Steph Stammel
@stephstammel.bsky.social
Econometrics, data science, transport, statistics. #rstats. Beholden to three teenage roommates who don’t even pay rent.
My kid was explaining to her friend how you get down from a tree after climbing it.
‘I’ve fallen out of so many trees. You just let go and take your chances… if you’re really worried, just tuck and roll.’
‘I’ve fallen out of so many trees. You just let go and take your chances… if you’re really worried, just tuck and roll.’
December 22, 2025 at 8:31 PM
My kid was explaining to her friend how you get down from a tree after climbing it.
‘I’ve fallen out of so many trees. You just let go and take your chances… if you’re really worried, just tuck and roll.’
‘I’ve fallen out of so many trees. You just let go and take your chances… if you’re really worried, just tuck and roll.’
Turns out there’s a special name for being the team mum.
It’s scrum master.
It’s scrum master.
November 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Turns out there’s a special name for being the team mum.
It’s scrum master.
It’s scrum master.
My kids are having a long, drawn out argument. Weapons of choice? ‘I could have danced all night’ from my fair lady. Sung very aggressively and even mostly in tune.
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
My kids are having a long, drawn out argument. Weapons of choice? ‘I could have danced all night’ from my fair lady. Sung very aggressively and even mostly in tune.
Culinary greatness can come from fusing two ingredients that would not normally be paired.
This was definitely not one of those times.
This was definitely not one of those times.
October 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Culinary greatness can come from fusing two ingredients that would not normally be paired.
This was definitely not one of those times.
This was definitely not one of those times.
Dedicated R user.
New supporter of the python software foundation.
New supporter of the python software foundation.
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October 29, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Dedicated R user.
New supporter of the python software foundation.
New supporter of the python software foundation.
If he’s still in office when it’s finished, I’d put $5 on the ball room being hired out for high net worth weddings.
Forget about Venice, get married at the White House ballroom.
Forget about Venice, get married at the White House ballroom.
October 23, 2025 at 7:43 AM
If he’s still in office when it’s finished, I’d put $5 on the ball room being hired out for high net worth weddings.
Forget about Venice, get married at the White House ballroom.
Forget about Venice, get married at the White House ballroom.
I’m sitting in a physiotherapist waiting room wearing two left shoes of different colours.
Today, I am winning at life.
Today, I am winning at life.
October 22, 2025 at 5:57 AM
I’m sitting in a physiotherapist waiting room wearing two left shoes of different colours.
Today, I am winning at life.
Today, I am winning at life.
I’ve been watching Derry Girls. I grew up as Claire and now I’m Sr Michael.
October 20, 2025 at 8:25 AM
I’ve been watching Derry Girls. I grew up as Claire and now I’m Sr Michael.
Is it statistically correct?
October 13, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Is it statistically correct?
This is a huge concern of mine.
October 12, 2025 at 11:41 AM
This is a huge concern of mine.
If anybody has a nice loud bell and access to a nun’s habit, I think the Portland protest could get a little louder.
a woman in a hijab is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her
Alt: a woman in a game of thrones nuns habit is standing in front of a group of men with the words shame shame shame written below her. She is ringing a bell.
media.tenor.com
October 11, 2025 at 2:06 AM
If anybody has a nice loud bell and access to a nun’s habit, I think the Portland protest could get a little louder.
Shoutout to the #rstats hive mind: does anybody have any go-to packages for iterative proportional fitting?
I’m turning up packages that haven’t been updated in years (maybe they’re perfect); but I’m surprised there isn’t anything more recent coming in my search.
I’m turning up packages that haven’t been updated in years (maybe they’re perfect); but I’m surprised there isn’t anything more recent coming in my search.
October 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Shoutout to the #rstats hive mind: does anybody have any go-to packages for iterative proportional fitting?
I’m turning up packages that haven’t been updated in years (maybe they’re perfect); but I’m surprised there isn’t anything more recent coming in my search.
I’m turning up packages that haven’t been updated in years (maybe they’re perfect); but I’m surprised there isn’t anything more recent coming in my search.
What I dislike most about the AI summary at the top of each search is that I no longer seem to get many (if any) results from stackoverflow.
So now I have a useless and often misleading summary and the algorithm no longer points to the gold mine.
Sample size of one - so maybe it’s just me.
So now I have a useless and often misleading summary and the algorithm no longer points to the gold mine.
Sample size of one - so maybe it’s just me.
October 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
What I dislike most about the AI summary at the top of each search is that I no longer seem to get many (if any) results from stackoverflow.
So now I have a useless and often misleading summary and the algorithm no longer points to the gold mine.
Sample size of one - so maybe it’s just me.
So now I have a useless and often misleading summary and the algorithm no longer points to the gold mine.
Sample size of one - so maybe it’s just me.
Thoughts and prayers to all Queenslanders who are about to endure two weeks of heinously early meetings until we southerners adjust to your temporal distortion.
October 5, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Thoughts and prayers to all Queenslanders who are about to endure two weeks of heinously early meetings until we southerners adjust to your temporal distortion.
The darkest timeline.
October 5, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The darkest timeline.
The general’s reaction to Pete Hesgeth’s pep talk reminds me of the real skill involved it took for the troops to march so badly during Trump’s birthday parade.
October 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
The general’s reaction to Pete Hesgeth’s pep talk reminds me of the real skill involved it took for the troops to march so badly during Trump’s birthday parade.
The war in Portland has reached a new stage.
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 AM
The war in Portland has reached a new stage.
This why studying Latin was so enormously helpful in my career as a statistician. People never believe me, but programming is language.
September 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This why studying Latin was so enormously helpful in my career as a statistician. People never believe me, but programming is language.
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
September 29, 2025 at 1:32 AM
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.
How did the strangler keep a grip? Unanswered questions from the house of guiness.
Somebody is being strangled with an eel so this series keeps giving.
But it doesn’t give statistics.
But it doesn’t give statistics.
September 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
How did the strangler keep a grip? Unanswered questions from the house of guiness.
Watching the new series on the Guinness dynasty. The statistician hasn’t come on. Will let you all know when it gets interesting.
September 28, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Watching the new series on the Guinness dynasty. The statistician hasn’t come on. Will let you all know when it gets interesting.
We hardly ever shoot people on sight down under. For starters we can’t find a gun.
Laura Loomer—who recently met with Donald Trump in the Oval Office and influenced the firings of top national security officials—suggests that removing people from the United States without due process isn’t so extreme when compared to the alternative: simply shooting them to death on sight.
September 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
We hardly ever shoot people on sight down under. For starters we can’t find a gun.
Breaking: water causes autism.
In 100% of cases, autistic people at some point consumed something with water in it.
In 100% of cases, autistic people at some point consumed something with water in it.
September 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Breaking: water causes autism.
In 100% of cases, autistic people at some point consumed something with water in it.
In 100% of cases, autistic people at some point consumed something with water in it.