Today marks ten years since I published my first post on my low vision assistive technology blog Veroniiiica (Veronica With Four Eyes)! Here are some of the tools and workflows I use for blogging with low vision veroniiiica.com/blogging-wit... #a11y

Tools And Workflows I Use For Blogging With Low Vision | Veroniiiica

Celebrating 10 years of Veronica With Four Eyes! Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the tools and workflows for writing and blogging with low vision

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Very sad to hear of Dr. Marsha Linehan’s passing. DBT principles saved and improved countless lives, but more personally she was so brave. She developed DBT in the face of her own mental health struggles. When we talk about the value of lived experience and science, Dr. Linehan is a gold standard.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 📅Nov 10, 1954 John Backus published the formal proposal for FORTRAN, the first high level language for computing 🔗 bit.ly/3DQnswH It was proprietary to IBM. The 1st FORTRAN compiler was completed 1955-56.

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #OTD 📊 🎂Nov 08, 1656 Edmond Halley born in Haggerston, Shoreditch, England So many things to commend him for! 1686: First bivariate plot of the theoretical relation between barometric pressure (y) and altitude (x) 1701: Contour maps showing curves of equal value

I recorded a video explaining Galvoro.app and the new Factor Lab game I made for teaching factor analysis: youtu.be/euNv1LW1QQE?...

Factor Lab: A Galvoro.app capsule for teaching factor analysis

YouTube video by Sacha Epskamp

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Do you use #Zotero for ref management and #Quarto to write manuscripts? If so, please check out my new #Rstats package {citezot}! You can sync your references with one function, no running Zotero needed. Feedback / bug reports welcome! joelnitta.github.io/citezot/

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Pull cited references from Zotero into Quarto bibliographies, and find, add and update Zotero items from R.

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I'm hiring a postdoc in meta-science! mmmdata.io/posts/2026/1...

multilevel models with {lme4} too! #rstats

Kevin Ushey@kevinushey.bsky.social · last wk.

!! @abdulelsayed.bsky.social honorary #rstats community member confirmed: from pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

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I made a new Galvoro.app capsule for teaching factor analysis: Factor Lab. In the PLAY mode you have to guess the generating model based on observed correlations, and in the LEARN mode you can play around with seeing what correlational structures are implied by the model: galvoro.app/capsules/fac...

Factor Lab — Galvoro

Can you recover the factor model that generated the data?

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This is an interesting take that pairs well with @yaleclimatecomm.bsky.social’s findings of growing bipartisan concern over data centres - which makes sense, as the impacts are local and visceral. More here: climatecommunication.yale.edu/publications...

Data centers lost the midterms

Three-quarters of voters opposed data centers in their communities in NBC News exit polling.

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This is great!

Kristoffer Magnusson@rpsychologist.com · 2w ago

New blog post: Understanding Odds Ratios and Risk Ratios Back to where it all started, explaining effect sizes with interactive visualizations. rpsychologist.com/odds-ratio

New blog post: Understanding Odds Ratios and Risk Ratios Back to where it all started, explaining effect sizes with interactive visualizations. rpsychologist.com/odds-ratio

Excited (and nervous!) to give this keynote at R+AI next week! See full details and registration details here rconsortium.github.io/RplusAI_webs... #rstats

Abraham Wald b #OTD 1902 (d 13 Dec 1950) ASA Fellow 1945 A member of the Columbia Statistical Research Group during WWII, he is best known for his work on aircraft vulnerability & survival bias but the iconic kill-strike diagram was created by Cameron Moll in 2005

What a privilege it was to give a TED talk in the same session as this legend. That is an experience I am so grateful for 💔

How to overcome apathy and find your power

"Sí, se puede!" -- "Yes, we can!" It's the rallying cry Dolores Huerta came up with as a young activist in the 1970s, and she's lived by it in her tireless pursuit of civil rights ever since. With her...

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Did you know that pigeons make milk? Lecture 3 of Evolutionary Anthropology Fall 2026 - Speciation and Phylogeny. Processes of speciation, reinforcement, phylogenetic inference, genetic clocks. Next week, tour of primate diversity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3OI...

03. Speciation and Phylogeny - Evolutionary Anthropology Fall 2026

YouTube video by Richard McElreath

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛@rmcelreath.bsky.social · last mo.

