Susan Vanderplas
@srvanderplas.bsky.social
Statistics professor, #rstats user and reluctant #python user. I love #quarto, #quilting, #crossstitch, #snark, and #dogs. Research in #forensics, #visualization and #datavis, and #reproduceableresearch.
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For this reason and others, switch to Linux! For most of your personal computing needs it will not be a significant change.
The Verge: Screw it, I’m installing Linux
https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos
#win11 #linux
https://www.theverge.com/tech/823337/switching-linux-gaming-desktop-cachyos
#win11 #linux
November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
For this reason and others, switch to Linux! For most of your personal computing needs it will not be a significant change.
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Dept. of Ed is reclassifying all the female dominated professions (nurse, therapist, speech pathologist, PA) as not having “professional” degrees, which makes it harder for them to get educational loans.
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
November 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Dept. of Ed is reclassifying all the female dominated professions (nurse, therapist, speech pathologist, PA) as not having “professional” degrees, which makes it harder for them to get educational loans.
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
Another FUCKED UP thing this admin is doing to attack women’s power.
Take that shit to court!
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How can you help the Dept of Statistics at U. of Nebraska-Lincoln survive its proposed elimination? Participate in letter writing campaign #2! #Huskers #LNK @amstatnews.bsky.social 1/
nebraska.edu
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
How can you help the Dept of Statistics at U. of Nebraska-Lincoln survive its proposed elimination? Participate in letter writing campaign #2! #Huskers #LNK @amstatnews.bsky.social 1/
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A new AAUP Report on faculty senates is out! 📝
As political attacks on faculty governing bodies increase, our new report argues that effective shared governance requires that faculty have a strong, distinctive & representative collective voice to safeguard academic freedom.
Read below 👇
As political attacks on faculty governing bodies increase, our new report argues that effective shared governance requires that faculty have a strong, distinctive & representative collective voice to safeguard academic freedom.
Read below 👇
In Defense of an Independent and Representative Faculty Voice: The Case of Faculty Senates
This report, prepared by a subcommittee of the AAUP’s Committee on College and University Governance, reexamines the necessity of strong faculty senates through the lens of the Statement on Government of Colleges and Universities and other AAUP statements and in light of escalating political interference against shared governance.
www.aaup.org
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
A new AAUP Report on faculty senates is out! 📝
As political attacks on faculty governing bodies increase, our new report argues that effective shared governance requires that faculty have a strong, distinctive & representative collective voice to safeguard academic freedom.
Read below 👇
As political attacks on faculty governing bodies increase, our new report argues that effective shared governance requires that faculty have a strong, distinctive & representative collective voice to safeguard academic freedom.
Read below 👇
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Part 2 of my deep dive into Python as a language for data science.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
Python is not a great language for data science. Part 2: Language features
It may be a good language for data science, but it’s not a great one.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Part 2 of my deep dive into Python as a language for data science.
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/python-is-...
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There's got to be SOME hypothesis that makes our experiment useless. THINK!
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
There's got to be SOME hypothesis that makes our experiment useless. THINK!
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/stats-3
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com
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Just wanted to post one more time to say that I am recruiting a Ph.D. student to work on my NSF-funded COMET study! There will be extensive opportunities for this student to conduct classroom-based data collection, write manuscripts, & share their research with both academic & community audiences!
I am recruiting a Ph.D student to join my lab at UNL in Fall 2026! This student will be fully funded through my NSF-funded COMET study examining EFs, math achievement, and math attitudes in the transition from 2nd to 3rd grade. Learn more: www.jenna-finch.com/comet
Please share broadly!
Please share broadly!
COMET Study — Learning And Development Research Group
www.jenna-finch.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Just wanted to post one more time to say that I am recruiting a Ph.D. student to work on my NSF-funded COMET study! There will be extensive opportunities for this student to conduct classroom-based data collection, write manuscripts, & share their research with both academic & community audiences!
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From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning:
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
November 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
From a statement from faith leaders at Broadview this morning:
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
"God does not bless cages. God does not sanction abductions. God demands freedom."
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emerging reports about possibly imminent US military attack on venezuela. there can be no doubt about it, certainly not in the coverage: such an attack would be an act of aggression, lacking any basis in international law. we'll get sophistic arguments about self-defense but none will be legit.
October 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
emerging reports about possibly imminent US military attack on venezuela. there can be no doubt about it, certainly not in the coverage: such an attack would be an act of aggression, lacking any basis in international law. we'll get sophistic arguments about self-defense but none will be legit.
