You may recall Jacob Rees-Mogg’s unutterably stupid poll on whether or not to revert to the imperial measurement system with its very carefully scripted choices that offered “imperial only” and “imperial with metric” but forced you to go down the “other (write in)” option to say “metric only.”

HMG have used the Christmas break to slip out the conclusion of the poll. Jump to paragraph 18 to get the numbers. 81% were happy with the status quo and 17% wanted metric-only.

In the grand scheme of things, compared to the PPE Preferential Access scandal for example, this was only a small waste of money but, even so, it pisses me off.

gov.uk/government/consultation

The Journal of Archaeological Science has just introduced a 'a Reproducibility Prize for papers that share in a transparent, clear and detailed manner their data, protocols and/or code', and announced the first winners. Congratulations Andrew McLean and @xrubio!

What a fantastic initiative to recognise the huge effort that researchers put into their work to make it open. I hope other journals will similarly encourage this commitment to reproducibility.

sciencedirect.com/journal/jour

fmesher 0.1.4 and inlabru 2.10.0 in source package form are now on CRAN (probably the fastest acceptance ever!); their binary builds for Mac and Windows usually take a few days.
For fmesher, mostly invisible C++ upgrades, but for inlabru a mix of bug fixes and minor feature updates. See news at inlabru-org.github.io/fmesher/ and inlabru-org.github.io/inlabru/
Also a new example of zero-inflated spatial count models thanks to @dmi3kno at inlabru-org.github.io/inlabru/ #rspatial

I don't think I've ever shared this here...a clean timeline requires discipline:

Unfortunately I'm needed to pick up a sick toddler from nursey and so can only guess at what is being discussed in the project meeting happening right now. However, I am fairly sure @BobOHara has been replaced by a robot:

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