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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 15h

The CSAS Data Challenge this year is *so cool*. I know I say this every year, but mixed doubles curling is awesome, the power play is fascinating, and I'm excited to see what students figure out.

statds.org/events/csas2...

CSAS 2026 : Data Challenge

statds.org

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Jeremy Bassis @bassisjeremy.bsky.social · 21h

My soapbox for today is that physical climate scientists need to be exposed to qualitative methods.

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 23h

They buried what should be the lede here: “Our data adds value, but it is very much a complement to public data.”

Private firms cannot replace a functioning statistical system. They do not exist to create public goods.
@washingtonpost.com @inquirer.com

share.inquirer.com/VLEAco

The government isn’t releasing economic data. Private firms are stepping in.

Without official numbers on jobs and inflation, Wall Street and Washington are turning to restaurant reservations, Broadway ticket sales, and alternate surveys to fill in the gaps.

share.inquirer.com

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 1d

#MathsToday classes were good, we did a staring effect experiment in Applied Stats and crunched through some algebra-heavy proofs in ProbStat, but mostly I'm sad about reviews on a thing I submitted

(I think I will get to a point where the feedback is useful but I need to be sad first)

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 2d

#MathsToday: Tried a new thing in Stat Analysis for choosing graphs/tables, based on Menu Math. I think I made it too big & complicated, though.

It did give students a chance to try replicating a given graph in R, and that was a useful step up from the filling in code skeletons they've done so far!

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 3d

#MathsToday hahaha sob not so sure about hypothesis testing, need to see how the exit tickets look

(Talking about simulation-based inference actually went great in Advanced Stats, but the energy in Applied Stats felt non-existent)

Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 8d

#MathsToday First day officially doing hypothesis testing in Applied Stats, and there are definitely confusions to resolve next week, but I think it went decently!

And PMFs and expected value made their first appearance in ProbStat.

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 4d

#MathsToday: This semester seems so far like the best intro R things have gone in Stat Analysis! They also did a numerical data card sort (by Sandi Takis), and they were not pleased about how difficult it was, but it definitely led to good conversations 😂.

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 6d

Not perfect, but a decent first attempt!

A sheet pan of fried okra, a bit uneven breaded

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 6d

Instead of just bread that represents where we're from for World Community Sunday, my church expanded to snacks in general this year. Pralines cooling, first ever attempt at fried okra coming soon...

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 8d

#MathsToday First day officially doing hypothesis testing in Applied Stats, and there are definitely confusions to resolve next week, but I think it went decently!

And PMFs and expected value made their first appearance in ProbStat.

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 9d

#MathsToday: I went to put up a new problem of the week on the department whiteboard, and I found that a student had beat me to it!

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Emily Giambalvo @emilygiam.bsky.social · 9d

update: this U.S. worlds team kind of feels like an advertisement for the University of Florida gymnastics program

Emily Giambalvo @emilygiam.bsky.social · Aug 11

U.S. elite nationals kind of feels like an advertisement for the University of Florida gymnastics program

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 10d

I went in with spoilers of the medalists and nothing else and could not believe what I was watching.

Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 10d

I've been slowly catching up with climbing world champs and watched the women's boulder finals tonight.

And just. Oriane was so clearly the best climber on the mats that particular night, truly the round of her life... and yet Janja feels inevitable.

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 10d

#MathsToday: Started something in Advanced Stats and it was clearly going badly. At a student's suggestion, we stopped and talked through the different reasoning that students had used on the HW (and followed some metascience rabbit holes). It ended up being the most useful thing we could have done.

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 11d

#MathsToday: Great conversations about contingency tables and working with categorical data in R in Stat Analysis! And working slowly on sampling distributions on Applied Stats.

But also had class/meetings from 11 am to 6 pm without breaks 🙃

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 11d

My local skating friend (who was a big Rika friend for many years) just responded something like "oh, I assumed she'd do something like this," so thank you for also reacting because ahhhhh

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 11d

!!!!!!

(I do not have coherent thoughts about this, just a brain full of exclamation points)

Europe On Ice @europeonice.bsky.social · 12d

🚨

Rika Kihira and Shinzo Nishiyama 🇯🇵 are a new ice dance team training with the Ice Academy of Montreal.

🔗 www.instagram.com/p/DPK2CfsE6B...

#FigureSkating

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Jo Wood @jwolondon.bsky.social · 13d

A great post from @djnavarro.net, providing an accessible explanation of why statistics that can appear to reveal our ignorance may actually do the opposite. Makes excellent use of #datavis to provide visual support for the argument.

blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2025-0...

Some notes on probability judgement – Notes from a data witch

For the love of fuck, literally nobody thinks that 20% of the population is transgender. Please stop sharing that ridiculous YouGov statistic

blog.djnavarro.net

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 13d

apologies for kind of a weird jump, but: I think roughly this is the central message of the 2019 revival of Oklahoma!, and there's a reason that a lot of folks I know who saw the tour in Oklahoma City were uncomfortable with what parts of the text it highlighted

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Katherine Locke @katherinelocke.bsky.social · 13d

If you're a high school teacher (or librarian!) in the continental US and you want a copy of FOR THE REST OF US, a YA holiday anthology edited by @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com, email me through my website (Katherine Locke Books dot com)! I have ~12 copies that I'd love to get into classrooms.

cover of FOR THE REST OF US: 13 Festive Holiday Stories to Celebrate All Seasons edited by Dahlia Adler

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 13d

I've found this series to be really solid on both the math and climate science sides, and I've enjoyed the pieces! They're making math of climate a very tempting topic for the one credit seminar I just found out I'm teaching in the spring...

Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.bsky.social · 15d

Explore the series: www.quantamagazine.org/how-we-came-...

How We Came To Know Earth | Quanta Magazine

Climate science is the most significant scientific collaboration in history. This series from Quanta Magazine guides you through basic climate science — from quantum effects to ancient hothouses, from...

www.quantamagazine.org

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Jessie Oehrlein @numberdance.bsky.social · 14d

A student asked me yesterday if I had a card with my office hours on it.

On the one hand, that would be nifty! On the other, it does not seem like something I could manage to make happen every semester.

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 14d

And COME AS YOU ARE is my newest, all about starting fresh without giving up who you are. Boarding school hijinx, a kickass friend group, and banter abound! www.dahliaadler.com/come-as-you-...

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 14d

HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE is my Sapphic football player/cheerleader YA, kicking off with the start of the school year, Homecoming and all. www.dahliaadler.com/home-field-a...

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