Have you played with ggannotate? It opens up a UI that lets you place your ggplot2 annotation, then it gives you the code so you don't have to guess coordinates github.com/MattCowgill/...

Merry Christmas from North Wales, which is bracingly cold but beautiful.

Day 22 A podcasting penguin from Antarctica slides into her messages. “Want to chat about nest building on my show for arctic creatures?” She agrees instantly — the cross-continental collab she never knew she needed. check out: Research Podcasting Essentials Series on Spotify buff.ly/1iO7wsP

If you are having a bad day or feel stupid, let me share that instead of pushing my actual SQL solution, I absent‑mindedly git‑pushed the notes I make while learning. And I realized this only after 24 hours. 🙂

a very meowy christmas for all who celebrate!

*30 minutes in* **....people infected with the virus have about 500 quadrillion particles of viral surface proteins circulating in the antibodies during an infection.** Jacob: That's...that's a lot. I am no mathematician. 🤣

When my kids were young I found economics podcasts really helpful on long drives. If they were misbehaving in the back I’d threaten to put on an Econ podcast and they’d shape up right away

This is a nice dataset, with the possibility of learning/practicing different types of data viz & theory. Thank you @cborstell.bsky.social for suggesting it.

@dslc.io welcomes you to week 51 of #TidyTuesday! We're exploring The Languages of the World! 📁 https://tidytues.day/2025/2025-12-23 🗞️ https://glottolog.org/#TidyTuesday #RStats #PyData #JuliaLang #DataViz #tidyverse #r4ds

Any suggestions for a practical CSS guide? I know the basics, but I’d like more options for customization — whether for a website, dashboard, or report etc. So far I’ve learned mostly from cool #dataviz folks on GitHub. #rstats

Taking away access to vaccines is a violation of the rights of children

Thanks @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social for the paletteer package. #rstats suggestions/resource/tips are welcome on this :) (Image from LinkedIn)

Go tell the people of LinkedIn, where the study is doing numbers 🤣

This smells distinctly like collider bias and/or selection bias and/or regression to the mean... You simply can't select teen prodigies, and world class athletes rom databases, and go run regressions without serious consideration of the selection process!

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I need #RStats C help! @mgirlich added me as a maintainer on {tibblify}, which has been archived due to use of non-API entry points (among other things). I want to learn to fix this, but I don't know where to start. I'll see where I can get with AI, but would greatly prefer some human guidance!

Pls recommend epidemiology resources for a foundational‑level learner. Books, blogs, articles, tutorials — anything that you’ve found helpful for yourself or for your students. Open access articles will be appreciated. (If not open access articles, 👉🏼 "All right then, keep your secrets") #episky

📽️ WATCH: After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, which led to 18 million hens being killed and a spike in egg prices, the Department of Agriculture didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. But ProPublica did. @natlash.bsky.social breaks it down: propub.li/4iVcYfD

Hey people! If you are into #geospatial anysis and data #visualization, I created a #GIS starter pack to help you connect with accounts with valuable resources in the field. Check it out here and please suggest new names to expand it: go.bsky.app/TJ7qQF6

True story. My partner and I had a blanket w/ individual dials for each side of the bed. We'd been accusing each other of leaving the blanket on until she came home and discovered our black kitty pawing the dial.

Fantastic! $650k awarded via the Research Software Maintenance Fund for “Enabling the Next Generation of Contributors to R”—mentoring new contributors, modernizing R’s dev infrastructure, and strengthening the R Foundation. r-consortium.org/posts/650K-f... #rstats

My #QuartoPub website has had a little bit of a makeover recently! ✅ Dark-mode option ✅ New cover page (obviously made with #ggplot2) ✅ Cleaner fonts and higher contrast for improved accessibility ✅ Hopefully easier to find things Link: nrennie.rbind.io #RStats

Yesssss Richard's excellent talk is also linked in here: statsepi.substack.com/p/reproducib...

