A painting showing the four horsemen of irreproducibility, from left to right: hypothesizing after results are known (HARKing), low power, p-hacking, and publication bias. Adapted by Prof. Dorothy Bishop from the original 1887 painting by Russian artist Viktor Vasnetsov.

And so I take that as an opportunity to highlight the dangers posed by @deevybee.bsky.social's "four horsemen of irreproducibility": hypothesizing after results are known (HARKing), low power, p-hacking, and publication bias. www.nature.com/articles/d41... ...3/n

A fair coin "knows" π.
Stop flipping when heads first outnumber tails. The expected fraction of heads is π/4. Average many trials → estimate π.
Result by J. Propp, animated for #PiDay.
Made with #Python #NumPy #Matplotlib and @marimo.io
#Mathematics #MathArt #CreativeCoding

NHMRC Investigator Grants out today.
A devastating day for many. I have already received messages from some of the best researchers I know who have missed out.
The senior levels had a cutoff of 5.93 (females), 6.2 (males) - according to my sources.
The impact will be wide spread.

the only place this should happen is academic conferences

Stuart's songs of 2025

Stuart's songs of 2025
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Stuart's albums of 2025
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Geese - Getting Killed
Viagra Boys - Viagr Aboys
Huremic - Seeking D...
Nourished by Time - The Pass...
Anna von Hausswolff - Iconoclasts
Heartworms - Glutton...
New Eves - The New ...
Wet Leg - Moi...
Lambrini Girls - Who...
Maruja - Pain..

Number of times the Wikipedia entry about the ship of Theseus has been edited since it was published in 2003 :
2,052

Number of sentences from the original entry that remain today : 0

October 2025 • Source: Harper's research

Bit niche I think, but apparently this parking spot is reserved for female rock climbers.

Chart showing defence spending as a % of GDP: 2023 Ukraine 36.70% Saudi Arabia 7.10% Russia 5.90% Israel 5.30% Poland 3.80% United States 3.40% South Korea 2.80% India 2.40% United Kingdom 2.30% Taiwan 2.20% France 2.10% Australia 1.90% China 1.70% Italy 1.60% Germany 1.50% Spain 1.50% Netherlands 1.50% Canada 1.30% Japan 1.20% Brazil 1.10%

The debate about defence ignores that Australia is already a spends a huge amount on defence and the military. As @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social writes lifting spending to 3% of GDP would be more than Sth Korea! #OffTheCharts
australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...

Assessment of a Polygenic Risk Score in Screening for Prostate Cancer | NEJM The incidence of prostate cancer is increasing. Screening with an assay of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) has a high rate for false positive results. Genomewide association studies have identified...

A high polygenic risk score (PRS) for screening prostate cancer was superior to a PSA test or MRI for detecting clinically significant disease (Gleason ≥7). A big step forward for supporting utility of PRS @nejm.org
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

A photo of Nietzsche with his prominent moustache. Below this is a rhyme: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Had one distinctive Fietzsche His top lip was home to A magnificent furry Crietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Opinion | Should Human Life Be Optimized? Advances in genetic testing and artificial intelligence are changing what’s possible for those undergoing I.V.F. Are we ready for the future of fertility?

The New York Times recently had an article on IVF and embryo selection which I think buries a few important ledes about these products ...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

This is George Monbiot's "X" leaving speech, and wow ❤️

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Stuart's songs of 2024
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Imagine if just $500 could fuel your electric car … for the next 20 years Four good quality solar panels – costing around $500 – would produce enough power for an EV for 20 years. Low cost solar is an incredible opportunity we should not ignore.

Four good quality #solar panels - costing around $500 - would produce enough power for an EV for 20 years. Low cost solar is an incredible opportunity we should not ignore

Preprint used UK biobank data to show that when testing both common and rare variants, the appropriate genone-wide significance threshold is 5*10^-9.

Seems my real age is 40

Your real age is 70 minus the number of musicians you recognize playing at Coachella 2025