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Amy Zhang @axz.bsky.social · 02/02/2024

Hey all, we're really interested in hearing from Bluesky users about designing new tools for feed curation! Please sign up and tell us your thoughts - we have an experimental Bluesky client to try out too 👀

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Michael Bazaco @mcbazacophd.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Happy Retraction Day to those who celebrate! It’s hard to quantify how much damage Wakefield’s sinister study and subsequent publication did t public health but it’s A LOT. He’s not a doctor anymore either. PublicHealth 🧪 EpiSky IDSky

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Lancet retracts 'utterly false' MMR paper | Andrew Wakefield | The Guardian

After medical council ruling last week that MMR doctor Andrew Wakefield was dishonest, journal finally quashes paper

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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

% who say it is necessary to believe in God to be moral: Indonesia 96% Philippines 96% Nigeria 93% Brazil 84% India 79% Turkey 75% Israel 48% S Korea 45% U.S. 44% Canada 26% UK 20% Australia 19% France 15% pewresearch.org/global/2020/07 🌐

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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 28/09/2023

For #rstats users, {renv} now provides similar functionality to {groundhog}. With your script open in RStudio, simply call renv::embed() & a code snippet will be inserted at the top with the script's version-specific dependencies and the code to install them 🧪#stats rstudio.github.io/renv/referen...

Calling embed() inspects the dependencies of the specified document then generates and inserts a call to use() that looks something like this:

renv::use(
"digest@0.6.30",
"rlang@0.3.4"
)
Then, when you next run your R script or render your .Rmd, use() will:

Create a temporary library path.

Install the requested packages and their recursive dependencies into that library.

Activate the library, so it's used for the rest of the script.

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Ed Hagen @edhagen.net · 28/09/2023

I agree date-based is user-friendly. However: renv::embed() is all you need (try it!) groundhog depends on 1 guy maintaining this online DB: groundhogr.com/gran/ Will it still exist 5 yrs from now? renv & its online repo are backed by a company of pro software developers: packagemanager.posit.co

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Connair J. S. Russell @connairrussell.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Groundhog for R is so good for reproducibility. You just load your packages with it and voila, anyone who runs your script will have the same package versions. One less hurdle to reproducible code. Props to the team at Wharton Credibility Lab! groundhogr.com #psychscisky

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Connair J. S. Russell @connairrussell.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

If I were to do an introduction of myself I think my browser tab groups would do a pretty good job of showing where my head is at right now... Shout out to vertical tabs on the Edge browser btw, so nice. #psychscisky

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 25/08/2023

New addition to my blog: DOIs! Using the super cool new Rouge Scholar service (rogue-scholar.org), I've added DOIs and long-term archiving to all my blog posts. so if you've wanted to cite one of my blog posts but journals were unhappy about a URL in the references, now you have a DOI for cover :)

Screenshot from my blog showing DOIs for recent posts

Screenshot from my blog showing a citation section for the post

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Connair J. S. Russell @connairrussell.bsky.social · 18/08/2023

So I have already noticed the bugs... *BUT* have been super pleasantly surprised by all the interesting folks who are already over here. Hopefully we'll rediscover the best parts of what science was on the bird app, without some of the yikes...

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