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I mean, many systems make it mandatory to fill in something, but I usually just tap a random radio button and write as my first comment to the editor that they should disregard that recommendation and decide for themselves what my review suggests the decision should be in their journal.

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Right, that makes sense. And I guess for small households it's probably also more energy-efficient than a regular oven.

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Also the swordfighting mechanics are incredibly satisfying.

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

Ditto, also for the reject/major revision/minor revision/accept scale. Most journals aren't PLoS One and have other publication criteria besides technical correctness for publication. It's the editor's task to reconcile those with the reviewer's assessment of the work's strengths and weaknesses

Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 23/09/2026

I've always wondered why some people are really into air fryers. Aren't they just small convection ovens?

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I'm already a bit disappointed that we do not own a cat and that her dog is too huge to travel on the thing.

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

I think what most annoys me is service providers trying to build features into email that only work within their walled garden. We already have teams and what not for that.

Especially if you regularly interact with people from outside your workplace. Then they become emails again. "Person X reacted to this message with a 👍"

Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 15/09/2026

In the hierarchy of methods to deal with missing data, "look harder" should always be #1.

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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

Desk-reject: rejection without review Bookshelf-reject: effective rejection after shelving the manuscript for future reading and forgetting it ever existed Window-reject: rejection by defenestration without reading

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

arxiv.org

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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 · 26/08/2026

Often that's hard, and there are no solid guidelines. But feature creep is definitely a thing in model development, and generally I believe the most efficient way to fight it is to have clear stopping criteria.

Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 26/08/2026

It's a nice text, and I'm sure anyone with any experience in applied modelling would concur. In addition to having huge teams, I think one important solution is to have a clear definition of what constitutes a good-enough model before the work even starts.

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

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It's not a defense, but I keep mixing people's names in real life as well :D To the degree that even when I've known someone for a very long time, I sometimes avoid saying their name out loud just because I fear it might be the wrong one.

Thanks :D So far it's been a great trip. t The only downside really is there's too little time to spend in each city we pass through.

No wait, I'm confused again. Thanks @zetaof1.bsky.social . It's like that time I mixed up Latvia and Lithuania.

Thanks for the great suggestions @tiddlydump.bsky.social ! The food at Etno Dvaras was delicious, and the gardens were beautiful. It was a nice surprise to find a specialty coffee joint right at the edge of the gardens with a view to the systematic section.

Potato in many forms at the Etno Dvaras restaurant

Coffee on the balcony of the Strangelove coffee shop

The Bernardine gardens are bordered by the Vilnia river

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Perfect, the first example models they work through are closely related to the models I'm using, so I'm actually getting useful info for my presentation.

Girls just wanna have distributions with fixed parameters.

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I misread stationary as stationarity, but in my limited experience this is also a valid question.

Thanks! We're planning on checking out Etno Dvaras already today if the restaurant's website's claims of being open until 24.00 are accurate :D I'm pretty sure we'll be famished once we reach Vilnius after spending the entire day on tracks.

Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 22/08/2026

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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I'm unironically in favor of changing the required format of publications from Word documents and pdfs to plain text files.

An R session generating an ASCII line chart showing agreement with ASCII science being a good idea rising quickly to 100 %.

Code:
library(asciichartr)
percent_agree_ascii_science_good_idea <- c(0,1-1/seq(2,60,2))*100
cat(asciiPlot(percent_agree_ascii_science_good_idea,cfg = list(min = 0, max = 100, height=10)))

Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 22/08/2026

At least it's a small cup, so it's likely more than half-full.

Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 21/08/2026

Helsingin Puna-Mustien pesisjoukkue voitti juuri ensimmäisen välieräottelunsa. Ehkä täälläkin pelataan ensi vuonna Superpesistä?

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 19/08/2026

Personally I choose to believe that replicated food is indistinguishable from non-replicated in blind tests, and that the characters still maintain replicated food just can't be as good as their gumbo prepared according to the secret family recipe.

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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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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 17/08/2026

But we also know these types of timelines can lead to more compulsive scrolling and feelings of regret over wasted time. What people do and what they actually want to do are not always the same thing.

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 17/08/2026

Yes! An example: a representative of a large social media corporation once criticized people who vocally demand chronological timelines, saying that "revealed preferences" prove that algorithmic infinite timelines are what people want.

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 17/08/2026

Julia, think of the environment. Would it not be better to periodically melt all them into a new fused mega bar?

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Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 14/08/2026

cupcake retraction notice upcoming

Konsta Happonen @konsta.happonen.eu · 14/08/2026

Nope, but this is a good opportunity to resurface this classic: bsky.app/profile/mjsk...

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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 · 05/08/2026

Hopefully! I'm already learning that writing unit tests is both a horrible drag and a life-saving necessity. And despite the amount of pretty dull labour writing a package requires, I'm still excited!