My cousin in the UK is moving house tomorrow, six people in the "chain". One of them this morning just sent an email saying he's £20,000 short and asking everyone else to jointly make up the difference or the entire deal folds.

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Pick a short term visible infrastructure project in each constituency that can be turned around in the next 2 years. Nobody cares if they are told their life will be better in a decade because of HS2/Sports Quarter when they see decline every day when they leave their front door

Imagine what kind of people buy the UK’s oldest working cinema, try to knock it down, disappear for 2yrs & leave it looking like this… Maybe they’re hoping it burns down? Glenbrook Property are vandals. Our new council should make Brum happy and kick Glenbrook out of our city.

This is the real crux of it. People were doing something poorly and now they're doing it poorly in a different way and people are pointing to the technology like it's the problem.

LLMs in academia debate is exposing the ugly reality: 1) There's no objective measure of correctness 2) What people think are objective measures are actually shallow proxies 3) Human work isn't very good and so can be automated 4) Begging for artificial barriers to competition

On Saturday the 2nd of February 1799, a resident of Impington, Elizabeth Woodcock, went to Cambridge market to sell some eggs and butter, as she usually did. However, she would not return home for eight days due to an astonishing set of circumstances. 1/n

This is Lord Rothermere the owner of the Daily Mail. He lives in a massive mansion in the English countryside, but he pays no tax here because he identifies as French. While the Daily Mail is registered in Bermuda and pays no tax anywhere. That is his ‘Patriotism’.

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

Parker Pens, 1979. They weren't messing about...

This is a brilliant investigative piece on Farage, the dark millions behind him and the double standards of so much British journalism. Read and retweet! Nigel Farage pocketing £5m from a donor shows he’s unfit for power app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/s…

Another hit for Russian backed candidate Mr Farage. A real newspaper might have devoted a front page or two to his five million quid “gift for security” (sic) Amazing what can happen when the son of a KGB agent owns a paper and Thailand crypto billionaire gives money to burn

Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library theguardian.com/books/2026/a…

Upcoming note on absurd effect sizes in published journal articles: 1) Shocked to find there also wasn't a unified list of replications anywhere. Had to piece it together. 2) Huge effects are hallucinations that only exist in published papers. They evaporate in replications.

Have a note coming together on absurd effect sizes in published research: 1) I was shocked to find there isn't a random sample of journal-article level Z vs N data anywhere. Had to piece it together. 2) The statistical significance filter is hilarious.

🚨 methods aside: meta-analyses often combine effects w/out assessing the reliability of studies - ecoevorxiv.org/repository/vi… Existing risk of bias tools didn't fit our needs, so we built ROBOS - a new tool to assess Risk of Bias in Observational Studies 🧐

Are evolutionary theories of cooperation supported by real-world data? We test them using meta-analyses of predictors of group microfinance repayment. First paper from my PhD is out with Alex Mesoudi, Erik Postma, and Shakti Lamba 🧵 cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Man’s girlfriend is very annoyed that the free press she champions, despite having emigrated to a dictatorship without one, is investigating her boyfriend for stuff she says people who aren’t her boyfriend, like Angela Rayner, should resign over.

𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗮𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗟𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗢𝘅𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲, 𝘄𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗽𝗼𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗗𝗡𝗔 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝗲… 🔬🧬 Analysis of 'ancient DNA' from eight individuals from the site revealed that six of them were closely related, forming two distinct family groups. We were able to identify sisters, cousins and uncles, all buried side by side – a small rural community carefully laying their relatives to rest together 👨‍👩‍👦 Our findings have also helped provide insights on different aspects of life, death and burial practices in Roman Britain – you can read a little more about that here: cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/ad… #ScienceWeek #BSW26 #Archaeology #Roman #aDNA #Oxfordshire

Private Eye nail it 🤣🤣