“Congress did fund NIH. That is true. The President signed the appropriation. The money exists. But the grants are not necessarily moving.” Great piece from Liz Ginexi detailing why. Add to this all of this new screening is happening with 20% less staff. open.substack.com/pub/elizabet...

Wonderful opportunity to engage with the community and pick up some new skills with colleagues!

For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality. n.pr/4e0RHRi

Fun projects with hackster.io (there are 4 parts) and lots of related examples. Cool low-cost tech.

I’m in love with the little examples on top of this intro to hacking with epaper displays www.hackster.io/etolocka/mas...

Sharing the free e-book Reproducible Medical Research with R peter-higgins-rmrwr.share.connect.posit.cloud

I'm back with another quarto extension, now presenting quarto-timelines! Customizable timelines in html and revealjs slides, different layout and fragment support included emilhvitfeldt.com/post/quarto-... #quarto

"Preprinting Does Not Meet Science’s Duty of Care Responsibility to Society" raises questions such as "why do they talk of science as a monolithic thing but only discuss a narrow corner of it?" and "what the hell?" journal.trialanderror.org/pub/preprint...

McKinsey to contribute $125 million to Purdue bankruptcy over opioid sales advice reut.rs/4vmXxm9

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

NEW: University of Michigan Chinese researcher dies after allegedly "hostile questioning" by federal agents www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

#Powerpoint tip: If you are taking a presentation on the road to a national meeting, you are hoping that the computer you present on will have all the fonts you used in your presentation. You can stick to common fonts, but if you get creative, you may end up with boxes or Wingdings. Embed.

Few people with #bipolardisorder speak openly of their diagnosis or treatment - and far fewer speak to reporters about it. That makes it hard to get attention for the fact that help is available, and treatment works. Kudos to this young man. And to his @umich.edu psychiatrist!

Advanced #Powerpoint tip - if you Rehearse timings for your presentation (often a good idea), remember to *de-select* the "Use Timings" checkbox. Otherwise your presentation autoruns, & independently advances slides during your presentation. Leads to discombobulated presenters on the regular.

Advanced #Powerpoint tip - when presenting in Zoom, you want to see Chat / questions from audience, but the default Slide Show presentation is full screen and you can't see the chat. To Fix: Set up your slide show - Slide Show tab / Set Up Slide Show select Browsed by an individual (window).

Advanced Powerpoint tip of the day - When your PPT file is too big to share/email, it is often due to wasteful image storage. File/Compress pictures, Select on-screen 150 ppi Click Delete cropped areas Click OK

missed this yesterday. more career experts/senior leaders leaving FDA...

I wish 2026 is the year we stop the drain that scientific publishers impose on science. Instead of funding science, increasing shares of shrinking research budgets are funneled to publishers in exchange of.. not much. Understand the strain: tinyurl.com/2b6wxx5r Stop the drain: tinyurl.com/3jfscscy

Advanced Powerpoint tip of the day - when presenting in Zoom, you want to see Chat / questions from audience, but default Slide Show presentation is full screen and you can't see the chat. To Fix: Set up your slide show - Slide Show tab / Set Up Slide Show select Browsed by an individual (window).

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Thrilled to be interviewed by imminent cardiologist and clinical trials Mike Gibson yesterday about the new draft Bayesian guidance at FDA: clinicaltrialresults.org/dr-frank-har... #Statistics #StatsSky #bayes #pharma

MAHAspital. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBV...

I got excited when I saw that NIH might have received its first apportionment from OMB today. Alas, it's for ARPA-H. OMB still has not given NIH a dime for non-salary, non-emergency expenses from the spending bill that was signed into law on Feb 3.

When you stop paying attention to psoriasis ads on TV, they get even weirder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3QM...

#IBD folks - looking for a new treatment in a clinical trial? go to tcbanalytics-clinicaltrials.streamlit.app search for "actively enrolling clinical trials" in [disease - crohn's or uc] near [city or zipcode, state] @crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.social

📦 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