iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 23/09/2026

🌈 rainbowR meet-ups: Sept 25th and 30th 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 - ask questions about R 🙋 ➡️ Registration & timezones via rainbowr.org/meetups

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

What does it take to sustain R? Join R Consortium, R Core & R Foundation Oct 6 to discuss the people, infrastructure & community behind R. 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET / 8 PM London Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sus... #RStats

Graphic for upcoming R Core and R Foundation panel discussion - Oct 6, 2026

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 16/09/2026

Buuuut... I *like* writing code.

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Felipe Fontana Vieira @felipefv.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Next week I will give a free webinar about how I have been using Nix (by itself) but mainly through {rix} for my current articles. If anyone is intested, my plan for the structure of the webinar (in the comments):

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Ana Martinovici @anamartinovici.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Workshop done 😀 since I anyway put together a list of resources, I'm going to share it in this thread. So here we go, my top recommendations for how to improve computational reproducibility of your work

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 01/09/2026

rainbowR Buddies 🌈👥 Sign up by Thursday Sept 3rd to be paired with a fellow LGBTQIA+ #RStats programmer via rainbowr.org/buddies Chat, code, learn, and build connection!

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Anouk Bouma @anoukbouma.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Presented my study on reporting practices, open science practices, and trustworthiness in simulation studies at #MSMR2026 Great conference so far, with a nice group of people attending Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Interest to become a collaborator on my next studies: tinyurl.com/yc4pvkmj

I am presenting at the MSMR conference. Behind me is a slide with two QR-codes, the links for which are in this post

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 26/08/2026

🌈 rainbowR meet-ups: today (in 2 hours!), and on August 28th 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 - ask questions about R 🙋 ➡️ Registration & timezones via rainbowr.org/meetups

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Samuel Pawel @samuelpawel.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research is just around the corner! How can we improve research on research methods? 💻 Registration for online attendance is still open! 📅 31 August - 1 September 2026 🔗 crsuzh.pages.uzh.ch/msmr/ #MSMR2026 #MetaScience #MetaResearch

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1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research – MSMR 2026

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Hanne Oberman @oberman.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? A hex sticker of an R package you've never used

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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.

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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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ResearchEquals @researchequals.com · 29/07/2026

Our platform runs for roughly €25/day — and anyone can publish on it for free. The APC for a single paper could instead keep ResearchEquals online for months: Nature: €10,000 → ~400 days Scientific Data: €2,390 → ~96 days PLOS Biology: $5,500 → ~190 days DM us if your OA funds need more purpose 😉

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 27/07/2026

🌈 Big news! After the huge success of our conference we're doing it all again! 🎉 Want to help shape an amazing community event, gain experience, and meet brilliant people? We're recruiting volunteers for the 2027 conference organising committee. bit.ly/4vRGXKk #rstats #LGBTQinTech #OpenSource

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Conference organising committee 2027

Following the success of our inaugural conference in 2026, rainbowR will run a conference again in 2027 and we're looking for people to help organise it. If you're interested in being on the conferenc...

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ResearchEquals @researchequals.com · 27/07/2026

Thanks for the love @oberman.bsky.social 💜 With the chance of creative ideas, do keep sending your wildest feature requests! support@researchequals.com

Five-star testimonial from Hanne Oberman praising ResearchEquals as an innovative platform and Chris's responsiveness to feature requests, with the phrase "truly with and for researchers" highlighted.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 24/07/2026

Calibration Nobel xkcd.com/3275/

Comic. [Person 1 with short hair on stage behind podium reading off paper while addressing audience. People are shown sitting in chairs while Person 2 with ponytail and Person 3 waving are walking toward stage.] PERSON 1: This year’s Nobel Prize in “calibrating your equipment carefully and not embarrassing yourself by publishing spurious results” goes to Dr. Adams and Dr. Smith, who did *not* announce the discovery of microbes on Titan. PERSON 3: Thank you, thank you.

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MICE @amices.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"mice: the only method here that carries imputation uncertainty into the model. Use it whenever the output is an estimate, a confidence interval, or a p-value, the typical medical or epidemiological analysis. Ten years on, it is still the right default for inference."

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

happy pi approximation day (22/7) to all those who celebrate

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American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 16/07/2026

The same but with an archive.ph link 🥪 "If I bring in someone new to push the machine’s buttons, they will never really learn to make my sandwiches. And then who is going to take over the deli?" archive.ph/eUi58

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Hannah Frick @frick.ws · 16/07/2026

> “Our findings frame AI slop as a tragedy of the commons,” the researchers concluded, “where individual productivity gains externalise costs on to reviewers, maintainers and the broader community.” The newer gift link: as.ft.com/r/cb395b74-8...

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Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

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Alex Crenshaw @crenshaw.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The spider bite leading one to become a methodologist: "[substantive topic] is a interesting, I want to study it!" [Learns about how topic is typically studied] "Oh my god" [Becomes a methodologist]

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 06/07/2026

We're excited that #rainbowR is at @user-conf.bsky.social this week. Keep an eye out for committee members @ellakaye.co.uk & @tinarozsos.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈 If you're an LGBTQ+ coder looking for a friendly face, or you're curious to learn more about our community, please say hi👋 #useR2026 #RStats

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 23/06/2026

🌈 rainbowR meet-ups: June 24th & 29th 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 - ask questions about R 🙋 ➡️ Registration & timezones via rainbowr.org/meetups

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Legacy Update @legacyupdate.net · 14/06/2026

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

The top-left corner of Microsoft Word 2007, showing the ribbon.

