Darren Dahly

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications

Oh dear. Our favourite Fellow of the @royalsociety.org is in the news again

We’re looking forward to welcoming national & international leaders in cancer research and clinical trials to #FutureOfCancerResearch on #WorldCancerDay

This post has really brought out the fake accounts. That is all.

Everytime some asshole starts taking about how "EU regulation stifles innovation", this is the kind of stuff they are hoping to enable.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

UKRI promises action over ‘threatening’ Researchfish tweets Platform responds to online criticism by telling researchers they would be reported to their funders

#NeverForget 😆

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France to ban officials from US video tools including Zoom, Teams The government wants staff to shun Silicon Valley and shift to its home-grown Visio platform instead.

UK government, I beg you: please please ban me from using Teams

Big builders say rental reforms are unconstitutional and warn Minister of legal action Five of the country’s biggest developers seek urgent engagement on legislation in advance of March 1st introduction

The same cohort that don't want people to take judicial reviews, have no problem making legal threats to protect their economic interest

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Open Science, Psychology, and the Art of Not Quite Claiming Causality with Julia Rohrer - Decoding the Gurus In a rare departure from our usual diet of online weirdos, this episode features an academic who is very much not a guru. We’re joined by Julia Rohrer...

Do you sometimes think "oh boy, I would really like to hear Julia ramble some more about the topics about which she doesn't stop talking to begin with?"

The wait is finally over! @guruspod.bsky.social and had a chat about open science, causal inference, and apparently birth order effects.

Screenshot from Irish Times article: "The researchers said the high volume of rain that fell in the seven days up to and including Storm Chandra turned the heavy but “not particularly remarkable” rainfall into a “devastating” flood event. They found the magnitude of the rainfall over the full week was 9 per cent greater than it would have been in the cooler Earth that existed before climate change. “We would have expected similar seven-day rainfall to happen once in every 150 years,” they said." #Ireland #Climate #Environment

Truly feels like we're sleepwalking into our own annihilation

My current fitness goal is to be able to stand up without groaning.

@posit.co and the Royal Statistical Society are sponsors of AI in Production 2026.

The conference focuses on machine learning, data science, and AI systems running in production.

4–5 June 2026, Newcastle, UK.

The Call for Papers closes today:
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Researchfish — Information for Researchers Regarding Researchfish Sunsetting After careful consideration, Elsevier have made the difficult decision to sunset Researchfish on July 31st 2027, when the product will no longer be availab

lol. lmao even.

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Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with Bioconductor 2–6 February 2026

Join our online course Orchestrating Microbiome Analysis with @bioconductor.bsky.social (2–6 Feb 2026)! Learn hands-on microbiome data analysis, diversity metrics, and multi-omics integration with @antagomir.bsky.social & Tuomas Borman .

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Have you been inspired by @ucc.ie researchers, innovators or entrepreneurs whose work makes a real and lasting impact through tackling global challenges through research, innovation and creativity?

Nominations are now open for 2025 UCC Research and Innovation Awards

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Do people still use blogdown/hugo or has everyone moved onto Quarto /substack?

College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved. 

The college at which I'm employed, which has signed a contract with the AI firm that stole books from 131 colleagues & me, paid a student to write an op-ed for the student paper promoting AI, guided the writing of it, and did not disclose this to the paper. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

We’re looking for nominations for the American Statistical Association’s Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award.
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Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she?

'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.'

From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)

Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics Asymptomatic: The Silent Spread of COVID-19 and the Future of Pandemics

Today's @nytimes.com dialogue with Ross Douthat & Jay Bhattacharya is tough sledding. I wrote a book on how silent transmission made COVID harder to stop and drove misleading narratives. The interview continues to mislead as a means to seize more power.

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On today's @nytimes.com front page: Horror as Iran Crushed an Uprising of Its People. Reported with Farnaz Fassihi, @sanjanamv.bsky.social, Parin Behrooz. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/w...

Bari Weiss’s new CBS hires include ‘germ theory denialist’ doctor Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributor

Jarry predicted: “CBS viewers will be told that true health is about testing for everything – at a cost – and gorging yourself on an array of unproven and unnecessary dietary supplements. This is in keeping with what is happening under Trump: the institutionalization of pseudoscience.”

“in theater” is a crazy way to describe minneapolis

Lord knows what they will dig up on the thugs who murdered him..oh no sorry, I forgot they won't be interested in that bit.

Fun tool for UK-based researchers to assess the cost/benefit ratio of grant applications.

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