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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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Markus Hesselmann @hesselmann.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl hat die 160 Teilnehmerstaaten der UN-Klimakonferenz in Berlin eindringlich aufgefordert, mehr gegen die drohende Klimakatastrophe zu tun." Fundstück von 1995, Archiv, @tagesspiegel.de.

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BERLI N (Tsp/dpa/AP). Bundeskanzler Helmut Kohl hat die 160 Teilnehmerstaaten der UN-Klimakonferenz in Berlin eindringlich aufgefordert, mehr gegen die drohende Klimakatastrophe zu tun. Von den Delegierten verlangte er ein klares Verhandlungsmandat für ein Protokoll zum Klimaschutz. Die Berliner Konferenz müsse das Signal setzen, daß es nach dem Jahr 2000 zu einer weiteren Verminderung der Treibhausgase kommt, sagte er am Mittwoch in seiner mehrfach von Beifall begleiteten Rede, mit der Kohl die entscheidende Ministerrunde der Konferenz eröffnete. Die notwendigen Entscheidungen dürften „nicht auf die lange Bank geschoben werden".
Die Stadt Bonn wird Sitz des ständigen Klima-Sekretariats der Vereinten Nationen. Das haben die Delegierten der Klimakonferenz in Berlin am Mittwoch in einer vertraulichen Abstimmung entschieden. Als Bewerber war zuletzt nur noch Genf mit im Rennen. Das Sekretariat soll die Umsetzung der Klimarahmenkonvention beobachten und künftige Konferenzen vorbereiten. Die Bundesregierung begrüßte die Entscheidung. Damit würden auch die deutschen Anstrengungen bei der CO2-Reduzierung gewürdigt.
Kohl bekräftige das deutsche Ziel, bis zum Jahr 2005 den CO2-Ausstoß um 25 Prozent zu senken. Als Basisjahr nannte er jedoch nicht wie bisher 1987, sondern 1990. Beobachter werteten diese neue Berechnung vielfach als eine Anhebung des Reduzierungsziels, die auch eine bessere Vergleichbarkeit für andere Länder biete. Der Kanzler appellierte an alle Industriestaaten, der Verpflichtung der Europäischen Union zu folgen und den CO2-Ausstoß auch über das Jahr 2000 hinaus zu stabilisieren. Das bis 1997 anzustrebende Protokoll zum Klimaschutz müsse alle Treibhausgase erfassen sowie klare Ziele und Zeitvorgaben festlegen. Die Umweltarbeit in der UN müsse gestrafft und verstärkt werden. (...)

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Douglas Cheape @douglascheape.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

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Kristoffer Magnusson @rpsychologist.com · 25/06/2026

New interactive blog! "Why Adjusted Regression Coefficients Are Less Descriptive Than They Look" rpsychologist.com/descriptive-...

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Gregor Aisch @driven-by-data.net · 02/04/2026

And another big project today: We've analyzed millions of member records from the Nazi-Party NSDAP and made them searchable and browsable. 🎁 www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-...

screenshot of the archive exploration tool.

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Sebastian Geukes @sebastiangeukes.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Exzellentes Balkendiagramm, die y-Achse ist nicht verzerrend abgeschnitten ☝️

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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 05/03/2026

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

A digital CAPTCHA verification window titled "Select all squares with PIPES" against a plain white background. The window contains a 3×3 grid of numbered squares, mixing literal hardware, smoking pipes, and programming syntax.

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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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Sebastian Geukes @sebastiangeukes.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

When a quote about software development could just as well be applied to quantitative psychology: "Once experimentation becomes the default way decisions get made, changing behavior stops being theoretical and starts being procedural." 1/2

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Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

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Anne Scheel @annemscheel.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >

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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

It's weird - but now in Oslo, there's so many EVs that you notice the noise and the smell from individual ICE cars, and you realise how much we've been normalising it for ever. You can smell them half a street away. And inside parking lots are just *quiet*.

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Stefan Krauter @solarpapst.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Wenn der Ottomotor heute erfunden werden würde

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Cédric Scherer @cedricscherer.com · 23/07/2025

Last week, I crafted my first-ever gauge chart 🏎️ to showcase partial radial plots for our #ggplot2 [un]charted lesson on "coordinate systems" Thanks to coord_radial(), partial circles like those are super easy now — and of course I couldn’t resist making a polished and animated version 💅📽️ #rstats

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Annalena Baerbock @albaerbock.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Ukraine is not alone. Germany together with our European allies stands united alongside #Ukraine - and against the Russian aggression. Ukraine can build on unwavering support from Germany, Europe and beyond. Their defence of democracy & their quest for peace & security is ours.

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Vera Kempe @vkempe.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I wrote this for my US friends and colleagues, but also for all of us. Lessons from the past. open.substack.com/pub/verakemp...

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Scholarship Under Autocracy

We Have Been Here Before

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James Green @ajamesgreen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

made this for no reason #stats

Metallica's 72 Seasons album cover, reworked with the title reading "MANCOVA"

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Just a reminder that you don't have to be a statistician, or a programmer, or an analyst, or a data engineer, or a viz designer to benefit from #rstats. It's also amazing just for basic data management tasks. Especially thanks to the #tidyverse.

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Kristoffer Magnusson @rpsychologist.com · 11/12/2024

Introducing PowerLMM.js! A new tool for power analysis of longitudinal linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) – with support for missing data, plus non-inferiority and equivalence tests. powerlmmjs.rpsychologist.com Would really appreciate your feedback as I refine this app! Details below 🧵👇

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 18/11/2024

New article by me & Lucas at Our World in Data! The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have killed more than 25 million people; it caused grief & suffering among their loved ones, impacted people's health worldwide & disrupted work & lifestyles. We look back on the pandemic with 17 charts:

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17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic

The pandemic has resulted in over twenty million deaths. In this article, we review the key insights from global data on COVID-19.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/10/2024

American Psychiatric Association Adds ‘Obsessive Categorization Of Mental Conditions’ To ‘DSM-5’ theonion.com/american-psy...

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Sebastian Geukes @sebastiangeukes.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

Thanks Prague and @therealspr.bsky.social for a lovely, inspiring conference. Hard science with a big heart for humanism and diversity – im all here for it! #2024SPR #SPR2024

The quirky brutalist Prague TV tower seen from below

A view from Prague castle over old Prague with St Nicolas‘ church

View of the foyer of the Prague congress center during SPR 2024

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Malte Kreutzfeldt @mkreutzfeldt.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

Weil immer wieder zu lesen ist, dass es im Winter wenig erneuerbaren Strom gibt und Wärmepumpen darum vor allem mit Kohlestrom betrieben werden: In den letzten Jahren war das 1. Quartal eines Jahres (in dem am meisten geheizt werden muss), meistens das mit dem der höchsten EE-Strom-Produktion.

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Impactful quote from Kahneman in NYT Gino vs Bloggers article. In "Thinking, Fast and Slow" (2011) he wrote: "When I describe priming studies to audiences, the reaction is often disbelief. [...] The idea you should focus on, however, is that disbelief is not an option." Now it's the default.

In an interview, Dr. Kahneman, the Nobel Prize winner, suggested that while the efforts of scholars like the Data Colada bloggers had helped restore credibility to behavioral science, the field may be hard-pressed to recover entirely.

“When I see a surprising finding, my default is not to believe it,” he said of published papers. “Twelve years ago, my default was to believe anything that was surprising.”

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