@weratedags.com Saw this one *years* ago, but it's lived in my mind rent-free ever since. Hi-res: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/u...

Oh good. Finally. Sheesh lads. 😜 Anyway, everyone do pretty please check out @sonrai.bsky.social for all things research data management and stewardship in Ireland (and beyond).

📢 Chelsea&Westminster Hospital NHS Trust Research Dept. are looking for an enthusiastic & dedicated senior statistician with experience working on drug trials to lead on the statistical work for a small portfolio of sponsored studies. For details please see here: www.chelwest.nhs.uk/about-us/wor...

Announcing a new special guest edition in Digital Health! Everything on patient-reported outcomes in mHealth, including algorithmic treatment and measurement allocation, N-of-1 trials, preference learning & handling subjective measurements. 📲 Take a look! journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

Exceptionally pleased to welcome the Michelle Gabriel of the MHRA to the meeting with key updates for delegates around changes to the regulations around clinical trials & recent GCP Inspection findings. Direct conversations between CTUs & regulators are vital! #UKCTUNetwork #ClinicalTrialQA2025

Curious about creating a reproducible workflow for your research? 🔍 We provide several self-paced tutorials about tools that make your work more efficient, reproducible, and collaborative. Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...

Handling Missingness, Failures, and Non-Convergence in Simulation Studies: A Review of Current Practices and Recommendations @amstatnews.bsky.social #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in research data literacy and data skills training? Join the University Library and the @ukdataservice.bsky.social on the 22nd. Lunch is provided! This event forms part of the Research Data Stewardship community activities - join their Teams space to stay in touch!

Introductory online INSPECT-SR workshop. November 6th, 12-2pm UK-time. Free, places limited. BOOK: www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

This looks great! The question you should *always* ask if you're thinking about doing an SWT.

I'm doing a webinar in two weeks (15 Oct 1-2pm BST), part of NIHR Research Support Service's Methods Academy series, on the age-old question: should I do a stepped wedge trial? Free registration, details here: tinyurl.com/z6cjvce3 @nihr-rss.bsky.social @wiphcem.bsky.social @qmul-wiph.bsky.social

We are hiring researchers! We’re looking for Epidemiologists / Health Data Scientists to join our growing research team at the Bennett Institute. Please check out the job advert and tell your friends! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

ICYMI: statsepi.substack.com/p/impact-by-...

Some of you monsters will like this: Brutalita Sans - a custom font editor. I recommend a font in which every vowel has a random diacritical mark. As a treat. brutalita.com

What happens when a #ClinicalTrial processes deviate from the approved #protocol? How do we help ensure participate safety is maintained at all times? A new tool, developed by the @ukcrc-ctu.org.uk network, including the team at SCTU, helps trial teams navigate the process. Full article below 👇

Read more about RCTs and why they’re so important: ourworldindata.org/randomized-c...

New #OpenScience resource alert!📣 Data Management Plans in Open Science: What, Why, & How Learn why DMPs matter, how they boost transparency & reproducibility, & how to create one for your research 🔗Access the full resource: shorturl.at/nBxtg #FORM4Open

Biostatisticians Meet AI: Navigating Shifts While Preserving Principles. Bin Zhu. Statistics in Medicine. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Perennial advice:

Pretty keen to listen to this one…

Wonderful discussion with @f2harrell.bsky.social and @statberry.bsky.social !

New paper in @jclinepi.bsky.social led by my super cool PhD student @kahin-tai.bsky.social with the SHARE-CTD (@sharectd.bsky.social) crew. It is the 2nd paper in a “JCE trilogy” on data sharing by SHARE-CTD: the 1st one addressed the topic in broad terms, and the third will focus on data reuse.

Thrilled to have teamed up with @cderv.bsky.social & Zhian N. Kamvar for this post on @ropensci.org: ✨ All the Ways to Programmatically Edit or Parse R Markdown / Quarto Documents ✨ ropensci.org/blog/2025/09... It's even available in French and Spanish (🙏 @yabellini.bsky.social) #RStats

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

I still think that {superpower} is better, as it forces the user to be explicit about their group means and sds. If you just tell people "plug in d=.5 for moderate, and d=.8 for large" they will never learn anything about power and effects.

