New blog post: open-source software packages have surprising problems with the way they calculate weighted medians and other quantiles. www.practicalsignificance.com/posts/weight... #rstats #julialang

Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)

I've a vague memory of seeing recently (in the last week? month?) that due to changes in ggplot2_+/or plotly, ggplotly might not be viable/supported long-term. ('twould be a terrible shame, although I guess I could learn `ggiraph::plot_labels` ?) Can anyone confirm/deny/point me to a source? #rstats

Version 2.0.0 of emmeans is out! Notable changes: new look to the plots, qdrg() now an S3 method, and new maintainer (me, Russ still highly involved). cran.r-project.org/package=emme...

Editor's Choice article in our latest issue: "The genetic basis of natural variation in sociability " by Arteen Torabi-Marashi, Dania Daanish, Andrew M Scott, Reuven Dukas, & Ian Dworkin. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... @idworkin.bsky.social

When the Hapsburgs find out corn does inbreeding better they’re really gonna take it on the chin.

PhD position (Any of 5 cities in Canada) ACCDMi's members at 5 universities are soliciting expressions of interest. with @amyhurford.bsky.social at Memorial U., U. of New Brunswick, Dalhousie U., U. of Prince Edward Island, or Mount... More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2374

Very proud of this paper in BioScience : « Too cute to be wild: what teddy bears reveal about our disconnection from nature » 🧸 are more than toys, they shape among our first emotional connections to nature. But their design may also distort how we see wildlife ! 👉 doi.org/10.1093/bios... 🧪🦤

Like to develop spatio-temporal models? Interested in Arctic marine mammals 🦭🐳 and their susceptibility to oil spills? You may be the postdoctoral fellow Dr. Mariane Marcoux and I are looking for! See the details in the job ad: tinyurl.com/spatiostatamm

Recently attended a workshop using allisonhorst.github.io/palmerpengui... for examples but it's hard to use for mixed models (3 species/3 islands isn't enough for MMs). With a little help from Claude → Tobias et al doi.org/10.1111/ele.... and extracted the penguins: github.com/bbolker/bbmi...

My lab is going to be imminently looking for a computer scientist or a biologist with deep understanding of R to develop and give bioinformatic education to postdocs. This is perfect for someone who likes teaching. You'd need to be in the Pittsburgh area. Feel free to reach out with questions.

Are there any active #rstats groups/meetups in #Boston area? (I'm fine with hosting one but wanted to check)

Many bugfixes and updates later... This will probably happen a few times. I've also added a propto() structure, which can be combined with a correlation matrix for random effects, forming a kronecker covariance structure where the column matrix is fixed.

super-random #rstats/VSCode question. VSCode > hosted Linux virtual machine > Windows remote desktop > Firefox tab > Ubuntu (don't ask ...). Standard extensions AFAICT (R 2.8.6, R Syntax 0.1.3). It is magically converting "<" to ">" on entry ... very frustrating. Anyone seen this?

#rstats Retro: This is when I implemented SVG animated textures in ggplot2

A quick update re NIH and NSF terminated grant tracking: Grant Watch has a new name! We're now called **Grant Witness** You can find us at grant-witness.us Please update your bookmarks and spread the word! 🙏 (And no, this wasn't our preference, but trademarks are a thing. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️)

Choose your bedroom (Art by @dimda_)

random Friday night R goofing: tabulate the ending strings of chemical elements. gist.github.com/bbolker/2046... "ium"=79;"other"=13;"on"=9;"e"=7;"en"=4;"um"=4;"er"=2

July Editor's Choice article: "Parental care drives the evolution of male reproductive accessory glands across ray-finned fishes" Lucas Eckert, Jessica S Miller, John L Fitzpatrick, Sigal Balshine, Benjamin M Bolker academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... @lucaseckert.bsky.social @bbolker.bsky.social

suddenly curious, for no good reason, if there is data available on the relative usage (e.g. annual sales totals) of screw drive types by country (I was thinking about a Canadian using an analogy like "[thing X] is the Robertson screw of [country Y]") en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

Are you a PhD student, have an offer, or have had an offer recently rescinded from a US university? If so, Western (in London, ON, Canada) has a new scholarship program for you! Check out this news story. I can vouch for this university! You will love it. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I'm running a seminar in the fall for senior undergrads in Evolutionary Ecology. I'm hoping to curate a reading list mixing classic and new papers that illustrate how combining ecological and evolutionary perspectives can lead to new insights. Do you have a favorite I should consider?

