Pratik Gupte
@pratikunterwegs.bsky.social
RSE at Imperial supporting macro-econ and epi modelling for pandemic response.
PhD in ecology and evol bio - I guess I only work in fields starting with E?
Mostly reposting content I agree with - email me for work stuff.
PhD in ecology and evol bio - I guess I only work in fields starting with E?
Mostly reposting content I agree with - email me for work stuff.
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Pratik Gupte
@pratikunterwegs.bsky.social
· Jul 25
Not that loads of folks were messaging me, but I won't be verifying my age just because the UK has had a moral panic, so if you need to get in touch, email me at [email protected]. Or find me via work.
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Good interview of Ha-Joon Chang on the Indian economy and on developments economics more generally.
frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/i...
frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/i...
Ha-Joon Chang on the Future of India's Industrialisation
Facing US tariffs and automation risks, Ha-Joon Chang argues that India must rebuild manufacturing via industrial policy, capital controls, and national champions.
frontline.thehindu.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Good interview of Ha-Joon Chang on the Indian economy and on developments economics more generally.
frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/i...
frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/i...
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Another new animal social network paper just out in @asab.org Animal Behaviour: How can we make the most of generative network models in behavioural ecology research?
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
A lot of fun to help @jbbrask.bsky.social and @drwhale.bsky.social put this together!
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
A lot of fun to help @jbbrask.bsky.social and @drwhale.bsky.social put this together!
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
November 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Another new animal social network paper just out in @asab.org Animal Behaviour: How can we make the most of generative network models in behavioural ecology research?
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
A lot of fun to help @jbbrask.bsky.social and @drwhale.bsky.social put this together!
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
A lot of fun to help @jbbrask.bsky.social and @drwhale.bsky.social put this together!
doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
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As the covid inquiry gears up for Module 9 on economic policy, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social and I have a new @ukri.org-funded @instituteforgovernment.org.uk report out on Epi-econ modelling for pandemics. We set out why govt needs to invest now 1/🧵
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
Combined epidemiological and economic modelling | Institute for Government
The pandemic showed the need for government to improve its use of modelling.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 AM
As the covid inquiry gears up for Module 9 on economic policy, @gemmatetlow.bsky.social and I have a new @ukri.org-funded @instituteforgovernment.org.uk report out on Epi-econ modelling for pandemics. We set out why govt needs to invest now 1/🧵
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
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If this analysis is correct, it won't only be London Tories who need to define themselves against their party's national identity and policies, it will be London Labour too: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @cityhalllabour.bsky.social
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
If this analysis is correct, it won't only be London Tories who need to define themselves against their party's national identity and policies, it will be London Labour too: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... @cityhalllabour.bsky.social
Interesting stuff; I'll be looking to see whether it can completely replace my current R code formatting setup which is a mix of {styler} -> Air -> {lintr}.
#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter.
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Interesting stuff; I'll be looking to see whether it can completely replace my current R code formatting setup which is a mix of {styler} -> Air -> {lintr}.
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#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter.
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter.
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
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Hot on the heels of yesterday's Covid inquiry report on decision making, @shaina-sangha.bsky.social and I have a new report out today looking at how combined epidemiological-economic modelling could help government better prepare for future pandemics www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
Combined epidemiological and economic modelling | Institute for Government
The pandemic showed the need for government to improve its use of modelling.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Hot on the heels of yesterday's Covid inquiry report on decision making, @shaina-sangha.bsky.social and I have a new report out today looking at how combined epidemiological-economic modelling could help government better prepare for future pandemics www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
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Finally got around to reading this and it's a good post except it's odd in my opinion to compare plotting rasters with ggplot2 to plotting rasters with any other package but never mention tidyterra, feels like it's a gamechanger compared to geom_raster #RSpatial
dieghernan.github.io/tidyterra/in...
dieghernan.github.io/tidyterra/in...
November 20, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Finally got around to reading this and it's a good post except it's odd in my opinion to compare plotting rasters with ggplot2 to plotting rasters with any other package but never mention tidyterra, feels like it's a gamechanger compared to geom_raster #RSpatial
dieghernan.github.io/tidyterra/in...
dieghernan.github.io/tidyterra/in...
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New paper in Methods Ecology and Evolution!
Lead with @belette-runner.bsky.social and many motivated ecologists.
Imagine being able to model predator–prey dynamics using the instinctive choices people make while playing games in a natural landscape 🦊 🐇
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Lead with @belette-runner.bsky.social and many motivated ecologists.
Imagine being able to model predator–prey dynamics using the instinctive choices people make while playing games in a natural landscape 🦊 🐇
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Impersonating predators and prey to study trophic interactions through real‐life simulations
Predator–prey interactions are a fundamental aspect of ecology that has generated sustained research interests. Progress in the field stems from a diverse range of approaches, from highly controll...
doi.org
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
New paper in Methods Ecology and Evolution!
Lead with @belette-runner.bsky.social and many motivated ecologists.
Imagine being able to model predator–prey dynamics using the instinctive choices people make while playing games in a natural landscape 🦊 🐇
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
Lead with @belette-runner.bsky.social and many motivated ecologists.
Imagine being able to model predator–prey dynamics using the instinctive choices people make while playing games in a natural landscape 🦊 🐇
doi.org/10.1111/2041...
