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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Released {ducklake}: an R package for DuckLake data lakehouses 🦆 I like to think of DuckLake like git for data. The package supports: - Automatic versioning - Time travel - ACID transactions - Audit trails - tidyverse-like interface Feedback most welcome! tgerke.github.io/ducklake-r/ #rstats

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ducklake: Interact with DuckLake from R

R package that complements duckdb and duckplyr packages to support the new DuckLake ecosystem.

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Claire @baseball-broad.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

To delete your TikTok account without agreeing to the new TOS: 1) put your phone in airplane mode 2) open TikTok and go to your profile 3) go to settings and scroll down to delete account 4) turn airplane mode off 5) delete your account Credit to @ kimsaira on instagram for this

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Just occurred to me how funny it will be if/when the AI this administration loves gets good enough, it will identify vaccines as the best vehicle for population health and “discover” mRNA vaccine technologies

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

god help me, we are going to the nutcracker with our two middle school boys [insert Beavis laugh]

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Harriet - Pumpkin Spite @akaharriet.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

Headline: "Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot" by Jan Martindale Dec. 10 2025

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Bhav Patel (Dodonerd) @bhav.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Im thrilled to once again not be taking part in advent of code

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

AI is not coming for your job but it is coming for this scene, and I hate it

Screen shot of Love Actually where Jamie is about to lose his typewritten pages into the water which Aurélia will retrieve

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The most useful thing I ever learned on social media is the incredible culinary gains from microwaving things at 50% power

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 04/12/2025

it’s the year of our lord 2025 and auth is still near impossible

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

"We're nearing AGI" but it's still hard to understand meeting availability across teams, audio visual devices consistently don't work in said meetings, a single web service bug brings down half the internet

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

The real magic of AI is that it caused everyone to forget the fundamental principles that govern how we probabilistically learn about the world. Small n / curse of dimensionality / no validation on well curated data? No problem. Visit my C seed startup at AI dot ai 💸 💸

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Congratulations Dodgers, Cinderella team for the ages

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Adam Austin @ataustin.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Wake me up when gen AI can schedule a recurring meeting at a time convenient for both parties and proactively adjust future conflicts.

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

This is the back gate in my driveway which borders Camp Pendleton, I’ve circled the area where we see artillery drills. Does anyone have info about what time today USMC is shooting missiles over the 5 into this area? Want to make sure us and kids are away from home @mikelevin.org @governor.ca.gov

Photo of my back gate which borders Camp Pendleton with their artillery range circled

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

TIL 36.4 is "significantly larger" than 121.7 thanks google AI please build a giant data center in my backyard for more of this

Screenshot of enshittified google's AI overview telling me Blake Snell's 2025 average annual salary of $36.4 million is significantly larger than the entire Milwaukee Brewers' active roster payroll of $121.7 million

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Our family spends around $75 per month on prescriptions. Did a quick plot to find out how much the 650% is going to save us and hell to the yes the pharmacy is about to *pay us* $412.50 per month

a line plot made with ggplot2 that says "cost of family prescriptions before and after 650% decrease" The cost today is $75 and the cost after the discount "in two weeks" will be -$412.50

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

This person sounds funny and cool but I am definitely worried about the “baby in placenta” part

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

After exits from padres and boston I had no horse in the world series race but this turned me. Seattle all the way

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I'm convinced god's table must be more chaotic than this

screenshot of a section of a causal inference paper which talks about counterfactual data as "data that only God could see" with Table 1: God's table showing some simple relationships between variables A and Y

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

I think this about yankees and dodgers fans all the time

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Obv not the most important thing right now, but I am continuously astounded that Google invests heavily to push incorrect AI slop to the top of search results. In this easily verifiable case, the season series is actually 3-3. Even their own counting of the 2-2 description is wrong!

A google search result for "who won the head to head series this year cubs padres" saying the Cubs won the series 4-2, followed by a description which says the Cubs won two and the Padres won two (all of which is wrong, the season series is 3-3).

