Siobhan McAndrew
@siobhanmcandrew.bsky.social
Policy economist, here for methods/cultural updates
Ex-Sheffield Methods Institute; U. Bristol; U. Manchester; HMT
Former V. Prof, Policy Institute, KCL
Honorary SL, U. Sheffield
Maigh Eo
Ag atosú
Ex-Sheffield Methods Institute; U. Bristol; U. Manchester; HMT
Former V. Prof, Policy Institute, KCL
Honorary SL, U. Sheffield
Maigh Eo
Ag atosú
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Four little girls in the shadow of Dublin's new Ballymun tower blocks, 1969, photo by Elinor Wiltshire, who documented a rapidly changing city (National Library of Ireland).
February 17, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Four little girls in the shadow of Dublin's new Ballymun tower blocks, 1969, photo by Elinor Wiltshire, who documented a rapidly changing city (National Library of Ireland).
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This latest from @roisiningle.bsky.social gave me something to smile about on a miserable rainy morning :)
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Róisín Ingle: Bumping into Brad Pitt at Fallon & Byrne will be a big moment in my life
In Ireland it’s not six degrees of separation, it’s more like one. Or a half of one
www.irishtimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 8:45 AM
This latest from @roisiningle.bsky.social gave me something to smile about on a miserable rainy morning :)
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
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#OTD 14 Feb. 1793: philosophical anarchist William Godwin published his celebrated love letter to the world, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, in which he envisaged a society based on justice, equality, tolerance, benevolence, & mutual moral accountability. #Valentine’sDay #LoveThyNeighbour
February 14, 2026 at 10:27 AM
#OTD 14 Feb. 1793: philosophical anarchist William Godwin published his celebrated love letter to the world, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, in which he envisaged a society based on justice, equality, tolerance, benevolence, & mutual moral accountability. #Valentine’sDay #LoveThyNeighbour
Very cool!
Yesterday was the last day of our @sharectd.bsky.social Datathon 2 in Utrecth. Over the 1 week, 3 independent teams worked on the same research question: “Does esketamine have an impact on suicidality?”, using the same individual patient data shared by Johnson & Johnson on the The YODA repository.
February 14, 2026 at 10:22 AM
Very cool!
I saw Heaney at a funeral; & Bernard O'Donoghue once took him to the tiny Half Moon
I was playing at the funeral & had just been given some wine as a thank you by a friend. I had to take the wine out of my music case to get started - the wrong impression, so I tried to hide it. He noticed & laughed
I was playing at the funeral & had just been given some wine as a thank you by a friend. I had to take the wine out of my music case to get started - the wrong impression, so I tried to hide it. He noticed & laughed
THESE ISLES: Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Irish poet, playwright and translator, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. The committee described his oeuvre as ‘works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past’. 1/7
February 14, 2026 at 9:43 AM
I saw Heaney at a funeral; & Bernard O'Donoghue once took him to the tiny Half Moon
I was playing at the funeral & had just been given some wine as a thank you by a friend. I had to take the wine out of my music case to get started - the wrong impression, so I tried to hide it. He noticed & laughed
I was playing at the funeral & had just been given some wine as a thank you by a friend. I had to take the wine out of my music case to get started - the wrong impression, so I tried to hide it. He noticed & laughed
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Believe it or not, inequality in British pay has been falling for a decade -- on all gauges
Which creates a mystery about why British life is still so unfair www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
Believe it or not, inequality in British pay has been falling for a decade -- on all gauges
Which creates a mystery about why British life is still so unfair www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
February 13, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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Believe it or not, inequality in British pay has been falling for a decade -- on all gauges
Which creates a mystery about why British life is still so unfair www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
Believe it or not, inequality in British pay has been falling for a decade -- on all gauges
Which creates a mystery about why British life is still so unfair www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
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According to my bus, the Irish for blackberry is "sméar" which is perfect as no better berry to see smeared across a child's cheeks and the back of their sleeve.
February 12, 2026 at 9:01 PM
According to my bus, the Irish for blackberry is "sméar" which is perfect as no better berry to see smeared across a child's cheeks and the back of their sleeve.
Two green parakeets in the garden
The pigeons are incandescent
Normal
The pigeons are incandescent
Normal
February 12, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Two green parakeets in the garden
The pigeons are incandescent
Normal
The pigeons are incandescent
Normal
Just posted tabbitR on CRAN: automates production of batches of weighted cross-tabs, exported to Excel
R version of Stata -tabbit- on SSC
Consistent formatting, transparent handling of missing values
Speeds up exploratory analysis & preliminary reporting stage
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
R version of Stata -tabbit- on SSC
Consistent formatting, transparent handling of missing values
Speeds up exploratory analysis & preliminary reporting stage
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
tabbitR: Weighted Cross-Tabulations Exported to 'Excel'
Produces weighted cross-tabulation tables for one or more outcome variables across one or more breakdown variables, and exports them directly to 'Excel'. For each outcome-by-breakdown combination, the...
cran.r-project.org
February 11, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Just posted tabbitR on CRAN: automates production of batches of weighted cross-tabs, exported to Excel
R version of Stata -tabbit- on SSC
Consistent formatting, transparent handling of missing values
Speeds up exploratory analysis & preliminary reporting stage
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
R version of Stata -tabbit- on SSC
Consistent formatting, transparent handling of missing values
Speeds up exploratory analysis & preliminary reporting stage
cran.r-project.org/web/packages...
