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Stefany

@drstefanyc.bsky.social
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#data #stats #dataviz #rstats #quarto #markdown #tidyverse | CA born (I'm back, baby!) | 1st gen college | wife, mom, reader, knitter, gamer | #biostat | former #quantpsych prof | #UCSD #ASU alum | Views my own

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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly
A card for the R package webrarian. Large text reads "A folder in. A website out." On the left, a small card lists a folder named lab-01 holding lab.R, setup.R and a data folder. A red arrow points from it to a browser window that shows a scatterplot of car weight against miles per gallon with brick-red points. The address coatless-wasm.github.io/webrarian is on the card.
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Krispy @feathernotes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hey fellow webcomickers and readers! Did you know that my peers and I have been working on cataloguing all of the webcomics from ALL over the web in one spot for you to check out? You should submit your comic if you haven't, or find a new comic to read! webcomictravelogue.com
a screen shot of the website 'the webcomic travelogue' that features a comic in a banner, a big button to submit your comic, and recently updated comics in a row
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Stefany @drstefanyc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"If everything's homoscedastic, it doesn't end up mattering too much."
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Stefany @drstefanyc.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
62 word email. 3 sets of parentheses. Bad total text : parentheses ratio.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 31/08/2026
macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
lol
A wikipedia page's recent edit history, all within the last half our or so, of people changing Lake Ontario's name to Lake America and then fighting over it, with one parenthetical reading "aint no one calling it that" highlighted
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/08/2026
Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Psychological Science invites submissions that advance psychological science through careful description of psychological phenomena. Psychological research often focuses on explaining and predicting phenomena before we have a sufficiently detailed understanding of them. It can be difficult to build strong theories on incomplete empirical foundations of the phenomena themselves. Careful descriptive research helps establish shared empirical reference points developed around well-characterized phenomena. As such, descriptive research contributes to psychological science both by improving our understanding of the phenomena themselves and by providing a stronger foundation for future theory-building, explanation, and prediction.

We are interested in manuscripts that:

