iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Really sorry to hear it, David. That figure is frightening - Burnham has the right idea, for sure.

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

One in 12 [UK] undergraduates starting full-time courses last year had no formal qualifications, up from one in 62 a decade earlier, and six universities admitted the majority of their home students without A-levels, GCSEs or equivalents, according to FT analysis of official data.

000

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I had this bit about Jeffrey Archer from the 1995 HIGNFY video memorised for whenever I needed a handy fact about him.

431780677

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

en.wikipedia.org

Aaron Swartz - Wikipedia

111642552

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The cover of the 5th ed of "Individual Differences, Personality and Intelligence" has now been finalised, so the book should go into production soon - and will be available worldwide from Routledge. It was a major, exhausting, re-write, and as always I learnt a lot - which is why I do it, really 😁.

010

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

With AGI overwhelming the news again, I repeat: There is no path to intelligence via LLM. But an LLM botnet choking the internet, or someone using a local model to attack aging infrastructure, are both real risks and too late to prevent. Pay no attention to the bogeymen, the harm is here today.

18786215

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ah but will there be a film, given its success?

100

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Someone meaner than I would ask whether her family has been consulted.

76810

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A tool used to rephrase plagiarised text changed "final solution" to "mass killing of an ethnic group" in a chemistry paper. Now retracted thanks to a PubPeer user who spotted this. pubpeer.com/publications...

271037404

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

my church prayer book used to have mathematical formulae for finding the date of Easter in any year, with exotica such as the golden number (iirc). I found THAT bit fascinating!

030

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Larry laid his mouse in front of the press to be photographed. Lest you ask, this is a real photograph via the Press Association.

15568182026

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

7. Clever 1981 Toilet Seat Henflap Upcycling Experiment Blows Tiny Minds Of Bored Cornish Chickens.

A "chicken flap" in the wall of a Cornish chicken house, made out of an old toilet seat. (If they'd flipped it around, they could have also had a little entry ramp.)

640328

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Do please consider signing this... how can a university threaten to fire an entire research group because they focus on basic (rather than applied) research?

045

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

as long as it doesn't burst into flames when charging!

100

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

am jealous! That's quite the trip - I hope you're having a great time. Though it's 37 here and horribly humid!

011

Reposted by Colin Cooper

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

technosphere.earth

The bonfire of the humanities

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

381041507

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Brian Sletten @bsletten.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

After all this time looking for it! #humor #math #foundontheinternet #nerdhumor

A beach by a lake in the mountains. Blue sky, trees, pretty water. In the foreground there are the remnants of a tree trunk on its side. Roots are exposed. There are two prominent branches at 90 degrees that have another 90 degree turn in each direction to meet back up in what appears to be a natural rectanglish shape.

The text says, “I finally found it… the square root”.

295102551360

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

To be deprived of royalties because some **** pirated a copy of one of our books is bad enough. But when models are trained using this illegal content... well it's immoral!

000

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, (along Maligne Lake Road)🇨🇦 nationalpost.com/video/d2114a...

2013068459

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

There's a recent review of my 2023 book “An Introduction to Psychometrics and Psychological Assessment” in the journal Psychometrika. tinyurl.com/mv8a97hc. Surprisingly positive! (Apologies for the shameless self-promotion, but the royalties pay the gin bill!)

020

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Dan Quintana @dsquintana.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Selecting an effect size for power analysis is hard. Many researchers fall back on Cohen's thresholds, but they have no empirical basis and vary wildly by field. Our new paper offers a better option: field-specific effect size distributions built from meta-analytic data doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Abstract
Effect sizes are useful for understanding the magnitude of study results and for planning new studies via power analysis.
However, despite their wide usage, effect sizes are often misinterpreted. This is mostly due to an over-reliance on general
effect size benchmarks that were not intended for broad application across diverse research fields. Inaccurate effect size
interpretations can lead to incorrect conclusions about the magnitude of study results and incorrect sample size estimates,
thereby increasing the likelihood of false-positive results. This article introduces the ESDist R package, which is designed
to calculate empirically derived effect-size benchmarks or a range of reliably detectable empirical effect sizes for a specific
research question or field of interest by computing effect size distributions (ESDs). This package can be used on data that
can be easily extracted from pre-existing meta-analyses to help researchers more accurately plan new studies or to better
understand how an individual study might relate to other studies in their field. ESDist includes a set of features that make it
easy to use in a priori power analysis. Moreover, the package includes a feature for estimating effect size benchmarks that
account for publication bias and are weighted by effect sizes' variances, which addresses existing limitations of using ESDs
for study planning or interpretation.

316175

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

25103837611479

Reposted by Colin Cooper

David Colquhoun @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

This is VERY serious -please read.

144

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I have a feeling that you will soon tell us exactly what happens when you do... (Am remembering railcard...)

000

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Aha - try Ontario for a change! -20 in winter +40 in summer!!

110

Reposted by Colin Cooper

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.

742026689

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

dear god. How are students supposed to learn how to critically evaluate evidence when they are fed this stuff in a sort of pseudoscientific gavage.

100

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

BREAKING: Trump just TAXED Americans another 10% for imports from Canada…. All because of a commercial that was run during the World Series. What a child.

2861924536

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Bob Schulhof @bob-schulhof.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

My therapist suggested that I write letters to all the people who have wronged me and then throw them into a big fire. I did that, and I do feel better, but I don’t know what I am supposed to do with all these letters.

1534080384

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Clare O'Brien @clareobrien.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

This is one of the traditional ways in which unwelcome people have been greeted in Scotland. 🤭

0474

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 17/07/2025

Someone here just used the term ‘Anglo-Saxophone’ rather than Anglophone, and I’ll totally use this from now on. 🎷 #IAMCR2025

1151

Reposted by Colin Cooper

David Colquhoun @davidcolquhoun.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

This is true. The gullibility of politicians, and, worse, some scientists, who have fallen for the hype, is likely to prove disastrous.

022

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

21 gun salute is for KINGS. I suppose Trump can pretend that the parade was to celebrate the anniversary of the US army, and not his birthday. But the 21 gun salute is normally reserved for royalty in Europe. Pah.

020

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 18/05/2025

To the cartoonist who drew this, well done.

394348326782

Reposted by Colin Cooper

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Brexit has never looked quite so ruinously insane as it does right now. And it’s always been idiotic. Alone, outside the EU, needing to improve our relationship with our own continent but also terrified of the wrecking-ball lunatic in the White House. Cornered by our own ‘sovereign’ stupidity.

23054421127

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Superb - but what is needed is a way of getting these abstract concepts into the hearts and minds of right-wing Trump supporters!

040

Colin Cooper @colincooperish.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

I've come out of the 'Today' show seething at the wrap-up summary! I knew what I was talking about - the other person wanted to make more of a political statement

120