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They keep doing the meme, but for real
January 13, 2026 at 12:24 AM
They keep doing the meme, but for real
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Our machine learning competition on forecasting depression is online! We'd love for as many people as possible to participate. Please share in your respective networks — thank you :).
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...
Machine-learning competition on forecasting depression in young adults - Leiden University
After nearly 5 years of work, the research team led by Eiko Fried has finished data collection in the ERC-funded WARN-D project on building a personalised early warning system for depression. But just...
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl
January 12, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Our machine learning competition on forecasting depression is online! We'd love for as many people as possible to participate. Please share in your respective networks — thank you :).
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...
www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...
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Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.
January 10, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.
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This is a list of all the female kākāpō in the world. They are spread across three islands; Whenua Hou, Pukenui, and Te Kakahu.
The fact they are all named and listed on one whiteboard shows how endangered this species is.
The fact they are all named and listed on one whiteboard shows how endangered this species is.
It's started! The 2026 #kakapo breeding season is under way, with the first nest found on Whenua Hou today. Pearl is on two eggs. #conservation #parrots #birds
January 8, 2026 at 11:37 PM
This is a list of all the female kākāpō in the world. They are spread across three islands; Whenua Hou, Pukenui, and Te Kakahu.
The fact they are all named and listed on one whiteboard shows how endangered this species is.
The fact they are all named and listed on one whiteboard shows how endangered this species is.
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Happy 2026! 🎆
My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing.
I’m launching a Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, please consider helping us keep the lights on!
patreon.com/DSLC
#RStats #DataBS
My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing.
I’m launching a Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, please consider helping us keep the lights on!
patreon.com/DSLC
#RStats #DataBS
Data Science Learning Community | Patreon
Tools to learn data science, e.g. weekly TidyTues.day dataset
patreon.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Happy 2026! 🎆
My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing.
I’m launching a Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, please consider helping us keep the lights on!
patreon.com/DSLC
#RStats #DataBS
My resolution: put @dslc.io on a sustainable footing.
I’m launching a Patreon to cover costs (Zoom, hosting, etc). If you love #TidyTuesday, our Slack help, or our book clubs, please consider helping us keep the lights on!
patreon.com/DSLC
#RStats #DataBS
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January 7, 2026 at 10:51 AM
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Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️
`heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data.
github.com/echolab-stan...
`heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data.
github.com/echolab-stan...
GitHub - echolab-stanford/heat: R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools
R package heat: Harmonized Environmental Exposure Aggregation Tools - echolab-stanford/heat
github.com
January 5, 2026 at 11:19 PM
Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️
`heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data.
github.com/echolab-stan...
`heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data.
github.com/echolab-stan...
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A request for #rstats help.
Motivated by a real-world problem I'm facing, I wrote a package designed to help new users wean themselves off using rm(list=ls()), and nudge them in the direction of better practice.
I would sincerely appreciate feedback before I send it to CRAN
Motivated by a real-world problem I'm facing, I wrote a package designed to help new users wean themselves off using rm(list=ls()), and nudge them in the direction of better practice.
I would sincerely appreciate feedback before I send it to CRAN
Some thoughts on checking the R session – Notes from a data witch
More precisely, some thoughts on an R package I might send to CRAN, and I’d appreciate comments and criticism
blog.djnavarro.net
January 6, 2026 at 5:23 AM
A request for #rstats help.
Motivated by a real-world problem I'm facing, I wrote a package designed to help new users wean themselves off using rm(list=ls()), and nudge them in the direction of better practice.
I would sincerely appreciate feedback before I send it to CRAN
Motivated by a real-world problem I'm facing, I wrote a package designed to help new users wean themselves off using rm(list=ls()), and nudge them in the direction of better practice.
I would sincerely appreciate feedback before I send it to CRAN
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2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
January 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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Albert Einstein, 1949. „Why Socialism“
Via David Graeber Institute (@[email protected]) graeber.social/@DGI/1156390...
Via David Graeber Institute (@[email protected]) graeber.social/@DGI/1156390...
December 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Albert Einstein, 1949. „Why Socialism“
Via David Graeber Institute (@[email protected]) graeber.social/@DGI/1156390...
Via David Graeber Institute (@[email protected]) graeber.social/@DGI/1156390...
