The Canberra multicultural festival is one of my favourite events here although I don't have an appetite or bank account big enough for all the food on offer This year's highlights were Kottu Roti from a Sri Lankan stall and a coconut/pineapple/watermelon iced drink from a Tongan stand 🤤

I got so much feedback on my post about transforming covariates that I decided to write a blog post on the topic of data in linear models. All Your Data R Fixed: Transforming Your RHS Covariates Won’t Fix Your Outcome Distribution Enjoy! #rstats www.robertkubinec.com/post/fixed_d...

Don't know why it's taken so long to be classified as such. But I'm glad that it now has.

The dream dplyr update for my data cleaning pipelines 😍 filter_out() is going to be SO nice, no longer will I need to wrangle with annoying is.na() conditions replace_values() and recode_values() also going to be a dream too, go read the post! #rstats

There's more than one way to do it: Perl, R, Stan There's exactly one way to do it: Python, BUGS There's at most one way to do it: SPSS, SAS

Are you a #Stata user? Maybe you work with one? Have you ever found yourself copy-pasting from the results window? It's annoying as hell! And terrible practice. So I wrote a blog post on using #rstats to extract results from Stata log files benharrap.com/post/2026-02...

Do you sometimes think "oh boy, I would really like to hear Julia ramble some more about the topics about which she doesn't stop talking to begin with?" The wait is finally over! @guruspod.bsky.social and had a chat about open science, causal inference, and apparently birth order effects.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college. Social meaning of money Refugees, human rights, violence and fear Sex, gender and social life Psychology and social behaviour Being human: culture, identity and society

Look I'm not going to open a cake decorating business any time soon but I think there's enough whimsy here for a 3-year old's birthday party

It's incredible to see the linguistic gymnatics the media will perform in defence of whiteness when a white man throws a bomb at black people. It's not a bomb, it's a "device designed to explode". Get ready for he's not a terrorist, he's just mentally unwell.

Are there any R users working for the Australian federal dept of health? I’d love to hear from you! New gig, new people to meet :)

Big things are happening in the #HASS and Indigenous Research Data Commons! We’re connecting researchers, communities & #data to make research faster, more accessible & culturally respectful. Check out the latest updates, new tools & opportunities to get involved: 🔗 https://ow.ly/AGZg50Y1w8X

I love that getting a toddler to eat is entirely a marketing problem If there's the slightest hint of 'bits' on the food, it becomes completely inedible But if I hype it up and it comes in a special jar called "furikake" (which is basically ONLY bits), it's the best thing ever

On 26 Jan 1788 the British invaded lands of a couple of First Nations. There's over 300 Nations on this continent, so 100s of invasions occurred over many decades. There were Martu people in 1964 who'd never heard of white people. Invasion was not a single day. Colonisation is not a single event

15 people shot on Bondi Beach and the government introduced new legislation within days. 1 man killed by a king hit, government introduced new legislation within days. 2 or more women killed every week at the hands of partners or former partners and …. crickets. Their priorities are wrong!

As tomorrow beckons in all its heat, anger and frustration. Remember we are charge of the course we chart. We know where we’re going, because we know where we’ve been. This from the Yoorrook Justice Commission. 🖤💛❤️

thanks! Now I remember that exact image from reading the r4ds book years ago, guess it bit me until now! I had just written a for loop that compared the sums of all the columns in two supposedly identical data frames just for a quick test and I was surprised that one had a sum of "nearly 0".

Here I am writing #rstats functions for my colleagues to extract results from Stata log files for Quarto reporting Little do they know Quarto is the gateway to R, I'll have them hooked in no time!

