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chelseaparlett.bsky.social
You know that thing Coco Chanel said about accessories?

“Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and take one thing off”

We should all do that but with about 50% of the text we put in slide decks.

TAKE. IT. OUT.
December 3, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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tslumley.bsky.social
In which horses are more common than zebras and this isn't a reason to oversample
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Horses or Zebras? - Biased and Inefficient
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December 1, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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sesmith.lol
Hey @erinbiba.bsky.social I hope this finds you
November 29, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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How much of “Mississippi’s education miracle” is an artifact of selection bias?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/01/h...
How much of “Mississippi’s education miracle” is an artifact of selection bias? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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samuelmoore.org
Interesting investigation into a dodgy Elsevier journal -- with the additional nugget that the CEO of Elsevier's parent company made more than €15 million in total compensation last year.

english.elpais.com/science-tech...
The fall of a prolific science journal exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing
One of the 15 publications that put out the most studies globally has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin that reached $1.5 bill...
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November 28, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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phdemetri.bsky.social
I believe eigen fly. I believe eigen touch the sky.
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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The value of close reading: Larry Summers edition
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The value of close reading: Larry Summers edition | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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November 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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pwgtennant.bsky.social
Find someone that looks at you the way that universities look at AI
November 22, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Who wants no kid vax law?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/11/21/w...
Who wants no kid vax law? | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
November 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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tellarpao.bsky.social
Have a great weekend discovering causality, #stats!
October 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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ncrenic.bsky.social
Methodology
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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usrbinr.bsky.social
For this reason and others, switch to Linux! For most of your personal computing needs it will not be a significant change.
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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solomonkurz.bsky.social
This is another example of why I think default priors are generally inappropriate for professional work. They're still great for teaching, though.
mattansb.msbstats.info Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 17d
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
November 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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zebrakater.bsky.social
Franz Marc: Blaues Pferd.

Galerie Lenbachhaus München.

#SchönesgegenDoofes
Gemälde. Ein blaues Pferd vor buntem Hintergrund
November 8, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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dietmar.bsky.social
#GutenMorgen.
Egal, was Ernährungsexperten sagen: So lange Kaffee aus Bohnen gemacht wird, ist es für mich Gemüse und damit gesund. 😉 Einen guten Start in den Donnerstag wünsche ich euch. ☕️🍀
(Aus dem Archiv: Beilstein an der Mosel)
Blick auf eine historische Häuser Zeile unterhalb eines Weinberges. Auf dem Berg finden sich alte Burgreste.
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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aepplesche.bsky.social
na sowas... 🥴
Das Bild zeigt eine Szene auf einem Boot mit einem auffälligen Farbschema in Rot, Weiß und Blau. Auf der Oberfläche des Bootes liegt ein aufgerolltes Seil, das typisch für maritime Ausrüstung ist. Besonders ins Auge fällt ein Schild, das an der Seite des Bootes angebracht ist. Darauf steht in deutscher Sprache: „Auf dieser Barkasse ist keine Kartenzahlung möglich!“
September 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Planetary Rings

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Comic. Two-column table. Column A lists planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Column B has checkmark boxes for whether the planets have rings: the outer planets’ boxes are checked, and Earth has a red check. [Earth with a ring with an array pf points around it. An arrow labeled “Geostationary Satellite Bel”t points to the ring.] [caption] Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn’t have rings, but we have one now! It’s where all the satellite dishes are pointed.
October 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
8000 years of world history in one glance.
Timelines of different continents. Graphic by Josh Barzon
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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wafflecut.bsky.social
Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD ***************** Investigation of: LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN ON JUNE 18, 2023 * * * * * * Accident No.: *********** * * * * * * Interview of: Co-designer/Pilot Deepsea Challenger DCA23FM036 via Microsoft Teams Friday, July 26, 2024 INTERVIEW OF 10 BY LCDR 11 Q. So how did you get yourself started into submersible 12 operations? 13 A. Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic. When I 14 set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did 15 was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible 16 program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named 17| Professor I. I did that through a mutual friend 18 of ours, a guy named , who is one of the preeminent underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a 20 submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the 21 Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was 22 doing an IMAX film which was released under the title Titanica.
October 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
This is something people who are chatbot-curious should be doing by default: ask it about something you *do know about*, not something you *don't know about*.
robert24039377.bsky.social Rob of Melbourne @robert24039377.bsky.social · Oct 17
As an experiment, I asked ChatGPT to give me a walking route in my neighbourhood and to describe the scenery. I've also asked it to describe plot features of movies I've seen. It spews out bullshit.
October 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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weratedags.com
We couldn't not rate this classic early DAG by our beloved collective granddagy, Sewall Wright.

14/10. Ten for the DAG, plus one for each cute guinea-pig node.

From Wright (1920) "The Relative Importance of Heredity and Environment in Determining the Piebald Pattern of Guinea-Pigs"
Why are guinea-pigs the colours they are? Sewall's got a DAG for that.
October 17, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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astrodicticum.bsky.social
Ich hab ein neues Buch geschrieben. Es heißt "Die Farben des Universums", ist voll mit bunter Wissenschaft und erscheint im Februar 2026. Man kann es aber schon vorbestellen: www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/buch/florian...
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Die Farben des Universums
Welche Farbe hat das Universum? Wer an das All denkt, stellt sich unendliche schwarze Weiten vor. Tatsächlich ist der Weltraum ein unvorstellbar
www.hanser-literaturverlage.de
October 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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artede.bsky.social
Wie viel versteht ihr von #Quantenmechanik? Nachdem ihr unsere Doku gesehen habt, sicher mehr als davor 🤓
Quantenmechanik - Die Entschlüsselung der Welt - Die ganze Doku | ARTE
Quantenphysik zählt zu den wichtigsten wissenschaftlichen Gebieten der letzten 100 Jahre. Die Dokumentation blickt auf die unsichtbaren Gesetze hinter Schwarzen Löchern, Atomuhren, Lasern und Quantenc...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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elderman.bsky.social
This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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gmcd.bsky.social
`tinyplot` 0.5.0 is now available from CRAN & R-universe. Alongside bug fixes & internal improvements, this release includes some cool new features like bubble chart + dual legend support, element dodging, & ephemeral themes.

Detailed changelog: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/NEW...

#rstats #dataviz
tinyplot bubble chart example with dual legend, using penguins data. Taken from https://grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vignettes/gallery.html
September 23, 2025 at 2:41 AM