So proud that UMN Biostat & Health Data Science's own Leif Verace received the John van Ryzin Award for best student paper at ENAR. Congrats Leif (and advisor/co-author Dr. Erjia Cui)!

powerful detailed account of ICE captivity "To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“How bad can it be to have an anti-vaccine zealot leading our health agencies?” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

MINNESOTA NIH Awards Funding: $718 M Jobs Supported : 7,992 Economic activity supported: $ 1.74 B www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

🚀 {unhcrthemes} 0.6.3 is out! The latest version of our R package for creating UNHCR-styled charts is now on CRAN. 🎨📊 🔗 Check it out: cran.r-project.org/web/packages... (1/3)

There are post-doc openings for the @minnpop.bsky.social Training Program in Population Health Science. Apply by the end of January if you're interested and eligible! And spread the word please! pop.umn.edu/training/pos...

Receiving a "Model Release" (the Zoolander kind, not the glm kind) form from NCI definitely wasn't on my bingo card for today.

Another edition of Shiny Source Code Explained ✨🤓 And this time it is all about the code behind the new busy indicators that were added in Shiny 1.9 (July 2024)! hypebright.nl/en/shiny-en/... Enjoy! #rshiny #rstats

Quarto 1.6 is out! 🎉 Download it here: quarto.org/docs/download/ Quarto 1.6 supports unified branding across formats, updates to RevealJS, a new shortcode to reorder content, a landscape page block, and more. Blog post: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...

ChatGPT "explains" multiple imputation 🧐

Feel-good story? Check. Public health connection? Check. Cute dog? Check. Awesome person doing inspiring things? Check and check. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

The {tidyprompt} #RStats 📦 *under development* is designed for prompting your #LLMs “the tidy way.” It includes function calling, so you “can define your own R functions and give the LLM the ability to call them.” By Luka Koning & Tjark Van de Merwe #GenAI tjarkvandemerwe.github.io/tidyprompt/

Sven #skyhounds #greyhound #lurcher

The Columbia public health school published this Q&A about my work on causality & algorithmic fairness. Read on to learn how the IMF's imposed austerity policies post-2009 financial crisis led me down a path toward studying causal inference* *not among the intended effects shorturl.at/KkeWu

Interesting but not surprising. The next frontier is leveraging this kind of daily activity pattern data to improve health and well-being rather than harm it.

For anyone curious, I've never written a browser extension before, and I only know enough Javascript to be dangerous in Shiny/Quarto. I took a screenshot of a bioRxiv page and pasted into Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and asked it to build one for me. Worked with minimal follow up prompts. ~5 minutes in total.

I've been working a new #rstats package called pal🤖 Pals bring a library of LLM prompts into your RStudio/Positron sessions, editing code directly at the press of a keyboard shortcut. Read more: simonpcouch.github.io/pal/

This seems pretty cool

A bingo card for (bio)stat researchers! I’m dangerously close to a black-out…

What's the statute of limitations on backlogged random thoughts and opinions that didn't get posted at The Other Site? Asking for a friend...

Trying again with a working link: We’ve just posted a new Contract Assistant Professor position at UMN Biostat & Health Data Science! Happy to discuss with anyone interested. #biostatistics #healthdatascience #academicjobs hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...

I made a starter pack for health policy statistics! 📈🔢

Reposting since people are actually on bsky:

#ICHPS2025 approaches! @sherrirose.bsky.social, @whitneyepi.bsky.social, and @susanpaddock.bsky.social will deliver keynote and plenary sessions. Attend sessions by @rhubbbstat.bsky.social, @lizstuart.bsky.social, @jaredhuling.bsky.social, and @drjwolfson.bsky.social. #hspr #hpss #statssky #episky