@bradytwest.bsky.social @drjasonbrinkley.bsky.social @asa-scipol.bsky.social @aapor.bsky.social @clairemkbowen.bsky.social @csmarcum.bsky.social @nickhartphd.bsky.social Lots of our #srms colleagues got RIFd last week. I wrote to get them reinstated. #statssky #CDC #defenddata

@amstatnews.bsky.social covers @drjasonbrinkley.bsky.social 's recent job search. It is a great piece, #statssky #hpss #geronsky and #AIsky.

Anyone else freezing their butts off at #JSM2025?

Hey, @sherrirose.bsky.social , we're getting to #JSM2025. Will you re-share the #hpss Starter Pack? Tag us, follow us, and come to our panels. I hope to see some of you in-person. We know these are rough times to travel for science. #defendresearch #defenddata #statssky #AIsky #MLsky

Here are some cool resources to advocate for science! www.standupforscience.net/resources

My Recent Job Market Challenges - Day 2 of 10: www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-rec...

I am sharing recent job experiences on another platform and was asked to also share here.

Thanks, @drjasonbrinkley.bsky.social . This is free collection of workshops called FedCASIC. It's from our friends and colleagues at #Census and #BLS. #AIsky #LLMsky #surveystats #statssky #rstats

It's a ridiculous job market now, #statssky #rstats. It's like Grok wrote it. Whoever wrote the job announcement or fed the tool deserves a field day on r/AmItheIdiot.

Eid Mubarak! I’m wishing our Muslim neighbors a peaceful and blessed celebration with good food and good company.

this is so so so wild, must read: www.404media.co/super-ninten...

Need more organization and eyes on this work. Hoping to help facilitate reach. Health Policy folks, HHS is going to be impacted soon so don't wait until it is you on the chopping block to get involved. First they came for the foreign aid workers and I did nothing...

If your business had the same number of employees in 2025 that it had in 1970, would you even still be in business?

For those of you concerned about the recent take downs of CDC, Census, and other government data sources; here are some alternatives where that data might still be available 1/3

Dear Friends - Google 'Social Vulnerability Index CDC'. Find the links to the CDC websites that house information on SVI. Click and find all content removed. *sigh*

A state senator in Mississippi has filed a bill entitled the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act.” As written by Sen. Bradford Blackmon, the bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.” www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/m...

There is a flurry of activity going on right now with the structure of the U.S. government. Check on your friends and colleagues that work in government, they probably need a hug.

Didn't I tell you folks to stop telling people about BlueSky? Or at least don't just blast 'Hey! I'm leaving toxic Facebook for not toxic BlueSky!' www.engadget.com/social-media...

It's inauguration day. Ratings are key to the narrative. Purposefully watch something else.

I'd like to start a thread about #grant #review sections and get some perspectives from others who routinely do grant review. Here are three things I see in review sections all the time that have made me a better proposal writer 1/4

Good advice for many reasons you may already suspect but I will give you another: you can run a linear regression with no inference on betas as a descriptive tool to summarize data. Regression as a summary of your data is a legit thing that we just don't make enough use of. The reason is 1/2

#NIH skeetorial🧵 1/n. I've been a PO for a while now. @drjasonbrinkley.bsky.social asked a great question on @linkedin.com for #academiasky #fundingsky. I've been meaning to post this for a while. I'm modifying it slightly for space. People think my job is like this.

Despite the hype over artificial intelligence in medicine, the systems require consistent monitoring and staffing to put in place and maintain. Checking whether an algorithm has developed the software equivalent of a blown gasket can be complicated — and expensive. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

So I saw online the other day where 45^2 = 2025 and all I keep thinking about are those MAGA hats that say 45/47 and think 'wow, what a missed opportunity' and then I realize that maybe it isn't cause MAGA isn't really the best at math.

