Nick Tordoff
@briandrian.bsky.social
A probably retired Health Informatician (bless you!). Hand holder of a community hydro energy scheme. Late on set sailor. My opinions are usually someone elses passed off as my own
Here is you randomly generated representative sample based on the local population
December 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Here is you randomly generated representative sample based on the local population
Indeed Sir Lindsay Hoyle could get a parliamentary verification process up
“U.S. Senators have verified their accounts with senate.gov”
as per the Bluesky help page.
“U.S. Senators have verified their accounts with senate.gov”
as per the Bluesky help page.
December 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Indeed Sir Lindsay Hoyle could get a parliamentary verification process up
“U.S. Senators have verified their accounts with senate.gov”
as per the Bluesky help page.
“U.S. Senators have verified their accounts with senate.gov”
as per the Bluesky help page.
As a soon to be grandfather I would not dare comment on any child rearing discussion
December 23, 2025 at 10:39 AM
As a soon to be grandfather I would not dare comment on any child rearing discussion
Isn’t that the same argument as saying you can’t stop speeding by checking every car.
I struggle to see how someone can accidentally use AI to write a paper. I struggle to see how anyone submitting a paper using AI is not aware of this problem. This must be a deliberate choice to mislead.
I struggle to see how someone can accidentally use AI to write a paper. I struggle to see how anyone submitting a paper using AI is not aware of this problem. This must be a deliberate choice to mislead.
December 22, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Isn’t that the same argument as saying you can’t stop speeding by checking every car.
I struggle to see how someone can accidentally use AI to write a paper. I struggle to see how anyone submitting a paper using AI is not aware of this problem. This must be a deliberate choice to mislead.
I struggle to see how someone can accidentally use AI to write a paper. I struggle to see how anyone submitting a paper using AI is not aware of this problem. This must be a deliberate choice to mislead.
The best description of them I have seen is “Reactionary Centerist“ ht Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social
December 22, 2025 at 12:56 PM
The best description of them I have seen is “Reactionary Centerist“ ht Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social
A capitalist model where “Its goal is to sell two million tonnes of carbon credits at **well above the normal market rate**”. That doesn’t sound like capitalism to me.
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Oh. I see. It’s because they are selling Prius carbon rather than Ford carbon. That makes sense.
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Oh. I see. It’s because they are selling Prius carbon rather than Ford carbon. That makes sense.
December 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
A capitalist model where “Its goal is to sell two million tonnes of carbon credits at **well above the normal market rate**”. That doesn’t sound like capitalism to me.
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Oh. I see. It’s because they are selling Prius carbon rather than Ford carbon. That makes sense.
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Oh. I see. It’s because they are selling Prius carbon rather than Ford carbon. That makes sense.
Thank for replying. Can I ask what you do if you find a paper with hallucinated references. Do you request corrections, reject it, warn the authors (all of them), report the issue to the authors’ institutions. I am wondering, what are the professional consequences of indulging in this behaviour.
December 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Thank for replying. Can I ask what you do if you find a paper with hallucinated references. Do you request corrections, reject it, warn the authors (all of them), report the issue to the authors’ institutions. I am wondering, what are the professional consequences of indulging in this behaviour.
I worked in academia of for a short time many years ago. I hesitate to impose an external professional framework but I am genuinely baffled. If AI slop is a profound threat to scholarship, shouldn’t the “Academy” be mounting a robust defence and doesn’t that start from professional accountability.
December 21, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I worked in academia of for a short time many years ago. I hesitate to impose an external professional framework but I am genuinely baffled. If AI slop is a profound threat to scholarship, shouldn’t the “Academy” be mounting a robust defence and doesn’t that start from professional accountability.
Surely the decision about carelessness, professional negligence or deliberate research fraud is one for the institution not the journal. Any credible journal surely needs have a clear policy on this.
How normal is it to cite publications you have not even checked the existence of never ming read?
How normal is it to cite publications you have not even checked the existence of never ming read?
December 21, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Surely the decision about carelessness, professional negligence or deliberate research fraud is one for the institution not the journal. Any credible journal surely needs have a clear policy on this.
How normal is it to cite publications you have not even checked the existence of never ming read?
How normal is it to cite publications you have not even checked the existence of never ming read?
Can you help me here. I feel I’m missing something. I keep hearing of academics coming across citations of fictitious works in reference. Surely this is gross professional misconduct comparable with plagiarism by the author. It should be reported to and dealt with by their employing institutions.
December 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Can you help me here. I feel I’m missing something. I keep hearing of academics coming across citations of fictitious works in reference. Surely this is gross professional misconduct comparable with plagiarism by the author. It should be reported to and dealt with by their employing institutions.
This has gone on to my reading list for a soon as I can get to a sufficiently sized screen.
