James Green
@ajamesgreen.bsky.social
Ebikes, data, medicines, behaviour change, communication, wine, food.
Alleged health psychologist
Lead of @iscycle.bsky.app
www.ajamesgreen.com
www.iscycle.ie
Alleged health psychologist
Lead of @iscycle.bsky.app
www.ajamesgreen.com
www.iscycle.ie
So frustrating that New Zealand's electricity generation has been sitting so close to be entirely renewable for what seems like decades, but they haven't yet managed to get to 100% long term, mostly (I think) due to higher demand in winter
February 7, 2026 at 4:50 PM
So frustrating that New Zealand's electricity generation has been sitting so close to be entirely renewable for what seems like decades, but they haven't yet managed to get to 100% long term, mostly (I think) due to higher demand in winter
it would also be great if they flag that the YELLOW-legged hornets legs are less yellow than, like, wasps. If the thing you find has yellow legs, it's probably a wasp. If it's legs are mostly black, but they're yellow at the end, then worry about it being a hornet. Though also, per below, big!
In a good example of bad sci comm, BioNZ was for a while distributing a graphic where the hornet was, and I cannot believe this, NOT TO SCALE.
February 7, 2026 at 11:16 AM
it would also be great if they flag that the YELLOW-legged hornets legs are less yellow than, like, wasps. If the thing you find has yellow legs, it's probably a wasp. If it's legs are mostly black, but they're yellow at the end, then worry about it being a hornet. Though also, per below, big!
Great name for a tyre, but given various loss-of-traction incidents on wet and slimy surfaces, not surprised to see the top review titled "Downright dangerous on wet roads"
Round of applause for Specialized, ‘Carless Whisper’ has to be the best ever name for a cargo bike tyre.
January 30, 2026 at 9:22 AM
Great name for a tyre, but given various loss-of-traction incidents on wet and slimy surfaces, not surprised to see the top review titled "Downright dangerous on wet roads"
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Round of applause for Specialized, ‘Carless Whisper’ has to be the best ever name for a cargo bike tyre.
January 29, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Round of applause for Specialized, ‘Carless Whisper’ has to be the best ever name for a cargo bike tyre.
This is so interesting. I've always wondered why buying a car new in some countries is more likely, and this certainly qualifies as a reason! And, uh, seems like it encourages people to buy a new car on credit?????
Working on filing our taxes and am at the screen where the country continues to subsidize the auto industry to uphold forced car dependency.
January 28, 2026 at 6:05 PM
This is so interesting. I've always wondered why buying a car new in some countries is more likely, and this certainly qualifies as a reason! And, uh, seems like it encourages people to buy a new car on credit?????
Amazing thread here suggesting that most measures of videogame addiction are actually measuring ...
read the full thread. I can't do it justice
read the full thread. I can't do it justice
... out of 44 treatment-seekers, 7 agreed to participate so Tiina interviewed them. Our surprise was great when all but one turned out to be *gamblers* -- it was a Heureka moment: the word ‘gaming’ in the leading scale didn’t exclude gambling. Alas, gambling is also a game!
January 28, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Amazing thread here suggesting that most measures of videogame addiction are actually measuring ...
read the full thread. I can't do it justice
read the full thread. I can't do it justice
Any parents and stats geeks with short-sighted children spent any time looking at the new prescription tech that is supposed to slow development of myopia....
Doesn't look like woo at Cochrane, but "very low certainty evidence"
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
Doesn't look like woo at Cochrane, but "very low certainty evidence"
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
January 28, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Any parents and stats geeks with short-sighted children spent any time looking at the new prescription tech that is supposed to slow development of myopia....
Doesn't look like woo at Cochrane, but "very low certainty evidence"
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
Doesn't look like woo at Cochrane, but "very low certainty evidence"
www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....
It's, um, a bit over 12 years since I last went on sabbatical, and though I'm not technically on sabbatical yet, I am about to leave the building. It somehow seems less momentous than last time
December 1, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It's, um, a bit over 12 years since I last went on sabbatical, and though I'm not technically on sabbatical yet, I am about to leave the building. It somehow seems less momentous than last time
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Look at this magical yoke!
December 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Look at this magical yoke!
I have always loved this paper, and even though I knew about it, I still foolishly bought some cutlery for my departmental tearoom... and we know how that went...
70 teaspoons placed in tearooms around the institute & observed weekly over 5 months. 80% of spoons disappeared; spoon halflife~81 days. Communal room halflife lower than in specific labs. 250 spoons annually required to maintain 70 spoon population.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom. Design Longitudinal cohort study. Setting Research institute ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I have always loved this paper, and even though I knew about it, I still foolishly bought some cutlery for my departmental tearoom... and we know how that went...
