Finished The Wire. I realize: it is the greatest masterpiece of tv drama of all. The dialogue. The characters inc the villains PropJo Omar Mcnulty the scary Snoop. the worlds told. The flawless acting. the courage. It does resemble the 19C novel cycles of a balzac or a zola.

The BMJ is looking for a freelance statistical reviewer, offering to pay £115/review.

Yes we can professionalise peer review and pay academics for peer review as a service.

jobsearch.bmj.com/jobs/job/Freel…

The 2024 Significance writing competition is now open to early-career statisticians/data scientists, inc. students! Finalists get to present at the Royal Statistical Society Conference, and the winner published. Closing date: 31 May 2024.

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#statistics #datascience

'the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being'

Do you agree with this Solzhenitsyn quote? (Fuller quote in following tweet.) Are 99% of us (barring a few true saints, and a few complete sociopaths), a shifting mix of good and evil?

I’m going to celebrate by graduating in Philosophy thanks to Birkbeck Philosophy but this is good advice for any party:

Whoa

On BBC More or Less this week - is it true that the Cass review into gender identity services for children and young people in England dismissed 98% of the available evidence?

Dr Hilary Cass told us she’s ‘very angry’ about misinformation around her work.

bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h…

Had a great nightmare last night in which I picked up a copy of my book in Waterstones and noticed that the plate section had been accidentally replaced by the photo reel from my phone.

please read Prof Pete Etchells' bok on this subject

80% of early films created at the beginning of the 20thc were made in colour and one of the first careers in film production for artistic women was hand painting in film-colouring workshops #WomensArt

Timandra Harkness Catullus alludes to the myth in his Poem 2. Atalanta, fleet of foot, was so relieved when Milanion finally caught her!

Atalanta, whom no man could catch, was beaten by tempting her with three golden apples.

'Have you seen anyone being openly Jewish in a built-up area?'

So many writers signing a statement claiming “among writers of conscience, there is no disagreement.”

I’ve publicly criticized US support for the war in Gaza (and I’m still being called a Nazi for it), but on this, I side with PEN America and “the right to disagree.”

Last chance to enter for our TQV award for Statistical Excellence in Trustworthiness, Quality and Value in partnership with the Royal Statistical Society and Civil Service World👉 osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/osr-and-t…

Can we trust computers? Find out at a Science Museum Lates event on 9 May with a brilliant panel including Peter Coveney of CompBioMed Alessandra Vizzaccaro Tim Palmer of Predictability of Weather and Climate Paul Brenner of University of Notre Dame and MCed by fab Timandra Harkness

sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-and-do/can…