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João Guassi Moreira Feb 27, 2023

Feb 27, 2023

🔭 Get to know the immensely powerful r-universe:
🪐 “Discovering and learning everything there is to know about R packages using r-universe” by Jeroen Ooms #RStats
https://ropensci.org/blog/2023/02/27/runiverse-discovering/

Discovering and learning everything there is to know about R packages using r-universe

The goal of r-universe is to provide a central place for browsing through the R ecosystem to discover what is out there, get a sense of the purpose and quality of individual packages, and help you get started in seconds.

João Guassi Moreira Feb 24, 2023

JamieLarsH Feb 24, 2023

RT @dm_silverman
📣New pub in Nature Human Behavior!📣

Does motivation pay off equitably for Black, Latinx, and Indigenous (BLI) students and their White, Asian, and Asian-American peers?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01533-9

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Race, academic achievement and the issue of inequitable motivational payoff - Nature Human Behaviour

Silverman et al. find that Black, Latinx and Indigenous (BLI) students receive lower grades than non-BLI students with similar patterns of motivation. This inequitable motivational payoff is linked to teachers’ racially biased beliefs about students.

Nature

João Guassi Moreira Jan 20, 2023

Glenn Fleishman Jan 20, 2023

This is the legitimate last page of a scanned book I was reading (a trade-arts book for a particular part of the printing process), but it looks almost exactly like a Wes Anderson movie poster.

João Guassi Moreira Jan 12, 2023

LaTex is fun

João Guassi Moreira Jan 9, 2023

bk Jan 9, 2023

A welcome bit of positive climate news: "Scientists said the ozone’s recovery should also serve as proof that societies can join to solve environmental problems and combat climate change."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2023/01/09/ozone-layer-recovery-study-2023/