Being chaotic good and telling my building strata that the hallway lights are not working by sending them a photo of the pitch black hallway

Stopped using "X" years ago and have finally made a switch. Hope to reconnect with folks and touch back in to the social land to share and talk about open science, research software, ecology, and public health. 🙌

That's German for "The p-value, The The The"

It's our 9th birthday and you're all invited to celebrate with us! 💜 We are partnering up with the Statistical Society of Australia to host a Social Night! 🔗 Register: www.meetup.com/rladies-melb... 📅 Thu 16 Oct, 5-7pm 📌 Father's Office #StatSocAus #rladies #stats #rstats

Ok so "top statistician breaks silence" is up there with "worthwhile Canadian initiative" as a headline, but you still might want to read it www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Are you a student or early-career statisticians & data scientists in the Sydney area? Come hear from a diverse panel on their experience and career trajectories! Food and drink to follow 📅 9th Oct, 6-8pm Sydney time 📍 USyd Registration required: statsoc.org.au/event-6332903 #statssky #databs

australian street style, 1973

this is poetry

Hey #rstats, #statsky and #devsky I'm looking for some short-term advisors with expertise in: - survey design and administration; - propensity score matching (PSM); and - Regression discontinuity design (RDD). If this is you feel free to share your profile via DM / here.

More wombat = more #RStats !

I'm actually feeling so energised and motivated to keep smashing out #rstats code after this conference It was just the break I needed

Come to the hackathon!

I'm sad that #WOMBAT2025 is over, it was so good to catch up with so many #rstats folks. I'll just have to come back next year! Thanks for organising @wombat.numbat.space!

It's me! It was good? #WOMBAT2025

Time for the yearly? ping-pong tournament. The winners get an amazing, one-of-a-kind #WOMBAT2025 circuit board.

Great pointer from @nrennie.bsky.social on making data visualisations We as makers spend hours with the data and creating the visualisation, but we need to consider those who are looking for 5 seconds #WOMBAT2025 #dataviz

If you're in Sydney and know people/have patients with metabolic disease (diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, etc) - let them know about the PANDA trial! Being run by my former PhD supervisor: www.powerlab.site/research/pan...

I have two questions for the #rstats & #stats crowd: 1) When is it okay to skip the derivation of a result in order to progress quickly? 2) Should we implement calculations like OLS "from scratch" or rely on software packages? Thanks in advance for all the opinions!

In my most spectacular kitchen fail to date, I forgot I undid the lid on the passata and proceeded give it a big shake... I couldn't help but laugh and show my toddler the sheer mess I just made 🙈🙈🙈

I just pushed v0.1.0 of my {blueycolors} #rstats package to GitHub. Check it out if you’re interested in using Bluey-themed colors in ggplot: ekholme.github.io/blueycolors/

Will I be celebrating my birthday on October 20th? No! Will I be celebrating World #Statistics Day by joining several much cooler panelists to discuss the topic "data we can trust"? Absolutely! 🗓️ October 20th, 1pm AEDT 📍 Online webinar 🔗 statsoc.org.au/event-6365055 #statssky #databs #datascience

My favourite bush, pink diosma

I fear somebody in the Australian government may have misunderstood the meaning of pull requests

@tiddlydump.bsky.social is my string-joining saviour

Have you ever tried joining strings in #rstats and been annoyed by how NAs are handled? Well I have and I made a blog post about it. Special thanks to @stephenjwild.bsky.social for recently introducing me to `tidyr::unite()`! benharrap.com/post/2025-09...

Against my better instincts, I have written some notes on how human probability judgements work and what you should expect from surveys that ask people to guess what proportion of the population is transgender. I hope never to speak of this matter again

Tell me something you do when you code that other people would tell you that you shouldn't do. Tell me the rules you break! I'll go first: I work in untitled files in the wrong project directories all the time. Like, all the time. Yes, I do tend to lose things 😂 #databs #rstats #python

Thanks Paul. It’s nice to have a paper that’s both elegant (if I may say so) and practically useful. The conclusion is that using a particular covariate balancing PS estimator — inverse probability tilting — renders IPW, AIPW, and IPWRA all numerically identical with a linear conditional mean.

