Remember when CBC 3 had a bad-taste jingle for each Canadian city? At the airport, heard a boarding call in French for "d'Edmonton" and it took me back.

"I ask them what they found so disagreeable [...] Often they felt alienated because they had searching questions – such as why does -(-1)=1; do numbers exist; is maths real – but they were told these were silly or irrelevant" theguardian.com/books/2023/may…

#HDRNCanada Scientific Director @kimchspr presents a paper co-authored with alison paprica (she/her), @docschull & others on the "minspecs" for data trust, data repositories & other data collaborations at #CAHSPR23 #yul

Something kind of incredible is happening in the quantitative social sciences. The DAG revolution in health (anyone else calling it that?) is leading them to start to outpace economists in terms of causal reasoning.

In conclusion, at a time when many countries are thinking about scaling back or expanding cash transfer programs, our findings support the use of these and other anti-poverty programs to improve population health and reduce mortality Link to the paper: nature.com/articles/s4158…

This is pretty insightful. I've been thinking about this lately from the perspective of leadership. What does it look like to run a team or organization that permits its members to be great?

I'm very pleased that these were reported on as ground squirrels—which they are—and not gophers—which they are not. Also, so cool. cbc.ca/news/canada/sa…

I'm becoming convinced that all food in the UK is either pudding or pie, and a surprising number of items are both. atlasobscura.com/articles/what-…

Twitter's feed has completely gone to pieces but it does make sure I get a regular dose of Derek Guy, which is great. Unfortunately, it also makes sure I get a regular dose of a lot of other nonsense.

Not sure how much longer I can hold out. Just signing in is such a downer. Has the research community decided on where we're going next?