L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 3hThe LLM majors in America are often bad faith actors. The social consequences of mass compute, prediction, and function in many professional knowledge processing is serious. And some of the most prominent critics of this technology do not have the basic technical and academic familiarity with them. 151
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 8hIn personal news: I had a judge today grant a temporary restraining order that I requested on my ex. It's a relief that the law is now clear that she should not be 100 yards of me or my workplace. 171
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenChise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 28/09/2026GOOD NEWS! Researchers have discovered a new antibiotic, known as manikomycin, that may be a bulwark in the fight against drug-resistant superbugs. By attacking the ribosome in a never-before-seen way, manikomycin can evade the existing mechanisms pathogens have developed to resist antibiotics. 7339231148
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026As a teenager in the mid-2010s who was around the math/physics/philosophy community (was broadly in social science + philosophy of mathematics as a college student), the rationalist scene was weird as hell, man. A lot of good people in it! But also, a lot of people with obvious bad intentions. 150
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Innumeracy and its consequences have been a disaster for society. There are trillions being poured into technology because it can perform certain functions! How they work and how they fail are incredibly important and fundamentally, much of the commentary about them *does not engage in that.* 1150
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenJan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 21/09/2026Tidyplots offers a variety of continuous color schemes 🌈 Most of the continuous color schemes are adapted from Stéfan van der Walt and Nathaniel Smith (2015) and were designed to maximize accessibility for individuals with color vision deficiencies. #rstats #dataviz 061
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026The sizes of introductory math and calculus courses at the University of California system have not measurably increased since the introduction of SAT-optional admissions (2020-26). However, preparatory mathematics courses have increased while rates of D/F/Withdrawing/Not Passing has exploded. 240
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Yeah, she should have learned it at 11. 180
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenJan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 15/09/2026This is how you can highlight a subset of the dataset in #tidyplots 🔥 jbengler.github.io/tidyplots/refere… #rstats #dataviz #phd 141
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenTrevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land. 8576732174
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026In a warming world, hard choices need to be made about increasingly likely destructive wildfires and their impacts on population centers. Masking climate reality with ideology and masking the complex decisions that result from it is unfortunately going to become increasingly common. 020
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyentj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 25/08/2026annoyed this never occurred to me. (it's a method for bootstrapping repeated measures data. text via Deen & de Rooij, 2020, doi.org/10.3758/s134...) 2306
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Holy shit a Change in AIC score chart in a working paper This is the first time I've seen one in the wild. As a stat/methodology nerd this is so cool! 220
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenDan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.nature.comExclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decadesThe US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project. 14754470
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Let me be blunt, as a statistician who's worked in Natural Resources Management: Wild horses, especially in the American West, are an invasive non-native species that out-compete native foragers. In a water-starved West, they're accelerating soul erosion and declines in plant biomass. 152
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenNicolas Fernandez @cornhundred.bsky.social · 19/08/2026We're excited to share our new preprint, Celldega: Integrated Toolkit for Visualization and Analysis of Spatial Data! Celldega is an open-source framework that tightly couples scalable, interactive visualization (>1M cells and >1B transcripts) with spatial-omics analysis #Xenium #StrataMap #Atera 1183
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The price of an Event Lead/Marketing Executive with 18+ years experience is not 66-80k in the San Francisco Bay Area and NYC. The LLM majors are insane but let's actually traffic in facts here. Marketing and events management for large corporations, especially valuation-driven ones, is expensive. 180
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Journalist surprised that Propaganda Minister always helpful, friendly to those who want to listen. 1111
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenJen Keane @zenbuffy.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I'm loathe to share this man, but this one is personal. My masters thesis was on the MMR controversy, so believe me when I say that this path of separation of the MMR will result in nothing but increased sales of too-small coffins, and children with life-altering medical conditions. 542002639
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenErik Nordman @eriknordman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026🎂Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom was born on this day in 1933! Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics for her research on "collaborative governance, especially the commons." She showed how communities of users could work together to sustain their shared resources. 1/9 2348134
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026I've spent a lot of my life struggling to accept the choices I made when I was disowned, kicked out, and homeless at 15. The things I chose to do to for housing, food, and an education. The way I behaved as a person. I saw a 15 year old in the clinic the other day. They looked so fucking young. 090
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenJan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 03/08/2026This is how you can visualize gene expression data in #tidyheatmaps 🤩 jbengler.github.io/tidyheatmaps #rstats #dataviz #phd 082
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 30/07/2026The "scientific establishment" is always a funny thing to say because there's not one singular place where science happens. A tenure-hungry microbiologist at a state university or an early career fellow in Infectious Diseases would love to find the origin of a global pandemic, actually! 260
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenJan Broder Engler @jbengler.de · 11/07/2026This is how you can add the mean and standard deviation to summarize the raw data points in your #tidyplots 🤩 Alternatively, you can also display the median, standard error of the mean, 95% confidence interval, and more. #rstats #dataviz #phd 0133
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenEthan Struby @estruby.bsky.social · 23/06/2026the always-insightful Christian Hellwig has a (recently posted) Chicago Fed working paper that looks provocative and interesting: www.chicagofed.org/publications... 0184
