Great article on #misinformation: www.noemamag.com/we-failed-th... "Simply put, the public is not easily moved by new pieces of information; rather, people are often motivated to interpret the information they are exposed to through the lens of their established worldview." #research #politics

I've just found out that Apple's Pages app does not detect additional whitespace in its grammar check, and I honestly can't believe it. I thought all Apple software was superior to us poor MS users. Not so it seems!

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Hi BlueSky, I'm looking to build up a network of researchers (from all disciplines) studying #misinformation. My intention is to create safer online environment for my kids, by understanding misinformation better and developing guardrails. If this is you drop me a line! #research #fakenews #science

Excellent piece from Moira Donegan on the Blue Origin flight: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #feminism #blueorigin #space

@jbengler.de thanks a bunch for Tidyplots. Really enjoying it's utility (for research and teaching) and am currently preparing a manuscript with several tidy plots - I can share once published. I noticed you added the 'comparisons' parameter for grouped plots. Any ideas when this will be ready?

Hi #programming folks. Is it possible for someone to write a Win11 script that defaults all apps to full screen at launch? I'm getting frustrated with the randomness of launch app size and location on the desktop (sometimes inaccessible). #software #win11 #code #debug

"...a key problem has been that instead of facilitating academic work, these systems have created obstacles to performing the core mission. Corporate academia is subverting academic life. It’s destroying academia from within." academic.oup.com/brain/articl...

When you spend 6-months bemoaning your Lenovo webcam dysfunction, only to find that it's because the slider button next to it has slid to 'Close' 🤦 #techfail #lenovo

Rdatasets is a collection of 2300 free and documented datasets in CSV format. It's a great resource for teaching and exploration! The new `get_dataset()` function from the {marginaleffects} 📦 allows you to search and load them directly in #Rstats. vincentarelbundock.github.io/Rdatasets/ar...

#rstats folks, the following inline error is not conveyed in an error message - turns out \textit is a problem (it italicises maths expressions anyway!) # not this $\beta_{1_\textit{_var1}} = \beta_{1_\textit{_var2}} + \beta_{3}$ # do this $\beta_{1_{_var1}} = \beta_{1_{_var2}} + \beta_{3}$

#rstats here's how 2 calc proportions for 2+ categorical vars total_n <- nrow(df) # nrow counts the number of rows df |> group_by(cat_var_1, cat_var_2) |> summarise(n = n(), .groups = 'drop') |> mutate(freq = n / total_n) |> mutate(freq = round(freq * 100, digits = 2))

Typically sensationalised headline here. How about pointing readers to the study instead? BBC News - Phone bans in schools don't help grades or health, study suggests - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hi #rstats, a beginner R student of mine was asking how to read in multiple datasets of the same format into R. Didn't want to scare them away with lists and stringr...any recomended resources to ease them in? tia

Hi #rstats people, just letting you know that R Markdown images will not appear in your compiled doc if you include "%" in the image file name, e.g.,  # will not work  # should work fine Took me a while to figure out what was going on!

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Hi #rstats folks. It's occurred to me that some of my tidy/wrangle scripts are unwieldy (esp. projects with multiple untidy and related datasets), which has got me thinking about #workflow optimisation. Any recommended resources on this? tia

Me: I'd like to explore potentially more affordable car finance options please. Salesman: Sure! First up is our latest model costing you an extra £100 a month. Me: ...right. Let's start again.

Spiders don't have antennae like insects, so how do they smell? WITH THEIR FRIGGIN' LEGS (well, male spiders at least) 🦵👃 Olfactory organs similar to those in antennae were found in male spiders' upper legs, but not in juveniles or females. This suggests smell is for mate detection/recognition 🧪🌏🕷️

Hi #rstats folks, does anyone have advice about presenting reveal.js slides on Canvas VLE? When I save reveal.js as pdf from a browser the formatting goes completely awry! #quarto #programing #rstudio #canvas

Hi #academia and #rstats folks. My birthday's coming up and I'm looking for textbook recommendations. I was thinking either socsci research methods, R, or stats textbooks, with a preference for those that explain complex concepts clearly (tall order acknowledged!). tia

Why is it that I'm inundated with review requests during the holidays? Is there some great titanic clash of academic calendars I'm unaware of? Very odd.

Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate it 🎄 My secret Santa fully understood the brief! #statistics #Xmas #academia

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Really interesting and informative article debunking UK #immigration myths. "...the UK economy could receive net benefits of £1.2 billion in five years if employment support and English-language for refugees were quickly implemented." www.rescue.org/uk/article/1...

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Any #pschology folks on here with an interest in embodied cognition? I've a #PhD student studying embodied and situated learning and we're keen to build up a network. tia #research #cognition

Hey #rstats folks, what are your fav data exploration/summary packages (and functions)? I currently use `psych`,`trimr`, and `sumarytools`, but I'm keen to learn and try more. tia #datascience #academia #research

Hey folks, any #rstats people out there? I'm an ex X user and looking to build up an R community on here. tia

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The Guardian is an absolute swamp of junk "science". I miss the days when actual scientists and experts wrote its science blogs.