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jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 12h

Amazing how much the fascists hate and target anyone associated with anti-fascism in any way, and then at the same time claim that they are not fascists. 🤷‍♂️

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 13h

Seems like this works?

$library(stringr) string <- "A,B,C, D" str_split(string, pattern = ",(?!\s)")$

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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 1d

I’ve been an Apple fanboy for 15 years and even I find this shameful and disgusting

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New: Apple banned an app that simply archived videos of ICE abuses. Rather than other apps that record ICE official's real-time location, Eyes Up is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." Videos from TikTok etc. Every submission manually reviewed

www.404media.co/apple-banned...

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

www.404media.co

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

This is important.

Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 1d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

nyti.ms

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 3d

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John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 7d

The @jhubiostat.bsky.social has a post-doc ad out, please see at apply.interfolio.com/174430

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John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 14d

Vech Tentures

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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 23d

Successful first day at #positconf2025

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John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 22d

80% of being an adult is scheduling

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epimethods.bsky.social @epimethods.bsky.social · 28d

Code in the R script that I have been using for years to monitor recruitment in a long-running study.

#EpiSky #StatSky #rstats

Celestial Mediation @celestialsem.bsky.social · 28d

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 28d

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

1) pic of Melissa and Mark Hortman 2) pic of Melissa Hortman and dog Gilbert

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John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · Sep 8

Read this quote for the first time today: www.goodreads.com/quotes/72354...

A quote from The Left Hand of Darkness

To oppose something is to maintain it. They say here all roads lead to Mishnory. To be sure, if you turn your back on Mishnory and walk away from it, ...

www.goodreads.com

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Huey Li @hueyli.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's not rocket science, guys. Companies can't hire as many people because they have to pay more tariffs on virtually everything in their supply chain.

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John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · Sep 5

Got review from authors, and they have a link *to their own GitHub repo*. Click link. Query has `?utm_source=chatgpt.com`. Weird?

John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · Sep 4

Not "Back to the States" like that!

John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · Sep 3

Who do you have to formally notify that you would like to quit email?

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Robin Blythe @rbly.bsky.social · Sep 2

Spending 3 full days coding up a simulation for a method that *should* be better, but performs identically to a common R function (that takes about 5 seconds to apply). Absolutely priceless.
#rstats

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Giles @gdeejay.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hey #rstats,

How do people feel about the swirl package for learning R?

I remember finding the lessons helpful, but I notice the package isn't maintained anymore judging by the github repo:

github.com/swirldev/swirl

GitHub - swirldev/swirl: :cyclone: Learn R, in R.

:cyclone: Learn R, in R. Contribute to swirldev/swirl development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Hella Iain @iainnd.bsky.social · Sep 1

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

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John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · Aug 28

“utterly shapeless mayhem” letterboxd.com/colonelmorti...

A ★★★★ review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

famously a strike picture and filmed around its injured star, its authorship given almost exclusively over to Michael Bay, this is what happens when you let him jerry-rig a $200 million tentpole. utte...

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John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · Aug 28

“In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · Aug 26

Methods of Biostatistics in R book we published a few years ago:
leanpub.com/biostatmethods

Methods in Biostatistics with R

Calculus and R based introduction to Biostatistics and Data Science

leanpub.com

John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · Aug 25

Getting advertisements from Hello Divorce gets me thinking “what do the ads know that I don’t?”

John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · Aug 25

Get a bidet

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 22

There is a person in my professional world who I have seen post both:

"People are so dumb for being afraid of sharks because of obviously-wrong fearmongering media coverage"

and

"Of course I'm afraid of immigrants, don't you see how scary this media coverage is?"

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