Perhaps not appreciating how many things get written, read, marked, reviewed after 9pm each night either!
07.03.2026 06:05
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Perhaps not appreciating how many things get written, read, marked, reviewed after 9pm each night either!
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kΔkΔpΕ chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
NEW MARSUPIALS
This story is nuts
The journal βPediatrics and Child healthβ has been published an article type, for case reports, that are made up and fictional without having any clear notice π±
retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...
SkiFree!
Explains why so many shitholes are currently on the market that have been rentals for a decade with absolutely zero maintenance. Sad thing is they are still going for +1 mil
I started a new dataviz project recently, integrating the Principal Diagnosis for Hospital Separations data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
My dataviz collects their yearly "datacubes" (Excel spreadsheets), currently covering the period from mid-2010 to mid-2024.
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I was recently doing some basic word doc template stuff, needed to add a heading to the doc 12 times between two other repeated headings, tried copilot, it plopped the heading in completely incorrect places whilst telling me it did the job. A consistent theme of AI, fails at the most simple tasks
Do beer drinkers pay more tax than gas companies?
Yes, they do!
Beer excise > PRRT
Beer drinkers' income tax > gas company income tax
Thread below, full details here: australiainstitute.org.au/report/tax-b...
Way ahead of you, follow back for a guy who hasn't logged a film all year
This work will hopefully improve diagnostic performance and confidence, allowing treatment of koalas only when most appropriate to do so!
Jack, with the help of some wonderful collaborators in the stats space, applied BLCM to four molecular tests, two qPCRs and two LAMPS, and found that using two tests in serial (LAMP for maximum sensitivity, and qPCR for maximum specificity) gave the best results.
Unfortunately wildlife disease testing suffers from the XKCD problem of too many standards - every group has published their own test and they all use them individually - all have their nuances and quirks - and variable sensitivity and specificity. Basically there is no 'gold standard'.
Really proud of this amazing work by PhD student Dr Jack Wheelahan - his first paper from his work looking at improved in-clinic diagnostics for Zoos.
Jack used Bayesian Latent Class Modelling to identify the best molecular testing method for Chlamydia in koalas
doi.org/10.1016/j.pr...
If you are teaching any kind of statistics, probability or modeling classes, you'll love this website. Contains dozens of interactive simulations of random processes, with sliders, different visualizat options, and full numeric log ouput: www.randomservices.org/random/apps/...
I'm especially happy I managed to sneak an 1802 satirical cartoon from my son's GCSE history course into an editorial on Avian Influenza communications
bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Oooh look at Canberra press gallery salivating over another pitiful 'horse race' filled with 'winners & losers' & 'personalities' to focus on rather than talking about that piffling stuff like climate, welfare, cost of living, social policy. It's all just a sad little game.π
If we are going to ban symbols and phrases because of 'social cohesion' then we really should start banning some moustaches too.
Something about white blokes with short hair and moustaches gives off a real π vibe...
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
This is one of the most upsetting and infuriating medical/scientific pieces I have ever read.
#PedSky #MedSky #ToxSky #PharmSky π§ͺ
"Did a Celebrated Researcher Obscure a Babyβs Poisoning?" by Ben Taub is our pick from the February 2, 2026 issue of The New Yorker. https://newyorkerest.com/issue/2026/02/02?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=weekly_pick
ππ Let me shuffle that deck of cards for you!
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New blog post with some thoughts on @nanoporetech.com and their recent announcement that the P2 Solo will be discontinued:
rrwick.github.io/2026/01/21/p...
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
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A more user friendly press release version of the koala retrovirus paper www.izw-berlin.de/en/press-rel...
Adelaide writers festival, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Symphony β in every case of censorship, boards have shown themselves.
They will destroy the reputation of the institutions they lead, to be on good terms with people in their cocktail set.
Well, might have helped if I'd clicked the link!
Wonder how many are actively using versus just happen to still have an account?
Yeah but all the cool people are here Nick