Having two papers retracted for data fraud (allegedly by a co-author) can be awkward to explain in a highly competitive interview process…

My health insurance is going up $125/month 😡

A New Thread on NIH Forward Funding I recently posted an analysis of forward funding of NIH grants from 2015-25. This analysis was flawed and should be ignored. I apologize for the misleading information I present an analysis of my error and a revised analysis which I am confident is right. 1/25

Multi-Year funding analysis, a 🧵 I have been trying to find a robust way of quantifying and understanding multi-year (forward funding). First, some background: Most NIH grants are for multiple years (2 to 5, typically). However, the are usually funded on an annual basis. 1/18

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A short story about our heroes inside NIH: Between a Trump-imposed freeze on grant-making in Jan/Feb and new political hurdles in spring & early summer, NIH was in trouble. By the end of June, NIH was 8,300 grants and $3.1 billion behind its FY24 pace. Morale was in the toilet. Things were bleak.

It's like we're being water boarded by stupidity.

So the president posts a video of himself shitting all over Americans, proceeds to demolish a large part of the White House, and then pardons a convicted criminal who paid him billions of dollars? All in less than a week?

This is how a dictatorship works

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holy crap

There is no difference between Trump destroying the East Wing and using a wrecking ball on the Washington Monument or Smithsonian. Just because he (temporarily) lives there doesn't give him the right to demolish the White House without Congressional approval.

woohoo this was super easy to do for course website Nº2 #QuartoPub - now I'm finally in compliance with Georgia rules PDF: datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/PMAP-8551-HE... Site: datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com Code: github.com/andrewheiss/...

No compact! Protect our campus! Learn what’s at stake from faculty,staff, students, and community members at the UA Against the Compact Teach-In. 📆 Wednesday, Oct 15 ⏰ 11am to 1pm 📍 North of the Student Union, Stage 2

Trey Reed, a student at Delta State University in Mississippi, was found hanging from a noose. Mississippi police ruled the death a suicide. Now an autopsy reportedly concludes that he suffered extensive blunt force trauma across his body before he died, meaning he was beaten before he was lynched.

Faculty chair slams 'dirty compromises' White House asks of University of Arizona tucson.com/news/local/e...

Column: The University of Arizona has distinguished itself as compliant collaborators with the Trump administration's takeover of higher ed. No wonder they were invited to be among the president's 9 special pets. Fortunately, this "compact" is easy to reject. tucson.com/news/local/s...

@uarizona.bsky.social Do NOT capitulate!

To Alumni: University of Arizona, Brown University, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, the University of Texas, Vanderbilt University, & the University of Virginia: alumni.controlshift.app/petitions/tr...

somehow they managed to do the free press but worse

The new ggplot2 4.0.0 is here! 🎉 This major update includes a foundational rewrite of S7 and user benefits such as smarter labeling and a revamped theming system. Check the details: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09... BONUS: Join the release party on Oct 3, 3pm ET. bit.ly/join-gg-extenders #RStats

Why so many #rstats packages unnecessarily link `$(FLIBS)`? I'd guess 90% packages that do this never need it. Maybe a tutorial everyone follows, i.e., copy-pasta of an example `Makevars`? Also see linking LAPACK, when only BLAS needed, but a bit more understandable.

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

The new #NSF #GRFP application now excludes 1000’s of students, including those who were told they could apply this year, or who planned to apply next year. We have a new specific petition urging #NSFGRFP undo this harmful action. If you are impacted sign here: laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

📣 Save the date!! Next Community Call: R-multiverse: a new way to publish R packages 📦 🚀 📆 Monday, 29 September 2025 14:00 UTC with Will Landau 👉 Information + find your local time + How to join: https://ropensci.org/commcalls/r-multiverse/ #rstats

Campus reminds us, "If classroom temperatures reach or exceed 82°F for more than 15 minutes:" our first step is: 1. Ensure instructors have taken the Heat Illness Prevention Training in the UC Learning Management System. teaching.berkeley.edu/resources/gu...

UPDATE: Sinclair is NOT going to broadcast Jimmy Kimmel, even though ABC is resuming production. Sinclair has demanded that Kimmel personally donate to Turning Point USA, a right-wing political organization. David Smith, executive chairman of Sinclair, donated 250K to Turning Point USA last year.

Ever run `filter()` and wonder which one #RStats is actually using, dplyr or stats? The {conflicted} package makes it crystal clear by forcing you to choose. No more accidental surprises. 🖇️ conflicted.r-lib.org 📋 www.tidyverse.org/blog/2018/06...

🚀 Curious about Positron, Posit’s new open-source IDE? This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC) #RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

Updated bracket. #MinCup25 ⚒️ sci-fi 🧪 🖖🏼 scifi Geosciences #WomenInSTEM geology 🔭🪐

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

I did it! I did a blog post! This one's about migrating my website source code from GitHub to #codeberg https://ericrscott.com/posts/2025-09-20-migrating-to-codeberg/

For anyone who thinks the current assault on free speech is limited to people who criticize Charlie Kirk…

I got an email from some AI notetaker from a zoom meeting that I was invited to but didn't attend. The notes went something like this: - Sue noticed that someone is using an unauthorized AI note taker - The group discussed their policies around AI usage in meetings - The group decided to […]

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

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Wow, first time I've seen him underwater in this poll with white people. He has negative disapproval across every possible cohort.

I've been told a couple of times in tech to not use the term "empathy" because some groups dislike it which is hilarious because that's asking me to....have empathy.....

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

1. divingintogeneticsandgenomics.rbind.io/post/pca-in... PCA in action, my blog post to calculate SVD and PCA with #rstats

The new {marginaleffects} release for #RStats (0.30.0) comes with two new vignettes: 1. Speed up computation with automatic differentiation (often 10x gains) marginaleffects.com/bonus/perfor... 2. Power analyses with {marginaleffects} and {DeclareDesign}. marginaleffects.com/bonus/power....

They're estimating that University of California will need $4-5 billion per year in support from the state if federal funding is truly erased. Here is a plan for how to do that www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...

Texas A&M is no longer a real university. I will not recommend anyone apply to work or study there.

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Pure evil.

One of the greatest errors in K-12 education, in my opinion, is prioritizing trigonometry and calculus over statistics. Yes, trig and calc are important for many professions. Statistics are important for literacy.

had a conversation with a prominent pundit recently who did not seem to realize that the departments of the executive branch are congressional creations, so not surprised at this

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war