There seems to be evidence, at least from lucid dreams, that the experience is in real time because communication is possible with dreamers (I find this mindblowing). Some report that they hear the signals as coming from objects in the dream (a radio, say). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep

Dreams take us to a different reality, a hallucinatory world that feels as real as any waking experience. These often-bizarre episodes are emblematic …

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NEW: "Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with globally reported tick-borne viruses", led by @samsambado.bsky.social, in which she applied BRT modelling to a global database of TBVs to pick apart the complicated pathway from transmission to reported cases! www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with globally reported tick-borne viruses - Communications Medicine

Sambado et al. examine how environmental and social conditions shape where tick-borne viruses are reported worldwide. Using machine learning, they find that both ecological and economic are important, and that wealthier nations are more likely to report these overlooked diseases.

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Finally managed to get a new version of rTPC (v1.1.0) onto CRAN, with @franwin.co.uk driving most of the changes. There are now 49 models included. cran.r-project.org/web/packages... And parallel fitting of TPCs can be done using mirai and purrr. padpadpadpad.github.io/rTPC/article... 🧪 #rstats

We're at the Vector-Borne Diseases conference today here in Liverpool. Let us know if you are too! #VBD26

Will you be at AMCA 26? Come find @vectorbyte.bsky.social and chat to us about our databases, workshops, data management, and let @samrund.bsky.social give you stickers, perhaps? #AMCA26

ohvbd 1.0.0 has now been released on CRAN! This package should help those looking for VBD data by interfacing with vbdhub.org for searching, and the VectorByte trait and population dynamics databases for data download (alongside much more). vbdhub.org/blog/ohvbd-c... #rstats #vectorbyte #vbd

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

An #rstats question for package developers: If my package maintains a cache to minimise data downloads, is it sensible/preferred to put an automatic cache cleaner (delete anything older than x days) in .onLoad, or to just mostly leave cache maintenance to the user (with appropriate helpers)?

{ggview} can print plots to Viewer (Rstudio or Positron) with true scaling. Adjust plot settings and see the final proportions immediately. Save the plot once 👌 e.g.: ggplot(...) + ggview::canvas(width = 220, height = 220*2/3, units = "mm", dpi = 300) per @nrennie.bsky.social #datavis #rstats

Ethan Landes@ethanlandes.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Now my favorite part of writing any paper: repeatedly recompiling ggplot graphs to get the text size right #rstats

@franwin.co.uk drove a massive rework of rTPC this year, making package maintenance much easier. rTPC now supports 49 different model formulations, vignettes are updated, & you can parallelise model fitting using new purrr & mirai, which is DOPE. #rstats 🧪 padpadpadpad.github.io/rTPC/article...

🚨 New paper 🚨 How does livestock grazing impact tick-borne disease hazard? Our new study in the New Forest National Park used a paired experiment to find out. Important for #rewilding and #conservation grazing schemes! #Ticks #LymeDisease @ukhsa.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The role of large ungulate grazers on Ixodes ricinus and tick-borne pathogens in the New Forest - a case study for future rewilded landscapes

Large ungulate grazers can manage habitats via conservation grazing, a practice using livestock to control vegetation growth, which has many ecologica…

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This would very quickly become my favourite game I reckon. As a bonus it should very occasionally throw in a problem that seems easy and actually was a fiendish open question in computer science or mathematics for 50+ years.

Libby Heeren@libbyheeren.bsky.social · last yr.

Share your coding dreams! I used to have nightmares where I was in the center of a dark, scary forest, and I had to code to escape, each coding success taking me closer to the edge and freedom. If I had an error, I'd appear back at the center and have to start over. I never got out. #rstats #databs

Things that you as a data scientist can replace the term "artificial intelligence" with in stupid marketing text to stop your brain detonating E.g. "We will use advanced methods such as <BLANK> to track sewage spills." - Basic regression models - Interns - The CEO's best guess - An actual fish ...

I feel genuinely ashamed that this wooooshed me for a full two minutes before I realised they weren't serious. I need more coffee before reading exceptionally funny posts :)

Ben Harrap@bharrap.bsky.social · last yr.