I haven't taught a survey course in human evolution in the last decade, but starting next week (!!) I will try again. I plan to record the lectures. But the lab practicals can't be shared online, unfortunately. Currently deciding how much math I can/should make the students do

R version 4.6.2 "Diversified Portfolio" (source version) has been released. It should be on CRAN by now (update of manuals pending). #rstats

¿Trabajas en el sector público, en una oficina de estadística o en la industria? LatinR 2026 reúne experiencias reales de uso de R en la región. 🇨🇴 Medellín, 11 al 13 de nov. ✍️ Regístrate: www.eventbrite.com.ar/e/1998690018... #LatinR2026 #rstats

Nice tool for teaching ML.

Kristoffer Magnusson@rpsychologist.com · 3w ago

Understanding Maximum Likelihood Estimation, now in 3D!: rpsychologist.com/likelihood #dataviz #stats #rstats

Great Tables v1.1.0 is out, three weeks after v1.0.0. The two releases add fraction and chemical formula formatters, value-based styling, multi-column stubs, decimal alignment, diverging and row-wise data_color(), and so much more. Here's a post: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10... Check it out!

Great Tables `v1.0.0` and `v1.1.0`: new formatters, conditional styling, multi-column stubs, and richer color scales

Great Tables reached v1.0.0 with new formatters for fractions, chemical formulas, alphabetical indices, and links, along with value-based styling through tab_style_body(). The v1.1.0 release that foll...

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Hi all! I'm looking for people to try out my new collaborative writing platform. Think: Overleaf or GDocs for Mkdown LaTeX HTML Typst Quarto Free, open source, and full-featured. Many editors, chat, comments, track changes, history, AI, mobile, templates, etc Would ❤️ any feedback! librepaper.org

This December, @adelaisvoranu.bsky.social and I are hosting two consecutive 3-day workshops on network psychometrics in Singapore 🇸🇬 Workshop 1: foundations, theory & cross-sectional analysis Workshop 2: psychometric modeling & longitudinal analysis Details: fass.nus.edu.sg/psy/network-...

Just in case any of you is looking for a similar job position. #jobs #academia

Anthony Zanesco@anthonyzanesco.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Pleased to announce that we are seeking two tenure-track Assistant or Associate professors in Cognitive Neuroscience and/or Clinical Neuroscience in the Psychology Department at the University of Kentucky. Full details here: ukjobs.uky.edu/postings/648...

{Pyodios} v1.1.0 has been sent over to the App Store for approval. It includes a host of fixes, features, and a bump from Python v3.13 to v3.14. This requires iOS 26 or above. Once approved, we'll be pulling back the initial Pyodios v1.0.0 version to avoid it being available on iOS 17/18 devices.

Given all the discussions about Jacobians at #StanCon today, the @mc-stan.org audience would appreciate that {ggdist} automatically applies the Jacobian adjustment when visualizing densities on transformed scales -- I should have demoed it in my talk! Sometimes useful when looking at priors...

MC Stan@mc-stan.org · 3mo ago

There is now StanCon 2026 Uppsala playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... At the moment talks by @mjskay.com, @aseyboldt.bsky.social, @paulbuerkner.com, @charlesm993.bsky.social are up, and we'll keep uploading more during the week

Psychological Science special issue call 📣 Ever had your research denigrated bc it's "only descriptive", "what's the mechanism though?" and "but what are the theoretical implications?" Now has come your time to shine. Send your best descriptive work! www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

#statstab #596 Generalized Additive Latent and Mixed Models {galamm} Thoughts: Complex ideas require complex (but appropriate) modelling strategies. #glmm #gam #r #rstats #lavaan #stan #latent #bayesian #bayes docs.ropensci.org/galamm/

Generalized Additive Latent and Mixed Models

Estimates generalized additive latent and mixed models using maximum marginal likelihood, as defined in Sorensen et al. (2023) <doi:10.1007/s11336-023-09910-z>, which is an extension of Rabe-Hesketh a...

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Less than a month away from teaching one of my favorite things with one of my favorite people at one of my favorite conferences. Hope you'll join @cwick.co.nz and me at the "Practical Quarto" workshop at posit.co/conference! #quarto #rstats #python #opensource

This is great! I hope this project grows and bring more data to the public.

Climate.us@climate.us · 5mo ago

We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience