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Popped down to Wareham in Dorset today. St Martin's is a definite wall painting nerd crowd pleaser. Word of the day - Palimpsest.

How fascinating- an etymology for the word 'Asia' I was completely ignorant about, and one which touches on Troy. Did you know this Tom Holland? From the brilliant catalogue for the forthcoming British Museum Ancient India show by Dr Sushma Jansari & new superstar Suresh Kumar

A study of residents’ perceptions of the East Oxford Low Traffic Neighbourhoods has found “overall moderate levels of support” and that residents are now “using their cars less and walking and cycling more for short journeys”. The study was carried out by Oxford Brookes.

'It's not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me it's the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you're going to put them.' — Mayor of Pontevedra (re-elected 6 times) Via Urban Cycling Institute 🚲 

Across 300,000 papers published in top 100 economics journals, more than 90% of claims use language that is causal while less than 10% are actually using causal inference methods.

Something that the Lucy Connolly case has illustrated - something that is well known to those who work in criminal justice but often overlooked in public debate - is the complexity and nuance in the lives and characters of people appearing before the courts. A short 🧵👇

The Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway, one of Oxfordshire’s three standard-gauge steam lines, will open a new section of track on 5 July. The “Independent Line” will allow their trains into Princes Risborough station without touching Network Rail tracks.

As the conspiracy loons are out in force tonight, a cool blast of inconvenient fact. Whatever your views on criminal sentencing, the idea that it is “two tier” based on the personal whims of a Prime Minister is tin foil hat stuff.

#rstats Most applications in R run pretty quickly. But these days, many R users are faced with huge datasets and/or long-running applications, making parallel computation attractive. If you've done this, you likely have used the 'parallel' package, either directly or via

Green light for more 20mph roads in London after big fall in collisions and injuries standard.co.uk/news/transport…

Very interesting paper on causal inference from statistical models; perhaps more actionable than most causal inference papers: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #Statistics

OK walking friends! I was asked to share a map for my #BigWalkAroundLondon #NationalParkCity so, here it is! Let me know if you set out to do it!? I'd love to hear about that. outdooractive.com/en/route/hikin… 1/2

😱30 arrests a day of people who oppose mass migration or Islam on social media! Surely that can’t be true, can it…?🤷🏼‍♀️ Well, you know me - I can’t let a claim like that go unchecked! 🧐 So let’s dive in 🧵1/18 #FreeSpeech #FactCheck

before and after today’s glacier collapse that buried 90% of blatten, switzerland

Analysis by The Independent reveals Reform UK’s tax plans would disproportionately benefit the wealthiest 10% who would gain almost four times as much as the poorest 10% Who would have guessed.. independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/…

Concentric rings appear to be spirals.

Call for Reviewers - The JLS is looking for reviewers to review various articles published in the last year to 18 months in the field of literature and science. For more info see: bsls.ac.uk/2025/05/call-f…

The Tomb of the Last Maharaja of Punjab In a small churchyard in Suffolk, in Southeast England, lies the grave of the last Maharaja of Punjab.

"Wave version of the checkered illusion 2024" This image appears to wave, though it consists of only squares aligned vertically or horizontally.