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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Just watched the new #Avatar Aang movie and ... it's not good? It felt like an off-brand version of itself. The animation and character design is really good. And they got a number of creators from the TV series. But the voice cast is wrong, so much so that nobody sounds like themself - /1

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I just attended this workshop (remotely) and learned a lot about using marginal effects to make sense of regression output. Kudos to Vincent for making a powerful package with an easy to use interface 😊

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Just finished Witch King and Queen Demon by @marthawells.com. I love Kai and Ziede as much as I love Murderbot! #booksky

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

If you could Thanos-snap and rid the world of LLMs, would you?

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J. Marshall Freeman @jmarshallfreeman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Quite amazing and brave. Hawaii’s top court has basically declared SCOTUS to be so compromised—so blinded by racism and loyalty to big money —it can be openly ignored by the state.

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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 13/07/2026

What to do if you find a baby bunny. Thanks @portmanteauface.bsky.social for the suggestion!

A six-panel comic titled "what to do if you find a wild baby bunny in North America." There's a drawing of a cute baby bunny on a patch of grass with some daisies, and it's saying "You found me. Hello."

A drawing of rabbit nests. The text says "Most North American rabbits don't burrow. The mom rabbit makes a nest on the ground." There's an image of a circle of dried grass against a green lawn, labeled "It's well-hidden under dry grass or leaves." Then there's an image of baby rabbits curled up in fur, labeled "Underneath, the young are in a fur-lined bowl". "Check your lawn before you mow!"

An image of a mom rabbit nursing her tiny young who are crawling out of the nest against green grass and daisies. Text says "If you find a nest and don't see the mom, don't worry. She only visits for a few minutes every day to nurse." The mom says "Dinner is served." Text at the bottom says "Leave the nest alone and be sure to keep dogs and cats away."

An image of the top of the nest against green grass with a tic tac toe pattern of dried grass on it. Text says "If you think the babies have been orphaned, do this test: Use sticks or long grass to make a Tic Tac Toe pattern on the nest. Come back after at least 18 hours. If the pattern hasn't been disturbed, contact a wildlife rehabilitator."

An image of a small baby bunny sitting on some green grass. Text says "A baby bun leaves the nest in 3-4 weeks. If you find a bun on its own that looks like this, ears stick up, open eyes, 4-5 inch (10-13 cm) long, hops well, furred, uninjured, then it's just fine. Don't kidnap it!"

A cute bunny is jumping over green grass, and another is sitting up and saying "Thank you for bunderstanding." Text says "If not, or if a bun was touched by a cat, contact a wildlife rehabilitator. These are just the bun basics. For more detailed advice, consult your local wildlife rescue!"

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Every time I hear people talk about trusting chatbots, the Molly Weasley in my head scolds, "never trust something that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain." 🧵 1/3

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I was watching @jenrichmondphd.bsky.social great tutorial on data management and wanted to start a discussion here: When you ask for age in a survey, do you (a) Use an open-text field with validation (b) Use a multiple choice question with age ranges (c) Something else youtu.be/7UxBZxiJGKY?...

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Data Management for Beginners

YouTube video by Reveal Research

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

PlayStation: “What if we stop selling physical copies of games?" Me: "Then I probably won't buy another PlayStation console." I'm interested to see whether they stick with this terrible decision, or whether all the negative press gets them to rethink. www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

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Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only

With the much-anticipated release of Grand Theft Auto VI only available as download, Sony is following suit

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Picture of a TV screen with teletubbies going to bed with the subtitles: I know you were high during my mother-in-laws wake

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Middle Manager Mom ☕️ @coachkatjack.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

My kid is a college senior and wrote this email to his prof today (Gen Z can’t catch a break from once in a lifetime things happening annually to them…)

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Lee Vinsel @leev.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

MIT Technology Review asked me to review Stewart Brand's new book _Maintenance: Of Everything_, vol. 1. I went into it with a lot of questions, including about how he'd deal with labor, politics, and social structure. It's a lot worse than I expected. www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/17/1...

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The case for fixing everything

A new book by Stewart Brand, an architect of modern tech culture, asks: How do we prioritize maintenance? And why? But it doesn’t quite have the answers.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

As a kid, I got to Celadon City, and they had a Game Corner! And like, Team Rocket was a crime organization, and I was taught not to gamble IRL, but clearly they were diversifying their business interests, and clearly it was working.

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terence @tterence.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The Mississippi basin. #rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale

A visualisation of the rivers of the Mississippi basin

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This is so promising! My office makes reports and we've largely switched to HTML due to accessibility concerns. With tools like this, we might be able to give PDF reports to clients who prefer them. The pkg overview video in this blog post is really helpful.

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troy_phd @troyhernandez.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Buried the lede yesterday: OpenAI’s Whisper speech-to-text model now runs natively in R via torch. Local inference, CRAN-bound (🤞) Blog + packages: cornball.ai/posts/speech... #rstats

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Speech-to-Text in R

speech-to-text is not the most exciting thing in the world of AI these days, but today we’re announcing the release of three R packages that together provide a complete speech-to-text solution using j...

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The algogator is an ambush predator who lies still as a floating log, waiting to snatch your line of sight. So, we tip-toe the water’s edge, whispering of lynx in the bio, hinting at the real topics beneath the surface like the ripple of a fleeing frog sliding away from the banks’ soft-screen glow.

