No.

Also applies to science conferences.

Football's a game of very fine margins. If Havertz had put that header 6 inches lower. Or if Man City hadn't breached the rules 115 times without being sanctioned. So exciting. What a sport.

Flashing a slide with a list conflict of interests for two seconds is not declaring your conflicts of interest.

Most?

College based teams are at a disadvantage because they are selecting from a smaller pool of potential contestants. So, Manchester gloating misplaced.

Very good.

I think you'll find you are some way behind the University of Oxford (16 wins) and the University of Cambridge (11).

'coz there was no need when JB was POTUS. (What happened to all those he didn't prevent?). The idiocracy continues.

Why oh why do scientists put up slides like this when giving a talk? Indeed slide after slide like this. A large number of unexplained data points.

Sometimes doing the right thing has a cost involved. That is the nature of integrity.

Rigged in that people who see Trump for who he is were allowed to vote.

There are good ethical reasons for steering clear of X.

It's amazing how several Conservative PMs did one shitty thing after another and they resined in power for years. The same leeway not being offered to Starmer.

What I learned when I gave up sugar for six weeks Foods with added sugar are everywhere – even in some surprising places. So how easy is it to go without sugar and what difference can it make to your health?

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Why is there so much added sugar in so many savoury items - finding a loaf of bread with no sugar is quite a challenge in our local supermarket.

Can't wait for him to be welcomed back into the academic fold with open arms after all of this because that is exactly what will happen. Very serious people will insist it's about "viewpoint diversity".

Tiny new fir tree sprouting up in an old burn area.

Fallen dead conifers brought down by the winter storms with many more dead trees against the mountains and skyline

A conifer destroyed by fire some years ago and now brought down by winter storms. The high peaks of the San Gabriel mountains are in the background.

Purple wild flowers rising from a green base on sandy soil and pine needles all around.

Hiked in the San Gabriel mountains as I usually do at the weekend. Spring wildflowers looking lovely. The destruction brought by winter storms in old burn areas all to apparent with hundreds of trees down. But, lots of tiny new conifers springing up.

Bizarre desire to mollify Trump.

My biggest claim to fame is that my brother has a credit on this album (violin)!

If you get the pitch just right they shatter.

Is the pope Catholic? JD Vance thinks he has an answer | Marina Hyde When it comes to theology, Donald Trump’s vice-president clearly knows best. Are we about to see an American break with Rome, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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"I guess in some ways Pope Leo got off lightly with this interaction. Last year, his predecessor Pope Francis famously met Vance and was dead within hours."

LoL

One of the problems is that somehow I don't see lots of posts from people I follow. So I do not 'engage' with them.

Strong ethical reasons to avoid X. Science engagement here definitely less.

Alex Manninger: Martin Keown's tribute to 'one of Arsenal's greatest unsung heroes' Former Arsenal defender Martin Keown pays tribute to his old friend and former Gunners team-mate Alex Manninger, who has died at the age of 48.

A heartfelt tribute
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Bernie S: what a legend.

It says it all that @atrupar.com has to point out his comment is satirical.

A fundamental problem with Vance's stance is that no theological opinion can be anchored in truth. The only truth in theology is to state that someone held an opinion.

I agree. There are many reasons to reject prediction models. But it's the model performance and the usefulness of the model that matters, not the methods used to generate the model. Of course bad methods likely to generate less accurate models.

Real science is apolitical. Political is having a view whatever the evidence. Science is having a view based on the evidence. Scientists should remain apolitical and speak out against politicised drivel.

Sure, but the fact is dichotomisation will not prevent out of sample prediction. As I said you can argue it would be better without dichotomisation but that would be an argument for all sorts of other aspects. Model performance in out of sample is valid.