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!

Gidon Frischkorn

gidon-frischkorn.bsky.social

20 October 2026 06:38

bmm 1.4.1 is on CRAN! Signal detection theory & multinomial processing tree models join bmm: hierarchical Bayesian measurement models of cognition, written as brms-style formulas and fit with Stan. Get the new version now, with: install.packages("bmm") 🧵 #rstats #brms #PsychMethods