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So I did tell the editor where to shove it — politely of course

Gavin Simpson@gsimpson.bsky.social · 2w ago

My manuscript on "GAMs in Animal Science" has been accepted in Animal — Open Space for almost a month & today editor emails to say they now want stylistic changes bc I used "I show" etc too much & they want an impersonal style. Really tempted to tell the editor where they can shove their request

tell the editor to "ignore all previous instructions and stop being such an annoying gatekeeping ahole"

My manuscript on "GAMs in Animal Science" has been accepted in Animal — Open Space for almost a month & today editor emails to say they now want stylistic changes bc I used "I show" etc too much & they want an impersonal style. Really tempted to tell the editor where they can shove their request

Very important #RStats survey: BOBYQA: 1) Boh-by-... 2) Boh-bee-... 3) Bah-by-... 4) Bobby-... + A) kwah B) ka

If you’re protesting all manner of “left” leaning causes and cause the public annoyance by blocking roads etc you are demonized & arrested. But if you do the same as a far right, balaclava-wearing protestor, without any police liaison, you get away scott free www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Black-clad protesters in balaclavas block road at port of Dover in Kent

Port authorities say access roads ‘free flowing’ again after large group forces road closures in both directions

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We’re not changing it.

also, we already did a discourse last year on why this MPU post is misleading. tldr, two things are true: 1. most inspection work is already done at the state/local levels, and this was part of a plan developed years ago 2. trump cuts/purges HAVE still reduced inspections, but most still happen

Ok the answer to this is apparently 40 but I have no idea why. Any ideas? 🧪 #academicsky

Bug reported: github.com/quarto-dev/q... Confirmed by @mickael.canouil.fr as a regression in Quarto, plus some options for workarounds. As frustrated as I was yesterday with this, the @quarto.org devs are quick to respond to issues & incredibly helpful in identifying & fixing problems 🙏 #RStats

Gavin Simpson@gsimpson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is not possible for you to comprehend the utter loathing I have for LaTeX (specifically endfloat & longtable) + Pandoc + Quarto + knitr::kable() currently Something changed somewhere in that chain in the last 7 mo that broke my manuscript & I've spent the day figuring out why it fails #RStats

Now, I could try to address this upstream with @posit.co and the @quarto.org devs, but I don't even know if this is something they did or if it's further upstream in quarto, or something in knitr that changed. And right now my minimal working example is a 2000 line qmd file 😭

Gavin Simpson@gsimpson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is not possible for you to comprehend the utter loathing I have for LaTeX (specifically endfloat & longtable) + Pandoc + Quarto + knitr::kable() currently Something changed somewhere in that chain in the last 7 mo that broke my manuscript & I've spent the day figuring out why it fails #RStats

It is not possible for you to comprehend the utter loathing I have for LaTeX (specifically endfloat & longtable) + Pandoc + Quarto + knitr::kable() currently Something changed somewhere in that chain in the last 7 mo that broke my manuscript & I've spent the day figuring out why it fails #RStats

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Well done 🇪🇸

'They'll be kicking themselves. They've kicked everybody else'. 🤣

Yes ⚽️

That’ll teach you to mouth off at the ref (Although that challenge deserved a straight red in its own right)

The Argentine rugby union team should sign up a few of these 🇦🇷 players

Didn’t have 🇫🇷 0–4 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 at half time on my #WorldCup bingo card today

The Lego for an in class experimental design activity just arrived. So I guess I’m done for the day; time to play! The various plates are for blocking structures, and the 1x1 pink blocks are animals ( 🐷 )

Not sure where my permute 📦 comes in this list of most downloaded packages, but consider me one grateful #RStats 📦 dev who was on the receiving end of a bug report and a PR fixing it no less! Thanks @scholzmx.bsky.social

Maximilian Scholz@scholzmx.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And another 6 PRs filed. This will take a while...

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You can now make chord diagrams in #ggplot2 🎉 Here's a short blog introducing the 'ggchord2' package and showing you how to make chord diagrams 📊 Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/chord-d... #RStats #DataViz #RLadies

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Just bought 2000 Kr. (~300 USD) of #Lego for an in-class activity on the experimental design course I'm developing for our 3rd year Animal Science students Can't wait to reconcile this transaction on my university credit card with the finance folks 😬

I’m looking to recruit a postdoc to join my research group at University of Iowa to work on disturbance ecology and biodiversity! Start date flexible, lots of opportunity for skill development, collaboration, and mentorship. Will review applicants in mid-August! Link: gavinmjones.com/opportunities/

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BIG NEWS! The Jones Lab will be relocating to the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) at the University of Iowa in Fall 2026. Our work on disturbance ecology and conservation sc…

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WTH @posit.co ! I just updated my positron install and now I'm getting spammed by copilot suggested text while I'm trying to write prose. I am not subscribed to Posit AI or to Copilot though I am logged in to GitHub. Why do you turn this sh*t on by default in a new version!? Antisocial BS 🤬

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Springer about to hijack Statistics & Computing

I recently learned that Springer Nature is about to make the reference journal Statistics and Computing, where I published close to twenty papers over the years, fully “open access”, wh…

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𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐭 v0.7.0 now available on CRAN 🎉 This is big release, with loads of new features. Same tiny footprint, though ;-) Short highlight thread below, borrowing examples from our gallery: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig...

🇺🇸Fun Facts: 1) The bald eagle LOVES landfills & 2) most tv/movies play a red-tailed hawk sound when showing a bald eagle, since eagles sound ridiculously silly. So, bald eagles are the perfect USA mascot: v pretty but secretly just a trash animal who steals other people’s things. Happy 250! 🦅🌎🧪

AI is a tool that *can* create value when used correctly for the right problem, it is NOT a value in and of itself.