Darren Dahly

Please never ask me to turn my shitposts into intellectual exercises ;P

A problem with calls for more viewpoint diversity in academia, or journalistic “balance”, is that they effectively treat all viewpoints as equivalent. This article explains clearly why all viewpoints should not be treated equally, and why we should reject morally odious views on those grounds alone

'Organised by sector IT body Jisc, the “call to suppliers” aims to open up a new conversation on how institutions including universities, specialist institutions and research organisations interact with AI.' repository.jisc.ac.uk/files/ai-lic...

These Avatar movies are so awful lol.

‼️ SO many myths about immigrants. ⚠️ Don't believe the hateful lies (looking at you Alberta UCP 👀) Migrants use significantly less NHS care than they effectively pay for, analysis finds www.bmj.com/content/395/... "...pay 60% more towards the NHS than the cost of healthcare they use."

I cannot emphasize how important work like this is. Congrats to the whole team on this one!

See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._C...

"What, according to Jim O’Callaghan, is supposed to happen when a child expresses discomfort about hugging an older relative? Their parents should make them do it anyway?" Here's a Surrealing in the Years Bank Holiday Special. The commenters absolutely love this one, I'm sure you can imagine.

IMPOSSIBLE IN CORK THOUGH

"...in Mice" No sample size calculation No apparent accounting for offspring nested in dam The "standard" 1-paragraph stats section in a paper with more plots and analyses than there are mice in the study Clear (DOPRA) denial of peer-review attack Published in a "high impact" journal Again le sigh

Speaking as a person who has had their own brain cooked by the endorphins I get from firing hot-takes into the webosphere, I don't think we want politicians cooking their brains by firing hot-takes into the webosphere.

Social investment in universities to independently pursue knowledge for its own sake is the greatest driver of innovation we've every known. That is *the* message, and our leaders aren't doing nearly enough to help policy makers understand it.

Universities are to tell an Oireachtas committee that they are at capacity and teetering on a cliff-edge unless the Government addresses a funding gap in higher education.

In one afternoon FF/FG ministers came down like a tonne of bricks on a rape crisis centre when they spent weeks hiding while Musk's Nazi website they use was producing CSAM. Like many of you, I really really hate these bastards.

Last summer, Scientific American's owners were stalking the site, making sure it wasn't being too critical of Trump. This summer, the magazine was sold and gutted. I wrote about it for The Nation www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Thanks to Ciara Ní Bhroin for writing this piece on the DRCC consent ad row - props to @aidanobrien.bsky.social who gets a mention www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

The immigration doom loop, summed up here by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Remember when Don the Con came to Ireland last month, said he was ending tarrifs on Irish whiskey and our pols and the Rubes at his golf course clapped like performing seals? Well, in a SHOCKING development .... it hasn't happened.

Hard Drugs now has a Bluesky account! Follow us here @harddrugspod.bsky.social to hear about new episodes and behind-the-scenes goofs.

I've done a bunch of work on haven recently, so if you rely on it you might want to try out the dev version: github.com/tidyverse/ha.... One of the headline features of the upcoming work is that write_sas() finally properly works! #rstats

Semper Fi

But way back at the dawn of web 2.0 and science blogging (2010-ish), I tried setting up a page to let people suggest and rank the "best epi papers". Here is the last capture of the page with 25 papers. web.archive.org/web/20140223...

If anyone's kid has lost their Columbia Statistical Research Group' model of survivorship bias, I found it on the street in Walthamstow yesterday.

Absolutely love this month's cover 💖

More than 40 fallen trees and branches reported across County Cork, which remains under a Status Yellow Rain and Wind Warning until 8.00am. csalert.ie/ILNE7J

It is pretty active, but arguably you need to go all in. Reporting guidelines are a good place to start doi.org/10.1080/1478...

Are you a credentialed journalist wondering how to assess research studies and distinguish correlation from causation? Applications for our free one-day training at the JHU Bloomberg Center in DC on February 26 are now open! Learn more and apply on our website: publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/...

I once tweeted "how do people cope with knowing that most of their research will never matter" and holy shit the responses I got for that one left me scarred lol. But I learned it's probably useful to be conscious of your own insecurities so you don't reflexively see them in others' posts! 😜

This is my experience too. Reading Braun and Clarke on the role of bias in thematic analysis satisfied a lot of the questions I had about rigor in qualitative research more generally pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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Incredibly depressing to government ministers demeaning public information campaigns about consent based on right wing culture war trolling. That Jim shared his thoughts about how this ad was inappropriate on X is an irony too far

lol. lmao even.

The Journal of Sports Sciences will require open data from 2027: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... All journals will move to this requirement (the higher quality and the better the editor, the sooner). Make sure you are ready for this change by learning best practices.

Excited to say we have opened a call for the @britishacademy.bsky.social / @wolfsonfdn.bsky.social Fellowships. These are amazing three year awards for early career researchers and gives you time for your research. It is open to Independent Research Orgs www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...