No!

Haven't managed to decide as of yet, so playing Xcom 2. Should have played it earlier!

This is both entirely correct and misses the point completely, which is that the 'online weirdos" are effectively writing Conservative and Reform policy & have significantly influenced the government's own worst and most xenophobic policies. Trump should have taught us not to laugh this stuff off.

Finally, advice I can follow!

Don’t worry gang, no one actually starts their New Year’s resolutions on the 1st. And you’d be silly to begin on a Friday, best save it for Monday. But Monday is the 5th so you’ve kind of missed the boat anyway and can safely put it off for next year.

I just finished Iratus that scratched the Slay-the-Spire-shaped itch I had. Looking for a new game, and narrowed it down to 6 (7 games, but 2 are the same franchise). I play on Steam Deck. What would you recommend between: Hades, Hades II, Rogue Trader, Frostpunk II #videogames #gaming

I just finished Iratus that scratched the Slay-the-Spire-shaped itch I had. Looking for a new game, and narrowed it down to 6 (7 games, but 2 are the same franchise). I play on Steam Deck. What would you recommend between: Hades, Hades II, Rogue Trader, Frostpunk II #videogames #gaming

Not sure what I’m hoping for from 2026

looking for a good overview/tutorial (text or video) on MCPs and code agents for #rstats / Positron (and maybe Claude Code) so I can see how that world is shaping up—any good ones out there?

Last 2025 post, on @python.org & @carpentries.carpentries.org values, a great @posit.co conf session feat @mchow.com @richmeister.bsky.social @davisvaughan.bsky.social, the magic of #rstats #python dev cultures sharing best practices, and random #rstats history www.emilyriederer.com/post/py-rgo-...

What does a class on software development post LLM contain? Design? Syntax of common langs? Programmer thinking? Environments/libraries/bash? Debugging? References and texts especially welcome

working at a university

Obligatory paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The same kids who watched Teenieping in Korean (a language they do not speak) categorically refuse to watch Miraculous in French (a language they do speak) #parenting

You know what they say about sparse matrices? They’re mostly a whole lot of nothing.

Runners in group recorded 78% more active time than those who ran solo. Working out with others has at least three significant benefits: accountability, support, and community. In other words, you’ll be in better shape and build friends at the same time www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-willpo...

In this post I break down the process of how I post-processed my #ggplot charts 📊 to look like they were embroidered into cloth. If you liked this effect, try it out on your own charts as well! Please let me know if something isn't clear. #rstats aman.bh/blog/2025/cr...

@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social and I are looking for a few testers for something special we've been building! It's an app that lets you view the same content you see here on Bluesky but with extra features — some focused on researchers, some general upgrades. Reach out to us if interested!

Doing a bottom-to-top close edit now for errors and clarity. Just about 100 pages to go, not quite yet insane. Like some wetware LLM, I have been trained deeply on the distinctive text stylings of my individual coauthors. Feel I could produce novel utterances in any of their voices. Almost there!

We're doing the final sprint, and I think we're able to send the PDF of the forthcoming Bayesian Workflow book to the publisher in the next two weeks (500+ pages), which would mean it would be published some time next year

Shamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.

‪It has a name now 😜 Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed. ✅ zenodo.org/records/1808... ✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/

As the year comes to a close, I wanted to share my blog posts from 2025 that you might have missed. Feel free to check them out on my blog at mickael.canouil.fr and let me know your thoughts! For 2026, I plan to continue sharing insights. Stay tuned for more exciting content! 1/8 #Quarto

On the plus side, LLMs also reduce barriers for non-native speakers, facilitate the discovery of prior literature, and remove traditional signals of scientific quality such as language complexity. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

{toggle} does one thing: adds a button to hide code output in #quarto docs. Took two versions to do that one thing well. Now it works everywhere... tabsets, callouts, nested containers, you name it. 📚 quarto.thecoatlessprofessor.com/toggle/ 🐙 github.com/coatless-qua...

more than you ever wanted to know about my midlife crisis 🫣 www.roifaineantpress.com/post/pleasur...

What's interesting in this thread and the one it quotes is that they highlight how much of an organisational design problem AI adoption is, and how it specifically threatens internal labour markets (à la Piore) but ultimately entire skill development pipelines (because boundaryless careers).

Agree with this, albeit not the timeline

Me, doing magic tricks

Happy phase two of December, everybody!

This is a variant of the "captain Haddock beard on top or under the sheet". And now, you can never use foil again

What is the intersection of machine learning, causal inference, and economics? What are promising avenues for research at this intersection? I just drafted a new talk exploring these questions: maxkasy.github.io/home/files/s... Thoughts and comments welcome!

Including the old black cat adoptions survival analysis example as a case study in the forthcoming Bayesian Workflow book. This is presented as a whole incremental workflow with simulation, validation, and model comparison. Just now went through code and extra-commented and cleaned. Getting close!

This year, I made few contributions to Quarto - Quarto Wizard - Quarto Extensions Directory - Extensions Updater (GitHub Action) - Major releases of 10+ extensions Thank you to everyone who starred, forked, contributed, or used these tools. www.linkedin.com/posts/mickae...

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

OLS is Santa

Truer words...

Can they still be considered deceitful if they are idiots?

Finished this R&R I wanted to be done with on the 1st of September last night! 🤪

The what now? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/w...

Where we send you if we catch you inferring future events on the basis of resemblance to past occurrences. Or, at least, where we've sent people so far.

The editor not saying add these references from my journal, but...

Today the Swiss announced they don't have an agreement with Springer Nature -- swissuniversity tried to secure a deal and failed in the face of the extreme rise in publishing fees. When the game is rigged, it's better to stop playing. 🧵 to understand the drain of scientific publishing👇

When thinking about the dynamics of posting on social platforms like Twitter or bluesky, I so often think of the great Paul Ford essay on the fundamental question of the web: “Why Wasn’t I Consulted?” www.ftrain.com/wwic.html

A Christmas miracle? I was just offered a job in academia 😭🎄

Galaxy Quest - a perfect movie, just a wonderful love letter to actors, sci-fi, Star Trek in particular, and to fandom - really deserves a proper physical release with decent extras. Think Weaver's right that releasing a R-rated cut would be fun, too.

📢 UK-based early career researchers — looking for a strong way to kick off 2026? The Fellows in LSE’s Department of Government are organising an Early Career Workshop in late January. Submit your abstract now! 🗓️ Deadline: 28 December 2025 👉 Submit here: forms.gle/QukzsYDSM2Do...

Updatedletter, I know go into soem emperical results as well: zenodo.org/records/1800...

I drafted a letter to the editor, please help me out by DMing, commenting, emailing feedback if you are an expert on colliderbias, id obviosuly ad you as a author, Ideally we submit within 24-48 hrs, draft: zenodo.org/records/1800... (click download if the pdf doesnt preview on zenodo)

I suspect that whoever designed the snowflakes of the gingerbread house I made with the kids is a #40k player!