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Daphna Harel

@daphna.bsky.social
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Professor of Applied Stats at NYU ASH/PRIISM. Survey design, data analysis, general statistical advice. PI: NYU Queer Data Lab. she/her 🏳️‍🌈

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Rine Vieth @rinewithoutacat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
For those teaching or otherwise working with students, a gentle reminder to be careful what you post. Over the years I've seen folks post student emails, responses, etc etc, and—I can sometimes get the urge—I encourage you to not do this on a public social media site!
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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not a single lie!!
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I need to run an analysis that I think is best done Bayesian but I’m a perpetual Frequentist who has only dabbled in Bayesian inference tools. What resource should I use to help guide me? I think I can do what I need using brms. #statssky
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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Be like the goose
Goose chasing meme. Where the goose is asking "what's you're estimand?"
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Just got promoted to Full!
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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 09/07/2026
Rewatching Community, John Oliver (the psychology professor) is channeling how we all feel when data misbehaves... #stats
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turgut keskintürk @tkeskinturk.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
data visualization is my passion.
fox news showing weekly temperatures: 92, 92, 92, 94, 94, 92, 92, with a very strong gap between 94 and 92.
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
My (still unfunded) 1st percentile score and I definitely feel this…
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ENAR @enar-ibs.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Are you an ENAR member looking for mentorship on a specific topic? Sign up by May 30 to be matched with a mentor for a thirty-minute meeting, where you'll get some great advice! 🔗: buff.ly/KW4DEcs
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Four years of sobriety.
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Dr. Jess Hartnett @notawfuljess.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
New post! Are you following @sketchplanations.bsky.social ? He is great at explaining complex ideas via text and images, and some of those complex ideas are statistical.
An image by Sketchplanations, illustrating Geroge Box's quote, "All model are wrong, but some of useful"
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I'm looking for a good resource on the implications on psychometric properties and response patterns when using Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree vs Never/Rarely/Sometimes/Often/Always Likert scales on surveys. Anyone have anything I should read?
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I'm looking for a good resource on the implications on psychometric properties and response patterns when using Strongly Disagree to Strongly Agree vs Never/Rarely/Sometimes/Often/Always Likert scales on surveys. Anyone have anything I should read?
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Had a great time presenting my work at @enar-ibs.bsky.social #ENAR2026
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Lovely to see former NYU #A3SR students thriving at #ENAR2026
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Proud to be an @enar-ibs.bsky.social member when #ENAR2026 shows it’s values with these name tag ribbons and pronoun stickers
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Who’s going to #ENAR2026? Looking forward to catching up with old friends and meeting new ones!
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Still not too late to catch my talk today at 11:15 am NYC time. It’s on Studying Queer Data While Living It: Positionality, Power, and Practice
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I'm really excited to keynote at this conference. My talk, "Studying Queer Data While Living It: Positionality, Power, and Practice," will be on Thursday Feb 26th at 11:15 am NYC time.
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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics @usbls.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Happy to teach an intro stats or intro research methods class on survey design.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Someone made an actually-organized version of this!!
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Guest Lecture for Minnesota Faculty Comrades
Please click the link to complete this form.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Don't you f**king dare.
Screen shot of a youtube video titled "AI.FILL Function Explained: 10X Productivity in Excel with AI" with the caption "Let ChatGPT fill your missing data"
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 02/02/2026
📣 registration for the rainbowR conference is now live 🎉 The conference is for anyone interested in R and/or analysing data to understand LGBTQ+ issues. The majority of speakers and workshop leaders are LGBTQ+, but you do not have to be LGBTQ+ to attend. pretix.eu/rainbowr/con... #RStats #LGBTQ
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rainbowR Conference 2026
Feb. 25 – 26, 2026
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Upbeat Former Prof @upbeatprof.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
why did they call it "therapy" and not "deep issue massage"
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Do I have any Canadian contacts working in the Queer data space that are interested in submitting a grant with me? Must be at a Canadian university. Topic would be gender affirming care in trans individuals. I have a proposal idea.
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Feeling especially sad and frustrated with the state of scientific funding in the US right now. It’s devastating that good grants with scientific merit are unfundable because their topics disagree with the politics of administration I know this isnt new but it’s hitting me hard and personally today
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is a cool call for papers. Anyone want to work on something with me to submit to this. I only have a few vague ideas so I’d be happy to collaborate with someone who has a more structured idea.
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
It always brightens my day when my students papers get accepted. Love to see the talent of the next generation of statisticians!
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
As we head into the new year, let's all be gentle with ourselves and our bodies. You are the one who determines your own goals. You are the one who knows what food makes you feel good and nourished. You are the one who gets decide what you eat. Trust yourself.
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Time to replace the document called Fall To Do with Spring To Do. Contents? The same
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Time to motivate myself to grade all day. 8 down, 21 to go
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Looking forward to this talk! Come join me for a discussion on queer data!
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
The cat is supervising me while I play my new Nintendo Switch
Daphna sitting on a couch with a game controller in her hand and a cat on her lap
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Zohran Mamdani doesn’t make me, an American Jew, feel unsafe. Having the Coast Guard, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, decide that a swastika isn’t really a symbol of hate? That makes me, an American Jew, feel pretty damn unsafe.
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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 06/11/2025
🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉 🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026 📣 Call for submissions is open 👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members conference.rainbowr.org
conference.rainbowr.org
– rainbowR conference
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Any good posts or things you think I should include in Friday's lecture?
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
We leave the determination of reasonable accommodation to the experts, and our job as professors is to accommodate as instructed. In fact, we can learn a lot about good teaching by considering which accommodations might help all students if built into our policies (e.g. extensions and recordings)
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Had a great time giving a talk today at Fordham!
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
When you’re bored, bake apple pie!
Two apple pies on top of a stove
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
NYC based instructors: we're looking for an adjunct for a graduate level Ethics of Data Science class this Spring. Please share widely apply.interfolio.com/175474
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
I usually give a lecture in my grad-level survey design class about political polling. This year I want to update it and focus more on general policy opinion polls. Anyone have good resources or examples I should reference?
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Are you an ENAR member looking for some advice? We still have room for mentees in our new mentorship program!
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
If you’re a student but not a current ENAR member and want to participate as a mentee in our new mentorship program, student memberships are only $25 (enar.com/join)!
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Are you an ENAR member looking for some advice? We still have room for mentees in our new mentorship program!
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 06/09/2025
oh noooo
compared to last year’s results.” However, I take issue with the author’s subsequent interpretation of the most recent test scores which reflects poorly on his/her understanding of basic statistics. The differences in proficiency rates cited in throughout the article are overwhelmingly NOT STATISTICALLY SIGNIFICANT.

