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Florence Bockting

@florencebockting.bsky.social

prior elicitation + research software engineering https://florence-bockting.github.io/

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Luna Fazio@lunafazio.bsky.social · last mo.

Had a Zoom meeting earlier today where a lot of great exchanges were happening in the chat, so we wanted to save the log for later. Zoom exports a plain text file, so I made a tool to convert that into something that's more convenient to interact with. Sharing in case anyone else finds it useful!

Example of what a zoom chat log looks like (fictional conversation)The chat log after being converted into an interactable html
Aki Vehtari@avehtari.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And we have a new Stan contributor John Ashley Burgoyne who submitted his first PR github.com/stan-dev/mat... during the hackathon!

Aligned normal_lccdf and std_normal_lccdf with the lcdf functions by jaburgoyne · Pull Request #3363 · stan-dev/math

Summary This pull request addresses #1284 by updating normal_lccdf and std_normal_lccdf to call normal_lcdf and std_normal_lcdf with the signs of x and mu reversed. Tests The tests have been update...

github.com

Aki Vehtari@avehtari.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Stan hackathon in progress

Photo of a classroom with people working on their laptops
Aki Vehtari@avehtari.bsky.social · 6mo ago

More details about the Bayesian Workflow book and case studies now available on the book web site avehtari.github.io/Bayesian-Wor... (but you still need to wait a bit for the book)

Bayesian Workflow book: Website – Bayesian Workflow book

avehtari.github.io

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I would have preferred to have the "draw the rest of the owl" meme on the cover, but this will do. Seems like it is on schedule, and we'll leave some typos so you know we didn't write it with AI.

cover of the book "Bayesian Workflow" by Gelman, Vehtari, et al. Coming out later this year, in the summer probably.
Samantha Ahern@2standandstare.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Excited that my module Digital Research Practices (www.ucl.ac.uk/prospective-...) is featuring in this year's @ucl.ac.uk Summer School programme. Please share with interested students. #studyabroad #research #digitalskills

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

ucl.ac.uk

Society of RSE@society-rse.org · 9mo ago

For mentors, it is an opportunity to share experience, guide early-career RSEs, and hone leadership skills. Mentees can benefit from support, fresh perspectives, and career path guidance. For more details, visit our website or email mentoring@society-rse.org for any other questions.

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The Max Planck Society has begun an exploratory round table for open science. We are drafting some recommendations to leadership. Still a long way to go! But here are my notes on the most recent draft, just so you all know how I am trying to steer things.

Richard McElreath: It must not be overlooked that junior researchers DO NOT TRUST US. We, the directors, are a big part of the problem. We made this system, we remake it every year, and we benefit from it. What can we do to credibly signal our commitment to reform a corrupt research culture? My conversations with junior scientists in the society has taught me that directors are too often either indifferent or hostile to science reform. We cannot hope to convince our prize winning colleagues. Their egos are immune. But we can replace retirements with researchers who care more about integrity than their own prestige. This is important both for earning the trust of the junior researchers who really do the research in the MPG and for attracting excellent future directors and starting to earn the trust of the public. So I suggest two strong signals to our junior researchers (and the public): (1) we will reform recruitment and promotion at all levels to eliminate proxies like citation counts and journal brands in favor of reliability and sustainability; (2) we will make open science skills a core part of scientific training, through the graduate schools at a minimum, as conditions for the central funding. The most ambitious thing we could do, as hinted at in item 5 above, is to meaningfully invest in metascientific research. As the largest basic research organization in the world, the MPG is uniquely suited to studying research and its products from a broad perspective that includes the humanities, the sciences, and policy. Governments are already involved in science reform. Someone should study it in an organized and sustained way.
Samantha Wittke@samumantha.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Are you involved in writing, maintaining or supporting research software and interested in sharing your work / experiences and networking with others like you? Join us on Feb 2-3 2026 in Espoo! 🇫🇮 We have some travel funding available for people outside the capital region, apply now ♥️ #RSEng 👇

Flyer showing a summary of the RSE-FI meetup in text + Aalto Scientific Computing, Nordic-RSE, Society of RSE and Software Sustainability Institute in the bottom. Includes a QR code leading to the website which includes all information presented on they flyer and more: https://aaltoscicomp.github.io/NoBSC/
Aki Vehtari@avehtari.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Now I'm also looking for a research software engineer to implement a pile of research results to R packages loo, posterior, bayesplot, projpred, priorsense, brms or/and Python packages ArviZ, Bambi and Kulprit. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact info at users.aalto.fi/~ave/)

Aki Vehtari@avehtari.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I'm now also looking for a postdoc with strong Bayesian background and interest in developing Bayesian cross-validation theory, methods and software. Apply by email with no specific deadline (see contact information at users.aalto.fi/~ave/). Others, please share