Thomas Pollet
@tvpollet.bsky.social
I study social relationships (and a bunch of random other things) with an interest in statistics. Views are my own. https://tvpollet.github.io/
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November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Me 🤝 mashed potatoes
November 27, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Me 🤝 mashed potatoes
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I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
I feel you, ancient Mongolian ceramic hedgehog. I feel you.
Please considering signing this petition! My institution is unilaterally trying to change my working conditions (choice between keeping my pension scheme or indefinite pay freeze).
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
Northumbria Pay and Pension Petition: Stop the Steal!
If Northumbria does this, other universities will too.
These cuts will harm thousands of people, their students, families, and their local communities now and into the future.
www.megaphone.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Please considering signing this petition! My institution is unilaterally trying to change my working conditions (choice between keeping my pension scheme or indefinite pay freeze).
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Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
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Does blinding--i.e., concealing applicants' identities--reduce gender gaps in academic conference paper acceptances?
Nope!
Does blinding do anything?
It does! Blinding reduces gaps in acceptances by institution rank.
haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
Nope!
Does blinding do anything?
It does! Blinding reduces gaps in acceptances by institution rank.
haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Does blinding--i.e., concealing applicants' identities--reduce gender gaps in academic conference paper acceptances?
Nope!
Does blinding do anything?
It does! Blinding reduces gaps in acceptances by institution rank.
haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
Nope!
Does blinding do anything?
It does! Blinding reduces gaps in acceptances by institution rank.
haruka-uchida.github.io/websitefiles...
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Horrified Man Looks On Powerlessly As He Ruins Date https://theonion.com/horrified-man-looks-on-powerlessly-as-he-ruins-date-1819571910/
November 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Horrified Man Looks On Powerlessly As He Ruins Date https://theonion.com/horrified-man-looks-on-powerlessly-as-he-ruins-date-1819571910/
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🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 65,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 70,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 26, 2025 at 8:55 PM
🚨The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 65,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 70,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
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My kind of Florida man
November 26, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My kind of Florida man
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Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
November 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan
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"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
November 26, 2025 at 2:41 PM
"Let me get this straight. Your lab has bred a dragon?"
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
"A wyvern, director. It has two legs, two wings, whereas a-"
"Which flies, breathes fire, and is intelligent?"
"About as intelligent as a border collie."
"So, intelligent. Why?"
"You asked us to invent measures to take down small drones."
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Medical Student Practices Fat Shaming On Cadaver https://theonion.com/medical-student-practices-fat-shaming-on-cadaver/
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Medical Student Practices Fat Shaming On Cadaver https://theonion.com/medical-student-practices-fat-shaming-on-cadaver/
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Working on some cool project about human evolution? Do not hesitate to submit an abstract for @ehbea2026.bsky.social 🙌
Deadline? December 15th
More info? Below 👇
Deadline? December 15th
More info? Below 👇
📢 Call for abstracts!
🚀 The time has come — abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 is officially OPEN since this week! 🎉
🗓 Submission Nov 1st – Dec 15th
📝 300 words
🧠 Important: Make an OpenReview account before submitting — it takes time!
👉 www.ehbea2026.com
🚀 The time has come — abstract submission for #EHBEA2026 is officially OPEN since this week! 🎉
🗓 Submission Nov 1st – Dec 15th
📝 300 words
🧠 Important: Make an OpenReview account before submitting — it takes time!
👉 www.ehbea2026.com
Overview | EHBEA2026
www.ehbea2026.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Working on some cool project about human evolution? Do not hesitate to submit an abstract for @ehbea2026.bsky.social 🙌
Deadline? December 15th
More info? Below 👇
Deadline? December 15th
More info? Below 👇
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We hope everyone is getting excited for #ASABWinter2025 !
To kick off the conference on Dec 15, we will be having a public lecture by Prof. Innes Cuthill about an interdisciplinary approach to the study of camouflage. So make sure you’re not late ⏰
To kick off the conference on Dec 15, we will be having a public lecture by Prof. Innes Cuthill about an interdisciplinary approach to the study of camouflage. So make sure you’re not late ⏰
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
We hope everyone is getting excited for #ASABWinter2025 !
To kick off the conference on Dec 15, we will be having a public lecture by Prof. Innes Cuthill about an interdisciplinary approach to the study of camouflage. So make sure you’re not late ⏰
To kick off the conference on Dec 15, we will be having a public lecture by Prof. Innes Cuthill about an interdisciplinary approach to the study of camouflage. So make sure you’re not late ⏰
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Isn't Deloitte advising the HSE on "AI strategy"?
Canadian governments need to stop sending out tax payer money to these bullshit consultant firms who now seem to just be using LLMs to produce their "reports" fortune.com/2025/11/25/d...
Deloitte just got caught again citing fabricated and potentially AI-generated research—this time in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government | Fortune
In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.
fortune.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Isn't Deloitte advising the HSE on "AI strategy"?
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I believe eigen fly. I believe eigen touch the sky.
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I believe eigen fly. I believe eigen touch the sky.
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Is this seat that looks like it has a Derry accent conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person, perhaps one of your da's mates saying "Did ye aye mucker, right enough?". Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Is this seat that looks like it has a Derry accent conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person, perhaps one of your da's mates saying "Did ye aye mucker, right enough?". Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
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#30DayMapChallenge
Day 24: Places and their names
I wanted to try something... but it needs a bit more work :-)
Day 24: Places and their names
I wanted to try something... but it needs a bit more work :-)
November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
#30DayMapChallenge
Day 24: Places and their names
I wanted to try something... but it needs a bit more work :-)
Day 24: Places and their names
I wanted to try something... but it needs a bit more work :-)
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I think it's hard to overstate how much Simine has changed research practices and standards in psychology for the better, despite at times massive resistance from powerful parties with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Very well deserved award imho 🥳
Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I think it's hard to overstate how much Simine has changed research practices and standards in psychology for the better, despite at times massive resistance from powerful parties with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Very well deserved award imho 🥳
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Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile
These always make me smile
November 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Just saw the list of gritter names for this year and they have outdone themselves
These always make me smile
These always make me smile
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After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
November 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
After you help your boss convert a doc to PDF
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This is a real species of crab. No genAI required
November 23, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This is a real species of crab. No genAI required
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Getting journal rejections like
November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Getting journal rejections like
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Did you know, that in 'honour' of wakefield, there is an #rstats package named after him that generates fake data?
Makes me proud to be an R user.
Makes me proud to be an R user.
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Did you know, that in 'honour' of wakefield, there is an #rstats package named after him that generates fake data?
Makes me proud to be an R user.
Makes me proud to be an R user.
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you are in a dark room.
a computer is here.
>use computer
the computer swallows you whole.
a computer is here.
>use computer
the computer swallows you whole.
November 22, 2025 at 1:47 PM
you are in a dark room.
a computer is here.
>use computer
the computer swallows you whole.
a computer is here.
>use computer
the computer swallows you whole.