We're looking for volunteers to help Judge the 2025 Student Conference Awards! (Judges must have completed a PhD and not be a current student.) Register here 👉 www.ecolsoc.org.au/volunteer-ju...

Utterly dehumanizing, and thus evil.

#rstats go!

Love the glue package! Relevant blog post about joining strings #rstats benharrap.com/post/2025-09...

Confusing stats language: The "linear" is linear regression means "linear in the parameters". It does not mean "can only fit straight lines", and things like polynomials and splines can be included in linear models. online.stat.psu.edu/stat501/less... 1/2

Canberra peeps, come along! It'll be a double whammy with Pat Anderson AO talking health justice and self-determination, followed by discussion with Fiona Cornforth, Lisa Whop and Ray Lovett 🗓️ 26 Nov 🕠 5:30pm - 7pm AEDT 📍 Kambri Cinema, Acton ACT events.humanitix.com/yardhura-wal...

Australian #databs #datascience jobs 👀

I'm listening to the whole 'The Rest of New Order' album and the iconic track that features in Blade's rave scene really has no business going as hard as it does given the rest of the album youtu.be/-9dsrmGG4_o?...

Visualizing displacement | {refugees} R package, @unhcr.org I created a heatmap that highlights trends in forced displacement in children across selected countries. Feedback is appreciated! Code: github.com/darakhshanne... #RStats #DataViz #ggplot2

Recording now available :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=70o2...

Maybe in a few promotions' time 🥲

Can't write a for loop if you never learned how 😉

Hey #rstats, Are there any good tricks for deciding on sensible dimensions for a plot when saving it? Or does everyone just tweak the dimensions in ggsave() until it looks right?

🧵 Our new QUEER AS… website Exploring queer Indigenous creativity. With: Blaqademics/Indigiqueers Queer as…a podcast (Jazz Money is first up). Indigenous Creatives Queer Museums Queer Tv - deep dive Our pubs and info queer-as.org

I've been wearing band shirts for years but today is the first time someone's thrown up the evil eye/devil horns Rock on Bunnings dude 🤘

purrr 1.2.0 out now — mostly removing long deprecated functions but a few small performance nad parallel processing improvements. Learn more at www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/11... #rstats

Today I learned you can adopt a Unicode character!! Who wants to name a star or buy a plot on the moon when you could lay claim to your favourite emoji? It's like a way better version of the million dollar homepage #databs @unicode.org aac.unicode.org

once again seeking others' opinions to guide my life choices: of those who dropped out of a PhD or converted to Masters, did anyone subsequently complete a PhD with a different topic and supervisors? thoughts for or against this path?

Happy Monday folks, and it'll be an even happier Wednesday when I do this talk!

Would be nice if people not only realised how dependent on data LLMs are, but also that humans are very similar. For us, too, GIGO is true. Marinating in toxic information systems is a great way to normalise toxicity in your own mind. Information diet matters a LOT. Take care with yours.

Revealjs #Quarto tip of the day: ::: {.incremental} - element 1 - element 2 - element 3 ::: displays lists incrementally ::: {.fragment} element 1 ::: ::: {.fragment} element 2 ::: ::: {.fragment} element 3 ::: increments any content see quarto.org/docs/present... #rstats

I've made a new RStudio theme based on these nice logs. Enjoy #rstats! benharrap.com/post/2025-10...

We're looking forward to it! Expect a lot of registrations with such a fun title :)

{DAGassist} let's you process a DAG and estimate models giving {dagitty} input and baseline model #CausalSky #rstats cran.r-project.org/web/packages... I think {ggdag} has more to offer for analysis of a DAG, while {DAGassist} is a one-stop package for classifying variables and getting estimates

Come along to my slightly silly and hopefully informative talk on how data go from some scribbles on a paper questionnaire to a nice, clean dataset Thanks to the ARDC for having me! #databs #rstats 📅 Nov 5 at 12pm AEDT 📍 Online webinar 🔗 www.eventbrite.com.au/e/where-do-d...