Using a standard p-value of 0.05, any improvement in scores must show at least a gain of five percentage points in order to be considered as statistically significant. So, for example, even the slight decline in 4th grade ISAT scores in Idaho (2024 67.1%, 2025 64.6) is not significant. Similarly, the following assertion made by the author of the article is incorrect and misleading.

“Students scoring in the advanced range of the proficient category saw a slight increase, with 23.2% scoring advanced in 2024 compared to 23.6% in 2025.” In order to have been statistically significant, 28.2% of students must have scored proficient in the language arts subtest.
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Time to change my summer work to do list to my fall work to do list. The list is the same, but I’ve replaced summer with fall
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Does anyone have an example of an accepted JSM invited session proposal from a previous year that they could share with me? If so, DM or email me :)
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Daphna Harel @daphna.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Does anyone have an example of an accepted JSM invited session proposal from a previous year that they could share with me? If so, DM or email me :)
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Dr Kevin Guyan @kevinguyan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
On the panel: • @daphna.bsky.social, NYU (Chair) • Joanna Wuest, StonyBrook University • Patrick J. Egan, NYU • Priya Nair, NYC Commission on Gender Equity Weds 3 Sept, 5-6.30pm | Kimball Hall, 246 Greene St., NYC | All welcome kevinguyan.com/2025/07/15/r...
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Rainbow Trap: NYC launch event + panel discussion
To mark the launch of Kevin Guyan’s new book Rainbow Trap, join us for a panel discussion exploring queer lives, classifications and the dangers of inclusion at NYU on 3 September.
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