Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Look, I'm new to package debugging (infinitely more complex than homespun functions), but I'm genuinely impressed with Positron debugging tools. I can step through the call stack? See what variables are in scope at each stage??? I think I'm in love. 0123 12
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Anyone know of a CS student really excited to get some hands-on experience writing unit tests?? It's for a good cause! 000 0
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 08/06/2026That definitely was part of the design process for this one: 130 3
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Joint talk I gave with Russ Lenth at WASANR on how the maintainer hand-off is going for 'emmeans'. jpiaskowski.gitlab.io/talks/WASANR... 010 1
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Great talk by @lucystats.bsky.social at the Agricultural Statistics conference in Lincoln. wasanr.unl.edu 030 3
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Ah, this error that crops up every few years (rlang won't compile in a GHA). The maintainer of R actions has a "works on my computer" attitude, so I won't bother going there. Any ideas on how to fix it? 100 1
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Totally lost trying to figure out the "SciENcv" format for C&P and BioSketches. The eraCommons is a endless series of circular links, but low and behold, instructions on how to format an *XML* format, something most scientists have never heard of. 000 0
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 10/11/2025These graphs of self-taught teenagers' startup to design agricultural herbicides is something else. 'Bindwell’s website once described these [AI] models as insanely fast [that] could predict, in mere seconds, the results of experiments that would have taken days' www.wired.com/story/ai-sta... 220 2
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 09/11/2025This whole thing is a quite a tale: "a few teens had in a handful of months built their own LLMs, learned the biochemistry of pest control, used their models to identify potential molecules, and were now pipetting away in their own lab..." 000 0
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Ya know, I just wanted to know more about major land use areas. 120 2
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 18/08/2025Just made my first actual substantive PR to emmeans (that I am learning how to co-maintain). By substantive, I don't mean huge, but something that's not just fixed typos. Dang, it's terrifying to try to carry on a legacy package. 210 2
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 13/08/2025apropos of me rewatching it, the Acolyte is good. Sure, it's no Andor, but it is a well paced, interesting story with some very strong emotional beats. Bummer that Disney gave into the trolls and cancelled it. 030 3
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 11/08/2025If you see this, post a bad woman you love. 060 6
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 18/06/2025This definitely helps me understands why I got so many divergent transitions during HMC: 000 0
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 05/06/2025Ag statisticians checking out the Snake River valley along the idaho-WA/OR border. This stuff reminds me what I love about Idaho. 010 1
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 05/06/2025NCCC-170 meeting on! All the important applied ag stats discussions. 011 1
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Dedra Meero is back, still putting up with no one's bullshit and being a complete bitch. I've missed her! 040 4
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 15/04/2025I don't know what version of retrograde mercury is in, but nothing is working with my quarto CI build today. taking ideas on what to do/spells to cast 000 0
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 23/03/2025There are actually open jobs with the USA Jobs (the hiring freeze is over) probably some people are applying, but I'm curious what the application rate is now. 110 1
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 17/03/2025It would have been the bro's 45th bday today. Miss ya, buddy. 020 2
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 16/03/2025Buried in the source code of lme4 (predict.R) is this gem. @bbolker.bsky.social is this your doing?? 110 1
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025hey folks, I know we are all struggling. Here is a reminder to take a breath and attend to your needs, whatever they may be. For me, there are some writers I enjoy, and crafts that occupy my mind in a positive way. What helps you? 010 1
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 08/03/202513. Episode with a great one-off celebrity guest: the answer is of course Iggy Pop in DS9's "the Magnificent Ferengi", which is as fun as it sounds. 110 1
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 04/01/2025I think we now all have an explanation for the infamous Batman 'nipple suit' 000 0
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 02/01/2025I wrote up a new years blog post about how I rely community actions to keep hope in my heart and I also drag those garbage arguments that "the world is getting better". jpiaskowski.gitlab.io/posts/practi... 001 1
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 23/12/2024The Project 2025 version of ag research has the intellectual rigor of a high school research paper. I'm guessing they read a few press releases and had zero convo's with ag researchers before writing cultural war gems like this: 100 1
Julia Piaskowski @jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 23/11/2024"I don’t have lately. I have always. I have a constant blur of plates spinning and knives on the floor and needy, panicked faces at the door, of which you are but one of many." -- A consulting statistician, probably 0110 11
