Gianluca Boo
@gianlucaboo.bsky.social
The spooky one. Em dash fan. Reposts only.
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Effective Business leaders: "It takes several months for new employees to become fully productive members of the team..."
Universities: EXCITING 6 MONTH POSITION REPLACING THE LAST PERSON WHO WAS HERE 6 MONTHS.
Universities: EXCITING 6 MONTH POSITION REPLACING THE LAST PERSON WHO WAS HERE 6 MONTHS.
October 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Effective Business leaders: "It takes several months for new employees to become fully productive members of the team..."
Universities: EXCITING 6 MONTH POSITION REPLACING THE LAST PERSON WHO WAS HERE 6 MONTHS.
Universities: EXCITING 6 MONTH POSITION REPLACING THE LAST PERSON WHO WAS HERE 6 MONTHS.
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📹 #ICYMI Dr Emilia Ziosi spoke with @france24.com after US forces struck a 3rd vessel allegedly trafficking drugs.
Emilia's research explores the flow of illicit drugs in Central America.
Watch now 👇 www.france24.com/en/video/202...
Emilia's research explores the flow of illicit drugs in Central America.
Watch now 👇 www.france24.com/en/video/202...
US forces strike third alleged drug vessel killing three, Trump says
www.france24.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
📹 #ICYMI Dr Emilia Ziosi spoke with @france24.com after US forces struck a 3rd vessel allegedly trafficking drugs.
Emilia's research explores the flow of illicit drugs in Central America.
Watch now 👇 www.france24.com/en/video/202...
Emilia's research explores the flow of illicit drugs in Central America.
Watch now 👇 www.france24.com/en/video/202...
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If you think AI is cool, wait until you learn about regression analysis
August 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
If you think AI is cool, wait until you learn about regression analysis
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And here is a short blog about the paper, written for teens (but anyone can read it!): www.adolescentsociality.com/post/researc...
Research: Is teenage angst universal? Comparing England and Japan
We are happy to announce that our research based on the "In My Life" photography project in England and Japan has just been published in the Journal of Adolescent Research.Below, lead author Dr Emily ...
www.adolescentsociality.com
August 8, 2025 at 11:20 AM
And here is a short blog about the paper, written for teens (but anyone can read it!): www.adolescentsociality.com/post/researc...
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Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape…
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
June 23, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape…
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
(VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)
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📢 Announcing the first-ever @geodatascience.bsky.social Summer School!🌍📊
Boost your skills in Data Science, Geography, ML/AI with our dream team: Elisabetta, @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, Gabriele, Mark, Zi, Olga & Ron
🗓️Apply now! Early Bird: June 30.
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Boost your skills in Data Science, Geography, ML/AI with our dream team: Elisabetta, @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, Gabriele, Mark, Zi, Olga & Ron
🗓️Apply now! Early Bird: June 30.
🔗 lnkd.in/eW976945
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June 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
📢 Announcing the first-ever @geodatascience.bsky.social Summer School!🌍📊
Boost your skills in Data Science, Geography, ML/AI with our dream team: Elisabetta, @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, Gabriele, Mark, Zi, Olga & Ron
🗓️Apply now! Early Bird: June 30.
🔗 lnkd.in/eW976945
Boost your skills in Data Science, Geography, ML/AI with our dream team: Elisabetta, @carmen-cabrera.bsky.social, @darribas.bsky.social, Gabriele, Mark, Zi, Olga & Ron
🗓️Apply now! Early Bird: June 30.
🔗 lnkd.in/eW976945
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We want to thank Posit for their support! With Posit’s help, we were able to grow our team by one full time engineer, committed to make the Typst compiler even better ❤️
At Posit, we love @typst.app:
⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes
✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies
✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!)
🧠 Clear mental model
So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a...
#rstats
⚡ Make PDFs in milliseconds, not minutes
✨ The power of LaTeX with today's technologies
✍️ Modern typography (including emojis!)
🧠 Clear mental model
So I'm thrilled to announce that we're now supporting its development: posit.co/blog/posit-a...
