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Epi, stats, R, Linux & FOSS enthusiast. Trying to get into photography, so expect various badly taken photos of birds and landscapes.
📣 CALL TO ACTION 📣
Write to the Minister to ask to him to prohibit the use of tangle nets to prevent the extinction of critically endangered shark and ray species.
Info & what you can do to help: iwt.ie/call-to-acti...
📷 Angel Shark by Louise Overy
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"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"
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#R4Today
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12.02.2026 08:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dr manhatan from watchmen sitting on a rock
It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.
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22.01.2026 19:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Short answer... it is not.
22.01.2026 19:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This shit goes on a lot in the North where I live now, & it's never for good reasons. Outside of international sporting events, I've only ever seen people putting up flags to marginalise others. Also, why the fuck would you think it was 'OK' to hang a flag from a piece of public propety?
22.01.2026 19:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Since 2020, electricity prices have increased by an average of 40 percent across the country. But the rise in costs hasn’t affected each type of user equally.
An unusual disconnect is emerging between what regular people pay — and what data centers pay. https://wapo.st/49A1v25
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"10 Birds You’d Be Lucky to Spot on Your Big Garden Birdwatch" features ten bird species. Top row: Hawfinch with a large bill and chestnut plumage, Corn Bunting with streaked brown feathers, and Skylark with a crest and buff colouring. Middle row: Linnet with a red breast and brown wings, Lesser Redpoll hanging upside down with a red cap, and Brambling with a striking orange chest. Bottom row: Marsh Tit with a black cap and pale underparts, a male Yellowhammer with bright yellow plumage and a female with streaked brown, a Green Woodpecker with a red crown and green body, and a Lesser Spotted Woodpecker with black and white markings and a red patch on the male’s head.
The countdown is on and our final ‘10 birds’ guide is here...
Spotting these on your patch? Now that’s lucky! 😍
Don't forget to sign up: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
#BigGardenBirdwatch
He also said Brexit would be great, Trump would be good for us, he’d help the people of Clacton, the Tory party are awful (then took in all their worst people), broke parliamentary rules & allowed a traitor to run the Welsh Reform party, so let’s stop listening to what this prick says eh
21.01.2026 18:24 — 👍 185 🔁 74 💬 13 📌 4FDA guidance on Bayesian clinical trials
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/01/15/f...
An infographic titled "Most livestock in the United States are factory-farmed." It lists the percentages and numbers of animals raised in factory farms, defined by the EPA as operations with intensive feeding for over 45 days. Chickens: 99.96%, 9.2 billion; Turkeys: 99.8%, 260 million; Farmed fish: 100%, 530 million; Cows: 75%, 66 million; Egg-laying hens: 98.3%, 380 million; Pigs: 98.6%, 73 million. Data source: Sentience Institute (2024), with data from 2022.
Almost all livestock in the United States is factory-farmed—
It’s difficult to quantify animal suffering in a single number, but one metric often used to measure living conditions is the number of animals raised on “factory farms”.
PCA is one of those techniques that sounds unreasonable (yeah sure we all want to fit a p-dimensional ellipsoid to our data) but turns out to be a reasonable solution to a wide range of problems.
Also: I do hope stackexchange has been archived, because it is my gen's library of alexandria
12.01.2026 20:19 — 👍 1108 🔁 152 💬 35 📌 33
The NHS draft recommendation against routine prostate cancer screening stems from the conclusion that the harms would outweigh the benefits.
This recommendation provides a comprehensive, scientifically rigorous, and clinically relevant guide to practice
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Illustrations of 10 less common garden birds: Tree Sparrow (brown with a black cheek spot), Pied Wagtail (black and white with a long tail), Rook (glossy black with a pale beak), Fieldfare (grey head, brown back, speckled chest), Blackcap (male: grey with a black cap, female: brown with a chestnut cap), Common Gull (grey wings, white body), Stock Dove (blue-grey), Jay (pinkish with blue wing patch
Ready to level up your birdwatching? 😎
Here’s another 10 birds to keep an eye out for this #BigGardenBirdwatch...
From colourful Jays to stealthy Sparrowhawks, who have you spotted on your patch before?
PS - Don't forget to sign up: www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
Valid reasons to stay on Twitter (#2).
1. There are none.
2. See point 1.
“New technologies will come along to save the environment.” What they said versus where we are:
From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
I mean, even I've left.
07.01.2026 21:05 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0I think only Gothic fonts are non-woke now.
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Relentless "improvement" of the countryside leaves no space for nature.
But ever more people are now helping the wild return, through *rewilding*.
No matter who you are or where you live, you too have a part to play in the fight.
There is no better New Year's resolution.
Line chart of Google search interest for “Christmas gift wife” and “Christmas gift husband” from November 18 to December 24. Bold lines show the average pattern across 2020–2024, while lighter shaded lines represent individual years. Shaded areas highlight which term has higher search interest at each point in time. The chart shows that searches for gifts for wives peak later in December than searches for gifts for husbands.
🎄 Hope you’ve got all your presents ready 💝
Google search interest shows a stable pattern:
🎅 “Christmas gift wife” peaks just before Christmas Eve
🎅 “Christmas gift husband” peaks much earlier
#MerryChristmas to all of you! 🎁
📈 Google Trends (Nov 18–Dec 24, 2020–2024)
#dataviz #ggplot2
It’s the run up to the holidays so there can only be one #MethodologyMonday topic - the scientific way to cut your Christmas cake. Published c1906 in Nature by the statistician Francis Galton 🎂🎄🔪😊 Enjoy!
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Today, the UK Government’s Planning Bill became law – a big blow for wildlife.
Thousands of you fought for nature as the Bill passed through Parliament.
Now, this isn’t the time to stay silent – nature needs us more than ever.
Join us & speak up 👇
action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/action/1
What a total disgrace that Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, and, above all, Sinn Féin voted this down.
Very few want this terribly cruel colonial sport, which sees hordes of horses, riders, and dogs rampage across the countryside.
The wishes of the majority were ignored. Again.
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Morning all. Allow me to show you the perfect burn 🔥
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🚨 Toxic pesticides are poisoning our soils, water, and biodiversity. Now the EU wants to weaken rules.
Last week, the EU Commission published the environment omnibus + the grids package. This “simplification omnibus” is a dangerous shift.
👉 Take Action: www.environmentalpillar.ie/end-the-toxi...
I dream of a day that another scientist will be so fed up with my bullshit that they go on to great things just out of spite. *This* is my road to impact.
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