Rob Davies
@robayedavies.bsky.social
Reads, runs, looks out for birds, teaches data analysis methods in Psychology at Lancaster University, researches individual differences in reading and language; he/him/his
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If you’re still hunting for color tools, I’m working on a more user-friendly version of meodai.github.io/poline/ keeping you huedrated
November 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
If you’re still hunting for color tools, I’m working on a more user-friendly version of meodai.github.io/poline/ keeping you huedrated
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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1) This is excellent editing advice from @anamariecox.bsky.social
2) The writing she is trying to edit ... oooof.
(Free dissertation-topic suggestion: Pitfalls of the "trying to sound like Joan Didion" approach to West Coast writing. Especially when you're not from there, so it's "exotic.")
2) The writing she is trying to edit ... oooof.
(Free dissertation-topic suggestion: Pitfalls of the "trying to sound like Joan Didion" approach to West Coast writing. Especially when you're not from there, so it's "exotic.")
Ok, however much you've thought about this Nuzzi business, I promise I've thought about it more.
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
newsletter.anamariecox.com/archive/note...
Notes on Your American Canto Draft
I read it. Everyone deserves a good editor, even people who don’t get one. Olivia, Thank you so much for this. I’m impressed with the scope of your ambition...
newsletter.anamariecox.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
1) This is excellent editing advice from @anamariecox.bsky.social
2) The writing she is trying to edit ... oooof.
(Free dissertation-topic suggestion: Pitfalls of the "trying to sound like Joan Didion" approach to West Coast writing. Especially when you're not from there, so it's "exotic.")
2) The writing she is trying to edit ... oooof.
(Free dissertation-topic suggestion: Pitfalls of the "trying to sound like Joan Didion" approach to West Coast writing. Especially when you're not from there, so it's "exotic.")
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make sure to watch to the end
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
make sure to watch to the end
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I just enhanced/updated my JavaScript for Reveal.js in Quarto to better support native PDF export mode and nested fragments inside tabset.
Check it out: mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2025-0...
(also available in my Reveal.js format extension github.com/mcanouil/qua...)
#Quarto #RevealJS #DataScience
Check it out: mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2025-0...
(also available in my Reveal.js format extension github.com/mcanouil/qua...)
#Quarto #RevealJS #DataScience
Quarto: Unleash Dynamic Tabset Navigation & Polished PDF Exports – MCU
Discover how to supercharge your Quarto presentations with interactive tabset navigation in Reveal.js and create stunning, professional PDFs. Get ready to dazzle your audience!
mickael.canouil.fr
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I just enhanced/updated my JavaScript for Reveal.js in Quarto to better support native PDF export mode and nested fragments inside tabset.
Check it out: mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2025-0...
(also available in my Reveal.js format extension github.com/mcanouil/qua...)
#Quarto #RevealJS #DataScience
Check it out: mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2025-0...
(also available in my Reveal.js format extension github.com/mcanouil/qua...)
#Quarto #RevealJS #DataScience
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I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up
There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
September 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up
There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily
slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
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November 19, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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The default prior for the intercept in both {rstanarm} and {brms} are very wide.
Counterintuitively - being on the logit scale, this is actually translates to a **strong** prior that p(y=1) is near 1 or near 0.
Always check your priors!
#rstats
Counterintuitively - being on the logit scale, this is actually translates to a **strong** prior that p(y=1) is near 1 or near 0.
Always check your priors!
#rstats
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The default prior for the intercept in both {rstanarm} and {brms} are very wide.
Counterintuitively - being on the logit scale, this is actually translates to a **strong** prior that p(y=1) is near 1 or near 0.
Always check your priors!
#rstats
Counterintuitively - being on the logit scale, this is actually translates to a **strong** prior that p(y=1) is near 1 or near 0.
Always check your priors!
