One of many entertaining things about Clair Obscur is that it makes it clear that the French have, like, one model for “Ruggedly attractive smoldering fellow”. You can age it backwards and forwards a bit, but it’s basically the same guy. Also, Italians are fundamentally adorable clowns.

I’m in Vienna right now. A city which went from being the intellectual and cultural capital of the world to a “provincial backwater” (to quote Brian Barry) in a couple of decades due to nationalism, anti-semitism and fascism which drove away the leading scholars and artists it didn’t murder.

Speaking of canceling your Disney+ subscription, my students occasionally think I’m going some sort of “Irish people invented everything” bit when I first tell them where the word “boycott” comes from.

Best slide caption of the conference. @kjhealy.co is a font of sass ans I am HERE for it. 😅

“Whoever designed the human visual system has a lot to answer for. Maybe not as much as the knee team, or the lower back group, but a lot.” - @kjhealy.co , making me shoot my afternoon coffee out my nose.

Attending #PositConf2025 (giving a talk on Thursday) in my capacity as a representative of the world’s leading biotech and personnel management company. We are hiring in the areas of data entry, graphic design, and caprine administration.

Nxew Tom7 video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH4M...

Attending #PositConf2025 (giving a talk on Thursday) in my capacity as a representative of the world’s largest test-driven data science company. We’re hiring in the areas of test subjects, Ethical AI, and baking.

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

Senior Lecturer immediately fired, Department Head and Dean removed, full Wrongthink Audit of all courses ordered. I’m sure the NYT has dispatched Anemona Hartocollis, perhaps accompanied by the Atlantic’s Conor Friedersdorf, to have a genial dinner party at the home of the person fired.