Jon Pye
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Jon Pye
@jdpye.bsky.social
was j_pye on the Bad Site. Computer Scientist (Ocean Science) Habs fan. Opinions mine. Also at @[email protected]
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Sigh. What could go wrong?
February 9, 2026 at 5:30 AM
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🚨 GAMs have moved on—so it’s time for an update.

On March 3, 2026 (17:00–19:00 CET) I’ll be livestreaming an updated introduction to Generalized Additive Models in R

📺 YouTube livestream link: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K...

#RStats #mgcv #GAMs #gratia #statistics 🧪
What's new in the world of Generalized Additive Models
YouTube video by Bottom of the Heap
youtube.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:57 PM
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‼️paper alert

Using acoustic #telemetry to quantify #marine horizontal diel migration in very small cod 🐟 we show that:

• Migration timing closely tracks photoperiod
• During continuous daylight diel migration stops
• There is substantial among individual variation

www.int-res.com/abstracts/me...
www.int-res.com
February 9, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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We can build a world where being in a gambling ad is just as cringe as being in a crypto ad was a few super bowls ago.

NFT, crypto, sports betting, polymarket. It's all the same grift, and everyone associated with it deserves unending mockery at the very least.
February 9, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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I’m watching a lot of petty, mean-spirited haters dunking on Kid Rock on every platform and seriously you all rock.
February 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
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The government is giving a loan to a Crown corporation that should just be a public service that we pay for because it provides an essential task that Canadians depend on.

We don’t provide loans to the health care system or schools; we just pay for them.
Ottawa gives Canada Post a $1.01-billion loan
The federal government says it is making more than $1 billion available to Canada Post in the form of a repayable loan to help the Crown corporation.
vancouver.citynews.ca
February 7, 2026 at 8:18 PM
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photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭
February 7, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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we can't have people like this among us, let alone armed and in possession of an ostensible license to kill
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
....I need it.
IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:

THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI
February 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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Munro Day is my most favouritist day - a holiday JUST for Dal. Though, at 8:30 AM, I have been grading assignments for 2 hours. :P Time to go for a run! Learn about Munro Day, here! www.dal.ca/about/our-st...
George Munro Day
Learn about why every year on the first Friday in February, Dalhousie celebrates Munro Day and who George Munro was and his connection to Dal.
www.dal.ca
February 6, 2026 at 12:45 PM
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Every American needs to watch this:
February 5, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
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Weird how refreshing a real person in political office is.
February 6, 2026 at 4:16 AM
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The Food Professor has gone from being laughably partisan to becoming an actual public health menace.
Here is my latest. Sylvain Charlebois, Canada's beloved commentator on the food industry, thinks that not giving us access to raw milk is communism.

noraloreto.substack.com/p/canadas-fo...
Canada's Food Professor wants you to buy raw milk
Sylvain Charlebois drops his mask on far-right podcast
noraloreto.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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I personally do not think some rich man should be able to buy an institution like this like a toy and then break it when he doesn’t want to play with it anymore. bsky.app/profile/benm...
New: Washington Post Executive Editor Matt Murray and HR Chief Wayne Connell tell employees to stay home for a zoom webinar ahead of “significant actions across the company.” Widely expected layoffs are scheduled to begin today.
February 4, 2026 at 11:53 AM
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February 3, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.”

― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
January 31, 2026 at 7:57 PM
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For decades the Right has daydreamed about saving their country from monsters, they finally got the chance and it turns out they love the monsters. The monsters are even monstrous in the exact ways they fantasized about! You never have to listen to these guys about anything again
January 30, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE!
openvisualizationacademy.org

Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization
January 30, 2026 at 3:09 PM
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My first PhD paper is published! We did a co-occurrence network analysis of tagged spiny dogfish in the fjords 🦈 Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/ices...

@bergentelemetry.bsky.social
#SqualusAcanthias
#Spurdog
January 26, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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scully: but why would the government lie about something thats clearly and easily proven false?

mulder: *throws her a file* Scully are you fucking serious?
January 25, 2026 at 1:14 PM
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January 19, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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Important perspective from Greenland.
January 20, 2026 at 1:31 PM