Grumpy old guy here: Apple updates are more and more resembling Microsoft updates—useless at best, more work for the same outcome at worst. Thanks Apple!

This brings me a lot of joy. I ❤️ GT packages. 🥰

Bias-variance tradeoff is one of those critically important statistical ideas that would be so much easier to grasp and discuss if it had a better name.

Something they never mention in parenting classes is how emotionally draining taking children mini-golfing can be. This is a huge oversight, imo.

In 2026, I resolve to need the phrase “I probably should not have eaten that” with substantially less regularity.

I’m in data cleaning hell and honestly considering asking an LLM to do it. I mean, not really considering it. But also not *not* considering it…

What in worst airline in the US and why is it @united.com?

I’m the kind of person who makes a Christmas pudding every year even though I am not British, and my family hates it.

Anyone with administrative experience in scientific publishing: Isn’t it financially burdensome for a journal to pay someone to look at submissions for formatting for all submissions? If 90% are rejected, that’s a lot of paper to look at for basically no benefit.

Apple updates are becoming nearly as annoying as Microsoft. Cosmetic ‘improvements’ and more clicks to do the same actions as the previous version. 🤬🤬🤬

nice ref and explanation of why "trending toward significance" is...not really a thing. www.bmj.com/content/348/...

nobody ever tries biting zombies to see if it turns them normal again and i think that's a mistake from a scientific perspective.

Unwillingness on the part of authors to provide CIs for main study results is: bizarre? Concerning? Some other adjective? What do other think?

Public service announcement: if you are writing a paper about sepsis, you don’t need to include ‘sepsis is a life threatening condition characterized by organ dysfunction in the setting of infection’. If we’re reading your paper on sepsis, we know what it is.

Does anyone know how to yeet the MIMIC database into the sun? Asking for a friend…

Can’t wait for all the junk, database/retrospective/registry papers comparing SOFA 2 to SOFA 1. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I wanna me #1, but I’m probably #2 🫠 It’s hard being an applied biostat reviewer in medicine.

many meetings are truly useless. truly. but once in a while, as i listen to a conversation, someone makes a comment--sometimes it's a throwaway or filler--and it becomes the rosetta stone for a project i am working on. like, duh, one can estimate correlation of REs in a multivariate model🤦‍♂️ #brms

Even when was it was the vaccines, I knew it was really the frymblal and runctitional features

Amongst my favorite intro to R texts! Pirate humor abounds. bookdown.org/ndphillips/Y...

I’m making a pledge to not submit to journals that force you to meet their idiosyncratic formatting rules for initial submissions. Happy to comply on any revisions, just not first try. Who’s with me?

discovered this wonderful nugget perusing the ggridges help files: geom_density_ridges arranges multiple density plots in a staggered fashion, as in the cover of the famous Joy Division album Unknown Pleasures

totally unrelated, but the feeling of saying, "yeah, i can do that stats thing you're asking about" when you're not sure that you really can do it. but then it turns out that, yes, you really CAN. 🥰

tensor product splines are super cool and i'm kind of in love. that's it. that's the entire post.

Should these be called ‘secretly informative’ priors?

Item 7,543 in the never ending list of r functions I wish I had known about sooner. Much cleaner syntax inside functions that fit models across multiple outcomes (which happens a lot in my work). 😍

🥰🥰🥰 I’m not the only one!

nice paper on partial least squares discriminant analysis &potential limitations. lovely sentence from the conclusion section: "The obvious conclusion from our experiments is that it is a terrible idea to use PLS-DA blindly with all data sets." bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

I was just in a coffee shop in a college town. At least half the laptops were open to ChatGPT windows. I mean, I know many people use LLMs as a replacement for google search. But omg, this feels…worrisome.

I love when good things, like mgcv, get even better! #rstats

Anybody familiar with the analytic method (‘win ratio’) used in this study? I’m interested in an objective, pro-con sorta discussion. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Dear Apple engineers. Can you please stop setting ‘logit’ to autocorrect to legit, leftist, login, or really anything else? When I say logit, I mean logit!

This also makes me (sadly) wonder if prior-hacking is the Bayesian equivalent of p-hacking?

one of the greatest joys of working with bayesian models is the flexibility associated with prior specification. one of the greatest frustrations of working with bayesian models is the flexibility associated with prior specification. #rstats #brms

rmsb also appears to be the only Bayesian package that comes with a built-in nomogram feature which is 😍.

Man, I’ve written some ugly code in the past. But this lumbering beast of regex i just vomited to filter thru 2500 rows of free text is an unholy masterpiece to behold. And no, I will not be sharing. #rstats

Repost = endorsement.

I ❤️ science.

almost invariably, i eventually wind up at hbiostat.org for thoughtful answers to most of my statistical questions. this is a like an actual biostat goldmine that continuously grows more gold. sincere thank you to @f2harrell.bsky.social !

@hadley.nz in case you’re taking suggestions for new #tidyverse verbs, may I suggest ‘yoink()’? i don’t yet know what it does. But whatever that action is, I’d for sure use it *all the time!* #rstats

Ever discovered a new function in an r package and been like, man that’s so useful. It must be new or else I’ve had known about it? I advise against looking up when it was added to said package, unless you’re looking for a blow to your #rstats self-esteem.

Umm…this is amazing. 10/10, would recommend.

It’s both pleasure and torture to struggle learning some new technique and the associated coding skills, even after a decade in the bio stat world. #rstats #brms

looking for help changing the legend title on conditional_smooth plots of a t2 smooth from #brms. i've tried all manner of "labs" arguments and can't get it right. i've searched SO and stan forums and there's lots on conditional_effects, but less on smooths. 🫠

from the never ending list of resources i wish i had when i was learning a particular concept, here is a great blog post by @andrew.heiss.phd about beta regression, including a portion using #brms 🥰 www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2021/11...

10/10 fully endorse.

question for the #rstats community. someone who still uses the magrittr pipe is edgy/retro/cool or an anachronistic chump who should get with the times? asking for a friend...

Brought in to help with a project after data collection completed. Assured it would be "quick".