Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛

rmcelreath.bsky.social

22 October 2026 19:46

Many years ago, I was working in rural Tanzania, there was a sick old woman who needed to go to clinic in town. But she had never been in a motor vehicle before, was terrified of them. She refused to get in the truck. In the end her daughter got her drunk, we drove her to clinic, and all was well

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛

rmcelreath.bsky.social

21 October 2026 14:29

Lecture 2 is online - The Post-Darwinian (aka Modern) Synthesis. The problem of blending, maintaining variation, and extended variation; forces of evolution; rough history of population genetics, its importance to the study of human evolution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cekf...

Stefano Sangiovanni

stesangio.bsky.social

21 October 2026 14:29

The Meloni government’s algorithm has remained remarkably consistent since its first "anti-rave decree" in 2022: Something happens -> emergency decree -> new criminal offence I'd call this a remarkably simple finite-state machine :D

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛

rmcelreath.bsky.social

21 October 2026 14:28

I have just encountered this 30-40 olives meme format. I feel attacked. You really *can* eat 30 to 40 olives for dinner. I have done it several times. I wrote large sections of my book on olives. You will certainly not regret eating 30 to 40 olives.

The {gt}/great_tables Packages

gt-package.bsky.social

20 October 2026 06:39

Great Tables v1.1.0 is out, three weeks after v1.0.0. The two releases add fraction and chemical formula formatters, value-based styling, multi-column stubs, decimal alignment, diverging and row-wise data_color(), and so much more. Here's a post: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-10... Check it out!