Jennifer Lang 🐧

@anne_theriault Ronda, Cadiz, Seville, Granada, in that area, all amazing. And medieval history in that part of Spain is also Muslim history which is fascinating. And top medieval Christian story is El Cid, look for the way of El Cid, if you want a theme.

@ALeighMP @ACTPedalPower @stephenhodgeaus @AusCycling @AusTriathlon @helenhainesindi @WeRideAustralia Glad you support bike riding, but $100m in active transport funding across the whole of Australia is a drop in the ocean compared with how much is spent on roads. Take a look at so many European cities (Paris, Toulouse, Valencia) to see what a difference real funding can make.

"Pedals of Possibility": my article in the latest Canberra Cyclist magazine andrewleigh.com/pedals_of_poss… #auspolcycling #auspol

@Skyelark0 Hah got it but only because I’m old (regional vic train and nsw coach in my student days)

NO FUCKING BINGO

@sharonodea I used to live there! But I used to say that I lived in Paddington or Hyde Park, depending on what class status I was trying to project.

Lancaster Gate. Adding a minute to the journey between Queensway and Marble Arch despite no one getting on or off the tube there.

London no-go zones: a definitive guide Finchley. You've seen it there on the map, just north of Hampstead. But have you ever been there? Do you know anyone who lives there? No you do not.

@AdeleGroyer @lrossouw This is so sad, and thanks so much for letting us know @lrossouw. I never met Adele, but her calm good sense and rigorous analysis was an inspiration to me and many other actuaries trying to understand Covid 19 throughout.

It is with sadness that I, @lrossouw, have to let you know that Adele passed away from cancer late on Friday. I've known Adele for many years since she was working in Cape Town, to when she moved to Gen Re in London in 2008 and later when she joined my team at Gen Re.

@devisridhar When a major bike organisation surveyed its members, the two most important things were car driver behaviour and better infrastructure (eg separate bike lanes) bicyclenetwork.com.au/newsroom/2023/…

Working on a talk about cycling & public health. Cyclists out there -> what do you see as the major gaps in making cycling feel safe & accessible to you? That are fixable by councils & govt? (ie not cold and dark weather bc that's just life in Scotland)

@KetanJ0 Yes please

If you are in need of a code please reply here and I'll pass it on - I have no more to hand out but many others do

If you're already on Bluesky but you're letting your account kind of just sit there / not logging in, we're up to 300 climate and energy showcase accounts on the list I'm curating, and there is already a very lively network forming quickly. + our site owner isn't a racist bigot

@BrentToderian @sharanjit They also have a LOT of wind. I've heard windy days referred to as Dutch hills. And if you've ever tried riding into a serious headwind, sometimes a hill is easier.

Tweets about urban biking in #Dutch cities are routinely replied to with some version of “well, they have the big advantage of being relatively flat.” The Dutch also have the big advantage of not constantly making excuses about why they can’t make clearly smarter decisions.

How is it possible to spend $70million on a project to track the spending of fewer than 1,000 people and still not have it work? That’s several multiples of the cost of a general ledger for a large company!

Hey @KensingtonRoyal, you’ve been proudly supporting England all tournament. Not a word for Australia. Not that we expect it. We prefer the honesty. Without the patronising pat on the head in defeat. Support @lionesses & let us get on with our business, mate. @AusRepublic

@ProfPCDoherty The Actuaries Institute has done a report on the experience for 2020-2022 which you might find interesting. Also compares us to the rest of the world. actuaries.asn.au/Library/Opinio…

@EmmaVitz Mind you there is probably more, just hit the word limit!

@EmmaVitz Just copying bits of mine: Emma is an advocate for the insights actuaries can add to many important issues. She is a member of the AI's WG on Climate Change, key author of the climate index, and in her spare time she writes actuarially about a wide variety of issues.

Trying to write a bio but the examples I've been given are of 3 very accomplished people who started working before I was born and I'm feeling like I have nothing to say 🫠

@Jean__Fisch @AdeleGroyer @KarenCutter4 Australia also had basically no flu in the 2020 winter, so looking at the actual deaths here (the blue dots) there does seem to still be some seasonal pattern, but not nearly as much as in a bad flu season (if you want to compare, 2017 was the worst flu season of all those shown)

@AdeleGroyer @KarenCutter4 @Actuarialeye Ah, I see now what you wanted to show! Indeed, I had noted this in many countries: lower winter bugs = lower circulatory but then I always got a reply "yes in part but there is some circulatory which is seasonal beyond winter bugs" And the NZ data seems to say "that's not true"

This chart shared by @UncleJo46902375 is the one that intrigued me most recently Why? Because NZ experienced no winter bugs / covid in 2020 and there is no spike of deaths in the winter In other words: all the increased deaths for circulatory in the winter are de facto flu 1/4

The COVID-19 Mortality Working Group of the Actuaries Institute has a new blog out, covering excess mortality to the end of March 2023. TLDR: 6% excess in 2023Q1 actuaries.digital/2023/07/06/exc…

@brent_peabody The Gold Coast is not a left wing part of Australia though. All the federal seats are LNP, so I don’t think you can rely on the politics staying the same with taller buildings just because it is coastal.

Congratulations @juliette_io on your OAM today, you made a big difference to so many people with your Covid stats, well done.

Congratulations @migga on your OAM today, Yu made a big difference to so many people with your COVID stats. Well deserved.

I had this experience in reverse. « You can use the N95 mask you bought for the bushfires in Black summer 19/20 for the pandemic »

It's Public Education Day, and I'm #ProudToBePublic, having gone to public schools for my whole education. This is me in Year 6, the year I had Mr Duncan, the best teacher ever, who taught me to write well, even though I just wanted to do maths!