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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 16h

You can get fancy and use n.dodge =3 or 4 or 5 if needed

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 1d

Why most polls overstate support for political violence
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Why most polls overstate support for political violence

Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.

www.gelliottmorris.com

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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 1d

Hex stickers. Definitely.

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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 1d

Just used label_wrap() from the {scales} package this AM,
which prompted the post (I had to look it up in Andrew's blog post)

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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 1d

Every once in a while I need to fiddle with long category labels in #rstats ggplot2.
It always helps me to refer back to this excellent blog post by #AndrewHeiss @cararthompson.bsky.social
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2022/06...

Quick and easy ways to deal with long labels in ggplot2 | Andrew Heiss

Explore different manual and automatic ways to rotate, dodge, recode, break up, and otherwise deal with long axis labels with ggplot2

www.andrewheiss.com

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Jennie Clough @jennieclough.bsky.social · 2d

Testing is free, discreet and easy - for more information on the RAPID-IBD study visit www.royaldevon.nhs.uk/about-us/res...

NHS Royal Devon | The RAPID-IBD study

www.royaldevon.nhs.uk

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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 10d

The regulars who are anxious about flying often meet the therapy dogs and their handlers before flights.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 14d

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 20d

This is what happens without vaccinations.

The ducks are adorable.

The hospitalized child with a respirator is tragic.

And now preventable.

1956 university of Michigan Children’s Hospital. Three-year-old Peggy Kennedy enjoyed these ducklings paddling around in a tub. Peggy, a polio patient, wore a plastic chest respirator. The ducklings were donated by a local farmer to help cheer up the children.

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Kara Gavin @karagavin.bsky.social · 19d

This photo is making the rounds on social media and some have asked if it's legit.

It is.

As the curator of a new exhibit on U-M medical history that opens this weekend, I wanted to share a link showing that it was taken by a LIFE magazine photographer: www.life.com/animals/anim...
#IDsky

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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 23d

Keep the water here.
Not selling groundwater to corporations = fewer
California-like wildfires in Michigan.

IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 29d

Fourth episode now up:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 29d

DTW (the airport near Detroit) has a pet therapy dog program with dog trading cards - take a look here
cdn.metroairport.com/uploads/Publ...

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Egor Kotov 🌐🏃‍♂️🚊🚋🚙 @ekotov.pro · Sep 8

🚀 #rJavaEnv #rstats (helper for 100+ Java-dependent packages ) is about to get its biggest update yet. Just in time for ~10k downloads, Java 25 release, and its CRAN bday!

👉 Dev version: github.com/e-kotov/rJav...

New: (1) full Linux support + (2) env setup so you can build {rJava} from source.

Java Environments for R Projects
New in dev version:
- full Linux support
- set env to build rJava from source

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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · Sep 6

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IdleMrB @idlemrb.bsky.social · Sep 4

Reminds me of when we had a Ukranian refugee join us at work, he sat in his new class and immediately 3/4 boys ran over and started talking to him. They had all learned some Ukranian phrases that might be useful and really looked after him. Nobody asked them, they were just wonderful kids!/1

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · Sep 3

Timeline cleanse

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · Sep 4

Staying HEALTHY for Brasil WWC is key. No Irish thugs shredding knees (Mal Swanson) in the runup to 2027.
Honestly I would have liked a ten year ban on Ireland women vs USWNT after that one.

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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · Sep 4

Should have some major reachable bonuses for performance at least. Her potential is through the roof.

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David Keyes @dgkeyes.com · Apr 15

The website rspatialdata is a collection of data, tutorials, and more to help you learn to work with geospatial data. Put together by @paulamoraga.bsky.social and Laurie Baker, the website is a goldmine.

rspatialdata.github.io/index.html

rspatialdata

rspatialdata.github.io

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · Sep 3

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?

youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

youtu.be

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Clare Higgins @justlikeaclare.bsky.social · Sep 2

The next episode of the Crush-Cast is out now!

This episode stars the wonderful Monica Dollive. We discuss our years-long Twilight feud, whether Monica had a "Dad Thing", and the one and only crush we can agree on: Kevin Bacon in Footloose.

You can find us on Apple, Spotify or YouTube!

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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · Sep 2

On the bright side, most of the GPs had the good sense to chuck it in the bin.

The quoted folks are really discrediting universities and expertise by parking their common sense outside.

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Large Language Super Model @jsthrill.modphi.com · Sep 1

I do not want to save to onedrive.
I want to save to the documents folder.. On my computer... That I own... In my house.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · Sep 1

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget!

House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion.

To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle.

YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

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