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Randy Boyes @randy.pub · 11/06/2026

vince mcmahon meme format:
MDPI is predatory
Frontiers is predatory
Elsevier is predatory
Publishing as a model is predatory

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

100 packages to fix my existential dread!

Screenshot of search results of R packages for the search phrase "fix my existential dread". 100 packages were found. tidyverse and ggplot2 are the top listed.

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Hanne Oberman @oberman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

final stretch of PhD life: taking ADHD meds and stomach ulcer meds with your 2nd cup of coffee before 9am ツ

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Jens von Bergmann @jensvb.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Give a nerd a chart or a map and they will waste a day. Teach a nerd how to make charts and maps and they will waste the rest of their life.

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Observable @observablehq.com · 03/06/2026

“Data viz” is short for “Data vizualisation”

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Journal of Astrological Big Data Ecology @jabde.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Hidden in plain sight

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Maëlle Salmon @masalmon.eu · 02/06/2026

New post on the R-hub blog! "Refactoring with Jarl: a coffee chat" ✨ By @frick.ws + myself, reviewed by @etiennebacher.bsky.social blog.r-hub.io/2026/06/02/j... #RStats

Meme of a kitten attacked by monsters. The text says "Everytime you use Claude for something a CLI can do, a kitten dies"

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Hanne Oberman @oberman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

So excited to chat about Teaching Open Science and Reproducibility at MSMR this summer!

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Sajedeh Rasti @sajedehra.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The 3rd edition of Meta Research Symposium is open for accepting abstracts. We have two categories: 3-h hackathons, organised by @youngmetascience.bsky.social and 20-minute talks. Learn more and submit your abstracts here: paulmeehlschool.github.io/workshops/sy...

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Paul Meehl Graduate School Meta Research Symposium 2026 | Paul Meehl Graduate School

October 8-9, 2026

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The average data driven decision making

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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 31/05/2026

Psychologists doing exploratory factor analysis be like: #statsmeme

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Only less than two months before our Missing Data Summer School starts! If you want to learn how to appropriately handle missing data in your statistical analysis, this course might be for you. We cover cross-sectional, longitudinal and experimental data and both inferential and predictive models.

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 27/05/2026

🌈 rainbowR meet-up starting in 55 mins!

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Shannon Burns, PhD @shannon47burns.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The shift among some to using AI generation for making a point, reminds me more and more of the Andrew Lang quote: "He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts - for support rather than illumination."

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Hanne Oberman @oberman.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

spot this gender queer gremlin amidst the RLadies

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 22/05/2026

🌈 rainbowR meet-ups: May 25th & 27th 🌈 - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ - show us something R-related you’ve been working on 💻 - ask questions about R 🙋 ➡️ Registration & timezones via rainbowr.org/meetups

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Hanne Oberman @oberman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

joining a research group as a PhD candidate #AcademicChatter

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value plus discounted @akhilrao.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

no. mr bond. the market expects you to collapse

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Hanne Oberman @oberman.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

NA, NULL, -999, "Not applicable", "I don't know", "Prefer not to answer"

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Hanne Oberman @oberman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

You: please act normal you need these people to like you Me: ok! People: hi Me: did you know that the words "minute" and "second" stem from the base-60 divisions of the hour: 'pars minuta prima' and 'pars minuta secunda' meaning 1st small part and 2nd small part en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second

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Second - Wikipedia

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brucy @realbrucy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Not only messing up orinithology, but also making a mockery of R tutorials. #Rstats

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ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

arXiv📈🤖 LLMs as Implicit Imputers: Uncertainty Should Scale with Missing Information By Buuren

$Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in settings where the available context is incomplete or degraded. We argue that an LLM generating answers under incomplete context can be viewed as an implicit imputer, and evaluated against a criterion from the multiple imputation (MI) literature: uncertainty should scale with the amount of missing information. We assess this criterion on SQuAD, using a controlled framework in which context availability is varied across five levels. We evaluate two answer-level uncertainty measures that can be estimated from repeated sampling: sampling-based confidence (empirical mode frequency) and response entropy. Confidence fails to reflect increasing missingness: it remains high even as accuracy collapses. Entropy, by contrast, increases with context removal, consistent with the MI analogy, and explains substantially more variance in accuracy than confidence across all evidence levels (quadratic $R^2$ gap up to 0.057). We further introduce a black-box diagnostic $\rho_R(\alpha)$ that estimates the proportion of baseline uncertainty resolved by context level $\alpha$, requiring only repeated sampling with and without context. These results suggest that entropy is a more responsive black-box uncertainty measure than confidence under incomplete context.$

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Hanne Oberman @oberman.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

the LLM you use for software engineering may 'lock you out' of your own software

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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

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