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Pretty convinced that nursery fees being in the basket of goods is solely responsible for keeping inflation above 2%.
...<googled>...
Oh look, nursery fee inflation actually is 8% 🤯!
www.ons.gov.uk/economy/infl...
Not sure whether to be relieved ours isn't an outlier or to start a nursery.
(1) Read, and replace any mention of 'work' or 'papers' in your mind with 'words in order'.
(2) Repeat, replace the same with 'new knowledge'.
Which makes most sense?
If the article is about words-in-order, discard. If it is about new knowledge, read it carefully to see if the author is loopy.
It's never not been crazy-making to me that we'll have hundreds of thousands of words written about a 2% change to income tax either way and the impact it'll have in the economy, but 9% of half the population under 35 is waved away as a private matter, or "only the price of a gym membership".
Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
New Ep now up. Stewart Lee and I discuss swearing at the BAFTA’s, Blair’s legacy and Gerry Adams trampolining naked with a dog. #StrongMessageHere www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I'll just repost this today #ByElection #UKPolitics
The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...
A graph from the financial times showing that rule changes have increased mean student loan repayments from £40k to £56k
Substantial goal post moving since they opted in knowing the system:
(From "It’s time to phase out student loans" - www.ft.com/content/797c... via @financialtimes.com )
‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
Agree it should be considered graduate tax. But only youngest people pay, after massive shift of wealth to older people via house prices. Plus v. rich opt out (by paying fees upfront). Progressive 🤨?
Imagine furore if 9% was added to everyone's higher rate tax. We'd be disincentivising work etc...
Very good for any scientist to see. We're not all our linkedin profile all of the time
NEW: The FDA just shot down Moderna's new flu shot. From me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Paradise Bay, Urupukapuka. Not bad!
Die, Dichotomy.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/die-di...
A brief post encouraging you to read the original paper with @erik-van-zwet.bsky.social and @f2harrell.bsky.social .
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Hence Lord Camden ruled, as later became viewed as a general principle, that the state may do nothing but that which is expressly authorised by law, while the individual may do anything but that which is forbidden by law.
Never seen it spelled out this clearly before, very good!
#TheBomb podcast is excellent. Season 3 about the Cuban Missile Crisis is inspired, narrated by family of the two leaders - Max Kennedy and Nina Khrushcheva - really enlightening about how both sides were thinking:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...
Just tried to unlock my office door with car key fob.
Is it only two weeks since Christmas break?
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
That's my favourite time of year! Looking forward to it already 😄
"more than a dozen ex-[Tory] MPs and one sitting member have defected to Reform since the election (admittedly to the improvement of both parties)." 🔥 from @financialtimes.com !
www.ft.com/content/d79f...
‼️Two new PhD positions open! One experimental, one modelling, exploring these beautiful collective dynamics in mitochondria across species. 🇳🇴, good pay, full staff benefits. [Shares much appreciated]
Lab: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Modelling: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Generative AI is amazing at tasks where I am not qualified to judge the output.
PhD position with John King at University of Nottingham @ University of Nottingham, UK
Deadline: 9 Jan 2026
www.nottingham.ac.uk/mathematics/...
At the @uniofnottingham.bsky.social faculty of Science Christmas lecture. Here's a sustainability periodic table showing the abundance of the elements.
Can't help but think the best way to assess a research strategy is to assess the research it produces. Are the people that told #REF2029 they need to assess the strategies the same people who create strategies?
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-r...
NEW BLOGPOST
Abolishing trial by jury: why is the government overlooking the obvious?
thesecretbarrister.com/2025/12/02/a...
Quite enjoying #StrongMessageHere podcast
@aiannucci.bsky.social : I'm an influencer. No you're not. Get to school 🤣
A screenshot of a research integrity training course, which says that the five commitments of the Concordat to Support Research Integrity are: 1. Maintaining the highest standards of research integrity - the principles 2. Maintaining the highest standards of research integrity - expectations and compliance 3. Embedding a culture of research integrity 4. Questionable research practices and potential research misconduct 5. Accountability and continuous improvement in research integrity
Friends. Comrades. I have QUESTIONS, especially about item 4 there.
📝 Excited to share our latest work, now out at European Heart Journal! We studied 252 SCN5A variants previously found in patients with Brugada Syndrome, an inherited arrhythmia disorder linked to sudden cardiac death. [1/4]
