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Kristina Šekrst @epiphenomenal.bsky.social · 8h

Accurate.

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

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Myrthe Hilkens @myrthehilkens.bsky.social · 12h

Wat je vandaag ook leest; doe deze.

Dit is het Kamerlid van de PVV dat dus racistische AI afbeeldingen zit te maken en rond te pompen. Patrick Crijns. Onder de oppervlakte. Fantastisch werk van de Groene en Utrechtse data-onderzoekers. Wow. Lang leve de onderzoeksjournalistiek.
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Herman van de Werfhorst 🟥 @hermwerf.bsky.social · 10h

One of the best things I did in Amsterdam is to tell students that I’d make the taped lectures only available to them when the average turnout at lectures was 67%. Taught them a lesson on collective goods and coordination. It worked!

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 11h

'It is no secret that student attendance has plummeted in recent years, with near-empty lecture halls a staple of the post-pandemic world.'

Really? I lecture to all our 1st years. Lecture hall is full, not near-empty. Student engagement picked up last year and (early days) seems stronger again. 1/2

Fiction ‘brings lectures to life’ as academics face empty classes

University ‘whodunnit’ inspired by attempts to tackle poor attendance as scholars look for novel ways to engage mainstream audiences

www.timeshighereducation.com

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Myrthe Hilkens @myrthehilkens.bsky.social · 12h

‘’Het kost een paar duiten, maar dan ben je ze wel kwijt.’ Noem mij een moraalridder, maar als je op die manier over mensen praat, is mijn stem het eerste dat je kwijt bent.’

Alain Verheij @alainverheij.bsky.social · 23h

De borreltafelpraat van Timmermans deed me de das om — column in Trouw

www.trouw.nl/religie-filo...

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks for the great work on this package! Can I assume that if you have a CRAN package that is affected by the update, you have been notified (through GitHub or otherwise)?

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 1d

RcppArmadillo 15 CRAN Transition: Offering Office Hours

Offering office hours to help in updating #rstats CRAN packages to RcppArmadillo 15.0.2 given CRAN 'Deadlines' for a number of the reverse-dependency packages. Details and booking link at blog post.

dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10...

Screenshot one of two of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10/10#rcpparmadillo_15_transition_office_hours detailing offer of office hours to help with CRAN deadlines for packages depending on RcppArmadillo

Screenshot two of two of blog post at https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/10/10#rcpparmadillo_15_transition_office_hours detailing offer of office hours to help with CRAN deadlines for packages depending on RcppArmadillo

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 22h

Lijkt me prima als ze met z’n elven overblijven!

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Lisa Westerveld 🌱 @lisawesterveld.bsky.social · 1d

Geniale actie! Ik hoop dat jullie allemaal ook een extreemrechtse demonstrant gaan sponsoren.

(En deel em vooral! 😉)

www.degoedezaak.org/sponsor-een-...

Sponsor een extreemrechts demonstrant voor het goede doel!

www.degoedezaak.org

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LMU Open Science Center @lmu-osc.bsky.social · 2d

What do you know about version control?🔁 It’s how researchers keep their projects organized, track every change, and never lose work again.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to Version Control within RStudio ⚙️ lmu-osc.github.io/Introduction...

Introduction to version Control with git and GitHub within RStudio

lmu-osc.github.io

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 1d

Likert (scale)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 1d

But chances are that while you were at it your h-index went up another point!

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 1d

Only now realize that everybody (including me) going mental about the for-loop misses the obvious fact that you run the Arima model at least one time too often, and potentially many times too often

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Prof Anna Watts @profannawatts.bsky.social · 2d

Lol the Nobels can't even acknowledge women's contribution to discovery. But sure let's acknowledge The Machines.

Headline from an article in Nature this week that states "Prizes must recognize machine contributions to discovery. The future of science will be written by humans and machines together. Awards should reflect that reality."

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Carlos Poses @carlosgposes.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to the development of fourthly robust, fifthly robust and why not twenty-seventhly robust estimators to keep up with

arXiv stat.ME Methodology @statme-bot.bsky.social · Sep 1

Susan Athey, Guido Imbens, Zhaonan Qu, Davide Viviano: Triply Robust Panel Estimators https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21536 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21536 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.21536

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Sebastian E. Wenz @sewenz.bsky.social · 2d

And the 1st Replication Award of the Academy of Sociology goes to..