What ? www.tweag.io/blog/2015-09... #rstats #Haskell

Some possibly interesting/useful refs on socioeconomic barriers to success in academia ... comments welcome. McClain 2025 doi.org/10.1371/jour...; Morgan et al. 2022 doi.org/10.1038/s415...; Arbuckle et al 2025 doi.org/10.1111/jzo....; Wanelik et al 2020 doi.org/10.1002/ece3....

I will soon open up calls for a PhD student (free choice of topic as long as it fits to our group) and a scientific programmer / ecological data scientist. If you know what we are doing and would like to join our team, feel free to get in touch.

congratulations to the internet’s biggest perverts for being so horny they caused an integer overflow deeply proud of all of you

'The New American Gothic', Oil on Canvas by Criselda Vásquez

Any #rstats users in Calgary, Canada?

Earlier this season we said goodbye to GBB. Born in 2014, she was one of the oldest and most productive females in our population: 35 nests, 80 eggs, 47 chicks fledged, 35 reached independence, 24 grandkids. This female below has now taken over her territory. Big 🐾 to fill! #SFW_ANU #birds #ecology

Resolution of Respect: Margaret Bryan Davis (1931–2024) - Hotchkiss - 2025 - The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America - Wiley Online Library esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Why did bees become haplodiploid & birds didn't? And why are stick insects perfect just the way they are? This is probably the coolest paper from @koraklein.bsky.social‬ 's PhD thesis (though there's Colias butterfly work in the pipeline which I shouldn't diss...) academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

🚨 Recruiting! I’m looking for two graduate students (MSc or PhD) already based in Canada to join my lab and work on biodiversity research - broadly defined. Based at Concordia University (Montreal) - competitive stipends will be offered. communityandquantitativeecology.weebly.com

#rstats #accidentalaRt I don't think that's what I meant to plot ... ???

sadly, Tom Lehrer's back catalogue continues to be relevant: back then (1965) it was "to the shores of Tripoli, but not to MIssissippoli" tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/u...

Hello Fly Folks. quick note FlyBase is under duress due to termination NIH$ to Harvard and intl collabs. The hardworking folks @flybase.bsky.social are doing their darndest to ensure access to current data. For US, there will soon be a new site to donate. Please spread the word, ideas and support 🪰💪

We close the day by many people thanking Susan Holmes for helping them with their data sets, loving the data, losing their fear of statistics, and her great teaching. Susan thanks everyone for them actually listening and doing what she told them to do 😀

Code's not perfect but this looks nice and pride-ful ... gist.github.com/bbolker/30bc... (inspired by Cindy Greenwood's en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_G... plenary talk on stochastic processes and EEG spectra at last week's Stats Society of Canada meeting ...)

It looks like Breeding Bird Survey data has disappeared from ScienceBase. I've found a copy of the 2022 version on the Internet Archive, but I'm curious if anyone downloaded the most up to date data before the administration change?

Coming up soon (June 16-18)! ... calvin-regression-workshop-2025.netlify.app taught by excellent ecological statisticians (and great people) Stacy de Ruiter (Calvin College) and Leslie New (Ursinus College)

1/12 - New in @science.org ! ☠️ Curious of what happened to Yersinia pestis, the bacterium responsible for the Black Death, throughout plague pandemics? Check out our new study 👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

8647 is the only 4-digit prime that is 2 less than a square (8649) and 1 more than a triangular number (8646)

The Scott Lab at McMaster is currently recruiting graduate students to examine the physiological and molecular mechanisms of high-altitude adaptation in small mammals. Details at scottlab.ca/opportunities/

I wrote about the data-to-ink ratio and a new game I've invented called "ink golf" for data visualization. I hope you enjoy: www.frank.computer/blog/2025/04...

And now all the named #RStats colours as #Voronoi cells in Hue-Saturation space...

Some updated fragments about analyzing binary survival data (e.g. on nest predation) with power-logistic or log-hazard models, including RTMB examples. Please let me know if you find this interesting/would like to pursue it further ... bbolker.github.io/bbmisc/brant...

Our group, @cct-datascience.bsky.social, was given 30 days notice to be 100% soft-funded. I'll need to drop to 50% time in May or find more projects in order to keep my job. But more importantly, our group is not sustainable under this model. datascience.cct.arizona.edu/news/data-sc...

Hey #Rstats friends👋, I am looking for some real life examples of using #targets 📦 for a large-scale #ecology project. There are a couple of ways of doing things, so I am genuinely interested how people have been using this amazing tool⚒️ Please boost♻️

@dieworkwear.bsky.social , what's up with this? static01.nyt.com/images/2025/...