iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Lucy D’Agostino McGowan @lucystats.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🎙️ New Podcast! @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & I are launching Regression to the Mean Girls where we go way too deep into silly data side quests! In our first episode Sarah deep dives on time to first kiss in romance novels! open.spotify.com/episode/73wC... regressiontothemeangirls.com

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Romance by the Numbers: First Sparks Across Tropes

Regression to the Mean Girls · Episode

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

to be anti-union in academia is to want the exploitation of cheap labor. also lol at this mentor-mentee relationship. Yeah it’s so good now without union. Explains why i personally don’t know anyone with a good postdoc experience

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obama scramble @aoihana.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“bespoke mentor-mentee relationships” …that many professors clearly don’t believe in and take advantage of?

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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Think about Miss Piggy. She lost a best friend and now an ex-lover in matter of 24 hours.

Miss Piggy and Dolly Parton in fancy dresses posing together

photo of Tim Curry surrounded by muppets, smiling for a photo. A quote from curry is added “it didn’t go very well. It didn’t survive the shoot. She felt I wasn’t being faithful to her” it’s him discussing his ill fated affair with miss piggy

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Jes Steele ✌️ @piratito.com · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris performing “Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow” on The Dolly Parton Show (1976)

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

pro-tip: I loathed vacuumming until we named our vacuum “Vac-tor Hugo”. Then I would giggle about feeding him.

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I know a junior academic who would brag (Like a jerk) about how much smarter he is than his grad students… to his grad students. Very cringe.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Defending Cofnas, who had written outrageously racist stuff for years (e.g., that in a meritocracy there would be next to no Black professors because they have lower IQs), is an odd hill to die on. Yet the 100-plus academics who signed this letter are clearly willing to die on it :/

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Only fools believe #rstats is only for statistical analyses. I think that it's for recreating Charlie xcx music.

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

DON'T GET ALL EXCITED AND ASSUME GOOD WILL. This is an effort to rebrand already appropriated dollars and already developed programs before the midterms so they have something they can use against being called anti-science. THIS IS NOT NEW INVESTMENT. THESE ARE NOT NEW DOLLARS FOR SCIENCE.

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The whole time I was watching The Odyssey, I was thinking about Mamma Mia. and how meryl streep would make for a better odysseus.

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Meryl Streep's Energetic Mamma Mia Performance

ALT: Meryl Streep's Energetic Mamma Mia Performance

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Boston useR group lightning talks is brat #rstats, #statistics, #Boston.

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I loathed. Loathed. Odyssey. Christopher Nolan you owe me three hours of my life back

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 06/07/2026

We're excited that #rainbowR is at @user-conf.bsky.social this week. Keep an eye out for committee members @ellakaye.co.uk & @tinarozsos.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈 If you're an LGBTQ+ coder looking for a friendly face, or you're curious to learn more about our community, please say hi👋 #useR2026 #RStats

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 30/06/2026

if you're trans, you have to live. one day you can live to see these guys all die.

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 23/06/2026

🌈 rainbowR meet-ups: June 24th & 29th 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 - ask questions about R 🙋 ➡️ Registration & timezones via rainbowr.org/meetups

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Presentation party: how to rank a bridge (1/n)

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Frank Harrell @f2harrell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Today we celebrate the awarding of the prestigious Rousseeuw prize to the R Core team in recognition of their 30 years of dedicated work on R and in recognition of the massive impact of R on the scientific community rousseeuwprize.org/2026 #RStats

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The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics

The Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research.

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

invited to a PowerPoint party. Going to win best in show no matter what.

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

wedding anniversary, i think it’s kinda neat we moved in together two weeks into dating. Cause of Covid lockdowns. I remember our first date we were making fun of u haul lesbians lolol. Happy #Pride!

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

My wedding anniversary is June 14th! which is also trump‘s birthday. I like to pretend the White House cage fight is in honor of our love.

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Soulslike: MMA Fight Takedown

ALT: Soulslike: MMA Fight Takedown

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Libby Heeren @libbyheeren.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats

Screenshot of a website with "The Warehouse" at the top. The user has typed "add interactivity to a ggplot" into the search bar at the top of the website and results below include plotly and ggiraph

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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 12/06/2026

Are there any #rstats folks who use @tally.so for forms who would be willing to take the new {tallyr} R package for a spin? github.com/EllaKaye/tal... Created in a couple of hours this morning with Claude Code using Fable 5. Feedback most appreciated!

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GitHub - EllaKaye/tallyr: An R package interface to the Tally.so form builder API

An R package interface to the Tally.so form builder API - EllaKaye/tallyr

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Donald Szlosek @dszlosek.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I could not be happier to be a part of this wonderful group as a new co-organizer of the Boston R User Group! I’m excited to help restart this wonderful community along with @rachaeldempsey.bsky.social and @damiepak.bsky.social #rstats #statistics #rstats #boston

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

went to the mount auburn cemetery some weeks ago. Absolutely beautiful place. i love looking at the old headstones and found one: “died in Boston of malaria-1865” Wild! Anyone have some knowledge of this ?

A headstone thats super weathered that says “son of w.j.a collamore; died in Boston of malaria ; 16 September 1865”

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waldokanto.bsky.social @waldokanto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Marjane Satrapi 1969-2026

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

god this hurts. I remember weeping at persepolis.— tears because it‘s amazingly tragic but also because it’s hilarious. it perfectly encapsulates the ups and downs of life

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Black White Feminism: Melancholy Smoke

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Went to the global premiere of Black Swan at the ART. Directed by Sonya Tayeh. So TLDR: Amazing theater magic. Dance choreography was phenomenal, stage effect was absolutely wondrous, and the lighting. Oh god the lighting was magical. Must see. (1/n) #musical #theater #boston

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

“…and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, 'See! This our fathers did for us.” - a rock I saw in maine

When we build, let us think that we build forever. Let it not be for present delight nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as our descendants will thank us for; and let us think, as we lay stone on stone, that a time is to come when those stones will be held sacred because our hands have touched them, and that men will say, as they look upon the labor and wrought substance of them, 'See! This our fathers did for us.

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David Asboth @davidasboth.com · 19/05/2026

Reminding me that Sk8er Boi is over 20 years old is really a form of violence.

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

i dont want to code anymore, I want to be a theater essayist #opera

It’s my text message that says “why do people consider Eugene onegin (1879) a tragedy when Avril Lavigne skater boi (2002) which the opera was inspired by was clearly not

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Hao Ye @hao-and-y.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Tiananmen square at home

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

hitting a bicep curl PR with Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" is one of the most exquisite pleasures of human existence

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Celine Dion - It's All Coming Back To Me Now

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Alex Plante 🐀👑 @aplante.com · 07/05/2026

pigeon mug turned out so cute!!!!! #pottery

a charmingly janky handbuilt mug with big dumb orange eyes and a little beak. it’s painted in simple colours to look like a pigeon. it has two black stripe around its handle like a wing and a green stripe separating its darker blue head from its pale blue belly.

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

God I would have hated Isabella Stewart Gardner if I was her party guest back in the gilded age. Shin-level sarcophagus everywhere. horrible decorating style. mid art. Uncomfortable decorative furniture. boring Sargent pieces

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Literally attending an event because it’s called “Celebrasians” I love it. this aapi month, you gotta have a Celebrasian.

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Do you know a good framework to document data analysis choices? Ex: dropping obs, recoding a var, tuning pars, model + test statistics, etc. Ideally human-readable so people don't have to read my entire codebase. Low-maintenance+ machine-readable for bonus points! #RStats #PyData

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Ella Kaye @ellakaye.co.uk · 04/05/2026

Thanks for the shout out @rfortherestofus.com and for highlighting localtime github.com/EllaKaye/loc...

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

On May 1st, 1786. The greatest #opera, Le Nozze di Figaro, premiered. Its perfection can only be understood by a technopop remake of probably the most famous aria.

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Non so più cosa son faccio - The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart - Elle Yana - HQ

YouTube video by Bones McNally

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

“So do you guys also google the really dumb questions on your phone instead of your work laptop because you’re afraid you’re gonna get called out on it?” - me at a business meeting

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

like Cassandra I give you divine truth yet you reject it

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

gifting my friend‘s baby with the absolute cringe that comes from loving #opera. good luck baby haha.

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I don't code as much anymore since leaving academia. Also the push for AI in coding... So I think the best way to deal with it is to create even stupider, more niche, wilder side projects. #rstats

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