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Kelly Street

@kstreet.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor in Biostatistics at USC. Interested in computational tools for single-cell genomics, esp. R/Bioconductor. Teaching a lot of cool stuff related to Health Data Science. he/him

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Suraj has a point.
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Kelly Street @kstreet.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I just want to thank whoever's been doing the stats for Cubs games lately
Graphic showing that teams that score the most have a perfect winning percentage so far this year.Graphic celebrating Earth Day, noting that the Cubs have played 22,441 consecutive games on Earth.
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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 17/04/2026
I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
NEW: A new pre-print study offers the first causal evidence that outsourcing reasoning tasks to AI can rapidly erode users' independent performance AND their will to persist despite difficulty. "People’s persistence drops... they’re also not willing to try without AI.” futurism.com/artificial-i...
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AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
A new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications.
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
If you don't want GitHub Copilot trained on your code, you've been automatically opted in. You have until April 24th to opt out.
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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Miser @misernyc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Right on cue, it's time to subsidize drivers at non-drivers expense again, as is tradition.
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Luke Knox @lukeknox.me · 02/03/2026
THREAD: Weirdest athlete/president combos from Leaf’s bizarre President’s Day set Dominik Hasek/Bill Clinton
Dominik Hasek/Bill Clinton
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
If I know you use this I will literally never cite your work again, because there is literally no way to trust it or you
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
We are increasingly being encouraged to integrate generative AI into research and teaching. Individuals use it for writing, planning and teaching; universities are experimenting with embedding it into curricula. However, my case reveals a fundamental weakness: these tools were not developed with academic standards of reliability and accountability in mind.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans. New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:
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Why are famous chefs fighting PFAS bans?
The answer, in retrospect, is obvious—and it’s part of a larger campaign to stop bans on Teflon cookware nationwide.
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Helena Lucia Crowell @helucro.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Many people hours, calls and messages later: OSTA is now “in (pre)print”, though the real thing lives at bioconductor.org/books/OSTA. Check it out, get in touch. We welcome any feedback, suggestions, wishes (& contributions). It’s been a joy working with you @estellayixingdong.bsky.social!
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Orchestrating Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis with Bioconductor
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/11/2025
The United States was the leading destination for top scientists from all over the world. That is ending. Politicians ended it. It will cripple our future competitiveness. And it’s such a bitter tragedy. Almost no Americans, Conservative or Liberal, grasp what is now being stolen from them.
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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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Zach Deegan @deegs23.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
@tomflood.bsky.social My Physics warm up slides today. The last one is for those students that wanna argue with me about who should or shouldn’t be in the street.
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drewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.
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Artists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AI
Visual artists, illustrators and graphic designers share their stories about how AI is being used to lower wages, degrade work and even replace it altogether, in this installment of AI Killed My Job.
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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
*stares in academia*
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable
Average nitrogen dioxide concentration in Paris has fallen significantlyHer proposals have faced pushback — from right-leaning politicians, a car owners’ association and suburban commuters, who say that targeting cars makes their lives more difficult.

But last month, Parisians voted in a referendum to turn an additional 500 streets over to pedestrians. A year earlier, Paris had moved to sharply increase parking fees for SUVs, forcing drivers to pay three times more than they would for smaller cars. The city has also turned a bank of the Seine from a busy artery into a pedestrian zone and banned most car traffic from the shopping boulevard of Rue de Rivoli.

