Managed to snap a hummingbird hawk moth in my garden yesterday. Very pleased with this.
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Me: whatever you're doing, stop it. Child 1: who? Which one of us? Me: whoever feels the most guilty!
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
Is net negative an option? Could we try that? Asking on behalf of a planet I know.
In 19th century Vienna, a young physician named Ignác Semmelweis discovered that doctors' dirty hands led to deaths. So can modern statistical techniques on Semmelweis's own data show us just how important this was? significancemagazine.com/the-semmelwe...
Today, almost all new electricity is coming from clean energy Once clean-energy growth consistently exceeds demand, fossil-fuel power will start to decline Source: IEA
Are you or do you know 14-18 years-olds with complex health needs in London, looking for a paid, rewarding opportunity? A few spaces left in our Young Person PPI advisory panel
Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India
Turns out the foil in which your butter is wrapped is ferromagnetic and if you leave it on your induction hob while cooking, then bad things can happen.
Britain is more than halfway towards reaching Net Zero. Most people don't realise this, not least as the fossil-fuel fanatics want us to think achieving it is impossible. Via YouGov
It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄 Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇 So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage 🧵1/23
BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Prof Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's data
Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.
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This is awesome. Hope the UK levelling off at the end of the time series is just a blip.
Akshat Rathi@akshatrathi.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis chart continues to be one of my fave
Well this is heartbreaking. I'm pretty confident I saw this tree as a kid and I've always loved the Robin Hood story. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Most famous tree in the world’: Sherwood Forest’s 1,000-year-old Major oak dies
Nottinghamshire tree, one of Europe’s oldest and largest, fails to produce leaves after being stressed by series of hot, dry summers
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Come and work @downingstreet as a data scientist! We're hiring for a data scientist working on health and education. You'll be right at the heart of UK policy making and (IMO) working with the best tech stack in the UK public sector. Link: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
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Right, less than a week to go. Glad all of that fits. So psyched.
Youlgreave is lovely but, seriously, pack the beta blockers for the driving😨
UKHSA: Incubation and infectious period, asymptomatic or presymptomatic transmission and transmission route in human-to-human spread of hantavirus infection: a systematic evidence summary @ukhsa.bsky.social assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a0af6...
Oh, that's sad. I loved Richard's BMJ column, it was always beautifully written.
Mary Dixon-Woods@marydixonwoods.bsky.social · 3mo agoI’m very sorry to hear the great Richard Lehman has died. He brought clarity and wit to his work, including his wonderful BMJ column, and never stopped caring about patients long after he stopped being a GP. He will be very much missed.
Cheesecake for a 5am breakfast because it was so damn cold and those bloody owls were making a racket. Camping is harder than I remember.
It's not AI, it's linear regression. But it is a really appalling and interesting story.
Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 3mo agoa new investigative journalism audit of the Kenyan SHA system-AI that calculates affordability for access to healthcare-just dropped & its scandalous "The AI income predictor systematically overcharged those who could least afford it while undercharging the well-off" sha.africauncensored.online
AFD Blog `#UKHSA Update On #Hantavirus: 2 Nonsymptomatic Passengers Self-Isolating at Home' afludiary.blogspot.com/2026/05/ukhs...
UKHSA Update On Hantavirus: 2 Nonsymptomatic Passengers Self-Isolating at Home
#19,146 The UK's Health Security Agency has published an update this afternoon on the current status of British nationals aboard the m/v ...
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Petition to pass legislation to enforce synchronisation of wind turbines as it's infuriating to watch the blades go around at different speeds.
Bloody love English hedgerows at this time of year - they all just seem to froth and overflow with green abundance.