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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 29m

This is work commissioned by the BBC, but (i) they are happy for me to put it up here and (ii) they are sharing it with other broadcasters. (This process of data-laundering means people will soon be assuming that these are "official" figures).

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 31m

NEW DATA: Notional results for the 2021 Scottish Parliament election on 2026 boundaries. Of interest to academics/pollsters/journos

Post: chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/sp2026...
Data: github.com/chrishanrett...
Source: github.com/chrishanrett...

Notional results for the 2021 Scottish Parliament Election – chris hanretty

chris hanretty’s site

chrishanretty.co.uk

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 9h

Press pool: “On Trump’s desk in the Oval Office today was a plan for a triumphal arch on the other side of the river from the Lincoln Memorial”

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 22h

My quasi-heretical beliefs are that (i) there should be a lot less VI polling of all kinds and that (ii) we should adopt an electoral system that means we don't need PhDs to work out likely seat distributions.

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 23h

All I will say is that I hope anyone who bought an MRP after the 2019 EP election was happy with their purchase.

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 23h

I take yr point, but I'm not sure we "know" those things, because we're always conditioning on the set of responses given now. MRPs fall in line with uniform national swing as you get closer to the election, because the information environment changes (chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/changi...)

chris hanretty - Why is the MRP so variable when the uniform national swing is so predictable?

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chrishanretty.co.uk

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

Bloody immigrants, coming here and complaining about correct orthography

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, it's actually first from left who gives off those vibes www.spectator.co.uk/article/what...

What my GB News incest row critics fail to understand

If reproductive and non-reproductive incest are so bad, why do people resort to personal attacks as opposed to moral arguments?

www.spectator.co.uk

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

Not quite sure why people putting the 14 words on signs get a ruminative essay on how the saltire has been used www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The battle for Scotland's flag: Why the right has adopted the saltire

The saltire has long been embraced by supporters of Scottish independence – but now it is being unfurled for a different cause.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

crying now

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

Once you get sensitised to lag in the gaming context, you see it everywhere - and these people maybe don't?

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

But how do you ctrl-tab between them without getting stuck on tab twenty?

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

I don't understand how 3% of you live and function

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

ZOMG..... This is amazing!

Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 1d

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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GESIS-Suche

doi.org

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

It's not even the MBA stuff, it's the undergraduate degrees in Business. Three years of low-quality instruction!

Professor Peter Matthews @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social · 1d

I was just in a Teams meeting with a colleague who'd just got a new standing desk and kept accidentally hitting the controls to change its height, and when she did she'd slowly vanish from the screen like she was in a lift and it really made my day 🤣🤣🤣

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

This x100. Business degrees are cheap to run, easy to run badly, and face seemingly inexhaustible demand

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

www.ft.com

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Jens Wäckerle @jwaeckerle.bsky.social · 1d

New data for legislative scholars! Committee Membership Dataset with @bcastanho.bsky.social, @dmpullan.bsky.social and Firuze Taner:

Committee assignments for all MPs (Wikidata IDs!) in 14 countries
Harmonized roles/policy areas

Data: doi.org/10.7802/2940
Working paper: tinyurl.com/vf54r78p

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GESIS-Suche

doi.org

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1d

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

www.ft.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

Think it's Florence (Alabama) for me

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

The booking website doesn't support Firefox, so god knows how it's going to support Selenium and friends...

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

Know where I can find elephants to cross the Alps with?

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 1d

No one speak to me today, I am trying to book travel through my university approved travel provider.

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Francesca R. Jensenius @fr-jensenius.bsky.social · 2d

Very happy to be able to share the polling-level dataset on Indian Parliamentary Elections 2009, 2014, 2019 that we have been working on for more than a decade. Both the data and the data descriptor are open access: rdcu.be/eujHH

@statsvitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

Screen shot of the title and abstract of the article I am talking about

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

(This impression based on Charles Piller's Doctored some time ago)

Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

This is particularly interesting since I thought the beta-amyloid hypothesis was on a shoogly peg, in part because of faked data

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 2d

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 2d

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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Chris Hanretty @chanret.bsky.social · 2d

I disagree. It's possible that there's a representation / accountability trade-off, but 1/3rd votes => 2/3rds of the seats is world-leading (and not in a good way) chrishanretty.co.uk/posts/single...

chris hanretty - The single party majority limbo

chris hanretty’s site

chrishanretty.co.uk

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