This is wildly irresponsible of Google - allowing people to create AI generated satellite images. Satellite imagery has always been such a useful and reliable source because it came from reliable sources, but now Google is messing with it at source. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...

How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran

The question is: what on earth is Google doing?

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Him (triumphant): Hey, look, I made this very important thing with AI, and I didn't use my brain at all! Me (dying inside):

Awa Fam denies Olivia Miles, Olivia Miles gives her five

This guitar cover of 'Sparkle' (from the movie 'Your Name') is a beauty: www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tY...

INSANE cover of Sparkle - (Your Name OST) スパークル - Fingerstyle Guitar Cover by Edward Ong

YouTube video by Edward Ong

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Today I paid attention to the lyrics of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" for the first time (yeah, I know), and boy, it really blew my expectations up. This song has been misplaced by so many TV shows that I had no clue about what it really was about. Now I know! Do you?

LinkedIn will not stop showing me data science jobs in Denmark, and I'm just here like 'I wish!'

Nick Jensen at European Athletics

ALT: Nick Jensen at European Athletics

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There are so many things wrong with this, but whatever, here it goes anyway: www.reflectorbital.com

Reflect Orbital

Sunlight after dark

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Don’t know who to credit for this. But it is how I feel.

Norm Matloff (1948-2026) @matloff.bsky.social I was made aware of the post below made by his daughter. We lost another friend and valued long-time contributor the #Rstats community, gone far too soon, and sure to be missed. His memory will be a blessing.

Git (by xkcd)

Four postdoc positions - Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology (BCI EDGE)integrating population & evolutionary genomics, community ecology, metabolomics, & long-term forest dynamics to investigate the evolutionary processes maintaining tropical forest diversity stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... 🧪 🌐 🌾

BCI Evolutionary Dynamics and Genomic Ecology project

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As sad as it sounds, this is also a good training for the transition to industry.

Darren Dahly@statsepi.bsky.social · last mo.

Forcing early career researchers to constantly talk about the "impact" of their research is also forcing them to learn to lie.

🗺️ New in the development version of the {tmap} R package: blending modes are now available! This makes it much easier to create more expressive terrain visualizations. github.com/r-tmap/tmap/... #rstats #tmap #GISchat #rspatial

For those who missed my talk at #IAVS2026. Here it is all online: 🔗https://ondrejmottl.github.io/BIODYNAMICS-vegetation-cooccurrence/Documentation/Website/outputs.html Rendered slides: 🖼️https://ondrejmottl.github.io/BIODYNAMICS-vegetation-cooccurrence/Documentation/Presentations/IAVS_2026/_output

Ondrej Mottl 🌿💻📈🌍⏳@ondrejmottl.bsky.social · last mo.

Come join me at #IAVS2026 today for my talk (LT4) 📅 11:30 (after coffee break) room 3. I promise you haven't seen #presentation like this one before😉 #vegetation #paleo #jsdm #conference @iavs5.bsky.social

Happy to announce a postdoc position with me and Jakob Strand, to work on data from the revamped Danish beached bird survey organised by DOF BirdLife Denmark. How many seabirds end up on Danish beached, where do they come from, and why did they die? #seabirds ecos.au.dk/en/about-us/...

Postdoc in seabird ecology - Vacancy at Aarhus University

Vacancy at Department of Ecoscience - Arctic Ecosystem Ecology, Aarhus University

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Do you love maps? Of course you do! With the latest release of #ggsql we now support spatial plotting directly from your database. As a cherry on top, the release also provides powerful in-layer aggregation. Read all about it on the blog

ggsql 0.4.1: Spatial plotting and in-layer aggregation

ggsql 0.4.1 adds support for spatial plotting and data aggregation within layers. Read all about the new features in this release post.

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Happy to finally announce the CRAN release of {debrief}, a new package to let AI agents better interface with the output of the {profvis} package Making it so you can work with you AI agent more efficiently to profile and write faster R code! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-06... #rstats #dataBS

Introducing debrief: profiling summaries for AI agents

debrief turns profvis profiling output into text-based summaries: hotspots, call trees, source context, and memory allocations, readable in the terminal and consumable by AI agents.

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In between, I am enjoying Steins Gate: great scifi thriller, full of heart, and quite hilarious!

Steins Gate Anime Scene

ALT: Steins Gate Anime Scene

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Blas M. Benito@blasbenito.com · 2mo ago

Here's a little ranking of anime movies I've been watching during my holidays: - Your Name ❤️ - 5 Centimeters a Second 💔 - *** Weathering With You 🌦️🌈 - The Girl That Leapt Through Time ⏱️👩 - Summer Wars 🧓🤖 *** The studio was showing off here, the level of detail is mindblowing!

Here's a little ranking of anime movies I've been watching during my holidays: - Your Name ❤️ - 5 Centimeters a Second 💔 - *** Weathering With You 🌦️🌈 - The Girl That Leapt Through Time ⏱️👩 - Summer Wars 🧓🤖 *** The studio was showing off here, the level of detail is mindblowing!

I shared many global population density maps here before but never one in the style of an animal habitat map. So here is the habitat map of Homo Sapiens (Humans). As the Bloodhound Gang taught me, "you and me, baby, ain't nothing but mammals". Source: buff.ly/sBjgHGU

This show is fantastic.

The New Yorker@newyorker.com · 2mo ago

The Apple TV series starring Matthew Rhys follows a winning cast of small-island bureaucrats through a living hell. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

Me too. This player is out there playing a different game than everyone else. And she's SO FUN to watch!

Defector@defector.com · 2mo ago

I Have Been Olivia Miles-Pilled defector.com/i-have-been-...

#Rstats Shiny really is great, but it's a lot. There are other tools for interactive graphs like crosstalk. If you have a static df, and need drop-down, radio and checkbox filters it may be all you need. Works great with Quarto. More here. intro2r.library.duke.edu/widgets.html

{duckplyr} is amazing. Retrieve records from a large online database with several million rows in 1 second duckplyr.tidyverse.org #Rstats

Pride Month isn’t just about sexuality, it’s about representation, inclusion and human rights. It’s a time to celebrate and a call to action to do more for our friends, family and neighbours. Pride Month is the result of decades of hard fought victories, and a reminder that the fight isn’t over.

Hi to all followers and bluesky folks - it's been a long six months since I posted. It's hard to condense into 200ish characters, so I'll just say that redundancy and cancer hit one after the other. But we fight on - slowly venturing into the freelance space while prioritising health and recovery!

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Anchorage Man@sethpartnow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

Spatial+: a relatively easy way to address spatial confounding doi.org/10.1111/biom... Comparison with other methods: doi.org/10.1007/s131... #statistics #rspatial

Spatial+: A Novel Approach to Spatial Confounding

Abstract. In spatial regression models, collinearity between covariates and spatial effects can lead to significant bias in effect estimates. This problem,

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Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

Criminally overlooked: Summertime Rendering Again, this should be in discussions about "What should i recommend to my friend who just started anime" alongside things like Death Note and Attack On Titan. I can't write anything under a single post that does this work of art justice. Read it.