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NoThanks Boycott App @nothanksapp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

aption: 🚨Boycott Pepsi! The newest reports of Q2 2025 are in! And they don’t look good for Pepsi

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Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. @dataangler.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Why to count the eggs in the eastern Phoebe’s nest of course!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/06/2025

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

A bad President, for
instance, has the power to do what? What can he not do? If he wanted to
revolutionize this government, he could easily do it with this ponderous
power; it would be an auxiliary power. He could cry “havoc, and let slip the
dogs of war,”29 and say to the conspirators: “I am with you. If you
succeed, all is well. If you fail, I will interpose the shield of my pardon, and
you are safe. If your property is taken away from you by Congress, I will
pardon and restore your property. Go on and revolutionize the government;
I will stand by you.” The bad man will say or might say this. I am not sure
but we have got a man now who comes very near saying it. Let us have done
with this pardoning power. We have had enough of this. Pardoning! How
inexpressibly base have been the uses made by this power—this beneficent
power. It has been that with which a treacherous President has trafficked.
He has made it the means of securing adherents to himself instead of
securing allegiance to the government.

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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport” By Ruben Bolling Genius. Click in.

A cartoon showing various activity at an airport, including an extorted luxury jet, an exploding X rocket, a ketamine enthusiast wheeling a barrow of money to his plane, many ICE officers -- some taking people to an El Salvador plane, another with a zip-tied child being blocked by a federal judge -- scientists boarding a plane to Europe, a medical self-educator covered with pox, and more. All the people are represented by various animals. The story is made in the style of a Richard Starry children's book. Alt text borrowed from Mastodon..

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Been helping the folks at CBS news think through admissions data in a post-sffa world. They collected the largest dataset so far of uni's fall 2024 enrollment by race (and standardized it). Caveat caveat caveat, the clearest trend is: www.cbsnews.com/news/college...

Screenshot from article that reads: Black students experienced perhaps the most significant one-year shift. At the 76 schools that previously considered race in admission but no longer do, the average share of Black students dropped from 6.4% in fall 2023 to 5.3% in fall 2024, the lowest level in the data collected since at least 2015.

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Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. @dataangler.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Not printing your essay at night lest the dot matrix printer wake up the entire block

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

🧵HURRICANES If you live in a place that's likely to be affected by hurricanes, PLEASE have go-bags prepped & ready (resources & suggestions, following). 1) This resource is still up at NOAA www.noaa.gov/hurricane-prep; don't have faith that it'll stay that way, PRINT OUT anything you find useful.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Lowe’s Dyson Nivea Tiffany Capital One UPS Disney Door Dash Live Nation Anheuser-Busch Diageo Pepsi Nissan PWC Citi Mastercard …all pulled their support for Pride. If brands aren’t supporting your equality, you don’t need to support their profitability. popular.info/p/pride-and-...

For years, major corporations publicly celebrated the LGBTQ community.

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Rep. LaMonica McIver @replamonica.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

My statement on the charges filed against me:

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

“It is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law in deportation proceedings.” - Anton Scalia

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

You forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/05/2025

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

Pulitzer Prizes Public Service Winner: ProPublica. Image (right) displays headline that reads: Their States Banned Abortion. Doctors Now Say They Can't Give Women Potentially Lifesaving Care.

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. @dataangler.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I asked for help with a problem on a SAS forum and someone asked an LLM and posted the bull**it answer.

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

This is a *fantastic* response piece, and I urge everyone to read it.

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SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Backyard park has done it again, the first bird I saw when I opened my eyes this morning was this gorgeous Rose-breasted Grosbeak who was checking out my feeders.

Blurry photo shot through old glass, showing a beautiful white bird with black wings and head, red down his breast like a bleeding heart, and a thick pink beak. He is perched next the metal top of my feeder pole.

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Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. @dataangler.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I thought the $75 parking tickets were supposed to fix all this anyway

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Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. @dataangler.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I think what typically happens in these situations is that municipalities negotiate a much higher price for the property they are selling because they are going to miss out on the tax revenue for years to come. Rather than levy a tax that does not sunset.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

LE MONDE asked me to write an article about American literature in the age of Trump, but then decided it didn't like what I wrote. Oh well. Here it is in LitHub: "Most American literature is the literature of empire."

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Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

One way to understand the dilemma of contemporary American literature in the age of Donald Trump is to see it as an imperial literature. The United States is a different kind of empire, exerting gl…

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 11/04/2025

yessss native penguins dataset in #rstats 4.5 ALSO the ability to load single functions from packages!

