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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Oh Michele Bullock you're not on here? Was going to tag you. Probably doesn't have time to create an account after all the driving between investment properties and killing of the poor :(

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Poverty kills. The level of Jobseeker kills. It is a choice governments make every year. It is a choice the RBA makes when it decides more people need to be unemployed www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Screenshot showing deaths per 100,000 by age

Not on welfare; on Jobseeker
22-34: 17.1; 137
35-44: 30; 288.1
45-54: 83.4; 427
55-64: 201.6; 615.6

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Ian Rapoport @rapsheet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Meanwhile, with an attendance of 100,021, the Rams vs 49ers in Melbourne is the 7th most attended regular season game in NFL history.

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Peer-Reviewed Slop @peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Bro... just WTF!?! ☠️ What is that deer-devil voodoo demon doing in that graphical abstract? In Coordination Chemistry Reviews?!? Impact Factor 25.6?!? 🤣 Come on now! 10.1016/j.ccr.2024.215942

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Smart glasses – including the best-known Ray Ban Meta glasses – can be fitted with prescription lenses. Alternatively, someone might simply require smart glasses to support their vision." Do better @theconversation.com! "Require"? These aren't TGA approved devices.

theconversation.com

Can Australian businesses legally ban customers from using smart glasses?

An outright ban is legally risky. Here are some safer options.

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Congrats @bharrap.bsky.social . New President for the Statistical Society of Australia! Legend mate 🙌

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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 28/07/2026

See you in court, creep.

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's ingenious if nothing else. They keep coming up with ways for the lower/middle class to funnel money up to the rich! Look out for the new "Early Trading Alerts Fee" being passed on to you on the next statement from your broker/superfund.

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I'm a slow reader at the best of times and this has been on my reading list for far to long. I can see this being an extra long read. So far every page and example is fantastic - many educational/conversation points rattling around my head as I read/reread each part.

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I like this visual! I mean, not the unfortunate content :( but the visual!!!

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Denis Mongin @denismongin.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I will be 40 this year. This is the difference of temperature anomaly between my birthyear and this year in France. Data from @infoclimat.fr #Rstats #climate

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

The past two days at "Essential skills for statistics leadership in consultancy and research" were two of the most energising days I've had in (without aging myself) decades of research. Thank you @nicolewhite.bsky.social for reaching out to invite me and @kelamb.bsky.social for co-organising 🙌🏼🙏🏼

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Associate Professor Cooper 🎉🎓

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

71% of Australians are in favour of a 25% tax on gas exports. Not sure why the govt is scared @skyelark.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...

Charts showing answers to the question of :to What extent do you agree/disagree: "Gas export corporations should pay a flat 25% on gas exports."

Total agree Don't know/Not sure Total disagree
Labor 80 10 10
Greens 77 9 14
All Australians 72 9 19
One Nation 70 7 24
Liberal 54 13 34

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Am preparing a talk for medical researchers about the use of ai in statistics (in health research). In the context of assisting with their research as opposed to building an ai tool as part of a project. What are some 'must touch on' topics or stories?

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Sample size calculations - that rush you get when someone comes back 18 months after you did a calculation for them for some "minor tweaks" and you find your documented notes and calculations code and screenshots 🎉 #RStats #Statistics #Statssky #DataScience

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🚨 New blog post - API access to UN Population Projections (and other interesting data!) In this example we just extract and plot a couple of interesting variables (Youth and Older-age dependency ratios) as an introduction to using the (well, their) API. #RStats #Statistics #Statssky #DataScience

the-kids-biostats.github.io

United Nations Population data | API extract and dependency plotting – The Kids Biostats

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

You often hear from gas companies that "yeah but we pay state royalties!!!" Lol nope. WA drivers pay more in rego and licence fees than gas companies pay WA in royalties. Heck WA gamblers pay more tax. And that's incredible given WA does NOT have pokies in pubs and clubs

Chart showing: WA drivers and gamblers pay more tax than gas companies pay royalties: 2025-26

Rego: $1,520m
Vehicle licence duty: $678m
Gambling taxes: $403m
Oil and gas royalties: $385m

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

You'll often hear how the gas industry is vital for Australia because it's so big. But really the only thing big about it is its profits.

Chart showing Profit and wages of oil and gas, compared to administration and support

Admin and support: Wages $64.3bn; Profits $13.1bn
Oil and gas: Wages $4bn; Profits $71.6bn

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Like Wordle? How about some math based alternatives! Created by a friend of mine, four different games, my favourite is FloodFill. Have a go! www.mathislit.com/FloodFill/

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

📌📝 We're hiring 📝📌 Open to considering all levels of experience for this Biostatistician position in Perth WA - one of the most 🌞 cities on 🌏 www.seek.com.au/job/90579895 #RStats #RStudio #StatsEpi #Stats

seek.com.au

Biostatistician Job in Nedlands, Perth WA - SEEK

Apply your biostatistical skills to support a wide variety of child health research projects being led by passionate researchers.

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🚨 New blog post - Simplifying the path to tidy variable names with nice labels the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2026-0... Little by little we're trying to remove friction from OUR regular tasks/processes. We hope others might benefit from this along the way.

the-kids-biostats.github.io

Efficiently Cleaning and Labelling Data Columns with thekidsbiostats – The Kids Biostats

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I've wished for this package so many times!

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

THE best #1. Get it on repeat 😍

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Sara Altman @sara-altman.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

More on LLMs and plot interpretation: they do fine in normal conditions, but struggle when the plot conflicts strongly with their priors. @simonpcouch.com and I investigated why and what might help: posit.co/blog/llm-plo...

