I once was sworn into court using a copy of Genetic Data Analysis II by Bruce Weir. Seemed appropriate

@aucklanduni.bsky.social Please implement ASAP

#U0AStaff - who do we send this to? Andrew Phipps? Or our sustainability people?

"My life has been an amazing journey...See you out somewhere in the cosmos.” Farewell to Gil Gerard (1943-2025) — star of BUCK ROGERS IN THE 25th CENTURY. #GilGerard #FilmSky

Re-upping 🔭 🧪

I'm hiring a postdoc -- come and do awesome cosmology with great people in one of the nicest cities in the world (not that I'm biased or anything) 🔭 🧪 cosmology.blogs.auckland.ac.nz/2025/12/12/p...

Having listened through Songs of a Lost World by The Cure end to end four times now, I can finally render an opinion. The Cure is probably better called Robert Smith and Band these days. To the best of my knowledge none of the original members apart from Smith remain. 1/2

Australian prisoner sues for his ‘human right’ to eat Vegemite share.google/TeqHrCflCsMe... I'm curious about the yeast part. At one level the manufacturer's claims sound reasonable, on the other it might have some legs

My Google Home units no longer seem to be able to retrieve the headline broadcast (just the usual hourly one) from RNZ. This has been going on since last Friday. Anyone else having the same issue?

Aargh! I'm being subjected to children singing Christmas carols. I hate these things at the best of times!

Turns out 0.5 kg of Kashmiri chili powder is quite a lot

Voor mijn Nederlandse volgers. Stem!

Second day in a row that I have forgotten to tell Uber driver which way to go home. Google maps always takes this absolutely ridiculous route---three times as many lights, uphill when there is no need etc.

The Python Software Foundation got a competitive US research grant, but it came with a condition that they recant and abjure any diversity and inclusion ideas, on penalty of having to repay the money. Obviously this is not desirable or safe, so no grant. Donations would help them not regret this

The recovery of kelp forests brought many fish species back. But fish stocks in the reserve remain far below those present before commercial fishing took off. 👉 theconversation.com/nzs-fir...

seconding this! my usual choice is to use the date as a random seed, which is good enough for my purposes, but more creative sources of randomness are encouraged

I'm very happy to be able to report that thanks to the Faculty of Science, I will be working w/ Courtney Lynch and SallyAnn Harbison (@iffleygirl.bsky.social) from PHFScience for the next two years on "Quantitative and Probabilistic Modelling to Determine Body Fluid Type for Forensic Applications."

Statisticians of Melbourne and environs! I will be giving a talk (the Belz Lecture) next Monday, 2pm, Melbourne Uni. The title is "Laws and Orders" The lecture is free but they want you to sign up. There's also an early career stats showcase with lunch that costs www.statsoc.org.au/event-6288035

The Big Book of Bob (Mixing Up the Medicine - Bob Dylan). Very enjoyable. I'm about a fifth of the way through #BobDylan

I'm curious if anyone has tips. My Garmin heart-rate monitor chews through batteries. It's not uncommon for me to change it three to four times a year. This for a device that is rated 8,000 hours from a single CR2032. And yes I buy the expensive batteries not the cheapies :-) #Garmin

#Rstats / #Rstudio people. I want to set my R Studio Keyboard Shortcut to Ctrl + Shift + . (so that it's effectively Ctrl + >). However the editor types "Ctrl + Shift + >" every time I try to do this. Can I set it somewhere else?

Great new paper on identifying body fluids, and mixtures of body fluids with my excellent young colleague, Dr Courtney Lynch: doi.org/10.1016/j.fs...

This has just gone in the oven. I'll let you know how it turns out. Spoiler alert: mine has carrots in it as well. share.google/U3JexrCyfn6g...

Thanks to @visnut.bsky.social, I can now offer recreations (in non-original colours) of the useR! Conference Attendee shirt from Brisbane (2018). They are cheaper than the Aalborg ones because they only have a logo on the front. All profits will go to the R Foundation #Rstats tinyurl.com/3zf3dwmz

Great new paper with our student, Janet Stacey: doi.org/10.1016/j.sc...

Back in (unoriginal) black! Get yours today. userstore.ezymerch.co.nz Profits go to the R Foundation #rstats

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Okay, this an experiment, and I hope it works. Or, I hope at least I don't annoy anyone (too much) :-) My useR! 2015 shirt is failing. Torben Tvedebrink, who was the lead organiser for the conference, has given me the artwork and permission to sell it on a t-shirt to anyone who wants it. 1/2

Briefly From the Guardian: Exclusive: Study gives 85.7% probability Badminton House version of The Lute Player is by 17th-century master. As I said about a previous rating from the same company, there's no way this probability is meaningful to three significant digits (except potentially to the…

Barry said it best youtu.be/qfZVu0alU0I?...

Does that mean that Tony Gape, or whoever currently owns the land, will be able to build next to Orakei Station? If it does, then by all means do this but with zero car parking allowed.

This article strikes me as total scaremongering: www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/5...

Why do people feel it necessary to share their god-damned video calls with the rest of the airport?

@megapope.bsky.social - photo for you mate

Listening to This Is Not A Drill from Roger Waters (recorded 2023). Depressing how much his power has diminished and how much he relies on his backing singers and musicians. I guess I should be so lucky to carry such talent at 80, but still it is a sucky reminder of how things will go

The president of the ACT party groomed and raped teenagers. There is evidence (and allegations) that the party leader covered it up. Is this kind of behaviour acceptable for a deputy prime minister in NZ? Was his honesty and fitness for leadership ever persistently questioned in relation to this?

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

@tslumley.bsky.social If you read KJ Parker's Two of Swords series, I'm interested in whether you think there are parallels between it and Soviet Union vs ideals of communism

My dept at the University of Auckland (NZ) will be hiring in social psych at the junior level this cycle. Official ad to follow It's a big research-active dept with fun colleagues, plus you can commute to uni on a boat, paired with a pleasant walk thru Albert Park (this pic from heading home today)

I love that ChatGPT asks me to ask a question in Dutch (even if it just my phone settings)

Second time in a row that I've ridden around the harbour and managed to miss the ferry to the city by about a minute.

Is it a cheese sandwich or a jalpeño sandwich? You be the judge, I'll just eat them.

Mid-winter Xmas for us today. Ham has been "cloved" and just waiting for spicy sticky Asian glaze to reduce.

Accepted version online! A comparison of peer- and tutor-grading of an introductory R coding assessment www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... GitHub: github.com/statbiscuit/...

Well I'm glad that's that sorted out then....

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