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Thomas Lumley
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Biostatistician. Baritone. He/Him.

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"Oh come on! That was not six months" -- Persephone, seeing Christmas decorations
Waxed cheddar cheese in the shape of a stylised Christmas tree.
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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#rstats
Vectorisation is urbanism
Zohran sign generator: Avoid for loops
November 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Animals
Close-up of dog showing half of nose and one ear Seal-point Siamese nestled in weeds "Governor Grey", the cat of Old Government House, Auckland, on tarmac Kangaroo on wooden deck, low scrub, sea
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Hairbrush lily and extradimensional tentacle monsters
Flower with red spikes off one side of a stem, like a hairbrush. Green leafy background Clumps of green, roughly cylindrical fuzzy spikes emerging from gravel
November 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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It turns out there's an instagram for the late Leslie van der Sluys, an Australian artist known for linocuts of birds with plants
www.instagram.com/leslie_van_d...
#bloomscrolling
October 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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NHANES, too?
Screenshot from the National Library of Medicine. Search term is "NHANES". There are 82,622 results
October 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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October 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Oh look. X is strongly correlated with rank(X)
#AxesOfEvil
October 11, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Also too, research impact statements
From Matt Levine: I used to be a corporate equity derivatives investment banker, and I once watched with uncomfortable awe as my boss explained that a derivatives deal we did for a biotech company lowered its cost of capital and thus allowed it to develop a promising cancer treatment, so if you really thought about it we were basically curing cancer. Did I believe that? Did he believe that? I mean. Perhaps his grandparents did.
October 7, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Oak trees leafing out in Albert Park mean that it's now 15 years since I moved to Auckland and I've spent more time here than I did in Seattle
Large tree with Very Green new leaves in front of huge tree with shiny leaves in dull green. City in background, partly cloudy sky
September 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Spiky alien flower season
#spring
#bloomscrolling
A tree with long serrated-edge leaves and with flowers made of a clump of narrow dark red tubes with flared gold tips. Much Chihuly, wow
September 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Αθηνά του Νάσβιλ
(Now with alt text)
A very large statue of a woman filling in a boxy Greek indoor space. Her dress is gold, her crown is gold, her shield and spear are gold. You get the idea. Standing on her outstretched hand is a statue of Niké, the winged goddess of Victory, about human-sized. She big.
September 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Here's a US one that addresses the increase in the fraction of the population that has paid emoyment: labour compensation as a share of GDP. It's down, but not nearly as much.
Share of labour compensation in GDP. Line decreasing from 0.63ish to 0.59ish over about 75 years, with lots of variation
September 27, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Partial eclipse from Auckland
September 21, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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Kōwhai in Cornwall Park
#bloomscrolling
A clump of golden-yellow flowers hanging from a tree branch: tubular, made from multiple long petals A treefull of golden-yellow tubular flowers. Bare trees in the background. Indistinct probably daffodils
September 20, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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No prizes for guessing who wins this one
Court case titled "Noland vs Land" from the California
September 20, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Causing tomorrow's problems with numbers today?
Huge poster "Solving tomorrow's problems with numbers today" and a chalkboard with a woman writing Detail from the right-hand edge of the chalkboard: sin+10=(-3
September 17, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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"In cookware pits"
#CrashBlossom #linguistics
California bill to ban "forever chemicals" in cookware pits celebrity chefs against environmental advoca..
September 13, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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NZ immigration since we've had censuses. Proportion of immigrants was at a minimum about 80 years ago, well before most of us (and nearly everyone in Parliament was born). It's been heading back up since then
September 8, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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It's got to be older than the one about an exam you didn't study for, but is it older than the one about your teeth?
Headline: The oldest dream of humanity has come true in France with the transformation of lead into gold, but...
September 6, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Possibly sub-optimal ad targeting
#SpringHasNotSprung
September 3, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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My institution's email system is telling me not to trust their own spam filter 🙄
September 2, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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Reminder: Ihaka Lectures this Thursday evening and next week. 6:30 pm NZST (UTC+12) at UoA and streaming
Dan Exeter from UoA and Adrian Baddeley from Curtin University
www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/a...
White on black poster. Title "Patterns in Space" Dorling cartogram (circles) of NZ with sheep silhouettes in some circles. Full text at link in post
September 2, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Unusually fidgety seismometer overnight
💨💨💨
Wiggly black horizontal traces on a computer screen. They are more wiggly than usual
August 31, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Ceci ce n'est pas un quatuor à cordes
August 30, 2025 at 7:16 AM