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Adjudicating between departments is harder, but infinitely more productive, than hanging your head in your hands and saying "I thought we'd costed for having cake AND eating it"

I thought humans didn't have a thymus! I literally remember reading that T cells in immunology are so called because they are produced in the thymus *in birds* but that humans didn't have a thymus so they were produced elsewhere. Ugh I can't keep up...

We have friends everywhere.

‘Mann believes that "very big numbers" of Jews will start to leave the UK "very quickly" if things do not change, telling PoliticsHome that "the freedom to be Jewish in this country has been significantly impaired.’

So in a decade the US Supreme Court has gone from saying partisan gerrymandering is non-justiciable to saying it is a right which outweigh constitutional protections for minorities. #14thAmendment #scotus

If you worry about the income effect of a price change on poor people, do something about their income rather than the price

My superpower is that I'm the only person in the world* who can tell if the TV is off or is just showing black. *or perhaps just my household

King Charles' visit to the US should 100% not be happening because of the Iran war. That they haven't now pulled it with security concerns as an excuse is baffling.

Because nobody asked for it, here is how I would reform the UK state pension #TripleLock. Current system: state pensions are increased by whichever is largest out of year-on-year inflation, earnings growth, or 2.5%. What was once a good thing (ending pensioner poverty) is now a fiscal nightmare...

Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’

This is not wrong.

I have very mixed feelings on this... It is what the New Testament says that believers are saved by faith and not by works. OTOH any church which has endorsed Trump for political office at any point has much to answer for.

10 points if you can guess who this is about

In other words: a fine memorial to Robert Mueller, a great public servant, is how much Trump loathes him.

So abandoned churches are fine to be turned into fancy houses for wealthy atheists or into Wetherspoons, but it would definitely be wrong if they were used by a religion for worshipping the same God for which they were originally built?

Perfect

It's so funny when often the feedback I get is that I talk too quickly when lecturing/presenting. Just try 1.5x speed, see how you get on 😉

If perchance, this artifice could arrest my talking as Miss Bennett after each brief immersion in the writing of Miss Austen, truly that would be an achievement most magical; yet, such powers are no doubt beyond all but the Lord Himself.

Keir Starmer put in a real bind. On the one hand, he could join in with a war which is almost certainly illegal and ill-fated, kowtowing to Trump (one of the most unpopular people in the world, especially among people who might vote Labour next GE), and giving Farage and Badenoch a huge win...

Have been a bit frustrated by some of the conversation about Labour's voter coalition. I've written about who the "Hero Voters" actually were, how we won them, and what we need to do to earn their support next time. chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/who-actual...

I actually re-watched the series and film (Serenity) in the last few months. Some things about it are still great to this day, and I got plenty nostalgic, but it also carries around a fair amount of misogynistic baggage (I wonder why) and it would be hard to imagine a reboot working...

Subtract 30, divide by 2 is a decent approximation to converting from degrees Farenheit to degrees Celsius across ambient temperatures.

Wow my mood is super low

"It upsets the people who want me to fail" probably isn't a good enough decision making heuristic to use it regularly or for big decisions...

#NFL I really need to see Sam Darnold tear the Patriots to pieces and get his revenge for the "seeing ghosts" game 🤞

Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money 1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI @manuelansede.bsky.social english.elpais.com/science-tech...

We’re running a new study exploring how young people use AI chatbots like ChatGPT for mental health support. If you’re aged 16-25, live in the UK, and have used AI chatbots for mental health, we’d love to hear from you!! @oxchildpsych.bsky.social @emmasoneson.bsky.social 👉 lnkd.in/eQSRzyej

The deadline for this funded #PhD studentship suiting #mathematics #statistics #CompSci #HealthEcon is in less than 24 hours (12:00 noon GMT)! Still just enough time to put together an application 👍 #math #stats #ComputerScience

Please share this EPSRC funded #PhD studentship in the UK! How can we use state of the art programming techniques to unlock complex analyses and new ways of working in the evaluation of health technologies? www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Deadline Monday 12 at midday (London, UK) More details..

Just over 1 week left to apply for these funded #PhD #studentship opportunities at the University of Exeter, one of which is to work with me on the intersection of #HealthEconomics #ComputerScience and #statistics Get in touch with me if you have any questions!

The former ambassador to Denmark for the United States, Rufus Gifford, posted this video on his Facebook account: Ht: @hpsc24.bsky.social

I'm guessing that now there are actually questions for Farage to answer, he won't be on Question Time for a change?

***FUNDED PHD STUDENTSHIP*** Are you interested in how mathematics and computer science can be used to make cost-effectiveness analysis more efficient? Please see www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... and click on the first project listed. Feel free to ask me any questions! #HealthEconomics

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community. Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

This is just ridiculous as a policy. We would think it was atrocious if someone we cared for was kicked out of another country they'd made home, especially after securing a settled legal status. The Conservatives are not serious, they are flailing. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If I simulate a data generating process with known parameters, then calculate the likelihood function for a single parameter conditional on the other parameters taking their true value, what are the properties of the maximum of that conditional likelihood function as an estimator? #bayesian #stats

Trying to sum up, in a pithy way, the challenges of modern (political) polling... "Voting intention polling has three main weaknesses: they ask the wrong people the wrong question, and the respondents often answer a different question."

Under UK law, a company can make £200m+ in sales and still hide its profit & loss by calling itself “small”. That’s how PPE Medpro kept its finances secret. A short thread on one of Britain’s daftest loopholes, the 1970s EU compromise that created it — and how to fix it.

Who?

This is my flag.

But presumably this is euphemistically attributable to "actuarial turnover"

The whole time we were growing up and we thought there was no way the table of the Emperor's New Clothes could actually happen in real life...

1. Kevin Gross and I just posted a new science-of-science preprint. This one explores the looming peer review crisis. As many of you know, it's becoming significantly more difficult for journal editors to find scholars willing to serve as peer reviewers for submitted manuscripts.

I absolutely don't love Labour focusing more on not losing voters to the right (on immigration, welfare, etc.) than the left, but a lot of people say stuff like "they are losing 2× as many votes to the Greens" without realising that one vote lost to a party that can overtake you is twice as bad...

Wow! Project Hail Mary is coming to the big screen! I had totally missed that this was coming... Here's hoping it can live up to the book. @chelseaparlett.bsky.social have you seen?

My model was fitting just fine until I realised my data was only 320 of N=325. Now it refuses to fit. When is the next stop so I can get off this train? #ChoiceModelling #DiscreteChoiceExperiment #stats #stata #econometrics #HealthEconomics

This, but also if you are one of the academics that say data are available on request and you have actually provided it on request, go you! (Next time go even further and deposit it so you don't lose it)

Don’t think I’ve ever muttered the words “fuck me sideways” quite so much reading a story as this one.