My list of data-related resources had a bit of a re-fresh recently! They're now all in the one site. You can still browse by topic or see them all at once! 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/resources/ #RStats #DataViz #StatsEd

Nicola Rennie@nrennie.bsky.social · 2y ago

I've recently started compiling a list of data science related resources that I use or recommend frequently! 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/data-science... #RStats #Python #DataViz #DataScience

However, neither freedom of expression nor academic freedom is unlimited. Both may be restricted by law where necessary to protect the rights of others and to prevent discrimination and racism. 👏

roterote@roterote.bsky.social · last mo.

Here is the full suspension letter from UGent that was sent to Nathan Cofnas, it shows ample reason for his suspension and potential termination. Including breach of contract, using the University of Ghent’s name and legitimacy to promote his racial supremacist views and causing reputational damage.

Defending Cofnas, who had written outrageously racist stuff for years (e.g., that in a meritocracy there would be next to no Black professors because they have lower IQs), is an odd hill to die on. Yet the 100-plus academics who signed this letter are clearly willing to die on it :/

Rebecca Sear@rebeccasear.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Also worth noting how many of the signatories of the letter defending Cofnas call themselves evolutionary psychologists, including those with gatekeeping roles or large public platforms. Concerning to have the discipline represented by those who, at very best, misunderstand academic freedom

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The Jason Arday Saga Is Terrible And Everyone Involved Should Be Ashamed Of Themselves

The whole thing makes me furious

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During my summer reading, I stumbled across an article on efforts to establish an African Twin Registry, spearheaded by Malcolm Odion Eremionkhale. Really insightful to learn more about the challenges & promises this project holds for #genetics and #publichealth!

Do you dabble in Quarto, and really want to make slides that make people go, wow 😯 Learn from the amazing @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social tomorrow, where he will demonstrate the ✨ art of slidecrafting✨ for creating reusable, custom slide themes. Hope to see you there! pos.it/dslab

Looking forward to reading these replies 🍿

Eric Turkheimer@ent3c.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Blog post: Damien Morris on Free Will (1/x): Introduction, Clarifications, and a Concession. An introduction to a series of replies to a three-part monograph by Damien Morris. ericturkheimer.substack.com/p/damien-mor...

Looking forward to #SSSR2026! Alexandra Starr, @madeliefkuijper.bsky.social, @josefina-bernardo.bsky.social, Britt Min and I present work on literacy/numeracy genetics, ADHD–reading links, intergenerational transmission, and online assessment. I’ll also give the Mid-Career Award plenary on Friday.

Yesterday, #GENEAmsterdam researcher @mmdewit.bsky.social successfully defended her thesis 'Integrating Genetic and Environmental Perspectives on Autism'. In this month's interview, Adrià Túnez Aquilué and Jana Hirzinger interview Melanie about her research and outreach efforts. 👇

GENE Amsterdam Interview – Melanie de Wit - Genetics Network Amsterdam

This month, Adrià Túnez and Jana Hirzinger interview Melanie de Wit, researcher at the Amsterdam UMC.  Melanie successfully defended her thesis on June 29th! You are known for your contributions in au...

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The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

Today’s the *last* day to join the rainbowR buddy scheme! 🌈 - who? rainbowR members (LGBTQIA+ people who code in #RStats) - what? opt in to be paired with a new buddy to chat, code, game, or just hang out - when? sign-up form closes tonight (June 1st; happy pride month!) & emails go out tomorrow 💌

After 150 years of boring wooden Galton boards, I finally fixed it! Now with lasers, bazookas, bombs, pinball bumpers, and extremely serious sci-fi hamsters. 🎯 EXTREME GALTON 👇 sachaepskamp.com/extreme_galton

Anyone a suggestion on how to have two different stylings for a level1 heading in a #quarto #revealjs presentation? I have one style now in my .scss, but sometimes I need a level 1 that is a bit different.

