This blog is a record of what I’ve been reading and doing over the week. It might form a coherent piece or it might be a random garble. Sometimes I’ll post on just one piece that I feel deserves a whole post to itself.

What fun stuff am I reading this week?

Stats and psychology:

• How bad statistical inference can lead to bad traffic policies
• When frequentists and bayesians collide- can we all be friends in the end?
• Abandoning the need for p- it’s kinda hard but feels so good
• When Harry Potter meets Psychology

Biology fun:

• Carl Zimmer’s take on sea unicorns – Spoiler alert: they’re whales
• Snakes just got even scarier– Homing Pythons. Ed Yong terrifies again

Friends!

• My friend Duncan just joined the Peace Corps and now he is in Jamaica (I wrote him a recommendation!). He’s apparently falling in love with goats…