Ian Sudbery

There is of course a difference between issues of whether the experiments were correctly carried out (where its inportant to get it correct), and the interpretation of the results, where debate in the public square is correct way to resolve things.

To me, this means that not publishing correct stuff hurts the authors a lot, but publishing incorrect stuff hurts everyone a very small amount (work with immediate safety implications excepted). So if the ed can't tell, and can't get another opinion, I'd err on the side of publishing.

Could it come from an controlled access sample?

This element of the situation is so maddening because it adds this air of unreality to the transphobes statements - and yet they are taken totally seriously by our press and much of our political class. Very obviously people were muddling making accommodations and no great social crisis was caused!

I don't even think col 9 is all that bad - you just need a good parser- which you'd need a for a more conplex/structured format anyway.

Not everyone, as the thread I quoted was prompted by this:
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Woodcraft Folk statement on the exclusion of trans children from Girlguiding - Woodcraft Folk Woodcraft Folk stands in solidarity with every trans child, young person and volunteer who faces exclusion from Girlguiding UK following the announcement on Trans inclusion.  We recognise that Girlgui...

The youth organisation that made me who I am today, the Woodcraft flFolk, have released this statement on the decision of the Guides to not recognise trans people
woodcraft.org.uk/woodcraft-fo...

But then, as someone who did their PhD at Sanger, I am VERY much a product of the culture described here.

My unpopular opinion is that I actully quite like GFF (well, GTF, GFF3 is more of a pain).

University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

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University of Sheffield staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning University of Sheffield to withhold pay if staff do not make up for teaching missed while striking.

Uni staff 'intimidated' by pay forfeit warning
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Check out this post about our current situation from a colleague at another university. @sheffielducu.bsky.social

A change of scenery for this morning’s picket. A great showing of colleagues (and dogs!) outside Firth Court. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk #SupporttheStrike #UCU

Sheffield UCU members stood on a picket line outside of the Wave, University of Sheffield

Sheffield UCU members stood on a picket line outside of Jessop West, University of Sheffield

Comrades out in force on the pickets today @sheffielducu.bsky.social

Industrial action- information for students Information for students about why University staff are taking industrial action, and how you can show your support.

On strike again today, though it is ##DigitalPicket for me being so far away from Sheffield. Solidarity with all the amazing colleagues that have been on the picket lines for @sheffielducu.bsky.social you can read here about why we are on strike ucu.group.shef.ac.uk/industrial-a...

A picket line outside a university building.

A picket line outside a unversity building

A picket line outside a unversity building

A picket line outside a unversity building

A picket line outside a unversity building

Tuesday my union offered to call off 2 weeks of strikes, in return for postponing the redudnacy of, maybe, 5 people for three months. Yesterday the uni wrote to all staff saying "not interested", unless we completely caved. Today we toured picket lines across campus:
@sheffielducu.bsky.social

SRA urged to take action as we reveal solicitor has ‘purposely frustrated’ investigation Solicitor Andrew Jonathan Milne delayed an official investigation into his alleged professional misconduct by overwhelming the regulator with complaints and threatening them with two injunctions se…

A solicitor, Andrew Milne has been bullying leaseholders across Sheffield into paying him extraordinary sums, with no legal basis.

Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.

More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM

the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators

There are of course of judicial systems, which each have their own merits and problems. But if we are going to change the fundamental basis of what justice means in this country, it should come with a big public debate, not something rushed off because resources are tight when no one is looking.

Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.

Imagine coming up with a proposal so stupid, so unworkable, so thoughtless, that it makes Robert Jenrick look sane by comparison.

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Juries are not perfect.

Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.

But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.

They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.

If everything is a top priority, then everything gets done quickly. That's basic management

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

I can't believe that the government had announced an end to the right to trial by Jury, the original civil and human right, and where its reported at all, it's a minor headline on the third page of most news sources.

How about standing in a seat he actually has a good chance of winning, so the leader of the party can be in parliment?

🧵 1/ In bioinformatics, cutoffs rule everything.
What’s “significant”? What’s not?
Let’s talk thresholds—and how they shape your science.

Sign the Petition Save Geology at the University of Leicester

My alma mater, Leicester University, is dissolving its Geology Department leading to the loss of 14 staff. Palaeo is being completely axed, despite Leicester's long and storied history in this area (and its current strengths). Please sign this petition!!: www.change.org/p/save-geolo...

I use R for the vast majority of my data science like tasks, often for the reasons you outline. But when u do switch to python, it is most often because of memory issues.