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Terence Tao @teorth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
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Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
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Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New paper alert! “Heritability and social interaction in labor market outcomes: Evidence from the population of twins in the United States,” with David Card and Moises Yi, out today in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
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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john-pool.bsky.social @john-pool.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@siyuan-feng.bsky.social led this project developing a new statistical framework that leverages replication to better estimate quantitative trait differentiation (QST) and identify potential locally adaptive traits. Next goal is to apply it to multi-omic data (chromatin/RNA/protein). Stay tuned!
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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Statistical Rethinking 2026 is done: 20 new lectures emphasizing logical and critical statistical workflow, from basics of probability theory to causal inference to reliable computation to sensitivity. It's all free, made just for you. Lecture list and links: github.com/rmcelreath/s...
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I'm excited to release the newest version of my free applied biostats textbook. It's tidyverse style, clarkia inspired and loads of fun Im putting this down until the end of the semester, when I'll add and polish additional chapters, but the 1st 21 are pretty solid yanivjb.github.io/biostats-book
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Applied Biostatistics
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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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Ted Pavlic (he/him/his) @tedpavlic.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you teach power analysis to undergrads or your grad students need a review, this widget may help. Includes a description and visualizations of power analyses for multiple tests, high-resolution OC charts, and sample code for #MATLAB, #Rstats, and #Python. #stats tpavlic.github.io/asu-simulati...
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Power Explorer—statistical power by simulation and by formula
Statistical power made manipulable: watch the null and alternative sampling distributions separate as the sample size grows, estimate power by Monte Carlo simulation and check it against the exact ans...
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Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra @jrossibarra.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
This was a fun chat with @vickquezada.bsky.social (check out their work at www.vickquezada.art)
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VICK QUEZADA
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
📚😅🎉 Yay!! I just submitted the complete manuscript of my upcoming book to the publisher! Learn to easily and clearly interpret (almost) any stats model w/ R or Python. Simple ideas, consistent workflow, powerful tools, detailed case studies. Read it for free @ marginaleffects.com #RStats #PyData
Model to Meaning: How to interpret statistical models with marginaleffects for R and Python
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 20/03/2025
I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/
Screenshot of the linked Quarto website, with input checkboxes to change different conditions for a regression model that predicts economic performance based on US political party, with a reported p-value
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Jeff Spence @jeffspence.github.io · 08/07/2026
Craig Smail wrote up a really nice Preview of @nikhilmilind.dev's paper where we try to explain why large effect variants tend to affect traits in the same direction on average, which we think about in terms of the non-linearity of gene dosage response curves. www.cell.com/cell-genomic...
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Gene dosage differences and non-linear impacts on complex traits
Large differences in gene dosage are usually associated with opposite phenotypic effects but show a bias toward one direction in aggregate genome wide. Milind et al. suggest that this is explained by ...
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Introducing my 1st R package. I built this to address common misunderstandings of linear models i often see in intro biostats students. this is strongly paternalistic and aims to improve students' understanding of intro stats comments welcome yanivjb.github.io/honestlm/ #Rstats #ggplot2 #biostats
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Guardrails for Teaching Linear Models
Provides small, opinionated wrappers around familiar linear model workflows. The package keeps base R and ggplot2 interfaces recognizable while adding guardrails around common interpretation traps, in...
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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Jeremy Hollis’ detective story on centromeric histone chaperones (HJURP/Cal1) is now published after peer review with a few extra goodies. @jeremyahollis.bsky.social @nlehrbach.bsky.social @cbmoens.bsky.social @irinakitop.bsky.social @basicsci.fredhutch.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Remote homology and functional genetics unmask deeply preserved Scm3/HJURP orthologs in metazoans
Animals encode a rapidly evolving, essential cell cycle gene previously thought to be absent.
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
As our three-month stay in Helsinki comes to an end, I’m leaving with a deeper appreciation for sauna, Moomins, the sea, pine seed development, my family, and especially my collaborator/host/friend @pyhatanja.bsky.social, and her lab members.
