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Epi, stats, R, Linux & FOSS enthusiast. Trying to get into photography, so expect various badly taken photos of birds and landscapes.
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Lmao

Oof.

Week 7 of my Bayes stats course, now deep in multilevel models, correlated effects, centered and non-centered parameterizations, diag(σ)LZ ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn (link to lectures: github.com/rmcelreath/s...)

Lol 😂 media is not holding back now 😂 this is way too funny not to share it

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#NIH accounts for 47 billion = 25% of US federal research funding, essential for their world-leading position in bio-medical research. Trump just shut it down. No foreign adversary in their wildest wet dream could achieve such a devastating act of traitorous sabotage with a stroke of a pen.

Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.

Nowhere else is the term #BiodiversityCrisis more fitting than in Ireland—a nation nearly bereft of healthy, native ecosystems. Here, invasive species are protected while native species like wolves and lynx are barred from returning.

The magic of an Irish rainforest 🌏

British running legend Paula Radcliffe is returning to the Boston Marathon in her 50s. runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/fo... #runchat

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

MEMTAB 2025 - last week to submit your abstracts! Showcase your methodology innovation for how to undertake research of tests, models and biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring uobevents.eventsair.com/memtab-2025/...

Evolution journal's editorial board resign en masse in protest over Elsevier's governance. arstechnica.com/science/2024... #science

A good hiking tip!

Boxing Day was created to watch the extended film editions of Lord of the Rings back to back.

Google finally did it. Is it time to switch to Firefox? I believe users should be in control of what they can install and use on their desktop or laptop. There's uBlock Origin Lite, which replaces the original uBlock Origin for Chrome and similar browsers. Give it a try.

What share of cancers are caused by infections?

This sparks joy.

let's be honest here, anyone who claims to be "passionate" about Jira, Confluence, and the entire Atlassian suite... well, they're clearly unhinged. they probably enjoy filling out TPS reports too

WTF? 😳 OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment: Suchir Balaji, 26, claimed the company broke copyright law. Information he held was expected to play a key part in lawsuits against the OpenAI www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/o...

Fuck.

Stop everything! 👀 The one and only #BigGardenBirdwatch is back for January 2025... and registration is now open! Who's ready to join the count? https://www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happening/big-garden-birdwatch?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=bgbw&sourcecode=WEBSCM0058 👈

#RStats {dbi.table}: Database Queries Using 'data.table' Syntax Query database tables over a 'DBI' connection using 'data.table' syntax. Attach database schemas to the search path. Automatically merge using FK constraints. Supports DuckDB! Looks interesting! […]

Really interesting piece from @tortoisemedia.bsky.social but I can't get over just how close the US is to Syrian incarceration rates

PC fan grill makes a shockinglx excellent Christmas tree ornament. Hell, it is even christian looking lol

Noooo 😂

Accurate

Underreported: Elon just picked the head of NASA—a massive conflict-of-interest that will damage a government entity that he partners with, depends on, and in some cases competes with. The nominated NASA director is a high-school dropout billionaire who is pals with Musk. He has no business at NASA.