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From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."
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JHC.
Good fix, Chris.
Good fix, Chris.
Let me fix that for you:
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.
November 13, 2025 at 11:09 PM
JHC.
Good fix, Chris.
Good fix, Chris.
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#datavis
although this video is about mobile phone battery durability vs different charging techniques, the datavisual elements, helping convey the message, are pretty neat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLS5...
although this video is about mobile phone battery durability vs different charging techniques, the datavisual elements, helping convey the message, are pretty neat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLS5...
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
#datavis
although this video is about mobile phone battery durability vs different charging techniques, the datavisual elements, helping convey the message, are pretty neat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLS5...
although this video is about mobile phone battery durability vs different charging techniques, the datavisual elements, helping convey the message, are pretty neat
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLS5...
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Food for thought/discussion.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Food for thought/discussion.
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I remember one of my colleagues in the religion department (whose scholarship was significantly weirder and more generally humanities oriented) giving a talk that involved a historical description of Satan's junk, and I was the jerk who perked up and said "oh! He's an echidna!"
November 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I remember one of my colleagues in the religion department (whose scholarship was significantly weirder and more generally humanities oriented) giving a talk that involved a historical description of Satan's junk, and I was the jerk who perked up and said "oh! He's an echidna!"
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At the Texas Book Festival I was asked what would happen if all 8 billion people on the planet were replaced by clones of me, and I noted that meant there would be 8 billion people who couldn't do math but could generate snarky quips, which meant we would all be dead of sarcasm in under two weeks.
November 13, 2025 at 11:57 AM
At the Texas Book Festival I was asked what would happen if all 8 billion people on the planet were replaced by clones of me, and I noted that meant there would be 8 billion people who couldn't do math but could generate snarky quips, which meant we would all be dead of sarcasm in under two weeks.
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Communicating why a 50 year mortgage costs more, overall, than a 30 year mortgage should not be a hard task.
The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.
The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.
November 11, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Communicating why a 50 year mortgage costs more, overall, than a 30 year mortgage should not be a hard task.
The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.
The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.
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This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.
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Well, it's official. #UNL Chancellor Bennett submitted his final proposal and it includes eliminating the #statistics department. budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget...
Guess it's time to go look for jobs. Anyone looking for a couple of very talented #datavis researchers?
Guess it's time to go look for jobs. Anyone looking for a couple of very talented #datavis researchers?
Final Budget Reduction Plan | Budget Process | Nebraska
budgetprocess.unl.edu
November 10, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Well, it's official. #UNL Chancellor Bennett submitted his final proposal and it includes eliminating the #statistics department. budgetprocess.unl.edu/final-budget...
Guess it's time to go look for jobs. Anyone looking for a couple of very talented #datavis researchers?
Guess it's time to go look for jobs. Anyone looking for a couple of very talented #datavis researchers?
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
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These are corporations that ought to pay for THEIR power.
Not foist it off in the average rate-payers.
They can afford it.
They are for-profit entities that should charge for their service(s) to pay for THEIR power bill.
Just another CORPORATE WELFARE SCHEME being perpetrated by Big Money.
Not foist it off in the average rate-payers.
They can afford it.
They are for-profit entities that should charge for their service(s) to pay for THEIR power bill.
Just another CORPORATE WELFARE SCHEME being perpetrated by Big Money.
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
These are corporations that ought to pay for THEIR power.
Not foist it off in the average rate-payers.
They can afford it.
They are for-profit entities that should charge for their service(s) to pay for THEIR power bill.
Just another CORPORATE WELFARE SCHEME being perpetrated by Big Money.
Not foist it off in the average rate-payers.
They can afford it.
They are for-profit entities that should charge for their service(s) to pay for THEIR power bill.
Just another CORPORATE WELFARE SCHEME being perpetrated by Big Money.
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I'm but a simple elk, but it seems to me that an important criteria for scheduling a build of an expensive data center would be that the electricity necessary to run it would be available.
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I'm but a simple elk, but it seems to me that an important criteria for scheduling a build of an expensive data center would be that the electricity necessary to run it would be available.
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Data-center projects that “may sit empty for years because the local utility isn’t ready to supply electricity.”
@bloomberg.com @weisenthal.bsky.social $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com @weisenthal.bsky.social $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Data-center projects that “may sit empty for years because the local utility isn’t ready to supply electricity.”
@bloomberg.com @weisenthal.bsky.social $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com @weisenthal.bsky.social $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...