Nice discussion with Mark van der Laan, covering many topics including the history of TMLE, and future efforts: causalbanditspodcast.com

SDOH&Place annual symposium next week in Chicago: symposium2025.sdohplace.org

🚨 Relaunch of CRAN Task View: Clinical Trial Design, Monitoring, and Analysis #rstats Complete rewrite by an int'l team of experts in #clinicaltrials Ya Wang, Thomas Jaki @thomasjaki.bsky.social, Laura Pascasio Harris, Orla Doyle, Elias Laurin Meyer, Wilmar Igl cran.r-project.org/view=Clinica...

Great set of R tips and helpful packages: rfortherestofus.com/2025/06/twen...

New paper in @annalsofim.bsky.social "50 ways to misinterpret clinical prediction models for treatment decisions” --> Published version: www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... --> Open access version: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17366

Just got a No Kings stencil and chalk in the mail, waiting for the rain to stop and head out to the sidewalk:

New paper out today examining heterogeneity of cardiovascular effects between 4 classes of glucose-lowering therapies: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40673553/

Still trying to find the best way to teach skepticism in data. When I say check the data, people find the issues, but without that statement there is a “Simon says” reaction. I have many examples of hiding messages (e.g. create a PCA plot it shows “nope” in the plot) but not everyone finds these.

Is reading grant proposals on sleep disorders after midnight a reportable conflict of interest?

Registration and a call for posters are now open for the 2025 Midwest ML Symposium (June 23-24 at UChicago)! The call for posters is a great opportunity for grad and undergrad students to share the exciting work they are doing in research groups! Learn more and register - midwest-ml.org/2025/

📣 R/Medicine 2025 virtual conference is coming June 10-13! rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... ⭐ Early bird registration through April 10 ⭐ Submissions accepted through April 11 ⭐ All-star lineup of keynotes and workshops #rmed25 #rstats

The Biostatistics Laboratory at the University of Chicago has a new position for a Senior Biostatistician. Please visit: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... EOE/VET/Disability

I really need to finish my ENAR presentation, so this is clearly one of the Kier tempers

Try the R/Medicine Data Challenge! Tell a Data Story about Measles cases and/or Vaccination Rates in Quarto - Student and Pro Divisions, $200 Prizes! #rstats #quarto Details at rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we...

Saw my first mosquito of the season and put the snow shovels away, Chicago you know what this means!

Please apply, this project involves quite a bit of fun work on combining data from observational studies with randomized trials to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects!

📢 The R Consortium is hosting an R/Medicine Webinar on "Rix: reproducible data science environments with Nix". Two weeks from today! Register to attend this virtual event now! r-consortium.org/webinars/rix... #rstats

Mike Lauer--the Open Mike blog guy at NIH--is leaving/has left the agency. www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/n... He recently sent a memo "acknowledging that [NIH's] funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants." Source: popular.info/p/breaking-n...

Keeping a close eye on Pennsylvania, you doing OK?

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

Trump Admin to US Biological and Health Science: “F—— off and die” Reporting by @aniloza.bsky.social @statnews.com with details, which I paraphrased above… www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t...

Yes, it is a struggle to get our kids to wear weather appropriate clothing in winter here in Chicago! (Crocs in snow really don’t mix) Also me in High School:

Remy helping me review a few manuscripts tonight, in case you find your reviewer comments complain about not enough recipes in your methods section:

Job Opportunity Alert: Instructional Professor (open rank) in Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/160114 EOE / Vet / Disability

Save the Date! It is our pleasure to share that the 2025 Midwest ML Symposium will be held at the University of Chicago, June 23-24, 2025! Please stay tuned for further information about registration, accommodation, and transportation on the conference website midwest-ml.org/2025/

We’re excited to announce a program to support first-time contributors to @rOpenSci.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy packages! 🎉 Are you a package maintainer who would like to mentor a new #rstats contributor? See our blog post for details and how to sign up: ropensci.org/blog/2024/10...

We are hiring a new fully funded PhD student We are searching for an enthusiastic PhD student to work on cutting edge methods research, working on methods to combine knowledge from cardioelectrophysiology, 'conventional’ ECG analysis and machine learning. www.werkenbijumcutrecht.nl/vacatures/we...

Festschrift in honor of Michael Kosorok: laber-labs.com/pages/kosoro...

Biostatistics and the reformation of modern medicine (and epidemiology), Harden lecture in NIH history: videocast.nih.gov/Summary.asp?...

Our Division is hosting its inaugural yearly Biostatistics Symposium, and this year the topic is Causal Inference! We have an exciting lineup of speakers listed below. If you are in the NYC area, please join us! Link to register in the QR below.

Paul Albert and Ruth Pfeiffer (NCI DCEG Biostatistics Branch) making their acting pivot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-rb...

Above Average! Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #4,495,397!

Heads! arxiv.org/abs/2310.04153

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When will we see the flip from machine learning is a subfield of AI to the (correct) description of AI as a subset of machine learning with greater prerequisites?

The first of the Ihaka Lectures is this Thursday evening, 6:30pm, at the University of Auckland: it's Yihui Xie (inventor of knitr). Also by live stream (timezone UTC+12) and eventually on YouTube unievents.auckland.ac.nz/event-detail...

The Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago is searching for an Associate/Full Professor in Biostatistics/Clinical Trials. Please visit: apply.interfolio.com/148158 EOE/VET/Disability

Great collection of recent talks at the R/Medicine conference: www.r-consortium.org/blog/2024/04...

Watch the full video here - youtu.be/xq0O4wiUqrs

When I first read the announcement for the annual Berkeley Statistics Research Symposium (statistics.berkeley.edu/bstars-2024) I assumed the meeting was going to take place in the outdoor stadium (Memorial Stadium)

Spring in Chicago, daffodils and snow!

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