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Statistician, Africa Health Research Institute. Views are my own.

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Stephen Olivier 🇿🇦 - 🇲🇼🇰🇪🇳🇬🇬🇭🇿🇼🇿🇲🇧🇼🇲🇿🇸🇴🇪🇹🇵🇰🇧🇮🇪🇷 @stephenolivier.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It's just luck when this happens Wordle 1,937 3/6 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Such a great resource
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
Bayesian Workflow code is at the Bayesian Workflow website! | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Sarah McLaughlin @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
UK officials admit that they will do "hard checks" to enforce the under-16 social media ban after Australia's failures and will require platforms to verify via passport, license, or credit.
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Social media users face passport checks to enforce under-16 ban
Ministers seek harder line on ID verification after concerns that screening measures used in Australia have proved too easy for children to circumvent
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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Again, let's just stop & remember that age-based legal restrictions on access to social media/online services are a bad idea & infringe the rights of young people to speak, access information and arts & culture, find community and play. Then look at the madness involved in trying to make them work.
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Nicola Rennie @nrennie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you missed today's @rinpharma.bsky.social workshop, here are a few of my favourite "quick fixes" for some common #ggplot2 issues 📊 1. Use {ggview} to preview plots at the same size and resolution as you want to save them with ggsave() to avoid the annoying resizing #RStats #DataViz
library(ggview)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +
  geom_point() +
  canvas(
    width = 6, height = 4,
    units = "in",
    dpi = 300
  )
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Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wow. Just wow. Did I say wow?
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MANOVASPHERE
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The thought of you giving a TED talk 😂
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Nice Wordle 1,927 2/6 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Generally speaking collective problem solving is a defining activity of humanity, and while all things have their individual differences, it's pretty unlikely that this capacity is constrained to a miniscule fraction of the population.
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Premiered in 1999, which apparently makes it a 20th century show, even though most of it aired in the 21st
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Oh fuck
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The worst bsky.app/profile/step...
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I have it when it's like this: Wordle 1 921 5/6 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Oh, what a surprise
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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I wonder if the cost of chips has cut down on conspiracies. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gates-3 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
1-panel SMBC comic update. A man with a beard sits in the left corner, agitated, stating "Bill Gates put microchips in me! Hundreds of ‘em!" A man wearing glasses swiftly turns towards him, asking "really? What year? Do they have onboard memory? Where are you sleeping tonight?" The caption below the comic reads "The RAM shortage takes a dark turn."
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rightly so. cc @wiringthebrain.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social www.the-scientist.com/wellcome-s-5...
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Wellcome’s $50M Microbiome-Autism Project Gets a Serious Gut Check | The Scientist
A massive research program investigating causal links between the gut microbiome and autism sparked fierce pushback from scientific critics and advocacy groups.
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The proliferation of "facial coding/expression experts" making bold statements about this interview as if their field has any more scientific backing than Holmes's grift 😒
Screenshot from a Facebook post. The screenshot includes the closeup of Elizabeth Holmes from the new documentary. The text quotes a "facial coding expert" interpreting her expresion
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Greenland zones
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Human beanbag chair
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Big news! 🎉 𝚖𝚊𝚛𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚜 1.0.0 for #Rstats is out. It’s a big number and it feels like a big step. I wrote a blog on the challenges of interpreting statistical models, SPEED, cool new features, the future, and a 5 year package development and writing odyssey. arelbundock.com/posts/margin...
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Interface to R is going in my bio
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This
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I wonder where she thinks her salary comes from
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Where does her salary come from?
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
also longtime customer - about to become ex-longtime customer unless this changes real soon.
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Shit
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What do you think of Terrence Deacon's ideas in his book Incomplete nature?
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#rstats #datavis #historicaldatavis HistData 1.1.0 is now on CRAN -- three new datasets (Federalist Papers text analysis, Perozzo's population stereogram, Ebbinghaus forgetting-curve replications) and a new vignette: The HistData Challenge. friendly.github.io/HistData/
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Data Sets from the History of Statistics and Data Visualization
The HistData package provides a collection of small data sets that are interesting and important in the history of statistics and data visualization. The goal of the package is to make these available...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In our @natureportfolio.nature.com essay, @gidmk.bsky.social and I wrote about the importance of statisticians for those of us doing medical and epi research Involve them early, not when the paper comes back for revisions Make sure they are co-authors & compensated www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Cloaca
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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I'm so incredibly proud of what we've built in these past two years! But I also can't wait to see what comes next - we've still got so much more do to! Happy Birthday Pathoplexus! 🎂
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This book is great and now you can get a free PDF copy of it
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly is gone, but I'll always appreciate her funding and publicly receiving the Moderna vaccine, in addition to her advocacy to wipe out childhood illiteracy.
Picture of Dolly Parton with a mask on with the headline from The New York Times "Dolly parton, who helped fund the moderna vaccine, gets a dose of her own medicine." The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to "get out there and get your shot"
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Everyone is publishing articles of the type "the effect of generative AI on .... " I feel left out
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same
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I'm not LinkedIn here with you. You're all LinkedIn here with me! www.wsj.com/lifestyle/li...
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LinkedIn Has Accidentally Become a Dating Site—Despite Its No-Romance Rules
The platform’s guidelines strictly forbid romantic advances, but the site’s clear headshots and ample details have made it a go-to tool for singles tired of swiping.
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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Given all the discussions about Laplace and Jacobians at StanCon, reminder also about my case study with simple visual illustrations users.aalto.fi/~ave/casestu...
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Laplace method and Jacobian of parameter transformation – Aki Vehtari
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
You should read "Style: Clarity and Grace." It's on the lab intro reading list.
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I asked gemini to make an infographic of Sander Greenland's "simple" definition of a p-value he gives here: discourse.datamethods.org/t/significan...
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Cédric Vidonne @cvidonne.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Maybe some of the proposed options here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/collabo...
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Collaborating on Quarto documents – Nicola Rennie
Collaborating on Quarto documents, particularly non-technical collaborators who don’t want or need to edit any code, is hard. This blog post outlines a few different options that might make it a littl...
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We need to trick these AI companies into doing useful things by claiming they are benchmarks that computers could never be better at than humans...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/08/2026
I am absolutely thrilled to present to you: How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking) available for pre-order now, wherever you buy your books! www.simonandschuster.ca/books/How-to...
Cover of the book "How to Build a Universe (Theoretically Speaking)" by Katie Mack. The top right corner says "Author of The End of Everything" and the bottom left says "Brilliant and thrilling! - John Green". The cover motif is a space image made of puzzle pieces.
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Marble columns
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Eish, yes I've just read the R meta thread. It's a bit misleading given the packages explicitly reference Doi
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The "meta" R package seems to be able to do it. I've not used it though
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Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 04/08/2026
Cape Town climbing to the top of our airport disruption list due to a disabled Kenya Airways 737 #KQ784 on the runway. 21 inbound aircraft have diverted so far. www.flightradar24.com/airport/cpt
Overview of Cape Town airport with Kenya Airways 737 surrounded by ground vehicles on the runway.
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 01/08/2026
cartoon 
Nancy on bed saying actually yeah maybe today satan
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 31/07/2026
This is an *excellent* video on iodine. I had learned about some of these stories from @ruben.the100.ci, but I wasn't quite aware of how much of a public health miracle iodized salt is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRcw...
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The easiest way to make the world smarter
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