Carlos Moreno, a professor at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and a former adviser to the city, said the French capital has developed “an urban policy based on well-being.”
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
i AM an artist and my studio is R STUDIO
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Bioconductor @bioconductor.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
📝 New blog post: Bioconductor and ggplot2 4.0.0 - What’s Changing and How to Prepare A major ggplot2 update is coming and may impact Bioconductor packages. What’s changing, how to test, and where to get help 👉 blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-0... #Bioconductor #RStats
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Bioconductor and ggplot2 4.0.0: What’s Changing and How to Prepare – Bioconductor community blog
Preparing for the upcoming update - key changes, potential breakages, and what developers and users can do
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Dr. Jean Fan @jef.works · 10/07/2025
In this blog post, I use #RStats to analyze ICE detention data. #Datavisualization shows record numbers of detainees without any criminal records. Further more/bigger ICE facilities are popping up far from the border. Code along and take a look for yourself: jef.works/blog/2025/07... #CodeTutorial
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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I cannot believe I haven’t shared this on here. Spot on Christine Brennan parody.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
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Will Townes @willtownes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Benchmarking study of single-cell feature selection finds deviance to be an effective criterion: doi.org/10.1093/bib/... . Try it yourself with our ( @kstreet.bsky.social @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @davi1893.bsky.social ) scry package @bioconductor.bsky.social : doi.org/doi:10.18129... #genomics
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Characterizing efficient feature selection for single-cell expression analysis
Abstract. Unsupervised feature selection is a critical step for efficient and accurate analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data. Previous benchmarks used two d
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pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 21/06/2025
amtrak’s marketing team gets it
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/06/2025
The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.
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US science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last war
Facing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/06/2025
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.
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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…
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FanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 29/05/2025
HUGGRAPHS!
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Pete Crow-Armstrong Just Wants a Hug
Is it a crime to celebrate with your friends? The Cubs center fielder is determined to find out. He’s never late to celebrate.
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Kelly Street @kstreet.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Fun side project: website with WNBA standings, power rankings, predictions, and league history. kstreet13.github.io/wnbastandings/
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2025 WNBA Standings – WNBA Standings
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Kelly Street @kstreet.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Coding like the pioneers.
A screenshot of my computer desktop with the R app (not RStudio) open, alongside a text editor with an R script open and a Finder window.
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Kelly Street @kstreet.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Now updated to include all women's tournaments! And switching the data source to Wikipedia seems to have dramatically cut down on the number of typos I have to fix.
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Kelly Street @kstreet.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Don't know if anybody else will find this useful, but I was recently looking for a dataset of March Madness games and couldn't find one that went back farther than 2008, so I made one: github.com/kstreet13/ma...
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GitHub - kstreet13/marchMadnessScores: I collected the results of every March Madness game so that you don't have to.
I collected the results of every March Madness game so that you don't have to. - kstreet13/marchMadnessScores
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LOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I found the most incredible graph on the other site
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Kelly Street @kstreet.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
another satisfying milestone on the bike odometer
A screenshot of the Brompton app showing a light blue folding bike and 3,001 miles ridden
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/03/2025
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value
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Travis Miller @justtmill.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Every ballpark needs one weird thing. - Bring back the hill in Houston - More stuff like McCovey Cove in San Francisco - Bring back Polo grounds-esque dimensions - MAKE THE OUTFIELD DISTANCE MARKERS IN TORONTO METRIC AGAIN!
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"Your AI can’t see gorillas!" A few years ago we found that students are more likely to see the gorilla in their data if they are not also asked to test a specific hypothesis. In his blog Chiraag Gohel now shows that Chat-GPT can’t help you to find it either. chiraaggohel.com/posts/llms-e...
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Kelly Street @kstreet.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I'm proud to have been a part of the team that worked on this project! Miya, @lenawirth.bsky.social, and @braunmdphd.bsky.social are all brilliant collaborators and an incredibly fun group to talk science with!
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Here is a Boston Globe columnist asking if cyclists bring on animosity by, *checks notes* wanting to be able to ride their bike to work without being killed.
Before we go any further, this seems like a good time to address the elephant in the lane. Do the cyclists themselves bring on some of the animosity?
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Chris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Academic colleagues, especially junior ones, you’re about to learn a lot about your institutions, colleagues and peers. These next few years will be terrible, but take note of who steps up, who gives up and who cuts a life raft off for themselves and their own. It will serve you to know who is who.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Let's talk about the potoos, family 'Nyctibiidae'. There are seven species of these insectivorous birds in Central & South America. What immediately stands out are the giant mouth & bizarre eyes, both adaptations to hunting for bug meals (and for some, also birds & bats) at night.
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a person holding a bird in front of an oxygen sign
Alt: a person holding a Common potoo in front of an oxygen sign. The person wears a high-vis orange jumpsuit, suggesting an industrial or scientific field based facility.
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Emily Goldberg @dremilygoldberg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
WHERE ARE OUR UNIVERSITIES
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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Listen up local businesses! The Feigin Lab CAN be bought! Do you want your logo on our lab coats? $500! Naming rights to a TC hood? $2000! Endow my chair! Going cheap at $5000!
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Nsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions
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Kelly Street @kstreet.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
🫡🍫🦸
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