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U Pittsburgh emeritus Biostatistics, Biomedical Informatics. Honcho of youtube channels @professorbeautiful (unusual "tuba sin fronteras") and @statisticsbeautiful (basic statistics, celebrating science) Creator of many Rstudio "shiny" apps.

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 7d

In honor of #JaneGoodall and two other scientists
of heart and courage,
I made this 87 second video in February.
youtube.com/shorts/RmbWM...
One of 13 expressions of the Golden Rule
in the lovely poster courtesy of the Scarboro ministry in Toronto. The Christian corner.🧪

The Golden Rule #3: the Christianity corner, but 3 scientists, not 3 kings. #tuba #cueca

YouTube video by ProfessorBeautiful

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you!
I've been working on a video guided tour.
That's led to doing some reworking, reordering, and one bug fix.
It will be on youtube.com/@statisticsbeautiful
*real soon now*
🧪 Lumpers and Splitters Unite!

StatisticsBeautiful

Retired emeritus (translation: out of merit; fresh outta merit) Visit my music channel https://youtube.com/professorbeautiful tuba solos and with many bands.

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 7d

The Golden Rule #3: the Christianity corner, but 3 scientists, not 3 kings. #tuba #cueca

YouTube video by ProfessorBeautiful

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 9d

An outstanding show at Chris's Place in Philadelphia, with Benny Benack III, trumpet, and Anais Reno, with a damn powerful entrance to Night and Day, what a singer. And Pittsburgh Benny top notch, always.

Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 11d

Oh what a session!
Pittsburgh's own Benny Benack III at Emmets' with outstanding Russell Hall on bass.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0Ob...

Unseen Secret 2021 Set! Emmet’s Place: Benny Benack III & Russell Hall!

YouTube video by Emmet Cohen

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 13d

Which one is the terrorist?

Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 13d

Smiling, Zhang Beihai said
“I’m thinking too simply. There’s never been an answer to this question throughout human history, so how can we solve it in one meeting? It will I think require a long process of practice and exploration before we can find the social model most suitable for Starship Earth.

Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 13d

www.democracynow.org/2025/9/24/pe...

“Science Under Siege”: Dr. Peter Hotez on Trump, Tylenol & Autism

President Trump is promoting unproven claims that both vaccines and the common painkiller acetaminophen, also known as paracetamol or by the brand name Tylenol, cause autism. Trump’s recent anti-vacci...

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 14d

Dr. Who solves the
"should we lump or should we split"
dilemma.
Compare lots of stat methods in this interactive app.
#rshiny #rstats #statistics #rstudio #bayesian #medical #treatment
Lumping&splitting.
Bias&variance.
Individuals&groups.
Borrowing strength
🧪
trials.shinyapps.io/Bias-varianc...

Lumping and splitting.
Bias and variance.
Individuals and groups.
“Borrowing strength”

Package:T15lumpsplit 1.6 2025-09-24
Author: Roger Day
An interactive “shiny” app.

Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 14d

PS: Do NOT watch the TV series! Waste of time; tedious.
The 3 books are ... astronomically...richer.
The Dark Forest is book 2 of Liu Cixin's
Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy
(AKA Three Body Problem.)
This is a golden age of SciFi, with Adrian Tchiakovsky, Ken Liu, Octavia Butler...

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 14d

Crew member: "Totalitarian society?"
Zhang Beihai: "That won't work."
Crew member: "The first truly democratic society in human history?”
Zhang Beihai: "That won't work either."

How to get both efficient and fair decision making?
We learned by doing and it worked!..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociocr...

Sociocracy - Wikipedia

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 14d

Sociocracy!
I just took a short course on sociocracy.
By coincidence,
it's a good answer to the question raised in Liu Cixin's "The Dark Forest". Zhang Beihai kidnaps a warship to escape the solar system forever, the crew asks about governance.
...

Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 19d

One of my favorite Blues Orphans/Bob Gabig songs!
Back when I still had my DemocracyNow bumper sticker.
"Gangsta Lpve"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgS6...
At 565 LIVE - Speakeasy & Stage

The Blues Orphans-Gangsta Lovin

YouTube video by TheBluesOrphans

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 19d

One of my favorite Blues Orphans/Bob Gabig songs!
Back when I still had my DemocracyNow bumper sticker.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgS6...
At 565 LIVE - Speakeasy & Stage

The Blues Orphans-Gangsta Lovin

YouTube video by TheBluesOrphans

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · 24d

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... The US stopped being a leader.
If we had to depend on the US for innovation we would have no hope. (Well, the US is good at AI slop)
We are lucky that China is creating the solutions now.

How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator

A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.

www.nytimes.com

Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · Sep 6

Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · Sep 4

Look at those stormtroopers.
What are they feeling?
"Manly"?

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · Jun 27

Federal agents used explosives to enter a U.S. citizen’s home and entered — guns drawn — on a baby, a 6-year-old, and their mother. She believes it’s because her boyfriend attended an ICE protest where he accidentally hit a cop car (and was released by cops).

www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/h...

Video shows federal agents blast their way into Huntington Park home

Video appears to show an explosion set off by federal agents as they entered a Huntington Park home in an early morning law enforcement operation that startled a woman who was inside the house with he...

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · Sep 4

Chicago's Mayor vs. Donald Trump: A Resistance History Legacy to Honor

Tad Stoermer on youtube

Lots of unique and powerful history on that channel.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBIW...

Chicago's Mayor vs. Donald Trump: A Resistance History Legacy to Honor

YouTube video by Tad Stoermer

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Marko Silberhand @markosilberhand.bsky.social · Sep 2

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THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . .

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · Sep 2

Wonderful precious people!
The good die young? Not always!

Dr. Jane is one of the 3 scientists 🧪 featured in my video, Golden Rule #3:
3 scientists, not 3 kings.

www.youtube.com/shorts/RmbWM...
#tuba #cueca
Who are the other two?

Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · Sep 2

@joho.bsky.social.
Keep up the good work.
Hoping you or someone else can bust through the censorship.
No airbrushing away the past.

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · Sep 1

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
This is an outrage.
Pre-Covid I was a fan.
Then I saw he is a whopper of a hypocrite.
Anchored hard against masks,no data needed.
Defended every bit of nonsense Ioannidis put out, against every good principle he espoused.
A phony.
Tragic.

Top FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos in which he criticized Covid vaccines

Channel was an attempt to ‘preserve’ what Trump officials in current Trump administration said during the pandemic

www.theguardian.com

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · Aug 29

Narcissus looked at nature, saw only himself, and fell into the pond. Capitalists look at nature, see only potential profit and fall towards doom... dragging the rest of us along.

Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · Aug 29

La Piragua! Todos alucinante!
I've loved this performance for 16 years.
Well worth your 5 1/2 minutes.
Drop a 'like' and comment.
youtu.be/EMg5VVx_Rp4

La Piragua - La Palma with Celeste Alias and Mapi Quintana (2007)

YouTube video by eyepilot

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · Aug 29

Brought to you by.... MAGA Family Values!

jim-selover.bsky.social @jim-selover.bsky.social · Apr 18

And so it begins. A US citizen is on his way to being deported.
Born in Georgia (Yes, the US state, not the country)

So Maga Mike, or any MAGA, can you explain this?
floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...

U.S.-born man held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law • Florida Phoenix

Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his...

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Roger Day likes Golden Rule @knotcknot.bsky.social · Aug 29

Based on the book by Jessica Wapner.
Helpful hints...
The video needs a decent size screen, not a phone. Timeline scrolling etc.
My supposed self-evident use of placards for
* chicken
* mouse
* human
to signpost experiments is... well, now you know.

40 minutes. Watch for a few at least.