Athul Sudheesh

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

RDM Weekly - Issue 028 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

Issue 28 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬

➡️ Can you trust data collected on MTurk? @cskay.bsky.social
➡️ Reproducible Code Guide @britishecologicalsociety.org
➡️ Posit Cheatsheets @posit.co
➡️ Education Data Explorer @urbaninstitute.bsky.social
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

Have you ever quickly thrown a survey together and then ended up with data that was unusable?

It's because creating a quality instrument takes time. Taking your survey through these phases of pilot testing ahead of time, will result in better data.

datamgmtinedresearch.com/collect#pilo...

if I see another academic describe LLMs - a tech owned by a small elite of white billionaires, built from extracting data from humans and minerals from the earth, and refined by the labor of underpaid workers in the global south - as an ‘important tool for decolonization’ I may simply just explode

course schedule as a table. Available at the link in the post.

I'm teaching Statistical Rethinking again starting Jan 2026. This time with live lectures, divided into Beginner and Experienced sections. Will be a lot more work for me, but I hope much better for students.

I will record lectures & all will be found at this link: github.com/rmcelreath/s...

RDM Weekly - Issue 025 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

Issue 25 of RDM Weekly is out! 📬

It includes:
➡️ Make Your Open Data More Useable @collin-schwantes.bsky.social
➡️ PIDs 101 - Webinar @sparcopen.bsky.social
➡️ Cleaning Medical Data with R @pipinghotdata.com
➡️ Lab Manual Template @martonkovacs.bsky.social

rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

The masses just want to automate everything that takes effort to master: law, medicine, research…(the list goes on). And do what?? (Doomscrolling & infinite shopping, I guess)

It was painful to see the news of Dept. Of Stats being shutdown at University of Nebraska.

I am going to avoid QTing as the intention is not to dunk. However complaints that stats is "too hard" and there should be tools to automate it miss the mark. Stats is a profession that requires hard work, like most others. They ARE hard. That's why you partner with experts.
#statsky #rstats #medsky

Inspiring, though provoking, disagreeable 😉.

Great to have @lakens.bsky.social as a keynote at our third metascience for Machine Learning workshop
metascienceforml.github.io

(2/2) Ppl with adversarial mindset are just waiting to ask questions and tear down ideas even without first trying to understand what the other person is saying or have the patience to listen to the response that’s addressing the question they raised.

(1/2) What I have noticed is Constructive vs Adversarial isn’t just with paper reviewing, it’s someone’s basic mindset. And it’s almost impossible to collaborate with a peer with adversarial mindset.

If experimenters regularly thought like modelers and actually did use synthetic data to vet their designs, they'd be running orders of magnitudes fewer experiments and the literature wouldn't be so saturated with empirical garbage.

Have you ever wondered what causality really is?

In this week's issue of causalpython.io Weekly:

1. David Rohde on whether it makes sense to talk about "causality" as a unified concept

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#CausalSky #StatSky #EpiSky

Interested in measurement? NCME has expanded its list of PhD programs in North America (82 and counting). Our community is strong.
Landing page: www.ncme.org/students/con...
List: bit.ly/ncmephdprograms
Map: bit.ly/ncmephdmap
@ncme38.bsky.social

Saying “Oh, don’t learn to code because we have LLMs” is as absurd as telling someone “Don’t learn math because we have calculators”

Can I please have a normal day without seeing LLM/AI keywords on everything I see or listen? 😒

LLM is a tech/science epidemic! There is more to science and tech than these language models.

I keep coming across new lists of education research (and adjacent) job opportunities so if you are looking for work, check out these links. 👇

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www.purposephilcareer.com

This is my go to https://app.diagrams.net

Regurgitation, get it published and call it a day..🤡

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality, Second edition is about research design, specifically concerning research that uses observational data to make a causal inference. It is s...

The second edition of The Effect is now available for preorder! This version has a whole new chapter on Partial Identification, a considerable update on staggered treatment and control variables in DID, and zillions of other little updates throughout. www.routledge.com/The-Effect-A...

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Despite this great advise, as a newbie I have gone with high risk high reward stocks and got burnt badly. But I don’t regret because I learned a lot! That was my burn-in period (MCMC analogy).

The advice I got from my PhD advisor when I started the program was: consider your research career like a stock portfolio. Have a healthy mix of high risk high reward stocks along with some mutual fund stocks that are low risk, low reward.

On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a

I read this it obviously rings true. I do wonder wether one unifyng call to action for manegement, unions, academics, and yes administrators could be to collectively truely optimize the Universities expenditures. A genuine anti-DOGE... 🧵👇

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."

Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

How about…
If you don’t stand up against government crippling of science, we will lose to China

Let’s not put the cart before the horse

Causal understanding is not a point of view, it’s a point of do | Aeon Essays Humans have a superpower that makes us uniquely capable of controlling the world: our ability to understand cause and effect

Suffused with causality | Humans have a superpower that makes us uniquely capable of controlling the world: our ability to understand cause and effect | by Mariel Goddu aeon.co/essays/causa...

💯 agree! You need to be really strong from within to be vulnerable. But the people who just focus on showing “strength” doesn’t seem to understand this. Sometimes those are the people who are the most insecure inside.

Them sharing their experience is going to have a tremendous impact on my career & personal life, because it changed how I look at it and how I want to tackle it. What makes a company great place to work is people like this, not free snacks or ping-pong tables!

After all, we are not just a group of robots; we are human beings with emotions and vulnerabilities. Embracing this openness can foster a more supportive and understanding environment for everyone.