Stolen from another social media application but surely does resonate. Many of our AI methods still have a lot to 'learn'

Me: We need scientific expertise in all areas because expert input is invaluable to provide nuance and understanding. Also Me: I'd rather have a local hillbilly identify all local snakes than some herpetologist. Also Me: I Googled it and a snake expert is a herpetologist.

I am concerned on this line: "Mean (SD) ICU LOS, adjusted for baseline assessment, did not differ significantly between the tele–critical care and usual care groups (8.1 [10.0] and 7.1 [9.0] days; percentage change, 8.2% [95% CI, −5.4% to 23.8%]; P = .24)." 1/2

Suggestions on a Christmas gift idea that says 'I thought of you but didn't want to go too deep into it but I didn't want to be talked about negatively'. Let's also pretend I have to buy multiple of these across the expense landscape so I will take cheap and pricy options.

Let's talk sample size and confidence intervals for a minute. Just big picture stuff. I told someone today 'changing the sample size from 8100 to 8500 will have a negligible impact on the width of this confidence interval' and they just couldn't see it. 1/4

In completely irrelevant news, my wife and I are enjoying our Bonne Maman advent calendar more than I should. Small jars of jelly everyday has been just the early morning pick me up I've needed in this holiday season.

I think there are some people who think that their job is to just send emails all day long.

To find all Starter Packs go here: blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

Let's talk about trustworthy AI versus trustworthy human expertise as a simple philosophical discussion, a thread. 1/12

Hey y'all. I love that Blue sky makes it easy to make new connections. Is there a quick way to follow people back when they follow me? Also, is this even a good idea should I be discriminating of bots and stuff? Sorry. Still waiting on the other social media show to drop...

Is this the direction the next administration is going to take in response to covid-19? *sigh* oversight.house.gov/release/fina...

Name a book that you wish you had never read so you could have the pure joy of reading it for the first time? I'll start with three: 1. The Dark Tower - Stephen King 2. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 3. Dungeon Crawler Carl - Matt Dinniman

Question - What is the best way to end a meeting that ends up being way shorter than expected? When a call finishes super early it often seems like there is a long and awkward pause as everyone on the call collectively decides if there is anything else to say. How to avoid that?

This is Zyrtec and she is about 3 foot tall and my third grade daughter loves her. But I often find her splayed out like this. Apparently everyone in the Brinkley house has a case of the Mondays.

ASA has posted a list of 2025 internship statistics and data science opportunities. stattrak.amstat.org/2024/12/02/2... Thanks @amstatnews.bsky.social !

This is my backyard that I decorate for Christmas every year. This is the view from the road.

Saw this on another forum related to internet conspiracy theorists and I felt it in my soul.

What is a statistical technique that you have personally found to be robust and regularly useful even in places where it shouldn't?

I have spent a lot of my evening here, y'all. It's a nice social media platform with all kinds of good content. So it pains me to say this. Stop. Stop telling people to come. It's so nice for it to not all be a dumpster fire.

Still figuring things out. I think I finally understand starter packs after looking at this great one from @tyk314.net: go.bsky.app/676bjbb What is a starter pack you are a big fan of?

1. If you're a student or early career investigator interested in submitting clinical trials to #NIH, take our workshop at #ICHPS2025, "Submitting an NIA Clinical Trial: Using the NIH Stage Model to Develop Behavioral Interventions to Promote Healthy Aging." #hspr #hpss #statssky #geronsky

Interesting data point: I pulled the 2023 GDP data at the US State level and compared the total GDP of states that went for Harris in the election versus the total GDP of states that went for Trump. It ended up being a 13 trillion Harris/14 trillion Trump split. Just a neat data point.

So let me get this straight. If you apply for a job at a grocery store, you have to undergo a background check. But, if you apply to be Director of National Intelligence, you don't? Got it.

A thread on NIH Reorganization and the Scientific Management Review Board (SMRB) Disclosure: I was involved with the SMRB since its inception and have very strong feelings about how it was used, misused, and abandoned. My passion on these issues will undoubtably show through. 1/n