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Corella Tor et al. Spatial and taxonomic coverage of international migratory bird agreements esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology
Spatial and taxonomic coverage of international migratory bird agreements
Successful conservation of migratory birds relies on coordinated management across international borders. Here, we determined the geographic and taxonomic coverage of international agreements aimed a...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Corella Tor et al. Spatial and taxonomic coverage of international migratory bird agreements esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #ornithology
Nice, but slightly unexpected, to see serious folks I follow also play WoW. Back when I started, a lot of players online at the same time seemed to be coalition troops in Afghanistan.
The only person in my World of Warcraft guild who actually knows what he's doing is a Ukrainian dude whom Russian attacks have limited to a few hours of power a day, and who frequently has to leave abruptly due to air alerts.
Sometimes I think Putin doesn't even care about our raid progression.
Sometimes I think Putin doesn't even care about our raid progression.
November 11, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Nice, but slightly unexpected, to see serious folks I follow also play WoW. Back when I started, a lot of players online at the same time seemed to be coalition troops in Afghanistan.
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What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
November 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC.
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting.
iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...
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Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...
Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age — Season 3 Official Trailer | Apple TV
YouTube video by Apple TV
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Yes, the #PrehistoricPlanetIceAge trailer is out today...
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A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
November 5, 2025 at 10:35 AM
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants
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I think this constant push for immigrants to feel & act ‘grateful’ is so insidious. Let’s change the narrative. Migration is a normal part of human behaviour, not a charity case. If you’re doing your best to do your best, you don’t need to do even more to be accepted. It’s your right to be accepted.
November 4, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I think this constant push for immigrants to feel & act ‘grateful’ is so insidious. Let’s change the narrative. Migration is a normal part of human behaviour, not a charity case. If you’re doing your best to do your best, you don’t need to do even more to be accepted. It’s your right to be accepted.
I think anybody running pandemic response exercises would really benefit from a slide on the difference between forecasts and projections. The weather forecast example is one I think I'll include next time we run one.
New post on poker, decision-support tools and why people conflate epidemic scenarios with forecasts: kucharski.substack.com/p/why-do-peo...
October 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
I think anybody running pandemic response exercises would really benefit from a slide on the difference between forecasts and projections. The weather forecast example is one I think I'll include next time we run one.
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What if one model could realistically predict the economy of an entire country? The entire world? A month-long working group, co-organized by SFI External Professor @doynefarmer.bsky.social, made the case that agent-based models may bring this vision to life:
Agent-based models move into the economic mainstream
In the 1980s and ’90s, SFI played laboratory to a promising new method known as agent-based modeling. In ensuing decades, agent-based models (ABMs) proliferated across many fields, including economics...
www.santafe.edu
October 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
What if one model could realistically predict the economy of an entire country? The entire world? A month-long working group, co-organized by SFI External Professor @doynefarmer.bsky.social, made the case that agent-based models may bring this vision to life:
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I built an MCMC painter!
I'm excited to share this project I've been working on for a long time, which sits at the intersection of computational statistics and generative art; mcmcPainter!
Link here: mcmcpainter.davidhodgson.me
I'm excited to share this project I've been working on for a long time, which sits at the intersection of computational statistics and generative art; mcmcPainter!
Link here: mcmcpainter.davidhodgson.me
October 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I built an MCMC painter!
I'm excited to share this project I've been working on for a long time, which sits at the intersection of computational statistics and generative art; mcmcPainter!
Link here: mcmcpainter.davidhodgson.me
I'm excited to share this project I've been working on for a long time, which sits at the intersection of computational statistics and generative art; mcmcPainter!
Link here: mcmcpainter.davidhodgson.me
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I’m seeing some misinformation about pseudo-random number generator best practices going around the internets. Let’s talk about why the pseudo-random number generator seed you use shouldn’t actually have any impact on your results and, consequently, you can choose whatever seed you damn well please.
October 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I’m seeing some misinformation about pseudo-random number generator best practices going around the internets. Let’s talk about why the pseudo-random number generator seed you use shouldn’t actually have any impact on your results and, consequently, you can choose whatever seed you damn well please.
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Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
October 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.
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I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
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Wild bird species most at risk of contracting HPAI were those that are gregarious, tolerant of anthropic habitats, are non-migratory, and occupy the upper trophic level
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....?
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....?
October 14, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Wild bird species most at risk of contracting HPAI were those that are gregarious, tolerant of anthropic habitats, are non-migratory, and occupy the upper trophic level
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....?
👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....?
Counting on visiting neighbourhood cats to keep my bulbs safe from squirrels. Had to dissuade a jay from going after my garlic though.
My autumn-planted bulbs are being thoroughly disturbed by squirrels 😐.
October 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Counting on visiting neighbourhood cats to keep my bulbs safe from squirrels. Had to dissuade a jay from going after my garlic though.
Very cool stuff.
Want to build an interactive dashboard so others can explore epidemic scenarios? For COVID, @ngdavies.bsky.social spearheaded a great drag-and-drop approach, which made use of the JavaScript-based nature of RShiny... 1/
October 9, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Very cool stuff.
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UPDATE: I saw it happen! At the Birds Canada research station at the tip of Long Point I watched an expert ever-so-gently and carefully put one of these tiny tags on a monarch. Let me walk you through the steps (1/4)
So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...
September 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
UPDATE: I saw it happen! At the Birds Canada research station at the tip of Long Point I watched an expert ever-so-gently and carefully put one of these tiny tags on a monarch. Let me walk you through the steps (1/4)