Line chart showing percent correct on the y-axis and three conditions on the x-axis: Baseline, Intuitive, and Mocked. Three lines represent GPT-5.2, Claude Opus 4.5, and Gemini 2.5 Pro. All three models score between 93-98% on baseline, then drop on intuitive and mocked conditions. All three perform the worst on the mocked condition.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Wowzer! Not gonna lie, I've been straight up trying this every 6 months for about 15 years just waiting for this to drop!

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

🚨 New blog post the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2025-1... This one looking at the use of the {readaihw} package and the value of the AIHW data it enables you to access, plus a peak behind the scenes of something we do to spur on a little water cooler talk in the office.

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Here's to World Statistics Day 📊 Yes that's right, we've already got our eye on wrapping up 2025. #RStats #Statistics #Statssky #DataScience

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Happy birthday to me! Let's go @chargers.bsky.social ⚡⚡⚡

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Inflation in the past year was BELOW the RBA's target range in FIVE capital cities. And the only places it was above 2% were Brisbane and Perth, where the end of state-based energy rebates saw an abnormal jump in electricity prices. Time to wake up the RBA www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Chart showing CPI in each capital city:

CPI
Sydney 1.94
Melbourne 2.02
Brisbane 2.49
Adelaide 1.79
Perth 2.69
Hobart 1.74
Darwin 1.57
Canberra 1.61
Australia 2.09

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

It's the little game no one asked for! What's! This! Plot?! #RStats #RStudio #StatsEpi #Stats

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

"Overall the country’s fertility rate, or children born per woman, was 1.51 in 2024, statistically similar to the 1.5 observed in 2023 ..." I wonder if someone was asked to statistically compare those two numbers? I wonder if the result of the test would have swayed one's thoughts on the numbers?

theguardian.com

Birthrate falls in Australia’s biggest cities amid cost-of-living crisis, preliminary data shows

Outer-suburban and regional Australians increasingly likely to have more children per person than inner-city residents, report shows

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

This is incredibly disappointing to read!

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

📌📝 We're hiring 📝📌 Open to considering all levels of experience for this Biostatistician position in Perth WA - one of the most 🌞 cities on 🌏 www.seek.com.au/job/85795271... #RStats #RStudio #StatsEpi #Stats

seek.com.au

Biostatistician Job in Nedlands, Perth WA - SEEK

Apply your biostatistical skills to support a wide variety of child health research projects being led by passionate researchers

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

🚨 New blog post alert - This one looking at large scale projects with analysis feeding into Professional Reports, as opposed to peer-reviewed journal articles. Exploring some challenges and learnings. the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2025-0... #RStats #RStudio #StatsEpi #Stats #DataScience

the-kids-biostats.github.io

Large-scale projects – The Kids Biostats

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Hilariously, the AFR is showing just how absurd is the scare campaign against the super tax changes. They give an eg where someone's super goes from $2m to $3.18m in a year! Yep a $1.18m increase. How much extra tax? $1,528! OMG!! THAT'S OUTRAG... err... oh actually that's bugger all

Assuming it is $3.1 million, with the $80,000 pension payment it becomes $3.18 million. If your balance on June 30, 2026, is greater than $3 million (say $3.1 million) then Division 296 tax will count a balance of $3.18 million in its calculations even if your balance at the start of the year was less than $3 million (in your case $2 million)

One aspect of Division 296 tax where you have a greater than $3 million balance at the end of the year but a balance of less than $3 million at the start is that it will be calculated as if your year started with a $3 million balance.

When determining your super earnings for Division 296 tax purposes you add together your year-end balance with pension payments and then deduct your balance at the start of the year from this. That’s $3.1 million plus $80,000 less $3 million. This will give you total super earnings for Division 296 purposes of $180,000.

Despite the large increase in your fund from $2 million to $3.1 million, your Division 296 liability will be significantly less given it won’t include the increase in your total super below the $3 million threshold. The 15 per cent tax will only apply to the percentage that $180,000 represents of $3.18 million or 5.66 per cent.

While 15 per cent of $180,000 is $27,000, 5.66 per cent of this results in a Division 296 tax liability of $1528.

This assumes there is no change in the proposed tax when – and if – it finally becomes law.

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

"Skilled workers". What proportion of that 80k were 'born into', or 'fell into', or 'acquired by questionable means' the funds that put them in that position. I can't see us losing anyone that does any real work over this. Oh no, CBA might not have a CFO 😱 How will my bank transfer go through?!

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A few pics from a holiday in Broome, Western Australia.

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🚨 New blog post alert - This one about a handy little-known package for curating your RStudio Addins list! A little customising to your IDE to make your workflows much more efficient. the-kids-biostats.github.io/posts/2025-0... #RStats #RStudio #StatsEpi #Stats #DataScience

the-kids-biostats.github.io

The Kids Biostats - Managing RStudio addins using the rsam package

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

One party stands alone pretending we don’t have a gas shortage. Come on ALP - let’s get on with taxing our gas properly and stop being afraid of the gas companies

Advert showing that Dutton, Littleproud, Bandt, Hanson, Lambie, Pocock and the Aus Inst all agree we don’t have a gas shortage - only Albanese is absent.

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Nick Tierney @njtierney.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Hi #rstats friends! I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community. 1/n

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Outspoken™️ @out5p0ken.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Everyone should be screaming like this! More of this, now please!

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 01/03/2025

Just a little thread on (some) of my favourite charts I've made. 🧵

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

How good are graphs! This is from my BBQ, smoking a brisket on Friday night. Red - set pit temp Orange - brisket flat Green - brisket point The "stall" is so well shown here, as the rate of temp climbing slows to zero in the flat (circled). Then the entire brisket is wrapped and put back in /1

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Matt Cooper @nzcoops.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

This is a very cool old math device! Looks really well built too, and smooth. www.instagram.com/reel/DFqdAfP...

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