The curse of underfunded academic research has struck again - my position has been made redundant. Hit me up if you are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic biostatistician.

We had such a good chat today! Local LLM set-ups, job market experiences, GUIs, gradient descent, reasoning models... Idk how we fit it in to an hour Roll on next month 🤩

Happy #NAIDOC week for anyone celebrating (you should be!) It's 50 years deadly this year, and I wanted to highlight some groups doing deadly data, statistics, and adjacent work thread

Are you cleaning #REDCap data using #rstats? Want to know how to convert branching logic into usable R conditions? Want to use it to encode not being asked into the cleaned data? This is the blog post for you! benharrap.com/post/2026-07... #medsky #statsky #episky

🚨Workshop announcement🚨 Rare chance to learn about data linkage methods and implementation with Splink from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, who use it for all person-level linkages (e.g. PLIDA) Open to everyone, not just #ADSN2026 attendees adsnconf2026.netlify.app/workshop

Here's the official ad: we're hiring for a continuing position up to A/Prof. It's a large stats dept with a broad view of statistics. Research areas include probability, computing, ecology, astronomy, stats education, biostats. We care about teaching quality: students are our main funding source

You can use this pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I can't believe it's already been a month since the last data science catch up! We've got a few topics stewing for tomorrow, but we're always happy for people to bring their own ideas 2-3pm AEST via Zoom, register here👇 statsoc.org.au/event-6708252

Questacon has a new exhibition about quantum science. It was fun to sit and watch but the real highlight was the dad joke they snuck in: Where did all the hackers go? They ransomware

My recent base #rstats discovery was the startsWith() and endsWith() functions www.rdocumentation.org/packages/bas...

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 📊 🎂Jul 02, 1937 John Hartigan born in Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺 Among other things, he invented the mosaic display (1981) and scatterplot matrix (1975) A great teacher; I learned a lot from him; inspired my interest in #dataviz

Men dress for other men Statisticians like to be called statisticians for other statisticians Nobody outside of the discipline cares about the social dynamics of these labels They just want to know what to call the people who do the number things with the data

Registrations for the Australian Data Science Network Conference are now open! This has to be Australia's most affordable #statistics and #datascience conference! A feat possible thanks to support from the Australian Bureau of Statistics Early bird ends Sept adsnconf2026.netlify.app/registration

Abstract submission date for #AASC2026 officially extended to July 9 (11pm GMT)! Please note that there will be no additional extensions to the abstract submission date aasc2026.netlify.app/abstracts

New interactive blog! "Why Adjusted Regression Coefficients Are Less Descriptive Than They Look" rpsychologist.com/descriptive-...

Seems as good a time as any to spruik the #RShiny app my doctoral supervisor and I made for the #rstats and #econsky Bayes-curious among you! Useful if looking to get prior distribution parameters from published literature to use in your Bayesian or decision analytic models: osf.io/preprints/os...

Nobody understands bibtex. And certainly not the people coding journal websites. (Not saying "turn on your brains" is an appropriate comment but I've never seen an automatically generated bibtex entry that was actually correct.) clauswilke.com/blog/2015/10...

Can you guess who the new #ADSN2026 keynote is? 🇦🇺 Listed in @significancemag.bsky.social's prominent Australian statisticians 💻 Developer of open-source #statistics and #datascience software 🤩 Editor of the #rstats journal You got it, it's @emitanaka.org! adsnconf2026.netlify.app/program#dr-e...

Looking for some perspective on #typst, as someone yet to try it out I currently make PDF reports through #quarto, but I resort to google/claude a lot for tweaks to design and layout as I find the pandoc/LaTeX and related documentation pretty turgid Are things any better with Typst? #rstats

I didn't know this was public info, but yes, it was an incredible & humbling privilege to be part of the jury. The process of thinking about, and then deciding on the most consequential development(s) in statistical practice, theory and impact was quite an experience

Day 1 of the Maiam nayri Wingara #IDSov and #IDGov wrapped up Feels good to spend a concentrated day going over what Indigenous Data Governance is, what it is not, and some history behind principles like OCAP®, CARE, UNDRIP See their discussion paper 👇 lowitja.org.au/resource/tak...

Drinking my pre-workshop espresso and having a Very Melbourne Experience, where I can't tell if I'm hearing cars honking or saxophone playing over the cafe speakers

It takes a community to keep an open source language thriving for decades, so it's wonderful to see the #rstats core team getting this recognition Good to see an Australian on the honours list! Are you going to Belgium for the ceremony @tslumley.bsky.social? www.auckland.ac.nz/en/news/2026...

