Merry December folks! Wanna know your most used and co-dependent geoms this past year?! I've built "Spotify Wrapped" for {ggplot2} that produces you an interactive story and analytical tools for your geom usage! #rstats Build your own report by following the docs: gpcds.com/ggplot2wrapp...

POD president Carl Moore is talking about the theme of Writing our Future, and reminding us of our humanity. Loving this emphasis on balancing intellect and intuition, evidence and empathy, and rigor and relationship. #pod25

Excited for @edufuturist.bsky.social's keynote at the POD Network conference. "Writing the Future," what a great topic. #pod25

This seems important. Current AI models can't read graphs. They "see" what they expect to see, even if the data shows something else.

I'm heading to San Diego for the POD Network conference. It's my first time, and I don't think I'll know anyone there! I'm excited to learn some new things and spread the word about data science pedagogy. #POD25

Using asbestos as a metaphor for the current industry-driven AI push is genius.

I have been dreaming of this day for over five years. Proctorio’s lawsuit against me is forever over. I’ve won my life back! linkletter.org/update-33-th...

Twin cities friends: I'll be speaking tomorrow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science on how AI disrupts the sometimes precarious balance of scientific incentives.

I know some folks were asking for something like this (@meshm.bsky.social iirc) So I made a quick dot density map of the first choice Minneapolis mayoral results. This allows you to see two things that choropleth maps can't show... umn.maps.arcgis.com/apps/mapview...

If you've stopped masking in public for whatever reason, now is a really good time to start again

all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.

New awareness campaign

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.

I am SO excited for the Women in AI and Data Science event at the U of M on November 3. sites.google.com/umn.edu/wiad... In particular, I can't wait for @alexhanna.bsky.social's keynote, which I am sure will bring a critical perspective on AI.

Quarto friends! I need your help: We are implementing a new QMD parser in Quarto. It will be super nice. But it's a big change, and we want to minimize the impact. 1. Can you share a link to your Quarto project at github.com/quarto-dev/q... 2. repost this and let your Quarto friends know too?

Rare opportunity to pick up a copy of Mary Eleanor Spear's Charting Statistics: www.ebay.com/itm/19776587... Need to learn about Spear? nightingaledvs.com/credit-where...

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

I have been saying this for 3 years now; it is evident from even a theorerical understanding of these systems' operations. But ppl keep claiming it's not true or not important, or could be patched over, & so I keep hoping each time an "AI" company CEO comes out & admits will be the one that sticks

Motion City Soundtrack-- one of my favorite bands-- just released a new album, and wouldn't you know it, a song mentions statistics! m.youtube.com/watch?v=A7y8... (okay, the lyric is "I flunked statistics" but still)

Today marks one year of my sibling being bedridden from long covid (not leaving bed for any reason). They are part of the #millionsmissing from post-viral conditions. www.meaction.net

"Many chefs I know get upset at me … But this is the truth: If you can’t cook everything you make in a microwave thats a skill issue. You need to learn now because when everything is cooked in a microwave you’ll be out of a job." www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-t... (h/t @olivia.science )

JSM session on Teaching Data Storytelling in the Age of AI is starting now! My talk is called Are Graphical User Interfaces the answer to AI? and the slides are here: www.amelia.mn/presentation...

I was just listening to @thecurrent.org and heard Your Direction by Goose. I caught the lyric "You wait around for a statistical ripple." I'll have to add that to my list of songs that mention stats!

The systemic wage abuse of care workers is so infuriating. Care workers make it possible for us to live in our communities. For family to have support so they're not on their own. For people to be safe. They should be making so much more and getting much more robust labor protections overall.

Mark and Melissa lie peacefully at the center of our state and our hearts today. Their memorial, guarded by service dogs and men and women in uniform, casts a momentary shadow over L'Étoile du Nord as we honor their life’s work to make Minnesota shine brighter for all.

It's so frustrating when, as a person who still masks to prevent viral spread (COVID, measles, bird flu, etc), that when you ask people about taking even the *minimal* steps when at the *maximum* risk, like...

XKCD has a Tukey quote for Tukey's 110th birthday xkcd.com/3104/ Many of his specific inventions have been made obsolete over time, but he was a major contributor to data analysis and visualisation being serious and respectable parts of statistics research

Ten years ago today I defended my PhD dissertation. escholarship.org/uc/item/1mm9... Skimming it again, I have a bit of that cringe-y feeling, like listening to your voice on the answering machine. But surprisingly, a lot of it holds up!

🧪 Detailed data viz NYT article, out today, on the extent of funding cuts at the National Science Foundation. This "broken pie chart" is neat & new to me: Powerfully shows the slowdown in new NSF awards across areas. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Tired: Sacrifice your harvest, goats, and virgins to hear the voice of a god. Wired: Sacrifice your personal information, intellectual property, and a gajillion cpu cycles

Congratulations to Malone Center affiliate member @stephaniehicks.bsky.social on this distinction from @amstatnews.bsky.social!

This makes me distinctly UNhappy every time I see it (which is frequently)

Why are you asking ChatGPT, I shout in ever increasing volumes as I chase you down the street like an angry goose

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

Cheat sheet for exceptions to the "shut the fuck up" rule: Q: But what if i'm smart? A: SHUT THE FUCK UP. Q: But what if i'm rich? A: SHUT THE FUCK UP. Q: But what if i'm righteous? A: SHUT THE FUCK UP. Q: But what if I'm good at arguing on the Internet? A: SHUT THE FUCK UP.

One of the worst parts about my institution is the culture of wide-eyed obsequence to AI. Our provost, VPs, deans, and many faculty are extremely pro-AI.

Wow - I knew cutting Medicaid is unpopular. I didn't know it is *this* unpopular.

It's International ME/CFS awareness day. My sibling has ME/CFS, brought on by long covid. They've been bedridden for eight months now, unable to even listen to music because it's too much exertion. To learn more, I recommend this Ologies podcast episode: www.alieward.com/ologies/post...

I know you all know this, but apparently it needs to be said that basic science is a NECESSARY PRECURSOR to translational science

When I say you're the currency, I mean you. I don't mean your data or content, I mean you -- you surrender your affect, feeling, reasoning, discomfort, joy, etc., to extractive capitalism.

Maybe it will help a _little_ if I and others like me start saying publicly for the record that we just don’t use ChatGPT. Writing can be really hard — organizing a piece of writing can be especially hard — but I don’t use ChatGPT. If you read my stuff you’re reading something an LLM can’t do.

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

> "People were certainly interested in the [prompt engineering] role at the time but that interest hasn’t been matched by actual employer job postings" Again the hype hitting the hard reality. www.wsj.com/articles/the...

Yesterday I was on a panel about student use of AI at my university. On a panel of four people essentially on the "pro" side, I represented the "con" perspective, and talked about the intellectual property issues with AI, the environmental concerns, and the learning issues.

Once again thinking about this awesome log-odds intuition guide.

I know it's one of our longest standing major global exports, but I would really like it if America would stop trying to find new and varied— or, hell, even our time-tested— ways of doing eugenics.

My NSF CS for All grant was just terminated (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). Nationwide, we were: • Improving the quantity + quality of K-12 CS teachers • Ensuring the sustainability of K-12 CS teacher prep programs • Ensuring all youth in the U.S. have access to great CS teachers

Research on misinformation does not infringe on anyone's free speech! Blatantly anti-scientific reasons for blocking this research