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I've been saying we need a progressive DOGE that actually focuses on making government work well rather than undermining it. But we need a better name. So how about DOPE: the Department of Public Excellence.

Does anyone want to buy an airlines with me? letsbuyspiritair.com #letsbuyspiritair

Ukraine deserves our support.

Maryland just banned dynamic pricing!! It really is possible!!! We have to insist on it!

Amazing to see San Andres in the Economist. My ancestors are from Old Providence, which is close by and also wants independence from Colombia!

BBC Visual and Data Journalism cookbook for R graphics https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/data%20visualization.html#bbc-visual-and-data-journalism-cookbook-for-r-graphics #RStats

R version 4.6.0 "Because it was There" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now. #rstats The choice of codename is in remembrance of R Core member Tomàš Kalibera (1978-2026). Among many other things, he was a keen mountain climber.

I appreciated this article by Michael Taggart, on the temptation to use some of these coding tools and the pitfalls, from the POV of an experienced software engineer. This is why it's important to fight these issues collectively rather than at the individual level. taggart-tech.com/reckoning/

How am I just now hearing about Bill Cleveland's death? What a loss for the community.

Multiple PhD projects in New Zealand to work on Rubin/LISA science and statistics 🔭, 🧪 - open now! #astro #cosmo www.gravity.ac.nz/join/phd-opp...

"Birds see fast enough that TV is a just slideshow of still images but slow enough they can see which direction the stars are moving" is really doing a number on me

We don't deserve dogs!

🎓We are advertising three 2-year research+teaching positions in applied maths or stats. These have a reduced teaching load (50 lectures a yr) compared to a standard academic position so applicants can gain teaching experience while having time for research jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

I made an animated map of ship movements in the Straights of Hormuz using data from marinetraffic.com. Ship track frames rendered using #ggplot, base map created using #gdal, video editing using #ffmpeg, video player written in #svelte. 🎁 www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2...

Brilliant visualization of women’s clothing sizes and how they change, and how they do or don’t work for various sizes of women pudding.cool/2026/02/wome... Via @howtoreadthisch.art

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

New article time! It's about self-defence against the fact that people seem to have lost their mind about LLMs and tech.

I love R for everything statistics, but I've always been a little jealous of statisticians using SPSS Complex Samples or SAS SURVEYSELECT to design their samples. So I decided to build samplyr, a tidy and pipe-friendly grammar for survey sampling design in #rstats. dickoa.gitlab.io/samplyr/inde...

A 1551 print of Ptolemy’s Almagest annotated by Galileo Galilei has been newly discovered in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze! 🌙🔭🪐 #HistSci

I saw a live birthed harbor seal pup for the first time in my life today. I thought it would be horrifying because I have a weak stomach, but it turned to UNGODLY CUTE very fast! Using this thread for some moments in the minutes after. All shot on my z8, edited on phone for now. 🦭 🦑

I saw her perform over the summer in an amazing opera called Loving vs VA. She was fabulous!

Today.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

TIL the first singing of a national anthem before a sports game was apparently by the Welsh in 1905 in response to a haka by the touring NZ team

#rstats ANNOUNCE: The ASA John M. Chambers Statistical Software Award to Harriet Mason (Monash Univ) For ggdibbler, an R graphics (ggplot2 add-on) package that enables rich visualization of uncertainty across raster, contour, stack, and spatial plots.

Every American needs to watch this:

If anyone has any information on the identity of the "advocacy group tyring to overturn election results in certain states” and who were secretly in contact with DOGE, my Signal is DavidGilbert.01 www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

RSMF grant and the STF grant are both providing the R Foundation and the #rstats community a solid opportunity to modernise the infrastructure and lay the ground work for the next 10 years of language roadmap while mentoring new R Core members and enabling the community to participate directly.

Meri Kirihimete: Merry Christmas

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

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

Paging @chrishipkins.bsky.social #nzpol

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Really insightful post from Julie Tibshirani (spotted in LinkedIn, can't find on Bsky) reflecting on #rstats 's unique governance structure and what can be learned for other languages jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...

MW correctly reading the room

Enrich a movie by adding your pick for #BirdOfTheYear. Once were wekas

@foxylustygrover.bsky.social Immersive theatre experience!

Chatbot still can’t handle tic-tac-toe statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/08/24/c...

She doesn’t need a hero, she is the hero we need. 🤩

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What's interesting about this is how poorly "experts" communicate when asked simple questions. Really a trip...

Nothing beats your home national park with friends. Glaicer National Park, and we caught bighorn sheep hopping off their rock.

We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.

One of the kids' computers is a late-2013 iMac, and it's been stuck at Catalina, so it's lost the ability to run things like Chrome and Discord I just discovered the OpenCore Legacy Patcher project, though, and just upgraded it to Ventura! And it works! dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Leg...

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people