Excellent, Dame Maggie - and good discussion on the statistical likelihood of other life out there toward the end … certainly looking forward to the next chapter tomorrow …

UK hospitals bracing for once-in-a-decade flu surge this winter Officials urge vaccination against mutated strain of virus that may be more transmissible than usual

Interesting Ian - thanks for sharing. Concern in UK too www.theguardian.com/society/2025... with active preparation in place in Ireland too.

CDC FluView, ECDC CDT & Canada Announce Early H3N2 Subclade K Prevalence Numbers Credit NIAID   #18,947 Yesterday's announcement for the first known human H5N5 infection has captured a good deal of attention, but the `ot...

"..the first known human H5N5 infection has captured a good deal of attention, but the `other' flu story we've been following this week has been the rapid spread of a new seasonal H3N2 subcade (K) virus, which emerged in the Southern Hemisphere"

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If you're a clinician or researcher in Ireland feeling a little overwhelmed by statistics, join myself & @cathalwalsh.bsky.social on 11th October in SJH for a 6-credit CPD Essential Medical Statistics, where we'll demystify things together. Tickets here!

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ir todos los días incluso por el camino español

This is outrageous but not without precedent
‘Stick to your principles and to the rules at all times. Never compromise. If you compromise in anything, you will not feel well with yourself, and it will create a liability that will come back to haunt you.’

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Leader Schumer: "What does a bad leader do when they get bad news? Shoot the messenger. That's just what happened with the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics."

It is very unfortunate that the US will no longer have any reliable federal statistics until Trump is gone.

Even the best private job statistics, ADP, tends to be far off from the more comprehensive Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers. These statistics cannot be privatized.

🚨 Trump is demanding the firing of the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Erika McEntarfer, because the jobs report was bad.

When you can’t rig the numbers, fire the messenger. Classic authoritarian move.

Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."

BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.

The head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics during Trump’s first admin.

Age-specific mortality in the US, broken down by diseases and external causes, using data from the CDC Wonder between 2018 and 2021.

How does the risk of death change as we age?

We often now hear the term “Bayesian borrowing” in trials. But what is Bayesian borrowing and what are the pros and cons around its use? 1/6
#MethodologyMonday #122

Fair play to them - and to Tipperary today! Tá sé (camánaíocht) an-chosúil le hiománaíocht - ach is dóigh liom go bhfuil an iománaíocht níos fearr - cé nach amhlaidh atá an scéal i mbliana do Chorcaigh!

I hope it was a more balanced game than today’s All Ireland Hurling final - a game of two halves.

On the eve of the proposal, von der Leyen's own budget commissioner Piotr Serafin, who is tasked with selling the significantly enlarged budget to EU capitals, had "no clue" of the complex formula that would determine how much each country would receive, according to a person involved in the discussions. Despite other commissioners making pleas for advanced notice of the budget breakdown, they were only given final figures of their funding in the minutes before a meeting scheduled to sign it off. That meeting started four hours later than scheduled.

We’ve all been in meetings like this
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But, look, he is speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the authorities really know that this is the Christ?

True and true. There are many cases where the calculations are intractable and numerical approaches (sometimes framed as simulation - e.g. Monte Carlo integration - but aren’t) are helpful. But data, and hence the related evidence are different. ‘No amount of computation compensates for ignorance.’

Nice commentary @stephensenn.bsky.social - needs as much attention as the original article!

Twin Piques ..

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True. 4–7-8 breathing for me!

Tukey

XKCD has a Tukey quote for Tukey's 110th birthday
xkcd.com/3104/

Many of his specific inventions have been made obsolete over time, but he was a major contributor to data analysis and visualisation being serious and respectable parts of statistics research

Does anyone else have problems with CAPTCHAs? Is the back of a traffic light not a traffic light? We live in a world where Completely Automated Public Turing tests tell Computers and Humans Apart but don’t!

Random cathedral only 293km from Santiago.

Praying for you. Any churches nearby (rhetorical)?

‘and not one of their many offshoots!’ ;)

Buen Camino!