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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 22h

Heard a BBC reporter pronounce “saxophonist” and I had to sit down.

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Kate Hagen 🦂 𓋹 🦂 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 17h

"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...

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What It Feels Like at Cornell Right Now

As a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big.

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 16h

good ol Facebook, making bayes theorem as confusing as possible

Infographic explainer of the medical testing version of bayes theorem

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 22h

Universal Daycare is a staggering boon for working parents and for kids, it is among the greatest blessings of living in New Mexico in this time, and everywhere else should be so lucky. The whole point is to make stay-at-home a choice, not obligation, so everyone can have full lives as full people.

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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

JCO for the win.

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 22h

# usual workflow fit_model <- function(model_name, ...) { # have a list of formulas, each with an attribute for a "model type" # ... formula <- formulas[[model_name]] priors <- lookup_priors(attr(formula, "model_type")) # ... brm(..., file = model_name) }

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 29/09/2026

some early cartridges of Super Mario Bros 3 are “Left Bros” cartridges because they put the word “Bros” in a goofy ass position on the left and later productions moved it to the more sensible position on the right. The more you know 💫

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 29/09/2026

I just want to share that the Hyvee offbrand version is called “panburger partner”

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 29/09/2026

I have three instances where my role qua statistician involved being the human who had to review and vouch for the analysis technique and code provided by ChatGPT/Claude

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 07/12/2025

Our blessed caribou. Their barbarous reindeer.

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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Russell Brand, who's awaiting trial in London next month on rape and sexual assault charges, will moderate a panel at DC's MAHA summit tomorrow on reforming a U.S. health agency

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 28/09/2026

why dont you just use emmeans to compute a contrast? because i don’t know what it’s doing and can do the computation myself

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 28/09/2026

probability value or “peeve” for short

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 25/09/2026

factor()s are underrated bc they give you custom sorting ("low", "mid", "high") and custom labels. but they are also fragile. you write them out to csv and lose all that.

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 25/09/2026

I am inserting page orientation directives into a markdown document that are intercepted by pandoc / a lua filter, so why not just use one of those latex or typst at this point

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 25/09/2026

new gilla band album lfg

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Literally everyone will tell you that.

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Early Beatlemania was fuelled by teenage girls, but they won't tell you that.

Women and girls have always been the trendsetters and the tastemakers.

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 25/09/2026

learning new words from my kindergartener’s penguin book en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cr%C3%A...

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crèche - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Deon T. Benton @deontbenton.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Anyone have access to the following reference? I've struck out. Hunter, M. A., & Ames, E. W. (1988). A multifactor model of infant preferences for novel and familiar stimuli. Advances in Infancy Research, 5, 69–95.

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ceej @ceej.online · 29/11/2025

I regret every joke I’ve made about how our elected officials were so old they didn’t know how to use a computer. I would give anything for another administration that doesn’t know how to use a computer

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 23/09/2026

lil brms rmarkdown tip v <- list() # brms gives you these v$brms <- model$version$brms v$cmdstanr <- model$version$cmdstanr v$stan <- model$version$stan v$rstan <- model$version$rstan # close enough v$r <- getRversion() # but i should be stashing the R version inside the model object

## Software details

Analyses were conducted in the R programming language [vers. `r v$r`,
@r-base]. Models were fit using the Stan programming language
[vers. `r v$stan`, @stan-base] via the brms
[vers. `r v$brms`, @brms2017] and cmdstanr [vers. `r v$cmdstanr`,
@r-cmdstanr] R packages. Handling the posterior samples
was greatly simplified by the posterior [vers. `r v$posterior`,
@r-posterior] and ggdist [vers. `r v$ggdist`, @ggdist2024] R packages.

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eminemerald fennell @fireh9lly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I think it's really interesting how the Fleetwood Mac revival has led to this weird retconning of the complaint about their music being that it was too hip and obscure instead of too smooth, polished, safe and adult oriented

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On My Own Journey. @plsdontreplytome.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i googled a lyric from a jesus lizard song trying to remember what album its on and it hurt google ais feelings and it turned itself off lol

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Mike Barthel @mikebarthelauthor.com · 23/09/2026

Daft Punk were not only so successful at changing music that future listeners find their innovative work to be generic sounding, but that they themselves made a deliberately un-innovative (and boring) album themselves.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I enjoyed this. Was gonna rant, but even I'm sick of hearing it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Rosalynde @roslaynde.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

every will stancil tirade is exactly the same: selective framing of an argument that he uses to moan about how his rivals are cooked by social media and peer pressure, and that he, a terminally online guy with 100k followers, is immune to these pressures and is never wrong (& is the real victim)

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Matthew Perpetua @fluxblog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New playlist THE BEST OF ADULT CONTEMPORARY 1987-1992 Sincere, mature, and dramatic songs about love A nearly extinct style of music, people are too cynical now 💝 Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/5S5... ❤️ Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... ❤️‍🩹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 23/09/2026

Can confirm (see 🧵 ). But let me share some optimism. A NIH colleague said today that against all odds, NIH has been…winning. “We made this EO a necessity. We fought hard. We threw sand in all the gears. All the lowdown ways of blocking grants failed to produce the results Vought et al wanted.”

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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What. A. Day. NIH grant-making was paused for several hours today. Not sure who gave the order. But in light of the Friday night Bhattacharya-Vought feud & threatened EO to implement #ScienceDeathPanels, my money is on Russell Vought. I learned of the pause from a colleague around 11:30. 🧵

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 22/09/2026

bass here is really making me think of Nirvana open.spotify.com/track/1508dF...

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Potential Suicide

Wipers · Is This Real? · Song · 1980

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Robin Blythe @rbly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It is SO EASY to specify mo() for an ordinal variable in brms that I don't think I can go back to treating them as continuous or dummy vars. Even splines are super easy. Next on my wishlist is that mi() integrates cleanly with mo() and s() 😍 #rstats

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 22/09/2026

the only good thing about stephens’ opinion column is that you get to use the word “sinecure” to talk about it

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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

ME: wanna hear a joke BSKY REPLY PERSON: a what

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/09/2026

I stand by this

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 22/09/2026

As my colleague ably points out: if Paxton wins, centrist transphobes will simply say that Dems will have to turn up the bigotry dial. If Talarico wins *we* can emphasize Paxton's scorched earth anti-trans campaign and say, with justice, that transphobia is a vote loser.

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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 19/09/2026

I hate when I’m hit with a weapon or elemental damage type that corresponds to my weakness

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 21/09/2026

Alright. Let me resolve this once and for all. The simple fact is that there are a few different things that can be reasonably meant by “thinking” and mixing them up is what’s making everyone mad.

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 21/09/2026

when they finally explain the eval and apply metacircular evaluator, the instructor puts on a fez and a cape and "also spake zarathustra" plays youtu.be/aAlR3cezPJg?... at 34:39

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tj mahr 🤘 @tjmahr.com · 21/09/2026

I get depressed when I review something and it seems AI-assisted (as in well written but shallow and making weird jumps in spots). Why am I wasting my time putting in thought that wasn’t given in the first place

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Jon Harmon (he/him/his) @jonthegeek.com · 21/09/2026

I've been feeling pretty down. When I found #RStats, I kinda fell in love, and decided to become as much of an expeRt as I could be. In the age of AI, that's not a good idea; why make the bots program in a language they don't really understand? #dataBS

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zakalwe2024.bsky.social @zakalwe2024.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Men in their 40s/50s whinging about how “they ruined Star Wars” is definitely one of the more depressing traits of my generation.

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