Michele Kang is proof that (some) billionaires are idiots. She's spending £10 million a year trying to create a club identity for "London City Lionesses" but her own website features a star LCL player wearing... an airbrushed Sweden shirt?? 😂

New blog post: Evaluating Dr. Cuddy’s Claim that the Debunking of Power Posing is a Myth. daniellakens.blogspot.com/2026/05/eval... On an AI generated description of a non-existent study, incorrectly citing findings from studies, and the importance of scientific criticism.

Sausages, burgers, fruit-flavoured yoghurt, margarine, instant soup, ... according to Monteiro, these foods aren't just unhealthy, they're not even "real food" - whatever that means!

An entire article "ultra-processed foods" being banned from hospitals in Brazil that does not even attempt to define what "ultra-processed" means! 🤦‍♀️ www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

new WP (w/ @ntd.bsky.social): we use the case of Christian nationalism to make a broader point about "niche ideologies" in mass opinion research, and why you shouldn't scale them the same way you'd scale more general attitudes Link: osf.io/wbdut/files/...

We can fix democracy — with worm limits™️ (upon speaking the words "we need term limits", a giant worm is summoned... writhing out of the dirt, it slowly wraps itself around your face. your oxygen is limited. democracy is preserved.)

Burnham gets his wish after 2 hours of skeptical questions from MP Josh Simons and wife Leah... this really is a Harvard Gov department coup!! (N.B. Leah is a brilliant political theorist – unfortunately slandered as an "economist" in this article...) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Despite rotation at the back, Arsenal's defensive stats in the WSL this season are pretty incredible. 🥇 Fewest goals conceded (14 vs 26 last season!) 🥇 Most clean sheets (11) 🥇 Fewest games lost (1) 🥇 Fewest shots conceded 🥇 Fewest fouls commited, most fouls drawn

Burnham gets his wish after 2 hours of skeptical questions from MP Josh Simons and wife Leah... this really is a Harvard Gov department coup!! (N.B. Leah is a brilliant political theorist – unfortunately slandered as an "economist" in this article...) www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

🔴 Keir Starmer promised to crackdown on "Slapps" - abusive libel cases to silence journalists and critics Then Labour quietly dropped it We can reveal why: a three-year lobbying blitz by libel lawyers who've acted for Russian oligarchs, Epstein + more democracyforsale.substack.com/p/how-lawyer...

Once again: party factions are *social groups* not pure ideological categories! Wes Streeting has never been part of the McSweeney/LT group. Josh Simons resigning for Burnham is not a "poisoned chalice" to benefit Streeting. Just a way to curry favour by an MP who knows he won't get reelected.

Josh Simons lmao

Peak British politics was when a gay Brexit Party candidate accused the Tory candidate of being homophobic because of his ties to the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children and then two years later the Tory came out as gay and married his husband in the Palace of Westminster

Bluesky's an echo chamber, is it?well how do you explain this?!

Jess Phillips secret plan to fight CSAM??

sorry but writing a resignation letter in teleprompter-style 1 sentence paragraphs?? game's gone.

Casual inference.

Step 1: Run regression of [scary Y] on [trendy X] using observational data Step 2: Magically "adjust" for the 20 bajillion imperfectly-measured confounders Step 3: Wait for a credulous journalist to write it up as causal www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

imagine explaining to an alien that a key part of british democracy is casting a vote next to a big statue of a man being tortured to death and this has absolutely no significance whatsoever

In retrospect, it's weird that the media decided not to treat Mandelson's partner Reinaldo Avila da Silva as an individual in his own right. e.g. this story is about da Silva accepting $ from a convicted sex offender, but BBC only sought comment from his husband?? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Shabana Mahmood’s special advisor threatened us with an injunction and two different lawsuits last night in an attempt to block this story linking her to a notorious vote rigging case. I think it’s strongly in the public interest. So here it is. www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/exclusive-sh...

guys wake up, a new Veil of Ignorance just dropped!! (you don't know about John Rawls or how he defines liberalism)

Olly Robbins is giving evidence to the select committee with the unmistakeable affect of someone who is Heading Straight To The Pub

Robbins says civil service culture is about following written instructions exactly. Notes No10 did not add a caveat ("subject to clearance") in Mandelson announcement. Yet he also says "clearance denied" on UKSV form doesn't apply to FCDO, which is final decision-maker. Having it both ways?

