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

They went to the trouble of making a movie. They got a number of the original creators on board. But what came out wasn't funny or touching or meaningful. And it could've been. I'm not in this space, but I think something's wrong with the creative process for shows right now. ☹️ /3

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

- especially Toph, which is a shame because it felt like her voice contradicted her characterization. Without sharing spoilers, there was a whole chunk where it felt like another franchise entirely - like I was suddenly watching Dragon Ball or Ganondorf maybe? And my lament is: /2

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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 · 12/08/2026

The perennial reminder that we, too, are made of meat, and are subject to being seasoned 😄

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

Amazing, I think I've seen you mention this before, but now I understand better

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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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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Thanks for posting these slides - I shared them with some colleagues today. (LOL, proof of your argument that availability -> visibility)

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

Can you share a link or some details about Metacheck? (I found several GH repos with that name, and don't know which is yours)

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

Loving this conversation so far. Validation makes a lot of sense as the "next step" after a codebook / dictionary. Like, first we describe it, then we check if the description is valid. With file downloads, hashing lets us check validity. I can see having an executable validator for data files.

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

Except human readability, which is crucial when most of my files cap out at 100 rows.

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

Me (my hair is blue right now): Wait does green dye his fur??

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

Two things are true: 1- oof. Having family members that don't show up for you around topics like that is ROUGH. Sending love through the interwebs. ❤️ 2- Tacos (or really, dinner in general) can be so helpful! Sometimes the best thing is to say "I know you're spiralling, let's get some food."

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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

Other skeptics - is there a phrase or memory that comes to mind for you? 🧵 3/3

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

Nevermind that it's been ~18 yrs since I've read Harry Potter or that I can't remember the specifics of the quote (was it Arthur? did it show up in the movie adaptation?) -- my point is, it works. It reminds me to be skeptical of the damn things. 🧵 2/3

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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 · 09/07/2026

I love the comics and I love the alt text!

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

I use (a), because I tend to think it's easier to type an age than to find it from a list of available options, and as long as the validation works (i.e. I don't have to clean up a bunch of text responses), I'm happy to aggregate/bin the data later if needed. What do y'all do? And why? 😄

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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...

theguardian.com

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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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

To be clear - I know this isn't the only country that has pie, and even without going any deeper than Wikipedia, it's clear that pie has been around centuries longer than this country has. I'm saying I love "American-style" pies like pumpkin and apple 😄

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

If you're in data science, you could consider Positron -- the built-in graph viewer and ability to run python code line by line are nice features

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Pie! Pumpkin, pecan, apple, banana cream, lemon meringue, ...

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Ah! I haven't done it with anything super complicated yet, but yes, I like it

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Have you tried using #quarto to output #typst? I like it - it means I haven't had to learn a new syntax, and like the comments say, the typst errors are informative.

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

This is the first I've heard of blockr -- it looks promising!

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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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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It's not a question of being 40, it's a question of having to wake up tomorrow with any energy and time deficits you incur today 😕

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Me, a social scientist: "by an impressively high R², do you mean anything above 0.4?" 😂

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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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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

But like, seriously?! This is one of the times when the low-hanging fruit feels like it's from a different tree. Clicks and flash cards are not evidence of "engagement," as they require no mental activity. Plus, to your point Elaine, they can make it *harder* to engage w/ the material.

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

It feels so patronizing. Like, I know they want to measure course engagement, and clicks are the low-hanging fruit, so having us click through flash cards is used to say that the content is "interactive" and that we "engaged" with the material.

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm also not a learning expert, but I've completed _so many_ online ethics and sexual harassment prevention trainings that use this shit. "Tap the cards to reveal the definitions." "Select each tab to view the vignette." "Answer my riddles three to cross my bridge."

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I asked GH Copilot to "find the missing parentheses" in a chunk of Shiny code last week. Did it best an accordion panel inside another accordion panel? Yes. But unnesting the panels was so much easier than finding that $#&*@ parenthesis would've been!

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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...

technologyreview.com

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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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

This is useful-- I'd heard of the project-as-package idea but hadn't tried it yet. Sounds like I may not need to.

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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

Even after discovering the Rocket Hideout (that you access FROM THE GAME CORNER) it was like, well, they already owned the building, and they had to build a Hideout *somewhere,* so I guess this makes sense. GUYS. GUYS IT WAS A FRONT THE WHOLE TIME. #pokemon #leafgreen #teamrocket

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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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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

I believe that! Last year I learned about the submerged bubble tubes in Chicago that catch trash but let fish and boats through. I'm sure there's a lot of other cool hydro engineering I don't know about.

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Nathan Jeffery @ctrl-n.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I had no idea it was so large!

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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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