Deepen our understanding of psychological phenomena, including what they look like, how they vary, and how they unfold;
Draw on a variety of sources of evidence and methods, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches; research conducted in naturalistic settings; intensive, longitudinal, or small-sample designs; and open or large-scale datasets; 
Provide necessary context for interpreting what is being described, including who is represented in the data, the settings and circumstances in which phenomena occur, and the broader social contexts in which they are situated; and/or
Make a substantive contribution to psychological science through the quality, depth, or significance of the description provided.
The deadline for submitting regular manuscripts is April 15, 2027. Registered Reports will also be considered. The deadline for submitting Stage 1 Registered Reports is November 15, 2026. Authors should indicate in the “Comments to Editor” box during submission that the manuscript is intended for the “Descriptive Research in Psychological Science” special issue.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026
There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
forbetterscience.com
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Alex Fornito @alexfornito.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Not sure how to visualise your connectome data? Check our latest led by @m-gajwani.bsky.social & C Adamson on NeuroMarvl: an open source web-based platform for visualising and sharing connectomes! Paper: tinyurl.com/2t7ftu9d Software: tinyurl.com/yrv3xja3 @nsb-lab.bsky.social
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I mean like there has to be at least some professors also reading smutty romantasy right? Like the overlap there definitely isn't null, just saying.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
There is no funding model for running modern R1 research universities without foreign students & federal funding. We should stop pretending there is & things are somehow going to be fine & actually have our leaders get out in public & explain this to voters, loudly & clearly & constantly.
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Research on Research Institute (RoRI) @rorinstitute.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“We already know that the awards are a lottery,” says RoRI's @tomstafford.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy. “We should just make it a formal lottery, rather than an unofficial one.” A new @nature.com piece looks at funders using partial lotteries to break ties: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
nature.com
When the best decision is no decision: the rise of randomization in grant funding
If reviewers can’t reliably tell the difference between top grant proposals, why should they pretend they can? A new wave of funders is turning to lotteries to break the tie.
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Stefany @drstefanyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Who actually cares about the most or least expensive houses? Not me. It's more that they criticized the median with no explanation or alternative. Sort of like the people who shout "correlation is not causation!" with no follow up or who suddenly became experts on RCTs and meta-analysis in 2020.
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Stefany @drstefanyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Just today saw some discussion online of home prices and how many are just so expensive (i.e., a long upper tail) and *that's* why the median is a bad measure to use. My dude, were you even paying attention in Stats 101?
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As anyone in publishing will tell you, women do not resist reading books by men, but men will often dismiss books by women. This is not a publishing problem or a failure to target men. It's a misogyny problem.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The moment Collins announced she was a no on Blanche, you KNEW they had the votes.
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Stefany @drstefanyc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Yes, psychometric work is hugely under-rated (including by me as a grad student *sigh*) but arguably more important than *another* salami-sliced study with questionable statistical methods.
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Stefany @drstefanyc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Yes. I can't count the number of times I recommended that a Ph.D. student do psychometric work on the scale to see if it behaves the same in Miami as it does with white kids in Ohio and the mentor says "oh, we don't have time for that boring stuff"
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Paxton is demanding that the AAP provide “the basis of AAP’s vaccine recommendations and how that affects the broader landscape of childhood vaccine recommendations”. The basis of AAP’s recommendations is scientific research that even a toddler could understand. Paxton is just an opportunist.
texasattorneygeneral.gov
Attorney General Ken Paxton Investigates the American Academy of Pediatrics for Deceptively Promoting Childhood Vaccines for Financial Gain
Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into the American Academy of Pediatrics (“AAP”) over concerns that the organization may be promoting and recommending childhood vaccines for finan...
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
One of most heartbreaking things about Hank Green turning to LLMs is that he gets to do science communication full-time to a massive audience and is well-resourced. He doesn't need to cut corners or outsource his thinking. Meanwhile, there are so many people doing amazing work with zero resources.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The dress code said “wear a tuxedo”. Photo from my collection, no date/info.
Black and white photo of a clean shaven young white man wearing a white cowboy hat standing outside in the sun. On top of the hat is perched a little shorthaired black tuxedo kitten.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 06/08/2026
Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! As of August 5th, global sea-surface temperatures just set a new preliminary record high of 21.20°C. This breaks the previous record high of 21.17°C set on April 24, 2024. And yes, I had to extend the y-axis to plot this.
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ⓓⓔⓔⓑ 🔜 PRGE @deeb.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I am 2,000 years old
It’s a Reddit post with a photo of a plastic bin filled with video games, mostly PS2 titles visible and the caption “My grandpa just gave me his collection of PS2 games”
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🧵 Balance is an extraordinary documentary series - two Jain monks in their late 30s, experiencing the impact of perimenopause ("sleeplessness, fatigue, anxiety, and mood swings") undergo a journey to understand why and "...find that a controversial study by the Women’s Health Initiative in 2002....
Poster from Balance showing the two Jain monks who made the documentary
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San Merg @sandromergvaz.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
😘❤️‍🔥😍
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Paul Alcocer @paul28730.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
This is the latest one that I can't believe doesn't have legs. They listed all the grants by whether the states they were in went for Harris or Trump and whether they had at least one republican Senator. All grants in Harris states w/o a republican Senator were canceled.
nytimes.com
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him (Gift Article)
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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Stefany @drstefanyc.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The first (and arguably most important!) step in prepping my Fall course is complete: updating the hex icon for the course! (I used the simple but excellent hexSticker package to create it. I've used it for years for my courses.)
Hexagonal R stats style icon for my course. Includes a blue scatterplot with an orange linear fit line in the center, with course title (Biostatistics) across the top and the course number (BTS 510) and term (Fall 2026) along the bottom right edge.
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Stefany @drstefanyc.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I had asthma when I was a kid, but it went away when I went to college. What actually happened (probably)? I've not lived in a house or apartment with a gas stove since then.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
People are making fun of AOC for having a slight southern accent while speaking in Memphis but they clearly don’t know the pain of habitually and unconsciously imitating the speaking style of the people around you
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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
As Black communities continue to face persistent disparities in cancer outcomes—from breast cancer in women to prostate cancer in men—we’ve rounded up organizations dedicated to providing the advocacy, support, and assistance patients and (cont.) www.theroot.com/need-cancer-...
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
“Someone should invent a high tech self-replicating machine that uses solar energy to remove carbon from the air and turn it into a sustainable building material. Oh wait, that’s what trees are.” (Surveee) Alaska is home to two of the nation’s largest national forests: the Chugach and Tongass :-)}
A black and white poster with faded images of tall trees with full, leafy branches, above which appears:
“Someone should invent a high tech self-replicating machine that uses solar energy to remove carbon from the air and turn it into a sustainable building material.
Oh wait, that’s what trees are.”
~ Surveee
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 17/09/2025
Say what you will about Disney but long before Male Influencers were ever part of the public imagination they warned us about what a danger insecure aura farmers are to the community.
Gaston from Beauty and the Beast grinning stupidly and flexing his huge muscles in a red shirt with a yellow collar
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Spencer McDaniel @spencermcdaniel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
My favorite take on the interminable Helen of Troy casting controversy. (Those who know about ancient Greek theater will get this.)
The casting in The Odyssey is really bad.

