Mathew Ling (@lingtax.bsky.social)

This plot shows every September temperature recorded at Canberra Airport (since 1939). The orange circles represent the past week. abc.net.au/news/2023-09-2…

REPEAT AFTER ME: public health interventions that reduce infections are worth doing even if they don’t prevent *all* infections. Fewer infections is always better!!!

If I take two random people from a bivariate gaussian with a correlation of .36, the person that scores higher on X has a 61.7 percent chance to score higher on Y. You can calculate bivariate probability of superiority by doing PBS=(asin(.36)/pi)+.5 link.springer.com/article/10.375…

RELEASED: Global Climate Report for August 2023. Learn more about significant global weather and climate events and how they compare to the historical record: bit.ly/Global202308 #StateOfClimate

Putting aside the outrage on this stuff for a minute. He is flat-out wrong and clearly has no idea what he is talking about. Two images explain why he should not be allowed to discuss this stuff on any platform. Wages v profits and productivity. Australian workers have never been so productive, yet they are not being rewarded for it.

@matt_nurse Congratulations!

In March I wrote a thread that said 2023 will be the year touring musicians show us there is no return to normal with endemic covid. Springsteen's tour has been a horror show of illness and cancelled dates. Others likewise. Thread in next tweet

A Stanford study revealed that AI detectors are biased against non-native English speakers. themarkup.org/machine-learni…

This is the league table of how countries are currently investing in R&D as a % of GDP. The figures continue a 14-year⬇️trend in national R&D investment for Australia. If we keep going the way we are, in 5yrs years we'll be among the lowest of all @OECD countries #Auspol2023

Australian households on six-figure incomes can now only afford 13% of homes theguardian.com/australia-news…

79% of psychiatrists recommend immediate treatment with an antidepressant to an outpatient with depression, but only 39% of psychiatrists would immediately take an antidepressant if they personally had depression, while 61% would prefer watchful waiting cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The key difference between the droplet & aerosol transmission is illustrated very nicely in this video👇

Exclusive: @SquigglyRick on the $40 million employment provider rort: “The system routinely punishes people without due process, yet it has endless tolerance for mistake-prone providers.” #auspol satpa.pe/II1ACca

I'm beyond proud that our paper "Unconditional cash transfers reduce homelessness" is published at @PNASNews today! This is the most ambitious project I've ever done, and it truly took a village for the last 7 years 🥳❤️🧵 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@hankgreen @KenzieTheSparky Arguably, the science of astrology is psychology.

@KenzieTheSparky Yeah, I mean, the science of astrology is astronomy.

Someone recently asked me to talk about “the science of astrology” and I legit didn’t know what to say. I try hard not to disparage people’s worldviews but I didn’t know how to say “there is no science of astrology” without sounding like I was belittling it.

@farid_anvari @georg_henning If you want to chat about moving out of the academy in Australia, let me know. I've helped 3-4 people move into the NGO space in the last year and happy to help more good people make the jump.

@tynedaile @arc_gov_au Congratulations, Tyne!

Thrilled, dazed, relieved (all the descriptors!) to receive an @arc_gov_au DECRA for my project 'Beyond Big Brother: New Narratives for Understanding Surveillance.' I'm extremely grateful to everyone who mentored, supported, edited & listened to my rants in the lead up to this.

"Anscombe's quartet" illustrates how datasets can have nearly identical descrptv stats but very different distributions @LucyStats proposed the "Causal Quartet" 4 datasets all with the same statistical summaries & dataviz but different true causal effects🤯livefreeordichotomize.com/posts/2023-04-…

The PM has said that "everyone" earning over $45k "benefits" from the Stage 3 tax cuts. Those benefits look very different depending on your income. Those struggling get the least. Top end of town gets a feast. Add your name: theaus.in/scrapstage3tax…