Get over it, Gregor Samsa.

I'm currently tweaking some ggplots to make them pretty & readable and this is most definitely the most productive ChatGPT use case in my daily work.
I know what I want, I can articulate it in natural language, I can check whether the output is right.

Headline in the New York Times, March 26, 2025: “Elmo and Elon Musk are Cited as G.O.P. Lawmakers Lay Into PBS and NPR”. Photo of politician holding up a picture of Elmo accompanies the story.

That’s one heck of a garden-path sentence.

Excited for #HSP2025 this week! Currently en route to DC/Maryland ✈️

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Spring conference season is kicking off… holding a poster workshop next month for undergraduate researchers. What poster tips or tricks do you have to share?

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Really wish some of the conversation around protecting higher ed focused on local, public colleges and universities that most students attend and that communities really value. I think we’d discover that support for higher ed is much stronger than we’re led to believe.

And we have a release date: "Psycholinguistics: A Very Short Introduction" comes out January 23, 2025!

The brilliant Steve Luck (not yet on Bluesky) was awarded the UC Davis Prize yesterday by Chancellor Gary May. This is the highest honor UC Davis gives to a faculty member academicaffairs.ucdavis.edu/uc-davis-pri...

Congratulations Steve!

12 members of Fernanda Ferreira's lab posing in front of a UC Davis sign/half-wall on a beautiful November early afternoon. The photo is a mixture of black jackets, pink overalls, folded arms, blonde, red, brown, and black hair, and smiling faces.

New lab photo (i.e., new [lab photo], not [new lab] photo)

Have you ever wondered why the "normal" OLS regression formulas and the matrix notation give the same estimates? I realized I’d never seen it explained, so I dug in and wrote about it. If you're curious too, you can check out my post: josue-rodriguez.github.io/posts/2024-1...

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Well, I’ve FINALLY made the switch over to Bluesky. I feel like I’m late to the game, but better late than never, right? Happy to be here! 😇