Mine Doğucu
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minedogucu.com • teaching stats & data science by day • reading and writing stories by night • she/they/o/او • views my own • datapedagogy.com • bayesrulesbook.com • ailurophile • bibliophile • cinephile 📍 Los Angeles
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Lawyer Sues The IRS, Demanding It Recognize Pets As Legal Dependents
Lawyer Sues The IRS, Demanding It Recognize Pets As Legal Dependents
Pets run many human households, but when tax season comes, they don’t count—no matter how dependent on you they are. A lawsuit filed by Amanda Reynolds seeks to change that.
www.forbes.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Lawyer Sues The IRS, Demanding It Recognize Pets As Legal Dependents
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December 13, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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All the material for my Bayesian Data Analysis course is available online, including the lectures, which we re-recorded this fall (some of them by @aloctavodia.bsky.social and Noa Kallioinen while I was on vacation). The video links are listed in the schedule at avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A...
Bayesian Data Analysis course - Aalto 2025 – Bayesian Data Analysis course
avehtari.github.io
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
All the material for my Bayesian Data Analysis course is available online, including the lectures, which we re-recorded this fall (some of them by @aloctavodia.bsky.social and Noa Kallioinen while I was on vacation). The video links are listed in the schedule at avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A...
My college had a tradition called primal scream. The night before the final exams at 9 pm everyone went out on the streets for a very loud scream. I now realize that the faculty need this tradition too. AHHHHHHHHHHHH
December 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My college had a tradition called primal scream. The night before the final exams at 9 pm everyone went out on the streets for a very loud scream. I now realize that the faculty need this tradition too. AHHHHHHHHHHHH
One of my favorite words to talk about. In Turkish we call the bird hindi and India is called Hindistan. In Persian the bird is called būqalamūn. In Turkish bukalemun is chameleon.
November 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
One of my favorite words to talk about. In Turkish we call the bird hindi and India is called Hindistan. In Persian the bird is called būqalamūn. In Turkish bukalemun is chameleon.
I love finding random and unexpected vinyls. At the back it says “The music heard here, recorded in Anzahar, Olukman, and Tülünk villages in the province of Sivas in south-eastern Turkey...” 1972 USA release
November 24, 2025 at 3:58 AM
I love finding random and unexpected vinyls. At the back it says “The music heard here, recorded in Anzahar, Olukman, and Tülünk villages in the province of Sivas in south-eastern Turkey...” 1972 USA release
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You know how the news is weird lately. I see your nonsense and raise you this: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
2 Texas Men Plotted Coup of Haitian Island to Enslave Women and Children, U.S. Says
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:43 AM
You know how the news is weird lately. I see your nonsense and raise you this: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/u...
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Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth
Artificial intelligence may be a useful tool for learning, but don't use it for your homework, Pope Leo told about 15,000 U.S. youth during a question-and-answer session on Friday.
reut.rs
November 21, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Don't let AI do your homework, Pope Leo tells US youth reut.rs/48tKTYY
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Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
November 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reporter: Are you affirming that you think the president is a fascist?
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
Mamdani: I've spoken about --
Trump: Just say yes, it's easier than explaining.
It’s still raining in LA and now I remember the reason why there is light on top of the stove.
Since my London days, I had completely forgotten about the need to turn the lights on during the day. It has been raining nonstop for the last three days in Los Angeles and I am once again reminded about this 💡🛋️🪔
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It’s still raining in LA and now I remember the reason why there is light on top of the stove.
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📣TOMORROW @ 4PM 📣 UC Academic Student Employees and UAW-represented research and advising staff are rallying at every campus to demand a fair contract. Join us – our rights and our future are on the line.
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 AM
📣TOMORROW @ 4PM 📣 UC Academic Student Employees and UAW-represented research and advising staff are rallying at every campus to demand a fair contract. Join us – our rights and our future are on the line.
I just heard about the KYUK radio station on the Code Switch podcast. If you can, show a sign of solidarity by donating to support the first Native American radio station.
www.kyuk.org
www.kyuk.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I just heard about the KYUK radio station on the Code Switch podcast. If you can, show a sign of solidarity by donating to support the first Native American radio station.
www.kyuk.org
www.kyuk.org
I am glad that these days fewer job applications in academia require recommendation letters in the first round of reviews. It saves us, letter writers, a lot of time. It obviously saves letter readers a lot of time too. I hope it becomes the norm in the near future.
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I am glad that these days fewer job applications in academia require recommendation letters in the first round of reviews. It saves us, letter writers, a lot of time. It obviously saves letter readers a lot of time too. I hope it becomes the norm in the near future.
Since my London days, I had completely forgotten about the need to turn the lights on during the day. It has been raining nonstop for the last three days in Los Angeles and I am once again reminded about this 💡🛋️🪔
November 16, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Since my London days, I had completely forgotten about the need to turn the lights on during the day. It has been raining nonstop for the last three days in Los Angeles and I am once again reminded about this 💡🛋️🪔
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The Trump administration demanded UCLA pay $1.2 billion to restore frozen research funding and ensure eligibility for future funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus. n.pr/4hYa0pY
Judge indefinitely bars Trump from fining UC over alleged discrimination
The Trump administration demanded UCLA pay $1.2 billion to restore frozen research funding and ensure eligibility for future funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus.
n.pr
November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The Trump administration demanded UCLA pay $1.2 billion to restore frozen research funding and ensure eligibility for future funding after accusing the school of allowing antisemitism on campus. n.pr/4hYa0pY
It is a beautiful rainy day in LA.
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
It is a beautiful rainy day in LA.
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If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Today I paid for a time machine to take me to my teen years 🥹
November 9, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Today I paid for a time machine to take me to my teen years 🥹
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November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Know an early-career statistician who shows potential for great leadership and shaping the future of statistics? COPSS is accepting nominations for the Emerging Leader Award: stattrak.amstat.org/...
November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Know an early-career statistician who shows potential for great leadership and shaping the future of statistics? COPSS is accepting nominations for the Emerging Leader Award: stattrak.amstat.org/...
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
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Tbh I'm not even mad about 'On Your Marx, get set, Zo!'
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Tbh I'm not even mad about 'On Your Marx, get set, Zo!'
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@aoc.bsky.social says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody."
"We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."
"We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."
November 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
@aoc.bsky.social says of Mamdani victory: "A lot of people...are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody."
"We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."
"We have a future to fight for, and we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind."