Your Dr Friday

Parent, writer, economist, BSD Wife, triathlete, half marathoner. I tweet about IT/BSD topics, disability, feminism, econ and edu policy. She/her.

[Your Dr Friday @juliefriday]

I came to the same conclusion a few years ago.

[Dr. Erinn B. Duprey @ErinnDuprey]

Last year I taught myself R with resources I primarily found via Twitter. I've been meaning to share some of the resources here, and I finally have a little time today. So here they are... 🧵

@AcademicChatter #rstudio #rstatistics

[Rachael Denhollander @R_Denhollander]

Once when I was young, around 8 or so, we had a garage sale. My siblings and I were killing time riding our bikes along the sidewalk and this guy stopped in. But he wasn't there to buy anything.

He went up to my mom, introduced himself and said he'd stopped because he saw us...

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Birds are fed by their parents in their infancy. When the time comes to feed themselves, there can be some confusion when the food does not go into their mouth by itself.

[Texas Tech Department of Economics @TTUeconomics]

The first seminar of the new @BLS_gov and @TTUeconomics partnership was a success! BLS economists Julie Percival and Justin Copple (@CoppleJustin) from the Dallas Regional Office talked about the key BLS data and resources available for economists: https://t.co/eC7FjsqG63

[Dan  @khazifire]

tell me you are a developer without telling me you are a developer?

[Your Dr Friday @juliefriday]

@khazifire Work chat is full of various gifs involving fire in some way.

[💖Local Cryptid Aggie Panda💖😷 fuck walensky @aggie_panda]

Hate to be "that guy" (I'm always that guy) but if you've had covid, and have access to a doctor, PLEASE get an immune panel and get your clotting factors checked. Don't let your doctors write off new, weird symptoms as "stress".

[Your Dr Friday @juliefriday]

I’ve felt that feel.

[Dr. Chance Pants @ChanceyH]

Finishing my PhD purely out of spite

[Joshua Browder @Joshuabrowder]

Credit repair companies offer to “fix your credit,” for hundreds or thousands of dollars.

We sent a DoNotPay employee to interview for jobs at credit repair companies to figure out how they do it so that we can automate it and replace them.

This is what we discovered:

[Teresa Montoya @tmontoya22]

Panel about tribal water rights and CO River. “It’s your thinking that got us here and now you want us to listen?” Speaking truth to power about settler water governance that created this crisis of allocation.

[Your Dr Friday @juliefriday]

@mwlauthor It’s not the worst they’ve seen, by far.

[Angie Maxwell @angiemaxwell.bsky.social @AngieMaxwell1]

Two weeks ago, I had four precious 12-year-old girls, including my daughter, with me at the county fair. They were getting blue Icees and corndogs for the walk to the car and ride home. (1/21)

[Your Dr Friday @juliefriday]

Psst. Just a few days left in this job posting in San Fran. https://t.co/TlJ4IHaKcX. Great opportunity for newly graduated economists looking for a federal job.

[Your Dr Friday @juliefriday]

@_plinth_ Ooh, something new to try… Miyoko does good work. Their butter substitute is my favorite- it works well with cooking unlike many other substitutes.

[Your Dr Friday @juliefriday]

I don’t think the people behind this realize they are actually shifting kids away from church because of garbage polcies like this.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

Well, the separation of church and state is officially dead and buried

https://t.co/yhAX3OOHfv

[Beto O'Rourke @BetoORourke]

This responsible gun owner in Greenville agrees on passing commonsense gun safety laws so we protect the Second Amendment while doing a far better job of protecting our kids.

[Your Dr Friday @juliefriday]

This is literally the reason the Bureau of Labor Statistics was formed. So that there were observable facts to combat hearsay and rumors.

[Raymond Chang @tweetraychang]

What we see around the great replacement theory should concern us, because it is leading people to conclude things that are not based on facts and figures and in reality.