The ancient Greeks would never have cast a woman as Helen of Troy.
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Stefany @drstefanyc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I'll admit that I have a *lot* of data on my child. Like feedings and sleep sessions dating from birth, complete with graphs. But that is extreme even for me.
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Stefany @drstefanyc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Yeah, he's kind of a menace. But at least he stays in bed. 😂
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Stefany @drstefanyc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
He actually has one (older version of this: www.hatchbaby.com/baby) that changes to a different color when it's time to get up. It usually wakes him up but he still doesn't get up lol. He just yells louder.
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the beggars out of here getter @milesklee.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
My privilege to share some lovely stories from the science community about what Sam Neill's timeless performance as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park meant to them—and why it will continue to inspire kids to chase their own discoveries for years to come.
wired.com
Sam Neill Inspired a Generation of Scientists
The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist Alan Grant in the 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park.
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Stefany @drstefanyc.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I am incredibly grateful that my nearly 6 year old *still* doesn't get out of bed on his own. I worried so much when we switched from crib to toddler bed and then to adult bed, but it never happened. However, that means he stays in bed and *bellows* for us instead. I still count it as a win.
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 03/07/2026
I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.
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Stefany @drstefanyc.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Haha! Materials I created for a class 2 years ago to demonstrate some tangential topic were exactly what I needed to complete this real task! Random teaching energy wins again!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
This is the basis for the conservative majority finding standing in today's SCOTUS opinion striking down a key campaign finance law -- that J.D. Vance is running for Senate in 2028.
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GrayFoxArcade @grayfoxarcade.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Ah yes...the steam sale is tmrw...ill be doing that tmrw afternoon instead with 10hr Wii shop music. Hope yall enjoy me selecting more indies!
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/06/2026
“In a recent study looking at the use of AI in healthcare, researchers from Stanford and Harvard found even top-performing AI models from Anthropic and Google produced 12 to 15 severely harmful errors per 100 cases. The worst-performing models made mistakes in 40 out of 100 cases.”
marketplace.org
Why nurses' unions are fighting for AI guardrails
Nurses' unions in Michigan and New York City are winning contract language that gives them oversight of how AI tools are deployed in their hospitals.
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AltReclamation 💦 @altreclamation.altgov.info · 24/06/2026
Let’s have a big round of applause for the former NOAA employees who launched Climate.us in response to the regime taking down the dot gov site. It takes a lot of work to build & launch a scientific federal site, & now this great resource lives on! 🌊 🌎 🌡️ @altnoaa.bsky.social
climate.us
Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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