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Rob Davies
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Reads, runs, looks out for birds, teaches data analysis methods in Psychology at Lancaster University, researches individual differences in reading and language; he/him/his
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andrew.heiss.phd
Finally got around to switching my in-browser #rstats R Primers website to use the newer better-supported #QuartoPub Live extension, which will now let me eventually add nicer inline feedback someday

- Free primers site: r-primers.andrewheiss.com
- Extension: r-wasm.github.io/quarto-live/
Screenshot from the R Primers website showing live R and ggplot code being run in the browser
November 28, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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erinbiba.bsky.social
This is incredible thank you @sesmith.lol here are some shrimp.
November 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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miamidsa.org
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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bencates.bsky.social
Most XKCD strips: fuck yeah science!

A small number of special XKCD strips: *sobbing uncontrollably* fuck yeah science
heather-buchel.com Heather Buchel @heather-buchel.com · 11d
Just having a little cry reading the latest xkcd how about you xkcd.com/3172
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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heather-buchel.com
Just having a little cry reading the latest xkcd how about you xkcd.com/3172
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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mickael.canouil.fr
🎉 The magic is real: Quarto Wizard 1.0.0 is LIVE!

Wave goodbye to complexity, pure enchantment awaits:

🪄 Magical extension browsing (250+ spells available)
✨ One-click wizardry
🔮 VS Code & Positron enchantment

quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

#DataScience #Quarto #QuartoPub #VSCode #PositronIDE
Quarto Wizard 1.0.0: Democratising Quarto Extension Management – Quarto
Introducing a game-changing extension for VS Code and Positron that transforms Quarto extensions management with an intuitive GUI for extensions and templates.
quarto.org
October 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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meodai.bsky.social
If you’re still hunting for color tools, I’m working on a more user-friendly version of meodai.github.io/poline/ keeping you huedrated
November 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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booksofm.com
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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jfallows.bsky.social
1) This is excellent editing advice from @anamariecox.bsky.social

2) The writing she is trying to edit ... oooof.

(Free dissertation-topic suggestion: Pitfalls of the "trying to sound like Joan Didion" approach to West Coast writing. Especially when you're not from there, so it's "exotic.")
November 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
make sure to watch to the end
pandersera.bsky.social swan 🍃 @pandersera.bsky.social · 28d
parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole
November 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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mickael.canouil.fr
I just enhanced/updated my JavaScript for Reveal.js in Quarto to better support native PDF export mode and nested fragments inside tabset.

Check it out: mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2025-0...

(also available in my Reveal.js format extension github.com/mcanouil/qua...)

#Quarto #RevealJS #DataScience
Quarto: Unleash Dynamic Tabset Navigation & Polished PDF Exports – MCU
Discover how to supercharge your Quarto presentations with interactive tabset navigation in Reveal.js and create stunning, professional PDFs. Get ready to dazzle your audience!
mickael.canouil.fr
November 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social
I'm exited to announce a new resource about making slides with quarto and revealjs. This book is the combination of all the work I have done in this area, reordered and polished up

There isn't a lot of new information yet, but this format allows me to add more easily

slidecrafting-book.com
#quarto
Screenshot of first page of slidecrafting-book.com website
September 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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mattansb.msbstats.info
November 19, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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mattansb.msbstats.info
The default prior for the intercept in both {rstanarm} and {brms} are very wide.

Counterintuitively - being on the logit scale, this is actually translates to a **strong** prior that p(y=1) is near 1 or near 0.

Always check your priors!

#rstats
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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wesbonifay.bsky.social
Announcement: I am excited to be co-editing (with Li Cai) an upcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Mathematical Psychology on "Advances in Statistical Model Evaluation." Proposals due Feb 1. Details: www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

