Does removing the immune organ of the appendix reduce the severity of Ulcerative Colitis (#IBD)? Part 1 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Nice article in WIP on the history of vaccine development, and why we are now in a golden age if vaccine precision and development speed. Excellent long-form science writing. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-go...

For folks who want to self-teach/learn medical data analysis with R, this resource has moved from bookdown to posit.cloud peter-higgins-rmrwr.share.connect.posit.cloud

We made a resource to help with that: "When goodbye comes too soon: How to wrap up science projects quickly" journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

📽️ WATCH: When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here's what you should know: https://propub.li/48KUw5Z

In a moment of folly I decided to look up tickets for world cup games, you know as one does when a big sporting event is coming to your city. Beloved the resellers have taken over. These are ticket prices for group stage games on stubhub! My couch and TV will have to do because this is obscene.

I've read @jennybryan.bsky.social happy git with R book a dozen times. the challenge is you need some real life pain and heart ache with git before you can fully appreciate the words of wisdom in her book anyways, for no particular reason - see the below link happygitwithr.com/repeated-amend

Hey #Rstats! What is your favorite #tidyverse way to turn a logical into a factor? I'm using `factor(ifelse(x, "Yes", "No"))`, but it feels a bit ugly, and `fct_recode()` doesn't work on logicals.

New pub-Pts w/ active IBD may report higher internalized stigma (IS), which may impact IBD disclosure. Higher levels of discrimination seen in females/SGM/BIPOC. IBD disclosure may mediate discrimination and IS. Speaks to need for #gastropsych @ibddoctor.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ecco-jcc/art...

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Yikes. A new breed of the 2008 cockroaches has appeared in the US financial system www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...

I'm finally writing a proper paper about faux, and have so many naming & default choices I regret (it was my first solo R package). Which is a better strategy: 1. Add new functions that work the way I wish the old ones did, but keep the old ones 2. Create a faux2 package and retire faux eventually

Why most polls overstate support for political violence www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...

Every once in a while I need to fiddle with long category labels in #rstats ggplot2. It always helps me to refer back to this excellent blog post by #AndrewHeiss @cararthompson.bsky.social www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2022/06...

Testing is free, discreet and easy - for more information on the RAPID-IBD study visit www.royaldevon.nhs.uk/about-us/res...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

This is what happens without vaccinations. The ducks are adorable. The hospitalized child with a respirator is tragic. And now preventable.

This photo is making the rounds on social media and some have asked if it's legit. It is. As the curator of a new exhibit on U-M medical history that opens this weekend, I wanted to share a link showing that it was taken by a LIFE magazine photographer: www.life.com/animals/anim... #IDsky

Fourth episode now up: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

DTW (the airport near Detroit) has a pet therapy dog program with dog trading cards - take a look here cdn.metroairport.com/uploads/Publ...

🚀 #rJavaEnv #rstats (helper for 100+ Java-dependent packages ) is about to get its biggest update yet. Just in time for ~10k downloads, Java 25 release, and its CRAN bday! 👉 Dev version: github.com/e-kotov/rJav... New: (1) full Linux support + (2) env setup so you can build {rJava} from source.

Reminds me of when we had a Ukranian refugee join us at work, he sat in his new class and immediately 3/4 boys ran over and started talking to him. They had all learned some Ukranian phrases that might be useful and really looked after him. Nobody asked them, they were just wonderful kids!/1

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

The website rspatialdata is a collection of data, tutorials, and more to help you learn to work with geospatial data. Put together by @paulamoraga.bsky.social and Laurie Baker, the website is a goldmine. rspatialdata.github.io/index.html

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

The next episode of the Crush-Cast is out now! This episode stars the wonderful Monica Dollive. We discuss our years-long Twilight feud, whether Monica had a "Dad Thing", and the one and only crush we can agree on: Kevin Bacon in Footloose. You can find us on Apple, Spotify or YouTube!

🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget! House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion. To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle. YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!

Last Week's Episode: open.spotify.com/show/1q0u9ta...

New Crush-Cast drops tomorrow! 😉 ❤️ 🥳 My friend Jackson has a great ep about his crushes, where we talk Magic Mike XXL, Red Dead Redemption, tiny moments in Dune, and learning how to live authentically in your own sexuality.

Apple Podcasts Link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A new podcast for those who pod: We discuss crushes past and present, and what they can tell us about ourselves. Tune in as a new guest takes us on a crush retrospective: from their childhood crushes, to celebrities, to fictional characters, and everything in-between.

Baboons grooming in Kenya

This Brit nails it. #Immigration

Wildebeest of the day. Wondering what's up.

A baby baboon going for a ride with its mom in Kenya.

Leopard of the day

I missed this news before (but suspect we'll see more announcements like this in the coming months): "The department also hopes to resume admissions for the fall 2027 class. However, no new applications will be accepted this cycle." www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

Just to give the TL;DR on this one: *The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

Yawning lioness of the day

Don't let anyone tell you it is hard to make monoclonals. This is 50 year old technology, and commoditized. Searching biocompare brings up over 41,000 anti-TNF antibodies. #IBD biocompare.com/Search-Antib...

Some great #rstats dataviz knowledge from @cararthompson.bsky.social www.cararthompson.com/talks/visual...

OpenAI killed a ChatGPT feature that made some sensitive conversations publicly searchable. If you knew where to look, anyone on the internet could access public ChatGPT logs where people seemed to confess to crimes, share trade secrets & more potentially damning scenarios. x.com/cryps1s/stat...

Some animal pictures from Kenya to share photos.google.com/share/AF1Qip...

GI Psychology is enrolling for an 8-wk virtual #IBD #psychotherapy group for adults living w/ #Crohns or #ulcerativecolitis - combining #CBT & gut-directed #hypnotherapy It’s being offered in partnership w/the @amcollegegastro.bsky.social & @crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/IBDGIPsych

A SkyWest passenger jet aborted a landing in North Dakota last week because its pilot said a military aircraft was in its flight path. "This is not normal at all," he told passengers.

this is about as mad as you’re going to see a pilot on an intercom after they almost got directed into another plane on approach. also the reveal of what kind of plane almost slammed into them is a jaw-dropper

Cheetah stops by to say hello in Kenyan Maasai Mara.

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