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I don't know how else to say this except for bluntly: It is not normal to have outbreaks of preventable diseases in wealthy countries. It is not normal to have children dying from preventable diseases in wealthy countries. This is the first US measles death in 10 years. There should be none.

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"Programming" in 2025

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We don’t want to hear about your bingo card.

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Want to learn about computational social science for free and launch interdisciplinary research projects? We are so excited to announce there will be 26 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science this year! Apply to one of them here: sicss.io/locations

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Nice write up on lazy evaluation and #rstats by @maellesalmon.bsky.social , @frick.ws blog.r-hub.io/2025/02/13/l...

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Information hygiene request - please circulate & take action. I’m getting bombarded with frantic fragments. Information flow is crucial right now, and every link in the chain matters. This is a concrete place where you can play a massive role in improving transmission. Start with SIFT method:

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bsky.app/profile/brod... new release of rix. Every #Rstats user interested in reproducibility should give rix a try. @brodriguesco.bsky.social created this great pkg and I put a lot of work into automatically fetching the remote dep of R GitHub pkg of a similar date. @tommytang.bsky.social

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This is almost inevitable given the level of CAPEX being spent on AI and the marginal improvements.

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#statstab #274 Matching Methods for Confounder Adjustment Thoughts: You may've heard that for causal inference in observational studies you need to do some stuff. Matching is one of those. #matching #causalinference #observational #bias #probability doi.org/10.1093/epir...

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If you work with mass spectronomy data, my friend Randall Julian just published the book on using #rstats: www.amazon.com/Programming-...

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A spring clean of the #rstats {datasauRus} package on its way to CRAN

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In case you ever wondered about the differences between magrittr pipe and base pipe 🤔 This table is taken from a great stackoverflow answer by @GeorgKindermann stackoverflow.com/questions/67... #rstats #dataviz #phd

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It's time to go through my feed and unfollow any political diatribe accounts. I need to prioritize my mental health over the next four years.

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So, anything happening today?

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The financial cost to the US of letting Ukraine fall: www.aei.org/research-pro...

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I want to remind everyone that your local library is both physical AND digital. You hate streaming everything because the price is ridiculous? Library. You hate ads because they're every 3 mins or less? Library. You want to reduce your digital footprint? Library. You want sourced info? Library.

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Myers-Briggs tests (or really any personality tests)

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In my latest paper published this month (with my amazing co-authors not on bsky), we examined the effects of extraverted behavior on trust in a crowdfunding context. Available here: jsbs.scholasticahq.com/article/1240...

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Looks like all the pundits who were recently election experts, before that Middle-East conflict experts, before that Ruassia-Ukraine experts, before that NY hush money payment experts, are now wildfire experts. Having an opinion column in WP/NYT/WSJ and being an expert on everything is impressive.

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Another #rstats #easystats package is published as "stable" release on CRAN: {datawizard}! The one-stop-solution for so many data wrangling and preparation tasks (reshaping, selecting, filtering, variable standardization, centering, recoding, ...), super light-weight easystats.github.io/datawizard/

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@davekarpf.bsky.social I'm assigning Graham's "Founder Mode" and your substack, "Paul Graham and the Cult of the Founder" in week one of my Scaling Entrepreneurial Firms undergrad capstone. Hoping it sets the tone for some healthy debate about entrepreneurship and startup culture this semester.

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Over the past few days, I have been collating a list of academic sleuths. This is my list so far (see image). I'd like to thank everybody who has suggested other people. The current (possible) additions I have are (in no particular order) - and I should have known about some of these - my bad: 🧵

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I’d rather slam my fingers in a kitchen drawer than have appliances that are engaging. It’s exactly like when LG thought we wanted internet in our fridge. What’s wrong with these people? Solve heart disease, not conversational refrigeration.

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"A study of federally funded research projects in the United States estimated that principal investigators spend on average about 45% of their time on administrative activities related to applying for and managing projects rather than conducting active research" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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One of the decisions I am proudest of in my role as first year lead has been switching to an open access textbook. I can't control inflation and the cost of living but I can reduce unnecessary additional costs. We use Open Stax openstax.org/details/book... #AcademicSky

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We have a new paper explaining all the ways you can use natural language processing to analyze text data in @natrevpsych.bsky.social We provide user friendly recommendations for using NLP to ensure rigour and reproducibility Here is a free link: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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I made a reverse chronological feed of everyone I follow with reposts and replies removed, so only original posts and quote posts appear. There's a lot less rage bait and I enjoy this feed a lot more than the default Following feed. You can make your own using @graze.social like this.

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Instead of celebrating NYE, I’m celebrating submitting on NYE manuscript revisions I’ve been struggling with since October.

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Still relevant

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Meanwhile, from @nytimes.com “The S&P 500 … rose about 23.3 percent this year, roughly matching its gain in 2023. It was the first time the benchmark index had risen more than 20 percent in consecutive years since 1998.”

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