(Palaeo)[ecologist | limnologist] masquerading as a statistician, #rstats user, wielder of #GAMs. He/him/his. Opinions mine…https://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mz45syddfc2hPatrick Stewart sketch: what has the ECHR ever done for us? - video https://www.theguardian.com/culture/video/2016/apr/25/patrick-stewart-sketch-what-has-the-echr-ever-done-for-us-video?CMP=share_btn_url30 Oct 2026 16:04 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mz45syddfc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mxp2waufg22cIf you fit models with glmmTMB(), gratia 📦 has gained support for these model objects, including glmmTMB's nascent capability for fitting penalized spline terms using mgcv's s() You'll need the GitHub versions of both gratia & glmmTMB to try this out #RStats #statistics https://github.com/glmmTMB/glmmTMB/issues/928#issuecomment-612797812112 Oct 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxp2waufg22chttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mxopvtrk5s2u(Oh, yes; I’m also trying this blogging thing again) [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Oct 2026 14:25 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxopvtrk5s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mxoeigzryk2eI've written about 2 additions to the dev version of permute 📦 in #RStats: ordered set partitions & a formula interface. ⭐ Partitions shuffle groups while keeping group sizes fixed, avoiding redundant index permutations that leave the labels unchanged. https://fromthebottomoftheheap.net/2026/10/12/permute-partitions-and-formulas/12 Oct 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxoeigzryk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mxo7dguna22gNew blog post: GAMs in animal science, and finding my footing after moving from ecology into animal and veterinary science. Nearly 5½ years on, and some health and personal life changes in between, this paper feels like the first fruit of that process. https://fromthebottomoftheheap.net/2026/10/08/gams-in-livestock-animal-science/12 Oct 2026 09:28 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxo7dguna22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mx72z7nuls2b📝 My paper on generalized additive models (GAMs) in animal science is out! Learn nonlinear relationships from data, estimate growth rates and compare treatments, with cows, pigs and quail + reproducible #RStats code. Open access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anopes.2026.100157 #mgcv #AnimalScience #Statistics 🧪06 Oct 2026 09:01 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mx72z7nuls2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mwdfrphb5k2c96 little pink pigs, 16 pens, 4 rooms 🐷 Our students used LEGO to explore experimental design: randomising treatments, blocking by room, and asking why six pigs sharing a pen don’t give us six independent replicates. Abstract ideas made tangible, one brick at a time #lego #statistics25 Sep 2026 08:59 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwdfrphb5k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mw4wyq3bdc25@digitalocean.com is now dead to me. There is almost nothing they could do to redeem themselves after supporting that racist arse hole DHH Do not support this company at all https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/digitalocean-joins-omacom-foundation22 Sep 2026 19:19 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw4wyq3bdc25https://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3muyp2txxk22wSo I did tell the editor where to shove it — politely of course [contains quote post or other embedded content]08 Sep 2026 09:21 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3muyp2txxk22whttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3muyhdlesks2mMy manuscript on "GAMs in Animal Science" has been accepted in Animal — Open Space for almost a month & today editor emails to say they now want stylistic changes bc I used "I show" etc too much & they want an impersonal style. Really tempted to tell the editor where they can shove their request08 Sep 2026 07:02 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3muyhdlesks2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3muri52yogs2jIf you’re protesting all manner of “left” leaning causes and cause the public annoyance by blocking roads etc you are demonized & arrested. But if you do the same as a far right, balaclava-wearing protestor, without any police liaison, you get away scott free https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/sep/05/black-clad-protesters-balaclavas-block-road-port-of-dover-kent?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other05 Sep 2026 12:28 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3muri52yogs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mrucr5bc722tBug reported: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/14741 Confirmed by @mickael.canouil.fr as a regression in Quarto, plus some options for workarounds. As frustrated as I was yesterday with this, the @quarto.org devs are quick to respond to issues & incredibly helpful in identifying & fixing problems 🙏 #RStats [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Jul 2026 11:14 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrucr5bc722thttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mrsamfapli2gNow, I could try to address this upstream with @posit.co and the @quarto.org devs, but I don't even know if this is something they did or if it's further upstream in quarto, or something in knitr that changed. And right now my minimal working example is a 2000 line qmd file 😭 [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jul 2026 15:31 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrsamfapli2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mrs7cq6nxk2gIt is not possible for you to comprehend the utter loathing I have for LaTeX (specifically endfloat & longtable) + Pandoc + Quarto + knitr::kable() currently Something changed somewhere in that chain in the last 7 mo that broke my manuscript & I've spent the day figuring out why it fails #RStats29 Jul 2026 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrs7cq6nxk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mqzrtotpxk2mWell done 🇪🇸19 Jul 2026 22:02 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqzrtotpxk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mqzqs5r4ys2mYes ⚽️19 Jul 2026 21:44 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqzqs5r4ys2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/gsimpson.bsky.social/post/3mqzoyyx2x22mThat’ll teach you to mouth off at the ref (Although that challenge deserved a straight red in its own right)19 Jul 2026 21:12 +0000at://did:plc:vyspvwpd2wp4rt3sg3guwefm/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqzoyyx2x22m