Sergio Lo Iacono, Wojtek Przepiorka, Vincent Buskens, Rense Corten, Marcel van Assen, and Arnout van de Rijt

for "The competitive advantage of sanctioning institutions revisited: A multilab replication"

#AkadSoz25 #sociology

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 2d

Never mind, @thoughtfulnz.bsky.social was first!

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 2d

I would still use expand.grid() and apply() or pbapply() :)

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 2d

Effective Business leaders: "It takes several months for new employees to become fully productive members of the team..."

Universities: EXCITING 6 MONTH POSITION REPLACING THE LAST PERSON WHO WAS HERE 6 MONTHS.

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LMU Open Science Center @lmu-osc.bsky.social · 3d

Curious about creating a reproducible workflow for your research? 🔍 We provide several self-paced tutorials about tools that make your work more efficient, reproducible, and collaborative.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...

Welcome – Introduction to R

lmu-osc.github.io

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 12d

Cool stuff!

Florian van Leeuwen and I implemented a prediction function in the #mice package that allows the incorporation of missing data uncertainty in a prediction interval.

The `predict_mi()` function is available in the current development version: github.com/amices/mice

#Rstats #statsky

Image of R code. To reproduce:

library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)

library(mice, warn.conflicts = FALSE)

imp <- mice(nhanes, m = 5, maxit = 5, seed = 1,
ignore = rep(c(FALSE, TRUE), c(20, 5)),
print = FALSE)

impdats <- complete(imp, "all")

train <- lapply(impdats, function(dat) subset(dat, !imp$ignore))
test <- lapply(impdats, function(dat) subset(dat, imp$ignore))

fits <- lapply(train, function(dat) lm(age ~ bmi + hyp + chl, data = dat))
preds <- predict_mi(object = fits, newdata = test, pool = TRUE, interval = "prediction")

preds

preds %>%
as.data.frame() %>%
mutate(case = 1:nrow(preds),
y = test[[1]]$age) %>%
ggplot(aes(x = fit, y = case, col = rowSums(is.na(nhanes[imp$ignore,]))>0)) +
geom_point() +
geom_errorbar(aes(xmin = lwr, xmax = upr)) +
theme_minimal() +
scale_color_manual(values = mice::mdc(1:2), labels = c("observed", "missing")) +
theme(legend.title = element_blank(),
legend.position = "bottom") +
labs(x = "prediction",
title = "Pooled prediction intervals")

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Mare @mareonline.nl · 4d

Politici lijken zelf niet meer te snappen hoe de parlementaire democratie werkt, betoogt Ruud Koole. Vanavond houdt de politicoloog ‘een pleidooi voor historisch institutioneel besef en constitutionele geletterdheid’.
www.mareonline.nl/achtergrond/...

Politici weten niet meer hoe het heurt. Ruud Koole pleit voor ‘constitutionele geletterdheid’

Politici lijken zelf niet meer te snappen hoe de parlementaire democratie werkt, betoogt Ruud Koole. Dinsdagavond houdt de politicoloog ‘een pleidooi voor historisch institutioneel besef en constituti...

www.mareonline.nl

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Jessica Hullman @jessicahullman.bsky.social · 4d

Looking forward to talking about our work on the value of explanation for decision-making at this workshop

Gunnar König @gunnark.bsky.social · 4d

Interested in provable guarantees and fundamental limitations of XAI? Join us at the "Theory of Explainable AI" workshop Dec 2 in Copenhagen! @ellis.eu @euripsconf.bsky.social

Speakers: @jessicahullman.bsky.social @doloresromerom.bsky.social @tpimentel.bsky.social

Call for Contributions: Oct 15

Theory of XAI Workshop

Explainable AI (XAI) is now deployed across a wide range of settings, including high-stakes domains in which misleading explanations can cause real harm. For example, explanations are required by law ...

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 4d

Both can hold simultaneously? But it's Dutch indeed!

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Klaus Pforr @klauspforr.bsky.social · 4d

"emerging literature" == i presented once at a conference
"recent research" == two papers and one blog post
"research tradition" == everything in my zotero folder
At least, that's what I was told

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Thom Volker @thomvolker.bsky.social · 4d

For all things related to R, I find it as intuitive as RStudio, with the addition that it's very easy to mix in python when needed. There are quite some handy tricks implemented, like the thing with color codes or creating github issues from "TODO"s in markdown in a single click.

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