I wanna hear how people do their peer reviews! For me it's some combination of 1. read the paper, noting questions, problems, good stuff 2. sleep on it 3: reword notes from 1 to show how paper could be improved, not just saying what's wrong 4: fix where the tone could be unhelpful

There's nothing like a bit of good news to brighten up the week! Not only did my abstract on data missingness and questionnaire redesign get accepted for the Australasian Epidemiological Conference 2026 (in Fiji!), but I'm delivering an Intro to #rstats workshop there too!! 🎉🎉🇫🇯🌴🥥

'The word "ally" is not suitable for the task we wish it to carry out. It ultimately places people belonging to dominant groups outside the system to be dismantled and imbues their motives with benevolence rather than necessity."

It's currawong party time this morning (sound on) @skwinnicki.bsky.social some Australian birdsong for you. I love it!

I need some #quarto help pls: I updated Quarto to the latest version today, so I could run the new PDF accessibility tool. Since updating, Adobe now now gives me the "Cannot extract the embedded font" error Anyone come across this and fixed it? #rstats

Today in Ben Actually Reads The Documentation Why wasn't this alt-text appearing in my #quarto PDF output? {fig-alt="some text"} It's correct for HTML, but for PDF you must do either {alt="some text"} or \ quarto.org/docs/authori...

Wow in all my years of using Stack Overflow, I've never noticed/used the code copy button I finally used it today and found it automatically adds in some useful metadata! Left = Stack Overflow answer Right = Pasted code ps thanks @nrennie.bsky.social for the solution 😀

I needed a way to open PDF files in the RStudio Viewer pane and Claude wasn't really helping. Figured I'd do my own search and came across this #rstats package {pdfviewer} Super handy! github.com/dre1667/rstu...

If human editors can’t control who reviews science, it’s no longer peer review — it’s a rubber-stamp machine designed for volume and profit, not quality. I have no intention of attaching my name to it. So I’m out.

Expectation: I'll get on with this task I've been meaning to do for weeks now My ADHD reality:

Any #rstats or #databs people have experience sending DOIs to an API to get publication details back? Curious if one service is particularly better than another, as I've been looking at ORCiD, crossref, datacite, but happy to hear about any

This is the essence of whiteness. We are *never* judged in light of the worst of us, while everyone else is. If you can't recognize that, wake up!

Terry Tao @teorth.bsky.social has been awarded an AC 🎉(Companion of the Order of Australia) in the Kings Birthday Honours today “for eminent service to the mathematical sciences, to the global mathematics community, and to tertiary education and academia.”

Spending the morning preparing food. Grateful to be able to spend a couple of hours in the kitchen and have people to share the food with

Abstract submissions for the Australian Data Science Network Conference 2026 are open! The conference is always a great demonstration of the diversity of data science applications - check out the examples adsnconf2026.netlify.app/abstract #datascience #statistics #MLAI

The eleventh commandment

You probably saw `filter_out()` in {dplyr} 1.2.0 but did you notice `when_any()` and `when_all()`? Not only is it easier to write conditions, but the usage of commas instead of | and & means formatters like air will align all conditions the same 🤩 #rstats dplyr.tidyverse.org/reference/wh...

Can we please stop using first name to infer author gender 😑 Gender isn't binary Classification performance is worse for non-Anglo names "Gender neutral" names with probability 0.5 are as likely to be wrong as not

I learned last night that Oscar Piastri is not Oscar Pistorius and now sports news make a lot more sense

Only 6 months until the Australian Data Science Network Conference 2026! This year's theme is "From Data to Decisions", so come hear about impact 🗓️ Nov 26 & 27 🌏 Canberra, Australia 🔗 adsnconf2026.netlify.app Abstract submissions opening soon, watch this space! #datascience #stats #rstats #python

Whoever came up with the award name 👌

Only 6 months until the Australian Data Science Network Conference 2026! This year's theme is "From Data to Decisions", so come hear about impact 🗓️ Nov 26 & 27 🌏 Canberra, Australia 🔗 adsnconf2026.netlify.app Abstract submissions opening soon, watch this space! #datascience #stats #rstats #python

Tomorrow! Estimands in the presence of competing events.

It's one of those weeks where my workload feels so overwhelming that I can't bring myself to even start on anything 😮‍💨 The anxiety is crippling, but tomorrow's a new day and I sure hope it feels like it Good vibes and animal pics are appreciated

Come listen to me talk about computational reproducibility this week! In this @sortee.bsky.social webinar, I'm discussing what I learnt when I sat down and attempted to find and use shared data and code files to reproduce results from articles in Eco/Evo. Register via the link below:

I was confused because I remember the poll as later than 1974. It turns out the Whitlam govt ran the CBCS poll in 1974, the Fraser govt changed the anthem back in 1976, and in 1977 got the electoral commission to run a new poll (with preferential voting) for a "national song"

🚨Job alert🚨 The Social Research Centre do lots of interesting research and Danny would be great to work with. If you do data work and are looking for something in Melbourne, check it out! #databs www.linkedin.com/posts/dvfrye...