Reposted by Pratik GuptePoorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Must be new 443557
Reposted by Pratik GupteColin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - NatureEmerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ... 8555276
Reposted by Pratik GupteMethods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 10/09/2026We're hiring Code Integrity and Accessibility editors at MEE! Ideal for people experienced in testing and validating code, and confidence working with at least one language - open to all career stages. Deadline 25th September ⏰️ Read the role description and apply👇 buff.ly/UaSg5au 0715
Reposted by Pratik GupteAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026They're now just targeting random groups of dark-skinned people. What's going to have to happen before the government starts taking this seriously? www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/politic...portsmouth.co.ukProtestors confuse Pakistan cricket team for migrants after gathering at hotelMisinformation caused groups of people to gather at The Marriott Hotel 47730228
Reposted by Pratik GupteInstitute for Research Software @softwaresaved.bsky.social · 01/09/2026⬡ Today, we become the Institute for Research Software. For 15 years, we've worked as the Software Sustainability Institute to make research software more sustainable and properly recognised. 13325
Reposted by Pratik GupteWill Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 22/08/2026There has been a significant breakdown of anti-racism norms in British politics and it’s impossible not to see a connection with how X has changed as a platform and the unwillingness of gatekeepers in Westminster to speak up. 518856
Reposted by Pratik GupteDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This piece rather misses the fact that large corporates are increasingly becoming direct political players, and arguably in doing so undermining the notion of free markets that The Economist is supposed to support. 1416134
Pratik Gupte @pratikunterwegs.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I find this take infuriating even though it's what I've come to expect from the Economist; just seem to be intentionally obtuse. Of course politics should determine if some businesses are beyond the pale, especially if their leadership is trying to pull down liberal democracy generally. 030
Reposted by Pratik GupteAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I’m not sure whether this is just a psychological difference or AI bros fundamentally don’t understand the nature of an artistic experience, but: I don’t want a personalised film/book/podcast. I want to see/read/hear the same one as everyone else, so I can read reviews or discuss it with my friends 431848328
Reposted by Pratik GupteFrank O'Donnell @frank11285.bsky.social · 01/08/2026We’re not asking the right question, which is: “Why is there a Spanish enclave in Africa in the year 2026?” 042
Reposted by Pratik GupteJophin Mathai @jofmat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026“Twelve years ago, Modi rode to power and pioneered in many ways, leveraging social media platforms to reach the masses. Today, Gen Z is flipping his Hindu majoritarian party’s dominance on social platforms, weaponising against it the very tools the Bharatiya Janata Party has long relied on.”aljazeera.com‘Televising our revolution’: India’s Gen Z flips Modi’s social media gameFor 12 years, Modi and his party have dominated Indian social media. Now, youth use the same platforms against him. 044
Reposted by Pratik GupteTomasz Kalinowski @t-kalinowski.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I'm happy to share `ir`, a new command-line tool for running portable R scripts and Quarto documents. It's inspired by my two favorite parts of `uv`: self-describing scripts and tools you can run without installing first. opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...opensource.posit.coir 0.1.0: self-describing R scripts and Quarto documents`ir` is a new command-line tool for running portable R scripts and rendering Quarto documents whose package requirements, and optional R selection, live inside the file itself. 47521
Reposted by Pratik GupteSushant Singh @sushantsingh.bsky.social · 02/07/2026The Implosion of Modi’s West Asia Policy: How New Delhi made itself irrelevant in the region’s most consequential crisis. ..easy to dismiss the current Indian quandary as a collection of isolated diplomatic missteps, when it is a systemic failure of Modi’s over-centralised foreign policy apparatus.caravanmagazine.inHow New Delhi made itself irrelevant in the region’s most consequential crisisBy embedding India’s geopolitical interests so deeply within the Israeli security paradigm and offering tacit diplomatic cover to its destructive war effort, Modi compromised India’s historical standi... 143
Reposted by Pratik GupteBen Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I found this surprisingly thoughtful and balanced: r-statistics.co/R-vs-Julia.h... (although some of the labeling on Figure 2 is a little confusing)r-statistics.coR vs Julia for Statistics: Julia Is Faster, But Is That What Matters?Julia benchmarks faster than R on tight loops, but R ships 21,000+ statistical packages and a huge community. Honest trade-offs with real benchmark code. 4337
Reposted by Pratik GupteTyler Morgan-Wall @tylermw.com · 28/06/2026Got some nice improvements to high quality water rendering coming to #rayshader 👀 (it's amazing what realistic sky and sun rendering can do for a scene!) #RStats #rayrender #rayverse 0233
Reposted by Pratik GupteJonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Hopefully scanning the horizon for storm clouds like Wellington looking out for Von Blücher. 2153
Reposted by Pratik GupteMax Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 24/06/2026This is SUCH a cool report. Data nerds will love playing with the sliders and toggles. The takeaway is clear, though: solar + batteries are coming for *everything*. www.electrotech-revolution.com/p/harnessing...electrotech-revolution.comHarnessing the Sun: The Solar + Battery AtlasHow batteries turn variable solar into firm power 414360
