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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I love these girls and their dad singing so much, and the surprise visit from Annie Crummer too... had me pretty weepy, and then falling down a wild NZ music rabbit hole. Recommend www.rnz.co.nz/national/pro...

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Kiwi Cover Contest Winning Song

Here is the winning song for the 2026 Kiwi Cover Song Contest. Ese, Tara and Sophia Aumalesulu with their version of the song See What Love Can Do. Thanks to RNZ's very talented music recording engine...

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just wow! Friends don't let friends forget to post CC-BY versions of their figures before submission...

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

less gas, not more. Data centres already use 23% of Irish electricity

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Irish citizenship is already hard and exhausting. 5 years seems the modal length of residency required for citizenship in the EU

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Looking forward to next week 🚴‍♂️💚

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EHPS Synergy @ehpssynergy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Our Expert Meeting on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion underlines the areas in research where EDI requires deliberate strategies Tips for recruiting different-to-reach populations? Diversify, use podcasts and visuals, avoid always having the same spokesperson on board, use trusted community agents

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I love this idea But it's also something academia does badly, funding for boring things. But I don't know that we need a separate application process for it

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In unexpected* news, it seems like search on Windows has just got a whole lot worse. It now seems to be somehow "AI", but this mostly seems code for slow and not really working...

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I mean if Springer Nature publish a book with this in a chapter, what is the role of an editor? “It is important to note that as an AI language model, I can provide a general perspective, but you should consult with medical professionals for personalized [sic] advice.”

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

New study suggests that a shortage of secure bike parking is limiting e-bike adoption. Glad to see this issue getting attention. It's intuitive that people with quasi-secure bike storage might be OK risking a pedal bike, but not an e-bike that's more expensive. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

When you've been planning for overdispersion in your outcome variable... but still checking to see whether this extreme value is real or not... It's real 🚴‍♂️

Histogram with most values near zero and all below 50km, except for one that is 250km. 250 value is higlighted by a green arrow

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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is good bike parking. It has angular tubing, which prevents the quiet use of pipe cutters for theft. The racks are also spaced far enough apart to allow for larger bikes to be parked with room for the rider to maneuver while on foot. Also, this is entrance-adjacent to the building.

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Beth Clarke @bethclarke.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on metascience in psychology at @zpid.bsky.social! The position is very open - could cover a wide range of topics/themes 🤸🏻‍♀️✨ If you have questions, please reach out! Applications are open until October 1st. leibniz-psychology.onlyfy.jobs/en/job/fyjwt...

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PhD in Psychological Meta-Science (m/f/d)

Become part of the open science movement The Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID) in Trier (Germany) is an internationally recognized research-based psychology service center located in...

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I remember years ago, thinking that it was kind of underwhelming that my analyses always finished promptly. Now after 31 minutes of my targets pipeline running in parallel and monstering my computer's resources, I say, be careful of what you wish for #rstatistics

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My mobile provider blocked a link to an an "Adult website" yesterday, aimed at helping people change their SPSS default graphs to APA style. My provider really saved me from seeing some unpleasant images

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My mental image when I read this headline was of children dressed like a Dickens novel being minded by strict seeming Victorian ladies Perhaps chimney sweeping is no longer an acceptable part of the preschool curriculum...

Newspaper headline announces "Victorian daycare provider to close"...

I first thought of this as a Victorian era before going to Victoria, Australia

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I had a wild interaction with a support chatbot this morning. It suggested a variety of helpful steps (which I'd already completed), and then suggested I open a chatbot and raise a specialist. I replied, am I not already in the support chat, isn't that your job to raise the specialist?

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Who am I kidding? Transformations... naaah. Zero-inflation or hurdle, almost certainly. Negative binomial and gamma, pretty sure Don't make me learn about Tweedie. I can wear a Cardi while I do my analysis if that helps

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

I am writing an analysis plan for a pre-registration, and being asked to comment on transformations (or be explicit about not doing so).... I really want to write "transformation is for those who have not yet discovered generalised linear models"

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In OSF-project closing news, just stumbling over a massive omni-shambles project I previously built that I need to update, but probably won't be complete by the time it goes read-only,,,

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Wow. So my main takeaway from this is that due to CERN's special status, it's relationship with privacy and GDPR is complex, and possibly not a great place to store pseudonymised data #mindBlown

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Thinking about the dry weather in Ireland... and that new Shannon-to-Dublin pipeline. 19 of the last 30 days where the flow in the Shannon has been at the legal minimum, so would be presumably no water available for the pipeline?

Table of water flow by days for the last 30 days, highlighted that over 2/3 are sitting at ~11 cubic metres per second, which is the minimum flow level for the old river bed from Parteen Weir

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

For enjoyers of this thread on reasons not use ratio outcome variables in statistical analysis, I have a short blog post from 2022 about why dividing an outcome by something like population density doesn't always control for population density: elevanth.org/blog/2022/09...

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There Are No Magic Outcome Variables

I'm very sorry but I am going to write about statistics and causal inference again. I'd much rather be doing science. I'll make it brief. I was reading a preprint about the relationship between kinsh...

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Simply put, this is a loophole that needs to be closed. Shops (even reputable shops), should not be selling illegal vehicles with a small disclaimer that they can only be used on private land, and never on public roads, footpaths or cycle paths

Price sign for an e-scooter in a reputable sctore, featuring a small print disclaimer which reads: eScooter law - not to be used on public roads, cyclepaths or pavements. Only on private land with the land owner's consent.

