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950
Account age
3 yrs
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Known for
📊 Post engagement
8
Avg engagement / post
0.8%
Engagement vs followers
Jul 2023
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: The R Project is awarded the biennial Rousseuw Prize in Statisti · 29 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
1.3 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly text
Recent: 11 text · 1 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
2.8×
Follows 344 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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Pacific Data Visualisation Challenge
#rstats #dataviz
https://pacificdatavizchallenge.org/
Why is an independent test/train split not good enough to prevent 'leakage'? Was Neyman wrong?
https://notstatschat.rbind.io/2026/07/27/data-leakage-and-independence/
Mandelbroc season
We're hiring:
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversityOfAuckland/744000135967049-pouako-lecturer-to-senior-lecturer-to-associate-professor-te-kura-tatauranga-department-of-statistics
It's a continuing (ie, not fixed-term) position at…
"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them" -- a Virginia slaveholder who died 200 years ago today
A restaurateur at the Quay'll
Agree maybe "seagulls" ain't real
But his patrons' dismay
When their chips fly away
Could outweigh taxonomical zeal
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-21/sydney-dog-seagull-chasers-at-circular-quay-opera-bar/…
(no, there isn't consensus on how to pronounce 'cefazolin': we get both KEF-ah-ZO-lin and ke-FAZ-olin)
(yes, we're also looking at methicillin-resistant infections, but the trial hasn't stopped yet for those)
Two new results on Staph aureus bacteremia treatment from the SNAP Bayesian adaptive platform trial.
SNAP is much larger than any previous trial in this condition, and is set up to examine multiple questions at once and to add in new quest…
I wrote a thing about the simple case of the a.s. representation theorem, which is basically about random number generation
https://notstatschat.rbind.io/2026/06/16/the-simple-case-of-almost-sure-representations/
You start off with an annoying piece of technical grit that you can't get rid of, and over the years it becomes encrusted with perl
(the oyster model of development)
Mandelbroc season
We're hiring:
https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/TheUniversityOfAuckland/744000135967049-pouako-lecturer-to-senior-lecturer-to-associate-professor-te-kura-tatauranga-department-of-statistics
It's a continuing (ie, not fixed-term) position at…
"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them" -- a Virginia slaveholder who died 200 years ago today
A restaurateur at the Quay'll
Agree maybe "seagulls" ain't real
But his patrons' dismay
When their chips fly away
Could outweigh taxonomical zeal
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-21/sydney-dog-seagull-chasers-at-circular-quay-opera-bar/…
(no, there isn't consensus on how to pronounce 'cefazolin': we get both KEF-ah-ZO-lin and ke-FAZ-olin)
(yes, we're also looking at methicillin-resistant infections, but the trial hasn't stopped yet for those)
Two new results on Staph aureus bacteremia treatment from the SNAP Bayesian adaptive platform trial.
SNAP is much larger than any previous trial in this condition, and is set up to examine multiple questions at once and to add in new quest…
I wrote a thing about the simple case of the a.s. representation theorem, which is basically about random number generation
https://notstatschat.rbind.io/2026/06/16/the-simple-case-of-almost-sure-representations/
You start off with an annoying piece of technical grit that you can't get rid of, and over the years it becomes encrusted with perl
(the oyster model of development)
🐘 Community & instance
Home server
fediscience.org
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✅ Link-verified
Verified link
Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.
On Mastodon since
Jul 2023
An established account with real history on the platform.
💡 Facts
🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 8 views per post.
📤Posts about 1.3× per week.
🛡️ Audience credibility
75/100
Good
Credibility score
92%
Real
Real audience
Low
Fake-follower risk
High
Data confidence
- Est. 92% real, active audience · Low fake-follower risk.
- Engagement (~0.8% of followers engage each post) is around typical for Mastodon.
- Verified account.
- Established account (3+ years old).
Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.
About
statistics. computing. genetics. choral music.
product of more than one country.
may contain nuts.
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