$# Namespaces! ## R 4.4 and earlier # -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ### Handle it manually library(MASS) # load MASS first so that dplyr::select() takes over MASS::select() library(dplyr) model <- polr(...) ### Use {conflicted} library(dplyr) library(MASS) conflicted::conflicts_prefer(dplyr::select) model <- polr(...) ## R 4.5+ # -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- library(dplyr) use("MASS", c("polr")) model <- polr(...)$

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Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. @dataangler.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Is there a resource to help with running multi-level models with rethinking::ulam() datasets have several thousand rows? The model fitting (even calling precis() ) takes forever. Do I need 1) a high-performance computer or 2) a different language? @rmcelreath.bsky.social #rstats

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Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. @dataangler.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

SAS has some available macros for making codebooks automatically. If your metadata is in good shape (variables are labeled and have formats assigned), you get a nice file.

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Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. @dataangler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

That would not show the ebfmi for me, but I found this cmdstanr function that did: my_model@cstanfit$diagnostic_summary(diagnostics = c("divergences", "treedepth", "ebfmi"),quiet = FALSE)

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Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. @dataangler.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Does the rethinking 📦 in #rstats have a function for obtaining the E-BFMI value for a MCMC model built with rethinking::ulam? I get a warning message about low values for that measure but cannot seem to produce it with other functions in the package. @rmcelreath.bsky.social

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Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. @dataangler.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Merlin ID’d my first pine warbler when I was birding in a woods at a nearby park this weekend.

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Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. @dataangler.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

NPSAS canceled. I hope there will be an appeal.

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Carolina Forward @carolinaforward.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Wow. Trump has fired the federal Veterans Affairs staff running the Veterans Crisis Hotline. This will have a major impact here in North Carolina.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

This is a $45,408,138 grant, set to run from 2019 to 2030, to study methods for helping students with disabilities achieve their post-high school goals. It was just arbitrarily cancelled. This is too expensive but SpaceX funtime isn't and god forbid we tax billionaires. ies.ed.gov/use-work/eva...

Students with disabilities continue to lag their peers in high school graduation, enrollment in postsecondary education, and employment more than a decade after the 2004 reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Although IDEA requires states and districts to support student efforts toward their post-high school goals, there is limited evidence about which strategies are effective. This study assesses variants of an approach that the Department has promoted — strengthening students' goal setting, planning, and self-advocacy skills and helping them apply these self-determination skills to their transition objectives. The first strategy is a more systematic and coordinated version of how schools commonly teach students these skills. The second increases the intensity, and cost, by not only teaching the skills but also providing individual mentoring to help students complete key steps toward their goals.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Breaking — All probationary employees at OPM were just fired in a mass phone call. Acting Director Chuck Ezell told staffers, "I encourage you to use this as an opportunity for your next step forward," per recording I reviewed. On site staffers were given less than an hour to leave.

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Thank goodness for the American Medical Association. Here is their YouTube page. Please share far and wide. Right now bird flu is spreading throughout our country and most people have no clue. Please stay updated and bookmark this page for your health and well-being. www.youtube.com/@americanmed...

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Sam Van Horne, Ph.D. @dataangler.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

That sounds potentially like a way that would make it easier to re-identify someone based on pieces of demographic information.

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Scott Abbott @scotteabbott.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This program to teach students about the US Constitution & citizenship is funded through a federal grant from the US Dept of Ed. We were just notified to stop work because they are attempting to pull the funds. This money has been appropriated by Congress & supports thousands of kids in 35+ states.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 11/02/2025

I've met with many cabinet nominees across many admins, and my meeting with RFK Jr. was by far the most troubling. He rattled off debunked conspiracy theories & lied to my face—denying his own statements he'd made on record. We cannot confirm an anti-vaxxer as Secretary of Health.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The CFPB has returned $21 billion to 205 million consumers who were scammed at the hands of predatory banks. You can root out waste, fraud, and abuse... or you can eliminate the CFPB. But you can't do both.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

The AP must refuse this but more importantly the rest of the White House Correspondents Association should back them. Boycott the press briefings until they relent, and if they refuse, walk out. There is no real use to them in any case. Trump craves attention. Deny him that and he’ll cave.

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

External studies have shown: -NIH funding directly or indirectly supported the development of ALL new treatments that were FDA approved between 2010-2020 -the return on NIH investment is estimated at 25-40% annually given the improvement in productivity from a healthier workforce Facts matter.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.

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