#rstats
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Announcement: I am excited to be co-editing (with Li Cai) an upcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Mathematical Psychology on "Advances in Statistical Model Evaluation." Proposals due Feb 1. Details: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Please repost!
#quantpsych #mathpsych #philsci #statsky
Please repost!
#quantpsych #mathpsych #philsci #statsky
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Announcement: I am excited to be co-editing (with Li Cai) an upcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Mathematical Psychology on "Advances in Statistical Model Evaluation." Proposals due Feb 1. Details: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Please repost!
#quantpsych #mathpsych #philsci #statsky
Please repost!
#quantpsych #mathpsych #philsci #statsky
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Hello my many friends who weren't born in this country. I bloody love every one of you and I am glad you're here.
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Hello my many friends who weren't born in this country. I bloody love every one of you and I am glad you're here.
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I recently discovered Conventional Comments (conventionalcomments.org) for providing a pseudo-standard set of labels for feedback and just tried it for an article review and it was really helpful to specify issues vs. thoughts vs. suggestions, etc. Hopefully it's helpful for the authors too!
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I recently discovered Conventional Comments (conventionalcomments.org) for providing a pseudo-standard set of labels for feedback and just tried it for an article review and it was really helpful to specify issues vs. thoughts vs. suggestions, etc. Hopefully it's helpful for the authors too!
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How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs www.nature.com/articles/d41... - I'm so glad to see these studies. It never made sense to me that all dog breed diversity supposedly came from Victorian England...
How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs
Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have traded them around the world.
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs www.nature.com/articles/d41... - I'm so glad to see these studies. It never made sense to me that all dog breed diversity supposedly came from Victorian England...
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Don't do any of this.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Don't do any of this.
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Keynes talked of the ‘advanced guard’ - the fact that there will be people in the economy who demonstrate a way forward out of current traps, and the fact is they exist now - from alternative corporate forms to innovative local authorities to SME catalysts. Be interested in what’s outside!
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Keynes talked of the ‘advanced guard’ - the fact that there will be people in the economy who demonstrate a way forward out of current traps, and the fact is they exist now - from alternative corporate forms to innovative local authorities to SME catalysts. Be interested in what’s outside!
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We released a pretty cool dataset/preprint today looking at video game play, cognition, time-use and a ton of self-reported psych measures at osf.io/preprints/ps... with @nballou.bsky.social @matti.vuorre.com @thomashakman.bsky.social @rpsychologist.com and @shuhbillskee.bsky.social RRs coming soon
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We released a pretty cool dataset/preprint today looking at video game play, cognition, time-use and a ton of self-reported psych measures at osf.io/preprints/ps... with @nballou.bsky.social @matti.vuorre.com @thomashakman.bsky.social @rpsychologist.com and @shuhbillskee.bsky.social RRs coming soon
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Ate at a Thai/Jewish fusion food truck named L'Thaim and it was fantastic. Curry latkes.
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Ate at a Thai/Jewish fusion food truck named L'Thaim and it was fantastic. Curry latkes.
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This is an Eastern Cape giant cycad. This specimen at Kew Gardens is the world's oldest potted plant* & it is older than the United States.
I found this oddly comforting? Certain systems seem deeply entrenched & unchangeable but in reality there are houseplants that have been around longer.🧪🌿
I found this oddly comforting? Certain systems seem deeply entrenched & unchangeable but in reality there are houseplants that have been around longer.🧪🌿
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is an Eastern Cape giant cycad. This specimen at Kew Gardens is the world's oldest potted plant* & it is older than the United States.
I found this oddly comforting? Certain systems seem deeply entrenched & unchangeable but in reality there are houseplants that have been around longer.🧪🌿
I found this oddly comforting? Certain systems seem deeply entrenched & unchangeable but in reality there are houseplants that have been around longer.🧪🌿
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This is Carl. He was just woken up from a nap. Hopes for your sake the house is on fire. 12/10 (IG: grumpus.steve.carl)
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is Carl. He was just woken up from a nap. Hopes for your sake the house is on fire. 12/10 (IG: grumpus.steve.carl)
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Women at NASA, starting with one of my favorite #WomenInSTEM photos
🧵
🧵
Valerie Thomas (1943) is an African American badass scientist.
