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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 11h

A couple of parking signs for anyone who wants to print them out for this coming Saturday.

If you want to print out a poster for October 18th, here are two; fully-guaranteed countrywide but maybe especially suitable for in and around New York. No King Anytime sign ...

kieranhealy.org

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Maps&Music @georab.bsky.social · 11h

I have no idea why this is happening. I am suspicious. Cannot help it. This is the same person who was talking about Jewish Space Lasers. Correct? Is this a rope-a-dope?

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Maps&Music @georab.bsky.social · 11h

More power to them. They must be on their way to Krusty's Clown College. Here is where my mind went:

frinkiac.com/video/S06E15...

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Maps&Music @georab.bsky.social · 11h

More power to them. Here is what came to my mind:

frinkiac.com/video/S06E15...

frinkiac.com

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 11h

HEPA purifiers not tied to less #viral exposure in elementary classrooms, analysis finds

#HEPA purifiers were associated with a 33% decrease in viral diversity, but the reduction wasn't linked to fewer school absences.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 13h

ICE has been deployed to *provoke* civilians, not to protect them. They want to throw tear gas canisters and get people on the streets riled up, all to create footage for Fox News and Newsmax, et al., that will be used as a pretext for imposing martial law to lower voting rates in Democratic cities.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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matthew @pahuski.com · 20h

Happy Columbo’s Day

Screenshot from Columbo. He his talking to his dog, which is sitting is the drivers seat of a car. “Okay, I’m gonna put you in charge. You take care of the car. You’re a responsible dog. When I get back, if the car’s okay, I’ll give you another cookie.”

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Maps&Music @georab.bsky.social · 15h

This is such an egregious act that I have no words for it.

Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 1d

The Mad King and his equally insane court jester are burning America’s public health agency to the ground. We—all Americans—will pay a very dear price for this madness in the form of harm to our health.

Let’s hope Congress and the courts will intervene to
#StopTheMadness

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 1d

“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes one’s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other people’s pain.”

— James Baldwin

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Maps&Music @georab.bsky.social · 16h

a man talking on a phone with the words " oh there 's just one more thing sir " below him

ALT: a man talking on a phone with the words " oh there 's just one more thing sir " below him

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 16h

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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LMU Open Science Center @lmu-osc.bsky.social · 21h

Is it possible to combine text, reproducible code, and reproducible results (tables or figures) all into one document? 📑 Find out how with the LMU Open Science Center tutorial about Quarto.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Intro. to Literate Programming with Quarto 💻 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...

1. Welcome to the Quarto Workshop – Introduction to Quarto

lmu-osc.github.io

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!!

Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 1d

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 1d

#rstats #dataviz
A "line-up" test has been proposed as a human significance test: Can an observer spot a difference that rejects a null hypothesis?

Here's glyphs for 20 penguins, representing the main variables with visual features.

There are THREE multivariate outliers here. CAN YOU FIND THEM?

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Maps&Music @georab.bsky.social · 1d

Please dont go to room 237.

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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 1d

Coming up next month, register now!

R+AI 2025 - Nov 12-13

Keynote: Joe Cheng, CTO @ Posit

Talk: “Keeping LLMs in Their Lane: Focused AI for Data Science and Research”

Register now!
rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs...

#rstats #AI #DataScience
@posit.co @jcheng5.bsky.social

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Jess Butler @jessbutler.bsky.social · 1d

“Despite women making up 51% of the global population, only about 19% of biographies on English language Wikipedia are about women. And that’s not just women scientists. That’s women in all professional areas. That’s anyone that the Internet has deemed notable.”

Wade getting shit done 💪

Karen Masters @karenlmasters.bsky.social · 2d

Jess Wade is amazing, and it's my absolute honour to be one of the more than 2000 women in STEM whose wikipedia page she started: mymodernmet.com/jessica-wade... 🧪🔭👩‍🔬

Meet the Physicist Who Wrote Over 2,000 Wikipedia Biographies for Women in STEM

After noticing a lack of entries on Wikipedia for incredible women throughout history, this incredible woman decided to take matters into her own hands.

mymodernmet.com

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Tony R. Walker @tonyrwalker1.bsky.social · 1d

Where Have You Been? Backtracking #Microplastic to Its Source Using the Biomolecular Composition of the Ecocorona

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Where Have You Been? Backtracking Microplastic to Its Source Using the Biomolecular Composition of the Ecocorona

Microplastics are a diffuse contaminant with various global sources, pathways, and sinks. This study aimed to backtrack microplastics across environments using metaproteomic and eDNA metabarcoding inf...

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Fall-ah 🍂🍁🎃 @fallah.bsky.social · 2d

This is haunting. I did a very brief stint as a rural EMT

Lots of cases we would take to the little local hospital 10 min away. But the trauma center was 45 minutes away.

Imagine every ambulance call taking 45 minutes or more 😬 trying to keep people alive, doing CPR

are we great again yet

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 3d

First responders detail the deadly cost of rural hospital closures. Rural hospitals are vanishing, and Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse.
abcnews.go.com/US/loss-life...

'It can be a loss of life': First responders detail the deadly cost of rural hospital closures

Across the country, hospitals are vanishing, and a new wave of Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse.

abcnews.go.com

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 2d

💚That deep sadness you feel, the irritability, anger, and numbness. It’s grief. Grief for who we were. Grief for who we could have been. Grief for the loss of CDC as we knew it and all that means for so many.

Be kind to yourself. Be patient. It’s ok to grieve. 💚

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Brian J. Karem @briankarem.bsky.social · 2d

One of the first MAD Magazines I ever bought.
Found it in a used book store in the D.C. area today.
Funny then - Funny and sad now.

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Ryan W Enslow @ryanwenslow.bsky.social · 2d

The purpose of government is not to maximize earnings to investors

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 3d

oooh new version of Positron just released and it has (1) github copilot chat and (2) automatic {dplyr} code generation based on filtering/sorting/etc that you do in the data viewer #rstats

Me saying "hey it's github copilot chat in my positron"

Automatically generated dplyr code that matches the filtering and arranging that I did by clicking on columns in the data viewer

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

No words

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