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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 5d

Since I am kinship posting, there is also reciprocal kinship terminology in which mother's call their children "mother". It ain't rare! Kinship terms just don't, in general, mean specific biological descent relationships. They are much more fun than that linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/28...

When Turkish people speak to children, they often address them with the kinship term that the child is supposed to use for the speaker. For example a mother may call her child "anneciğim" ("my dear mother").

I've been told that something similar exists in Arabic, Italian, Greek, and Russian, at least for the word "mother" (in Turkish it works with many kinship terms). But, to my knowledge, it doesn't exist in English or French for example.

Is there a name for this phenomenon? How common is it? Is it confined to a geographical region? In short, how can I find more information about it?

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Paolo Becciu @pbecciu.bsky.social · 11d

🚨New paper out
Our study reveals how barn owl parents coordinate nightly chick feeding. Females step up when males underperform & pairs that meet more often at the nest share work more equally boosting chick survival🦉
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
@unil.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social #movementecology

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 14d

So I remember seeing this but couldn't find it, then googled for notes in R and there is another package: github.com/leonawicz/tabr :)

GitHub - leonawicz/tabr: R package: tabr. Notation-based and tidy music data analysis and transcription.

R package: tabr. Notation-based and tidy music data analysis and transcription. - leonawicz/tabr

github.com

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 15d

Timeline cleanser. Isn't science amazing...

3-year-old born deaf can hear 2 years after breakthrough gene therapy treatment

Opal Sandy underwent a gene therapy injection to her right ear in 2023.

www.goodmorningamerica.com

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 16d

My experience in disease modelling is 0 but I’m curious if I can suggest this package to coworkers who do disease modelling in veterinarian context

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 16d

Maybe a dumb question but I am looking at the getting started and if i have a dataset with reference_date and report_date for any illness does that mean I can use this package for prediction?

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 17d

Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.

Kanchha Sherpa, last member of first Mount Everest expedition, dies at 92

Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 17d

what is your usecase for open in browser?

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 18d

This time of year in central EU, I am reminded that the root meaning of "sky" is cloud. The color of the sky is gray, the heavens unseen are blue, and space is a radioactive void. In March, the Sun may appear once more. Until then, we eat potatoes and dream.

sky(n.)

mid-13c. (c. 1200 as a surname), skie, sci, skei, "a cloud," from Old Norse sky "cloud," from Proto-Germanic *skeujam "cloud, cloud cover" (source also of Old English sceo (Middle English sceu) "the sky, the heavens," Old Saxon scio "cloud, region of the clouds, sky;" Old High German scuwo, Old English scua, Old Norse skuggi "shadow;" Gothic skuggwa "mirror"), from PIE root *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal."

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Thijs Niks @thijs.niks.nu · Sep 2

I built a web tool so anyone can design and evaluate ridership and costs of high speed rail networks anywhere in the world:

railmapper.net

Rail Mapper

Design and analyze high speed rail networks

railmapper.net

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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 22d

Accurate.

#academia #academy #philsky #philosophysky #philosophy #science

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Gabby Palomo, PhD @gabspalomo.bsky.social · 22d

Whoever invents a silencer for leaf blowers will become a millionaire overnight.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 23d

Appreciate you took the time to answer. Best of luck in the search.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 23d

Of course, but my question was does the employer facilitate that in any way or no?

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 23d

So how's that looking for someone who would need a visa etc.?

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 23d

UK based?

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Arynnpost @arynn.bsky.social · 24d

AI company alignment chart.

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novica @novica.bsky.social · 27d

Hi Johannes. Can we chat a bit about the position?

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · Jan 5

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.

Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

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Clara Murray @claradoodle.bsky.social · 27d

Actually... from my reading of the artists' basic income report, the government did not earn money back from the scheme (although its costs were offset 37%)

Most gains were societal and came from putting the artists' improvements in wellbeing in € terms

assets.gov.ie/static/docum...

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Oct 3

Just discovered the {gm} package, which lets you programmatically create sheet music (and audio!) with #rstats (with MuseScore as the backend) flujoo.github.io/gm/index.html

library(dplyr)
library(gm)

golden <- tribble(
~pitches, ~duration, ~lyric,
"E4", "q", "I’m",
"G4", "q", "done",
"C5", "q", "hid-",
"B4", "q", "-ing",
"D4", "q", "now",
"G4", "q", "I’m",
"E5", "q", "shin-",
"D5", "q", "-ing",
"G4", "q", "like",
"B4", "q", "I’m",
"A5", "q", "born",
"F#5", "q/3*(q/8)", "to",
"G5", "q/3", "be._",
"G5", "h", ""
)

music <-
Music() +
Key(1) +
Tempo(125) +
Meter(2, 4) +
Line(pitches = golden$pitches, durations = golden$duration) +
Tie(13) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[1], 1) + Lyric(golden$lyric[2], 2) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[3], 3) + Lyric(golden$lyric[4], 4) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[5], 5) + Lyric(golden$lyric[6], 6) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[7], 7) + Lyric(golden$lyric[8], 8) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[9], 9) + Lyric(golden$lyric[10], 10) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[11], 11) + Lyric(golden$lyric[12], 12) +
Lyric(golden$lyric[13], 13)

show(music)

The first part of the bridge from "Golden" from KPop Demon Hunters

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Jenny Bryan @jennybryan.bsky.social · Oct 3

BTW this "Frequency Reduces Difficulty" post from @martinfowler.com is the origin of the mantra "if it hurts, do it more often" (at least, it's where I learned it). It's amazing how broadly this applies.

martinfowler.com/bliki/Freque...

bliki: Frequency Reduces Difficulty

"If it hurts - do it more often". Good advice if the amount of pain raises exponentially with the time between actions, such as for integrating software.

martinfowler.com

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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · Sep 30

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!"

Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

(pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

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novica @novica.bsky.social · Oct 1

Can I interest you in some lakes?

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · Sep 29

{tinytable} 0.14.0 for #RStats makes it super easy to draw tables in html, tex, docx, typ, md & png.

There are only a few functions to learn, but don't be fooled! Small 📦s can still be powerful.

Check out the new gallery page for fun case studies.

vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/vi...

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