Introducing my new #rstats package {kitchensink} Not sure what the right model to fit is? Should you allow random intercepts, slopes, both? What do Bayesian methods say? Just call {kitchensink::throw} to fit every possible model and see how your results differ!

Right, with the advent of the recent government whitepaper "Restoring Control Over the Immigration System" (which already has some pretty loaded language in the title), it's worthwhile looking a bit at some of the detail of the student section. It's some "interesting" statistics presentation.

The report released today by the Tony Blair institute is one of the most cynical, least scientific, and most poorly-written reports I have ever seen about climate change. I'm not exactly surprised that there is no climate scientist willing to put their name on it anywhere, but I am disappointed.

Emile Michels' first PhD paper published today. Amplification of Borrelia in ticks at pheasant-release sites – an intriguing example how non-native species can increase zoonotic disease risk through spillback. @uniexecec.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Release of Non‐Native Gamebirds Is Associated With Amplified Zoonotic Disease Risk

Spillback is potentially an important mechanism by which non-natives contribute to zoonotic disease emergence. We capitalise on quasi-experimental releases of non-native pheasants (Phasianus colchicu...

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"Mean daily temperatures predict the thermal limits of malaria transmission better than hourly rate summation" new paper now out in NatComm, led by @martashocket.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Dr. Courtney Murdock@ecodynvplab.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper out! A common computational approach to predict organismal fitness and distributions in the field could vastly overpredict the potential range of thermal suitability for malaria transmission relative to performance characterized at constant temperatures: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper out! A common computational approach to predict organismal fitness and distributions in the field could vastly overpredict the potential range of thermal suitability for malaria transmission relative to performance characterized at constant temperatures: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Mean daily temperatures predict the thermal limits of malaria transmission better than hourly rate summation - Nature Communications

Malaria transmission is sensitive to temperature and models of malaria typically account for daily fluctuations in temperature through a ‘rate summation’ approach. Here, the authors conduct experiment...

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#Tidyverse Tip: If you find yourself writing the same mutation (i.e., #dplyr::mutate()) for several columns, there’s a better way! dplyr::across() allows you to apply a function to multiple columns easily. For example, to scale all numeric columns: df %>% mutate(across(where(is.numeric), scale))

Why I love OneDrive, part 78. My local folder is called /Users/koren/OneDrive\ -\ Central\ European\ University\ \(CEU\ GmbH\ Hungarian\ Branch\ Office\)/ Luckily, I can symlink.

I’ve long used FiveThirtyEight’s interactive “Hack Your Way To Scientific Glory” to illustrate the idea of p-hacking when I teach statistics. But ABC/Disney killed the site earlier this month :( So I made my own with #rstats and Observable and #QuartoPub ! stats.andrewheiss.com/hack-your-way/

This is the real and proper solution to the previous problem I posted, and today I was reminded why reading the documentation regularly is very very important, even when you think you know it. Now if you'll excuse me I have some package error handling to rework.

Hadley Wickham@hadley.nz · last yr.

If you’re wrapping errors, you’re better off using withCallingHandler to avoid this problem in the first place. I also recommend that you pass along the error condition to the parent arg of cli_abort and friends

The redquack 📦 lets REDCap and DuckDB flock together. It batches API requests by record ID using the awesome httr2 📦 . Features include resuming incomplete transfers, converting column types, tracking progress, and logging operations in the database. Headed to CRAN! 🦆 github.com/dylanpieper/...

If you're catching errors in #rstats and stopping using tryCatch and cli_abort (or rlang::abort), you may encounter something like this "Error in `value[[3L]]()`". This isn't helpful for finding where something went wrong, you don't know what actually threw the error. But there's an easy fix!

I just created a silly little tool for finding stats about those following you on Bluesky! Returns who follows you, and basic stats about their own profile. A really fun way to start playing with the bsky public api! #rstats #httr2 #bsky gist.github.com/fwimp/67a20b...

Bluesky Follower Information Finder

Bluesky Follower Information Finder. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Recently I've been playing with the "slider" package for sliding windows #rstats It's exceedingly useful for generating aggregated summaries over a dataset (i.e. weekly means)