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#quantpsych #mathpsych #philsci #statsky
Advances in Statistical Model Evaluation Submission deadline: 31 December 2026 The Special Issue accepts theoretical, methodological, applied, and philosophically oriented research on frequentist, Bayesian, and information-theoretic advances in statistical model evaluation. Topics of interest for this call for papers include but are not restricted to: • Methodological advances in fit assessment, parametric bootstrapping, cross-validation, and/or other frequentist model evaluation methods • Methodological advances in prior and/or posterior predictive model checking, specification and use of informed priors, Bayes factors, and/or other Bayesian model evaluation • Methodological advances in minimum description length, normalized maximum likelihood, and/or other information-theoretic model evaluation methods • Practical applications and tutorials of advanced model evaluation methods • Philosophy of science issues underlying statistical model evaluation • Critiques/perspectives/commentaries on statistical model evaluation
November 18, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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k2mey.bsky.social
Hello my many friends who weren't born in this country. I bloody love every one of you and I am glad you're here.
November 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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andrew.heiss.phd
I recently discovered Conventional Comments (conventionalcomments.org) for providing a pseudo-standard set of labels for feedback and just tried it for an article review and it was really helpful to specify issues vs. thoughts vs. suggestions, etc. Hopefully it's helpful for the authors too!
We strongly suggest using the following labels: praise: Praises highlight something positive. Try to leave at least one of these comments per review. Do not leave false praise (which can actually be damaging). Do look for something to sincerely praise. nitpick: Nitpicks are trivial preference-based requests. These should be non-blocking by nature. suggestion: Suggestions propose improvements to the current subject. It’s important to be explicit and clear on what is being suggested and why it is an improvement. Consider using patches and the blocking or non-blocking decorations to further communicate your intent. issue: Issues highlight specific problems with the subject under review. These problems can be user-facing or behind the scenes. It is strongly recommended to pair this comment with a suggestion. If you are not sure if a problem exists or not, consider leaving a question. todo: TODO’s are small, trivial, but necessary changes. Distinguishing todo comments from issues: or suggestions: helps direct the reader’s attention to comments requiring more involvement. question: Questions are appropriate if you have a potential concern but are not quite sure if it’s relevant or not. Asking the author for clarification or investigation can lead to a quick resolution. thought: Thoughts represent an idea that popped up from reviewing. These comments are non-blocking by nature, but they are extremely valuable and can lead to more focused initiatives and mentoring opportunities. chore: Chores are simple tasks that must be done before the subject can be “officially” accepted. Usually, these comments reference some common process. Try to leave a link to the process description so that the reader knows how to resolve the chore. note: Notes are always non-blocking and simply highlight something the reader should take note of.
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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wiringthebrain.bsky.social
How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs www.nature.com/articles/d41... - I'm so glad to see these studies. It never made sense to me that all dog breed diversity supposedly came from Victorian England...
How ancient humans bred and traded the first domestic dogs
Analyses of fossils and ancient genomics reveal how early human populations bred less wolf-like companions, and might have traded them around the world.
www.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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cpsc.gov
Don't do any of this.
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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abbyinnes.bsky.social
Keynes talked of the ‘advanced guard’ - the fact that there will be people in the economy who demonstrate a way forward out of current traps, and the fact is they exist now - from alternative corporate forms to innovative local authorities to SME catalysts. Be interested in what’s outside!
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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sinandrei.bsky.social
We released a pretty cool dataset/preprint today looking at video game play, cognition, time-use and a ton of self-reported psych measures at osf.io/preprints/ps... with @nballou.bsky.social @matti.vuorre.com @thomashakman.bsky.social @rpsychologist.com and @shuhbillskee.bsky.social RRs coming soon
Survey administration schedule across the 12-week study period. Participants completed biweekly surveys (orange) every two weeks, with US participants additionally completing daily surveys (blue) for the first 30 days. Cognitive tests (green) were administered during biweekly surveys at weeks 1, 5, and 9. Gray circles indicate days with no scheduled surveys. Retention percentages show the proportion of baseline participants (N=1978) who were still active at each measurement week (defined as having completed either a daily or biweekly survey at any time after that week) Diurnal play across Xbox, Nintendo, Steam. Sample of daily gaming patterns and mental wellbeing for three representative participants. Stacked bars represent total daily playtime across platforms. Orange line shows biweekly mental wellbeing scores (short WEMWBS) measured at six study waves. Participants were selected from those closest to the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of total playtime, prioritizing those with the most varied multi-platform gaming behavior. Participant IDs: p9009984081 (25th percentile), p8809196928 (50th percentile), p7162729307 (75th percentile)
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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utility-nerd.bsky.social
Ate at a Thai/Jewish fusion food truck named L'Thaim and it was fantastic. Curry latkes.
November 14, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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hannahthomasy.bsky.social
This is an Eastern Cape giant cycad. This specimen at Kew Gardens is the world's oldest potted plant* & it is older than the United States.
I found this oddly comforting? Certain systems seem deeply entrenched & unchangeable but in reality there are houseplants that have been around longer.🧪🌿
November 13, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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weratedogs.com
This is Carl. He was just woken up from a nap. Hopes for your sake the house is on fire. 12/10 (IG: grumpus.steve.carl)
a very grumpy little brussels griffon with black and tan fur and big ears is laying in a fluffy dog bed and absolutely scowling at you. his mouth is a downturned arch that would be classified as a rainbow shape in any more positive context, and he’s squinting directly at you, challenging this unnecessary disruption. the green dog bed he’s laying on looks (probably coincidentally?) exactly like the fur of oscar the grouch.
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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merryrobin.bsky.social
Women at NASA, starting with one of my favorite #WomenInSTEM photos
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merryrobin.bsky.social Robin (she/he-ella/él) @merryrobin.bsky.social · Nov 21
Valerie Thomas (1943) is an African American badass scientist.
She invented the illusion transmitter in 1980.
She helped develop the digital media formats that image processing systems used in NASA's Landsat program.
Her [very cool!] NASA photo next to a stack of computer tapes, 1979.
#WomenInSTEM 🧪
A black and white photo of Valerie Thomas in a moment of nerd joy. She is a young Black woman rocking a very stylish 70s outfit, with a big afro, round, big glasses, and a satin collared shirt. She is smiling for the camera, posing in front of computer tapes and a chalkboard filled with notes.
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM