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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

[The soundtrack plays louder as I watch my cheese turn into petals]

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Dog Meme Meme Dog

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Your tweet reminded me of my conversation with russian friend when I asked if I should learn Russian (just so I can read Eugene onegin)

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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 · 30/08/2026

They would raise the statue for people to put the “money apron” on. really fun time.

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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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Indiana Bones and the Temple of Spook @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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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Caitlin says we need to call it SillyR. I say we all need to wear silly hats

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

oh it would be 100 percent easier I agree

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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

To be fair, I dislike most Christopher Nolan films because they don’t hold to his absolute perfect film that is the prestige.

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

ok hating corn is weird I’m gonna say, dont group me in with those weirdos. i wanna say I love the anachronism, I love the premise of the Trojan war breaking social norms. I just thought the execution was bad.

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

still Thinking about how much I hate the odyssey.

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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

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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

I think we have decided she’s a drama queen :(

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

Did not get pictures of: 1) The Lore of Teletubbies 2) Guy going through his letterbox review 3) 10 ways science was wrong

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

Friend: The fuckability of Star Wars droids based on 5 criteria

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

Another: Rainbow cookie rubric and god the cookies suck in Boston. She brought rainbow cookies for us to try!

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

Caitlin's: Weird bible translation: notably, figs to bananas

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

Mine: How Jojo Siwa is the Mother and Death of Gay Pop

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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

Yes, were setting up our own cage fighting!

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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

No but seriously it’s just so stupid. like Low priority on all the bad things. but it’s just stupid all the way down

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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

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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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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

she's a proud python user so we were bullying her (right @clienkaemper.bsky.social ?)

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

At one point we clipped it to Caitlin’s back haha

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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

My unfortunate friend having to watch me and my wife point at gravestones going “us”

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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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