Caroline Fiennes

Thank you.
Obviously I know that that is true in some circs. But this isn't one of them: the usefulness of quantum tunnelling has been known for ages.

The Nobel Prize in Physics just got awarded for work in...the 1980s!!!
So speedy🤣

It's for "the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit" - which sounds like stuff we studied in undergrad in the 1990s already!

Those prizes are so weird.

I never understand the term 'crowd in'.
Does it just mean 'attract'?

OMG. it was actually...a randomised trial.

💪💪💪

Evidence-based policy making.

Well done Ireland!

(I'm not looking any deeper at it. no methods cold shower for now. NO!)

Nobel Week is once again upon us! How many women and how many scientists from the Global South will be awarded Prizes this year? Remember that this is typically a set of Prizes dominated by white men from North America (some Europe, some Asia). The first announcement was today: Medicine. 🧵 1/

Causal inference interest group, supported by the Centre for Longitudinal Studies Seminar series 20th October 2025, 3pm BST (UTC+1) "Making rigorous causal inference more mainstream" Julia Rohrer, Leipzig University Sign up to attend at tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRohrer

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

More of this please!
Like when Helen Mirren couldn't attend some event so her husband took a life-size cardboard cut-out of her onto the red carpet 🤣👍🏽

Texting war plans to a journalist.
Never forget.

Don't buy from Bezos!

I haven't for years and - you know what? - life is just fine 😊

"No amount of pedagogic jargon is too much." 🤣

The Ig Nobel is incredible , one year an Indian guy won it for calculating the average surface area of an elephant and during his acceptance they had an elephant hold up a sign with the surface area of the scientist on it, they do showbiz better than the Oscars

An admirably clear statement from Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council

History repeats.

An interesting point raised elsewhere: these boats that the United States is striking don't appear to have the fuel capacity/storage capacity to even reach American shores.

@zabong69.bsky.social Now I'm dying of suspense.
*Do* you recognise that??

🤞
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Pretty funny that the church founded by Henry VIII - not exactly top women's rights advocate - is ?the first major religious institution globally? to be headed by a woman.

Henry's reign was completely defined by reaction to the notion that women can't run things. (His daughter ruled for 45 yrs 🤣.)

Sarah Mul lally's appt as Archbishop of Canterbury is kinda two fingers to her predecessor as Bishop of London Richard Chartres who wouldn't ordain women. 🤦🏽‍♀️

Well, he's now a life peer so in our stoopid undemocratic legislature - for life 🥺

Screenshot of BBC News site announcing the appointment

Woo-hoo: the new Archbishop of Canterbury is a lady! ...and former nurse:

....their unreasonable effectiveness, you might say...

(Really hoping that you recognise that!)

Screenshot from Hereford Cathedral's website

Theologians! What is this? "Hereford Cathedral is as holy as a cathedral can be"?
Isn't holiness binary? - you are or you aren't? If it's (what?) a Likert scale(?!), who determines anybody's score?

Asking for a friend 🤣

A Crown appointment, I presume.
Congratulations 🎉🎉

Yeah really!! 🤦🏽‍♀️

Belgium is so underrated.
Flanders in particular has some cracking towns/cities, and some fabulous churches & castles 🤩

MSF strongly condemns the killing of Omar Hayek by Israeli forces this morning in #Gaza. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues.

Omar is our fourteenth colleague to be killed in Gaza since the war started. We call yet again for an end to the genocide.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

Book It Ain’t What You Give, It’s The Way That You Give It  Reviews and readers’ comments about the book.  For UK delivery, buy below. For delivery elsewhere, scroll down! ‘The F…

*which is apparently very excellent and you should read it
🤣:
www.giving-evidence.com/book

Wow. The *National Trust* goes head-to-head against the Conservative Party.

You ever noticed what kind of people are members of the National Trust?

The graphic is from my book* (pub. 2012) & shows the relative sizes of membership of the National Trust versus all major political parties 👁️👁️

OK great: thank you!

Why does a university have to employ somebody to teach graduate students how to write properly?
Answer: because academia (consistently & bizarrely) teaches & rewards people for writing badly. All that use of the passive, for example.
Employers SO OFTEN have to train all of that out of new hires.

Do you know where he is? I thought that that tomb in the Abbey was thought to be empty...
Thanks.