🎶 Oh Mandy, These wonks are not civil nor serving, I say out with dead wood! *sotto voce* Oh Mandy, No-one here to advise, it's unnerving, Do you know someone good? Oh Mandy 🎵

🎵 Oh Mandy You came and got cleared without screening And I need to know how! Oh Mandy You tricked me and stopped me from gleaning All the things I see now! Oh Mandy 🎶

shout out to parliamentary democracy. beautiful and brutal, in equal measure.

Starmer isn't able to confirm whether any other senior FCDO roles are political appointees?? I suppose his briefing would've been focused on Mandelson minutiae, but this seems like a fairly obvious follow-up! Also could've been a good pivot to argue that there isn't a widespread problem.

I'm so confused by the betting in The Pitt? They're guessing unknown outcomes (e.g. cause of a hospital closure). Each person makes a guess (e.g. "power outage") and chooses a $ amount to wager. But presumably it's winner-takes-all (or closest-takes-all)... so why bet any more than the minimum?

I love Patrick Radden Keefe but his godawful yank pronunciations have cursed the #LondonFalling audiobook... e.g., "westMINster" (ew) "abraMOvich" (??)

Starmer: "I did not have textual relations with that vetting report" (sorry)

If Robbins had the authority to give clearance after serious concerns were raised, then he was responsible for coming up with a plan to mitigate those concerns (e.g. an agreement with Mandelson about limiting his business in China - if that was the main concern). Was there any such plan?

People say Starmer isn't "funny" but winning a landslide election because of Partygate and then immediately doing your own easily avoidable cover up scandal is a great bit

Starmer: "I did not have textual relations with that vetting report" (sorry)

2 possibilities: Starmer lied on 5 Feb, or a minister lied to him and he was clueless. Either way, disqualifying.

Will today mark the end of the autocratization of Hungary? 🇭🇺 Development of V-Dem indicators for liberal and electoral democracy from 1980 to 2025. #30DayChartChallenge | Day 12 - Theme Day: FlowingData #dataviz 📊

air biscuits 🐾

Calligraphy by Barbara Galińska #StopWar

📣The [faked] PREVENT-TAHA8 trial paper was #retracted from @bmj.com after 5 long months 😅 🤝 well done @deevybee.bsky.social @steamtraen.eu @sophieehill.bsky.social @wjst.de @ioanaacristea.bsky.social @gidmk.bsky.social P.T. Wilmhurst and anonymous @pubpeer.com users #ResearchIntegrity 🔍 #FoSci

Sam Kerr shoots like a bad 90s movie... straight to DVD 🧤 #CHEARS #UWCL

Super happy to see this paper finally formatted. While this paper might seem about political fundraising, it's really about the theory of *parties*: is it a broader network (UCLA school, i.e., Bawn et al. 2012) or elite/institutions-driven (re: Aldrich)? doi.org/10.1086/735435

The first rule of academic prestige-washing: you can fraudulently add my name to a publication, but you must remove it from the retraction.

Personally, if I was fraudulently given authorship of an obviously fraudulent paper, and Retraction Watch contacted me for comment, I'd say: "I am not an author, that's a mistake and I've asked for a correction" not "go ask the other guy" 🤷‍♀️ retractionwatch.com/2025/11/06/s...

Ahahahahaha. @bmj.com first issued a correction to remove the English guys, Anthony Mathur and Sheik Dowlut, as innocent victims of impersonation. Only then did BMJ retract that Iranian papermill fraud! forbetterscience.com/2025/11/05/b...

6️⃣ Alphabet Name Block 🔠 A classic wooden toy that I turned into a personalized gift. (Conveniently, my friend just had a baby with a 6-letter name.) It was also a great excuse for me to buy some Flexcut chisel blades. (So far I've only used my sloyd knife for carving.)

finally found a clip of that Erin Cuthbert free kick baHahahaaa

Chelsea battered us in the opening minutes then lost their heads in the most predictable way... Lauren James pointless early booking, Hampton stomping her feet after every goal, Cuthbert with the worst set piece routine I've ever seen. L M A O. Arsenal 3 — Chelsea 1 Onto the 2nd leg! #UWCL

Yesterday, Barcelona Femení beat Athletic Club 7-1, with 3 teenagers starting (Schertenleib, Serrajordi, Juliá) and 3 teenagers coming on as subs (Cámara, Fenger, López). 4 goals + assists between them. Teenage dream? ⚽️👟

mentally, i'm here:

Another day, another gaffe in women's football coverage... (read the caption) youtu.be/1-unq-OxWbc?...