She invented the illusion transmitter in 1980.
She helped develop the digital media formats that image processing systems used in NASA's Landsat program.
Her [very cool!] NASA photo next to a stack of computer tapes, 1979.
#WomenInSTEM 🧪
She invented the illusion transmitter in 1980.
She helped develop the digital media formats that image processing systems used in NASA's Landsat program.
Her [very cool!] NASA photo next to a stack of computer tapes, 1979.
#WomenInSTEM 🧪
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Women at NASA, starting with one of my favorite #WomenInSTEM photos
🧵
🧵
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Behavioral data can be very detailed but are usually aggregated and normalized in ways that smother the dynamics. Ben wrote a continuous-time Markov model to improve on this, and also wrote simulations for exploring and validating pipelines. All the code is here: github.com/BenKawam/ASN...
New paper!
We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
We propose a framework to empirically study animal social relationships by modelling social network (SN) data as time-series—that is, without the need to aggregate them over time.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 12, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Behavioral data can be very detailed but are usually aggregated and normalized in ways that smother the dynamics. Ben wrote a continuous-time Markov model to improve on this, and also wrote simulations for exploring and validating pipelines. All the code is here: github.com/BenKawam/ASN...
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Can someone please turn this into a series of novels set in the Song dynasty which then becomes a longrunning television series starring eg Benedict Wong?
I can help with the format proposal but could only be co-writer at best, because it needs someone with much more China expertise than me.
I can help with the format proposal but could only be co-writer at best, because it needs someone with much more China expertise than me.
things I have discovered while researching the new series of Human Intelligence: the first ever textbook on forensic science was written in the year 1247 by a crime investigator in Song dynasty China.
It is called Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collect...
It is called Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collect...
Collected Cases of Injustice Rectified - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Can someone please turn this into a series of novels set in the Song dynasty which then becomes a longrunning television series starring eg Benedict Wong?
I can help with the format proposal but could only be co-writer at best, because it needs someone with much more China expertise than me.
I can help with the format proposal but could only be co-writer at best, because it needs someone with much more China expertise than me.
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wow
November 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
wow
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🧪 For hundreds of thousand of years over the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary, through climate change and hominid evolution itself, a technology/method for making stone tools remained the same.
A level of technological stability almost too alien for us to understand.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/1…
A level of technological stability almost too alien for us to understand.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/1…
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
🧪 For hundreds of thousand of years over the Pliocene-Pleistocene boundary, through climate change and hominid evolution itself, a technology/method for making stone tools remained the same.
A level of technological stability almost too alien for us to understand.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/1…
A level of technological stability almost too alien for us to understand.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/1…
Was thinking about a problem and a how to guide that @andrew.heiss.phd wrote (comparing populations and samples). Instead of doing a clever search through his bsky posts, just scrolled through his feed and rediscovered a bunch of other cool stuff. I appreciate them, thanks @andrew.heiss.phd!
November 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Was thinking about a problem and a how to guide that @andrew.heiss.phd wrote (comparing populations and samples). Instead of doing a clever search through his bsky posts, just scrolled through his feed and rediscovered a bunch of other cool stuff. I appreciate them, thanks @andrew.heiss.phd!
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Trying out the {marquee} #rstats package for markdown-based formatting of ggplot elements and it's super neat marquee.r-lib.org
(code for plot here github.com/andrewheiss/...)
(code for plot here github.com/andrewheiss/...)
October 14, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Trying out the {marquee} #rstats package for markdown-based formatting of ggplot elements and it's super neat marquee.r-lib.org
(code for plot here github.com/andrewheiss/...)
(code for plot here github.com/andrewheiss/...)