Google Scholar have announced a citation service. Not only do you get to look up the citation statistics of the journals, but they’ll also provide you with your personal stats. I’m writing at the moment, and wondering where to send stuff. Unfortun…

It has long been known that people generally prefer a bet with known odds, to one where there is uncertainty in the odds. The classic example of this is a choice of two bets. Imagine two urns. In the first urn there are 100 balls, 50 white and 50 …

Watching Stargazing Live last night, I was enthralled, and reminded of why I got into science in the first place. The science that they were talking about was cool. The great thing about astronomy is that it is huge, endless, exciting, available, …

Below is my end of the correspondence that I had with Doug Keenan over the summer. This is being discussed slightly more widely now (e.g. here, here, here), so I thought it would be sensible to have it in the public domain. The first email is larg…

Fellow scientists! I need your help! I’ve recently been discussing and writing about scientific issues that are slightly tangental to my day job. Only slightly mind, with the upshot that I’ve been doing literature searches where I’m not just updat…

Here are some questions from my friend Andrew, posted on Twitter.1. How do you present multivariate uncertainty in climate to policy makers/journalists/the public? 2. How do you represent uncertainty in a climate prediction when the inputs and phy…

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