Benjamin Hlina, PhD

What’s the model structure?

Protest with your pocket books!

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Frozen Toronto harbour

Frozen ships in -22°C in to Toronto harbour

We kidnapped a kid. But his parents didn’t do exactly what we asked so we fed the child. As you can see, we, the kidnappers, are clearly the good guys. We will not take any questions.

That’s just not right…

What are your ins and outs for 2026? ✨🌊

Great resource on spatial analysis

Thanks for the updated share! I do really like the idea of treating a shiny development like pkg development.

Thanks for the help and sharing. Are there more active or recent repos considering one of them was last active 6 yrs ago and the other being archived?

I like the looks of {golem} but would like to see how to integrate it into the app ect. The app is completely modularized at this point. Does {golem} provide {roxygen2} like documentation abilities?

I am building a shiny app that interacts with a pgSQL db this is hosted on AWS RDS with the app being deployed on an AWS EC2. I have made dockerfile and GHA that build GHCR and deploy the app but stumbled upon {golem} a bit after the fact.

Do ppl have examples of usage of {golem}.
#Rstats #Rshiny

All the material for my Bayesian Data Analysis course is available online, including the lectures, which we re-recorded this fall (some of them by @aloctavodia.bsky.social and Noa Kallioinen while I was on vacation). The video links are listed in the schedule at avehtari.github.io/BDA_course_A...

There's been much talk about the "Just a Job" piece in Nature Human Behavior — absent an ability of many to read it. The author is here, @laraffington.bsky.social. In the post below, she shares a link available to all.

Tabula works well

tabula.technology

I would be more than happy to help out - off the bat usethis::use_github_actions() will give you a base to work off of and from there I would imagine {kaltoa} has some more in depth setup due to its reliance on C++, meaning you'll need to edit the yaml.

A map of the United States split into 4 differently-colored regions; clockwise from top right: Northwest, Northeast/Great Lakes, Southeast, and Southwest

Travel from the comfort of your own home this #25DaysofFishmas as we explore fishes from all across the US each day in December. Best part? No sleeping on air mattresses in guest rooms!

The road trip kicks off with fishes from the southeastern US on Monday Dec. 1!

#30daymapchallenge | Day 22 Data: Natural Earth | The Great Islands

Earlier this summer I finished this print version of my map from last year depicting our Great Lakes as islands. Been trying to learn more about lighting techniques in Blender—I think this was a big leap forward from 2024 version!

Today is World Fisheries Day! 🎣

Fishing has been an essential part of human history for thousands of years and continues to support communities around the world. In recent decades, technological advances have expanded the range of fishing vessels and increased their efficiency,

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Closing the fisheries will not change the decline. There are many environmental factors here that are largely out of our control that are causing the decline. Tighter envi. Regs, will help, and citizen doing their part. By closing it you end up ruining many people’s livelihood.

Michigan lawmakers seek $500M to stop mussels, save Great Lakes whitefish - Bridge Michigan US Reps. Debbie Dingell and Tim Walberg are planning legislation to boost research to control invasive mussels, following Bridge Michigan reporting about the impending collapse of whitefish.

Michigan lawmakers want to greatly increase funding for invasive mussel control research in the #GreatLakes to $500 million over the next 10 years - as Great Lakes Fishery Commission's Greg McClinchey says in this article: "Mussels are this generation’s sea lamprey" bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

Fond du Lac Band resumes tradition of harvesting Lake Superior trout to continue culture, feed students Lake trout were nearly wiped out in Lake Superior by the invasive sea lamprey. But a successful control project has helped bring the trout back from the brink. That’s allowing the Fond du Lac Band of ...

Sea lamprey control - a joint effort between the US + Canada - has allowed lake trout to make a comeback in the #GreatLakes over the past 60 years. This fall marks the 3rd year the Fond du Lac Band has been able to practice the tradition of subsistence netting www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

ugghhh that's awful! So parse argument isn't really ready

Yea no problem :) I like finding things like this!

It seems like parse argument is now the the suggested way to handle this at least that's my brief view just skimming it, but the PR they implemented on the issue for now seems to have made this fixed

1) install v4.0.0.9000 from GitHub.

2) need to add paste to make it render properly

devtools::install_github("tidyverse/ggplot2")
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) +
geom_point(size = 2) +
annotate(geom = 'text',
x = 4,
y = 32.75,
size = 6,
label = expression(paste('Concentration of', ~CO[2]))) +
theme_minimal()