Happy National Wattle Day! 💛💚 Did you know Australia is home to nearly 1,000 species of wattle? From Golden Wattle, our national floral emblem (Acacia pycnantha), to the rare pink-purple blooms of Acacia purpureopetala, wattles are as diverse as the landscapes they grow in. #NationalWattleDay

Current AI UX tricks us into thinking we're talking to something that can make value judgments. We're not. So I tested a prototype UX for an AI that helps users learn to think critically. Students went from vague to sharp arguments in 2hrs. More here: vaughntan.org/aiux

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

“The AI in the study probably prompted doctors to become over-reliant on its recommendations, ‘leading to clinicians becoming less motivated, less focused, and less responsible when making cognitive decisions without AI assistance,’ the scientists said in the paper.”

Our new Ecology Letters paper shows how natural history collections can use Bayesian decision theory & VOI to transform sampling and resourcing. Moving beyond taxonomy-focused collecting to strategic approaches, maximising impact for climate science, genomics & conservation doi.org/10.1111/ele.70188

Calling all stats nerds to the heart of Australia to discuss all things #Biometrics! 🐨 at the upcoming Biometrics in the Bush Capital meeting #BIB25 ⚡ Abstract submission has been extended! We'll see you there!

1/ NEW R PACKAGE! For estimating the impact of potential interventions on multiple mediators in countering exposure effects (led by @cttc101.bsky.social) - Paper👉 tinyurl.com/ye26jsps - Package👉 tinyurl.com/yuh4kens Thread shows published examples of how the method can be used! #EpiSky #CausalSky

Introducing {flawless} - a nested framework for analysing functional time series. Versatile insights for functional data across research domains, including neuroscience & mental health. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40577684/ Super stoked to share our new paper and matching Beyoncé gif 😅🎉💃 #flawless

people are not built for having an evil genie whispering in their ear about how amazing and perfect they are and confirming every bias they ever had, to say nothing of the constant vigilance for lies and misinformation

We also get many emails from people suffering from these delusions at DAIR. www.404media.co/pro-ai-subre...

Looking for a postdoc in stats or a job with computer vision / deep learning? Postdoctoral position in statistics is now out at Australian National University! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc... And also APPN is looking for a data lead @scienceanu.bsky.social jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/data-le...

Hi #rstats friends! I'm starting consulting! I've had a great journey in academia working with brilliant people, and while it's bittersweet (and a bit scary!), I'm excited for this next step. I'll still be maintaining {greta} and am hoping to be even more involved with the R community. 1/n

🚨 Public health data disappeared. We’re restoring it. 🚨 RestoredCDC.org preserves unaltered CDC content after key pages were removed or changed without notice. Public data belongs to all of us. 🔗 RestoredCDC.org #PublicHealth #ScienceTransparency #RestoredCDC

Francis Collins, the NIH Director for 12 years, led the Human Genome Project and other NIH efforts for 32 years, resigned today. Key words from his resignation letter www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u...

It’s not just the USA at risk. Australia, and many other countries, rely heavily on NOAA’s satellites for weather monitoring and forecasting, tracking cyclones, and measuring climate change. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

New Microsoft study finds that using generative AI at work makes employees' critical thinking skills "atrophied and unprepared" www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

This is what they were: blog.google/technology/a...

Google has removed its Responsible AI Principles. This is actually a pretty big deal.

Discussions with colleagues @hf.co about "AI agent" were super fruitful. Kudos to @giadapistilli.com for seeing the point about humans *ceding control* as they build more autonomous systems. Very kind of @fdaudens.bsky.social to make a brief video on some of our thinking! Blog: tinyurl.com/7uuc9x34

Ever wondered why presenting more facts can sometimes *worsen* disagreements, even among rational people? 🤔 It turns out, Bayesian reasoning has some surprising answers - no cognitive biases needed! Let's explore this fascinating paradox quickly ☺️

In true academic style, I'm finishing my new years resolutions just before due date. The ideas behind this paper have been my passion project since day 1 of my PhD, and I'm pleased to announce that it's finally published! doi.org/10.1007/s115... @chris-drovandi.bsky.social

