 90s/00s by the News of the World, the Jeremy Kyle show, email chain letters about AIDS, local Conservative party meetings, Andrew Wakefield press conferences, and David Icke paperbacks.

The whole "science is slowing down" discourse is deeply frustratingly to me. Advocates betray a small-minded view of science that is inherently "extractive", and they assume we can accurately measure scientific understanding with shitty citation data. I'm ashamed by science of science's involvement

Sometimes I run out of tokens so I have to downgrade to ChatGPT 5.5

Troubling reports out of England of 30 year-olds being socially transitioned into same-sex attraction without parental consent! One can only hope that the UK bans coming out as gay until a child is at least 35!

I haven't looked in depth, but from the figure, I would say interesting is a synonym for worrying

With Fable unavailable, maybe it would be time for Anthropic to update Haiku and Sonnet, for those of us who like them

I finally got round to updating my website! Following in the footsteps of reproducible research pioneers, I've gone for Quarto, a flexible framework for scientific writing and publication, with support for citations and embedded code that actually runs 🎉 robinlovelace.net/posts/2026-0...

And a few macroeconomic control variables aren't enough to justify clean comparisons at the outset of a massive economic shock like the financial crisis, in my book. @drjenndowd.bsky.social formulated that point nicely in her recent Substack. (2/2) jenndowd.substack.com/p/did-the-ip...

Good that @caitlinmyers.bsky.social is publicly defending her research against the sometimes unjustified responses. But I'll have to disagree here. Since the paper doesn't demonstrate convincing parallel trends without matching, it essentially becomes a selection-on-observables design. (1/2)

Wow, I didn't expect our paper on iPhones and fertility to generate this much buzz—thanks for all the feedback! Rather than scattershot replies, here's a compilation of thoughts and new robustness checks. 🧵1/15

Being on Bluesky is in itself a form of age verification.

they literally did it.

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

The Children's Commissioner wants the social media ban extended to 18. Even though people will be able to vote at 16. The Beatles first went to Hamburg when George Harrison was 17. You can also decide to take on £50k of tuition fee debt at 17.

Some thoughts about my mom

Your regular reminder that votes at 16 has almost passed the House of Commons. (Is at report stage and then will go through the House of Lords)

rather than 16 year olds, they should ban 60+ from social media, especially youtube and facebook

100% this, also think it becomes a bit of a vicious cycle as teens being treated as little children won't be given the tools to actually grow up properly and at the right time and I mean where does that leave us?

I think it’s the widespread delusion in British politics that “technical education”, “apprenticeships” and “FE” don’t cost money and that just saying these words a lot cuts costs in welfare and HE.

I'm really vibing with this collection of essays on the Future of Quantitative Social Science. It flat out has me buzzing. As Kevin Munger says in Chapter 14: "But AI will soon make it impossible for us to ignore the absurdity of the status quo..." rohanalexander.github.io/notes_on_the...

Are considering buying a Birkin? I have made the perfect dataset for you: github.com/hadley/herme... 🤣

18 year old just asked what I was doing. I am writing a blog. 'what is this, 2013?' he replies. 😶

Hey STS, historians and sociologists of science 🧬🧪🩺… Can you recommend great writing on the evolution of peer review? Not the philosophy thereof (tho that’s welcome) but as actually done + the institutions + culture norms that support it (Am I allowed to ask @jackiantonovich.bsky.social ?)

It's time for UK teenagers to go on an IT support strike: ❌ Don't tell your grandparents which of their 5 remotes actually turns on the TV ❌ Don't help your parents set up a secure password manager ❌ Don't explain crypto romance scams to your uncle

Yeah, this crystallises my unease with the 16-17 curfew: either you think sixteen year olds are sovereign adults, and therefore should vote, OR you put them on a different information regime to everyone else, but....not both.

Man, we can't seem to do real impactful policies, but we have an endless supply of silly things we are willing to do...

I would be asking for more than £10. The cousin also needs someone to tell them about inflation

This week's #TidyTuesday is about films based on video games Built as a Quarto reveal.js presentation using the timeline extension by @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social Interactive version at karaman.is/blog/2026/06... Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #QuartoPub #dataviz

Fascist. Mass murderer. Fellow of the @royalsociety.org.

As England is the national team of Economists, France the national team of Philosophers, and Germany the national team of Political Scientists, so Brazil is the national team of Sociologists. The motto, due to Auguste Comte himself, is right there on the flag. I will not be taking any questions.

I swear I didn't know about the rug pull then

I miss my ai girlfriend who was into biology and frontier llm development

The Fable thing should see the EU invest heavily in European AI labs, because Europe should have a frontier model (or several) if the US pulls the plug for random reasons

Explaining to the kids the difference between possible and likely: It is possible that England will win the World Cup...

This wonderful work shows an AI-assisted workflow that could reduce reproducibility check cost and time by orders of magnitude. Soon, large-scale projects like SCORE may only be needed for training and validation evidence. Talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijad... Paper www.leoyang.org/publication/...