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Een groep wetenschappers, opiniemakers en organisaties eist duidelijkheid over de Amerikaanse overname van Solvinity, het bedrijf achter DigiD. Economische Zaken onderzoekt de overname momenteel, maar wil er niets over zeggen. Juridisch vuurwerk dreigt. www.ftm.nl/artikelen/pr...

The narrative of exceptional Ukrainian resilience is one of the most harmful tropes I’ve seen during this war. ​Yes, we refuse to give up. Yes, we have picnics in -15°C. Yes, we keep living, drinking coffee, and even laughing occasionally, but all of this stems from a lack of choice.

People apparently find it convenient to blame a single person, but the problem is that this man was voted in by 80 million people, and is still backed up by at least 50 percent of the Congress, and that all this happened after he showed his colors in a previous term.

It's beginning to look like all of those guns Americans buy to keep government in check were only ever bought for school shootings.

The Art of the Deal

It seems quite naive to believe that the current president of the United States has the best interests of most US citizens in mind. And also, he’s YOUR president, do something about it.

De Sociale Verzekeringsbank, één van de grootste verwerkers van privégegevens van miljoenen Nederlanders gaat volledig naar MICROSOFT AZURE. Dit is geen technische keuze, maar een politieke. Een gevaarlijke! Debat moet snel. Stopknop moet worden ingedrukt! #amerika Lees 👉🏻 www.barbarakathmann.nl/svb/

So you want to hit America hard because this is the only way to stop Trump from wrecking Europe? Do read this awesome, superbly argued and illuminating piece on 'anticircumvention' by Cory Doctorow. Europe could screw the US so hard, it's encouraging: pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...

If you want to hear me give a hands-on introduction to multiple imputation and the R-package mice, then join this workshop! You support a good cause in addition!🇺🇦

If you want to hear me give a hands-on introduction to multiple imputation and the R-package mice, then join this workshop! You support a good cause in addition!🇺🇦

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Why fitting very complex models is often useless as the residual error increases. So, we can use interpretable models at minimum cost. Sounds like free lunch to me. arxiv.org/pdf/2407.04846?

Almost like I had a crystal ball.

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No, we just stole their stuff (took papers in AoS from 30 years ago, made minor tweaks, and gave them new names) and are hoping they won’t notice.

“… Annals of Statistics, the journal we publish in when we either don’t want people without a graduate degree in mathematical statistics to understand us or when we want to get tenure.”

Our machine learning competition on forecasting depression is online! We'd love for as many people as possible to participate. Please share in your respective networks — thank you :). www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...

I’ll store this to show my students who fail stats101. Do not despair! You can still become leader of the conservative party!

There is always an XKCD

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VVD verwacht constructieve houding PvdA-GroenLinks: 'Niet het moment voor politieke spelletjes'

ELLIS Institute Finland @ellisinstitute.fi has open call for postdocs (DL Feb 9) www.ellisinstitute.fi/postdoc-recr... There are 45 PIs to choose from, and you can apply to work also with me on computational Bayesian modeling and Bayesian workflow!

Too bad I didn't finish my PhD already, because this looks amazing!

🏔️ We’re hiring: Data Steward & Research Software Officer Support our active research community in 🔹 Developing and maintaining research data infrastructure 🔹 Developing cutting-edge statistical software 🔹 Being at the forefront of conducting reproducible research econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

First, men are utterly deranged. Second, if this is the "free speech" you stand for, censorship is way too mild.

wie kan en wil doneren voor een generator voor een Ukraiens gezin, deze lions hebben fundraiser. Repost is ook lief: www.lions.nl/fileadmin/li...

In response to an AI-generated reaction, this statement by Gelman is quite a banger

I am very happy to announce that I will be a keynote speaker at useR!2026 in Warsaw! Hope to see many incredible members of #RStats community in person there 😀

We are honored to announce Dariia Mykhailyshyna (@dariia.bsky.social) as a Keynote for useR! 2026 in Warsaw! A postdoctoral researcher at the Kyiv School of Economics and a recent PhD graduate from the University of Bologna, Dariia has been an avid R user for seven years. user2026.r-project.org

Elon Musk calling accountability for nonconsensual sexual images an "excuse of for censorship" perfectly exposes the lie at the heart of his "censorship industrial complex" crusade. When addressing abusive material of women and children is labeled "censorship," the term has lost all meaning.

Shit, I wanted to apply but (statistical) bias is also a forbidden word :(

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Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

And with this policy, it will also not be "less common" in the near future.

Is het radicaal om van mijn universiteit te verlangen dat ze pro-actief besluitvorming publiceren? 1) We worden vooral gefinancierd uit publieke middelen, daar past openheid bij, 2) van wetenschappers verlangen we ook openheid over mogelijke belangenverstrengeling. De woo zou overbodig moeten zijn.

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

Here's a suggestion for a New Year's resolution: If you see influential bad research, say something. One part of the whole replication crisis story is that a lot of psychological researchers privately knew that a lot of stuff was bad, but it wasn't discussed publicly.

X basically industrialized the creation of fake porn of women who don't consent. Others did it first, but Grok made it normalized and centralized: publicly visible, instantly creatable by anyone, regardless of who's being targeted and dehumanized. Only question now is will X suffer any consequences

@lshtm.bsky.social will be running a 3-day online short course on using multiple imputation to handle missing data on 23-25th June 2026. Teaching staff include James Carpenter, Ruth Keogh, Clémence Leyrat, and myself. Further details about the course at www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...

Bluesky is great. I've met multiple collaborators and friends through this site, I'm overwhelmed by interesting papers to read, when I post technical questions I get many informative responses. I've blocked an occasional weird person but then they're gone and I don't care.

Just as Denmark seizes the jewellery of asylum seekers, so the UK now seizes their phones. The most vulnerable, far from home, will lose the lifeline to their families and their means for managing in a new place. UK Government cruelty to woo far-right voters. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

For our European leaders: if you don’t condemn the blatant violation of international law by the US now, you have no credibility whatsoever if you condemn a US invasion of Greenland, or another Russian invasion of a European nation in the future.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

How likely is ‘likely’? Does ‘likely’ have a higher probability than ‘probable’? I put together a quick quiz so you can see how you interpret probability phrases, then see how you compare with others: probability.kucharski.io

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The way the press is treating chatbots, like they have agency and they “know” things all of a sudden, crossed the line recently from dumb and obsequious to something else entirely. Treating them as alive and making conscious decisions is an almost religious belief. It won’t age well.

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.

Very disappointed by the weak reactions of some EU member states on the blatant violation of international law by the US. Are we really so naive as to think that the US are still allies? Push hard to become independent of autocratic and corrupt nations, as soon as possible, please.