Any Prunty relatives still around?
in other news i hope the Bronte sisters haunt anyone responsible for this www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
‘Chia pudding is Cathy’s composed side’: the wild and worrying world of official Wuthering Heights merchandise
Emerald Fennell’s lust-fuelled take on Emily Brontë’s novel has cued a hot flush of merchandise ranging from themed snacks to thongs. What exactly are they buying into?
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Any Prunty relatives still around?
I'm in the wrong cluster!!! I have some work to do...
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 9, 2026 at 8:08 AM
I'm in the wrong cluster!!! I have some work to do...
Governance language is very interesting, and there is too little attention to it.
February 8, 2026 at 10:18 PM
Governance language is very interesting, and there is too little attention to it.
Always interesting when a carefully-phrased formulation permits more than one reading.
February 8, 2026 at 9:38 PM
Always interesting when a carefully-phrased formulation permits more than one reading.
Listening to RnaG - the lead news story is the same as over on the big island
February 8, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Listening to RnaG - the lead news story is the same as over on the big island
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I'm on a standing-room only train between Leeds and Sheffield. There's an elderly, slightly drunk man behind me playing 'Long Tall Sally' loudly on his phone, and shouting 'BABY!' and 'HAVE SOME FUN!' occasionally. Other passengers stoic.
February 8, 2026 at 12:37 PM
I'm on a standing-room only train between Leeds and Sheffield. There's an elderly, slightly drunk man behind me playing 'Long Tall Sally' loudly on his phone, and shouting 'BABY!' and 'HAVE SOME FUN!' occasionally. Other passengers stoic.
'Not in any practical sense' 😂
The LLM is learning British English.
The LLM is learning British English.
February 7, 2026 at 11:43 AM
'Not in any practical sense' 😂
The LLM is learning British English.
The LLM is learning British English.
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Please somebody, tell me how.
How can this be real life?
How can this be real life?
February 7, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Please somebody, tell me how.
How can this be real life?
How can this be real life?
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NEW: Matthew Conrad, Conrad Hackett: "How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious “Nones” " sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
sociologicalscience.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:03 PM
NEW: Matthew Conrad, Conrad Hackett: "How Measurement Changes Can Exaggerate the Growth of Religious “Nones” " sociologicalscience.com/articles-v13...
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I am very happy this article is out [OA to come]. It builds on work by scholars like @matthewjkelly.bsky.social, Paul Townend, Michael de Nie, @alanlester.bsky.social (and others) to suggest that Irish nationalism had something important to say about the British Empire in the 1830s and 1840s. 🗃️
New article! Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social on 'An O’Connellite Empire? Irish Nationalism, British Imperial Trouble, and the Limits of Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Reform'
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...
An O’Connellite Empire? Irish Nationalism, British Imperial Trouble, and the Limits of Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Reform*
Abstract. This article explores the way Irish nationalists in the 1830s and 1840s understood and condemned British imperial policy in times of trouble, whi
academic.oup.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I am very happy this article is out [OA to come]. It builds on work by scholars like @matthewjkelly.bsky.social, Paul Townend, Michael de Nie, @alanlester.bsky.social (and others) to suggest that Irish nationalism had something important to say about the British Empire in the 1830s and 1840s. 🗃️
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February 2, 2026 at 8:41 AM
Decorations down just in time 💪
Presentation of Christ in the Temple,
Baccio della Porta Known as Fra Bartolomeo OP
Today, 2 Feb is Candlemas (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
Baccio della Porta Known as Fra Bartolomeo OP
Today, 2 Feb is Candlemas (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)
February 2, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Decorations down just in time 💪
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According to online opt-in pollster YouGov, belief in God among British 18-24 year olds rose from 16% in 2021 to 45% in 2025. New YouGov data indicates it is now down to 27% in 2026.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/trackers/brits-beliefs-about-gods?crossBreak=1824 #quietrevival
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/trackers/brits-beliefs-about-gods?crossBreak=1824 #quietrevival
February 1, 2026 at 12:03 AM
According to online opt-in pollster YouGov, belief in God among British 18-24 year olds rose from 16% in 2021 to 45% in 2025. New YouGov data indicates it is now down to 27% in 2026.
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/trackers/brits-beliefs-about-gods?crossBreak=1824 #quietrevival
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/society/trackers/brits-beliefs-about-gods?crossBreak=1824 #quietrevival
Lá fhéile bríde sona daoibh - first day of spring!!!
February 1, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Lá fhéile bríde sona daoibh - first day of spring!!!