Reposted by Kelly StreetLuiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Suraj has a point. 85131254454
Kelly Street @kstreet.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I just want to thank whoever's been doing the stats for Cubs games lately 0161
Reposted by Kelly StreetMichael Baym @baym.lol · 17/04/2026I’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 10836320
Reposted by Kelly StreetMaggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 15/04/2026NEW: 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...futurism.comAI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study WarnsA new study claims to offer the first causal link between AI dependency and cognitive erosion. Researchers warn of long-term implications. 4821621174
Reposted by Kelly StreetJason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 28/03/2026If you don't want GitHub Copilot trained on your code, you've been automatically opted in. You have until April 24th to opt out. 30338186
Reposted by Kelly StreetPrasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 13/03/2026we are losing so much talent, progress, and hope for no good reason www.vox.com/future-perfe... 321274600
Reposted by Kelly StreetMiser @misernyc.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Right on cue, it's time to subsidize drivers at non-drivers expense again, as is tradition. 28318
Reposted by Kelly StreetLuke Knox @lukeknox.me · 02/03/2026THREAD: Weirdest athlete/president combos from Leaf’s bizarre President’s Day set Dominik Hasek/Bill Clinton 27485110
Reposted by Kelly StreetColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 27/01/2026If I know you use this I will literally never cite your work again, because there is literally no way to trust it or you 513740
Reposted by Kelly StreetAparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/01/2026YES THAT'S WHAT MANY OF US HAVE BEEN SAYING FOR YEARS AND THATS WHY WE DON'T USE IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 281645498
Reposted by Kelly StreetBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/01/2026The 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. 275160772846
Reposted by Kelly StreetEmily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Celebrity 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:heated.worldWhy 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. 27619280
Reposted by Kelly StreetHelena Lucia Crowell @helucro.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Many 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!bioconductor.orgOrchestrating Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis with Bioconductor 14024
Reposted by Kelly StreetMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/11/2025The 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.youtu.beTop researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'YouTube video by PBS NewsHour 1806328
Reposted by Kelly StreetZach 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. 2205
Reposted by Kelly Streetdrewtoothpaste @drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 21/08/2025age 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 465581465
Reposted by Kelly StreetBrian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Freelance 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.bloodinthemachine.comArtists are losing work, wages, and hope as bosses and clients embrace AIVisual 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. 8745002470
Reposted by Kelly StreetMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 30/08/2025On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable 5169412349
Reposted by Kelly StreetCaroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 23/07/2025i AM an artist and my studio is R STUDIO 1798
Reposted by Kelly StreetBioconductor @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 #RStatsblog.bioconductor.orgBioconductor and ggplot2 4.0.0: What’s Changing and How to Prepare – Bioconductor community blogPreparing for the upcoming update - key changes, potential breakages, and what developers and users can do 0168
Reposted by Kelly StreetDr. Jean Fan @jef.works · 10/07/2025In 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 2249
Reposted by Kelly StreetNancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 09/07/2025I cannot believe I haven’t shared this on here. Spot on Christine Brennan parody. 614645
Reposted by Kelly StreetDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Because 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. 652660947
Reposted by Kelly StreetWill Townes @willtownes.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Benchmarking 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... #genomicsdoi.orgCharacterizing efficient feature selection for single-cell expression analysisAbstract. Unsupervised feature selection is a critical step for efficient and accurate analysis of single-cell RNA-seq data. Previous benchmarks used two d 0122
Reposted by Kelly Streetpork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 21/06/2025amtrak’s marketing team gets it 445305639988
Reposted by Kelly StreetDavid_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 10/06/2025We 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. 594230405049
Reposted by Kelly StreetCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 05/06/2025The 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.arstechnica.comUS science is being wrecked, and its leadership is fighting the last warFacing an extreme budget, the National Academies hosted an event that ignored it. 17870249
Reposted by Kelly StreetProPublica @propublica.org · 05/06/2025We 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.projects.propublica.org“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless SweepsCities 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… 7727801416
Reposted by Kelly StreetFanGraphs Baseball @fangraphs.com · 29/05/2025HUGGRAPHS!blogs.fangraphs.comPete Crow-Armstrong Just Wants a HugIs it a crime to celebrate with your friends? The Cubs center fielder is determined to find out. He’s never late to celebrate. 1304
Kelly Street @kstreet.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Fun side project: website with WNBA standings, power rankings, predictions, and league history. kstreet13.github.io/wnbastandings/kstreet13.github.io2025 WNBA Standings – WNBA Standings 260
Kelly Street @kstreet.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Now 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. 030
Kelly Street @kstreet.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Don'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...github.comGitHub - 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 031
Reposted by Kelly StreetLOWρUFO 🇺🇦🇵🇸🌍 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 13/04/2025I found the most incredible graph on the other site 7533781009
Reposted by Kelly StreetNaomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025This 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. 183135664628
Reposted by Kelly StreetAndrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/03/2025I’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/ 571468434
Reposted by Kelly StreetTravis Miller @justtmill.bsky.social · 14/03/2025Every 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! 4181
Reposted by Kelly StreetItai 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... 32311
Kelly Street @kstreet.bsky.social · 25/02/2025I'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! 031
Reposted by Kelly StreetGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Here 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. 2941554
Reposted by Kelly StreetChris Lane @lanelaburi.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Academic 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. 016024
Reposted by Kelly Streetc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Let'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.media.tenor.coma person holding a bird in front of an oxygen signAlt: 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. 1313316
Reposted by Kelly StreetEmily Goldberg @dremilygoldberg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025WHERE ARE OUR UNIVERSITIES 071
Reposted by Kelly StreetMike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Listen 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! 9848
Reposted by Kelly StreetNsikan Akpan @monscience.bsky.social · 22/01/2025NIH 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 30766503280