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vincentholst.bsky.social @vincentholst.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In 2023, @nature.com published 'Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time', receiving world-wide media attention. Our Matters Arising, published after a 32 month delay (more on that soon), shows that the reported decline can largely be attributed to dataset artefacts. 🧵

The average CD_5 index per year for Web of Science. The original Park et al. decline (top curve) becomes essentially flat (bottom curve) when removing papers with CD_5=1. Those papers largely correspond to dataset artefacts.

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Bogshuffler 🐛 @bogshuffler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

As close to totality as we're going to get #Eclipse2026

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

any chat on where it isn't cloudy near Limerick... looks like Lough Derg clearer for the eclipse in Ireland?

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I have my glasses that claim to have been tested to the relevant EN ISO standard for Direct Observation of the Sun

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's a niche thing, but if you read that story about moving a high voltage cable and Dobby's Grave, it's all rubbish. They always planned to tunnel under the beach, and in a different place to the grave, because the cable is going toward an existing power station

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 11/08/2026

Big changes ahead: the OSF will stop support sharing (new) data, materials and code. Feels like the end of an era!

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

putting my new carrier and the ever versatile Bakkie pannier to use, bringing this large plant to work #quaxing #bikelife

1m+ fig plant secured to a pannier on the back of a black bicycle, in front of a corten steel building

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

love this. but would also really love a world where rear carriers were by default designed to carry human loads, rather than relying on those weak threaded mounts on the rear of the frame

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Not quite sure how this post came into my feed, but this was definitely an excellent investment of 27minutes

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McKell Jorgensen-Wells @mjorgwells.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm starting my dissertation research on the use of / barriers to dyadic data analysis in relationships research! If you've used dyadic data in your research, I'd love for you to take my and @johnsakaluk.bsky.social‘s survey: uwo.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... Thank you!

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Erik Gregersen @ctgriffes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

As an adaptation of Homer’s epic, the Honda Odyssey is a complete disaster. With its roomy cabin and rear entertainment system for the kids, the minivan foregrounds concerns that only arose with the American nuclear family and say nothing about the brutality that underlay the Bronze Age.

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

It's great that we are back to discussing the things that matter. I think because I kind of fell into em dashes on my own, I prefer them with spaces

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John Walton @thatjohn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

fascinatingly* the French news is translating "Count Binface" as « le Compte Tête-de-Poubelle » rather than « Visage-de-Poubelle) which is, in fairness, more accurate (his entire head is a bin, not just his face) typical British media not asking the important underlying questions * ta gueule

Screenshot from Le Parisien. A photo of Count Binface, a man in a sort of black Darth Vader suit but with a silvery grey cape and a bin on his head with eye slit and mouthhole.

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Législative partielle au Royaume-Uni : qui est le « Comte Tête-de-poubelle », principal adversaire de Nigel Farage ?

Subheader: Ce candidat fantaisiste devrait être l’un des seuls à disputer le siège de Clacton-on-Sea au leader de Reform UK, pris dans un scandale. Les autres partis boycottent le scrutin.

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I'm unclear if there has ever been a finer portrait of a country's leader

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Dear Microsoft, why is that I can't paste accurately between Excel and Teams, it drops the last line of the copied info. If I paste it into open office, and then teams, it's fine. Seriously.

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

But what he is really most famous for (a) giving his name to his son's workout franchise (b) confusing people who assume the name is french for "The Mills"

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Brittany Barker @brittanysbarker.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Wrapped up a day of teaching Mapping and GIS in R today at the Cascadia R Conference! The repo with answer keys is at github.com/bbarker505/C.... We covered basics of sf and terra, making static and interactive maps, and raster analysis. #CascadiaRConf #GIS #rstats #Mapping #raster #sf #terra

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GitHub - bbarker505/CascadiaR_2026_GIS_workshops: Materials for GIS workshops for the 2026 Cascadia R Conf

Materials for GIS workshops for the 2026 Cascadia R Conf - bbarker505/CascadiaR_2026_GIS_workshops

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

New Guardian article links to “landmark study” on babies & screentime. URL goes to advocacy foundation that financed study. On their website I find a self hosted 110page “report” but no paper. Would love to understand if this is peer-reviewed, published research or advocacy piece.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Said it before but the reason I prefer not driving in most cases is the convenience. I’m not in it for a better world or a better me, I’m in it for the ease of things.

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I pushed to write this is as a separate story to the main China trade stuff just because I knew you guys would lap it up

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'm always surprised seeing the Mk1 VW Golf, and then thinking about the modern version, which is ~58cm longer (or almost 2 feet, which sounds more shocking), and was smaller than the current VW Polo (Yes I'm probably comparing a 3 door Mk1, but however you slice it, it's wild)

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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Father's Day, especially to the fathers who bike.

Man riding on blue long cargo bike with two kids on the back and one kid in a seat on the front between his arms. Another person on a bike is going the other way in the background.

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Kat is ✨phenomena✨ @kathryndeplume.com · 18/06/2026

With ALT text.

A drawing of a "Museum of Meaningless Metrics" with two people looking at four exhibits labelled "Lines of Code", "Story Points", "Pull Requests" and "Tokens Spent". The curator is gesturing toward the "Tokens Spent" exhibit (which is surrounded by the sort of rope you get in museums to keep patrons at a distance from exhibits) while the caption underneath reads "Our newest exhibit."

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