Wonderful opportunity to engage with the community and pick up some new skills with colleagues!

The hidden power keeping wages low For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality.

For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality. n.pr/4e0RHRi

Does PPT still ignore .width?

Fun projects with hackster.io
(there are 4 parts)
and lots of related examples.
Cool low-cost tech.

Mastering e-Paper displays (Part 1) A guide to exploring the fascinating world of e-paper displays and their applications. By Profe Tolocka.

I’m in love with the little examples on top of this intro to hacking with epaper displays www.hackster.io/etolocka/mas...

Big Book of R

Link for those new to Big Book of R
www.bigbookofr.com

A note for @oscarbaruffa.com and the Big Book of R (a highly recommended resource) - this RMRWR book has moved from bookdown.com to posit.
peter-higgins-rmrwr.share.connect.posit.cloud

Sharing the free e-book
Reproducible Medical Research with R
peter-higgins-rmrwr.share.connect.posit.cloud

Need to know what Italian people really think of Wes putting Ranch on Pizza.
Are they still horrified?
Or is it turning into a Wes-inspired trend?

Is she arguing that it is just a very efficient Darwin Test if you kill your own kids with raw milk?
And that we need more efficient natural selection processes?

I've Been Pooping All Wrong YouTube video by vlogbrothers

Looking the rise of MeD-influencers at academic institutions
(aka Trisha Pasricha).
I think the academic institutions are broken.
Puzzling through what is value anymore.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQVP...

Announcing quarto-timeline quarto-timeline is a new Quarto extension that helps you make timeline visualizations.

I'm back with another quarto extension, now presenting quarto-timelines!

Customizable timelines in html and revealjs slides, different layout and fragment support included

emilhvitfeldt.com/post/quarto-...
#quarto

"Preprinting Does Not Meet Science’s Duty of Care Responsibility to Society" raises questions such as "why do they talk of science as a monolithic thing but only discuss a narrow corner of it?" and "what the hell?" journal.trialanderror.org/pub/preprint...

If choosing the more durable oral typhoid vaccine (live), for how long afterward should you avoid immunosuppressed patients?
Mild IS - on anti-TNF vs
More intense IS - on chemo

Oof. it is a rough one.

McKinsey to contribute $125 million to Purdue bankruptcy over opioid sales advice Consulting firm McKinsey & Co has agreed to contribute $125 million to Purdue Pharma's bankruptcy settlement, resolving ​potential legal claims over advice it provided to Purdue on how to “turbocharge” sales of its ‌addictive painkiller OxyContin, according to a court filing submitted late Wednesday.

McKinsey to contribute $125 million to Purdue bankruptcy over opioid sales advice reut.rs/4vmXxm9

Perhaps high-quality health care for the elderly that extends voting lifespan is actually a problem that prevents political progress. Boston, cut it out.

and crushing Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, because he could not understand the jokes.

Bollards in the middle so cars can't fit

Acute bollardopenia.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Afraid so.
Waiting on Twitter to fulfill my request to shut it down entirely.
Apparently they are waiting a bit as it seems they are pro-crypto scams...

UM Chinese researcher dies after alleged questioning by feds China is calling on the U.S. to probe death of researcher after he was subjected to what they called 'hostile questioning' by federal authorities.

NEW: University of Michigan Chinese researcher dies after allegedly "hostile questioning" by federal agents

www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Thanks - is there a good venue to seek help with Quarto / typst for academic posters?
It is a bit wonky.

Nobody tell Andy what is going on with NSF grants...

Butter-grilled nutella Uncrustables, I assume?

👆Conclusion👆 of everyone else in the world after the 2026 World Cup

I would guess that {targets} is part of the icky overhead that @clauswilke.com is referring to.
Makes a lot of sense at a multimillion dollar company like @elilillyandcompany.bsky.social , but a lot less for a single student project when the student is learning science, R, & functions all at once.

You can even change the font color, by including

fill: rgb("#0027FC"),

in the font specifications

You can format the font of a single text chunk, or even a single word, with a code chunk:

```{=typst}
// format a single text chunk without changing the text that comes later

#text(
font: "Atkinson Hyperlegible",
size: 28pt,
weight: "bold"
)[
text between square brackets
]

```