#rstats
Posit
We’re happy to announce that we’re supporting Typst by funding one of their full-time engineers.
posit.co
June 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
We want to thank Posit for their support! With Posit’s help, we were able to grow our team by one full time engineer, committed to make the Typst compiler even better ❤️
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Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has
One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.
One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.
Men are extremely keen to explain to me that Britain *needs* a domestic steel production plant and doesn't necessarily *need* universities. Okay. Steel contributed about £1.7bn to the UK economy in 2024. Universities contributed more than £200bn.
May 29, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has
One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.
One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.
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As scientists it is difficult to stay in love with the questions once you fall in love with the answers
May 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
As scientists it is difficult to stay in love with the questions once you fall in love with the answers
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posteriordb is a database with models, data, and reference posteriors, making it easier to test and compare inference. v1.0.0 recently released discourse.mc-stan.org/t/posteriord.... Jakob Torgander presents proceedings.mlr.press/v258/magnuss... May 5 in AISTATS Oral sess. 5 and in Poster sess. 3
Posteriordb v 1.0.0 released
Hi everyone, Good news on posteriordb! We (@Bob_Carpenter , @paul.buerkner , @avehtari @Lu.Zhang and @Jakob_Torgander and me) have now published a paper on posteriordb at AISTATs. The paper can be f...
discourse.mc-stan.org
May 4, 2025 at 5:29 PM
posteriordb is a database with models, data, and reference posteriors, making it easier to test and compare inference. v1.0.0 recently released discourse.mc-stan.org/t/posteriord.... Jakob Torgander presents proceedings.mlr.press/v258/magnuss... May 5 in AISTATS Oral sess. 5 and in Poster sess. 3
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A classic article. Everybody in science should read it.
In today's episode of the Night Science Podcast we talk with Martin Schwartz from Yale about the importance of stupidity in science: while learning science makes you feel smart, true scientific discovery often involves feeling stupid, because it means venturing into the unknown.
April 22, 2025 at 3:02 AM
A classic article. Everybody in science should read it.
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Our colleague Carolina Coimbra Vieira is part of the organization committee of the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science in Saarbrücken.
📅 Sept 8 - 19, 2025
🗺️ Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing (I2SC)
Application Deadline: April 25, 2025
sicss.io/2025/saarbru...
📅 Sept 8 - 19, 2025
🗺️ Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing (I2SC)
Application Deadline: April 25, 2025
sicss.io/2025/saarbru...
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
sicss.io
March 20, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Our colleague Carolina Coimbra Vieira is part of the organization committee of the Summer Institute in Computational Social Science in Saarbrücken.
📅 Sept 8 - 19, 2025
🗺️ Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing (I2SC)
Application Deadline: April 25, 2025
sicss.io/2025/saarbru...
📅 Sept 8 - 19, 2025
🗺️ Interdisciplinary Institute for Societal Computing (I2SC)
Application Deadline: April 25, 2025
sicss.io/2025/saarbru...
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“We are losing sight of the academic mission: to think, to enquire, to design and perform new research, to innovate, to teach and communicate our findings for the purpose of societal improvement”
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
academic.oup.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:52 AM
“We are losing sight of the academic mission: to think, to enquire, to design and perform new research, to innovate, to teach and communicate our findings for the purpose of societal improvement”
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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Last month, I finally dove into building my Quarto website 🎉
It was easy peasy thanks to @cwick.co.nz, @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social, and @minecr.bsky.social with their video series (quarto.org/docs/blog/po...)! I highly recommend it!
I can now share various bits and bobs 📚
#quarto #Rstats
It was easy peasy thanks to @cwick.co.nz, @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social, and @minecr.bsky.social with their video series (quarto.org/docs/blog/po...)! I highly recommend it!
I can now share various bits and bobs 📚
#quarto #Rstats
January 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Last month, I finally dove into building my Quarto website 🎉
It was easy peasy thanks to @cwick.co.nz, @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social, and @minecr.bsky.social with their video series (quarto.org/docs/blog/po...)! I highly recommend it!
