Zachary Susswein
zsusswein.bsky.social
Zachary Susswein
@zsusswein.bsky.social
I spend entirely too much time thinking about GAMs

https://github.com/zsusswein
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#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter.

Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.

Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.

Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Reposted by Zachary Susswein
Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)
September 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out!

Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...

Experimental parallel processing ⚡

New assemble() for building plots 🎨

Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪

Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨

👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/

#Rstats
An R package for working with generalized additive models
Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.
gavinsimpson.github.io
August 18, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field?

That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience

A 🧵 1/n
July 10, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Reposted by Zachary Susswein
All my ecology peeps slinging the GAM(M)s might find this paper interesting. I was surprised to learn there is a frequentist interpretation of GAM(M)s! (jk) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Bayesian views of generalized additive modelling
Generalized additive models (GAMs) are a frequently used, flexible framework applied to many problems in statistical ecology. They are commonly used to incorporate smooth effects into models via s...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This rocks
Sometimes you have to write “Truth and Probability” just because Margaret won’t fuck with you.

open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...
Taking Our Chances
This one's for the academy, I guess
open.substack.com
January 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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New paper out yesterday on surveillance of the JN.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2 in France last year. Nice collaboration between private and public partners from public health and research! www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...
Monitoring SARS-CoV-2 variants with complementary surveillance systems: risk evaluation of the Omicron JN.1 variant in France, August 2023 to January 2024
Background Early detection and characterisation of SARS-CoV-2 variants have been and continue to be essential for assessing their public health impact. In August 2023, Santé publique France implemente...
www.eurosurveillance.org
January 10, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Spotted traveler-based genomic surveillance at Newark airport! I freaked out over how cool they were while my family gave me weird looks…..
January 6, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Thrilled this work is out! Truly a team product and a labor of love from all involved.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Detection of Real-Time Changes in Direction of COVID-19 ..
This report describes trend categories and nowcasting that ..
www.cdc.gov
November 21, 2024 at 11:22 PM