This undersells the fact that you would sometimes do zoom meetings during the kayak!
05.03.2026 12:55
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This undersells the fact that you would sometimes do zoom meetings during the kayak!
UK Poll of Polls, 14 February 2026
Reform: 29% (27-31%)
Labour: 20% (18-22%)
Conservative: 19% (17-20%)
Greens: 14% (13-16%)
Lib Dem: 12% (11-14%)
Other: 3% (3-4%)
SNP: 3% (2-3%)
Brushing up on some reading for a research ethics workshop I'm running in a couple of weeks and perhaps getting a little carried away...
A couple of teas or coffees a day could lower risk of dementia, scientists say
Sounds like excellent research and I will not be asking any probing questions about causal identification at this time.
This is fun, even if the British Media, Politics, and Policy cluster is hanging out on the edge of the galaxy.
More accurate headline:
Assisted dying backers could use relatively recent constitutional innovation to bypass ‘undemocratic’ block by peers
Guardian headline: Assisted dying backers could use archaic procedure to bypass ‘undemocratic’ block by peers Exclusive: MPs backing bill to use ‘nuclear option’ of 1911 Parliament Act if it continues to be blocked by Lords
An 'archaic' procedure such as one of the central planks of the British constitution, which establishes the supremacy of the Commons over the Lords...
I bet the author is a British person living in Australia, because my petty gripe is that in Australia you can get a flat white in many sizes (and could 20 years ago when I started drinking coffee there) whereas in Britain people insist it can only be one size.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
'Immediate reject' is a new peer review option to me... does it mean 'wow this is bad, don't even read my report just hit the reject button'?!?
Agree with you normatively, but not empirically - if some papers were clearer I suspect they'd be more likely to get rejected because people would realise they're doing silly things, or not doing very much at all!
I think that is obviously true in general, but doesn't explain why they stopped asked me as much in 2022-24!
Procrastinating from writing something by analysing the number of peer reviews I do. Not sure if my new website made me more visible, or getting something into APSR made me look like a serious person, but 2025 was apparently the year journal editors remembered who I was again.
That was speedy! Sounds like it might drift down my reading pile...
But also, I only discovered her in June, so next year I'm in with a shot at the top spot... 😆
The main thing I'm taking away from this is that more of you should listen to Olivia Chaney, so if you like indie folk, give her a listen!
I was going to say yes, because I'm ill with my fifth one since October (I think, the boundaries a hazy...). But then I remembered you live in a different country 😂
But also you probably know more parents of three year olds than you used to 😆🤧🤒
Lately, I have been reading lots of early 20th century literature; now I want to use semi-colons in everything I write; I feel sad they have fallen into disuse.
Fair enough!
Many congratulations to you both! Good luck for the nights ahead!
I haven't actually read it but this is now very high up on my reading list, and is apparently amazing: www.faber.co.uk/product/9780...
Adversarial Poetry sounds like a great research genre.
Would definitely read studies of the effect of adversarial poetry on political persuasion, adversarial poetry and affective polarisation, adversarial poetry and misinformation.
So many possibilities 😆
Now I have to trawl through my dropbox to find my own papers so I can remember what I said in them...
Never mind twitter and chat gpt, the cloudflare outage seems to have taken down doi.org!
Not at all relevant to the actual discussion about this, but I remember being really impressed by the Boix paper when I read it as a grad student, whereas now every time I see it I can't get past the fact that in the 1990s you could get an N=22 OLS into the APSR.
If there's a bibliography, use a reference style that uses initials rather than names, delete dois and urls. Use journal abbreviations if you can.
Words: 'that' can be deleted most of the time 'I argue that x y z' -> 'I argue x y z'
Rephrase 'the x of y' -> y's x
For example -> e.g.
Delete adverbs
If it's page based, turn off widow and orphan control, use indenting rather than line breaks for new paragraphs, and reduce letter spacing a tiny bit.
All of which make things look worse typographically, but arbitrary rules produce poor outcomes...
Yeah I'm guessing they managed to change their mailing list settings, didn't turn into quite the disaster it could have been!
I am nothing if not optimistic about the chances of me having time to finish all my random paper ideas one day in spite of all the prevailing evidence to the contrary 😆
True about the data, but this has rather taken the wind out of the sails of the 'PCC elections don't provide accountability, we should probably get rid of them' framing it would have had...