Susan Vanderplas
@srvanderplas.bsky.social
Statistics professor, #rstats user and reluctant #python user. I love #quarto, #quilting, #crossstitch, #snark, and #dogs. Research in #forensics, #visualization and #datavis, and #reproduceableresearch.
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linkrot is so maddening. basically nothing that's linked to from my blog in the aughts exists anymore.
my still-looks-like-2003 blog is all there, absent some images that got lost at some point.
my still-looks-like-2003 blog is all there, absent some images that got lost at some point.
October 5, 2026 at 12:15 PM
linkrot is so maddening. basically nothing that's linked to from my blog in the aughts exists anymore.
my still-looks-like-2003 blog is all there, absent some images that got lost at some point.
my still-looks-like-2003 blog is all there, absent some images that got lost at some point.
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Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Clay Pot Shards From Dwelling Of Earliest Known Klutz https://theonion.com/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-clay-pot-shards-from-dwe-1827116788/
October 4, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Clay Pot Shards From Dwelling Of Earliest Known Klutz https://theonion.com/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-clay-pot-shards-from-dwe-1827116788/
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You can read Jamal’s work here.
It was the honor of my life to have been his editor at the Washington Post.
Rest in peace, Jamal.
And I’m sorry the Washington Post opinions page ended up betraying what we both stood for.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-...
It was the honor of my life to have been his editor at the Washington Post.
Rest in peace, Jamal.
And I’m sorry the Washington Post opinions page ended up betraying what we both stood for.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-...
Opinion | Read Jamal Khashoggi’s columns for The Washington Post
Jamal Khashoggi, a veteran Saudi journalist who Turkish officials say was killed in Istanbul after walking into the consulate of Saudi Arabia, had been writing a column for The Post since last year.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 2, 2026 at 10:16 PM
You can read Jamal’s work here.
It was the honor of my life to have been his editor at the Washington Post.
Rest in peace, Jamal.
And I’m sorry the Washington Post opinions page ended up betraying what we both stood for.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-...
It was the honor of my life to have been his editor at the Washington Post.
Rest in peace, Jamal.
And I’m sorry the Washington Post opinions page ended up betraying what we both stood for.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-...
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It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River.
(Published June)
(Published June)
Native American Tribes Came Together to Secure Their Rights to Colorado River Water. Four States Are Stalling the Deal.
Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.
www.propublica.org
October 3, 2026 at 1:40 AM
It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River.
(Published June)
(Published June)
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Sinuses are a design flaw
October 2, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Sinuses are a design flaw
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Federal judge: "Freedom from persistent, dragnet-style surveillance while in public is not a foreign concept in our society & it is a reasonable expectation that society already accepts ...
Why is it the govt's business where everyone goes all the time?"
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Why is it the govt's business where everyone goes all the time?"
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
A police search using Flock was a form of ‘mass surveillance,’ judge rules
A federal judge said that police conducted an “unconstitutional warrantless search” by using Flock cameras to reconstruct a woman’s travels without probable cause.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 3, 2026 at 12:58 AM
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A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment.
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October 2, 2026 at 9:37 PM
A federal district court just held that police use of Flock cameras without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Americans: you are not outraged enough about this.
Christians: this is absolute blasphemy
www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
Christians: this is absolute blasphemy
www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
‘God made Trump’ ad and at least 12 others are part of controversial taxpayer-funded ad campaign | CNN Politics
The Trump administration has created at least 13 campaign-style ads as part of its controversial taxpayer-funded, multi-million-dollar effort to promote President Donald Trump and his policies.
www.cnn.com
October 3, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Americans: you are not outraged enough about this.
Christians: this is absolute blasphemy
www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
Christians: this is absolute blasphemy
www.cnn.com/2026/10/02/p...
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“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.”
Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
www.startribune.com
October 1, 2026 at 2:28 AM
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.”
Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
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Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today
October 1, 2026 at 7:23 AM
Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today
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Well, happy Charles Darwin is “very poorly today & very stupid & hate[s] everybody & everything” to all who celebrate, because he wrote those words in a letter to his friend (and author of Principles of Geology) Charles Lyell 161 years ago today
October 1, 2026 at 1:51 PM
This is an excellent editorial explaining how budget cuts kill the economic engines that drive state economies. I wish #universityofnebraska had considered the cost of cuts last year.
🧵 worth reading
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.”
Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
October 1, 2026 at 2:35 PM
This is an excellent editorial explaining how budget cuts kill the economic engines that drive state economies. I wish #universityofnebraska had considered the cost of cuts last year.
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🧵 worth reading
“Cutting this much from the university budget will mean that some of the core functions of the university will be lost. It’s not possible to just do more with less — to work smarter, to trim around the edges. We’re going to have to do less with less.”
Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
Gift link: www.startribune.com/umn-cuts-sta...
Perry: What we lose if the U cuts $225 million
"Austerity doesn’t work. Instead, it creates a death spiral, where reduction in services leads to reductions in revenue, which lead to reductions in services, which leads to reduction in revenue, whic...
www.startribune.com
October 1, 2026 at 2:20 PM
🧵 worth reading
All ready for 1000 students to come through, take and compare shoe prints, and discuss probability and feature detection! #forensics #statistics #utahstateuniversity #uintahbasin
October 1, 2026 at 2:25 PM
All ready for 1000 students to come through, take and compare shoe prints, and discuss probability and feature detection! #forensics #statistics #utahstateuniversity #uintahbasin
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"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it."
In my latest for @undark.org, I compare AI adoption in science to the Ship of Theseus:
"If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?"
I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication.
undark.org/2026/09/25/o...
"If you swap out every wooden plank on a ship over time, is it still the same vessel?"
I argue that science derives authority from something more than data generation + publication.
undark.org/2026/09/25/o...
AI Presents Science with a ‘Ship of Theseus’ Problem
Opinion | AI can replace each part of the scientific process, leaving the enterprise recognizable but devoid of human judgment.
undark.org
September 28, 2026 at 11:29 PM
"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it."
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The American pope draws attention, but there have been scores of American cardinals. You might not always hear much about them, but listen to this one:
‘We Are Losing Our Soul as a Nation’
What we saw in Springfield, Ohio.
lnk.thebulwark.com
September 29, 2026 at 12:01 AM
The American pope draws attention, but there have been scores of American cardinals. You might not always hear much about them, but listen to this one:
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UNREAL!!! Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students. The goal of Trump regime to erase the LGBTQ community from existence thehill.com/homenews/edu...
Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students
The Education Department announced Monday it has formally rescinded the Biden-era Title IX interpretation that gave sex-based discrimination protections to students on the basis of sexual orientati…
thehill.com
September 28, 2026 at 7:31 PM
UNREAL!!! Education Department formally rescinds Title IX protections for LGBTQ students. The goal of Trump regime to erase the LGBTQ community from existence thehill.com/homenews/edu...
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to trigger my academic followers send tweet
September 27, 2026 at 2:16 PM
to trigger my academic followers send tweet
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Well this is some grade-A bullshit, right here. 🤬 #academicsky
UPDATE: U.S. Department of Education ends Title IX protections for LGBTQ+ students
The latest education news updates from EdSource.
edsource.org
September 28, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Well this is some grade-A bullshit, right here. 🤬 #academicsky
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Who’s ready for No Kings? We’re getting an early start on making signs! ✊💚
September 27, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Who’s ready for No Kings? We’re getting an early start on making signs! ✊💚