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Sharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Harvard University has a 9-course EdX online data science program that teaches R, with topics like dataviz and building machine learning models. You can “audit” any of the courses for free in any order (despite the displayed price, that's for a certificate). #RStats www.edx.org/certific...

Screenshot of a course module interface listing topics in a Data Science program. The modules shown are:
1. Data Science: R Basics
2. Data Science: Visualization
3. Data Science: Probability
4. Data Science: Inference and Modeling
5. Data Science: Productivity Tools
6. Data Science: Wrangling
7. Data Science: Linear Regression
8. Data Science: Building Machine Learning Models
9. Data Science: Capstone [alt text by ChatGPT]

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Posit @posit.co · 15/01/2026

Speak at posit::conf(2026) and share your R & Python stories! Accepted speakers get: ✨ Travel & lodging help ✨ Free conference pass ✨ Professional coaching Apply by Feb 6 to join us Sept 14-16 in Houston, TX! Submit here: pos.it/conf-talk-2026 #positconf2026 #rstats #pydata

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Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

My guess is that somebody brought quicksand into the Bermuda Triangle and they canceled each other out. And that's why I don't hear much about those dangers anymore. Anyway, happy new year.

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Garrick Aden-Buie @grrrck.xyz · 01/01/2026

Happy UTC New Year!! 🎉 🥂

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Michele Tobias, PhD @micheletobias.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

A silly little thing I did to wish everyone a little joy in this dark time. #rstats #gischat

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Great and easy to understand post on using LLMs, i.e. in #positron #rstats

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I need you to know that your contribution, your voice, your perspective, your way of explaining something, YOUR whatever, is valuable. Just because "it's been done before" doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. Nothing is new, everything's been done! But not by you. Yet. #databs #rststs #python

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mdsumner @mdsumner.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Please stop spamming #rstats with your bots Use a descriptive tag so we can can choose to follow, and not have to trawl through so much churn I can't see any option other than blocking the accounts, I'm interested in CRAN updates (and others) but gee, it should be about humans and actual ideas

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Martine Jansen @martinejansen.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Anyone an idea where I can find the source code of ardata.fr/ggiraph-book/ ? The github link on the website is dead. #ggplot2 #rstats #ggiraph. Thanks!

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ggiraph-book

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

I agree with a lot of this, especially that the AI bros calling it "PhD level intelligence" shows a fundamental lack of understanding about what intelligence is. On that topic, see the original post. But slightly on a tangent: while we're having this conversation, we need to avoid the false 1/

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/08/2025

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 04/08/2025

Serious shout out to these reps because organizing at least 51 out of 62 people to do something that risks fines and threats of arrest is not nothing, especially now. Red state reps go so hard. 💖

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 04/08/2025

I love when I can see the work in a piece of art. Practical effects in film, brush strokes on canvas, strange sounds in music, "impossible" visuals in games. It puts me in conversation with the artist. That's why - ethics aside - art created with AI is just so disappointing. There's no work to see.

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

I'm sad and angry that the CPB is the latest casualty in the burn -everything-decent show that is the Trump administration. But I will outlive Trump (and, God willing, Trumpism). And it will take decades, but we will survive, and we will rebuild.

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Flávia E. Rius @flaviaerius.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Every #Rstats user should read this post from @jennybryan.bsky.social‬. Especially beginner to intermediate-level ones. www.tidyverse.org/blog/2017/12...

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Project-oriented workflow

Advice on workflows for developing R scripts. How to think about whether an action belongs in the script or elsewhere.

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Just this morning, data exploration saved me in working with a spreadsheet that was supposed to contain 4 semesters of data but only contained 3. (The fourth semester tab was a copy of the third semester tab.) It was a normal and innocuous mistake, but it would've caused problems down the line!

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Friends don't let friends collect data without adding data validation. From Rebekah Jacob 😉

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

My #tidytuesday this week: How often are four common materials used in MTA art? (Constructive feedback is appreciated. I did this in about 1/2 an hour and I'm in the middle of a move and a job search, so please also be patient with any mistakes) Happy to share my code if anyone is curious 😀

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Hugely agree with Richard here. IMO, the root of most problems in "reproducibility" is that "we" too often treat study design, statistics, and data skills as specialists concerns, rather than as the core of so many areas of science. statsepi.substack.com/p/a-brief-hi... (my take/Richard's take)

From my post: Just a few years ago, the editor of that same Lancet seemed to summarize these problems as science taking “a turn towards darkness” (16). He had just attended a symposium on the reproducibility (17) and reliability of biomedical research, a topic that tends to be presented as a recent or modern concern. But it isn’t. Here is Horton’s full quote:

The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.

As you can see, it’s all about misunderstanding statistical concepts, statistical methods being misapplied, or perhaps the most important thing of all, a lack of statistical thinking, the value of which, more than anything else, is to stop us from fooling ourselves and each other. There was never a turn towards darkness. This is the way it’s always been in medical research. The question is when we will decide to turn towards the light.

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The priorities are training for research design, data management, and statistical modeling. Junior scientists tell me they feel too often unsupported in basic scientific skills. Workshops for grant writing are commonplace. Workshops for doing research are rare. Methods training is too often just something one is expected to soak up from colleagues and the published literature. PhD students have almost zero statistical training, and even less training in how to connect statistical analysis to theory.

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

People PAID MONEY to download ringtones.

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 11/07/2025

Thanks to everyone who responded to my question about what folks should know about using LLMs to generate #rstats: I've summarised the feedback with a few of my thoughts at gist.github.com/hadley/77d42...

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llms-for-R.md

GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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