UNC Administrators Can Now Secretly Record Faculty The new policy prohibits students from recording class without permission but explicitly allows administrators to surveil professors for any “lawful purpose.” https://bit.ly/3MyingR #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Pam Bondi just laughed when asked if she would apologize to Epstein Survivors.

Trump is actively making our goods more expensive by blocking a piece of key infrastructure - apparently all because his most Epstein-linked Cabinet Secretary conveyed a request from a billionaire GOP donor. America does not have to tolerate this kind of corruption.

#rwmentoringmoments Worldly Wednesday!! Focus on problem solving skills with a global perspective! The jobs we are preparing kids for do not exist, so focus on soft skills!!

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Khanna: There were two rounds of redactions. There was the original FBI redactions… and they did a second round of redactions at the DOJ. What they’re showing members now is the unredacted version of the DOJ’s redactions—not the original FBI redactions. They’re in blatant violation of the law.

If you're a doctoral student or early career researcher in the social/behavioral sciences and want some free, confidential, collegial advice from a retired statistics professor about #ResearchMethods, #statistics, #MixedMethods, or research ideas, let's chat. #PhDhelp #PhDchat #EdD #DissertationHelp

Great news, everyone! smooth package for R version 4.4.0 is now on CRAN. Why is this a great news? Let me explain! openforecast.org/2026/02/09/s... #forecasting #rstats #datascience #machinelearning

R version of Python package survivalist, for model-agnostic survival analysis https://thierrymoudiki.github.io/blog/2026/02/09/r/python/survivalist-r-package #rstats #datascience

A federal court just upheld California’s law REQUIRING federal agents to identify themselves. California will keep standing up for civil rights and our democracy.

When our military becomes politicized, we all lose. The National Guard and Armed Forces must serve the nation, not partisan agendas. Read my piece in @newsweek.com and learn more about the new @thecountryfirst.bsky.social education campaign www.newsweek.com/adam-kinzing...

Being able to use a lookup table & just use "from" & "to" language like this is SUCH a wonderfully change for me when recoding values 🥹 #dplyr has always felt conversational to me, & now we can finally use it to say "recode this variable from this to that" without typing a long case_when #rstats

Well, this is interesting! The U.S. Attorney’s Office had a draft statement announcing Jeffrey Epstein’s “suicide” dated August 9, 2019. He didn’t die until August 10. Totally normal. Nothing to see here.

#rstats #dataviz #psy6136 Lecture 5 for my course in Categorical Data Analysis-- Correspondence Analysis Materials: friendly.github.io/psy6136/#Cor... Slides: friendly.github.io/psy6136/lect...

Never forget who Trump governs for.

Trump’s racist video mocking the Obamas is an effort to divide and conquer. He’s betting there are enough white supremacists out there who approve. We the people can unite against it and prove him wrong. Make America decent again. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Donald Trump fired me for standing up to his abuses of power six years ago to the day. That fight isn’t over. I’m running to stand up for Floridians who are sick and tired of a rigged system and costs going up while DC politicians like Donald Trump get rich.

My PhD in sociology is from Florida International University. It is beyond gutting to see what’s being done to the great department there. Proud of the profs fighting a good fight. Requiring sociology be taught without saying race, gender or inequality is asinine. Florida is banning basic truth.

You can save #tidyplots in multiple formats by piping through multiple rounds of `save_plot()` 🤩 #rstats #dataviz #phd

Jeff Bezos is an enemy of democracy. #JeffBezos #WillLewis #AdamONeal #WashingtonPost #WaPo #Journalism #FreePress #BoycottAmazon #BoycottWholeFoods #EatTheBillionaires #USPol

NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.

Ooof, this one hurts, his research is used everywhere in education programs.

There were 108,000 job cuts in January in the U.S., the most to begin a year since the Great Recession in 2009, according to a new report.

#rwmentoringmoments Financial Friday! Clubs and trips are great ways to teach children about financial responsibility!!! Selling tickets, organizing scholarships, or fundraising for a trip are all opportunities to teach!!!

This is overt racism. Full stop. There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released.

Yesterday, the last nuclear arms treaty between the United States and Russia expired, opening the door to nuclear build-up, decreased trust among nuclear powers, and less stability. The admin needs to focus on new talks to preserve nuclear stability, before the world becomes even more dangerous.

I am not going to repost the vile and racist image that Trump posted last night of President & First Lady Obama because it is beyond disgusting. Trump is a vile racist as is every Republican that continues to support him. I don’t want to hear mumbling from Mike Johnson or stoic silence from Thune.

Another day. Another racist post by the President of the United States. Trump continues to tell us exactly who he is. It's time Americans believed him.

Adjunct faculty members are paid notoriously low wages. A new study estimates that only 7 percent of adjuncts rely on their teaching jobs as their main source of income. https://chroni.cl/3ZkUBYE

This is how you can adjust the plot size in #tidyplots 🔥 All measures are in mm. #rstats #dataviz #phd

Lower education? At least they still have a football team, so they can continue to pretend to be a real university.

If You Get This Amazon Product Recall Message, It’s An Attack

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

Just sayin’.

If the whole history of the Earth was squeezed into one day... #dataviz Source: flowingdata.com/2012/10/09/h...

Motherhood costs Danish women an average of $120,000 in earnings over two decades, according to a sociologist who researches family and economics. Generous government benefits like paid leave, childcare and child allowances recovered about $100,000 of that loss. buff.ly/pAtuCS0

“Compared to the original 669 pg textbook, the new version is just 267 pgs. The state-approved version doesn’t include chapters on global inequality, race and ethnicity, social stratification, or gender, sex and sexuality. It also scraps a section on the government-led genocide of Native Americans.”

The decline in federal statistical capacity isn't just a bureaucratic issue—it's an infrastructure crisis that threatens evidence-based policymaking. When we lose quality economic data, we're essentially flying blind on decisions affecting millions of lives. #sociology #AcademicSky businessinsi...

The house is now 218 R to 214 D. Each Republican member if they had balls would be more powerful than any Senator. But they have to have balls to say no to trump. But they are ball-less or ball free

They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...

From the nlmixr2 Working Group—the R-based, open-source nonlinear mixed-effects modeling package that can compete with commercial pharmacometrics tools and support regulatory submissions—now supports inter-occasion variability (IOV). r-consortium.org/posts/from-n... #rstats #submissions #pharma

'Turn in your neighbors, and life will be better for you.' Logic circa 1930s Germany, now DHS policy.

BREAKING: GOP Rep. Mike Lawler held a town hall tonight in Rockland County…and proceeded to have VETERANS thrown out of the venue. #NY17

If Congress doesn’t act, the last nuclear arms control treaty between the U.S. and Russia will expire. It would pointlessly wipe out decades of diplomacy, and could spark another arms race that makes the world less safe. This piece is worth the read.

Donald Trump said today that "Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting." My life's work is to prevent that from happening. I built a law firm to stop it. I started Democracy Docket as another tool in the fight for democracy. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

DOJ is apparently taking all this time & violating the Transparency Act deadline in order to protect criminals, not the victims.

In case you ever wondered about the differences between magrittr pipe and base pipe 🤔 This table is taken from a great stackoverflow answer by @GeorgKindermann stackoverflow.com/questions/67... #rstats #dataviz #phd