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Dorota Paczesniak @dorotdesigns.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
How is fertilisation different between flowering plants🌺 and naked-seed plants, like conifers🌳? This illustration has been commissioned by @pyhatanja.bsky.social and Robert Kesälahti and is now freely available on Wikimedia Commons under a CC BY 4.0 licence Link: bit.ly/4w9pyhq 🧪 #SciArt #EduSky
A graphic showing a fragment of an illustration with some text below on a cheerful yellow background. The text reads: Botanical illustration: Comparison between fertilisation in angiosperms and gymnospermsA graphic showing a botanical illustration with some text below. The text reads: This illustration shows the comparison between angiosperm (A) and gymnosperm (B) fertilisation and the anatomy of the female reproductive organsA graphic showing a screenshot from Wikimedia Commons with some text below. The text reads: It is available on Wikimedia  Commons with a CC BY 4.0 licence. Free to share and remix, attribution requiredA graphic showing a few small botanical illustrations and hand-drawn sketches with some text below. The text reads: I'm open to commissions of scientific figures, graphical abstracts, infographics and other learning materials. Drawing to explain and inspire. My portfolio: https://www.behance.net/dorotdesigns. Dorota Paczesniak (PhD), scientific illustrator
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 22/04/2026
Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Models as Prediction Machines: How to Convert Confusing Coefficients Into Clear Quantities - Julia M. Rohrer, Vincent Arel-Bundock, 2026
Psychological researchers usually make sense of regression models by interpreting coefficient estimates directly. This works well enough for simple linear model...
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Saoirse Kelleher @saoirsekelleher.eco · 24/02/2026
Coming up in March! Join @sortee.bsky.social for a webinar with @daxkellie.bsky.social on good, shareable, and reproducible R code - register here: events.humanitix.com/sortee-webin...
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SORTEE Webinar: On what makes good sharable and reproducible R code, how to do it, and why it’s good for science
For this month's SORTEE webinar, Dr. Dax Kellie from the Atlas of Living Australia will present on good, sharable, and reproducible R code in science
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Yo Dawg! I heard you like biorxiv preprints
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
roses are red why hello tom you predict with a BLUP estimate with a BLUE
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I asked chat gpt to rewrite "I’m Comic Sans, Asshole" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Me to students: "Don't just take a screenshot of your R output and paste it in your document, thats unprofessional" NYT to ME:
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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
{livelink} walked so {webrarian} could run. Mini browser-based #rstats environments powered by #webR and its 4-panel editor. YAML config, build, preview. Done. R package coming soon. #pyodide folks, stay tuned.
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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Congrats @jeffgroh.bsky.social et al. Some avocado trees open female-phase flowers in the morning & then male in afternoon. Others show complementary pattern (m->f), to synchronize pollination of two types. Jeff show this to be a >45Mya polymorphism at a transcription factor across 100s of species.
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
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Patrick McKenzie @patrickmckenzie.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Available now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social ! Taking on some big-scale natural history: processed >40k @inaturalist.bsky.social images of Monarda fistulosa using computer vision to query for flower presence and phenotype flower color: doi.org/10.1086/739413
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High-throughput iNaturalist image analysis reveals flower color divergence in Monarda fistulosa | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
i dont knoe eho needs to hear this (but someone does) you should not use file.choose() BUT IF YOU DO PLEASE DO NOT PUT IT IN A RMARKDOWN FILE
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Crying Pc GIF
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/10/2025
1. We ( @jbakcoleman.bsky.social, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social, and I) have a new preprint up on the arXiv. There we explore how social media companies and other online information technology firms are able to manipulate scientific research about the effects of their products.
Three schematic diagrams. The first illustrates selective publishing of internal resection, the second selective causal focus, and the third selective access and funding for researchers.
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Proud of the latest edition of my free intro biostats book. gitrepo: github.com/ybrandvain/b... book: ybrandvain.github.io/biostats/ Not complete but at a good point to take a break, and I think its quite usable dm me with comments , ideas etc
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Applied Biostatistics
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Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney-joan.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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A Causal Inference Framework for Climate Change Attribution in Ecology
Accurately attributing ecological shifts to climate change remains a significant challenge. Here, we present an accessible causal inference framework designed for climate change attribution in observ...
