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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Fun article about “outsider” scientists and their breakthroughs.

“Academia filters most funding, publishing, and hiring decisions through senior insiders, which favors ideas within existing paradigms.”

worksinprogress.co/issue/why-sc...
Why science needs outsiders - Works in Progress Magazine
Science has forgotten that the greatest breakthroughs often come from outsiders who are able to take a fresh perspective.
worksinprogress.co
September 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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thomasp85.com
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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datavisfriendly.bsky.social
#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊
📅Sep 10, 1885 Francis Galton introduced the idea of regression (toward the mean)

(In his presidential lecture to the Anthropology Section of the British Association, perhaps the most influential such in statistical history)
Galton's figure plotting the height of children vs. the average height of their parents, titled "Rate of Regression in Hereditary stature". Two lines are labeled: Mid-parents and Children. Labels in the plot say: When Mid-Parents are taller than mediocraty, their children tend to be shorter than they. Two photos of Francis Galton, left: in profile; right: full face, as if posing for mug shots.. These were related to Galtn's studies of criminality, now standard in police procedure.
September 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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kthorjensen.bsky.social
The singularity is awesome
Google search for “all you can eat buffet near me” Al Overview To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your
June 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
cgmoreh.bsky.social
Just realised that I've spent my life - and nowadays each week - split evenly across being a Heideggerian, a Wittgensteinian and a Generic Bayesian 🙀
lastpositivist.bsky.social lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Nov 11
This flow chart is also canonical

(sincere apologies but I do not think I can alt-text this)
May 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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thetimes.com
Graham King, founder of the migrant-housing company Clearsprings Ready Homes, sees his fortune soar alongside rising number of asylum seekers
Britain’s asylum hotel ‘king’ becomes a billionaire
Graham King, founder of the migrant-housing company Clearsprings Ready Homes, sees his fortune soar alongside rising number of asylum seekers
www.thetimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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johannarickne.bsky.social
🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
May 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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andreskarjus.bsky.social
While NSF freezes funding and UK leading unis cut departments, EU still supports important research. 2 Horizon funded centres in #Tartu #Estonia hiring phds&postdocs right now in CSS, AI, DH, text corpora. See
- post below
- DigiTS ut.ee/en/job-offer... (our good colleagues in humanities).
May 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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datavisfriendly.bsky.social
Lovely visual explainers of how charts can lie!
flowingdata.com Nathan Yau @flowingdata.com · Feb 13
Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...
Defense Against Dishonest Charts
This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.
flowingdata.com
March 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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theguardian.com
Primordial surf: ‘microlightning’ in mist may have sparked life on Earth, study finds
Primordial surf: ‘microlightning’ in mist may have sparked life on Earth, study finds
Tiny lightning streaks in fine spray can power chemical reactions that generate molecules for life, scientists say Charles Darwin thought it started in a warm pond. Others point to comets that ploughed into Earth. And some suspect a bolt from the blue, a…
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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markrubin.bsky.social
"The social replication of replication: Moving replication through epistemic communities"

Sven Ulpts et al.'s new preprint: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Since claims about a ‘replication crisis’ started to circulate, the concept and practice of replication have gained new momentum. Some communities have started to promote replication indiscriminately as a practice and criterion for research quality irrespective of the diverse research communities’ various conditions and ways of knowledge production. Others have identified a replication drive, which involves moving replication into various research communities. This drive is enacted by incentivizing or demanding replication and related Open Science practices, and forms part of a culture change strategy towards increased replicability. Here, we propose the two-dimensional social replication of replication framework. It describes the process of moving replication across epistemic communities and enables us to understand first how the diverse epistemic communities across the research landscape relate to replication as a concept, practice and evaluative criterion and, second, which changes it undergoes along the way. The framework’s two dimensions are adaptation and adoption. Moving replication into different research communities without sufficient adaptation may lead to a potentially problematic and inappropriate social replication of replication. We thus argue that sustainable and appropriate social replication of replication requires adaptation, or more precisely a process of co-adaptation between replication and a community’s already established technologies of accountability.
March 14, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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datavisfriendly.bsky.social
📊 #dataviz Putting the people 👨‍👨‍👧‍👦back into charts that talk about them.

An interesting histogram of numeracy scores for U.S. vs. some other countries,
using Alberto Cairo's [weepeople font](github.com/propublica/w...) to show the people involved in these distributions.
Src: bit.ly/3FrDq0v
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A histogram showing the distribution of numeracy scores for students in the U.S. vs. other benchmark countries. The histogram uses an icon array made up of little figures of people, using the `weepeople` font. The chart has the title "U.S. Numeracy Education has room for improvement"
March 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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fractalfrancois.bsky.social
posit.co/blog/closere...

We are very proud, we won two closeread prizes with my mate @anael74.bsky.social. thank you so much @jamesgoldie.dev, Andrew Bray, Christine Kephart and @posit.co . With closeread, You have made a game changer in dataviz produ ts.
Posit
Announcing the Closeread Prize winners! Prepare to be amazed by these stunning scrollytelling experiences created in Quarto.
posit.co
February 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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tobiasdienlin.com
The fact that this communication is now necessary ... for conferences happening in the *US* ... shocking.
The 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (#ICA25), set for 12-16 June in Denver Colorado, USA, is shaping up to be ICA’s largest conference yet, tracking with Toronto and Paris in terms of preregistration numbers. At the same time, we are closely monitoring the evolving situation in the United States which has raised concerns for some members of the ICA community intending to participate. We recognize your concerns regarding the uncertain environment and appreciate your feedback and perspectives. We affirm ICA’s dedication to a global exchange of knowledge and perspectives and protecting the free exchange of ideas among our members and attendees. Current rhetoric and actions in some US communities run counter to ICA’s commitment to ensuring the full and equal participation of all members of our global academic community and conflict directly with ICA's IDEA principles. Our immediate plan includes the following interventions, which aim to preserve your right as scholars to freely present your work and collaborate with your peers: As always, we have made standard invitation letters for visa purposes available via the submission website: you can find your letter attached to your profile in ScholarOne (the submission system). As of 19 February, we have done a new run of all letters without the title of the paper(s) mentioned; papers are identified by submission ID number so that your research topics are not mentioned. You may find these new letters in your profile as well.
February 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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posit.co
We’re totally stoked to announce the release of webr 0.4.2!

webR allows you to run #RStats code directly in your browser. This new version supports HTML displays, improves the webR UI, and more.

Read about it on the tidyverse blog: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2024/10...
WebAssembly roundup part 1: webR 0.4.2 - Tidyverse
First in a series of blog posts about what's new in R for WebAssembly. The latest release of webR 0.4.2 is now available, with updates to the viewer mechanism, support for displaying htmlwidgets, an I...
www.tidyverse.org
December 11, 2024 at 3:05 PM