Didn’t have 🇫🇷 0–4 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 at half time on my #WorldCup bingo card today

The Lego for an in class experimental design activity just arrived. So I guess I’m done for the day; time to play! The various plates are for blocking structures, and the 1x1 pink blocks are animals ( 🐷 )

Not sure where my permute 📦 comes in this list of most downloaded packages, but consider me one grateful #RStats 📦 dev who was on the receiving end of a bug report and a PR fixing it no less! Thanks @scholzmx.bsky.social

Want to model complex, non-linear relationships in ecological or biological data? Join our #GAMs in R course with @gsimpson.bsky.social (7–10 Dec) and learn how to build, interpret, and visualise flexible models in R. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

You can now make chord diagrams in #ggplot2 🎉 Here's a short blog introducing the 'ggchord2' package and showing you how to make chord diagrams 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/chord-d... #RStats #DataViz #RLadies

Just bought 2000 Kr. (~300 USD) of #Lego for an in-class activity on the experimental design course I'm developing for our 3rd year Animal Science students Can't wait to reconcile this transaction on my university credit card with the finance folks 😬

I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

WTH @posit.co ! I just updated my positron install and now I'm getting spammed by copilot suggested text while I'm trying to write prose. I am not subscribed to Posit AI or to Copilot though I am logged in to GitHub. Why do you turn this sh*t on by default in a new version!? Antisocial BS 🤬

“Springer about to hijack Statistics & Computing” xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/s...

𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐭 v0.7.0 now available on CRAN 🎉 This is big release, with loads of new features. Same tiny footprint, though ;-) Short highlight thread below, borrowing examples from our gallery: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig...

🇺🇸Fun Facts: 1) The bald eagle LOVES landfills & 2) most tv/movies play a red-tailed hawk sound when showing a bald eagle, since eagles sound ridiculously silly. So, bald eagles are the perfect USA mascot: v pretty but secretly just a trash animal who steals other people’s things. Happy 250! 🦅🌎🧪

AI is a tool that *can* create value when used correctly for the right problem, it is NOT a value in and of itself.

🆘 Help! 🆘 How should we treat subjects lost to follow-up in an agricultural trial & does it change if H0 being tested is some form of "assuming the subject makes it to time period x, there is no diff between treatment & control groups"? stats.stackexchange.com/q/676127/1390 #statistics #RStats

Stan embedded Laplace was a long project and happy that it's finally released. We are not competing with INLA and TMB software, as they are orders of magnitude faster and scale better with data size for models that you can implement with them 1/

Related courses: 1- The upcoming GLLVMs course with @vdveenb.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... 2 -The GLMM in R with @florianhartig.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... 3 - The GAMs in R with @gsimpson.bsky.social www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Closing the Generalised Linear Models in R course, with a look at powerful extensions of GLMs such as GAMs and GLMMs. A big thank you to @vdveenb.bsky.social for delivering another outstanding edition of the GLMs in R course! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

I made Conway–Maxwell–Binomial regression on #TMB + #glmmTMB. A bounded-count family that handles both over- and under-dispersion through one parameter.. Demo on coral fertilization data from @benoitpujol.bsky.social #rstats #STEM #biology jbogomolovas2.github.io/Julius-s-Blo...

Great paper that underpins this work, as well as models used for the waste water surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in Ireland. bsky.app/profile/stat...

#StatsPubs No matter how many times you read it, this paper on hierarchical GAMs keeps giving. Clear model explanations together with R code (mgcv). So useful! doi.org/10.7717/peer... Thanks for writing @ericjpedersen.bsky.social, D. Miller, @gsimpson.bsky.social @noamross.net

Thanks ❤️ Writing this paper with Eric, Noam & Dave (order determined by `sample()`) was a pleasure & has resulted in not just a thing that has proven useful to a wide range of folk, but to long lasting friendships with some genuinely nice people who also happen to be very knowledgeable about stuff

R-universe now generates social media preview cards for each package, like this one: ropensci.r-universe.dev/targets. You can also get the card manually from the /{package}/card.png API (or svg).

🚨 Last seats available! Multivariate Data Analysis with R & vegan led by @gsimpson.bsky.social 📅 4–7 May (onine) www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Excellent tweetorial by @ericjpedersen.bsky.social on Simon Wood’s new Neighborhood Cross Validation smoothness selection method, which is especially useful when fitting data with temporal and spatial dependence among observations

Prof. Aono tracked a specific species — Yamazakura (Prunus jamasakura) — in a specific place: Arashiyama, Kyoto. We've contacted his university, local organizations, and weather services, but unfortunately none can continue the series. We’re looking for someone who can help us continue it!