My immediate response though is that “well designed” is the kicker here. I know of several badly designed installations. Do we have the appropriately skilled workforce to design effective installations
My immediate response though is that “well designed” is the kicker here. I know of several badly designed installations. Do we have the appropriately skilled workforce to design effective installations
December 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
This has gone on to my reading list for a soon as I can get to a sufficiently sized screen.
My immediate response though is that “well designed” is the kicker here. I know of several badly designed installations. Do we have the appropriately skilled workforce to design effective installations
My immediate response though is that “well designed” is the kicker here. I know of several badly designed installations. Do we have the appropriately skilled workforce to design effective installations
It looks to me as if it is a mis-read of something like “ almost 40% of attendees waited more than **4** hours”. That is credibly terrible performance. 40% waiting more than 24 hours would be astoundingly, gob-smackingly front page of every Tory newspaper dreadful.
December 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
It looks to me as if it is a mis-read of something like “ almost 40% of attendees waited more than **4** hours”. That is credibly terrible performance. 40% waiting more than 24 hours would be astoundingly, gob-smackingly front page of every Tory newspaper dreadful.
Sorry but that isn’t true. 65% of A&E attendances were seen with 4 hours. That’s a pretty terrible performance but not the terrifying one you reported. www.gov.wales/nhs-activity...
NHS Activity and Performance Summary: August and September 2025 [HTML] | GOV.WALES
Report summarising data on activity and performance in the Welsh NHS for August and September 2025.
www.gov.wales
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Sorry but that isn’t true. 65% of A&E attendances were seen with 4 hours. That’s a pretty terrible performance but not the terrifying one you reported. www.gov.wales/nhs-activity...
Is that as distinct from mitochondrial genealogy?
December 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Is that as distinct from mitochondrial genealogy?
Interesting how LibDem visibility starts to climb after Ed Davey calls them out on ghosting them. There in lies a lesson.
December 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Interesting how LibDem visibility starts to climb after Ed Davey calls them out on ghosting them. There in lies a lesson.
I’m not sure how she would code wearing that dress. If she sat down her laptop would just slide of the satin.
December 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I’m not sure how she would code wearing that dress. If she sat down her laptop would just slide of the satin.
I’m sure it will be buried in the Today’s Birthday section deep in one of the papers when it happens
December 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I’m sure it will be buried in the Today’s Birthday section deep in one of the papers when it happens
Saw this thread just after this one.
It asks a real question about what economists define as GDP and productivity.
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It asks a real question about what economists define as GDP and productivity.
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So where does this leave us?
Worryingly, GDP per capita continues to drift away from our pre-pandemic growth path. Output per person in October would have been nearly 8% higher if we’d remained on that path
Worryingly, GDP per capita continues to drift away from our pre-pandemic growth path. Output per person in October would have been nearly 8% higher if we’d remained on that path
December 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Saw this thread just after this one.
It asks a real question about what economists define as GDP and productivity.
bsky.app/profile/reso...
It asks a real question about what economists define as GDP and productivity.
bsky.app/profile/reso...
Ive never read it and I’ve just checked. There is no such book. 😏
December 12, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Ive never read it and I’ve just checked. There is no such book. 😏
I’d never seen this before. It puts the UK supreme decision on transgender in a different light. The combination of bad science (biological sex is binary) and we will know it when we see it (trans men are biologically female but they can’t use women’s facilities) packed into a single judgement
December 11, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I’d never seen this before. It puts the UK supreme decision on transgender in a different light. The combination of bad science (biological sex is binary) and we will know it when we see it (trans men are biologically female but they can’t use women’s facilities) packed into a single judgement
To really be that guy, it was Ipsos and it was MORI and then it was Ipsos MORI
December 10, 2025 at 10:52 PM
To really be that guy, it was Ipsos and it was MORI and then it was Ipsos MORI
Southern softee 😊. Powers off again here in Morvern
December 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Southern softee 😊. Powers off again here in Morvern
Sorry by what does the Spean Bridge to Kingussie road have to do with Paris?
December 8, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Sorry by what does the Spean Bridge to Kingussie road have to do with Paris?
This sounds like prototypical reactionary centrism. (See Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social) Do you honestly believe that the stupidity is caused by the left “taking a sentence out of context” rather than the Tories proroguing parliament, Henry VIII clauses and attacking “activist” judges.
December 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This sounds like prototypical reactionary centrism. (See Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social) Do you honestly believe that the stupidity is caused by the left “taking a sentence out of context” rather than the Tories proroguing parliament, Henry VIII clauses and attacking “activist” judges.
Is there a simple principle here. No representation without taxation. Individuals can only make donations from UK taxable income. Companies can only make donations from post tax UK profits
December 7, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Is there a simple principle here. No representation without taxation. Individuals can only make donations from UK taxable income. Companies can only make donations from post tax UK profits