David Ham
@davidham.bsky.social
mathematician (on a good day, sort of), computational scientist, European.
Why is a piece about an English town illustrated with an image of police cars that are obviously not form the UK?
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Why is a piece about an English town illustrated with an image of police cars that are obviously not form the UK?
How about “in a 5 party system FPTP is essentially a random number generator, which is a poor way of choosing a government“?
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
How about “in a 5 party system FPTP is essentially a random number generator, which is a poor way of choosing a government“?
AV is not a form of PR. While it does have advantages over FPTP, proportionality is not one of them.
November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM
AV is not a form of PR. While it does have advantages over FPTP, proportionality is not one of them.
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There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
November 17, 2025 at 11:02 AM
There is no evidence that stripping refugees' rights one by one will have any impact on people crossing the channel.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Taking jewellery from refugees is akin to painting over murals for refugee children.
These repugnant ‘deterrents’ did not work for the Tories, and they won't work for us.
Not exactly news. Here’s a London Borough of Lambeth one with 2011 number plates: www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/9570826...
£500,000 motoring fines for Lambeth Council
Fines handed out to motorists in two Streatham streets could generate more than half a million pounds for Lambeth Council.
www.thisislocallondon.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Not exactly news. Here’s a London Borough of Lambeth one with 2011 number plates: www.thisislocallondon.co.uk/news/9570826...
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there's a priest who's job, twice a day, is to lift a floor stone in the nave and check the water level with a Holy Dipstick and communicate if the sluice needs adjusting
again, i am not exaggerating
again, i am not exaggerating
November 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
there's a priest who's job, twice a day, is to lift a floor stone in the nave and check the water level with a Holy Dipstick and communicate if the sluice needs adjusting
again, i am not exaggerating
again, i am not exaggerating
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Reform voters favouring Sharia Law type punishment is the most fucking ironic thing this week.
November 7, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Reform voters favouring Sharia Law type punishment is the most fucking ironic thing this week.
Economics does the same, but they have established quite wide-ranging evidence that doing so creates "alphabetic discrimination" in which there are career and publication advantages to those with names at the start of the alphabet. See, eg: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
The Effects of Listing Authors in Alphabetical Order: A Review of the Empirical Evidence
Each time researchers jointly write an article, a decision must be made about the order in which the authors are listed. There are two main norms for doing so.
dx.doi.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Economics does the same, but they have established quite wide-ranging evidence that doing so creates "alphabetic discrimination" in which there are career and publication advantages to those with names at the start of the alphabet. See, eg: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
Pretty sure the entire membership of all the affiliated unions can vote. That’ll kick it up by a lot.
October 25, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Pretty sure the entire membership of all the affiliated unions can vote. That’ll kick it up by a lot.
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Can’t get no Satisfaction unless you’re the Dutch coast.
October 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Can’t get no Satisfaction unless you’re the Dutch coast.
So we have to guess how many students will hit their offer while not also getting accepted somewhere they’d rather be. No part of this makes sense.
October 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
So we have to guess how many students will hit their offer while not also getting accepted somewhere they’d rather be. No part of this makes sense.
Yes. It’s insane. Students apply before they know what their grades are (which leads to the effect observed in the research above of affluent students making more assertive applications). We then have to make binding offers along the lines of “if you get these grades then you can come”.
October 5, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Yes. It’s insane. Students apply before they know what their grades are (which leads to the effect observed in the research above of affluent students making more assertive applications). We then have to make binding offers along the lines of “if you get these grades then you can come”.
Yet another piece of evidence in favour of post qualification admissions: which of course we will never do because we mustn’t ever inconvenience Oxbridge.
October 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Yet another piece of evidence in favour of post qualification admissions: which of course we will never do because we mustn’t ever inconvenience Oxbridge.