Ironically, this does build a "deep state" -- where program managers, not scientists, make funding decisions.

I…did not see the closing sentence of this photo caption coming: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/15/n...

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

Every time I'm around a man, I immediately stop listening lest my pure female sensibilities get corrupted by their maleness. It's my guardrail to assure my purity.

I'm having trouble finding news articles on this, but it's my understanding that all OPT applications are being "held" for 3 months after student graduate, interrupting their studies and forcing them to return home.

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.

New post on the @ropensci.org blog: How to Assess Usage of your #RStats Package 📂 Downloads 🌳 Reverse dependencies 🔍 Code mentions 🎓 Citations ⭐ Popularity measures: likes 🤝 Contributions to the repository 🙋 Use case reports 🕵️ Telemetry ropensci.org/blog/2025/12...

An insane political move. One of the recurring complaints about immigration in the U.S. is that those seeking asylum jump the line. This is line-jumping — but for rich people, not those in need.

Just once I’d like an athlete to say “hail Satan” at the beginning of a post game interview, is that too much to ask

Anything Lars von Trier. Too much (incredibly graphic) violence against women.

Can I get some opinions on significance stars? Love them? Tolerate them? desire to banish them forever? We all know they are vastly misused; can that be mitigated?

Since I am Bad at Business I forgot to post that I'm trying my 1st subscription sale for BLOOD IN THE MACHINE. 20% off until Sunday. If you'd like to support independent journalism that centers the worker, the user, the humans contending with Silicon Valley and the tech oligarchy, now's a good time.

Things may have gone too far

possible future bylines I'm considering: statistician and amateur sewist statistician and middling ultra runner statistician and WNBA fan

This byline! "Science journalist and private pilot".

Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce" Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI

The bigger question is how the U.S. and other countries have decided to not care about large swaths of people that simply have no safe place to live. We don't let them leave their countries, we won't let come here. We condemn people to suffer and die because "they don't belong".

The term "has historic roots, including Nazi ideology and, more recently, a violent conspiracy theory that’s inspired terrorist attacks in the US and abroad" www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/u...

I will never forget the Postdoc who boasted to me that he could upload data straight into chatGPT and it would do the analysis for him.

same energy as asking the genie for more wishes

This is wild

I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio

This is what workers mean when they say “union busting is disgusting,” and it’s why the trade should be illegal.

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

#rstats It is with profound sadness I heard that my long-time friend and colleague, John Fox passed away this week. He was the author of {car}, {effects}, {Rcmdr}, ... and numerous influential books. I will miss him greatly. www.john-fox.ca

People are struggling. I want us to think about how we're going to help each other hang in there this winter. How are you going to support your friends, co-strugglers, and community as they push through this moment? How can you help people muddle through, materially and/or emotionally?

Wow. Is this the root of the 'male crisis'?

curious what happened to all the amazing insights gathered on behalf of DOGE by this lady: www.deseret.com/politics/202...

New poll finds just 18% of Americans "embrace" AI, with 49% saying they reject it.

For decades, the Idaho State Constitution forbid tuition at public universities. After years of Republicans defunding higher education, the state was forced to remove that from the constitution.

I just reread the original hunger games trilogy. Great story still. This time around, it seems like a deliberate riposte to Lord of the Flies. Children and people want to care for each other and act cooperatively; it's pressure and coercion of (some) adults that forces them into violence.

Pezeshkian said officials across government must work together or “a dark future” awaits. “Protecting the environment is not a joke,” he said. “Ignoring it means signing our own destruction,"

Hsbnd complaining about the baseball student princesses who repeatedly request special treatment: "I don't know where your glass slippers are, but they are not in this office."

Email just went out on my campus that the Immigration Goons ("federal immigration agents") will be in town (Raleigh). Inter alia, it says,"International students, faculty and staff should carry evidence of their immigration status with them at all times." The fuck kind of country are we living in?

My 17 yo: Dante seems pretty egotistical and also, maybe not okay mentally

I’m hiring for a visual designer! Come work with me for a very cool org doing very cool work: grnh.se/943kjeba6us Some examples →

Helpful reminder to be mindful of AI slop

Also, conference break music is 1980s electro-pop, which is enough of an incentive to get me to attend

"the [statistical] assumptions are....heroic." --Riachard Hahn, discussing simulating data for estimating heterogenous effects in causal inference. www.causalscience.org#Programme

I do wonder if what we will need is a truth and reconciliation process to describe, document and preserve the evidence of what is happening. We cannot allow this to happen again.

Props to the article's opening sentence by Sandra Epson: "Earth, it’s said, is home to more than 10,000 AI startups. They’re more abundant than cheetahs. They outnumber dawn redwoods."

These graphs of self-taught teenagers' startup to design agricultural herbicides is something else. 'Bindwell’s website once described these [AI] models as insanely fast [that] could predict, in mere seconds, the results of experiments that would have taken days' www.wired.com/story/ai-sta...

This whole thing is a quite a tale: "a few teens had in a handful of months built their own LLMs, learned the biochemistry of pest control, used their models to identify potential molecules, and were now pipetting away in their own lab..."

*laughs in realtor*

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time travel assassination targets normal people: Hitler, Stalin, Leopold II data analysts: whoever invented dates

The sort of argument my high schooler makes for not doing chores.

It's like LLMs in the past few months realized that little reprexes are cool, but people aren't realizing that and just going with the fake code. Can't wait for this to inevitably make it into published stuff.

ICYMI: Our latest shows what happens to transcriptional and metabolic profiles in a desiccated soil bacterium. To simplify things, I've attached a visual abstract. Comments on the preprint are welcome! #microsky #microbesky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Why are we treating this guy like he's some elder great statesmen or a distinguished scientist?! He's a very rich dude who got lucky and whose fortune was built on anti-trust violations. He's not even a good programmer!