This week! Join us on Thursday for the September ViCBiostat seminar on stat methods for registry-based trials.

This is not a drill! I repeat: this is not a drill. Hex stickers area ready for WOMBAT2025! Are you going to miss them? Register here: wombat2025.numbat.space #RStats #DataViz #OpenSource

This looks super cool - I'd go but it's the middle of the night here!

One of my students is keen to learn #rstats, and to facilitate this they've blocked out some "shut up and analyse" sessions with me I am very much enjoying this version of "shut up and write"

To solve chronic under-quoting in real-estate, we should legislate that REA commission is only paid on the advertised/reserve price. Buyers would see more realistic prices, sellers would pay fixed commission, and REAs would be pissed. Seems like win-win-win to me!

eight years as a statistical consultant and ecologists still manage to collect weird data that I'm not immediately sure what to do with (it's fun though!)

Hey #rstats friends! 👋 Only one week to go until my "Introduction to R Packages" tutorial at #WOMBAT2025! This is a gentle introduction to making R packages, going from initial code to `devtools::check()` Still plenty of spots available :) Sign up at: wombat2025.numbat.space

A new paper I worked on is out in Justice Quarterly! I won't speak on the substantive nature of the paper as I worked solely as the methodologist, but I developed a new matching method not otherwise described in the literature, and I want to tell you about it! #statssky #casualsky

I recently updated my #Rstats package {optweight} for the first time in 6 years(!), and I want to give it the attention it deserves with an announcement and mini thread. In short, {optweight} uses optimization to estimate balancing weights in observational studies. #episky #statssky #causalsky 1/

Want to attend #WOMBAT2025 but #Melbourne is a bit too far for you? We've got you covered with hybrid tutorials! * Fundamentals of Forecasting. * Reproducible Reporting with #QuartoDev. * Visualising Uncertainty * Regression Analysis in #RStats 📅 Program and registration wombat2025.numbat.space

Announcing the Quarto #RStats package version 1.5.0! 🥳 Set Quarto metadata programmatically from R values, add Markdown to HTML tables, and use new helpers for ggplot2 and flextable themes. There are new tools to help you migrate from bookdown and blogdown. Learn more: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

I got asked to explain what statistics was to a tween So I explained how TikTok takes all the info about how you use the app, like how long you watch or interact with a video, and uses that info to decide what you get served next Making statistics relevant for the kids 💪💪💪

Good bye basic 📦 plots! I’m getting on a ggplot2 journey from now on! Any recommendations on tutorials, themes, colour palettes, ribbons, histograms, time series, multiple plots? #rstats

my secret base #rstats function (actually utils package) function that I love is stack() -- super easy way to convert a named list into a dataframe

rcdo stickers! I will be giving these away at WOMBAT 2025 @wombat #rstats

One of the most common misunderstandings about the use and value of placebos in clinical RCTs, often made by both methodological experts and experienced trialists: (from @stephensenn.bsky.social in academic.oup.com/jrsssa/advan...)

Early bird is over, but that doesn't mean you need to miss out on the incredible tutorials that we've got lined up for you. wombat2025.numbat.space/program/tuto... #RStats #BusinessAnalytics

rlang is like plugging in a USB-A: The first two times you try something are bound to fail due to a mystery inherent in its nature.

I recently switched to using {{ x }} instead of muddling my way through a mix of x <- enquo(x) !!x sym(x) It's been such an improvement, I thought it must've been a recent {rlang} update... Then I found out it came out *before* I started using R 💀💀💀 #rstats www.tidyverse.org/blog/2019/06...

As an activist who helped lead the campaign against Robodebt, I can only think back to the days when legal scholars told us we had no chance of winning in court, and how I thought, fuck it, we’ll keep fighting anyway The Robodebt class action payout is now the largest *ever* in Australian history

A/Prof @kelamb.bsky.social recently presented at the 46th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) in Basel, Switzerland. Read more: clinicalresearch.mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/news-and-eve... #Mentoring #PeerSupport #WomeninSTEM #STEM #Biostats #EarlyCareer