Woah, 3 favorites in one frame!! 🫶🏼

So beautiful chomkins❤️❤️

All of the tools created as part of the @ec.europa.eu funded ESCAPE project on pandemic preparedness in one place (including {mitey}) 😁 www.escapepandemics.com/digitaltoolkit #EpiSky #IDSky #rstats #AcademicSky

Long gone are the days when scientific literature was full of words difficult to comprehend. Now, emojis will do.

To fix air pollution, we need to accept that there is a problem apnews.com/article/air-...

Ngl I thought maybe this was an r package

We are living in a parallel universe in which machine learning was invented before multiple regression.

1 week left - SQL Advent Calendar! Need more practice: window functions & conditional logic. What helps me retain better is comparing SQL with the R equivalents: CASE → if_else() in R Joins → same logic across SQL, R (dplyr), Python (pandas.merge) WHERE → filter() in R IN (a,b) → %in% c(a,b) in R

My leather pouch is ready to carry some hex stickers to #raukr perhaps the most medieval advanced #rstats summer school in #visby. Register as early bird to bring your data analysis skills to the next level. raukr.nbis.se

Looking forward to this one!! Hoping to get some of my queries answered on the topic. Time zones :(

OK I'm ready. Burn this whole mess down!

Man answering his phone on the train: Yes? Correct, I’m not at work (pause) I’m not going to answer that because I am not at work today. No, you’re going to have to ask someone who is. Goodbye.

There *are* legitimate use cases for this kind of stuff! Simulation studies! Synthetic data for a preregistered analysis plan prior to an actual study! But this isn't being marketed as that. It's advertised as a cheaper, faster alternative to humans. Temu we-have-results-at-home survey results.

Yeah, the first sentence paraphrased: "Recruiting people is hard; getting the right demographics is hard; deadlines are approaching; synthetic panels can be a solution" - there it's not framed as a pre-survey testing tool, but a you-have-a-deadline alternative.

Models are great. Simulations are awesome. Synthetic data is useful. But all of them can also be awful and used to generate bad science. We need to know exactly why we're using any of them, what assumptions we're making when using them, and what those assumptions mean for our inferences.

Symposium & workshop on inequalities in infectious disease dynamics at LSHTM in April 2026. We aim to will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to share ideas, discuss recent advances, and reflect on future directions. Details & application: iddconf.org/lshtm-sympos... Closing 21 Jan

Using over 20 years of weekly case, climate and serotype data, we found that risk of dengue was highest during El Niño conditions and in the first few years following a change in the dengue serotype circulating in the population.

"The real world does not conform to the mathematical tidiness of simple scenarios" - @adamjkucharski.bsky.social, "Proof: The Art and Science of Certainty" Great book so far, thanks for writing it.

Lunch break adventures 🏞️

⚠️ Grave violations against children are rising. 520 million children are living in or fleeing conflict zones. Across conflicts worldwide, children are being killed, maimed, recruited and affected by sexual violence. Learn more: humanitarianaction.info

I get to see JS regularly at the grocery store. It's my super power

My baby #JuliaLang package got an award! DifferentiationInterface.jl just received a national prize for open-source research software and I couldn't be prouder. We started this from a vague dream with @adrianhill.de, and reached 1000 dependents and 100k downloads last month. Research != just papers.

Comical action shots of me looking genuinely angry during the debate on LLMs in health and social science. I don't think I've ever given such a passionate talk. I didn't realise just how angry I feel about LLMs ruining science.

Today: ➖ #Gaza: Humanitarians continue to scale up winter support ➖ #Sudan: Escalating hostilities put civilians at risk ➖ #Syria: UN and partners deliver vital aid amid funding shortfalls ➖ #Ukraine: Weekend attacks disrupt critical services ➡️ https://bit.ly/44upHQs

chatgpt out here building its tenure file

For example: If you're an artist, maybe you can design merch. If you're a web designer, you could redo an org's clunky website. If you are good at writing, someone might want you to do web content or social media. There are a MILLION ways to volunteer - please consider it! 🥰

Tomorrow's DS Lab will be great for those curious abt - digging thru the backend of websites to see API calls - using Postman - alternatives to web scraping @marcoshuerta.com is gonna show us how he does this stuff! Come join us!! pos.it/dslab <- registers for the series #databs #python #rstats