How did the geologist carry their books to school? In a rocksack

Nearly all instances of "multiverse analysis" should have been a well-defined sensitivity analysis that interrogates a specific assumption or set of assumptions we have reason to believe may not be reliable.

I’m researching ways that digital technologies in Australia's private rental sector are impacting renters and housing justice. I’m looking for more interview participants. If you are a renter and have experience using ‘RentTech’ - I want to speak with you! More info and EOI here:

Excited to host Dr Heather Turner, leading #RStats developer & statistician! 🎉 She’ll share insights from #RDevDays: collaborative events where contributors, including women & gender minorities, work on base #R, dashboards & more. 🔗 Sign up: buff.ly/F2qikpO 📆 12 Nov, 5.30-7.30pm 📍 TBA

We need to have a conversation about random seeds. Don't use 42. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-your-ra...

The panel discussion is now an episode of The Random Sample! If you missed it or want to listen again you can find it here: www.therandomsample.com.au/podcast/data...

Surprise WOMBAT drop! If you want to relive your #WOMBAT2025 experience or want to see what you missed, we added the slides for each talk on their corresponding page. Check them out: wombat2025.numbat.space/program/work... #RStats #DataScience #OpenSource

Today is the day 👀

Love this story and the way it's told! This kind of sizing method for clothes also creates a perverse sort of brand loyalty – once I find a brand that fits sensibly I'm way more likely to look at what else they have rather than try out another brand.

Happy birthday me but also HAPPY WORLD STATISTICS DAY TO YOU ALL! If you're looking for a way to celebrate – and you should, it only happens every 5 years – come along to the webinar (starting in ~3.5hrs)

Happy World Statistics Day 📊😄 We should remind ourselves how statistics has been and continues to be fundamental to data driven approaches. It’s been appalling to hear about the undermining of stats, eliminating stats programs (UTS, UOW, UNL.. 😡) and thinking that AI/ML is a replacement for it.

Ahead of World Statistics Day (20/10), @isi-official.bsky.social has released an official statement: "No Statistics, No Deal" In celebration, SSA has a webinar tomorrow, featuring @bharrap.bsky.social + more: www.statsoc.org.au/event-6365055 #WorldStatisticsDay #DataForDevelopment #TrustInData

Shoutout to @libbyheeren.bsky.social for getting so many great #rstats conversations going I very much appreciate the community building!

The Infectious Diseases Epidemiology team at The Kids Research Institute Australia is looking for a Qualitative Researcher! I've been in the #IDEpi team for three years and it's a great bunch of people to work alongside. Happy to answer any questions #jobalert #researchsky #episky

Tip for anyone who uses SMS eScripts - pin the conversation in your messages. Saves you having to go digging for it when you get to the pharmacy!

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries benharrap.com/post/2025-10... #statssky #episky #academicsky

Effective Business leaders: "It takes several months for new employees to become fully productive members of the team..." Universities: EXCITING 6 MONTH POSITION REPLACING THE LAST PERSON WHO WAS HERE 6 MONTHS.

It always makes me sad to see non-statistcians so readily and happily replace actual human experts with LLMs I get that academia is a resource constrained environment, but it's doubly painful to see this kind of thinking at a time when universities are defunding their statistical consulting centres

Sovereign computers, software and servers for home and office. Come and join me for this live webinar with an Open Source expert, noon October 22, Nau mai, haere mai koutou! sovereign-computers.eventbrite.co.nz

A few weeks ago I went to Canberra to receive the Moran Medal at the lovely Shine Dome of the Australian Academy of Science (@science.org.au). It was a huge honour, and wonderful to hear talks from all corners of science and to learn about the Academy's great work supporting science - pics below!

I'm going to be giving an #rstats talk about functions in about 45 minutes - it's online! The talk is called: "Practical Functions: Practically Magic", but could potentially be retitled, "Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction". Join at: www.meetup.com/slc-rug/even...

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