Rules for writing scientific papers: never worry about a discussion being too short. Remember: reviewers will always ask you to make it longer no matter how long it is in the first place.

Some readers don't understand percentages. It is therefore important to provide those readers with alternative numbers they have no chance of understanding

Scanning The Telegraph is both disheartening and heartening. The heartening part is that the Tories will never win again, so long as they feel the need to keep the Telegraph happy

We have a new paper, now under review, showing that future marine heatwaves will be more frequent on the sea floor than at the surface in northwest Europe. Read it here egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

Looking at the Golden Globes winners and nominees. It’s depressing how none of them, except for Wicked, are part of the zeitgeist. And don’t get me started on giving Best Picture awards to TV movies. Throwing cinemas under the bus as always

2025. First day in the office. The work begins. Headphones on like

Things I'd pay for: A pdf reader that can extract tables as csv. This can now be done pretty well with AI, so someone needs to get on it

I've been using GitHub Copilot for nearly 2 years, and it has boosted my coding productivity big time. And it's now free. If you use Visual Studio Code or RStudio, you should try it. The learning curve is minimal github.com/features/cop...

If you want to understand migration I recommend reading How Migration Works, which shows that much of what the right and, yes, the left thinks about the issue is full of myths and misunderstandings

It’s pretty mind boggling how bad the current NHS app is. Wes Streeting at least seems to want to modernise things. The comments by the BMA here show how difficult it typically is to bring about change.

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In London for some entertainment at the theatre.

Hadestown 7/10
Titanique 8/10
The Tempest 4/10, but that might have been the chilly theatre