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UK Government wants to remove the right to jury trials. Constitutionally terrible, etc, but
During my jury service, I only saw the inside of the waiting room, not the court room. Every case I was assigned to had the defendant plead guilty just before the case was about to start.
I can't tell if this is part of a defence strategy, or just a side-effect of scheduling, where the trail date is when the defence and client are actually in the same place.
I'd fix that fir…

David Lammy considers scrapping jury trials for all but the most serious cases
Senior lawyers criticise justice secretary’s radical plan for England and Wales, saying it could ‘destroy justice as we know it’

Estimating the average treatment effect in cluster-randomized trials with misclassified outcomes and non-random validation subsets
Dane Isenberg, Nandita Mitra, Steven C. Marcus, Rinad S. Beidas, Kristin A. Linn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18137

Estimating the average treatment effect in cluster-randomized trials with misclassified outcomes and non-random validation subsets
Randomized trials are viewed as the benchmark for assessing causal effects of treatments on outcomes of interest. Nonetheless, challenges such as measurement error can undermine the standard causal assumptions for randomized trials. In ASPIRE, a cluster-randomized trial, pediatric primary care clinics were assigned to one of two treatments aimed at promoting clinician delivery of a secure firearm program to parents during well-child visits. A key outcome of interest is thus parent receipt of th…

The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year,
affecting some 74,000 participants
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/halted-nih-clinical-trials-li…

Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health
The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some 74,000 participants

"Gravitational energy storage trials set for decommissioned mine in Australia"
#Australia #Energy

Gravitational energy storage trials set for decommissioned mine in Australia
Australian energy storage company Green Gravity and mining business Wollongong Resources have signed an agreement to deploy gravitational energy storage trials at a decommissioned coal mine.

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The Earlies:
🎵 A Light in Darkness (Pt 1)
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Endless Trails Podcast
Every ultra-runner has a first step, and usually it's not pretty...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/endless-trails/

The Detection of Teraelectronvolt Radiation from a Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar
Vaidehi S. Paliya, Markus Bottcher, Kiran Wani, P. N. Naseef Mohammed, C. S. Stalin, S. Sahayanathan, D. J. Saikia, S. Muneer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17659

The Detection of Teraelectronvolt Radiation from a Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar
The very high-energy (VHE; $>$100 GeV) radiation carries the signatures of the matter-energy interaction in some of the most extreme astrophysical environments. Considering broad emission line blazars, i.e., flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), the dense photon fields surrounding the relativistic jet can prohibit the particle population from accelerating to very high energies and producing VHE radiation. They can also possibly make the environment opaque for the VHE $γ$ rays due to $γγ$ pair…

Delta signs a multiyear deal with YouTube to bring a selection of the platform's content to its inflight entertainment systems, starting September 25 (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Delta, YouTube Ink Inflight Entertainment Partnership (Exclusive)
Content from top YouTube creators and podcasts will be added to Delta's inflight entertainment system, with free trials of YouTube Premium and a YouTube Music boarding playlist also on tap.

Robust Estimation of Moderated Causal Excursion Odds Ratio in Micro-Randomized Trials
Jiaxin Yu, Tianchen Qian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20555 https://arx…

Robust Estimation of Moderated Causal Excursion Odds Ratio in Micro-Randomized Trials
Micro-randomized trials (MRTs) have become increasingly popular for developing and evaluating mobile health interventions that promote healthy behaviors and manage chronic conditions. The recently proposed causal excursion effects have become the standard measure for interventions' marginal and moderated effect in MRTs. Existing methods for MRTs with binary outcomes focus on causal excursion effects on the relative risk scale. However, a causal excursion effect on the odds ratio scale is attrac…

Sickle cell disease, sleep disorders and lung cancer:
these are just a few of the medical issues that were under investigation in
at least 383 clinical trials that have had research grants terminated by the National Institutes of Health since February.
That’s about 1 in 30 of all the clinical trials
—tests of medical interventions in human volunteers
—funded by the federal agency,
which has a
$48-billion research budget,
according to a JAMA Inte…

Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health
The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some 74,000 participants