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I would simply prompt "pretend you're a 60-year-old republican on 2026-10-08 and fill out this survey"

Surveys show that at least where I live, the 21st century has seen people shift their values from prioritizing their own needs towards prioritizing the needs of others.

This is absolutely insane. Don't pay for-profit publishers APCs. Don't let your collaborators do it either. Post preprints of your work, post your work on pubmed central, but for fucks sake stop sending hard-earned grant dollars to these publishing conglomerates

So if 40/42 studies in the meta are cross-sectional, it’s very reasonable to alternatively conclude that people who have more attention and self-regulation problems are more likely to be drawn to scrolling TikToks

$3.7 billion spent on APCs in 2025. That's ~1000X more than it costs to run bioRxiv/medRxiv. Worth thinking about as we consider how to fund infrastructure... arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16322

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Now someone do the same but for op-ed pieces.

Data Point

There is now StanCon 2026 Uppsala playlist www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... At the moment talks by @mjskay.com, @aseyboldt.bsky.social, @paulbuerkner.com, @charlesm993.bsky.social are up, and we'll keep uploading more during the week

Data documentation

I think "meh" is the correct response to the paper, as I think our response points out: doi.org/10.31234/osf...

I've finally decided a task I keep doing over and over at work merits building an #rstats package for it. This will the first package I'll make. Wish me luck.

I have convinced my partner that we should start playing Blood Bowl, but their condition is that they get to play as the Gnomes. It might be that we will both have to play Gnomes. Look at these minis!!! (Especially the fox with the ball and the goose).

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

4k in APCs very well spent

Go Team Log-Odds!

Probably the last one I'm finishing before summer vacation is over. I'm quite happy with how the color gradations on the skin and the loincloth turned out with this one!

𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐲𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐭 v0.7.0 now available on CRAN 🎉 This is big release, with loads of new features. Same tiny footprint, though ;-) Short highlight thread below, borrowing examples from our gallery: grantmcdermott.com/tinyplot/vig...

Mina the Hollower definitely deserves all the praise it's getting. Fantastic, challenging game.

Many forget this, and we all suffer for it.

Summer: a great time to take up a new hobby.

Summer holiday is here, except for my laptop, which has to run MCMC chains for the next couple of days.

Yes, unnormalized posterior density function, you _are_ enough.

New data on the efficacy of the Australia social media ban are worse than I thought. A new study in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) reports that over 85% of teens under 16 are still using social media. The 'friction' introduced by the ban seems very minimal. www.bmj.com/content/393/...