5 ways NOAA research is making your life better — right now Safer drinking water, improved forecasts are just some ways NOAA is working for you

5 ways NOAA Research is making your life better *right now*:

1. Improving wildfire forecasts

2. Ensuring safe drinking water

3. Better flood maps, helping communities plan

4. Mapping the seafloor

5. Sequencing fish genes for a healthy fishery

💙 @noaa.gov 🌊

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Statisticians & data scientists are gathering in Salt Lake City this April. Book your exhibitor table today!

Book an exhibitor table at #SDSS25. View our prospectus here for exhibitor, sponsor, and advertising options: ww2.amstat.org/meetings/sds...

Data science meets social good this autumn! Inspired by my work with @royalstatsoc.bsky.social , the hybrid Data for Good Hackathon will match data scientists with charities to tackle real-world challenges.

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#TechForGood #AIForImpact #SocialImpact #DataScience #Python #R #Coding

Buy audiobooks & support local bookstores Libro.fm makes it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through local bookstores.

I didn’t realise Libro.fm was available in the uk. Like Audible, but not owned by Bezos. So I’ve binned my audible account. Your nominated bookshop gets a small cut of your membership purchases and a larger cut of a la carte sales.

httr2 1.1.0 - Tidyverse httr2 1.1.0 introduces powerful new streaming capabilities with `req_perform_connection()`, as well as comprehensive URL manipulation tools, improved AWS support, and a bunch of bug fixes.

httr2 1.1.0 is out now: www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/01.... Includes way better tools for streaming data (as used by ellmer.tidyverse.org), new url manipulation functions, and a _bunch_ of minor improvements and bug fixes #rstats

READERS!

Streetreads, a community led library for the unhoused & homeless - which operated from the bookshop basement in earlier days - is a vital, nourishing, creative space and service that deserves your support!

Pls read/share & donate if you can: www.justgiving.com/campaign/str...

Immigrant workers are helping investigate labor abuses. Will Trump let them stay? Under Biden, thousands of workers who experienced wage theft and other abuses have been granted protection from deportation and authorization to work so they can participate in labor investigations.

Under Biden, thousands of workers who experienced wage theft and other abuses have been granted protection from deportation and authorization to work so they can participate in labor investigations.

every trans author I know is currently unclear on whether their books will be banned in the next four years or not, buy trans books NOW, in paper

Demons & Death Drops: An Anthology of Queer Performance Horror | Little Ghosts Demons and Death Drops An Anthology of Queer Performance Horror is a static theater of horrors and joys set on the stage of queerness. Here, there be monsters, music, puppets, hallucinatory prose, poe...

Little ghosts bookshop in Canada has a good selection of books and they self-publish a lot of anthologies like the attached. They ship to the US too.
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Planning your 2025?

See the confirmed and tentative dates for R Dev Days this year: https://contributor.r-project.org/events/r-dev-days/

Save the dates to collaborate on contributions to base #RStats and R Contributor infrastructure. More details on the above link!

Excellent presentation by Linda Tropp today @durhampsych.bsky.social discussing her work on intergroup contact in divided societies.

#SocialPsyc #Psychology