Filling a new ethics question on data deletion. Tempted to go with the overly honest version: "Even after data deletion, the data will still likely be stored on 15+ servers around the EU and accessible to various of our IT staff for at least 93 days"
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Filling a new ethics question on data deletion. Tempted to go with the overly honest version: "Even after data deletion, the data will still likely be stored on 15+ servers around the EU and accessible to various of our IT staff for at least 93 days"
I feel like I spend far too much time explaining why prestige journals are not good indicators of quality. So it's no surprise that drivel was published in JAMA
It is the *mentality* reflected in this "score" that is part of the underlying problem, further reflected by the fact that this specific "solution" will only ever exist in a PUBLICATION. It would be better if they implemented this in their own institution and then wrote about why it didn't work.
November 28, 2025 at 4:39 PM
I feel like I spend far too much time explaining why prestige journals are not good indicators of quality. So it's no surprise that drivel was published in JAMA
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It is the *mentality* reflected in this "score" that is part of the underlying problem, further reflected by the fact that this specific "solution" will only ever exist in a PUBLICATION. It would be better if they implemented this in their own institution and then wrote about why it didn't work.
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 AM
It is the *mentality* reflected in this "score" that is part of the underlying problem, further reflected by the fact that this specific "solution" will only ever exist in a PUBLICATION. It would be better if they implemented this in their own institution and then wrote about why it didn't work.
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This year explaining regression to the mean took forever but I’m sure next year will be better.
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This year explaining regression to the mean took forever but I’m sure next year will be better.
Much as I feel too cool* for Grammarly, this 👇
(maybe map navigation is a less controversial example)
(maybe map navigation is a less controversial example)
I've seen so many threads here that were just rage wagons about ML tech unrelated to LLMs that was wholly uncontroversial 5 years ago just because people saw the AI moniker attached.
November 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Much as I feel too cool* for Grammarly, this 👇
(maybe map navigation is a less controversial example)
(maybe map navigation is a less controversial example)
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In Oslo, four articulated buses trapped themselves in a roundabout yesterday.
"I don't know what I'm most impressed with: That they managed to get into the situation, or that they got out of it."
"I don't know what I'm most impressed with: That they managed to get into the situation, or that they got out of it."
– Vet ikke hva jeg er mest imponert over: At de klarte å komme seg inn i situasjonen, eller at de kom seg ut av den
Mandag kveld bød på komiske scener fra Alexander Kiellands plass.
www.ao.no
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 PM
In Oslo, four articulated buses trapped themselves in a roundabout yesterday.
"I don't know what I'm most impressed with: That they managed to get into the situation, or that they got out of it."
"I don't know what I'm most impressed with: That they managed to get into the situation, or that they got out of it."
My thoroughly gen Z daughter tells me this passes the vibe_check()
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
My thoroughly gen Z daughter tells me this passes the vibe_check()
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November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Relatable. Any 'top' journal really...
I have a friend who reads a lot of health stuff who actually has the heuristic JAMA = bad, so...
November 21, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Relatable. Any 'top' journal really...
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Hoarding homes in a housing emergency is akin to hoarding food in a famine
Irony is this is what Dunnes Stores "Better value" are doing
Sitting on 20 apartments in Macroom, Co. Cork for 20 years
Welcome to #DerelictIreland where protecting property rights is deemed more important than human life
Irony is this is what Dunnes Stores "Better value" are doing
Sitting on 20 apartments in Macroom, Co. Cork for 20 years
Welcome to #DerelictIreland where protecting property rights is deemed more important than human life
October 28, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Hoarding homes in a housing emergency is akin to hoarding food in a famine
Irony is this is what Dunnes Stores "Better value" are doing
Sitting on 20 apartments in Macroom, Co. Cork for 20 years
Welcome to #DerelictIreland where protecting property rights is deemed more important than human life
Irony is this is what Dunnes Stores "Better value" are doing
Sitting on 20 apartments in Macroom, Co. Cork for 20 years
Welcome to #DerelictIreland where protecting property rights is deemed more important than human life
Not what most people are calling out here, but I think you'll see that those grey circles over with in the North America space are most of the cities in New Zealand and Australia 😭
This is interesting — a recent study of mode share (the % share of transportation trips by car, transit, walking, biking etc) relative to city size and income levels in almost 800 cities in 61 countries. Interesting results. HT @davidzipper.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 16, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Not what most people are calling out here, but I think you'll see that those grey circles over with in the North America space are most of the cities in New Zealand and Australia 😭
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
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November 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM