Models can be powerful tools to study associations in data. But do they reliably reveal the truth? 🚨 In our new study, @danlarremore.bsky.social and I show that the model used to estimate VE from test-negative designs (TNDs) may not translate to other correlates of risk. doi.org/10.1093/aje/...

Late advertisement of our new pre-print: Contact structure and population immunity shape the selective advantage of emerging variants www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

#rstats Please welcome Jarl, a new R linter. Jarl is a CLI tool with extensions in VS Code, Positron, and Zed. It can check thousands of lines of R code in milliseconds. Jarl provides several output formats, a Github Actions workflow, and more. Blog post: www.etiennebacher.com/posts/2025-1...

Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)

🚀 gratia 0.11.0 is out! Now has a paper in JOSS — please cite 📄 doi.org/10.21105/jos... Experimental parallel processing ⚡ New assemble() for building plots 🎨 Better support for complex families + new diagnostics 🧪 Lots of bug fixes + polish ✨ 👉 gavinsimpson.github.io/gratia/ #Rstats

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field? That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience A 🧵 1/n

All my ecology peeps slinging the GAM(M)s might find this paper interesting. I was surprised to learn there is a frequentist interpretation of GAM(M)s! (jk) besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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New paper out yesterday on surveillance of the JN.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2 in France last year. Nice collaboration between private and public partners from public health and research! www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

Spotted traveler-based genomic surveillance at Newark airport! I freaked out over how cool they were while my family gave me weird looks…..

Thrilled this work is out! Truly a team product and a labor of love from all involved. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...