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Sophie E. Hill
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PoliSci PhD student @ Harvard / 🇬🇧🏳️‍🌈 / Creator of MyLittleCrony.com
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Wiegman chooses a full-strength starting line up (given Hampton + Williamson injured).

Debut for Moorhouse in goal. Hopefully more to come (possibly Grace Fisk, plus youngsters Freya Godfrey and Anouk Denton)
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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i LOVE the crab museum so much i went to the birthday party
November 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Image: footballer Vivianne Miedema at a post-match interview Text [amended from original] Do you want to talk about [the Margate Shell Grotto] [yes]
November 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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you think the Georgians were cool like this???????
Two images of the grotto with text from a book. Images show womb and phallus motifs. which can be interpreted as representing the tree of life, a common symbol for all ancient cultures, as well as one with a date palm sacred to Astarte, the principal Phoenician goddess, probably the origin of the Carthaginian Tanit. Womb and umbilical cord (?) in the eastern passage of the rotunda One of the phallic images in the western passage of the rotunda
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I'm not exaggerating when I say the MAIN FOCUS of the paper is GREEN FINANCE.

It's in the title. There are paragraphs of policy recommendations about green bonds.

And the whole time they're just using a totally different variable and calling it Green Finance!

www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
nmental Science| TYPE Original Research PUBliSHED 24 July 2023 DoI 10.3389/fenvs.2023.1074713 Green finance and foreign direct investment-environmental sustainability nexuses in emerging countries: new insights from the environmental Kuznets curve Syed Usman Qadri 12*, Xiangyi Shi', Saif ur Rahman*, Alvena Anees4, Muhammad Sibt E. AliS, Laura Brancu 6* and Ahmad Nabi Nayel' The primary objective of the present study is to identify the asymmetric relationship between green finance, trade openness, and foreign direct investment with environmental sustainability. The existing research utilizes the asymmetric approach to evaluate annual data from 1980 to 2021. The findings of this study show heterogeneous results. Therefore, the outcomes of the study confirm the nonlinear (NARDL) association between the variables in Pakistan. Moreover, the study describes the positive shock of foreign direct investment (FDI) as a significant and positive relationship with environmental degradation, while the negative shock of FDI shows a negative and significant relationship with the environment. Furthermore, the study scrutinizes the positive shock of green finance as a significant and negative relationship with environmental degradation; the negative shocks also show a negative relationship with environmental degradation in Pakistan. In addition, the consequences of the study suggest that the government should implement taxes on foreign investment and that investors should use renewable energy to produce goods. Furthermore, the results suggest that the government should utilize fiscal policy and fiscal funds to enhance carbon-free projects. Moreover, green securities should be used for green technologies. However, Pakistan can control its carbon emissions and achieve the target of a sustainable environment. Therefore, Pakistan's government should stabilize its financial markets and introduce carbon-free projects. Furthermore, the main quantitative achievement according to the outcomes suggests that policymakers make policies in which they suggest to the government to control foreign investment that causes carbon emissions because of trade openness and also invest the funds in renewable energy, which helps to control the carbon emissions. KEYWORDS approach environmental degradation, trade openness, green finance, economic growth, NARDL
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Those errors are bad. But there's one earlier in the paper that's actually MUCH worse...

In Table 1 the authors they define GREEN FINANCE (a key explanatory var) as...

Renewable Energy Consumption??

#wtf
TABLE 1 Descriptive statistics. Variable Symbol Proxies/measurement of variables Data source Environmental sustainability ES (kt of CO, equivalent) World development indicator Foreign direct investment FDI (net inflow, % GDP) World development indicator Green finance GF (renewable energy consumptions, %) World development indicator Trade openness TOP (exports of goods and services, % GDP) World development indicator (imports of goods and services, % GDP) Economic growth EG (annual GDP growth, %) World development indicator And here's the explanation in the text: "We measured green financing in terms of the percentage of renewable energy consumption because Landenberg (2014) explained green investment in terms of renewable energy consumption in a broad sense." This isn't really an explanation. And "Landenberg (2014)" does not appear in the references. file Renewable energy consumption is not a justifiable proxy for green finance. It is absurd to frame the whole paper around green finance, including extensive policy recommendations in that area, when this variable is not even included in the analysis.
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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These all came from one paper: pubpeer.com/publications...

