David Colquhoun
@davidcolquhoun
Likes #biophysics and #statistics, especially stochastic processes, dislikes pseudo-science. Twitter refugee: undecided between BlueSky and Mastodon @david_colquhoun@mstdn.social Blog: Work:
Youtube Studio mailed me the latest statistics re my Youtube channel. Very few people watch a video the whole way through. But the mail had suggestions for new videos that I might make. They are ghastly AI slop, made of words from my videos, strung together with ZERO understanding. YUK
Bonehill-Paine in 2016 clipped from #BBCNewsnight Looks like a nice character. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The emails I've been getting from Trump, Vance and the RNC are getting morethreatening and nasty. Todoy's is advocating illegal action -no surprise from the mob who are running the show.
This reminds me of a hike in France, in 2004 -one leg was from from St Etienne-de-Baïgorry to Bidarray. We turned off the path a bit early and ended up trapped in gorse and ferns, over head height. We called 112 and got winched up to a gendarmerie helicopter for the last bit.
Two in one day! Getting threatening now. Several have urged me to complete their dodgy survey by completing "voter verification". That sounds like a totally dishonest suggetion that I'll be disenfranchised if I don't. (I have no vote because I'm a UK citizen)
I got yet another email from JD Vance (allegedly). Presumably because I had a US social security number in 1970 - 72, when I was at Yale. They really sound a bit desperate aboutb their prospects at the midterms. Let's hope they lose badly and MAGA fades into the past like a bad dream.
The GoP's latest pestering email. I'm a UK citizen who had a US social security number in 1970-72. They seem to be having a dodgy poll in an effort to drum up support for the felon-in-chief.
Republicans must be desperate. I keep getting emails, allegedly from Trump, Vance and the RNC. Presumably, they got my email because I had a US Social Security number -from 1970 to 1972!. Despite my not being a US citizen, and opposing Trump, they keep trying. Today's absurd attempt:
I can't quite believe that I've made it to 90 years old, and I'm still (just) sentient. One day, I'm still hoping to understand statistical inference (every else does, or so they tell me). Thanks to Margaret, Andrew and everyone who came to the party.
These emails, allegedly from Trump and Vance, sound increasingly desperate. And no, I have not clicked the links.
I've been repeatedly spammed by Trump's allies. They seem to think I'm a US citizen. The latest email is the most threatening yet.
Who would have thought that #Cambridge University's Faculty of Divinity would be a centre of extreme-right extremism, and that the University would so secretive about it. Read about it bylinetimes.com/2026/07/09/p... #fascism
Another windy day. We were paid to use electricity from 08:30 to 16:00. Couldn't make use of it because car and battery already fully charged. Love net zero.
Tomorrow from 12:00 to 14:00 we get paid 8p kWh to charge the car and house battery. That's the most negative price I've seen. Once again the cheapest time isn't overnight, but in the afternoon. More people now have batteries and EVs charging overnight?
My first car was aa Mercedes 190SL. Sort of glamorous, but not very reliable,
It's windy! We get paid to use electricity from 05:00 tomorrow morning until 16:00. The house battery is a bit run down at the mo. Tomorrow we'll get paid to charge the car and battery. We haven't bought petrol since 2017 🙂🙂
It must be windy! We get paid to use electricity from 05:00 tomorrow morning unt 16:00. The house battery is a bit run down at the mo. Tomorrow we'll get paid to charge the car and battery. We haven't bought petrol since 2017 🙂🙂
9 year-old granddaughter celebrates her team scoring in cricket. Worth a quick dance.
Our local Nextdoor site is full of frothing vigilantes (not for the first time).They are scaringly angry, but also scaringly uninterested in what actually happened. I posted this.
My first car was a Mercedes 190SL -early 1960s, I think. It was pretty, but rather unreliable.
I'm listening to the #UKRIO conference. It's distressingly vacuous. I asked 3 questions, none of which were chosen by UKRIO. Like most regulators, they are utterly ineffective.