It’s a RAISE! And maybe for the better! Inflation readings consistently outside of RBA’s target convinced everybody about the inevitability of the RAISEs. The current cash rate value is decisively outside of the predictive interval and the mean indicates an increase in its value. #rstats #rba

⚡️ Kyiv received the first batch of generators from the Polish volunteer initiative 'Ciepło z Polski'. These 130 generators will strengthen the resilience of the capital’s critical infrastructure and social facilities during the prolonged power outages caused by Russian attacks.

More than 130 generators donated by Poland arrived in Kyiv on Monday after a fundraising campaign raised over $2 million in just ten days, the city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko announced. www.kyivpost.com/post/68828

Decades of evidence link foxes and feral cats with extinctions of Australian mammals. Claims these introduced predators aren’t responsible don’t stack up.

There’s so much to change in 🇦🇺 punitive system! Criminal responsibility of 10yo, systematic racism and deaths in custody must go first! NOW! Not a laughing matter at all!

This Polish 🤍❤️ fundraiser for power aggregators for Kyiv by the Stand with Ukraine foundation is going so well! And the first pieces of equipment are arriving 🏧 I’m so glad! Hang on, heroes! Help is coming 💙💛 and if you read this, please, chip in! pomagam.pl/a7emy8

This is such good news 🇦🇺 very well done Labour and Greens! Shame on you the opponents! Now the important part is an effective and successful implementation of the buy back program. That’s really the weight of the problem. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I’m shocked that there’s an opposition to these rights. They are the best thing in the aviation industry ever. Just try living in a place where passenger rights are not protected this way!

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Oleksandra Matviichuk: Peace isn’t made only on paper,peace isn’t Russian occupation Very often,I’ve to convince someone that people in 🇺🇦want peace...Are u serious?People in🇺🇦dream of peace.We simply don’t want to be occupied by Russia.Because peace doesn’t mean occupation

By the way, don't fall for this nonsense. Trump's actions have nothing to do with the Nobel Prize whatsoever. That's a deflection strategy. The real reason is that Putin wants to destroy NATO, which Trump's actions will accomplish.

Fantastic reporting from Kyiv Independent! Watch and support 💙💛

A fundraising campaign in Poland has so far received over 3 million zloty (€710,000) in donations to help Ukrainians amid the current winter freeze and Russian attacks that have cut off power. Ukraine's foreign minister has thanked Poles for their "true solidarity and humanity".

🇵🇱 In just four days, people in Poland raised over 3 million złoty, nearly $800,000, to support Kyiv. More than 25,000 people have already donated to the campaign, which aims to raise 5 million złoty (around $1.25 million) to purchase and deliver 100 generators to Ukraine’s capital.

the worst part about all this discourse is that the arguments for veganism / meat reduction / alt protein - ethical, environmental, labor, public health - are as strong as ever. the facts haven't changed.

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ TOP10 books I read in 2025 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ 1. Victoria Amelina - Looking at Women Looking at War 2. Evelyn Araluen - The Rot 3. Norman Doidge - The Brain That Changes Itself 4. Dorota Masłowska - Magiczna Rana 5. Anne Applebaum - Autocracy Inc. 1/3 👇

❗️Our next workshop will be on Jan 15 , 6 pm CET titled R package development in Positron by @stephenturner.us Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

⚡️ Russian missile strikes on Ukraine in 2025 mapped. This map tracks only Russian cruise and ballistic missile flight paths over Ukraine in 2025, excluding drones, as Moscow fired about 2,000 missiles alongside nearly 54,000 attack drones and 44,782 guided aerial bombs.

⚡ Zelenskyy: I don't trust Russians. I don't trust Putin.

Ukrainian scientists release rare underwater footage of penguins in Antarctica.

