You should all cancel your subscriptions to expensive online survey systems and build your own with surveydown, supabase and bslib.

There were no books.

Let me get this straight. You can have Posit AI in RStudio for 20 bucks a month or Claude Code in Positron for 20 bucks a month. Why on earth would you pick the former? Weird move by Posit.

Music journalism should be a bigger thing. Like a magazine that hosts Rick Beato interviews, what Vox used to do called Earworm and stuff like that. I would subscribe in a heartbeat.

A few months ago I started experimenting with having multiple open source LLMs interact with each others’ inputs-outputs. One would produce a prompt that another would use, and another one still would review. I guess that is called agentic coding.

The Departed is 20 years old.

Oh the joy, Scrubs season 10 is very good.

Why did I just discover that in Markdown [] creates a clickable box on HTML.

Hi @vincentab.bsky.social is there a plan for marginaleffects to support CmdStanMCMC class objects?

Willie Colon 😔

Obsessed with that recent lecture by James Robison about cultural syncretism and how the real and the absurd lives together in Latin America.

Eveything has a chatbot and nothing works better because if it.

Happy day, baggr quietly released an update

How do we call this phase in social science where all large effects were found and now everyone is bickering infinitely on small effects seen through underpowered studies? Tinycene? Minicene?

The querychat_app function is one of the most powerful things I have ever seen. What that team is doing is awesome.

Qué lindo, p-hacking en la junta directiva del BanRep.

The academic-entrepreneur is a dangerous animal. If the academic is not good to begin with, the combo of lack of scruples and high ambition crates professional thieves or fraudsters.

Claude Code: - Hey, make a plan to fix this document - Execute the plan - Hey, reverse all changes, you screwed this up massively

What book collaboration that never happened but could, would have been GOAT? Hume & Smith

Catherine O’Hara 😔

Dream book collaboration: Kushan Basu and Jame Robinson write about the law and behavior in India and Colombia.

Which R package handles cmdstanr_summary() for HTML?

Such beautiful calligraphy in the 16th century

This dude, thank you.

Statistical Rethinking 2026 simultaneous beginner + experienced

Is there something like langextract but for R? langextract.com

Cool book to be released in 2026:

WTF

You have a problem. You ask a consultant for a solution. He gives you one. You pay him. He leaves. The problem is solved. Why do people believe this fiction?

Best album of 2025: Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE Best book I read in 2025: The proof by Frederick Schauer (from 2022)

The day retraction watch looks at the “research” produced by international organizations, the reckoning will be bigger than for social psychology.

Kate Ho 😔

This is the most important/poorest maintained page in the Stan bayesverse github.com/stan-dev/sta...

I’ve also been having fun teaching a bunch of non profit donors to work with ellmer, rangar, shinychat and querychat. These tools are amazing tbh.

I'm having fun with an experiment using ellmer and ollamar: an open-source LLM committee. Maybe the ensemble works where each model fails.

Looks very good

Bravo Brazil!

Awesome forthcoming 2026, not sold on the cover.

I've been waiting years for somebody to put this together, all the pieces were already there. This is amazing and this team deserves an applause.

LLMs are killing the consulting industry, which should tell you everything you need to know about both.

I love how junior psychologists are not even trained on simple logistic regression but are expected to analyse multiple ordinal variables at once.

Just finished @tomchivers.bsky.social “Everything is predictable”. 5 stars because it manages history of science and intuition better than any other book on Bayesian analysis.

So Colbert is out in May 2026? So many interesting possibilities.

“Art 11. Las firmas encuestadoras deberán cumplir con las leyes de la estadística. Si no lo hicieren, responderán civil y penalmente por sus actos cuando corresponda.” Lawmakers in Colombia think the law of large numbers is a law, that if not followed, can lead to a pollster to prison.

The partner senator of presidential candidate in Colombia just passed a law banning all presidential polling for the next elections. How on earth is this legal?

I just made a querychat+ellmer+ragnar+shiny dashboard to parse through a database. This combo will be a very big deal soon.

😔

Ese señor Saade está loco.

Called it statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu

Qué desolación ese atentado, difícil no sentir desesperanza de que todo se revierta.