Everyday struggles

@pwgtennant.bsky.social Can you examine the change in score in this "econometric" context? Seems... bad 🙃 @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Germany context? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

The solutions of the past 3 decades have failed to change the incentives of #PublishOrPerish. As a result, researcher funding, time, control, and trust has been lost. The ONE CONSTANT in the wake of the serial crisis, #PlanS and #OpenAccess reform has been publish profit margins. 2/n

Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... This ultra-competitive scenario makes me very anxious. 1) almost a lottery 2) It is possible that the lottery would be more fair, as at least it wouldn't have the conscious/unconscious bias (mainly the "weights" the institution of origin carries)

@grahamkendall.bsky.social you could check the pattern of self citations of this group : journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Every paper of them in this topic cite almost all of the previous ones. Rarely citing other groups

A study of ~7 million Brazilian births shows that infection with #chikungunya, #dengue or #Zika viruses during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of adverse perinatal outcomes @csthiago.bsky.social#chikungunya#dengue#Zika#viruses #epidemiology #pregnancy

Help! Where can I find resources about causal mediation of ordinal outcomes? (using SEM) Thanks 😄 #rstats @dingdingpeng.the100.ci

I’ve had the same impression while looking at academic epidemiology postdoc offers. So much focus on AI, machine learning, LLM experience. Are these the core skills we need now? What about subject matter knowledge, study design, bias, statistics, population health knowledge? Outdated?

Sleuths, Can someone explain to me how these CIs are possible? www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... It is not clear how they got RR from the Cox PH, as it would require choosing a time point (looks like an interpretation of HR as RR) @lonnibesancon.bsky.social @sophieehill.bsky.social @retractionwatch.com

1/2 Does anyone know how to proceed for multiple imputations if one of the variables (fully observed) in the model has more than 5000 levels (in the outcome model, it is a mixed effect)? #rstats #episky

Check out our last paper about the adverse consequences of arbovirus infection during pregnancy: www.nature.com/articles/s41... We have use the exact same approach for dengue, zika and chikunugnya. (including a negative control exposure!) #dengue, #zika, #chikungunya, #epidemiology

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