The COSMIC Beta has arrived. Fully update the Alpha to use the Beta, or download on your favorite distro: s76.co/FnfKcbYD

COSMIC is a desktop environment that centers around user preference so you can work faster, be more focused, and have more fun.

The most Canadian headline ever.

David Gilmour Live at the Circus Maximus, Rome, coming to cinemas & IMAX worldwide on 17th Sept for a limited time.

Tickets on sale 6th Aug. More info at davidgilmour.film

#DavidGilmourFilm

PCI Psychology is here!! 🎉🥳

After over a year of hard work by so many people, we are thrilled to announce that we are open for submissions! Join us in making publishing more efficient, equitable, and open: psych.peercommunityin.org
#PsychSciSky #scipub

I am excited to share a new version of svglite for #rstats with the world. It includes support for all the new features in the graphics engine as well as providing a more powerful and polished experience for embedding web fonts in the file.

Read all about it her:

The @operaseu.bsky.social Open Infrastructures for OA Books Working Group is meeting today! 📆

Revisit the blog that traces the efforts to establish this important collaboration between like-minded open not-for-profit infrastructures active in #OAbook publishing 🤝

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I have learned that some people have still not heard the Good News about Hamiltonian Monte Carlo. My gentle animated interactive explanation: elevanth.org/blog/2017/11...

📊 #psy6135 #rstats Today's topic: Visualizing Uncertainty
Topics: Visualizing distributions, Error bars, Bayesian stuff, fitted curves, ...
Thx to @elibryan.bsky.social, @mjskay.com, @clauswilke.com, @cedricscherer.com and other folks I stole from.
💻 Slides-- friendly.github.io/6135/lecture...

📣 Calling all members of the Stan community to action!

❕We're renewing the Stan Governing Body. This is a fantastic way to contribute to the project. The SGB co-organizes StanCon and related events, funds developers, and helps set the directions of the project.

🧵 Link in thread.

🎉 The {messy} package is now available on CRAN! 🎉

Read the introductory blog post here: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

#RStats #StatsEd #DataScience

Very pleased to see/hear the launch of the sonification awards www.sonificationawards.org - music to my ears!

How can we design an #accessible #learning resource as educators?

Recognising the challenge of navigating guidance like UDL & WCAG - we made this resource as a one-page guide!

#AcademicSky #Accessibility #Equity #Inclusion #HigherEd #loveLD #LTHEchat #Diversity

designingfordiverselearners.info

Salamanders have very large genomes, about 10 times as large as the human genome. And more than half of the salamander's genome is apparently useless. To understand how this can happen, consider the amount of javascript in a typical webpage...

No trick, all treats - posit::conf(2024) talks are now on YouTube! 🍬

Over a thousand people gathered in Seattle and online to dive into all things open-source data science. With 100+ talks, there's a lot to explore!

Check out the playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#RStats #Python

Woah, the new #Stan Playground lets you run MCMC in your browser & analyze the chains using #WASM powered #Rstats & #Python! 🎉

✨ No installation needed - just write, compile, sample & analyze
🎯 Perfect for teaching & collaboration (share links ftw!)

🔗 Try it: stan-playground.flatironinstitute.org

The latest `brms` CRAN release added support for `priorsense` for easy prior and likelihood sensitivity analysis doi.org/10.1007/s112...

```
> fit |>
powerscale_plot_dens(variable='b_doseg', help_text=FALSE) +
labs(x='Dose (g) coefficient', y=NULL)
```

#Bayesian #rstats

Attending #educa24

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #2.770.537!