Hey, that's my package! 🖤💙 #bpvars #bsvars #rstats

Hey hey! My new package 'bpvars' is on CRAN now! 🖤💙 It's for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions doi.org/10.32614/CRA... #bpvars #bsvars.org #bsvars #rstats

⬛🟦⚪ Two years in the making! In a fantastic collaboration with Miguel from the International Labour Organisation! 🖤💙 The 'bpvars' package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions is out on CRAN! And it's spectacular! cran.r-project.org/package=bpvars #bpvars #bsvars.org #rstats

⬛🟦⚪ Two years in the making! In a fantastic collaboration with Miguel from the International Labour Organisation! 🖤💙 The 'bpvars' package for Forecasting with Bayesian Panel Vector Autoregressions is out on CRAN! And it's spectacular! cran.r-project.org/package=bpvars #bpvars #bsvars.org #rstats

Woohoo! Bravi First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria and State Government! 🖤💛❤️ #AlwayWasAlwaysWillBe youtu.be/W0i3ya52oQs

Let’s take a deep breath! We all know that the RBA will not move the cash rate. Various forces pull in opposite directions, but both, a CUT and a HIKE, are not consistent with RBA’s mandate, communication, and practice ATM. And we mostly benefited from this reserved approach in recent years. #rstats

That’s our 📦 on CRAN!

Or? #statsmeme

Hey, that’s my package! 🤩

Our new R package 📦 StealLikeBayes is a Compendium of Bayesian Statistical Routines Written in C++ and a collaborative effort. 🤝 Join us! More details coming soon! bsvars.org/StealLikeBay... #rstats #StealLikeBayes #bsvars

Oh boi! This is gonna be fun! #rstats #StealLikeBayes

Thomas Bayes turns Raffaello turns hungry 😆 That went quick! ❤️😍 #rstats #StealLikeBayes

Something exciting is coming up! 📦 #rstats #StealLikeBayes #bsvars

💻🔥 I use our uni's HPC a lot and they shared my testimony (on intranet only) 👾 #hpc #foss

I admit I have never revised, merged and contributed so many PRs! It's a lot of fun! #gh

Join us Thu 11 Dec, 5:30pm at The Clyde rooftop (Carlton) for the R-Ladies+ Melbourne end-of-year meetup! 🌟 Celebrate 2025 highlights, connect with the community, and hear from 5 inspiring mentors across public health, genomics, bioinformatics & software. Register on Meetup! buff.ly/McL9fs1

Penny Wong says Ukraine’s territorial integrity must be upheld amid global backlash to Trump plan

An upd report on our workshops for Ukraine series on #RStats, #Python & more. So far, we have raised >113k euro & the workshops have been attended by > 5000 ppl! 👇you can find more info on how you can help & a detailed report. All info on workshops: bit.ly/3wBeY4S 1/n

"Russia wanted to make sure that we freeze, so a lot of Ukrainians stayed home and tried to stay warm by any means, and so by intensively staying warm during such difficult times it actually gave a formula how you can have more Ukrainians." For those who want a little pick-me-up today 😊

These are my heroes 💙💛

Congratulations to my student, Maggie Ma, for publishing her first #rstats package {ggincerta} on CRAN 🥳 Spatial uncertainty visualisation (bivariate, pixel, exceedance, glyph), like {Vizumap}, but fully integrated with ggplot2 -- a much simpler API with all the advantages of the ggplot2 system.

Excellent video - watch! Al Gore speaks at COP30 in Brazil.

That’s a presentation of our bsvarSIGNs 📦 for Workshops for Ukraine 🇺🇦

I’d like to share with you an excerpt from the book "Hemingway Knows Nothing" by Ukrainian Defender, poet, writer Artur Dron.

Dear @albomp.bsky.social , Australia can't possibly be supporting Russia to bypass trade sanctions, can it? That would be despicable.

❗️Our next workshop will be on Nov 13 6 pm CET titled Building & Customising Stat Models with Stan and R: Introduction to Bayesian Inference by @mlisi.bsky.social Register or sponsor a student by donating to support Ukraine! Details: bit.ly/3wBeY4S Please share! #AcademicSky #EconSky #RStats

Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of the Center for Civil Liberties, spoke at De Balie in Amsterdam about the role of citizens in war, Russian aggression, and the fact that occupation is not peace. 📹 Center for Civil Liberties/Facebook

I welcome recommendations of solid news/journalism sources about Australian economy. No drama queens pls 🤩

It's definitely a possibility! 🤷‍♂️ The bond yield curve models for the monthly data are set on the CUT, but weekly data models and other specifications indicate a HOLD decision. The former usually forecasts more precisely, and therefore it's a CUT. But I'm not certain 🤷 #rstats #cashrate #forecast