Maternal deaths have halved in the last 35 years.

It's not the dog it's the owner.

St George's Day is a good day to remember that the massive rise in English identity, about which a thousand op-eds were written, turned out to have happened purely because the ONS moved it above 'British' in the list of answers.

Science-y writery types! Our World in Data is hiring an in-house writer, and obviously they're brilliant and important and you could actually make a difference to the world! Go and apply here ourworldindata.org/writer-q2-2024

In case you don't have time to read the whole 388 page Cass report, here's a good discussion of its contents by Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦 and Tom Chivers from 'The Studies Show'. (Paywall, but worth the pennies, if you are interested in science and numbers.)

open.substack.com/pub/thestudies…

For paid subscribers to The Studies Show only: Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦 and I attempt to look into the Cass review thestudiesshowpod.com/p/paid-only-ep…

A most excellent new book from Tom Chivers Out next week!

absolutely baffled that the New York Times says of Daniel Dennett that he 'insisted … free will was a fantasy' nytimes.com/2024/04/19/boo… he wrote a whole book about how free will is compatible with a deterministic universe! It's literally CALLED 'Freedom Evolves'!

Great piece by James O'Malley on our OpenSAFELY platform!

Nice to have one of my old stories, from almost exactly ten years ago, do the rounds again (uncredited as usual but glad it still amuses)

Just in! ‘Everything Is Predictable’ by Tom Chivers featuring a fistful of endorsements… including mine! Everything you ever wanted to know about Bayes’ Theorem but didn’t know you were supposed to ask.
A very rich, rewarding read… weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/tom-chi…

The Ottoman traveler Evliya Çelebi's story about eating honey in a Circassian village is the most insane thing you'll read today

Today I became one of the first people in Europe & one of only 60-80 people in the world to have tasted a cultivated meat sausage - made from pig fat cells grown in a lab with no animals harmed. It was surprisingly underwhelming because it just tasted like a normal pork banger..

this seems a shame

I’ve got the Studies Show epistemology duo on my shelf now Tom Chivers Stuart Ritchie 🇺🇦

Come join me, those of you who are interested, for the launch of my book, EVERYTHING IS PREDICTABLE! It's about Bayes' theorem, so naturally it's at the Bayes Business School city.ac.uk/news-and-event… with David Spiegelhalter and other people who actually understand Bayes, and also me