Have thoughts about queer museums, queerness in museums, or just plain being queer in museums? We'd love to hear from you. Early findings are turning out to be amazing, and we hope it helps museums do better. mqedu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @alanaaaab.bsky.social #Queer #Museums #QueerMuseums

Today in: Brexit was a huge mistake

I will be looking for an RA soon as my amazing postdoc has got a permanent role on our team. I will be looking for an emerging Māori researcher who has a social science background preferably :) dm me if you know of anyone or want to kōrero

Calling all campers - what are your favourite camping meals? Bonus points for toddler friendly

Organising an exciting afternoon of Blak/Palestinian writers, to be held in SA some time in the vacant AWW timeslot (inc interstate speakers). In less than 6 weeks! Can SA mob make this happen? We can! 🔎 looks around for kind sponsors and in-kind 🔎

"str_replace_all() ... now receives all values in a single character vector instead of being called once for each individual string" omg huge improvement, love this! str_replace_all() is super handy

July 6 to 9, put it in your calendar!! I can't wait for the day I get to go to another useR! conference. I had such a good time at the 2018 iteration despite knowing basically no R at the time! If you can go and you're an #rstats user (or thinking about learning), I highly recommend going

I gotta say, the text-only epilogues of documentaries are my favourite part

Why did the Aussie conspiracy theorist have a crazy laugh? They grew up in a cooker borough

Breakfast time for the Galahs on our bird TV this morning

I guess I'm posting things on tiktok now vt.tiktok.com/ZSaLm4PbB/

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Coming in at $32/200g these Colombian beans are the most expensive so far but the flavour profile is insane Maybe I get the cherry notes on the after-taste but the initial flavour isn't like any other coffee I've had 4/4 already but the grind needs adjusting

get in girlies, we're talking surveillance! we're talking the fantasy of automation propped up by humans! we're talking unfulfilled promises of tech to reduce household labour! we're talking funwashing of robots made for warfare!

When you work with data all the time it's easy to overlook how much impact something as trivial as joining previously unconnected data sources together can have

🌈 rainbowR meet-up & AGM*: Wednesday Jan 28th, 4:30pm UTC 🌈 - vote on constitution* - elect leadership committee* - connect with other LGBTQ+ people who code in #RStats 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ ➡️ Registration via rainbowr.org/meetups

Nazi Punks F*ck Off 👍👍👍 Also nice to see the ABC calling the neo-n*zi group for what it is www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

The Blacademia podcast was foundational to my learning how to be a better ally as a non-Indigenous person in academia, so I'm delighted to see there's a second season coming out I'll be forever grateful to @amythunig.bsky.social for these yarns! soundcloud.com/blacademia

This is integrity 👏🏼 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm impressed I was so consistent with myself! I for sure thought I'd be inconsistent somewhere Also I'm keen to see an analysis of the data - I did a bunch of reading on this area to inform some recommendations around probability number -> wording This area is so interesting!

If it’s safe to leave, leave now. If VIC Emergency suggests you should leave, please leave

What’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.

🚨 #statssky job alert 🚨 ANU's Statistical Support Network is hiring! Looks like a mix of statistical consulting and developing educational materials. IMO the best part would be working with the wonderful Professor Alice Richardson! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/course-...

#rstats blogdown/netlify users: you might have received an email saying your site will go away because something something prerendering. If you go to the check link in the *comments* of the linked page (not the one in the text) it will likely tell you there's no problem because your site is static🎉

"Trans ideology" should hit the same as "Black ideology" or "Hispanic ideology" or "Gay ideology" or "Female ideology". People are just trying to live their lives and be treated like people.

Tis the season of antacid and foods I probably shouldn't be eating

I was too busy enjoying myself and forgot pictures, but the milk buns from yesterday were accompanied by porchetta and several salads, followed by a peach tiramisu 🤤 Hope you're all having a yummy day

Getting ready for Christmas lunch Step 1, milk buns

There's still space on the starter pack! If you're a statistics/data science or adjacent person living in/are from the pacific region and you want to be added, just let me know (DMs are OK) #statssky #datascience #databs

🚀 The RSS presents "Statistics for Every Body: Inclusive Data Communication" on Jan 28, 2026! 📊 Learn to make your data accessible for audiences with visual & auditory impairments with experts from BBC News, ONS & more. 🔗Event details: bit.ly/Stats4Every1 #StatsSky #DataVis #RStats #InclusiveStats