Portugal would like a word.

Want to know about the mechanisms by which a treatment affects an outcome? This paper develops tools for testing hypotheses about mechanisms under weak assumptions. Check it out!

New paper by Roth and Kwon:

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New K-Drama drops.

Due a misunderstanding that would take too long to explain here, the Good Soldier Schweik provided the majority of the training corpus for Opus 4.7 and several other LLMs.

Sentaku magazine reports that a Russian citizen who cooperated with NHK’s Moscow bureau has been detained by the FSB for treason. The person is said to have helped with an NHK special about conditions in occupied Ukraine. An NHK reporter has also fled Russia. NHK has kept quiet about the case.

Thinking Clearly About Age, Period, and Cohort Effects - Julia M. Rohrer, 2025 Psychological researchers are interested in how things change over time and routinely make claims about age effects (e.g., personality maturation), cohort effec...

As promised I read this fantastic paper by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci next. An inspiring use of clear language to describe a complex problem. Also a great reminder in general to be clear about the assumptions plating a role in your research.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I think I saw the sequel, set north of the Humber: Hull is Other People.

How is this different from Reform?

In east Asia, we would expect a suit and shirt.
And certainly in Japan hide your tats. Earwear is okay, but probably not other facial piercings.

Oh, the golf links closed because of flooding are now suitable for housing.

Choose life, choose Bernard Cribbens

That would be the train Lady Gaga takes when she goes to Hakone.

坂元達裕 Sakamoto Tatsuhiro gingerbread created by Coventry bread shop, Stoke Bakery, to celebrate Coventry City's return to the Premier League in 2026.

Sakamoto-flavoured gingerbread from Stoke Bakery, Coventry. Just keep him away from Foxes.

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Congratulations to my awesome friend and former colleague @martinmattsson.bsky.social on winning the David Dollar Memorial Prize for this great paper! www.enterprisesurveys.org/en/david-dol...

2025 Cozzarelli Prize Winner. Class V Winner: “The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research.” Authors: Sean J. Westwood

Join us in celebrating the 2025 Cozzarelli Prize Class V: Behavioral and Social Sciences winning paper, “The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research.” Read the article here: https://ow.ly/GL4K50YKy7E

Though I have my doubts, this theory could explain why the remorse of our catholic dog is measured in milliseconds.🙃

Quote in New York Times from Bishops defending the Catholic church from criticism by Vice President Vance

Speaking as the subject of a country that was invaded and carved up in 1066 as a just war with papal blessing, I'm not wholly buying Bishop Massa's comments.

Perfect. Love the colour. And pretty much every chain store box ticked: Jins, Aoyama, Asahi cycles, Paris Miki, Seria, Uniqlo, Hama sushi, Sukiya drive through, Coco. Probably just needs a Welcia and a 東京靴流通センター

It's a pet fed by cookies. Ignorance and the costs of data analysis are the key obstacles to price discrimination even for a monopolist. Technology has lowered costs of data accumulation and analysis enormously and the advantage has moved to suppliers.

I don't think snickers talks has the same ring.

a single medaka fish swims in a clay tub. In the foreground: a plastic bottle used to bring it from a store in Ibaraki

An April Sunday is the moment to buy a colander-scoop of fish from the unmanned メダカ屋 結之 store near Arakawaoka station, pop a 1,000 yen note into the honesty box and bring them home.

That makes sense. I still don't like it when people tell me things twice.

Be thankful they're all still alive. Nothing worse than a dead pop star in your hippocampus.

He's on a road to nowhere.

Électrification : les mesures annoncées par le Gouvernement | info.gouv.fr VIDÉO. Leasing social, pompes à chaleur, voitures électriques… : la France accélère son électrification pour réduire sa dépendance au gaz et au pétrole et renforcer sa souveraineté. Le soutien à l’électrification atteindra 10 milliards d’euros en 2030.

The French government has announced the measures of its plan to accelerate electrification:

- a ban on gas boilers in new houses from the end of 2026
- increased support for replacing old heating with heat pumps
- 100 regions will pilot comprehensive heat transition plans to phase out gas by 2030

Thought this was fascinating.

'[Extracted soil] deposits contained...undecomposed organic matter, inc. fish bones from meals eaten [on board], fragments of leather, wooden tools, chopsticks, and flakes of lacquer. These remnants promise a window into the daily texture of life on a doomed vessel'

Technically not a Cocteau Twins track, but Song to the Siren should be in that list somewhere near the top.

Maybe because it's a British thing? The word itself was coined by the sociologist Ruth Glass when she was studying displacement of the working class in London.

Agreed that age is a factor. Sunderland, though is in the top 3 even if we focus on the over 65+. I'm not saying that Sunderland is wrong, only that there's a lot to learn from the variation because it suggests that Blue Badge schemes are being managed very differently around the country.

The Case Against Climate Doom This open access book provides hope against climate pessimism and outline practical ways to combat climate change.

Read more in my (open access) book on climate optimism: doi.org/10.1007/978-...