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#30daymapchallenge · Jour 30 · Relooking
🌍 Europe · Europa · Ευρώπη · Європа
🔍 Zoomez pour découvrir les villes d'Europe dans leur langue.
🔽 L'ancienne carte, en commentaire, utilisait un texte de substitution, réalisée pour le #30daymapchallenge 2024.
#cartographie #map #europe #europa
🌍 Europe · Europa · Ευρώπη · Європа
🔍 Zoomez pour découvrir les villes d'Europe dans leur langue.
🔽 L'ancienne carte, en commentaire, utilisait un texte de substitution, réalisée pour le #30daymapchallenge 2024.
#cartographie #map #europe #europa
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 AM
#30daymapchallenge · Jour 30 · Relooking
🌍 Europe · Europa · Ευρώπη · Європа
🔍 Zoomez pour découvrir les villes d'Europe dans leur langue.
🔽 L'ancienne carte, en commentaire, utilisait un texte de substitution, réalisée pour le #30daymapchallenge 2024.
#cartographie #map #europe #europa
🌍 Europe · Europa · Ευρώπη · Європа
🔍 Zoomez pour découvrir les villes d'Europe dans leur langue.
🔽 L'ancienne carte, en commentaire, utilisait un texte de substitution, réalisée pour le #30daymapchallenge 2024.
#cartographie #map #europe #europa
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#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter.
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter.
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds.
Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more.
Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...
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Since I am kinship posting, there is also reciprocal kinship terminology in which mother's call their children "mother". It ain't rare! Kinship terms just don't, in general, mean specific biological descent relationships. They are much more fun than that linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/28...
October 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Since I am kinship posting, there is also reciprocal kinship terminology in which mother's call their children "mother". It ain't rare! Kinship terms just don't, in general, mean specific biological descent relationships. They are much more fun than that linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/28...
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🚨New paper out
Our study reveals how barn owl parents coordinate nightly chick feeding. Females step up when males underperform & pairs that meet more often at the nest share work more equally boosting chick survival🦉
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
@unil.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social #movementecology
Our study reveals how barn owl parents coordinate nightly chick feeding. Females step up when males underperform & pairs that meet more often at the nest share work more equally boosting chick survival🦉
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
@unil.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social #movementecology
October 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
🚨New paper out
Our study reveals how barn owl parents coordinate nightly chick feeding. Females step up when males underperform & pairs that meet more often at the nest share work more equally boosting chick survival🦉
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
@unil.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social #movementecology
Our study reveals how barn owl parents coordinate nightly chick feeding. Females step up when males underperform & pairs that meet more often at the nest share work more equally boosting chick survival🦉
doi.org/10.1016/j.is...
@unil.bsky.social @vogelwarte.bsky.social #movementecology
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Timeline cleanser. Isn't science amazing...
3-year-old born deaf can hear 2 years after breakthrough gene therapy treatment
Opal Sandy underwent a gene therapy injection to her right ear in 2023.
www.goodmorningamerica.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Timeline cleanser. Isn't science amazing...
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Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.
Kanchha Sherpa, last member of first Mount Everest expedition, dies at 92
Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.
bit.ly
October 17, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Kanchha Sherpa helped Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary summit Everest in 1953.
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This time of year in central EU, I am reminded that the root meaning of "sky" is cloud. The color of the sky is gray, the heavens unseen are blue, and space is a radioactive void. In March, the Sun may appear once more. Until then, we eat potatoes and dream.
October 16, 2025 at 8:22 AM
This time of year in central EU, I am reminded that the root meaning of "sky" is cloud. The color of the sky is gray, the heavens unseen are blue, and space is a radioactive void. In March, the Sun may appear once more. Until then, we eat potatoes and dream.
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I built a web tool so anyone can design and evaluate ridership and costs of high speed rail networks anywhere in the world:
railmapper.net
railmapper.net
Rail Mapper
Design and analyze high speed rail networks
railmapper.net
September 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I built a web tool so anyone can design and evaluate ridership and costs of high speed rail networks anywhere in the world:
railmapper.net
railmapper.net
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October 11, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Whoever invents a silencer for leaf blowers will become a millionaire overnight.
October 11, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Whoever invents a silencer for leaf blowers will become a millionaire overnight.
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AI company alignment chart.
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
AI company alignment chart.
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If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
January 5, 2024 at 11:17 AM
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22