New semester, new bluesky account! We start this new semester at UNAM welcoming new and current students of the Genomic Sciences Undergraduate Program at UNAM in Juriquilla!

New blog post! In which I explain the issue with mediation analysis and sketch out one way to deal with the underlying causal inference problem -- in just a bit over 1,000 words! If you have never found the time to read up on this, now is your chance. www.the100.ci/2025/03/20/r...

La plus ça change...

We’re thrilled to offer Opportunity Scholarships for posit::conf(2025)! These aim to support folks typically underrepresented at similar confs. If you know anyone who'd be a good candidate – perhaps you! – apply by Feb 21: pos.it/opp-scholar-2025 #DataScience #positconf2025 #rstats #pydata

Looking without bias is very hard to do. We want to “let the data do the talking” but data must be interpreted against backgrounds that are not bias-free. I want to tell you about an experiment showing how when looking at a plot, we come with bias that frames our perception.🧵⬇️

🐳+R = ❤️ If you want to learn how to dockerize your R development environment, here are some tutorials I created in the past year 🧶👇🏼 1/5 #Docker #RStats #DataScience #MLOps

Woohoo, our paper is live! This haiku summarizes it best: Raw model results? Stop! Hard to understand! Use {marginaleffects}

Using this website to follow people I didn't realize are on here. Just found @harmitmalik.bsky.social! bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

We are thrilled to announce that we have a new @posit.co Starter Pack, thanks to @jeremy-data.bsky.social! Find and follow Posit people here: go.bsky.app/RxAPkGi

I made a starter pack full of statistical genetics (adjacent) scientists. it covers all flavours of behaviour, psychiatric, social science and population genetics people. One click follow all of em! let me know if I missed key people!

Starter Packs feels a bit like making a mixtape to this 80s kid... I ran into the max number pretty fast so apologies to anyone I missed and I'll have to make a Volume II!: go.bsky.app/2ZUFQtv

Note, 'Subscribing' to a block list does what you want it to do, with the option to mass block or mute.

🚨🪅 Registration is NOW OPEN for our Symposium on Ancient Pathogen Genomics! 🦠🧬 Join us on April 12-13 2025 in Juriquilla, Mexico. Featuring top speakers & great science in a beautiful venue! Plz RT ! liigh.unam.mx/apg/ 🪅🚨

En vérité, je ne songeais guère à faire ni comme les autres ni autrement qu'eux. Je désirais sincèrement de faire ce qui était bien. -J.J.R. (Deleting bird footprints and couldn't stand to send it to the abyss. One of my favorites from way back in undergrad.)

This is why we all set up profiles last year.

Hi everyone! Here's a starter pack of genomics scientists trained in Mexico 🇲🇽 including from #LCG-UNAM #LCG-EJ-UNAM undergrads, #RMB / #NNB-UNAM / @cdsbmexico.bsky.social workshops, and more It's in an early stage and I'm trying to get more to join us here at #AcademicSky go.bsky.app/5bWBN5V

Te interesa realizar estancia postdoctoral sobre #epidemiologia #genomica en el @LIIGH_UNAM @UNAM_MX utilizando datos del estudio genómico más grande de México. Contáctanos! #posdoctoral #postdoc #liigh

LOOK AT THIS FIGURE: human cell types by count and biomass. 80% of the cells in your body are Red Blood Cells (RBCs), meaning a statistically "average" human cell contains no DNA. Nuclei are the EXCEPTION, not the rule. From a biomass perspective, muscle myocytes are half your cellular mass.

A very well written story about the Calling Bullshit course I teach with @jevinwest.bsky.social at the UW. https://artsci.washington.edu/news/2023-09/hows-your-bs-detector

Martin Turpin: ‘Bullshitting is human nature in its honest and naked form' www.theguardian.com/science/2021...

Mexico's Supreme Court, while slow, is at least headed in the same direction as human rights. 🙄 SCOTUS? 🙄 Minority rule will not last. www.theguardian.com/world/2023/s...

This is so impressive: a 3d rendering of Tenochtitlán based on a year and a half of work

Know an excellent student from a developing country who wishes to do research in the US? The Schlumberger Foundation 2024-2025 Faculty for the Future Fellowships for Women in STEM is open. Award: $25K-$50K for grad student, $40K for postdoc #neurogrants www.facultyforthefuture.net/about-program/

This is absolutely gorgeous and kinda kind-blowing. A reconstruction of the great city of Tenochtitlán. tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl

El Ángel de la Independencia tenía una granja, ee-ay-ee-ay-oo. #CDMX

Yet another 'Hello World' One has to believe that simple frustration with crossposting will generate selection pressure to thin this growing herd of platforms. Did you know MySpace is still running? 🫠