Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

🚀 Curious about Positron, Posit’s new open-source IDE? This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC) #RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...

Europe thinks that free and private communication is not a fundamental right.

Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED. Despite expressing concerns about breaking end-to-end encryption, Germany refrained from taking a definitive stance on the Chat Control proposal during the September 12th LEWP meeting. A willingness to negotiate and compromise remains.

DifferentialEquations.jl is many things, and lots of people only use a small portion of it. Check out the JuliaCon 2025 workshop: introduces many aspects of the packages that the developers feel are underutilized and under-understood! #julialang #sciml www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSGF...

catholic church: always on the right side of the history 🙄 [pope leo XIV says that the holy see doesn’t pronounce the word g3nocid3]

The anti-autocracy handbook: how scientists can cope with democratic backsliding. This guide is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of #democracy and #academicfreedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism zenodo.org/records/1569... @EU_Commission

Bayesian Hierarchical Mixture Cure Modelling Framework to Utilize Multiple Survival Datasets for Long-Term Survivorship Estimates #stats

Any potential gain from a switch to renewables and tech-heavy futures is inevitably undone if the underlying system of extractivist colonial enterprises and growth at all costs remains unchanged. The suffering just gets shifted to new places. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

AI’s anwers are still so biases and prompt-dependent, I don’t see how it could replace humans. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/b...

#r code written by AI seems to be unnecessarily complicate.

📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W11 | Palm Trees . 🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali... . #rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2

bioRxiv and medRxiv will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference (ESMARConf) is back! It will be held June 11th to the 13th, 2025: esmarconf.org/2025/ Recordings of the talks and workshops from previous years can be found here: esmarconf.org/recordings/ #ESMARConf #MetaAnalysis #EvidenceSynthesis #RStats

Just a reminder for anyone who receives SPSS, Stata, or SAS files but does not have licenses for these programs (🙋), you can import any of these files into #rstats and work them! My favorite package for working with these files is {haven}. haven.tidyverse.org

Now that we've cut all US foreign aid, we can at least spend that money on helping people in need here at home, for example by gambling on crypto to support our Great Patriot Bag Holders

study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that environmental factors (i.e. smoking and physical activity) and living conditions have a greater impact on health and premature death than our genes. #health #medicine www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Feedback is intrigued by a theory arguing that when maleness is threatened, men overcompensate with increased support for war and homophobia – and interest in SUVs

Due to the poor productivity of the time, our ancestors also had to use children as free labor Should we bring back child labor, then? These people may claim to have the highest IQ or be “geniuses” and whatnot, but they're actually just ignorant, uncurious, and overconfident

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

If you ask #LeChat by #MistralAI whether it uses or not your data, it answers that it is not concerned since it is not associated with Mistral AI and its application. But questions about its data use have been raised. To read [in French] www.frandroid.com/culture-tech...

New blog up: solomonkurz.netlify.app/blog/2025-02... This time I dip my toes into causal inference for quasi-experiments using matching methods, and my use case has missing data complications. Many thanks to @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @noahgreifer.bsky.social for their peer review! #RStats

#Rlinguo, the #R #rstats app on mobile phones. (And it does not collect your data ;)) rtask.thinkr.fr/rlinguo-why-...

Is it adjusting for baseline covariates in clinical trial analyses like fishing for statistically significant results? #r #rstats #clinicalresearch #statistics www.r-bloggers.com/2025/01/thin...

evergreen (currently at ~6hrs of training 🫡)

#onthisday in medicine. #HIV #MedSky

If you missed my talk but still want to learn how to make your R code more reproducible, my slides are here 🙂: daxkellie.quarto.pub/will-your-co... All the links to packages and resources I mentioned are there, so hopefully this can be a nice reference, too! #ESAus2024 #rstats #quartopub 🧪🌏

Decision curve analysis (DCA) combines classical assessment of predictive performance with the consequences of using these strategies for clinical decision-making. #Bayesian DCA allows for an intuitive probabilistic interpretation framework, while incorporating prior evidence. #rstats #statistics

New post on the 100% Christmas Interval -- after almost 8 years, it's time that we finally talk about CIs. www.the100.ci/2024/12/05/w...

Interesting reading about standard meta-analysis and #Bayesian methods to reproduce similar results: here (rworks.dev/posts/meta-a...) and here (github.com/WinVector/Ex...) #R #rstats #statistics #metaanalysis

Nous avons toujours besoin de vous (et de votre temps). Merci de votre soutien!

"In drear nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne’er remember Their green felicity" www.theguardian.com/books/2024/d...

“Allowing yourself to daydream and building a routine around when you are most productive are key to letting creativity flow. Filling notebooks with doodles, mind maps and even shopping lists can trigger unusual connections that lead to fresh ideas.” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Premier post ici, direction l'Arménie 🇦🇲 Génocide, guerres, violences. Dans un pays rongé par les épreuves, les artistes créent pour exister et se reconstruire. A lire cette semaine dans Madame Figaro ⤵️

New agencies, new advisory committee. Who is (not) surprised? “Massive shake-up of French science system is biggest in decades” www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A large longitudinal cohort study (based on health records) has shown an association between air pollution (in Rome) and incidence of mental illness. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Parisian mood (Rolleigiro 105 + Rolleigon 38-105mm and Kodak Portra 800).

humans are responsible of a environmental catastrophe, but hey, the Atlantic wants you to know that even wild animals can aggravate climate change. (btw there is no “change”, only a disaster) www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

informations qui n’intéressent personne : I have a new profile picture and cover picture. Nikon F2 + Nikkor 55mm f/1.2 + Kodak T-Max P3200 (expired). Olympus XA + Fomapan Action 400. Nikon F2 is my father’s camera, I have been borrowing for almost 20 years now. Basically my third eye.

“charli, caroline, chris”, it seems appropriate. apple replay is no surprises. (if you have apple music, I am “damiacer” there)

Today: Launch of the #UNAIDS #WorldAIDSDay 2023 Report: Let Communities Lead. Discover how community leadership can pave the way to ending #AIDS by 2030. ⏰13:30-14:30 GMT 💻 Live webcast: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U15G...

“Il y a société là où il y an action réciproque de plusieurs individus.” “Comment la société pèse-t-elle sur les individus ?”, Avec Philosophie de Géraldine Muhlmann sur @franceculture.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/a...

Clinical trials in the US: Someone volunteers to be a guinea pig so that their fellow citizens can benefit. And then when they’re hurt, we say, "Well, it’s your problem, not ours". undark.org/2023/11/20/c...

Fighting disinformation in health in the complex time of AI-generated information. JAMA internal medicine. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Une courte - et très intéressante - introduction à Bluesky (et Mastodon) par @radiofrance.fr "Bluesky aura-t-il la peau de Twitter ?" radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Civil and human rights are protected in the US as much as they are in those countries where we, the West, export democracy.

It is shameful. @elife.bsky.social has fired Michael Eisen for tweeting the Onion article capturing the hypocrisy of the Western response to the situation in the Middle-East. Scientists should consider this when choosing publishers.

How Google Scholar rank co-authors (code in R by R-bloggers). www.r-bloggers.com/2023/10/all-...

they have a point, I guess 😁

“Split sample validation can require up to 20,000 observations to perform well enough. Otherwise the results may depend dramatically on the luck of the split.” That’s why your 20 observation dataset is not good for ridge regression.