Today is Roger Penrose's 92nd birthday. To celebrate, here is his contribution to our 'When did you know it was Maths?' films in which he explains how he was very nearly lost to medicine.

So many great points in this preprint ("For 48% of the articles, we were unsure whether the statistical test used in the sample size calculation matched a statistical test used in the article"), but I'm stealing the phrase "Cosplay power calculations" for sure.

40th anniversary passed without much fanfare. Still relevant today! ‘I have a simple statistical problem that should take only a minute of your time.’ Ahem. You know who you are! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/si…

Iconoclasm strikes again in Southwell Minster

They came after me with the cat lady shit too. So please just sit down & listen. Misogyny is one of the deadliest weapons on earth. Misogyny is electoral interference. Misogyny is a national security threat so lethal we can’t even see it. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Long story short, what in God's name ever gave someone the prior that most work was self evident enough to eyeball just the English and still be able to say anything meaningful about what actual computations took place? I don't even trust my own papers without rereading the code

Very interesting thread on the nature of mathematical thinking.

Exactly how I do it actually

I think it's time to retire the term "replicate" to avoid getting mired in endless debates about what constitutes a technical or biological replicate. Instead, simply state what assumption was tested (i.e., what conditions changed) when the experiment was done again.

Meet @EdJCarr! 👋 Ed recently joined the Crick on secondment from UCL. His lab studies why different people’s immune systems respond differently to the same 'immune challenge', such as an identical vaccination. crick.ac.uk/news-and-repor…

This is just irresponsible by Daily Mail Online, using the image of the #Muslim security guard who disarmed the attacker in #LeicesterSquare with a headline about a 'knifeman' and a mother and daughter being #knifed

Tell me that you don't understand statistics without telling me that you don't understand statistics.

I swear a mathematician wrote this answer

I am down with this! #Noether doi.org/10.1119/5.0229…

Clarkson?

Looking for an enthusiastic skilled stats person to work with me The Crick ensuring that the design and analysis of experiments complements the world class science carried out. crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External…

Great to see my DPhil topic still going strong - it was a privilege to have studied this, but doubt I'd now understand 1% of what's being discussed.

circles encircling circles... (this took an entire day to render... 🥲) (it's ya boi, the hopf fibration of the 3-sphere...)