Reposted by Pratik GupteDe Filmende Fietser @filmendefietser.eurosky.social · 21/06/2026Sometimes I treat myself by cycling a lap through the largest bicycle parking facility in the world. Just for fun. Because cycling infrastructure can be both fun and practical! 1844377
Reposted by Pratik GupteMongabay @mongabay.com · 24/06/2026Since 2013, researcher Mohammed Abu Daya has monitored fisheries' impacts on spinetail devil rays in Gaza. Operating from a displacement camp with limited resources, his ongoing work underscores the extreme conditions under which frontline marine data is being gathered. A interview by Lyse Mauvais.mongabay.ccStudying giant devil rays through war in Gaza: Interview with Mohammed Abu DayaOn the messaging platform WhatsApp, Mohammed Abu Daya’s profile picture features an aerial view of Gaza City before the current war. A clutter of high-rise buildings rises against the sky; at their… 03213
Reposted by Pratik GupteNathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 22/06/2026The objection is not to social liberal policies per se, but to the existence and influence of urban/educated cosmopolitan populations. A very large bloc of voters are simply never going to vote for a party that is associated with those people. 520629
Reposted by Pratik Guptelastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026It's not a mystery why I don't like this Labour government; they didn't want me to like them. A key part of who they are trying to advertise themselves as is - party that would not appeal to urbanite lefty professor like me! It worked, they successfully positioned themselves as opposed to my values. 616116
Reposted by Pratik GupteAlan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Let's remember one thing before Starmer goes: this is the man who thought it would be a good idea to risk thousands upon thousands of deaths in poor countries by cutting aid to own the libs. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, mate. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/uk-to-reduce...commonslibrary.parliament.ukUK to reduce aid to 0.3% of gross national income from 2027The UK will reduce aid spending to 0.3% of gross national income in 2027 (the lowest level since 1999) to fund higher defence spending. 524473
Reposted by Pratik GupteMika Rantanen @mikarantane.bsky.social · 22/06/2026ECMWF weekly mean temperature anomaly shows the highest category (>10°C above normal) over France this week. Typically, these colors appear only during winter warm spells, when temperature variability is the largest. Seeing them in mid-summer says a lot about the intensity of this heatwave. 312159
Reposted by Pratik GupteThe R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 17/06/2026The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026rousseeuwprize.orgThe Rousseeuw Prize for StatisticsThe Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics is a biennial prize to celebrate outstanding contributions to statistics research. 2280106
Reposted by Pratik GupteDavid Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 17/06/2026We used to argue about how to win elections. Now we argue about whether our remaining voters are too girly. 1918
Reposted by Pratik GupteDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 14/06/2026This is nuts. Yes we need better protections online, but this is a massive overreach by Starmer. For many young people, especially marginalised ones such as trans and neurodivergent, online spaces can be a safe place for them to develop a genuine support community www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comStarmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16sSources say hardline measures will also prevent young users from being to talk to strangers on gaming apps 41507186
Reposted by Pratik GupteElizabeth Taylor @elizabethtaylor47.bsky.social · 14/06/2026The only conviction Keir Starmer and indeed his cabinet and senior Labour figures around him is to restrict personal liberty. It’s the one consistent through line in absolutely everything they do. 11296116
Reposted by Pratik GuptePoorly Drawn Lines @poorlydrawnlines.bsky.social · 13/06/2026The package 7736124
Reposted by Pratik GupteAlex @zerotense.bsky.social · 11/06/2026This just feels like the completely predictable result of interdicting allied ships and going so far as to fire on them when they are supposedly out of compliance with our demands. Everything we do to compel Iran has blowback and nobody in this administration cares at all. 1137
Reposted by Pratik Gupteensko @ensko.at · 10/06/2026... and multi-file export, spot colors, better convergence debugging, an explicit path type, and more 🤩 staging.typst.app/docs/changel...staging.typst.app0.15.0-rc.1 - Typst DocumentationChanges in Typst 0.15.0 0226
Reposted by Pratik GupteIan Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This has nothing to do with stopping crime. It is to do with a global far-right movement, coordinated on X, organised by some of the most powerful men in the world from Silicon Valley to the White House inews.co.uk/opinion/fara... 461379529
Reposted by Pratik GupteDavid Schoch @schochastics.net · 10/06/2026We are currently working on the igraph 3.0.0 release which will bring big changes to the #rstats package! One that just landed on GitHub is a new, modern printing method that uses cli 🙂 Check it out at github.com/igraph/rigraph 1276
Reposted by Pratik GupteJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Belfast last night is the future for the U.K. some people want. The political voices condemning it so far seem to be mild and weak. We need a wall of outrage from people of influence to make it crystal clear that this is not who we are and will not be tolerated. 25512193
Reposted by Pratik GupteJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 09/06/2026It does. But the wilful blindness of the UK's political establishment to the scale of the danger scares me even more. 31957262
