The @jhubiostat.bsky.social has a post-doc ad out, please see at apply.interfolio.com/174430

Vech Tentures

Successful first day at #positconf2025

80% of being an adult is scheduling

Code in the R script that I have been using for years to monitor recruitment in a long-running study. #EpiSky #StatSky #rstats

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

Read this quote for the first time today: www.goodreads.com/quotes/72354...

It's not rocket science, guys. Companies can't hire as many people because they have to pay more tariffs on virtually everything in their supply chain.

Got review from authors, and they have a link *to their own GitHub repo*. Click link. Query has `?utm_source=chatgpt.com`. Weird?

Who do you have to formally notify that you would like to quit email?

Spending 3 full days coding up a simulation for a method that *should* be better, but performs identically to a common R function (that takes about 5 seconds to apply). Absolutely priceless. #rstats

Hey #rstats, How do people feel about the swirl package for learning R? I remember finding the lessons helpful, but I notice the package isn't maintained anymore judging by the github repo: github.com/swirldev/swirl

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

“utterly shapeless mayhem” letterboxd.com/colonelmorti...

“In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it.” - Ursula K. Le Guin

Methods of Biostatistics in R book we published a few years ago: leanpub.com/biostatmethods

Getting advertisements from Hello Divorce gets me thinking “what do the ads know that I don’t?”

Get a bidet

There is a person in my professional world who I have seen post both: "People are so dumb for being afraid of sharks because of obviously-wrong fearmongering media coverage" and "Of course I'm afraid of immigrants, don't you see how scary this media coverage is?"

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

If I started a game show for recovering finance people I’d call it The T. Rowe Price is Right

If I started a brick laying company that was populated by recovering finance people I’d call Legg Masonry

Announcing sfhotspot, an #RStats package to make it as easy as possible to identify and map concentrations of crime (or concentrations of any other points in space). Introduction: lesscrime.info/post/sfhotsp... Package website: pkgs.lesscrime.info/sfhotspot/ 🧵

We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.

I love Baltimore I do I do. I really do.

He's gonna pardon Ghislaine, she's gonna say here is the list with trump and Rs conspicuously missing. That is gonna be enough cover for the GOP electeds and MAGA, and then Bondi & Co will start prosecuting the names on the list and Trump's involvement will be a distant memory

WASHINGTON (AP) - Education Department says it will release billions in remaining withheld grant money for schools.

Conferences should be relabeled as fairs

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Another way to interpret the Columbia decision is that Columbia took your tuition money / donations and handed it to the government

Does anyone have a solution on converting rois_series to DICOM masks from www.osirix-viewer.com? If so, what is the cost/link? If no solution, how much would you pay for it? Trying to understand a pitch to our group.

A vision of the future of chairing tele- and VR- conferences: auto mic shutoff and big flash of “5 minutes!” and “1 minute” warning with continuous clock.

Congratulations to @benlangmead.bsky.social on his promotion to full professor! 🎉 Prof. Langmead is recognized across the computational and life sciences fields for his innovative methods helping to transform how biomedical researchers and other life scientists access and use DNA sequencing data. 🧬

Just saw a bad "anti-woke" take recommending that people watch the expanse, and let me just say, if you think the expanse ain't "woke" then all that tells me is that you deeply and fundamentally didn't understand the expanse. "Doors and corners, kid."

There are Senate Appropriations Committee meetings about antisemitism on college campuses but nothing about the AI that was spouting off anti-Jewish vitriol, do I have that right?

I used to make fun of my girlfriend for being obsessed with Asimov‘s Foundation series and after watching the show I feel like I deserve every bad thing that happened to me since.

Why can’t billion dollar UIs have a click button to strip out things like “please” and “thank you” on the back end for the user. User gets to talk nice to AI and not sapping energy. Like simple NLP? What am I missing @samasama.bsky.social ? euroweeklynews.com/2025/04/20/s...

We're Google, and we're going to brick your perfectly functional thermostat after buying the company that made it.

Congratulations to Biostats PhD student Emily Norton for winning the Carol Eliasberg Martin Scholarship to support her research on breast cancer risk modeling!

The @posit.co new reticulate package with managed/uv python implementation really changed the game (and speed) of using modules without a huge condaenv overhead. In scripts but also big for packages with python deps.

What a depressing paper. Virtually every indicator of health in US kids is poor, and getting worse. Honestly - 54 excess deaths a day compared to similar countries. Depressive symptoms in nearly 40% and guns killing more 1-19 year olds than anything else. It’s a tough read.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth

John Ioannidis of "most papers are wrong," takes the stage at #metascience25. Amazing to post all these "numbers" with no citations (we can just ask him). 😆👀🤯

as Shoup I think proposed, the way you implement this is by divide-and-conquering the car-owning class and giving some of the longer-tenured locals parkng permits for free, so it becomes a huge boon for the loudest assholes in the neighborhood

Such a great time to be a gang member right now. Just dress up in paramilitary garb, mask up, and throw your enemies into a rented white van. Easy peasy

@sideshow-jim.bsky.social I randomly saw that your image is a skull stripping tutorial for head CT. Any interest in chatting about that? We are running a comparison of five methods right now on about 5000 scans and are applying it to 25,000. We just applied this one arxiv.org/abs/2506.11860