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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 16h

Surveys show that at least where I live, the 21st century has seen people shift their values from prioritizing their own needs towards prioritizing the needs of others.

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 24/09/2026

The Blood of Dawnwalker has already proved to be an excellent game. Anything with zombie nuns is a direct 10/10 from me.

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 22/09/2026

My girlfriend asked me to put more effort into splitting our vacuuming workload more evenly, so naturally I just ordered a robot vacuum.

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 01/09/2026

This is absolutely insane. Don't pay for-profit publishers APCs. Don't let your collaborators do it either. Post preprints of your work, post your work on pubmed central, but for fucks sake stop sending hard-earned grant dollars to these publishing conglomerates

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Andrea Howard @drandreahoward.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So if 40/42 studies in the meta are cross-sectional, it’s very reasonable to alternatively conclude that people who have more attention and self-regulation problems are more likely to be drawn to scrolling TikToks

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Joni Ollonen @teepaavi.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026

WWF announcer: Ye gods, it is the reviewer #3! And he has a folding chair!

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 28/08/2026

Personally, I'm still waiting for my first chair-rejection.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322

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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 25/08/2026

Now someone do the same but for op-ed pieces.

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 24/08/2026

Off to #ESAWarsaw2026. Boat ride from Helsinki to Tallinn done, now on the train to Vilnius. Tomorrow the final train to Warsaw! Good thing I brought something to pass the time with. #statssky

Bayesian Workflow by Gelman, Vehtari, McElreath et al. on a train from Valga to Riga.

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Robert Hanley @robertbhanley.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Data Point

An image of Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, pointing with the index finger of his left hand.

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MC Stan @mc-stan.org · 18/08/2026

There is now StanCon 2026 Uppsala playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... At the moment talks by @mjskay.com, @aseyboldt.bsky.social, @paulbuerkner.com, @charlesm993.bsky.social are up, and we'll keep uploading more during the week

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StanCon 2026 Uppsala - YouTube

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Samuel Moore @samuelmoore.org · 17/08/2026

Helpful reminder from Elsevier that they have the "legal power" to do what they want with your journals. You have the collective power to take your editorial work elsewhere.

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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 11/08/2026

I think "meh" is the correct response to the paper, as I think our response points out: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

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Danielle Navarro @djnavarro.net · 06/08/2026

The title is a little pointed, but I am very serious here. Academics, medical researchers, and other organisations should not collect data on birth sex. It is rarely relevant, and it almost always leads to privacy violations for transgender people. Please share. I would like people to read this one.

blog.djnavarro.net

Separating sex and gender is statistical malpractice – Notes from a data witch

Statisticians and academics in Australia should ignore the terrible advice of most LGBTIQA+ organisations and read this post instead. The 2020 ABS standard is almost never the correct way to collect d...

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 04/08/2026

I've finally decided a task I keep doing over and over at work merits building an #rstats package for it. This will the first package I'll make. Wish me luck.

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 30/07/2026

I have convinced my partner that we should start playing Blood Bowl, but their condition is that they get to play as the Gnomes. It might be that we will both have to play Gnomes. Look at these minis!!! (Especially the fox with the ball and the goose).

Gnome, goose, fox and badger miniatures from the tabletop game Blood Bowl

Woodland fox miniatures from Blood Bowl.

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Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

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Francesco Poli @francescopoli.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

4k in APCs very well spent

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 25/07/2026

Probably the last one I'm finishing before summer vacation is over. I'm quite happy with how the color gradations on the skin and the loincloth turned out with this one!

A purple dimensional shambler miniature.