I can now share various bits and bobs 📚
#quarto #Rstats
It was easy peasy thanks to @cwick.co.nz, @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social, and @minecr.bsky.social with their video series (quarto.org/docs/blog/po...)! I highly recommend it!
I can now share various bits and bobs 📚
#quarto #Rstats
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I was just talking to an experienced probabilistic modeler who said: "After working with a few probabilistic programming languages, Stan is my fave: everything is typed and everything just works." It's a pain to get things in and out of Stan, but it's usually worth it.
January 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I was just talking to an experienced probabilistic modeler who said: "After working with a few probabilistic programming languages, Stan is my fave: everything is typed and everything just works." It's a pain to get things in and out of Stan, but it's usually worth it.
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Really nice video on hierarchical models (mixed effects models). Really focussing on what they are trying to do and why. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUx5...
Statistical Gold Nuggets (Hierarchical Models)
YouTube video by Very Normal
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January 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Really nice video on hierarchical models (mixed effects models). Really focussing on what they are trying to do and why. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUx5...
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Missing data day! From meta-analysis to "I lost my data sheet! HELP!" So, time for a quality #statsmeme
November 7, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Missing data day! From meta-analysis to "I lost my data sheet! HELP!" So, time for a quality #statsmeme
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Two things in this category I see:
- thinking "+ (1 | group)" means "adding random effects"
- using model selection to pick random effects structure for an experiment, when the experimental design determines the correct random effects structure
- thinking "+ (1 | group)" means "adding random effects"
- using model selection to pick random effects structure for an experiment, when the experimental design determines the correct random effects structure
December 24, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Two things in this category I see:
- thinking "+ (1 | group)" means "adding random effects"
- using model selection to pick random effects structure for an experiment, when the experimental design determines the correct random effects structure
- thinking "+ (1 | group)" means "adding random effects"
- using model selection to pick random effects structure for an experiment, when the experimental design determines the correct random effects structure
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That’s a nice mnemonic. FWIW, I really like the base R pipe (even with the extra parens in the lambda function) since it’s explicit. @ivelasq3.bsky.social post really helped: ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/underst...
Understanding the native R pipe |> – %>% dreams
Or, why mtcars |> plot(hp, mpg) doesn’t work and what you can do about it.
ivelasq.rbind.io
December 17, 2024 at 9:23 PM
That’s a nice mnemonic. FWIW, I really like the base R pipe (even with the extra parens in the lambda function) since it’s explicit. @ivelasq3.bsky.social post really helped: ivelasq.rbind.io/blog/underst...
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Day 2 of porting my favorite RStudio addons to Positron. Introducing Formalist, an extension that allows you to make R function calls explicit, i.e., from select(mtcars, cyl) → dplyr::select(mtcars, cyl). It uses {pedant} #rstats 📦 by @wurli in the background!
December 17, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Day 2 of porting my favorite RStudio addons to Positron. Introducing Formalist, an extension that allows you to make R function calls explicit, i.e., from select(mtcars, cyl) → dplyr::select(mtcars, cyl). It uses {pedant} #rstats 📦 by @wurli in the background!
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Huge thanks to everyone who’s chipped in to make LBD interventions happen this year. We’re 100% funded by small donations & refuse big donors to protect us from becoming reliant on any individual source. Wanna help? Link in bio👆
December 14, 2024 at 8:04 AM
Huge thanks to everyone who’s chipped in to make LBD interventions happen this year. We’re 100% funded by small donations & refuse big donors to protect us from becoming reliant on any individual source. Wanna help? Link in bio👆
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I think first Tukey's EDA for inspiration, then *software* for actually doing #dataviz, like Cleveland, _Elements of Graphing Data_
My paper, nightingaledvs.com/remembrances... recounts some of this
My paper, nightingaledvs.com/remembrances... recounts some of this
December 6, 2024 at 1:42 AM
I think first Tukey's EDA for inspiration, then *software* for actually doing #dataviz, like Cleveland, _Elements of Graphing Data_
My paper, nightingaledvs.com/remembrances... recounts some of this
My paper, nightingaledvs.com/remembrances... recounts some of this