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

These ACIP comments from the public are brutal 💀 Kulldork was so clearly unhappy to field them, citing that they are "required by law"

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Periodically tuned into ACIP 🗑️ Repeated calls for placebo controlled RCTs. Just shouting the obvious (🤡 ACIP excepted) into the void: we identify life-saving therapies through active control RCTs all the time. Eg effective therapies for cancer exist, we cannot withhold them to study new treatments.

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

no Apple News, I don't want to read about "Hooray! Stocks hit record highs because there are no jobs meaning interest rates may go down so that billionaires can borrow at lower costs"

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Remember like a year ago when we devoted approx 0% of our effort wondering or talking about what dumb shit the president was doing

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Facts. AI would have helped me with very little of the data infra work I’ve done over the past 10+ years because most is deployed within highly bespoke setups of large orgs with lots of tech debt

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

If only there was a study of, I don't know, 2.5 million children spanning 25 years that found no such link

Screenshot of JAMA paper published last year titled "Acetaminophen Use During Pregnancy and Children’s Risk of Autism, ADHD, and Intellectual Disability" with highlighted text "Acetaminophen use during pregnancy was not associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability in sibling control analyses."

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Joshua Loftus @joft.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

This is what I've been saying since 2023 (image below) "prediction: use of "AI" [...] will come to be broadly associated with cheating, deception, lack of respect for other people, and low quality work that cannot be trusted in important settings"

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

“My package was accepted to CRAN”

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

This is extremely cool. Picked it up and made this DAG in like 15 minutes. Obviously pros/cons versus other DAG tools (e.g. low/no code cstructure and R's ggdag, both of which offer d-separation details and more) but if you have rigid aesthetic requirements this is a great tool to have in your kit

a DAG representing selection bias produced with ggdiagram

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Good connection made by @adamjkucharski.bsky.social Take brain cancer: lifetime risk is around .5%. Picture an LLM which detects 100% of cancers and correctly calls "no cancer" 99% of the time when it is absent. Sounds good right? Not really: 67% of the time it says you have cancer when you don't.

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Fascinating, accurate, and unfortunately terrifying. Great read.

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Emoji Mashup Bot @emojimashupbot.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

☹️ frowning + 😒 unamused + 👊 fist-bump =

An Emoji Mashup combining ☹️ and 😒. There's also a 👊

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Emoji Mashup Bot @emojimashupbot.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

😹 laughing-cat + 🤪 crazy =

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

True story: in 2017 there was a serial killer in our neighborhood so we couldn’t go outside for a week, the toddler two doors down shot himself with his parents gun and died, one night we woke our toddlers to hide in the hall from gunshots outside, and a car crashed into our house. Tampa, Florida.

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

NIH now only funding Jeanome Wide Association Studies because woke

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

💯 every time I meet with a early career person trying to crack into the data science field, I spend a decent amount of time explaining how to organize their resume so that enshittified AI tools from large org HR won't autoreject them

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Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com · 04/08/2025

🤩 @travisgerke.bsky.social and i have been blown away by our #rstats data science intern this summer, give her a follow!

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Makary: "We have never talked about environmental exposures that may cause cancer" Sure would be cool if we had, say, an entire branch of the NCI devoted to this.

screenshot of the NCI website which describes the "Environmental Epidemiology Branch" that studies, for example, environmental exposures as cancer risk factors

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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Why Most Published Statements By Ioannidis Are False

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This is just like GWAS, minus the yell if you can imagine that

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sanjana! @sanjanacurtis.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

do u think the uruk-hai had orcIDs

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

INDIANA JONES AND VIRTUALENV USING THE OSX PYTHON

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Same for Sunday-fil-a. Serves nuggets, waffle fries, only open on Sundays. Rainbow themes.

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Reflecting on #ser2025 on flight back. Though an epidemiologist for 10+ years it was my first one! Many keynotes/talks were about how to preserve trust in science/reality. I can only imagine previous years were more “here’s what epi did last year, here’s what’s really exciting about this year.”

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travis gerke @travisgerke.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Thanks #ser2025 friends for hanging out to talk about DAGs!

A selfie of me on the podium with the audience smiling in the background after giving a talk at SER 2025

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