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenJoe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 14/06/2026OH MY GOD (again) I GET TO TALK ABOUT MORE OF MY DISSERTATION! This is the second time this has happened in a week and has never happened before. So…verification at odds with a decentralized ethos, you say? Step into my office. 1/ 2255
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenCanary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 07/06/2026Utilities are apparently not sharing smart meter data across PJM’s grid territory. That’s holding back grid-relieving demand-response programs.canarymedia.comUtilities aren’t sharing smart meter data in PJM. That’s a problem.Demand response companies say utilities in the biggest U.S. energy market are blocking gigawatts of grid relief by withholding data meant to help… 073
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenAdrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Amongst all the rubbish that I have seen in peer reviewed papers, this data is the worst. There are sketches, images of children (with no mention of ethics) and multiple celebrities, whilst the paper states: "A smart camera located in patient rooms has been used to collect images". 082
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenKiran @kirancodes.me · 20/05/2026Craziest thing about lean.py? You can roll your own (almost) feature-parity successor to Dafny. Python programs. Lean obligations. Grind as a solver. Proof complete. Program verified. Python code. Real. 4528
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenHello, it's Dan McDaid @danmcdaid.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer 122156792657
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenDorothy Bishop @deevybee.bsky.social · 09/05/2026see also this from 2011 deevybee.blogspot.com/2011/06/brai...deevybee.blogspot.comBrain scans show that.....©cartoonstock.com I was set off today by a report that “ fMRI scans prove music is more emotionally stimulating if you listen with y... 093
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyenrmarkdown.bsky.social @rmarkdown.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Linear Regression: A Visual Introduction to (Almost) Everything You Should Know 👉 mlu-explain.github.io/linear-regre... By @jdwlbrv — a must-read for anyone into #rstats, #dataviz, #datascience, #machinelearning, #LinearRegression, and #stats.mlu-explain.github.ioLinear RegressionA visual, interactive explanation of linear regression for machine learning. 0154
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenJoe Fish @sadbusdriver.bsky.social · 02/05/2026The iron-ish law of YIMBYism: Markets that spend decades below 6% rental vacancy are almost always expensive. Markets that maintain healthy vacancy rates are usually cheap 49518
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026arXiv📈🤖 int3ract: Johnson-Neyman Technique and its Three-Way Extension for Frequentist and Bayesian Models in R By Krause 011
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 26/04/2026I've seen enough, US Postal Inspection Service needs to take over presidential protection and leave the Secret Service to go back to their niche of chasing down counterfeiting. 030
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 27/03/2026> 50 years of stability 50 years ago we were 3 years away from the Iranian Revolution and 4 years away from the Iraq-Iran War. Anyone who thinks that 50 years of stability in geopolitics is even possible in this domain — well, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell them. 030
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 23/03/2026You cannot be saying this kind of thing when your primary job is podcaster. 632274274
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenDarren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 311050400
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenMegan Wachspress @meganwachspress.bsky.social · 17/03/2026More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...cooperativeoverlapping.substack.comA Fuller Statement About My Bluesky PostsLet me paint a picture of what it was like to be a woman math major at the University of Chicago circa 2004. 401830327
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026As a 17-year-old commege sophomore, I was sexually harassed by my math professor. It changed, markedly, the trajectory of my life. I'd earned a full scholarship to study science & engineering at 15. That became impossible when I couldn't even sit in a room alone with a professor without panicking. 1110
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyenliz ten eleven @selectric.space · 11/03/2026my bloomberg terminal is just showing the scene where wile e. coyote runs off past the edge of a cliff, is this good? 05010
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Name of the hospital that saved my life (Lucile Packard Children's Hospital) and famous historical figure (Eleanor Rykener) got me Lucille Eleanor. 010
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Run from it, hide from it, the Haber-Bosch Process comes for you all the same. 1287
L. Eleanor "Moose" Nguyen @moosewin.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Throughout industrialized nations, there's been a long-run decline in hours worked annually. This time is, in fact, used on leisure and other non-work activities. This has been concurrent with mechanization, automated manufacturing, and the decline in agricultural share of total employment. 3171
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenLindsay Popowski @popowski.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Is the only way we can create algorithms that people understand to make them trivially simple? We argue, no. People can predict the behavior of algorithms that are arbitrarily complex, if and only if they are available, compact and aligned. arxiv.org/abs/2601.18966 24012
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenAndrew Perfors @perfors.net · 22/01/2026I just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.youtube.comPart 1: How do LLMs work?YouTube video by Andrew Perfors 20505193
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenYutani @yutannihilation-en.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Writing a GeoPackage(GPKG) library from scratch taught me a lot about some friction between the spec and the modern geospatial ecosystem🦀🌍 GPKG is SQLite. We take that for granted, but have you ever stopped to think about the advantages and disadvantages? Here’s my take. dev.to/yutannihilat...dev.toHow it feels to write a GPKG library in 2026 (in Rust!)There are a lot of existing libraries to deal with GeoPackage (GPKG). GDAL is the undisputed champion... 0124
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenAnton Strezhnev @astrezh.bsky.social · 22/01/2026The Spring 2026 course website for my grad causal inference class is up and running. Was inspired by @andrew.heiss.phd and @mattblackwell.bsky.social to move my materials over to a standalone site and use as little of Canvas as possible. www.antonstrezhnev.com/ps813/antonstrezhnev.comPoliSci 813 76810
Reposted by L. Eleanor "Moose" NguyenAntonin Poché @antoninpoche.bsky.social · 20/01/2026🔥I am super excited for the official release of an open-source library we've been working on for about a year! 🪄interpreto is an interpretability toolbox for HF language models🤗. In both generation and classification! Why do you need it, and for what? 1/8 (links at the end) 1229