Predictably, there are some dodgy tables too:

🚩In Table 2 they messed up the JB p values and said all variables are normal ❌

🚩 In Table 6 several t-stats / p-vals are wrong, e.g.

b = -0.015**
se = 0.014
t = -2.754 ❌
p = 0.046 ❌
TABLE 2 Descriptive statistics. ES 所mwc 0.578 FDI 20.767 20.738 22.444 19.317 0.909 0.104 1.984 1.342 0.511 6F3M343 0.085 0.070 0.830 TOP Qkeoa 0.331 EG Table 6 with errors annotated
November 26, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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guess i'm hotdesking today
cats snoozing on office chair
November 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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this paper has been cited 233 times

#science #everythingisfine
Introduction The transportation sector contributes 23% to world total carbon emission, while it consumes 25% of world energy. Furthermore, transportation energy consumption is expected to increase up to 155 quadrillion B.T.U (British thermal units) in 2040 (World Energy Council 2016). Moreover, the world economy is growing at an average rate of 3.4% per year and population will increase from today’s 7.4 billion to 9 billion in 2040. According to International Energy Agency (IEA) 2016, the megacities are expected to increase from 22 (today’s megacities number) to 100 till 2050. Whereas, in developed countries, the transport sector energy consumption is continuously increasing and estimated more increase up to 30% due to improvement in living standards. Moreover, air pollution problems such as carbon monoxide (CO2), nitrogen oxide
November 25, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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The journal Sustainability is really stretching the concept of "regression table" in the year of our lord 2025.

Left:
Frankenstein's monster (t-stats vs SEs in parentheses in the same table)

Right:
two rows of values in parentheses after the coefficient... BOGOF?

pubpeer.com/publications...
table with errors annotated table with errors annotated
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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question: what thresholds were used to label the coefficients as statistically significant?

answer: yes

pubpeer.com/publications...

pubpeer.com/publications...

pubpeer.com/publications...
table with errors annotated table with errors annotated table with errors annotated composite of all the tables from the other paper, with errors annotated
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Unfortunately these researchers really need to be reported for cruel and discriminatory treatment of their test statistics...

I mean, look! This poor t-stat -0.53 gets NO STARS, while his almost-identical neighbour -0.52 get TWO STARS.

That's not fair! 😡😠😖
-0.081 (-0.53) -0.229 ** (-0.52)
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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This paper comes courtesy of two researchers at the Northeast Petroleum University in Daqing, China.

They've been on quite a run this year.

As well as this one, they have two more in Sustainability, both accepted in <40 days.
Research on the Impact of Green Technology Innovation on Carbon Emission Reduction Maturity in China: Heterogeneity and Mediating Effect Yi Wang, Shuo Fan* School of Economics and Management, Institute of energy economic, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, 163318, China Received: 12 November 2024 Accepted: 22 February 2025 Does the Integrated Development of High-End, Intelligent, and Green Manufacturing in China Influence Regional Dual Control of Carbon Emissions?—An Analysis Based on Impact Mechanisms and Spatial Effects by Yi WangORCID andShuo Fan *ORCID School of Economics and Management, Institute of Energy Economic, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Sustainability 2025, 17(8), 3659; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17083659 Submission received: 10 March 2025 / Revised: 16 April 2025 / Accepted: 16 April 2025 / Published: 18 April 2025 Spatiotemporal Patterns and Influencing Factors of the “Three Modernizations” Integrated Development in China’s Oil and Gas Industry by Yi Wang andShuo Fan *ORCID School of Economics and Management, Institute of Energy Economic, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing 163318, China * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. Sustainability 2025, 17(22), 10119; https://doi.org/10.3390/su172210119 Submission received: 16 October 2025 / Revised: 6 November 2025 / Accepted: 10 November 2025 / Published: 12 November 2025
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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SIX cases of max < min. It's an epidemic.

And even if we "correct" the table by flipping those around, we'd still have a mean that's not contained in [min, max], plus his Large Adult Son, SD = 3.409 (bigger than the range!)

So maybe for that row in particular, they switched min/max AND mean/sd?
annotated table
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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your daily dose

#FablesofFlummeryStatistics
table
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The top search results for "Claire Pan" "Cornell University" point to someone who majored in "Applied Economics and Management" and graduated with an undergraduate degree in 2020.