Delighted to share our latest research from the 23andMe Research Team, just published in @nature.com ! We looked at data from >27,000 participants to uncover how human genetics influences weight loss efficacy and side effects of GLP-1 medications like semaglutide. A short thread 🧵👇

For this week's #TidyTuesday we looked at data from repair shops provided by the Repair Monitor 🛠️ 💻 Code is on GitHub: github.com/josefinabern... #RStats #RLadies #DataViz

This is how you can visualize gene expression data in #tidyheatmaps 🤩 https://jbengler.github.io/tidyheatmaps/ #rstats #dataviz #phd

Me & @aysuo.bsky.social are hiring a postdoc to study gene–environment interplay in health & social inequalities 🧬 You'll analyze genomic data as part of a collaboration with Uppsala & Oslo at @amsterdamumc.bsky.social (NL) werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/vacatures... Please RT for karma points ♥️

I was 33, exhausted, chronically ill, very smart, no degree, only ever used Excel, & feared math 😢 (so frustratingly common) Do I regret learning #Rstats, #SAS, #Python, & SPSS ALL AT ONCE? 🫠 No! It gave me the empathy to teach people new tools w/out degrading them about their other tools. #databs

Wrote a thread about #SEM in #RStats - if any fellow researchers would like to weigh in, you're very welcome to! 😊

We Are RLadies+@weare.rladies.org · 7mo ago

So, a thread about how I have learned #SEM in #R as a #PhD student in #StatisticalGenetics. I’ve heard SEM be described as a “system of regressions”, but in addition to observed variables, we also have latent/unobserved variables. We can represent these variables in a path diagram (lavaan.org) :

Great news for all the tech bros that have been putting on the same shirt every day - you can wear some colour now! Not so great news for psychological science... #ReplicationCrisis #Psychology

Daniel Lakens@lakens.bsky.social · 7mo ago

198 effect sizes in ego depletion resesrch showed an effect size of d=0.62. Preregistered large replications (including some by original authors) yielded an effect size of 0. No one has been able to offer any other explanation for this huge research waste than massive p-hacking.

Hi, I’m this week’s curator, Josi! I‘m a PhD student in statistical genetics 🧬 and use #RStats to do #SEM. I dabble in #DataViz and recently wrote my first #Rpackage. My hobbies are reading #Fantasy books 📚 and #maximalism. You may catch me at a conference matching my outfit to my poster 🤓🧜🏽‍♀️ #rladies

Very happy to announce I will be curating the @weare.rladies.org account next week! 💜

We Are RLadies+@weare.rladies.org · 7mo ago

The first #RLadies curator of 2026 is @josefina-bernardo.bsky.social 💜

Mr Kucharski will never be thanked enough for this. Life saver.

Adam Kucharski@adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version? I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/ It all started a few years ago... 🧵

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried

If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

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🧠 Parents and siblings shape children’s environments— but families also share genes 🧬 Because genes influence behaviour, environments are partly shaped by genetics too To separate genetic from environmental influences, we need genetic data from both parents and siblings 🧪 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s105...

The Power to Resolve Cultural Transmission and Sibling Interaction Using Polygenic Scores - Behavior Genetics

In the classical twin design, the assumption that the additive genetic (A) and shared environment (C) variance components are uncorrelated may not hold. If there is positive AC covariance, the C compo...

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Hi Perline! Dates: 21-22 of May, in a lovely part of Italy (more details to come!) :)

Honoured to be featured by the @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social Research Fellowship. Their support enables ambitious, cross-border science on how genetics and environments shape children’s learning & development. 🌍🧬 Work with other Fellows nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s41...

Jacobs Foundation@jacobsfoundation.bsky.social · 10mo ago

🧠 Jacobs CIFAR Research Fellow Elsje van Bergen of @vuamsterdam.bsky.social studies how genetics & home environments shape children’s development. 📢 Apply for the 2027–2029 #JacobsCIFARFellowship by 2 Feb 2026: cifar.ca/next-generat... #ApplyNow #Education

1/4 Thrilled to be sharing new work published today in Nature describing the third wave of results from the PGC Cross-Disorder Group. This reflects a massive group effort to examine shared and unique genetic signal across >1 million cases for 14 psychiatric disorders. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mapping the genetic landscape across 14 psychiatric disorders - Nature

Genomic analyses applied to 14 childhood- and adult-onset psychiatric disorders identifies five underlying genomic factors that explain the majority of the genetic variance of the individual disorders...

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🎄 ANNOUNCEMENT: R Package Development Advent Calendar 2025! 🎄 Starting December 1st, I'm launching a 25-day journey through modern R package development. here's why you should follow along 🧵 #rstats #RPackageAdvent2025 #OpenSource

The Ruhrgebiet, once Europe’s largest industrial region, mined coal from the 13th century. By 1956 it employed almost half a million people, but within two decades the workforce had shrunk by two thirds. The last mine closed in 2018. #30DayMapChallenge Day 28: Black #rstats #ggplot2