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Posts by Jan Savinc

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New #JobVacancy!

Join the Social Care Linked Data Lab (CARE Lab) as their new Research Officer & Data Scientist.

If you have skills in routine data analysis in health or social care, we encourage you to apply!

Apply by 28th January:
🔗 www.swansea.ac.uk/jobs-at-swan...

3 months ago 1 1 0 0

The problem with these LLMs is they're too probabilisistic!

3 months ago 2 0 1 0

Amazing, will check it out!

4 months ago 3 0 0 0

Is this an existing feature? So I don't need to manually position geom_text() anymore?

4 months ago 1 0 1 0

oh damn

(it's almost like we need the arts? to survive?)

4 months ago 28 7 0 0
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👾 We've put together a supercut to show exactly what “interactive” means inside #ggplot2 [un]charted 👇

The project became far more ambitious than we first planned, but seeing how rich, detailed, and interactive it has become makes Yan and me genuinely proud of what we’ve built 🚀

#rstats #dataviz

4 months ago 33 3 2 0
The Economic Impact of Brexit Other

Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

4 months ago 3835 1726 145 183

it's spelled ghiblets, not giblets, after all

5 months ago 2 0 0 0

Looks like the link to register was cut short - I was able to register here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/alice-malpas...

5 months ago 0 0 0 0
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I agree, but the barrier to entry is so much lower for using an LLM than SO, and it takes a lot of skill in working out if a SO post actually addresses your problem (and solves it)...

5 months ago 1 0 1 0

Now that the Equinox has been and gone, I rename the enormous folder of unread pdfs on my desktop "Autumn Reading", by way of marking the passing of the seasons and the inexorable march of time.

6 months ago 85 13 5 0
RELEASE: Identifying post-release service use disparities from a novel data-linkage study into mental health and substance use service utilisation by people released from Scottish prisons | ...

Hear some preliminary findings from the RELEASE study at ADR-UK next week - post-imprisonment mental health and substance use related healthcare contacts

Abstract -> ijpds.org/article/view...

led by @jsavinc.bsky.social @kjellgren.bsky.social

@adruk2025.bsky.social
#JusticeHealth
#LinkedData

7 months ago 3 2 0 0

Really exciting new archaeology report showing that two people who died in 7th century Kent had West African grandfathers. It’s suggested they’d travelled here as traders and settled thanks to the Byzantine Empire’s trade network that linked North Africa to Britain

8 months ago 725 225 20 23

On behalf of a fab team - I’ll be talking about headline results from our justice health research programmes biggest study so far at #bsc2025 today

Shout out to @kjellgren.bsky.social @jsavinc.bsky.social and all the colleagues from Scotland involved 🙌🏻

9 months ago 4 1 0 1
A cartoon showing various activity at an airport, including an extorted luxury jet, an exploding X rocket, a ketamine enthusiast wheeling a barrow of money to his plane, many ICE officers -- some taking people to an El Salvador plane, another with a zip-tied child being blocked by a federal judge -- scientists boarding a plane to Europe, a medical self-educator covered with pox, and more. All the people are represented by various animals. The story is made in the style of a Richard Starry children's book.  Alt text borrowed from Mastodon..

A cartoon showing various activity at an airport, including an extorted luxury jet, an exploding X rocket, a ketamine enthusiast wheeling a barrow of money to his plane, many ICE officers -- some taking people to an El Salvador plane, another with a zip-tied child being blocked by a federal judge -- scientists boarding a plane to Europe, a medical self-educator covered with pox, and more. All the people are represented by various animals. The story is made in the style of a Richard Starry children's book. Alt text borrowed from Mastodon..

“A Busy, Busy Day at the Airport”

By Ruben Bolling

Genius. Click in.

10 months ago 4694 2029 25 128

Pleased our paper is out today: relational influences on help-seeking for mental health and substance use among marginalised people bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6/e090349.full

We present follow on research with justice-involved ppl @ DRNS conference later @drnscot.bsky.social

Team ⬇️

#JusticeHealth

10 months ago 6 8 1 0
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I see aid and meaning
banned at the border
#KeepTellingofGaza

1 year ago 39 17 1 0
Research Associate in Educational Inequalities Job Purpose To make a leading contribution to the specific research objectives of the project “Exploring context, factors and approaches to educational exclusions and absences” and the wider resear...

A job is available in the SCADR network at Glasgow University: www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

1 year ago 0 0 0 0
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Buy, Borrow, Die: How Billionaires Legally Avoid Paying Taxes While the Rest of Us Can't A Step-by-Step Guide to How the Ultra-Wealthy Minimize Their Tax Burden While Their Fortunes Multiply

As markets plummet again today from Trump's chaotic economic policies, ask yourself: Why would billionaires back policies that tank their own stock values?

It’s the taxes.

I wrote a step-by-step explainer of how billionaires avoid paying taxes. People are often surprised when I explain it.🧵

1 year ago 918 405 32 46
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When Journal, Scientific Society, and Community Values Clash - Absolutely Maybe A process I’ve been involved with at a journal recently exploded. It was meant to resolve a controversy about a publication, not…

Philosophers of science may have heard from afar about a powerful group of scientists having established careers based on the efficacy of a specific treatment for ME, which causes permanent harm to most who try it and can cause death.

The saga continues absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/01/24/w...

1 year ago 8 2 1 0

"[Gobbledegook] acts as a canary in the coalmine: if gobbledegook is published in your journal, it's an indicator that you need to look very carefully at your editorial processes, and act immediately to remove editors who let this stuff in."

1 year ago 6 4 0 0
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Seeing Theory A visual introduction to probability and statistics.

Came across the excellent visualisations at seeing-theory.brown.edu for the first time. Really recommended for learning/refreshing intuitions about probability distributions!

1 year ago 3 0 0 0
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Thank you to @dataelixir.bsky.social for sharing my latest blog post, "Tips for data entry in Excel" in their latest newsletter. 🌟
cghlewis.com/blog/excel_e...

1 year ago 13 1 0 0

You have my relatablefeelingsagreement.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

Migrated from X, feeling zen.

1 year ago 3 1 2 0
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