If this is the right person, then she reviewed this paper (Mar/Apr 2022) while working at a venture capital firm... 🤔
Google search results Claire Pan - Chief Operating Officer @ Arena LinkedIn · Claire Pan 3.9k+ followers New York, New York, United States · Chief Operating Officer · Arena Chief Operating Officer @ Arena · Experience: Arena · Education: Cornell University · Location: New York · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Claire Pan's ... Claire Pan '20 - Einhorn Center for Community Engagement Einhorn Center for Community Engagement https://einhorn.cornell.edu › our-network › claire-pan-20 Claire Pan '20. Major. Applied Economics and Management. College/School ... 300 Kennedy Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Cornell land ... linkedin screenshot linked in screenshot
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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There are very few scholars involved in this Research Topic (as editors, reviewers or authors) who are NOT at an institution in China.

One notable exception is "Claire Pan, Cornell University", who reviewed this paper: www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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This paper is part of a Frontiers "Research Topic" co-edited by Wenqiu Ma, Guanghui Jiang and Yanbo Qu, in which:

WM edits a paper by GJ & YQ
YQ edits a paper by WM & GJ
WM edits / YQ reviews a paper by GJ
WM, GJ, YQ were previously coauthors

www.frontiersin.org/research-top...
Responses of Land-Use Changes to Drought and its Disparate Impact on Livelihoods of Farmers and Herders in the Agro-Pastoral Ecotone of Northwestern China Bailin Zhang, R 18 Mixed Land Uses and Community Decline: Opportunities and Challenges for Mitigating Residential Vacancy in Peri-Urban Villages of China Wenqiu Ma, Guanghui Jiang, Tao Zhou and Ruijuan Zhang 60 A Spatial Patterns Identification Method of Rural Residential Land Change Integrating Dynamic and Multi-Scale Information Guanghui Jiang, Tianqian Chen, Ruijuan Zhang, Yaya Tian and Siduo Wu Geographic identification, spatial differentiation, and formation mechanism of multifunction of rural settlements: A case study of 804 typical villages in Shandong … Y Qu, G Jiang, Q Zhao, W Ma, R Zhang, Y Yang Journal of Cleaner Production, 2017•Elsevier
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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well knock me down with a feather! you're telling me this paper was published in that bastion of credibility, Frontiers in Environmental Science??

shurely shome mishtake?

www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
ORIGINAL RESEARCH article Front. Environ. Sci., 15 July 2022 Sec. Land Use Dynamics Volume 10 - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2022.956644 Resource and Environment Constraints and Promotion Strategies of Rural Vitality: An Empirical Analysis of Rural Revitalization Model Towns
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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❌ Error 1 (level: EASY)

Solid waste has mean (0.624) > max (0.525)

❌ Error 2 (level: MEDIUM)

Solid waste and fiscal revenue have SD > range/2

0.53 > (0.525-0.1)/2 = 0.2125
0.926 > (1.2-0.024)/2 = 0.588
annotated table
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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(in case you were wondering)
Dictionary Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more flummery /ˈflʌm(ə)ri/ noun 1. meaningless or insincere flattery or conventions. "she hated the flummery of public relations" 2. a sweet dish made with beaten eggs, milk, sugar, and flavourings.
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Good morning!

Today is a day ending in "y", which means I found another mathematically-impossible Table of Summary Statistics in a peer-reviewed "green economics" paper!

What can you see? 🔎

#FablesofFlummeryStatistics
Table
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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readers of @forbetterscience.bsky.social might recognize the editor on this paper...
Edited by: Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary Salesmen of Green Economy Bullshit By Alexander Magazinov In this post, we are going on an incomplete tour around a papermill ring, on top of which, seemingly, sits one Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary, an Iranian with a Japanese affiliation. Other notable actors (more-or-less, "members of the papermill executive board," as a good approximation of their status) are Muhammad Mohsin, Muhammad Umair, Lei Chang and Azer Dilanchiev, the latter calling himself "the top economist of Georgia."
November 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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and here's the paper (open-access):

www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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next up we have one coefficient that looks off by a factor of 10.

god knows how that happened. but the lesson, as ever, is ABP (Always Be Plotting)

plot your raw data. plot your summary statistics. plot your model coefficients. plot your enemy's downfall. plot your residuals.
table 5 table 5 plot
November 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM