Disclaimer 2024-12-02 Since this rant is going viral again (again (again)), some disclaimers:
I wrote this six years ago to “”“win”“” an ugly Twitter fight. I’m glad I anonymized the inciting tweet and hope I’m the only person still getting grief over this.…

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John Ioannidis discusses his famous 2005 paper "Why most published research finding are false" and assesses how much progress we've made since then.

Has the research environment significantly improved?

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After 60 years, scientists know why gingers, calicos, and tortoiseshells look the way they do

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I really don’t know where Apple goes from here or how they fix this without rolling back several changes. Ios18 is glitchy, crashes, it’s very flakey. I have a 15 pro, and I immensely regret...

On finally having to upgrade my iPhone

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Houses of Parliament, taken on 26 Nov 2024 I am grateful to the journalist Tom Webb, who specialises in data protection, for alerting me to an amendment to the Data (Use and Access) Bill, currently…

Sometimes, the most important news is when something isn’t happening.

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