Every few months i discover that tidyverse has built-in functions to do things I was already doing, just with more steps. I recently discovered value_fill = in pivot_wider. this used to frustrate me, but I’ve come to love it. The breadth of knowledge and expertise out there is 😍. #rstats

I was today years old when I first received this error message: ‘no more error handlers available (recursive errors?). #rstats

It’s both amazing, terrifying, and a little sad that I learned so much regex, got pretty good at it, and now appear to have basically dumped it almost completely from my brain #rstats

I mean, what are we even doing here. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41661604/

It’s funny cause it’s true.

These are my people.

Massive deadline approaching, way behind on analysis. Perfect time to update my version of R and RStudio. Duh. #rstats

I’ve had to resort to eating black licorice as it’s the only candy my locust-like children do not devour immediately upon locating in our house.

#brms people. in a random intercept model, prior = c( prior(normal(0, 1), class = "Intercept"), prior(exponential(1), class = "sd")) is equivalent to Aj(mu, tau), mu ~ normal(0,1), tau ~ exponential(1)

Agree with all 3 points. And *hard* agree with #3.

The more I read about Bayesian modeling, the more it seems…almost wrong to *not* do it. Especially as samplers, computing power, etc. and especially when one follows a principled workflow as promulgated by @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @avehtari.bsky.social #rstats #bayes

🎯So many important points packed into this editorial. ht @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Omg yes. I need bread and circus.

Big shout out and thank you to those of you who maintain free teaching materials/lectures/books/etc. online.

Good news everyone 🥳 Our (w @vincentab.bsky.social) primer on models as prediction machines (with the marginaleffects package) is finally officially published!> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

What are people’s favorite statistics, methods, data science podcasts? Things like @quantitude.bsky.social, @casualinfer.bsky.social, in the interim, etc? #rstats #stasky #episky

See also, Cauchy? Which, bizarrely, is sometimes pronounced ‘Lorentz’.

Celebrating the draft FDA Bayesian guidance document with our perspective in @jama.com. Honored to co-author w/Jack Lee (MD Anderson), Lisa LaVange (past director of Office of Biostatistics FDA CDER&president of ASA),& my Bayesian inspiration Sir David Spiegelhalter jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Is worksmaxxing a thing? Like working at all possible times, even in unreasonable times, locations, etc. and also potentially to the detriment of relationships, hobbies, etc.

as far as exchangeability (Pr [Ya = 1|A= 1] = Pr [Ya = 1|A= 0]), the equality is before treatment/exposure, right? that's really the only thing that makes sense...but man, stating that explicitly would save a lot of confusion. i like that "what it" states this so clearly. #causalinferance

I’m in a Markov chain rabbit hole. Send help. #bayes

This is, of course, fabulous and should be followed. By my arch enemy is out there somewhere reading this and will now do the exact opposite.

This peak niche humor. 🔥

This is going to be a very long chain

Lousy smarch weather.

I fall in love with @gt-package.bsky.social every time I use it. I remember back in my early days when I’d manually make tables by looking at values in SAS outputs. Glad that is behind me. #rstats #statsky

Truncated count models should come with a bright, flashing warning light (and maybe some sort of horn) alerting users to the complexities of coefficient interpretation. Or maybe raw coefficient interpretation should just be outlawed? #rstats #statsky

Love it! And I’ve already simply attached this paper as my peer review on more than 1 manuscript. 😬

These captchas just keep getting harder #rstats

Another example of how high-impact journals seem to be click bait for scientists.

if i get asked one more time to join a "biostat made simple" speaker panel at a clinical medicine conference i am going to fuc!*ing lose my mind.

thank you, journal staff, for ensuring this paper has 5 key words (not 4!) and that they are listed after the abstract, but not (*oh, never*) on the same page as the introduction. as a peer reviewer, i would have been LOST without such safeguards.

The velomobile is my favorite mobile.

Everything I love and hold dear is slowly getting taken away from me.

In 2026, does anyone actually need/want/respond to unsolicited marketing emails? I get all sorts of stuff about basic science equipment. I find it hard to believe there is anyone out there just pounding their head against a wall wondering where they can get microscopy supplies.

I was today years old when I learned about prediction intervals in meta analysis. Seems great. Does the hive mind have thoughts, pro or con? introduction-to-meta-analysis.com/download/c17...

This is one of those conceptual knowledge bombs (delivered as a wonderful casual aside) that can make you question everything you thought you knew about statistics.

I tossed and turned all night thinking about the sample size calculation for this paper I am reviewing. Does this happen to other people?

What fresh hell is this?!?

I have a zero truncated count outcome. Continuous predictor of interest that has non-linear relationship outcome. But there is parity in some areas of the predictor space. So a penalized smooth à la mgcv. Packages that can do this? GlmmTMB. Gamlss. Any other others? Anyone have suggestions?

What fresh hell is this?

This is the content I’m here for! @f2harrell.bsky.social

So many great links in this thread.

I’m generally like a 2 or 3 dplyr verb in a single pipe kinda person. I just used 8 diff verbs and 14 pipes and I’m giddy. #rstats

At what stage of brownness are previously orange/red hot sauces considered no longer appropriate for consumption? Asking for a friend.

when doing data cleaning for a new project, sometimes i feel like sisyphus and most other times like odysseus. a new experience stemming from my current project is prometheus, where i'm chained to a rock and my liver gets pecked out every day from now until forever. #statsky

I’m at that point in my statistical life where I believe GAMs may be the answer to…many, many analytic problems.

I thought we were done with studies that use fMRI to support outlandish claims?

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!