#statstab #417 {pwrss} Practical Power Analysis in R Thoughts: Some useful vignettes for conducting power analyses for various designs, constraints, and data types. #poweranalysis #samplesize #r #power #guide #tutorial #sesoi #equivalence #tost #rstats cran.r-project.org/web/packages...

We're currently looking for a Trials Methodologist/Senior Trials Methodologist to join our team. You can find out more about the role and how to apply here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13... #ResearchJobs #TrialsMethodology🧪

In a newly released arXiv preprint, we explore how open science practice like sharing data, code and preprints relate to citation impact in French-authored research over a 3-year period. Thanks to @ouvrirlascience.bsky.social for highlighting its national importance. 🔗 Read more: plos.io/3Vmykrj

Good.

AI models are entropy engines.

Please join us soon in Glasgow for a 1-day course on “How to be a Great Chief Investigator” featuring trialists and CTU experts from around Scotland - supported by UKCRC - *Thursday 9th October* - open to all! @uofgshw.bsky.social @uofgscmh.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social

💡 Explore how practices from distributed, open-source software can make science more professional, open, and collaborative! Attend the “Science as amateur software development” lecture by Prof. Dr. @rmcelreath.bsky.social on Wed 17 Sept, 9:00. 👉 Register here: www.pretix.osc.lmu.de/lmu-osc/OSSS...

Great blog by @ndevito1.bsky.social on his UKRI metascience project, which I’m honoured to join, helping authors share their code to minimum best practice standards with @bmj.com. When admin is sorted, I will hire a postdoc for the French part of the project... Keep in touch...

Join us at #atmc25 as we explore "Better Trials Through Better Methods" Invited speakers and program details now available - more at www.atmc25.com Secure your ticket today! Early🐦 must end 26/9

EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson. It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Transparency is key to trust in *all* stats…

Interested in or currently leading a clinical trial? Want to be the best Chief Investigator you can be? Want to build a peer support network? This UPDATED course is for you! ⏰Registration for the October 2025 workshop in Glasgow is now open.⏰ Find out more here: ukcrc-ctu.org.uk/how-to-be-a-...

I seem to have been discussing pilot and feasibility studies a lot this week. One question often asked is how big should my pilot/feasibility study be? 1/6 #MethodologyMonday #124

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

📚 INSPECT-SR: a tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled trials www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

I realize the world is burning, but here is the abstract of a talk I will give multiple times in different formats this month. With the feedback, I hope to write up something substantial on the theme in the remainder of the year.

Tomorrow at 9am 👇

Out this morning, TARGET a guideline to help get target trial emulation studies to report a standard set of items #prc10 @peerreviewcongress.bsky.social @bmj.com @societyforepi.bsky.social

Reviewing trial applications and so many are proposing to use mixed effects models with random effects for sites due to "clustering" despite 1) being individually-randomized, and 2) only having a small handful of sites. What is going on!?

Really clear and easy to follow guide with great visuals #openresearch

I finally tried out {priorsense}📦 with #Stan #rstats and it's awesome! Fed it a simple model I use for teaching, and found some (minor) prior-data conflicts. The powerscale_plot_dens() function really helps in understanding how "bad" the conflict is.

New #QuartoPub extension! Quarto output styling adds CSS rules for computational output, warnings, and messages for #rstats, #python, #julialang, and #observablejs - use the default styles, minimal styles, or add your own custom CSS andrewheiss.github.io/quarto-outpu...

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

Last chance to participate - this will close on Sunday pm UK time. These results will be used to formulate guidance on demonstrating promise of an intervention when applying for funding for an RCT, pilot, or feasibility trial.

I’m about halfway through this update (first 11 tutorials are done). I think they’re a lot better. Using a consistent @easystats.github.io workflow throughout will - I think - massively reduce the cognitive load for students. Looking forward to road testing in autumn term.