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Jess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I did not realize that a large part of The Onion buying InfoWars was about getting the Sandy Hook families the money they were supposed to have gotten from the lawsuit against Jones, and honestly that's some top-tier human decency right there?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 31/05/2026

people spend enormous amounts of time fighting online about whether to talk about epstein and corruption or affordability and, look, it’s really not that hard to do both at once

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J.J. @jjfromkansas.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

There are a whole lot of lawyers who should not be allowed to practice law again as Americans start the second reconstruction, but the ones like this should be stripped of all assets, titles, diplomas, and honorifics. Leave them with nothing & take every cent they make away from them forever.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/05/2026

Hey, I got a shoutout on Kimmel tonight! He even pronounced my name correctly 😆

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

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Only In Monroe --- May 22, 2026

YouTube video by Stephen Colbert

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

as we grieve the slop-ification of Google, I want to know everyone's favorite fun niche sites from Back When The Internet Was Good. what did you visit every day on your coffee break at work? we were a big Homestar Runner household, and I also loved Cake Wrecks and Animals Talking In All Caps

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Isaac G. Bryan @ib2real.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

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Candice Odgers @candiceodgers.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Reposting for no particular reason... ok, there is a reason.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

This website visualizes social media as a room with 100 people 3 people are producing most toxic content Most people assume 43 are producing toxic content, because these 3 are hyperactive and amplified by engagement based algorithms. The other 97 quiet voices disappear thenoisyroom.com

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Katie Drummond is a legend. That is all.

Katie Drummond, Wired EIC, telling the NYT "If you still don't understand why Wired covers politics, you are either willfully ignorant or a complete idiot."

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

I wrote about Kat.

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Kat.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

No matter the size or number, cats are always cats

Three pictures of cats.
Left: A domestic cat with leg over head, tongue out, washing itself, label is "GLM"
Middle: A tiger in same pose, label is "GLMM"
RIght: many cats together in same pose, label is "FIXED EFFECTS"

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 27/02/2026

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close! New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

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Sanjay Srivastava @sanjaysrivastava.com · 20/02/2026

Another paper for frustrated methods nerds to put on the syllabus before their students' advisors strongarm them into ignoring it

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Finally we can tell the LLM haters to back off: they *can* do cutting-edge social science.

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

90% of the time I feel like a god as I automate my reports using #quarto The other 10% I wonder how I've managed to even turn on my computer as spend three hours trying to make the headings in my pdf bold #rstats

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Christoph Strauch @cstrauch.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Recent work has shown how vulnerable online survey research is to LLMs. Motivated by this, we examined our online Posner cueing data from Prolific. It's concerning. We now must carefully consider when (or whether?) online behavioral data can be trusted. see our comment: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The Big 5 test is about twice as accurate as the Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator for predicting life outcomes, placing the usefulness of the MBTI test halfway between science and astrology. Any psychologist will tell you, the Meyers-Briggs is mostly bullshit. powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-are-we...

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Cathy Wu @cathywu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Have you noticed how navigation apps include walking & waiting for public transit, but excludes parking & walking for driving? After being late a few times 😅, we finally did. We got curious: what if these apps account for parking?

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Almost done with my next lecture, so going back now to work on some new memes

Mental gymnastics meme.
TOP: Regression mental gymnastics. The effect is significant...even when I adjust for...everything we have measured.
BOTTOM: Causal Inference Mental Gymnastics.
unmeasured confounds could explain the effect
the sample might suffer from selection bias
differential measurement error!
SUTVA violation!

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Gordon Hodson @gordonhodsonphd.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

#AcademicSky I spend 1/2 my time asking people to peer review more, & other 1/2 complaining that filthy rich publishers should pay for our labour These aren't incompatible complaints Scientists DO need to review more (especially if publishing) Publishers DO need to pay reviewers

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

People form beliefs not only as individual agents, but as members of social groups. Children (4-6 years old) who belonged to a group were more convinced by evidence that supported their ingroup’s belief (and were less convinced by evidence that opposed their ingroup): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/02/2026

Obama: "At some point, you age out. You're not connected directly to the immediate struggles that folks are going through. I'm not making a hard and fast rule here, but I think Democrats do well when we have candidates who are plugged into the moment. To the zeitgeist. To the times."

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I have continued to update my Data Consultants table. It currently includes 96 businesses. So if you are looking for help with data wrangling, visualization, analysis, reporting, dashboarding, training, and more, consider checking out these consultants! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Data Consultants

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

EL PASO, Texas (AP) — FAA says it has lifted temporary closure of airspace over El Paso, Texas, and all flights to resume.

