📦 medicalcoder v0.8.0 is now on CRAN. medicalcoder is a unified and longitudinally aware framework for ICD-based comorbidity assessment in #rstats CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=medi... GitHub: github.com/dewittpe/med... Website: peteredewitt.com/medicalcoder/

A short film about endometriosis has won a BAFTA, bringing much needed visibility to the disabling condition. Endometriosis and adenomyosis robbed me of years of my life. Countless surgeries, blood transfusions and hospital stays. Doctors saying it was “no big deal”. It’s a very big deal:

I went a little overboard with this and a little bit insane. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Seen online: ProPublica is hiring a data reporter, 5 yrs data journalism exp req'd. Salary $110K-$135K. Knowledge of Python or #RStats. US remote or option to work in NY, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix or Berkeley More info: job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j... #DDJ #JournalismJobs

David Kessler declares Larry Groce a Cassandra on ultraprocessed foods. From 1976 www.facebook.com/reel/9327622...

Known, but not always discussed - the significant effects menstruation and pregnancy on #IBD symptoms pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29361085/

Saturday Share from Ann Arbor - local chalk artist David Zinn www.youtube.com/watch?v=f885...

Somewhere there has to be a political consultant who can fill the Trump Team in - taking Matty Maroun's side in this bridge fight is a losing issue (for future decades) in Michigan. Michiganders have been screwed by that rent-seeking maroon for decades. @atrupar.com

dplyr 1.2.0 was released last week and since I use {dplyr} a lot in my work, I wanted to take some time to try some of the new functions. This post provides some supplemental examples of the new functions, beyond what is provided in the new Posit materials. #rstats cghlewis.com/blog/dplyr_u...

PSA: Do NOT Buy Ring Ring forces facial scanning on all devices. You cannot opt-out. They relay your location without the need of a warrant. Add your face for profiling. Have had security issues where randoms accessed private cameras.

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune Short list for the Pulitzer @PatBagley

Remove ICE and CBP funding until real changes are made. With apologies, I can’t find the artist to credit.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

This moment is bringing out the best in some of us (like this speaker) and bringing out the worst in others of us. This is a time for choosing to live a life that you're proud of, or not. ❤️

@scientificdiscovery.dev Hi, I am creating a new version of my free online MOOC, and would like to use this picture, of which you have the copyright. Is it ok if I put it in a slide?

Oh look, according to Peter Attia MD “pussy is low carb” something that is totally normal for a doctor to say to Epstein, who had previously been convicted of procuring a child for prostitution

I’m hiring! 🎉 I’m building out my team and looking for someone who enjoys working in R (tidyverse), is comfortable with Git, and is excited about data. 🤓 #rstats #tidyverse #datascience roche.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/roche-ext/jo...

Why we should avoid reading, quoting, or in any way supporting The Lancet medical journal. @elisabethbik.bsky.social The fraud underlying the Wakefield anti-MMR publication in the Lancet. Follow the money. A full explication from the BMJ here: www.immunize.org/clinical/vac...

Abigail Haddad back with yet again another banger of a blog post that everyone who is still hanging on to STATA, SAS, SPSS, MATLAB, etc needs to read and internalize. Especially relevant for #civictech open.substack.com/pub/presento...

🆕 New guest post on the blog! Discover nycOpenData, an R package that provides tidy, reproducible access to NYC Open Data APIs — perfect for teaching, research, and civic data analysis. statsandr.com/blog/nycopen... #RStats #OpenData #DataScience #ReproducibleResearch #CivicTech

Slides from today's talk on approaches to refractory #IBD at the Crohn's and Colitis Congress can be found here - please share! speakerdeck.com/higgi13425/t... @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social @crohns-disease.org.uk @ccyanetwork.bsky.social @crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.social @crohnscolitisca.bsky.social

Oooh love this. Easiest way to parallelise anything in #rstats. Just add futurize() to your favourite function call www.jottr.org/2026/01/22/f... Thanks @henrikbengtsson.bsky.social HT @rstats.blaze.email

Is anyone here an expert on #rstats ellmer structured data? It works when I define the JSON schema of an object A containing an array of object B, but not when I read object B from JSON schema and use type_object and type_array to set up object A. Reprex: gist.github.com/debruine/d35...

R Consortium webinar: Scaling up data analysis in R with Arrow. Learn larger-than-memory workflows, why Parquet matters, and where DuckDB fits—w/ Dr Nic Crane (Arrow R maintainer; Apache Arrow PMC). Register: r-consortium.org/webinars/sca... #rstats #arrow @niccrane.bsky.social

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

An oral, mucosal norovirus vaccine given to breastfeeding women can safely induce functional IgA and IgG responses in serum and breast milk. Phase 1 study but it will be super dope to protect infants from norovirus by vaccinating mum. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

@peterubel.bsky.social Hopping mad? Welcome to the world of #IBD drugs, where lawsuits and 'settlements' extend patent life until the hoppy drugs are ready. And new drugs are parked on the shelf until the current generation of drugs approach their patent horizon. x.com/peterubel/st...

Want to get the data out of a PDF figure? As in, the actual data – not a rough trace-along-the-lines version? I made an app you might like: adamkucharski.github.io/pdf2plot/ It all started a few years ago... 🧵

This is a big deal for speeding up clinical trials, and for pediatric use after adult trials have proved successful. The @USFDA goes Bayesian. A win for #IBD patients, and especially for kids with #IBD. @crohnsandcolitisau.bsky.social @f2harrell.bsky.social www.fda.gov/news-events/...

Always bad with hashtags. Obviously #datascience

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.