As a recipient of federal grants from #NIH (for now! 😭) that funds research in my lab, I'd like to sincerely thank American taxpayers on #TaxDay for investing in scientific research that lays the foundation for medical and technological innovation in this country and keeps us ALL safe and healthy

Study by Avelino-Silva (@geritjas.bsky.social), @seijlee.bsky.social, @alexsmithmd.bsky.social et al. finds delirium is most lethal in hospitalized older adults without dementia academic.oup.com/ageing/artic...

Um… what?! Find out tomorrow… (Bonus points if you already get the classic album cover reference.)

National Banjo Day

I went and saw Project Hail Mary. A guy came in with his service dog and the dog sat there the whole time just concentrating on the movie. Afterwards I told the guy I was amazed your dog watched the movie like that. He replied, me too especially because he hated the book.

1-day online course May 11: Intro to R/RStudio & an efficient comprehensive R workflow, introducing the R rms package, enhancing regression analysis skills to be ready for the RMS 4-day course. Details and registration at hbiostat.org/course @amstatnews.bsky.social @instats.bsky.social #RStats

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

The AI co-scientist is here www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬💻🧪 rdcu.be/e8xmk

Planets and Bright Stars xkcd.com/3219/

Family members concerned that their relative in hospital has delirium should assertively approach healthcare professionals and say, ""I think my relative has delirium." Unfortunately #delirium is still missed, and informed families play an important role in advocating for their loved ones.

So, a thread about how I have learned #SEM in #R as a #PhD student in #StatisticalGenetics. I’ve heard SEM be described as a “system of regressions”, but in addition to observed variables, we also have latent/unobserved variables. We can represent these variables in a path diagram (lavaan.org) :

www.bbc.com/news/article... I love this story. A reminder of the inspiration of teachers in education throughout our careers.

Wow this is a breakthrough in validation of predictive models that fully accounts for point estimates used in predictions being only point estimates. Great work @richarddriley.bsky.social and colleagues! #Statistics #StatsSky

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

Lots to think about in my annual roundup of peer review research: - AI, mostly bad; some suggestions of ways it may help - Evidence on financial rewards for peer review - Influence of editors' biases More on equity & diversity; librarians & systematic reviews absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2026/02/02/5...

I feel like someone’s gotta say something, so I guess it’s going to be me. I’m 100% certain that p-values are useful.

Applications for the 2026 @nidus-delirium.bsky.social Boot Camp are due April 6, 2026. Learn more and start your application today! deliriumnetwork.org/career-devel... #delirium

There is a lot of talk lately about multi-year funding (MYF) at NIH. This is mostly a paperwork issue, but it can have a dramatic impact on the number of grants that get funded. I was curious how this would impact grant numbers over time, so I did some simple modeling. 1/n

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

The US has officially terminated its partnership with the World Health Organization.

Enroll in my new workshop to realize your dream of learning IRT #quantpsych #psychometrics #psychsky #statssky

what the fuck are we doing here, @cnn.com?

Gratitutde to all NIH study section participants who are participating in rescheduled meetings now and in January. Thank you for your service and thanks also to the hard working NIH staff who are making these happen. 🥰🧪

The way I see it, we have a few options: 1. General strike 2. Mass protests in DC for as long as it takes 3. Wait for Republicans to protect the country and therefore lose the country No one is coming to save us.

A mnemonic device for remembering the Great Lakes

Maxwell was rescued from Nairobi National Park as a calf. He's blind – and because rhinos use vision to assess rivals, he can never safely return to the wild. We built him a boma within the National Park, a special home to call his own, enjoy mud baths and interact with neighbours: swt.bio/maxwell

Excited to share a new paper just published in Neuroepidemiology! We used 22 years of longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study to answer a surprisingly unsettled question: How fast does memory decline in older adults without dementia? 🧵👇

🧠 A major study in Nature Medicine challenges common belief about education & dementia protection: higher education didn’t slow brain ageing; it provided a higher starting point. This advantage may be established in childhood, not built through schooling itself. 👉 share-eric.eu/research-res...

Wearing in solidarity with our courageous federal workers who are trying hard to honor their oaths to The Constitution and the good people of our country.

Shingles vaccine most promising common drug to potentially prevent Alzheimer’s  news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h... by @uniofexeternews.bsky.social #Alzheimers #dementia #shingles #vaccines

The Quantitative Staff Network was launched to bridge the gap between quantitative scientists and the broader scientific community. Looking for new ways to connect with your peers? Learn more: magazine.amstat.org/...

We're very excited that our next AMPHIBIAN speaker will be Dr. Alessandro De Nadai, speaking about machine learning in mental health research and interventions on 12/3 at 12:30. Register here: brown.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @rnjma.bsky.social @gemmawallace.bsky.social

WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️

Multi-Year funding analysis, a 🧵 I have been trying to find a robust way of quantifying and understanding multi-year (forward funding). First, some background: Most NIH grants are for multiple years (2 to 5, typically). However, the are usually funded on an annual basis. 1/18

If only there was a good explanation as to why 🤔

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about significance testing in psych. No, p-values *don’t* become useless at large N. This flawed point also used to be framed as "too much power". But power isn't the problem – it's 1) unbalanced error rates and 2) the (lack of a) SESOI. 1/ >

Your answer cannot be biased if you never specified a question.

New Frost lab preprint from @SohnClaira: “Elevation of the mechanically-sensitive protein emerin links nuclear mechanotransduction to tau-induced cytoskeletal remodeling in neurons” www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/9

This is dark. But also, this display of solidarity on the part of the pentagon press corps should be a model for dealing with the regime

When students, faculty, and our communities are united to fight for our universities, for the common good, and for our democracy, nothing can stop us! WHEN WE FIGHT, WE WIN! @aft @higheredlabor.bsky.social #DefendHigherEd

Brown's rejection of the compact would not have been possible without the amazing mobilization of faculty, students and staff last week! When we fight, we win!! Score this as another victory for workers and students! @aaup.org

Brown rejects the compact! President Paxson’s letter references the views of stakeholders - & I know as an alum how activated the Brown community was while the school considered its response - an important reminder of how much organizing matters

Brown University Rejects White House Deal for Special Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

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Join "Psychometrics" w/ @mattadiemer.bsky.social on Nov. 12-14 to learn about #psychometrics and how to to understand, detect, and remediate bias in measures. Topics include exploratory factor analyses, confirmatory factor analyses, MIMIC models, invariance & more.

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈 You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

Thank you to Stata, the October sponsor of ASA's "Practical Significance" #podcast! For 40+ years, Stata has supported researchers & analysts with powerful, reproducible statistical tools. Learn more about how Stata can power your work: www.stata.com/stata-differ... statacorp.bsky.social #STATSSKY