Why did the barrister only represent pastry chefs? Their specialty was torte law

Why did the monks never gossip when Thomas was around? He would always update his priors

I'm so happy to announce version 2.0.0 of my #Rstats package WeightIt is out on CRAN! New features: censoring weights, multilevel propensity scores, improved weights for continuous treatments, bias-reduced ordinal and multinomial models, M-estimation in subgroups Check out the website below!

Weighting for Covariate Balance in Observational Studies

Generates balancing weights for causal effect estimation in observational studies with binary, multi-category, or continuous point or longitudinal treatments by easing and extending the functionality ...

ngreifer.github.io

On Thursday, I'm giving the last of the 2026 Ihaka lectures on "Spotting the weird ones" (about anomaly detection using #rstats). It's an honour to speak at something named after Ross Ihaka. It will be live-streamed for those who can't be there. www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/a...

I cannot comprehend why I've just remembered this song exists, but here we are youtu.be/jCSJzw6QM_Q?...

OPM "Heaven Is a Halfpipe"

YouTube video by The MNO Show

youtu.be

I've had several experiences now where "burn the whole thing down and start over" would be more effective than trying to decolonise what already exists

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3d ago

Talked with a friend about her PhD experience and oh my god, some fields need clearing house. Just burn the whole thing down and start over

One of my pet peeves: People are obsessed with seeing/plotting error bars while also being confused about what they should represent. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/the-error-...

The error bar cargo cult

You don't need to understand error bars. You just need to draw them.

blog.genesmindsmachines.com

Curious if anyone else has done this, or seen it done?

Ben Harrap@bharrap.bsky.social · 5d ago

Slightly related, but I've submitted a poster abstract to the ADSN conference If successful, I'm intending handwrite/draw the poster at the conference Absolutely not interested in the printing faff and it's much easier to transport my ideas rather than a large poster

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · last wk.

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

Our keynote speaker for #WOMBAT2026 will be the unusual Rob Hyndman on anomaly detection. You don't want to miss this outstanding event. wombat2026.numbat.space #Statistics #RStats #DataScience

Watch @nrennie.bsky.social's Ihaka Lecture about data viz and creativity on YouTube if you missed the live/streamed version tonight youtube.com/live/fAiyiE8...

Ihaka Lecture Series 2026 #2 - When Creativity Meets Code

YouTube video by University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau

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The idea that there's an easy abundance of free resources to learn to code is laughable once you've done what I've done and been a VP of research at a company that helped thousands of people break into tech careers. There's an abundance of *beginner tutorials*

Recently graduated with your doctorate in statistics, econometrics, or a related discipline? Interested in being in an environment supportive of open source software? Then this position (careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...) might be for you, and we want you! #rstats 🐨🦘

🎉 Delighted to be one of the 2026 Eureka Finalists! Huge congratulations to all other finalists! Thanks so much to my nominators for your support @nicolewhite.bsky.social, David Price, Lizzie Korevaar, @jesskasza.bsky.social, Julie Simpson, Sabine Braat and Ximena Camacho! @mischhub.bsky.social

Australian Museum Eureka Prizes@eurekaprizes.bsky.social · last wk.

Today is the day! The Australian Museum is proud to be celebrating 58 individuals and teams across Australia who are leading the way in research & innovation, leadership, science engagement and school science. #EurekaPrizes

He fit the same statistical models with three different software and got much different estimates. It’s another dimension of the multiverse. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/07/27/5...

The kids area at the science museum knows what's up #rstats

not literally about cocaine

A cocaine skeptic starts an unwise habit – Notes from a data witch

You will be shocked to learn that this is not actually a post about cocaine

blog.djnavarro.net

Aha! Gamified DAGs do exist!!

@jesskasza.bsky.social · last wk.

You might be interested in the daggle app: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Are you referring to this? There's the creating citable articles part of the quarto docs. quarto.org/docs/authori...

Creating Citeable Articles – Quarto

quarto.org

I've seen a couple of #quarto blogs that produce a bibtex citation at the end of each post - is this an extension? What's it called?

Home made clotted cream: success

Has anyone made a gamified version of either drawing DAGs or selecting the correct covariate set from a DAG for the estimand of interest? I'm thinking of something like ggplot battles www.ggplotbattles.dev #rstats

You thought abstract submissions for the Australian Data Science Network Conference were closing today? Nope! Like all good conferences, we're extending the deadline by one week. The final deadline is July 31st (for real this time!) adsnconf2026.netlify.app @ardc.edu.au #statssky #datascience

Australian Data Science Network Conference 2026 – ADSN2026

26th & 27th November 2026, Australian Bureau of Statistics House, Canberra

adsnconf2026.netlify.app

Does anyone know what upgrades the gentoo penguin got compared to the genone?

Martine Jansen@martinejansen.bsky.social · 2w ago

It shows on the hex of palmerpenguins :)

TIL that one can connect their ORCID ID to their GitHub profile. #OpenScience github.com/settings/pro...

Abstract submissions for the Australian Data Science Network Conference are closing THIS Friday! Get your submission in ASAP adsnconf2026.netlify.app/abstract

Abstract submission – ADSN2026

adsnconf2026.netlify.app

Any hacky #rstats workaround for the {gt} package? I want the interactive search feature to include columns that are hidden. I tried making a px(0) width column instead of hiding it, no luck. Gimme your hacky ideas!

Why did the therapist hand out pictures of the Crayola CEO to colour in? To give people a shoulder to crayon

I had the most insane dream experience last night I was dream coding, but woke up mid-dream. In the process of waking up my dream-self frantically git-pushed the dream content so I could pull it in my next dream 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

httr2 1.3.0 is out now! Includes a bunch of improvements to OAuth token caching and summarises some of the biggest changes in the last few patch releases — opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07.... #rstats

httr2 1.3.0

httr2 1.3.0 changes how OAuth tokens are cached on disk — you'll need to re-authenticate once after upgrading — and rolls up faster streaming, OAuth server metadata discovery, OpenTelemetry tracing, a...

opensource.posit.co