How do I politely explain to someone that you can't increase your sample size by just linearly interpolating values? #Statistics

Can I do anything with tulsi besides dry it for herbal tea? I have so much right now! #gardening #cooking #tulsi

Is there a way to get an RSS feed of just toots I’ve bookmarked? #Fediverse #rss

BBC Verify - Israel has demolished thousands of buildings across Gaza since it withdrew from a ceasefire with Hamas in March, with entire towns and suburbs - once home to tens of thousands of people - levelled in the past few weeks […]

The bigots are screaming that a few thousand Afghans have been let into this country. Afghans that made the mistake of helping out the British and now the ungrateful British Peasant would rather they died in Afghanistan than 'pollute' their precious culture of Fish and Chips and lying to […]

For those of you who run lab groups, consider creating a lab handbook if you don’t already have one. Ideally something all members can contribute to with philosophies, policies, procedures, tips, etc! This could be as simple as a shared google doc or something a little fancier. Need a template […]

Hey @nature.com What's up with your share buttons? Can we please also get 🦋 and 🦣 options to not exclusively promote the network of the guy who has done more than most to harm US science?

For those of you who run lab groups, consider creating a lab handbook if you don’t already have one. Ideally something all members can contribute to with philosophies, policies, procedures, tips, etc! This could be as simple as a shared google doc or something a little fancier. Need a template […]

This is hugw! Parallel programming with #purrr functions now without any third packages. https://www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07/purrr-1-1-0-parallel/ #rstats

Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0

The functional programming toolkit for R gains new capabilities for parallel processing and distributed computing using mirai.

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Columbia cancelled my class on race and media. I decided to build my own school instead. 500+ students. And more than 3,100 in the waitlist. Class starts tomorrow. We MOVE✊🏾 karenattiah.substack.com/p/sunday-not...

AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they're faster, study finds https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_down/

@coatless.bsky.social Can I ask your advice? Say you wanted to do a shiny app with a leaflet map but you had more data than leaflet can deal with, is there a way to interrogate the gpkg based on current XY via mousemove to only return a subset of the data?

TikTok is telling me I have a thing called "polyphonic perception" where you hear all the parts of a song and can, like, switch your focus to different melodies, percussion, etc. For me, the different layers of a complex song almost exist in different physical spaces if that makes any sense. Is […]

#LosAngeles, the city #Trump has called "lawless" to justify his invasion with secret police and federal troops, is on track to have its lowest #homicide rate in 60 years. https://archive.is/qUkoD

Wouldn’t. From: @BakerRL75 https://m.ai6yr.org/@BakerRL75/114826981367712816

Unplug the goddamned AI server farms. From: @slashdot https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/114826852820109427

I don't know anything about making music, but strudel seems *really* fun: https://strudel.cc

Free app idea: CanIPark—an app where you take a picture of confusing parking signs and it just displays "YES ✅" or "NO 🚫" and maybe something about how long you can park and if you have to pay.

🚨 macOS Ollama[.app] folks: be SUPER CAREFUL with this app. The Ollama folks have been ignoring an important vulnerability for over 6 months. https://www.imperva.com/blog/hijacking-ollamas-signed-installer-for-code-execution/ ☝🏽 Great work by Imperva researcher Ron Masas.

One of the best meal deals in San Francisco right this moment is the house special combo at Noodle Panda in the Outer Sunset. - Hand pulled Lanzhou noodle soup - side of cucumber salad - very traditional cumin lamb skewers I’ve been waiting for a Lanzhou place like this to open forever. So […]

ggplot2 4.0.0 is coming soon, and is moving some of the internals from S3 to the new S7 OOP system. This is worth a read if you're developing packages with ggplot2 (bioconductor or otherwise) blog.bioconductor.org/posts/2025-0... #Rstats

Bioconductor and ggplot2 4.0.0: What’s Changing and How to Prepare – Bioconductor community blog

Preparing for the upcoming update - key changes, potential breakages, and what developers and users can do

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