You can help if you: 🌸 Have botanical expertise and can identify Yamazakura peak bloom from photos 🌸 Are local to Arashiyama and have access to species-specific bloom reporting Please DM me here or email me at [email protected]. Even a lead helps — thank you!

I'm a data scientist @ourworldindata.org and I need help from a botanist or someone local to Kyoto, Japan! 🌸 We present one of the world’s longest climate records: 1,200 years of peak cherry blossom dates in Kyoto. The researcher who maintained it, Prof. Yasuyuki Aono, sadly passed away last year.

I'm excited to see this out! It's also a nice coincidence, as @gsimpson.bsky.social and I just got phylogenetic smoothers working (for BM and OU processes) in our MRFtools package. I'll definitely be pointing people to your book for background. gam-mafia.github.io/MRFtools/art...

Registration is now open for the Physalia online course GLLVMs: Advanced Multivariate Analysis in R (7–10 July) led by @vdveenb.bsky.social Join us to learn model-based ordination, JSDMs, and multispecies GL(M)Ms. Hands-on in R! www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work... #Ecology #RStats #GLLVM

I know there are a lot of ecologists out there who are JDSM curious, but get scared off by how technical the primary literature is... Here's your chance to learn how they work. Strongly recommend this to anyone who is interested in species distribution modelling. #Rstats

That feeling when a fellow academic uses your openly licensed teaching materials for 90% of their presentation and doesn’t once comply with the CC-BY license

Technical difficulties: new stream here youtube.com/live/2lcCqjM...

🎉 It's livestream day 🎉 Join me at 1700 (CET; 1600 UCT) today for two hours of GAM goodness 🤤 📽️ Youtube: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... Hit the Notify me 🔔 to get a reminder when I go live #RStats #mgcv #statistics #GAMs #DataScience 🧪

Strong 2010s Twitter #RStats vibes in this thread

Winds 2020 (2021) #rstats and #ggplot2

Self-feedback loops matter. The model drafts, critiques itself, retrieves more context if needed, and refines. Everything is open-source: models, code, data store, and a new benchmark (ScholarQABench). 3/3 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The citation problem is severe: GPT-4o fabricates 78-90% of citations when asked to cite recent papers. OpenScholar achieves citation accuracy on par with human experts by grounding responses in 45M open-access papers. 2/3

I've always been a fan of what the Allen Institute is doing. New in Nature: OpenScholar, an 8B RAG model for scientific literature, outperforms GPT-4o by 6% on correctness. Experts preferred its answers over human-written ones 51%-70 of the time. www.nature.com/articles/s41... 1/3 🧵

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

The publisher estimates the Bayesian Workflow book will ship in June www.routledge.com/Bayesian-Wor...

Updated my “Reproducible data analysis using tidyverse R” slides in preparation for a workshop at UVA tomorrow: rpubs.com/bpbond/1392825 #rstats

We are advertising for a Lecturer in Physical Oceanography, closing date 31 March. If you have research interests in the shelf seas, estuarine and coastal oceans then this could be for you! And you could do research using UEA's fleet of ocean gliders vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/20...

🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update. On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R 📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... #RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪

All my #rstats ebooks are now in the quarto format, and hosted on Quarto Pub. Their old bookdown links will all be dead by the weekend. 1/3

Isn’t it about time that European countries tax the shit out of the massive US tech firms looting them (they exploit every loophole to pay relatively little tax)? If he raises tariffs, we raise taxes on their revenue. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

How HSE supports Russia's war: trap.org.ua/en/publications/how-the-russian-higher-school-of-economics-supports-the-war-against-ukraine/ HSE seminar series & speakers (incl. many international ones, from top universities): sites.google.com/view/hse-econ-seminar/hse_seminar

While Ukrainians face 30+ hour blackouts, Moscow's Higher School of Economics hosts seminars with top international speakers-then uses the same rooms for drone fundraisers. Academics don't get paid for seminars. So why present at an institution actively funding mass murder of Ukrainians? #Econsky

📈 Registrations now open! Time Series Analysis & Forecasting in R 🗓 20–24 July| 🌍 Online A very hands-on course on dynamic GLMs/GAMs for ecological time series using {mvgam} & {brms}. Bayesian models, nonlinear effects, forecasting & live coding in R. www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

Our first symposium of #TIBS2026 explores the exciting field of quantitative #Paleoecology. Discover how #data, #models, and innovative #methods are used to unlock and analyze the extensive ancient ecological record to address important scientific and practical questions.

Ok science hivemind 🧪. I have a distinct memory of an awesome graphic in a paper about how environmental filtering and biotic interactions determine whether an organism can live in any given place. Almost like multiple filter layers on top of another. Does anyone have a preferred graphic of this?