The Bayesian Workflow book is coming!
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/04/16/t...

Ok so I might be flappy birding starfling

Myst (1993)

Moon and back but phone be like Houston I’m your problem

omg astronauts made it all the way to the dang moon and then all the way home and now they can't get the satellite phone to work and NASA is basically like "hey okay but did you press the right button okay so just a sec we'll call you back" and I'm 100% convinced they're calling tech support

Now that's a beautiful sight

Run, calf cramp and BIG moon.

No pic, moon declined.

Run, calf cramp and BIG moon.

No pic, moon declined.

Shitty Castles On The Art of Digging Fake Moats

Reading about Spinoza and Leibniz brought me back to a question I struggle with since I was a kid: Why would you build a castle that is not a castle?
notefields.substack.com/p/shitty-cas...

Octopus image with the text "The Octotypic Mind" overlaid

In which we create Mind Hives

aneeshsathe.com/the-octotypi...

Experienced proper expectation collapse today. Surfacing good hypotheses is trivial now.

Monarch butterfly population increases 64% Two new reports estimate a 64% increase in species population and a significant decrease in forest degradation in the butterfly's winter home

I need this good news.

Coffee. Claude. Code. Crash.

Repeat

Disclaimer: haven’t watched yet.

Was he maybe counteracting the spin of artificial gravity?

A circle with little circles representing a centrifuge with two tubes next to each other that says NO and the same pic but with the tubes in holes opposite each other that says yes

Like this

Emoji killed irony boy

Teleology emerges from exapted entropy.

Every few years my brain tells me that we are the kind of human that smokes a pipe. Unfortunately for my brain the cancer causing thing has been too well proven for me to act on that impulse.

I do own 2 pipes though. If not for science I’d be an amazing Gandalf

Caution: Culture now descending into Life. Exaptation materialisation imminent.

Claimed “100% sensitivity and specificity in differentiating autistic individuals from typically developing controls using retinal photographs” . . . yeah, right.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/03/21/c...

Editing was load-bearing proof of work

For a recent lab meeting, I wrote up a grab bag of ways to think about your development as a researcher during a PhD: emerge-lab.github.io/papers/an-un...

Sharing in case folks find it useful or have feedback!

Data Organization in Spreadsheets Karl W. Broman & Kara H. Woo Pages 2-10 | Received 01 Jun 2017, Accepted author version posted online: 29 Sep 2017, Published online: 24 Apr 2018 1. Introduction 2. Be Consistent 3. Choose Good Names for Things 4. Write Dates as YYYY-MM-DD 5. No Empty Cells 6. Put Just One Thing in a Cell 7. Make it a Rectangle 8. Create a Data Dictionary 9. No Calculations in the Raw Data Files 10. Do Not Use Font Color or Highlighting as Data 11. Make Backups 12. Use Data Validation to Avoid Errors 13. Save the Data in Plain Text Files ABSTRACT Spreadsheets are widely used software tools for data entry, storage, analysis, and visualization. Focusing on the data entry and storage aspects, this article offers practical recommendations for organizing spreadsheet data to reduce errors and ease later analyses. The basic principles are: be consistent, write dates like YYYY-MM-DD, do not leave any cells empty, put just one thing in a cell, organize the data as a single rectangle (with subjects as rows and variables as columns, and with a single header row), create a data dictionary, do not include calculations in the raw data files, do not use font color or highlighting as data, choose good names for things, make backups, use data validation to avoid data entry errors, and save the data in plain text files.

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Chief Executive Officer - New York City, New York (US) job with arXiv | 37961678 arXiv seeks its first CEO to champion open, free scientific discovery and guide the platform’s next chapter as an independent nonprofit.

The arXiv is becoming a nonprofit separate from Cornell, and they're looking for a CEO. Please repost to let good candidates know!
@dabacon.tachyon.institute, @harrowing.bsky.social, @michaelnielsen.bsky.social
jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

Am I sleepy or is this context rot?

ArcadeDB looks fun

Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis Gene expression patterns underlie development, but their systematic detection in whole embryos has remained elusive. We introduce a whole-embryo imaging platform using multiplexed error-robust fluores...

Very happy to see this out. 👏 @yinanwan.bsky.social
Bogdan Bintu and team.
Whole-embryo spatial transcriptomics at subcellular resolution from gastrulation to organogenesis | free link Science www.science.org/eprint/5MHTM...

Our brains are AirBnBs for identities