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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · 7d

Oh no. How could anyone have seen this coming?

Kevin Carey @kevincarey1.bsky.social · 7d

It was obvious from the start that turning over a public institution of higher education to dimwit ideologues would end in tears. These people are a bunch of incompetents who can't do anything but tweet.

www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Spending Soars, Rankings Fall at New College of Florida

Student outcomes and rankings are slipping at the liberal arts college while spending is up. Critics believe the college is at risk of implosion, and some are calling for privatization.

www.insidehighered.com

Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · 7d

Don't know much about this project but want this. I'm assuming this is a DIY thing.

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Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 11d

Texas is the most freedom of speech.... The mostest

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

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William J.B. Mattingly @wjbmattingly.bsky.social · 14d

🚨Job ALERT🚨! My old postdoc is available!

I cannot emphasize enough how much a life-altering position this was for me. It gave me the experience that I needed for my current role. As a postdoc, I was able to define my projects and acquire a lot of new skills as well as refine some I already had.

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rainbowR @rainbowr.org · 16d

📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...

Interested in a rainbowR Conference?

rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...

docs.google.com

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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 16d

The Pink Book of #MarginalEffects (aka Model to Meaning) ships next week and I've got a backlog of Zoolander memes.

Hope you're hungry for some spam in your timeline.

#RStats #PyData

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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · 21d

My book Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach has just been published! It showcases how tidy data can be used in cultural analytics workflows, from text analysis, machine learning, network science, etc. Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#tidyverse #rstats #digitalhumanities

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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · 20d

For those curious, this is the first book (that I am aware of) that utilizes a myriad of the growing "tidyverse," such as tidynetworks, tidymodels, and tidytext. Despite the name, it does not focus only on utilizing the tidy approach and deals with situations where base-R is more practical.

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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · 21d

My book Cultural Analytics in R: A Tidy Approach has just been published! It showcases how tidy data can be used in cultural analytics workflows, from text analysis, machine learning, network science, etc. Check it out: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#tidyverse #rstats #digitalhumanities

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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · 21d

Wonderful! I love the sketches!

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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D. @mickael.canouil.fr · Sep 1

You saw or you made something awesome related to Quarto either with #ObservableJS, #RStats, #Python or #JuliaLang?

Please submit a suggestion issue to #AwesomeQuarto

PS: if you like this list, star it and share it 😉

github.com/mcanouil/awe...

#Quarto #DataScience #QuartoPub

GitHub - mcanouil/awesome-quarto: A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome!

A curated list of Quarto talks, tools, examples & articles! Contributions welcome! - mcanouil/awesome-quarto

github.com

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Adam Crymble @adamcrymble.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are hiring 4 lecturers in our dept!

🟦 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🟦 Associate Lecturer (Teaching) Digital Humanities Methods
🟦 Lecturer Humanities Data Science
🟦 Lecturer/Associate Professor in Publishing Practice

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Search UCL Jobs

Find the latest UCL job opportunities here.

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 1

A screenshot of a post on X. It's a double quote tweet. The original post is a photo of bacon in a frying pan and the caption says, "Just wanting to share some bacon with all my lovable Muslim peeps this monning. It's the least I can do." Then another account quotes that with the caption, "Hey @ZohranKMamdani this is for you, Bone-petite!" And finally Zohran quote tweets that with the caption, "my brother, this isn't garlic and we're not vampires."

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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · Aug 25

Apparently a real thing that we have to explain to people now:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad

The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

www.theatlantic.com

Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · Aug 21

What are the main advantages compared to something like tidygeocoder? jessecambon.github.io/tidygeocoder/

Geocoding Made Easy

An intuitive interface for getting data from geocoding services.

jessecambon.github.io

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Gavin Simpson @gsimpson.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out!

Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos...

Experimental parallel processing ⚡

New assemble() for building plots 🎨

Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪

Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨

👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/

#Rstats

An R package for working with generalized additive models

Graceful 'ggplot'-based graphics and utility functions for working with generalized additive models (GAMs) fitted using the 'mgcv' package.

gavinsimpson.github.io

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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · Aug 15

This is great! Do you have an epub version?

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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · Aug 15

Kepler.gl maybe?

Large-scale WebGL-powered Geospatial Data Visualization Tool

Kepler.gl is a powerful web-based geospatial data analysis tool. Built on a high performance rendering engine and designed for large-scale data sets.

Kepler.gl

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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · Aug 15

Apply. Better you with a conscience than the others. It’s not like they are going to not spend the money if you don’t apply. They are just going to give it to some moron that has no principles.

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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · Aug 15

Let me know how these go. They seem like works that our faculty would enjoy discussing.

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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · Aug 15

Ah I see. Well tell the friends congratulations from a stranger lol. 😆

Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · Aug 11

Congratulations on the addition to your lovely family!

As for the typography, I mean I’ve seen worse. I could read it, and it is a stencil and based on the way that “future” is written involves using a thicker stroke. If you used like a sharpie, I think it would be fine.

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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · Aug 8

Generalized Linear Model

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v_i_o_l_a @v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 6

"#openaccess and #openpeerreview in the #digitalhumanities" https://www.infoclio.ch/en/open-access-and-open-peer-review-digital-humanities
#oa #dh

Open Access and Open Peer Review in the Digital Humanities

This blog post was written by Moritz Mähr (University of Basel / University of Bern) and Moritz Twente (University of Basel).

www.infoclio.ch

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Nabeel Siddiqui @nabsiddiqui.bsky.social · Aug 1

I think the order that would benefit is likely base-R and then the easystats package. If they need tidy stuff, they would have the skills to learn on their own. For 90%+ of research, I think this will suffice and will teach good statistical habits (checking regression plots, etc.)

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