age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

*stares in academia*

On one hand, reducing car use reduces urban pollution. But on the other, everyone likes it and cities become more livable

i AM an artist and my studio is R STUDIO

📝 New blog post: Bioconductor and ggplot2 4.0.0 - What’s Changing and How to Prepare A major ggplot2 update is coming and may impact Bioconductor packages. What’s changing, how to test, and where to get help 👉 blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-0... #Bioconductor #RStats

In this blog post, I use #RStats to analyze ICE detention data. #Datavisualization shows record numbers of detainees without any criminal records. Further more/bigger ICE facilities are popping up far from the border. Code along and take a look for yourself: jef.works/blog/2025/07... #CodeTutorial

I cannot believe I haven’t shared this on here. Spot on Christine Brennan parody.

Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.

Benchmarking study of single-cell feature selection finds deviance to be an effective criterion: doi.org/10.1093/bib/... . Try it yourself with our ( @kstreet.bsky.social @stephaniehicks.bsky.social @davi1893.bsky.social ) scry package @bioconductor.bsky.social : doi.org/doi:10.18129... #genomics

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

The failure of the National Academy of Sciences USA to make a clear and unequivocal statement about the disastrous Trump administration science policies — it lets all of us down and dooms them to eventual irrelevance.

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

HUGGRAPHS!

Fun side project: website with WNBA standings, power rankings, predictions, and league history. kstreet13.github.io/wnbastandings/

Coding like the pioneers.

Now updated to include all women's tournaments! And switching the data source to Wikipedia seems to have dramatically cut down on the number of typos I have to fix.

Don't know if anybody else will find this useful, but I was recently looking for a dataset of March Madness games and couldn't find one that went back farther than 2008, so I made one: github.com/kstreet13/ma...

I found the most incredible graph on the other site

another satisfying milestone on the bike odometer

This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

Every ballpark needs one weird thing. - Bring back the hill in Houston - More stuff like McCovey Cove in San Francisco - Bring back Polo grounds-esque dimensions - MAKE THE OUTFIELD DISTANCE MARKERS IN TORONTO METRIC AGAIN!

"Your AI can’t see gorillas!" A few years ago we found that students are more likely to see the gorilla in their data if they are not also asked to test a specific hypothesis. In his blog Chiraag Gohel now shows that Chat-GPT can’t help you to find it either. chiraaggohel.com/posts/llms-e...

I'm proud to have been a part of the team that worked on this project! Miya, @lenawirth.bsky.social, and @braunmdphd.bsky.social are all brilliant collaborators and an incredibly fun group to talk science with!

Here is a Boston Globe columnist asking if cyclists bring on animosity by, *checks notes* wanting to be able to ride their bike to work without being killed.

Academic colleagues, especially junior ones, you’re about to learn a lot about your institutions, colleagues and peers. These next few years will be terrible, but take note of who steps up, who gives up and who cuts a life raft off for themselves and their own. It will serve you to know who is who.

Let's talk about the potoos, family 'Nyctibiidae'. There are seven species of these insectivorous birds in Central & South America. What immediately stands out are the giant mouth & bizarre eyes, both adaptations to hunting for bug meals (and for some, also birds & bats) at night.

WHERE ARE OUR UNIVERSITIES

Listen up local businesses! The Feigin Lab CAN be bought! Do you want your logo on our lab coats? $500! Naming rights to a TC hood? $2000! Endow my chair! Going cheap at $5000!

NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all of its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

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I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.

In the UK, auto insurance prices dropped 16% in a year. A big reason: Lower urban speed limits Industry analyst: "Areas where 20mph zones have been introduced result in lower levels of claim frequency – a key factor in the cost of car insurance."

🧪 let's see the impact of 🔵 sky for finding expertise! My dept is in ASAP need of somebody with bioinformatics expertise to provide content for several course developments. Work is remote and contract, courses will be online asynch. Courses are for bio and data science majors. Pls spread the word! 🙏

The problem is that post-2020 the cops are actively ignoring dangerous driving as part of their ongoing tantrum about being told they’re doing a bad job. Any enforcement needs to be automated instead of rooted in policing.

My wife secretly hand painted a number of wooden hex logos of #rstats packages I’ve created / worked on over the years, I love them so much!! Each is roughly the size of an open hand.

Goldman Sachs analysts : The money men saying the quiet part out loud Curing patients may not be a sufficiently profitable enterprise for biotech companies. Chronic disease is a far more beneficial business model www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...

"hi! I'm your hardware that used to work just fine, but now fails to do a fairly basic thing you counted on it for because of an automatic required update. brought to you by, the makers of: everything! everything does this now™️"

Big news — a majority of non-tenure track full-time, part-time, and adjunct faculty at USC support forming our union, United Faculty-UAW! Together, we are committed to making USC a more equitable institution. Join the majority and sign your card today! unitedfaculty-uaw.org/card/

Unclear how this differs from regular Trivial Pursuit.

Download our database of 492 (!) funding opportunities for EARLY-CAREER FACULTY AND RESEARCHERS. For each entry, we provide link to funder, description, amount, deadline, and eligibility criteria (e.g. citizenship). Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

I did not know these facts!

Restarting a previous discussion on here: How convinced are #SingleCell people by cell-cell communication methods? I'm still at "not very" 😅 I see them used everywhere, but I don't know of any really good way to validate them... More importantly, I don't know of any *non-simulated* training data.

Here is a regular reminder of my deconstructR package, which offers self-destructing plots in R (gravity plot, black hole plot, ...). You'll find the sources here: github.com/brandmaier/d... No need to thank me. And here is a gravity plot attached. #rstats #academicsky #phdsky

Awesome to see so many science folks showing up recently!

I have this same question. I'll log in and everybody's talking about like bees or something and I have no idea why.