Your daily reminder that basic AI can't reliably copy maths formulae from the Internet

Age verification- does their personal email have a pre 1900s number in it?

This excerpt from 'Island' by Aldous Huxley is without question something worth saving to your phone, writing down in your secret notebook, committing firmly to your memory, so that when you find yourself in a dire moment, you can call upon it to aid you. ❤️

Look, I've got an AI-powered multi-omics program to sell to the worried well here, so less about the social determinants of health please.

Pay universities to do this work. We have more expertise, can do it independently, and for less money.

Amen - coefficients from different (often non-linear) models don't mean the same thing, but they get compared all the time. The "effect" of interest is a marginal effect for an explicit target population, not a parameter. Software guided workflow could help, plug into tools like marginaleffects.com

UK Prevention Research conference next March registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

When the authors are 'grateful for such a careful and conscientious reading' in my 2nd round of reviewer comments. I can imagine how this is phrased in private 👹👹 🙉 🙉

re-upping this because I just overheard a fellow statistician say: "Multicollinearity is not really the problem that people make it out to be. I have a really nice paper on this I can send you which a colleague showed me a while ago." (who was the colleague? pretty sure it was me.)

The Institute for Social Marketing and Health quarterly meeting in sunny Stirling. 🌞

New report on vape displays. Young people more likely than adults to notice vapes in a shop window and were more likely to take positive messaging from such window displays. www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/defaul...

New report on vape displays. Young people more likely than adults to notice vapes in a shop window and were more likely to take positive messaging from such window displays. www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/defaul...

If you know anyone looking for a week long hybrid course on social statistics this summer- have a look at this one my husband is running 👇 essexsummerschool.com/summer-schoo...

Yes 'hereness'

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Strong work here from Altmetric 😁😂. The real twist, is that a huge number of citations by-pass thought

During the pandemic, restrictions about partners being present during birth was one of the biggest sources of anxiety for UK expectant mothers in the UK. New paper bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Happy Large Enough N day for those who observe

Funded PhD studentships available at University of Stirling’s Centre for Place and Memory placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

Right. It's Friday Home Time. Tune Trump out (if you can). And listen to this (or whatever music works for you). Doof doof doof.

UK PM Starmer to Zelensky: "You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

In Jan, three unis dropped their 'big deal' with Elsevier Now, a survey of 100+ unis found 60% might drop their big deals with the five big publishers: Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley All these are being renegotiated this year... @sophieatrpn.bsky.social reports

Getting paid ten of thousands of pounds to put pdfs online incredibly profitable shock.

Sexy murder poet in the introduction, basically pleasant bureaucrat in the conclusion

Is the Labour Research Department survey on behalf of UCU genuine or is this part of a Cybersecurity education intervention by my employer or actual phishing? Decisions decisions...

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Allegory alert!

Fully funded PhD opportunity at University of Stirling www.stir.ac.uk/research/res...

Looking for a PhD opportunity? Check out these funded studentships at University of Stirling www.stir.ac.uk/research/res...

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Testing of these tools is very welcome. Same needs be done for AI research assistants e.g elicit

@chelseaparlett.bsky.social I'm shocked partial pooling didn't make it into the meme

An issue that often comes up is how to set a “non-inferiority margin” in a non-inferiority trial and how to ensure it is appropriate 1/8 #MethodologyMonday #109

This is niche content & totally what I'm here for 😀

Blue skies after yesterday's storm

This is a great resource for anyone interested in trial design. So useful to have all these points pulled together in one place

High‐certainty evidence that incentive schemes conducted amongst pregnant people who smoke improve smoking cessation rates, both at the end of pregnancy and postpartum www.cochranelibrary.com/web/cochrane...

Morning All, a seasonal offering 😁 George Elgar Hicks's "Missed Christmas bin collection" Oil on canvas, 1863 Tate London

Fun fact: 2025 is a square year (45 x 45). The last one of these was 1936 (= 44 x 44). Which, er, bodes well I guess.

See also: lindeloev.github.io/tests-as-lin... With handy PDF table!

Outnumbered Christmas special was great. Our kids are about that age. It rings so true- very tightly written. We are still paying all the mobile phones 🤣

@cartoonralph.bsky.social I saw this posted by someone else, and then searched for you so I could follow. Thanks for the succinct way you point out what's really going on.

t tests by hand. Very peaceful, very mindful

A colleague wanted comparisons between groups where only Summary (mean and sds) available. t tests by hand -nice little task for the run up to Xmas- highly recommend💯 (my brain can't handle more than this right now)