Reposted by Pratik GupteMethods in Ecology and Evolution @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social · 05/06/2026📖 Published📖 An intuitive method to calculate the utilization distribution of an animal from step-selection analysis🖥️ 🌍 📈 🔎 Read more:buff.lyAn intuitive method to calculate the utilization distribution of an animal from step‐selection analysisStep-selection analysis (SSA) is a popular tool for estimating resource/habitat selection conditional on the local availability of conditions as determined by an animal's movement capacity. These ... 031
Reposted by Pratik GupteBen Bolker @bbolker.bsky.social · 03/06/2026today in "base R functions I didn't know about after 20 years": modifyList() (it was added in 2006 github.com/r-devel/r-sv... )github.com+ modifyList() from Deepayan, see R-devel · r-devel/r-svn@bdacf7fgit-svn-id: https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk@39397 00db46b3-68df-0310-9c12-caf00c1e9a41 2307
Reposted by Pratik GupteSeva @seva.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I've now seen four separate pieces accusing John Burn-Murdoch (Financial Times, you've seen his stuff before) of messing with his data on four separate occasions: 1. isitcredible.com/cases 2. unherd.com/newsroom/the... 3. github.com/James-Traina... 4. blog.albertkuo.me/post/2024-01... 2405
Reposted by Pratik GupteDavid Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/05/2026With respect to those who say the major problem in the UK is growth / cost of living, I'm sorry but I think the way in which everyday life seems at the mercy of often completely unaccountable organisations is worse. And politicians talking in the abstract rather than lived experience. 39621
Reposted by Pratik GupteCasey Middleton, PhD @caseymiddleton.bsky.social · 19/05/2026🚨 Disease modelers: Do you use empirical VE estimates interchangeably to inform vaccine effect parameters? Me too, and it’s distorting our predictions. VE estimates often do not align with model parameters. We discuss these pitfalls & solutions in our new preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2605.18571 🧵👇arxiv.orgIncorporating vaccine effects into epidemiological models: common pitfalls and solutionsIncorporating vaccination into mathematical models appears deceptively simple: models integrate vaccine-derived protections, such as reduced susceptibility to infection, using parameters informed by e... 22112
Reposted by Pratik GupteDr Vicki Yorke-Edwards @vickiye.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Interesting maybe.... But correlation does not equal causation, and as with a lot of these things, I'm left with wondering why, seeing as this is about humans, with the power of speech, yet again we have a man not just asking women (and men: they're involved!) why they haven't had children. 72510
Reposted by Pratik GupteBilly Quilty @bquilty.bsky.social · 14/05/2026A great Perspective piece from @joelmossong.bsky.social on the evolution of social contact surveys, from the POLYMOD study he led in 2008 (which became the template for all others), to CoMix during the pandemic, and now on to Reconnect: journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...journals.plos.orgOn the evolution of the company we keep: Implications for infectious disease modelingIn this Perspective, Joël Mossong discusses the importance of understanding social contacts and how they have evolved for infectious disease modeling, and the need to factor in additional consideratio... 164
Reposted by Pratik GupteAlbert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Indian govt is thinking about pausing construction? For 2 years? And drive for austerity? How many millions of ppl does it want to throw out of work? Has Modi no shame at hiding the true cost of this terrible war & support of Israel? @danielagabor.bsky.social is right, this is "carbon shock therapy" 4154
Pratik Gupte @pratikunterwegs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026In my personal and biased opinion, his more important achievement is opening a PR fixing {clipr} for Wayland, which allows {reprex} to work too. Now if only {clipr} maintainers could accept it that would be great. 000
Reposted by Pratik GupteBruno Rodrigues @brodriguesco.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Treat Agent Output Like Compiler Output skiplabs.io/blog/codegen...skiplabs.ioTreat Agent Output Like Compiler Output | SkipWhy our discomfort with AI-generated code reveals exactly what we haven't built yet, and what the compiler analogy teaches us about trusting coding agents. 141
Reposted by Pratik GupteBig Book of R @bigbookofr.com · 30/04/2026Rcpp for everyone by Masaki E. Tsuda #RStats bigbookofr.com/chapters/r%20program… 011
Reposted by Pratik GupteFlorian Hartig @florianhartig.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Our new review article “Calibration, Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Complex Ecological Models—A Review” now online and freely available in #EcologyLetters dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.... #Ecology #EcologicalModelling #SensitivityAnalysis #UncertaintyQuantification 🌐dx.doi.orgCalibration, Sensitivity and Uncertainty Analysis of Complex Ecological Models—A ReviewWe provide a unified framework connecting sensitivity analysis, uncertainty analysis and model inversion or calibration, discuss their complementary roles in understanding and reducing uncertainty in.... 05422
Reposted by Pratik GupteRichard Iannone @richmeister.bsky.social · 15/04/2026We just released a blog post about something I'm very excited about: Great Docs. Post is in the *new* Posit Open Source site: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-04... Great Docs is a #python pkg for creating beautiful Python package websites. We make it easy to use but also give you lots of options.opensource.posit.coIntroducing Great Docs: Beautiful Documentation for Python PackagesGreat Docs is a new documentation site generator for Python packages. It auto-discovers your API, builds a modern site with Quarto, and ships with LLM-friendly features and one-command deployment. 24316
