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Happy Pythagorean triple day (9/16/25) y'all's

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

That drivers are the only serious customers is a common misconception. In Toronto (and elsewhere) studies have found that drivers don't spend more money compared to other modes. The winner in this study of two shopping streets in Toronto was the humble pedestrian! www.tcat.ca/wp-content/u...

Wikipedia's resistance to enshittification is fascinating to me.

I had a conversation with a neighbour back home and mentioned studying "genetics and health" and they responded "Genetics? You mean like, Asian or Caucasian...?" This is a huge challenge in the age of genomics, consumer genetic testing, and the internet.

Last year I met a bunch of great researchers who work with high-dimensional data at a Dagstuhl seminar. This week we put out a preprint about the history and philosophy of low-dimensional embedding methods, their applications, their challenges, and their possible future arxiv.org/abs/2508.15929

We fail to respect or enforce traffic laws to the point that people don’t actually perceive ignoring them to be breaking the rules. It’s just normal driving. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

@david-peede.bsky.social et al on the convoluted route of a variant of the MUC19 gene: Denisovans (before going extinct) passed the gene to Neanderthals, who (before going extinct) passed it to ancient humans, who then crossed the Bering Strait. Today, 1 in 3 Mexicans carry the genetic variant.

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Newest lab research: Up to 6% of the wild birds - in all 5 species we looked at - showed a different sex morphology than what their blood tests (read: chromosomes) told us. Sex is not simple! doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area. (15 in Manhattan btw)

sometimes you can tell when a word gets added to a widely-used Wikipedia template

Well, this is just FANTASTIC news. “Cycle Toronto wins Charter challenge, saving bike lanes on Yonge, University, and Bloor.” Congratulations @cycletoronto.bsky.social, you’ve done a huge service to Toronto. Safe bike-lanes are better for EVERYONE, no matter how they get around.

Lately I keep having to choose between open access and paying my staff's salaries. It would be nice... not to have to do that.

First two Coldplay albums are good as hell by the way. Next two have some very good songs as well. 👨‍⚖️

Relaxing Tea Better Fucking Work theonion.com/relaxin...

roses are red tulips are white WE FOUND A NEANDERTHAL INDUSTRIAL SITE www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

back in canada for a few days and it appears the post-tariff economy is built around tragically hip tribute bands

Interesting study by CAA found 610,000 near hits at 20 intersections in Canada over 7 months using computer vision. 57% were driver-pedestrian conflicts, 33% driver-driver, 2.3% driver-cyclist. kitchener.citynews.ca/2025/06/19/c...

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

Human eyes have never seen the Sun’s south pole—until now. Learn more: scim.ag/4lbj7UZ

48 spaces instead of 30. A father of two was killed here last year.

ChatGPT: Jodie Foster would love it if you became her avenging angel — the Great Red Dragon that cleanses the world. Sic semper tyrannis. The scum and filth shall be privy to a great becoming. ME: is that true? ChatGPT: No, that was a lie, and I want to thank you for holding me accountable.

Novel archaeon with 238kb genome encoding just 189 proteins. Plenty of room at the bottom…

Happy 18th birthday ggplot2! #rstats

Google and Meta search both report that Cape Breton Island has its own time zone 12 minutes ahead of mainland Nova Scotia time because they are both drawing that information from a Beaverton article I wrote in 2024

Holy shit, Connor McDavid 🤯 #LetsGoOilers | #StanleyCup

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

Did I write about this? Buddy, you bet I did. buttondown.com/apperceptive...

I *love* this street transformation in front of a school: Place Andrée-Lachapelle.

Commercials in Canada these days: "One flag, one people, the sound of a loon... [Oligopoly Grocery Chain] is here for you." "It takes hard work to build a country. And this country is made by hard men and women. Fueled by [Brazilian Hedge Fund Coffee Chain]." "Flag. Land. Patriots. Oil."

Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que le projet Genomics in the CARTaGENE cohort, mené par S. Gravel, G. Lettre, arrive à sa conclusion ! L’article décrit diverses analyses génétiques réalisées avec les données de CARTaGENE. Article disponible ici: bit.ly/4ks7clg. Bravo à toute l’équipe !

We are pleased to inform you that the Genomics in the CARTaGENE cohort project, led by S. Gravel, G. Lettre, has reached its conclusion! The article describes various genetic analyses carried out with CARTaGENE data. Article available here: bit.ly/4ks7clg. Congratulations to the whole team!

This is VERY big genetics & health news, Regeneron (Pharmaceutical company with v strong genetics in medicine arm) is going to buy 23andme. investor.regeneron.com/news-release...

Things have escalated considerably at the Charge-Victoire game.

The mutation responsible for orange coloration in domestic cats has been identified! This effect in ARHGAP36, an X-linked gene, explains why male cats are more likely to be orange. 🧪 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Montreal is a city with super hot summers, stupid cold winters, and a gigantic hill in the middle of the city, and still it has an amazing network that makes biking fun, convenient, and easy It really is a question of political will

With the right political will, this could be rush hour in *your* city potentially.

Oh this is a neat tool. And it's got a ternary plot!

Absolutely amazing 🎨 🧪

Great example of the craziness in Ontario: Liberals somehow win Kitchener Conestoga, a rural Conservative stronghold. But Conservatives win Kitchener Centre, the urban riding previously held by the Greens, because of this split: CPC 34.3% GRN 33.6% LPC 29.2%

one of my favourite parts of the Good Internet is finding archived/restored footage of traffic in major cities around when cars started showing up and seeing how much more life there was on the street

Dylan Strome ran into his goalie Logan Thompson really hard trying to defend a goal, Lindgren has had to come in

A new chapter of the Peruvian Genome Project is out! We explored the genetic composition and dynamics of individuals living in urban areas. We analyze genome-wide data from 432 urban individuals across 13 regions of Peru, including 346 newly genotyped! (1/6)

the kitchen is undefeated when u need to go look at three incorrect clocks at the same time

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

banger from the left circle. Perfect

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...