I fear Labour people risk falling into an ecological fallacy visible from space when reacting to these results. Here is what is very clear in results so far: Labour are losing *seats* to Reform, but... Labour are losing *votes* to the Greens Greens split the vote, Ref comes thru middle

Thank you @thesquareball.net for having me! Great to talk all things @luamericas.com. It’ll air this summer. The t-shirt? Available now at luamericas.com #lufc

It’s official: I no longer work for the Observer, they have decided to move away from data journalism. Which means I’m now looking for work! I'm a data journalist who has worked on award-winning projects, and I'm excited to really be able to work on stories that matter 🙏

Thanks to @profjanegreen.bsky.social, John Curtice, @stephenkb.bsky.social and @benlake.bsky.social for their excellent insights into politics and public opinion before the elections next week. Recording of an event @trinityoxford.bsky.social on 28 April 2026: youtu.be/fxbPYKJCW8U?...

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Gave an interview recently about the existence of vast Nazi networks in Germany and the abuse still hasn't stopped coming days later. With the far-right leading the country in the polls, it's probably time to stop talking about this stuff. It just feels like it puts a target on you, nothing more.

Interesting. Morning news was totally devoted to the Mandelson business.

The charity I'm a trustee for is looking for new trustees to join our board. The McDougall Trust is the independent charity that promotes public understanding of electoral democracy. See the link for more details and how to apply. www.mcdougall.org.uk/news/39/38/M...

Google Chrome lacks protection against one of the most basic and common ways to track users online

I have a new favorite editor/IDE: Zed. Open-source, blazing fast, built-in AI operability, easy to use. Heard that lots of developers are dropping Visual Studio Code for Zed. Has R and Quarto extensions. zed.dev

Very cool job….

Very clear analysis here. And interesting results.

I (age 12) played Cawdor in a school production. Don't remember much about it, other than not knowing what a thane is. Maybe it's the Scottish word for an ancestor of a dickhead.

La crise en #Iran aura montré que #Trump déraille sur le fond ET sur la forme 😉😊😁

The Home Office' anti-immigration agenda is strangling growth across the economy. It prevents a closer relationship with Europe, deprives us of the workers we need and undermines universities. getting-out-of-the-hole.uk/labours-red-...

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Damn. Iran just dropped an A+ level troll on Trump in this new LEGO movie. I’m no fan of Iran at all… but this one actually nails him. 😂😂

Britain is good at absorbing immigrants and allowing them to thrive. A government determined to harass them is not only likely to fail to hit its unrealistic targets. It will damage one of the country’s greatest strengths

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

The ultimate mug for frequentists 😂 smbc-store.myshopify.com/products/goo...

1. `tinyplot` v0.6.1 is out on CRAN. This release contains mostly bug fixes and internal optimizations. grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW... Who knew that base #rstats plotting could be this easy and feature-rich? P.S. Check out @zeileis.org's nice slides here: www.zeileis.org/papers/Psych...

Joint statement on Israel's Death Penalty Bill: 29 March 2026 www.gov.uk/government/n... #R4Today

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂 Mar 30, 1840 Charles Booth born in Liverpool, England 🇬🇧 1889: Booth constructed street maps of London, showing poverty and wealth by color coding, transforming existing methods of social survey and poverty mapping 👀Interactive map: booth.lse.ac.uk/map

Your annual reminder that there would be no Rothamsted or DOE without Jethro Tull baptized #OTD 1674 (d 21 Feb 1741). He was heavily criticised in his lifetime for his revolutionary rejection of the poetry of Virgil as scientific authority for agricultural methods in favour of actual experiments

Lovely stuff! Along the way, we see the solution formula for a quadratic equation, which "may be familiar to GCSE-age students (normally aged 15 to 16 years old) across the world". Now familiar to all Premier League footy fans too, for its prominent place in the Match of the Day title sequence!

Spare a thought for Millwall fans this morning. Their club is no longer the most despised in The Championship.

Just had this flagged with me. This is disgusting. If Kemi Badenoch had one ounce of leadership in her, she would condemn this. I don’t want any faux sadness from her or Nick Timothy when one of us is hurt or worse. This is how low the Conservative Party have sunk.

Reform’s loud opposition to net zero is driven by “the success of populist messages around Brexit plus significant financial backing from the fossil fuel industry and climate sceptics” Not science. Not national interest. Not public opinion. Just personal greed. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘I spent 20 mins writing an article on my personal website titled "The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs". Every word is a lie… Less than 24 hours later, the world's leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills’ www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic... (HT @sambrook.bsky.social)

@ikosmidis.com @crisvarin.bsky.social --- possibly of interest?

Apparently my Erdős number is 3. I never knew this!

You couldn’t make this up - one peer claimed his crusader ancestry would be helpful in Israel/Gaza context!! 🤦‍♀️ I say begone to all the hereditaries - and now, on to the Bishops, political chancers and corrupt donors in there. More reforms necessary . www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

ICYMI: LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2

Opening for a tenure track position in statistical computing: wirtschaftsuniversitaet-wien-portal.rexx-systems.com/Assistant-Pr... As dept chair, R Core member Kurt Hornik invites applications from people who could make substantial contributions to #RStats, including base R. Deadline Mar 18!

A little bit obsessed with all the nut clusters currently ‘ashamed to be British’ because Starmer didn’t sign us up to this shit show.

Beautifully put!

A major release of the nestedLogit package now on CRAN. Enhanced plotting methods, several new vignettes... [Work on this a tribute to John Fox, who did the heavy lifting on the package, in both theory & code] Release notes: github.com/friendly/nes... Docs: friendly.r-universe.dev/nestedLogit

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone. But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

Leeds United call for respect to be shown on Sunday as players break their fast, including striker Joel Piroe #lufc www.leedsunited.com/en/news/leed...

Your regular reminder than a large majority of voters - and overwhelming majority of Labour voters - favour giving settled migrants access to the welfare state after five years or less. The Home Secretary is not reforming rules in line with public opinion. She is doing the opposite.

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: "Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

ANNOUNCE: Nominations are open for the prestigious ASA Statistical Computing and Graphic Award. 🎖️ It recognizes innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a significant impact on statistical practice or research. #rstats #stats community.amstat.org/jointscsg-se...

📢 Applications for the Summer Research Experience at Warwick Statistics is now open! The Summer Research Experience (SRE) is an 8 week programme taking place in July and August for students not currently at Warwick.

Just deeply unserious reporting from the BBC here, both on the politics and the numbers No mention of Trump/ICE and what deporting hundreds of thousands of people actually look like; and no scrutiny of Reform's entirely fictional/fantasy numbers www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'You can’t really fix student loans without also changing something structural about higher education – and any structural change to HE requires a comprehensive funding review.' Ultimately, this is the inescapable bottom line. 1/2

OK so I know I carp on a bit about the British Library, but only because I think it’s important. They want a new Advisory Council Chair - surely someone here would be excellent in helping them get back to their core purpose of serving the research community? ce0752li.webitrent.com/ce0752li_web...

Bravo @iandunt.bsky.social. Now that change has been rung in Number 10 I very much hope the party can think again, particularly about the shabby rule-change on ILR for people already here. Britain should keep its word.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.