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Grant McDermott @gmcd.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐭 v0.7.0 now available on CRAN 🎉 This is big release, with loads of new features. Same tiny footprint, though ;-) Short highlight thread below, borrowing examples from our gallery: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig...

https://github.com/grantmcdermott/tinyplot/blob/main/vignettes/gallery_figs/bubble-quakes.R

https://github.com/grantmcdermott/tinyplot/blob/main/vignettes/gallery_figs/simpsons-paradox.R

https://github.com/grantmcdermott/tinyplot/blob/main/vignettes/gallery_figs/barplot-meat.R

https://github.com/grantmcdermott/tinyplot/blob/main/vignettes/gallery_figs/spineplot-titanic.R

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value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

don't get it right away? no worries. keep kalman filter on

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 04/07/2026

Mina the Hollower definitely deserves all the praise it's getting. Fantastic, challenging game.

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 28/06/2026

Many forget this, and we all suffer for it.

You wouldn't download a dataset without reading the data quality notes

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 28/06/2026

Summer: a great time to take up a new hobby.

Ink, a broad-tip dip pen, a calligraphy book and a sketchbook half-filled with calligraphy exercises.

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 27/06/2026

Suomi mainittu, torille. It's been wonderful seeing the city transform to be much more pedestrian- and cyclist-friendly, though much remains to be done.

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 27/06/2026

Summer holiday is here, except for my laptop, which has to run MCMC chains for the next couple of days.

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Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt @betanalpha.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yes, unnormalized posterior density function, you _are_ enough.

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 25/06/2026

AC and other cooling measures are increasingly necessary even in places where they weren't before. AC increases energy consumption and is often used when not strictly necessary. Both things can be true at the same time.

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Sander van der Linden @profsanderlinden.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

New data on the efficacy of the Australia social media ban are worse than I thought. A new study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reports that over 85% of teens under 16 are still using social media. The 'friction' introduced by the ban seems very minimal. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 21/06/2026

Deep one coming along. Painting minis is such a nice way to turn your brain off. It requires just enough focus that your mind can't really wander, but not too much to feel exhausting.

A Mansions of Madness board game miniature depicting a Deep One, partially painted.

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Prof. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

We argue that this fits squarely into an emerging body of research that all points the same way: car culture and motonormativity are so entrenched, it's too late for information and incentives to make the difference. 'Hard' measures are needed if we want to get serious about reducing car harms 7/10

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Makes me sad more people don't know about @reviewcommons.org and the incredible system they've built! Get peer reviews independent of a journal, then submit with reviews in hand to a stable of excellent journals from across non-profit and society publishers. Review Commons: good for what ails ya.

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I HATE CITATION LIMITS! I do not understand why scientists should be forced to choose which statements to soften or leave unsupported in order to meet antiquated rules based on reducing physical pages!

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 18/06/2026

Happy Pride Month! In Finland 8 % of young men, 24 % of young women and almost 90 % of young non-binary people report belonging to a sexual minority. In young women this proportion has doubled since 2020. Gay is the future, gay is the present.

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 17/06/2026

Old Twitter hands down. I once spent an entire night arguing with a member of parliament about whether it's harmful to let cats roam free outside in densely populated areas. Fun times!

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 15/06/2026

My favourite piece of journalism on the social media ban was the wholesome story about the school that turned things around as students returned to gambling with cards again.

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 10/06/2026

I just used mixture survival models (bernoulli—log-logistic) to analyze response rates to a survey we ran. Was it overly complicated? Yes. Still worth it? Also yes.

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 26/05/2026

Need a break from work, so y'all are getting a thread about the universally best sport there is: PESÄPALLO, or Finnish baseball.

Home base with the pitcher of the defending team and the players of the batting team. CC-BY Santeri Viinamäki

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 18/05/2026

Growing old so it's time to return to all the hobbies I had when I was a teenager, such as painting small plastic people. I'm very happy with the model on the left, considering it's the first mini I've painted in 20 years.

Two painted plastic miniature figures from the Mansions of Madness board game. On the left, a gangster wearing a brown leather jacket and a red tie brandishes two golden pistols. On the right, a cultist in a grey robe is wielding a large silver dagger with a golden handle.

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 08/05/2026

Could we all just return to the optimal forms of communication: phone calls and e-mail.

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