Roget’s Dwarves:

Somnolent
Diffident
Jubilant
Gormless
Sternutatory
Cantankerous
Quack

This paper is an interesting result that I've seen at a lot of poster sessions. Complicated machine learning models look good, but often they don't perform much better than simple #statistics models, like linear regression (if they even perform better at all) […]

It is baffling how many do not understand that simulation is just a (usually inferior) way of doing the calculations. It is not a way of producing evidence.

If you could have 1 person visit your trial in progress poster about a randomized phase 3 trial of accelerated BEP chemotherapy at #ASCO #GU25, who would you choose?

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Misinformation and disinformation can no longer be viewed simply as an academic nuisance, but rather they are a societal threat." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Eagerly awaiting Dark Noon @ Sydney Town Hall with @LovelyJezebel.bsky.social,
event 6 of our 2025 #SydFest #SydneyFestival @Sydney_Festival
www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/dark-...

Eagerly awaiting Siegfried & Roy @SydneyTheaterCo Wharf Theatre with @lovelyjezebel.bsky.social,
event 5 of our 2025 #SydFest #SydneyFestival @Sydney_Festival

www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/siegf...

Eagerly awaiting
Melanie Tait’s
A Model Murder
@ Darlinghurst Courthouse
with @lovelyjezebel.bsky.social,
event 4 of our 2025 #SydFest #SydneyFestival @Sydney_Festival

www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/a-mod...

Eagerly awaiting Back to Back Theatre's Multiple Bad Things @SydOperaHouse with @lovelyjezebel.bsky.social

Event 3 of our 2025 #SydFest #SydneyFestival @Sydney_Festival

www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/multi...

Eagerly awaiting Air Time @SeymourSydney w @lovelyjezebel.bsky.social
2nd event of our 2025 #SydFest #SydneyFestival @Sydney_Festival

www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/air-t...

Eagerly awaiting our 1st event of 2025 #SydFest www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/as-yo...

Record broken!

Via CA:

"Boxing Day Test Day 5 current attendance is 51,371. The total attendance of 350,700 is the greatest for any Test match at the MCG exceeding the total of 350,534 v England in 1937 over 6 days. (This also the greatest attendance for any Test match played in Australia.)"

Cripes, Bumrah is the best cricketer in the world right now. First picked in any WorldXI. An all-time great right in front of our eyes. #AUSvIND

"Uncertainty is part of being human, so how can we learn to live with it?" (Guardian) www.smartnews.com/en-us/articl...