✅ Do you use R or Python? ✅ Are you an ecologist/biologist? Then you might find our website ALA Labs useful! ALA Labs is full of how-to articles to visualise or analyse biodiversity data. Some are for beginners, others are advanced/experimental 😀 labs.ala.org.au 🧪🌏 #rstats #python #quartopub

Dear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners🔇🔇🔇 Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles. PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...

large institutions/orgs are integrating AI into critical infrastructures, and most importantly, the public has been sold utopia based on lies and any realty check that points out the failures/harms from AI is framed as pessimism, making pushbacks difficult

Hello 👋 Finally joined this app. Also still on mastodon at @[email protected]. Seeing how many people tried to report me to myself, I don't think I'll leave that space. Also on LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/in/timnit-ge.... I think that's all I can handle for now.

China has been producing open source models that surpass the performance of OS models from other countries on a number of metrics. Today, the model QwQ is measured to outperform OpenAI o1 and Anthropic Sonnet. Chat is here: huggingface.co/chat/models/... Blog here: qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b...

Awesome to learn about the Murujuga Rock Art monitoring program from Rebecca O’Leary and the team at Curtin Uni, and their work to understand the effects of air quality on petroglyphs. #TIES2024 murujuga.org.au/worlds-large...

How Big Oil "cynically promoted #recycling and clean up efforts, instead of calling for a limit on #plastic production and finding plastic alternatives. It helped shift the blame for plastic waste off the producer and onto the consumer.” My latest for The New Climate. medium.com/the-new-clim...

Excellent plenary by @sarahinscience.bsky.social to kick off The International Environmetrics Society Conference 2024 here in Tarntanya/Adelaide. Excited to learn about environment & ecology stats, spend time with old friends and make new ones! #TIES2024

What is the chance that: if I repeat an experiment (that has a statistically significant result), the repeated experiment also has a significant result? This paper constructs a relationship between p-values and #replication probability for binary classification. jmlr.org/papers/v25/2... #MLsky

Abeba Birhane, the acclaimed researcher who was named as one of the 100 most influential people in AI by Time Magazine last year, is to lead a new research lab based in Trinity College Dublin www.businesspost.ie/tech-news/ab...

Since it is inefficient to attempt to educate every reviewer individually, I am yeeting into your feed this clear paper from Gelman, Hill, and Yajima on how Bayesians can do even better than correcting for multiple comparisons. arxiv.org/abs/0907.2478

Periodic reminder that our research group in Switzerland is steadily expanding. If you’re interested in writing a grant together to do a postdoc on the meta science of error detection or measurement then get in touch! We can offer great scenery, salary, and shitposting.

Mass bleaching of corals on the Great Barrier Reef in early 2024 was the most severe and most widespread yet recorded - surpassing 1998, 2002, 2016, 2017, 2020 & 2022. The overall mortality rate this year will exceed the 30% loss in 2016. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Liking the positive vibes of BlueSky so far but finding it tricky to find my 🇦🇺 stats peeps. Thought I'd try a starter pack to help us find each other. Here's who I've found so far. Let me know if you'd like to be added #StatsSky go.bsky.app/QGgfiQV

This tool is great for migrating your 'following' list from Twitter - easy to use, try it out :)

I’m going to try out this tool for locating on Bluesky the people you follow on X. I’ll let you know how it goes github.com/kawamataryo/...

Here’s my women in AI starter pack, to help bring some diversity to your feed go.bsky.app/LaGDpqg

when you try to convert your text into smaller pieces but all it gives you is Elvish, that’s a tolkienizer

Highlights from day three of the Association for Interdisciplinary Meta-research and Open Science conference @aimosinc.bsky.social include the launch of MetaROR, hearing about work with HeSANDA & thinking about where we should direct our research efforts. I can’t wait for next year’s conference!

#ResearchIntegrity #StarterPack from @retropz.bsky.social, helping to build a community of people and organisations involved in supporting research integrity and good research practices go.bsky.app/5NJ9Z4N

I've updated this list and description to include games developers, because they're storytellers, too. If I've missed any mob, tap me on the shoulder go.bsky.app/VjrXhGs

I've begun a statistical graphics starter pack at go.bsky.app/EMb8xWf . Please help me find more people or feeds to add to this pack. #rstats #visualisation #statistics 📈