"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner" by Annie Mueller 😅 😂 😭 anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-...

Took a while to get to this level of plainspeak, but glad to see it more and more.

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

🌱 Practical {renv} 💬 Shannon Pileggi @pipinghotdata.com 🖇️ github.com/shannonpileg... Maybe you're interested in trying {renv} for creating reproducible environments for your R projects. Maybe you've tried and it hasn't stuck. Shannon's talk digs deep into how it works so it's easier to implement.

BEWARE: Surveys that allow anyone to "opt in" are vulnerable to those who create many accounts (using VPN to bypass IP limits) & use automated tools to generate bogus responses (such as saying "yes" to question about being licensed to operate nuclear submarines). www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

“I think the only reason why you wouldn’t measure it is…because it basically allows you to pretend like we don’t have this food insecurity problem.” www.wsj.com/economy/trum...

Huh. Once upon a time, I saw a lot of engagement on Twitter. By the time Bluesky launched, so much had changed in Twitter's algo that I was seeing more engagement here not long after I started posting. I don't personally know anyone who's getting much engagement on X these days.

Evidence-free, vibes-based analysis here. The other website literally suppresses links while boosting the vilest accounts. Just a bewildering degree of performative centrist brainrot here.

The Trump administration is ending a decades-long effort to track food security at a time when many Americans are struggling to get proper nutrition or enough to eat.

Few things are as persistent and widespread in U.S. education as shortages of special educators. As a former Pre-K and K teacher, I wish I'd had more training related to learning differences.

Good thread

Trump is cancelling an annual government survey that measures hunger in America, rather than allow it to show hunger increasing under his tenure. This follows the playbook of many non-democracies that cancel or manipulate reports that would otherwise show less-than-perfect news.

Trump just enacted the largest cuts to food assistance in history. Now he's cancelling the government survey that measures hunger in America.

As the Trump administration is expected to add a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, here's what we know about H1-B visas www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧵

I'm sorry, but this is just weird. Making it expensive to speak against the government is literally what government censorship is. Corporations may be cowards, but the censor is the government. No one else.

Misleading WaPo headline: “Trump unveils $100k fee…” Fact buried in paragraph 13: “Under federal law, only Congress has the power to create new visa entry programs and add fees to existing categories” This fee will never happen www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

This H1B thing is a DISASTER for the USA. Phone your representative and senator NOW and demand action to protect America. This is an attack on the American economy and American technological and scientific advancement. Not to mention a truly awful thing to do to half a million people.

Wrote me some dplyr and ggplot graphs today, no coding assistants, haven’t written a ggplot in probably 9 months. Good APIs are like riding a bicycle. #dataBS

It was such a pleasure to join PyCon Colombia this past summer, to speak about #Positron, how the work of data science is different, and the tension between exploratory work and reproducible practices. 💫 The recording of my talk is now available, if you'd like to check it out! youtu.be/xiCa6OcXlSs

It was such a pleasure to speak today at #PositConf2025 about how BADLY 😱 it went when I tried to learn Python ~10 years ago, and how tooling in the ecosystem has changed (gotten better!) in the intervening decade. You can check out my slides at: juliasilge.github.io/get-unstuck-...

One other wrinkle to consider as Bob Iger makes his decision about Jimmy Kimmel

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

And Hulu subscription canceled, because fuck Disney

This is a minor inconvenience for you all. Just do it. You'll be just fine. If you can't do that, you definitely won't be able to fight later when it gets much worse. Pay a small price now, rather than a much bigger price later.

Jonathan McPherson just mentioned datapasta at the opening keynote of #positconf, so I'm sharing this once again to share the magic, for all those discovering it for the very first time ❤️ #databs #rstats

saying you’ll stand up for attacks on science in the US while honouring the person responsible for the attacks is like handing out bandages to people who are being savaged by your pet dog, while doing nothing to restrain him

A PSA that one of the best stats books of recent years is shared for free by the authors: hastie.su.domains/CASI/

The FTC is hiring Statisticians in the Bureau of Economics! This is a great opportunity for seniors or recent grads interested in antitrust and consumer protection economics, and applied microeconomics research. Come work with me! Happy to answer any questions. www.usajobs.gov/job/845835200

Checking in on the stats/econometrics methods literature for causal forests with DiD #econsky #statsky

I recently updated my #Rstats package {optweight} for the first time in 6 years(!), and I want to give it the attention it deserves with an announcement and mini thread. In short, {optweight} uses optimization to estimate balancing weights in observational studies. #episky #statssky #causalsky 1/

🚀 #rJavaEnv #rstats (helper for 100+ Java-dependent packages ) is about to get its biggest update yet. Just in time for ~10k downloads, Java 25 release, and its CRAN bday! 👉 Dev version: github.com/e-kotov/rJav... New: (1) full Linux support + (2) env setup so you can build {rJava} from source.

I've never met a jupyter notebook user who knew what "repl" or "literate programming" are

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

My team at the Pew Research Center is hiring! pewtrusts.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Center...

The CDC shooting didn’t even really register in the news and the details are absolutely insane

These 3 elected officials from Montgomery, Baltimore City and Howard say: We love transit oriented communities for ALL! 🚴🏻‍♀️🚌🚶🏽‍♀️🦼 At MACo with Del. Lewis and CM Rigby ❤️

At KFF we get to do some really interesting work with media partners. For the first time, we partnered with ESPN on a survey of former NFL players. Check out the amazing ESPN coverage as well as the KFF report!

Hello there, #rstats, I know y'all are enjoying the last weeks of summer and I am just reminding you that the deadline for submissions for the @rconsortium.bsky.social #R+AI conference is September 5th. Please take a moment and share your proposal with us! rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

The more you learn about the CDC shooting the more heartbreaking and infuriating it gets. One small thing you can do in response is donate to the fundraiser for Officer Rose’s widow and kids. www.gofundme.com/f/7xahr9-off...

I had a great time presenting a #useR2025 workshop with @statsteph.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on "Complex Survey Data Analysis"! If you'd like to check out the materials, we cover survey design, descriptive analysis, statistical testing, & more: tidy-survey-r.github.io/user-2025-su... #RStats

I cannot emphasize enough that the playbook being used against mRNA vaccines (and vaccines in general) is IDENTICAL to the playbook used to restrict voting rights after the 2020 election: actively sow public distrust, then cite the distrust you sowed as an independent reason for your desired policy

A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.

NEW: The CDC shooting was much worse than initially reported. 181 rounds. 150 windows hit. Staff are furious at RFK Jr. and Trump becuz their long-running fears about anti-vax rhetoric turning deadly seem to be vindicated. @laurenweberhp.bluesky.social + Me. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

📝 Make sense of complex survey data with ‪@tslumley.bsky.social‬ Learn how to analyse stratified & clustered survey data in R using modern tools like weighting, calibration, and robust estimation. 🗓️ Monday 24 Nov 🕒 9am–5pm 🔗 Register now: biometricsociety.org.au/conference20... #BIBC2025

Serious question: what CNN poll is this? Here's a screenshot of their polls tracking page, and the latest CNN poll was fielded in first half of July, not August (which had Trump 16 points underwater). They also have a poll average, which has Trump underwater 14 points.

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

Counterpoint: The fact that we have a plausible story for why this is happening (tokenization as a low-pass filter on language) doesn't make it a bad criticism: there's lots of lossy compression in summarizing all of human knowledge into a bunch of numbers and this is just the roach on the counter.