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Trust in leadership is essential to success A new study found that PhD students who had greater trust in their graduate advisor finished their first year more motivated, higher in well-being, and more academically successful than those with lower advisor trust. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

dplyr 1.2.0 was released last week and since I use {dplyr} a lot in my work, I wanted to take some time to try some of the new functions. This post provides some supplemental examples of the new functions, beyond what is provided in the new Posit materials. #rstats cghlewis.com/blog/dplyr_u...

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Trying out dplyr 1.2.0 | Crystal Lewis

Updating existing dplyr code in my workflow with new dplyr updates

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · 09/02/2026

"Vibe Coding" the old-school way 🌈 I was prepping a ggplot2 lesson when a stat_summary() error went sideways. Instead of fixing it, I leaned in. Sometimes the best dataviz is found in the detours. (Or at least, the most joy on a Monday ☕️) #rstats #ggplot2 #dataviz #TheSimpsons

A colorful data visualization of IMDb ratings for the first 11 seasons of The Simpsons. The chart uses a "small multiples" layout where each season (S1—S11) is represented by a vertical column. Individual episode ratings are shown as small white circles plotted against a vertical axis ranging from 5 to 9. Each column features a unique, vibrant color—starting with purple for S1 and moving through blue, teal, green, yellow, orange, red, and ending in grey for S11. A horizontal line in each column indicates the season average, while a unique "stepped" gradient effect creates horizontal bands of color that grow lighter toward the top, highlighting the density of the episode ratings.

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Open public resources and records are a key way for journalists, factcheckers to hold people in power accountable when they lie - now they're openly being destroyed

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Posit @posit.co · 04/02/2026

Announcing yaml12: High-speed YAML 1.2 for #RStats & #Python 🐫 Built entirely in Rust, get up to 2x faster in R and 50x faster in Python vs. defaults, tag evaluation (like code execution) is opt-in, and strict YAML 1.2 compliance for consistent data. Learn more: tidyverse.org/blog/2026/01...

A graphic for Posit featuring a hexagonal sticker with a camel carrying boxes and "yaml12" text, over a blue wave background.

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Ian L. Campbell, Ph.D. @ramblecamble.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

More excited for this than possibly any R package update ever! The amount of janky solutions I had to these problems... RIP the DataCombine package in particular.

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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

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dplyr 1.2.0

dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Yup - they started with immigrant journalists - Mario Guevara had a valid work permit and was arrested in Atlanta while covering the June No Kings protest. He spent over 100 days in jail (70 in solitary confinement) before deportation to El Salvador. www.france24.com/en/americas/...

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‘I spent almost four months in a prison cell’: Journalist Mario Guevara on covering ICE

Arrested while reporting on an anti-Trump protest outside Atlanta, Salvadoran journalist Mario Guevara spent 112 days in ICE detention before being deported to El Salvador despite holding a valid US w...

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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Really important reminder from Angie Holan that fact-checking is a useful tool in the fight against misinformation. "Today, these programs are being dismantled, not because they didn’t work, but because powerful actors decided they didn’t want them to work." www.poynter.org/fact-checkin...

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Let's talk (again) about why fact-checking works - Poynter

At a moment of discouragement, we need to stop with the defeatism

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Democracy doesn’t require perfect truth—but it does require something more fragile: independent voices. The “wisdom of crowds” depends on independence between judgments. If a single actor can speak through thousands of inauthentic accounts, the apparent consensus of the crowd stops being informative

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 27/01/2026

Super excited to see that somebody finally wrote about this 🥳 If you do research about research, you really need causal thinking (just like when you do research about anything else really).

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

This is an important paper on social class barriers among faculty in academia. First-generation college grads earn less and are placed at lower prestige institutions despite being just as productive as other faculty. Faculty from upper class backgrounds are overplaced for their research records.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 25/01/2026

Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.

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Greg Olear @gregolear.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara: "People have had enough. This is the third shooting in less than 3 weeks. The MPD went the entire year last year recovering about 900 guns from the street, arresting hundreds of violent offenders, and we didn't shoot anyone ... this is not sustainable."

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The New York Times reports that a group of “scientific” racists misused National Institute of Health data (that families were assured would be protected) to write bogus papers on supposed to biological racial differences. Gift link.

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Genetic Data From Over 20,000 U.S. Children Misused for ‘Race Science’

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/01/2026

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Most of the moral messaging in children's television programming when I was a kid was utterly uncontroversial at the time, and would be attacked as woke indoctrination today.

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