James Fern

An old farm house in the woods

Hillside landscape with two remote properties

Wild pony’s on a hillside

Some pics from a long weekend trip, walking in Crickhowell, Wales.

Reinstate Sarah Kendzior

Free Sarah Kendzior.

I agree with this bit at least: "Everyone else is racing as fast as possible to publish a Nature paper and get their next short-term contract. There’s no time to learn how to do science!"

The editors of Neurology have allowed the authors of this paper to make a "correction", stating: "there were errors in the CIs for some estimates presented in the article".

How many CIs must be wrong before a journal loses confidence in a paper?

(Answer: more than 73, apparently!)

Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

‘Change course now’: humanity has missed 1.5C climate target, says UN head Exclusive: ‘Devastating consequences’ now inevitable but emissions cuts still vital, says António Guterres in sole interview before Cop30

Overshooting 1.5°C wasn't 'inevitable.'

We've been pushed by fossil fuel giants & governments that pander to them.

Every delay, every oil field, every broken promise made this crisis worse.

Keir Starmer, will you promise to leave Rosebank undeveloped?

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Open science people: This is the kind of thing some researchers are up against. 😬

Could never get bored of playing Parkstone GC, one of the best in the country.

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Headline: Green party Starmer will hand Britain over to Farage, says Green party leader Zack Polanski Leader tells party’s conference he is ready to take the fight to Labour and speak out in support of immigration

What @zackpolanski.bsky.social is saying is simply what anyone who pays attention to politics is witnessing

Starmer has played a key role in mainstreaming far-right politics, enabled by a mainstream media which still tiptoes around this terrible state of affairs

Maybe it’s me but I find listening to him incredibly frustrating. People go on about how well he communicates…I don’t think I’ve ever heard him make a single clear, coherent & insightful comment that is grounded in what we see on the pitch. Think he’s pulled the wool over a lot of people’s eyes.

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Pretty excited about this one. In this paper, we discuss the replication/credibility crisis, the factors that contribute to it, and clinical psychology's slow (really slow) progress in dealing with it. We offer a competency-based fraemwork for improving our training of future scholars.
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Really sorry to hear this, its been an incredible resource I've used with many students over the years to teach R - thanks for all your efforts building and maintaining this.

Do you expect someone to take over from you?

For these law school application essays, AI is required Using artificial intelligence for admissions essays is often discouraged or prohibited. For aspiring attorneys hoping to land a seat at two U.S. law schools next fall, it's an opportunity to stand out from the crowd.

“The University of Miami School of Law’s new essay requires applicants to submit a detailed prompt for a generative AI large language model like ChatGPT to generate a ‘comprehensive analysis’ that will help them make an informed decision about which law school to attend.”

At least he paid the extra £9! 😂

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Not looking to persuade, or be persuaded, we don’t all have to agree. Just genuinely interested in what would be different between the loss today and a loss next week? Is it the number of losses, or the opponent?

Before the game, could you see us losing today? Why would you be concerned to lose next weekend, but not today? Given we were outplayed, and Amorim out coached?

Have you seen anything to make you think we could get a result against Sunderland?

Weirdly, I've largely agreed with his 'off-pitch' handling of players (Mainoo the exception - he should start every game for me) - it's his apparent lack of any ability to actually manage or coach the players he does want to work with, that makes me want him gone.

I wish I had your optimism. I don't see a win on the horizon, loses to Sunderland & Liverpool might force INEOS et al to sack him, so we'll never know if he'd relegate us (I think he would - we've no divine right to stay in the league - averaging a point per game is strong supporting evidence).

If we are in the relegation zone come January, would you still stick with Amorim? Given what Amorim has shown so far, do you think relegation is possible, likely even?

Charts I don't like:

Yep, atmosphere was electric as it often was for European nights back then. Got two pretty early on, then a great free kick.

I was there for his debut hat trick against Fenerbahce in 04, what a player he was.

Predicted it before KO, was so obvious Henderson would dominate our midfield today, largely by himself.

He’s the player Amorim thinks Bruno is.

Remember that clip of Rooney saying that when he started training with the Everton first team at 15 he couldn’t believe how bad the players were, and how much better he was than all of them.

That must be how Mainoo feels every day in training at United.

averages 6 goals a season in the PL when removing penalties.