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Board certified forensic anthropologist in the Bay Area. R enthusiast, runner, cyclist, family man. Views expressed are my own!
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court has blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th century wartime law.

Wow. This is terrible violation of the trust between the decedent and their families, and the University as the custodian of their remains.

Announcing Video Abstracts journals.lww.com/amjforensicm... #4n6 #forensicpathology #forensicmedicine #forensics

THE ALBUQUERQUE ISOTOPES SCORED THREE RUNS ON A BASES-LOADED WALK AND THERE IS VIDEO

This from @anneapplebaum.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

We are thrilled to announce Air, an extremely fast R formatter! This super speedy tool written in #Rust ensures consistent, readable #RStats code. Read more on the tidyverse blog: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/02...

Paris is THE BEST. What an opportunity to hire a super talented investigative reporter.

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Slides from my #ShinyConf talk earlier today: "LLM-Powered Shiny apps with ellmer and chatlas" docs.google.com/presentation... #rstats #rshiny #python #ai

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

📊 2025 #30DayChartChallenge | day 05 | comparison | ranking . 🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali... . #rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2

“The findings suggest bonobos have a ‘precursor’ to the human capacity to combine units of language to create new meanings” #scicomm #sensoryecology #language #primate #bonobo #animalcommunication www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 🐵 🦊 🧠

Even the WSJ is loosing faith.

I was lucky enough to have spent the last few days in the woods.

@garyparrishcbs.bsky.social GP, as a Spartan alum, and having lived in Memphis for six years listening to you on 92.9, I appreciate your comments on Izzo being an all time great.

Tigers ace Tarik Skubal pens letter to fans: 'We have unfinished business, so...let's run it back'

A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

From Luis Fondebrider: Today the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) launches an interactive site featuring the EAAF's achievements in Argentina over its 41 years of work.

The Pistons will finish, at least, .500 — bringing an official end to the worst chapter in franchise history. It’s a big deal. A very, very big deal. Even if the team can’t acknowledge it yet. www.freep.com/story/sports...

#forensky

I love this term: "strategic piety" Thank you @andrewlseidel.bsky.social andrewlseidel.com/the-founding...

@bayfc.com great game! Great win!

Had ourselves a fun first half.

Great standard development work by colleagues in OSAC. "..the foundations of the ethical treatment of human remains are: informed consent, deathcare, and service to communities." (contrary to the image, this has nothing to do with chimps)

Cade Cunningham wins it for the Pistons AND gets the triple-double

don't let hadley wickham see this, he'll die (also somebody please make this somehow with base R) #rstats

Introducing gander, the AI-powered coding assistant that can describe objects in your #RStats environment! gander provides detailed data descriptions directly to LLMs for more accurate coding assistance. Explore the motivation and see an example in @simonpcouch.com's post: posit.co/blog/introdu...

Good overview of current sex estimation practices. Interesting generational shift in practitioners since the last survey in 2012. ~77% now report becoming first involved in FA after 2000 vs 36% back in 2012, with roughly even distribution in two decades prior. #forensicanthropology #forensicscience

oh this is a big mystery

I wrote today on the slippery slope of lawlessness. "We need the rule of law and its institutional buttresses like the separation of powers to enable us to live in freedom, not despotism. This fundamental feature of a free government is what Trump is challenging." www.thebulwark.com/p/past-alarm...

Excellent column, as always, by @zey.bsky.social on COVID origins We Were Badly Misled About the Event That Changed Our Lives www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

The President actually admitting to stretching the truth is perhaps bigger news than the CR debacle today. apnews.com/article/trum...

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

So much winning.

Oh.

CNBC is calling it the Tesla Chain Saw Massacre. 🤣

A US judge extended his order blocking federal authorities from deporting a detained Columbia University student, in a case that has become a flashpoint of the Trump administration's pledge to deport some pro-Palestinian college activists reut.rs/4iHWx4N