Danielle Navarro
@djnavarro.net
not very committed to sparkle motion
i really wish cishet people would stop assuming that other cishet people who act in homophobic or transphobic way must be closeted gay or trans people. it's really fucking annoying, and comes off as victim blaming. the vast majority of anti-LGBT bigots are straights. fix your own shit.
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
i really wish cishet people would stop assuming that other cishet people who act in homophobic or transphobic way must be closeted gay or trans people. it's really fucking annoying, and comes off as victim blaming. the vast majority of anti-LGBT bigots are straights. fix your own shit.
Yay! 🎉
nlmixr2 is becoming an R Consortium Working Group!
Open-source NLME modeling in R that can compete with commercial pharmacometric tools and support regulatory submissions.
More: r-consortium.org/posts/nlmixr...
#RStats #pharma
Open-source NLME modeling in R that can compete with commercial pharmacometric tools and support regulatory submissions.
More: r-consortium.org/posts/nlmixr...
#RStats #pharma
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Yay! 🎉
I appreciate that the ABS is trying to do the right thing here but I don't love this.
The questions on sex and gender aren't going to work in practice: lazy researchers will use the sex recorded at birth field only, and I have no desire to be treated as male.
qnews.com.au/abs-give-upd...
The questions on sex and gender aren't going to work in practice: lazy researchers will use the sex recorded at birth field only, and I have no desire to be treated as male.
qnews.com.au/abs-give-upd...
ABS give update on LGBTQ+ Census questions
QNews LGBTIQA+ News
qnews.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I appreciate that the ABS is trying to do the right thing here but I don't love this.
The questions on sex and gender aren't going to work in practice: lazy researchers will use the sex recorded at birth field only, and I have no desire to be treated as male.
qnews.com.au/abs-give-upd...
The questions on sex and gender aren't going to work in practice: lazy researchers will use the sex recorded at birth field only, and I have no desire to be treated as male.
qnews.com.au/abs-give-upd...
i really want to see the Kaplan Meier curve for the length of time a trans woman can be on the internet before a man slides into her DMs assuming she's willing to fuck him for money
November 22, 2025 at 9:56 PM
i really want to see the Kaplan Meier curve for the length of time a trans woman can be on the internet before a man slides into her DMs assuming she's willing to fuck him for money
i ran to the beach this morning
November 22, 2025 at 4:17 AM
i ran to the beach this morning
Reposted by Danielle Navarro
"The CDC is now two distinct agencies—a house divided against itself."
The staff and scientists trying to keep our basic public health infrastructure functioning are being undermined at every turn – in their work, their trust, and their safety – by these cranks, grifters, and fascists.
The staff and scientists trying to keep our basic public health infrastructure functioning are being undermined at every turn – in their work, their trust, and their safety – by these cranks, grifters, and fascists.
RFK Jr.’s CDC fills its autism webpage with anti-vaxxer talking points.
Analysis here with quotes from current and former CDC experts 👇
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-cd...
Analysis here with quotes from current and former CDC experts 👇
insidemedicine.substack.com/p/rfk-jrs-cd...
November 21, 2025 at 1:37 AM
"The CDC is now two distinct agencies—a house divided against itself."
The staff and scientists trying to keep our basic public health infrastructure functioning are being undermined at every turn – in their work, their trust, and their safety – by these cranks, grifters, and fascists.
The staff and scientists trying to keep our basic public health infrastructure functioning are being undermined at every turn – in their work, their trust, and their safety – by these cranks, grifters, and fascists.
This is about where I am too. I used to think TDOR was the one day of the year when cis people might actually be moved to care. I don't really believe that anymore. It's a painful day for us, but politically speaking it's meaningless. Trans lives don't matter.
xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
This is about where I am too. I used to think TDOR was the one day of the year when cis people might actually be moved to care. I don't really believe that anymore. It's a painful day for us, but politically speaking it's meaningless. Trans lives don't matter.
xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
xtramagazine.com/power/activi...
Reposted by Danielle Navarro
We absolutely do not 'need humility' to engage with AI. Technology tools need to be designed around user needs, and prioritise user outcomes. And if the tools don't do that, we should not use them. Embedding AI into everything is not a fait accompli. We are doing this to ourselves.
Concerning how folks in many fields are expressing AI fatalism—essentially arguing that like it or not, professionals in an ironclad compact with AI now and we just need to get on board
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 PM
We absolutely do not 'need humility' to engage with AI. Technology tools need to be designed around user needs, and prioritise user outcomes. And if the tools don't do that, we should not use them. Embedding AI into everything is not a fait accompli. We are doing this to ourselves.