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
working on my material for next semester. this one ended up on the cutting room floor
Yo dawg meme: 

Top:  "Yo dawg, I heard you like  communicating uncertainty" 

Bottom: "So I put confidence intervals  on your  confidence intervals  so you could  express uncertainty in your uncertainty"
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Starting now on @Twitch -- twitch.tv/realgoodai I'll be discussing teaching, learning, feedback adn textbooks in the llm era with @RealGoodAi realgoodai.org
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Fauci is not exactly Vavilov but Lysenkoists in charge might send him to an El Salvadorian gulag
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Two research teams from @cnrs.fr @sbroscoff.bsky.social carried a comparative analysis in flowering plants that supports the prediction that inbreeding, such as self-fertilization, selects for higher recombination rates: doi.org/10.1093/jeb/... Brazier et al. (@romanstet.bsky.social)
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Mating system and the evolution of recombination rates in seed plants
Abstract. Meiotic recombination is a central mechanism underlying sexual reproduction among eukaryotes. In many species, the recombination rate is strongly
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Tomasz Kalinowski @t-kalinowski.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Just made promptdown public. It's a plain-text interface for working with LLMs using literate programming. See and edit the full prompt each turn. No cramped input boxes, no hidden context, no append-only chat. Still early alpha, feedback welcome! github.com/t-kalinowski...
The package logo, a small cute elephant holding a quill and writing promptdown
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
"illustrates how marvellously flexible plant reproductive systems can be." ...discovery that sunflower seeds can develop without fertilization and endosperm (!) 🌾🧪https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00904-8
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Sunflower ‘virgin births’ enable accelerated crop breeding
The discovery that sunflower seeds can develop without fertilization reveals a pathway to accelerate improvement of this crop — and potentially others.
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Gideon Bradburd @gbradburd.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Really excited to see this work, led by Mike Grundler, published! It's a new method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors. In the paper, we and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A geographic history of human genetic ancestry
Describing the distribution of genetic variation across individuals is a fundamental goal of population genetics. We present a method that capitalizes on the rich genealogical information encoded in g...
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John Stinchcombe @johnstinchcombe.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Our department (@EEBUofT) is searching for a Post-Doc! Post-docs funded by this fellowship are independently supported, with research funds available. We invite applications from innovative, collaborative candidates. See the job ad here: eeb.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...
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Molly Schumer @mollyschumer.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
For true DMI afficiandos, we also were intrigued by results on the genotype combinations under selection at different incompatibilities. Any comments welcome and thanks to many co-authors including @gilrosenthal.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social @pandolfatto.bsky.social & others not on bluesky
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Shelly Gaynor @shellygaynor.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
If you happen to be interested in the coexistence of diploids and tetraploids given modern coexistence theory and stochastic population dynamics - Check out our #JustAccepted paper at @asn-amnat.bsky.social doi.org/10.1086/734411
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Dynamics of mixed-ploidy populations under demographic and environmental stochasticities | The American Naturalist: Vol 0, No ja
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Roses are red, Tulips are too, Predict for a BLUP, Estimate for a BLUE.
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Data Quine @scottish.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2024
Argh, is bookdown.org...down? 504 Gateway Time out from here #Bookdown
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I just told my stats class "To use LLMs to help understand things you do, rather than to help do things you dont understand" and that might be my new AI policy
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I've always been super curious about bird chromosome evolution. Clicked with interest and then got more excited to see Heath Blackmon (a scientist I was luck enough to advise during his postdoc) was partly behind this 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Cant wait to read !🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
From Micro to Macro: Avian Chromosome Evolution is Dominated by Natural Selection www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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From Micro to Macro: Avian Chromosome Evolution is Dominated by Natural Selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.29.626112v1
Birds display striking variation in chromosome number, defying the traditional view of highly conser
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ybrandvain.bsky.social @ybrandvain.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Job advert --- plz RT / distribute Department Head Plant & Microbial Biology University of Minnesota Twin Cities Come be my boss. Our department is fun. The twin cities are a great place to live. hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...
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