today is TDOR. my mood is bleak
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
today is TDOR. my mood is bleak
As much as I'm loathe to enter into "language wars" style commentary, I think I agree with @clauswilke.com here. The lack of NSE and native missing values is really bad for Python as a data science language (as, in fairness, is the unhinged OOP situation in R)
Python is not a great language for data science. Part 2: Language features
It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
As much as I'm loathe to enter into "language wars" style commentary, I think I agree with @clauswilke.com here. The lack of NSE and native missing values is really bad for Python as a data science language (as, in fairness, is the unhinged OOP situation in R)
10 years after transition and i still smile happily every time i'm included in the "hi ladies" greeting in the work chat
November 18, 2025 at 4:57 AM
10 years after transition and i still smile happily every time i'm included in the "hi ladies" greeting in the work chat
both my children have formal diagnoses of neurodivergence based almost entirely on behavioural traits that are eerily similar to mine, and yet somehow i have not successfully convinced a medical professional to sign off on the blindingly obvious
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
both my children have formal diagnoses of neurodivergence based almost entirely on behavioural traits that are eerily similar to mine, and yet somehow i have not successfully convinced a medical professional to sign off on the blindingly obvious
Uh wait, really? Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior for making an obviously jokey reference to literally the most famous Johnny Cash song? In the context of talking about an article written about Johnny Cash? This is the dumbest website on the internet
The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2
November 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Uh wait, really? Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior for making an obviously jokey reference to literally the most famous Johnny Cash song? In the context of talking about an article written about Johnny Cash? This is the dumbest website on the internet
i don't even know where to start with this, other than suggest that the guardian hire someone who knows enough about the topic to write a coherent sentence
November 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
i don't even know where to start with this, other than suggest that the guardian hire someone who knows enough about the topic to write a coherent sentence
while i can understand not wanting to comment on every case, it necessarily means that users start asking questions about why sarah kendzior cops a suspension but jesse singal does not. opaque and inconsistent moderation does not inspire trust, nor does it foster safety.
Our policy has been not to comment on individual accounts. You end up having to litigate every case in public, and we don’t have the capacity for infinite debates in public.
Then there’s also the consequences such as the increased litigation and bad actors gaming your systems.
Then there’s also the consequences such as the increased litigation and bad actors gaming your systems.
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
while i can understand not wanting to comment on every case, it necessarily means that users start asking questions about why sarah kendzior cops a suspension but jesse singal does not. opaque and inconsistent moderation does not inspire trust, nor does it foster safety.
i love me a progressive social media website that suspends journalists who write about authoritarianism but bends over backwards to protect journalists who launder right wing transphobic talking points into the mainstream
November 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
i love me a progressive social media website that suspends journalists who write about authoritarianism but bends over backwards to protect journalists who launder right wing transphobic talking points into the mainstream
cats do not believe in capitalism
October 31, 2025 at 4:24 AM
cats do not believe in capitalism
in my post-academic era i have become extremely scathing of the way academia considers papers to the primary outcome of intellectual work, and refuses to give credit to academics who write software or build other tooling. in industry we very rarely read your papers; but we always use your software
October 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
in my post-academic era i have become extremely scathing of the way academia considers papers to the primary outcome of intellectual work, and refuses to give credit to academics who write software or build other tooling. in industry we very rarely read your papers; but we always use your software
i ran to the city today. first time post-covid back at my preferred 10k distance. yay me. i'm grateful to be back in the world but god i'm so skittish now. enclosed, crowded spaces freak me out. had to find a pharmacist to buy a mask just so that i could work up the courage to get on a train home
October 26, 2025 at 12:27 AM
i ran to the city today. first time post-covid back at my preferred 10k distance. yay me. i'm grateful to be back in the world but god i'm so skittish now. enclosed, crowded spaces freak me out. had to find a pharmacist to buy a mask just so that i could work up the courage to get on a train home
oh fuck me. i wrote "Newton-Raphson" where techncially i should have written "Gauss-Newton" and i panicked at my error when ffs literally nobody who reads the report will ever care about the distinction
October 24, 2025 at 12:52 AM
oh fuck me. i wrote "Newton-Raphson" where techncially i should have written "Gauss-Newton" and i panicked at my error when ffs literally nobody who reads the report will ever care about the distinction
there are numerous criteria upon which programming languages can be assessed. but i would like to assert that, among the languages in widespread usage, #rstats is the cuntiest. intended in both the complimentary and derogatory senses, at the same time, with anger and love
October 23, 2025 at 1:02 AM
there are numerous criteria upon which programming languages can be assessed. but i would like to assert that, among the languages in widespread usage, #rstats is the cuntiest. intended in both the complimentary and derogatory senses, at the same time, with anger and love
my love-hate relationship with lazy evaluation in #rstats is very much in a "hate" phase at the moment. please send flowers or at least kind thoughts
October 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
my love-hate relationship with lazy evaluation in #rstats is very much in a "hate" phase at the moment. please send flowers or at least kind thoughts
This is a really good article by Julia Baird. Australian democracy is still working pretty well, unlike other countries one might name. But we still face a lot of the same pressures, and it's not clear how resilient our system is.
www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
Watershed: How resilient is Australia’s democracy?
This year’s Boyer Lectures will consider whether our democratic system will hold in the face of global headwinds
www.themonthly.com.au
October 22, 2025 at 2:18 AM
This is a really good article by Julia Baird. Australian democracy is still working pretty well, unlike other countries one might name. But we still face a lot of the same pressures, and it's not clear how resilient our system is.
www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
www.themonthly.com.au/october-2025...
"short skirt, long jacket" plays very differently to me now, 10 years post-transition and in possession of both a short skirt and a looooong jacket
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
"short skirt, long jacket" plays very differently to me now, 10 years post-transition and in possession of both a short skirt and a looooong jacket