Staff with the CDC’s institutional review board … were also let go. In the next 30 days, some science protocols will be up for renewal by the institutional review board. “They’ll have to be shut down,” Houry said. 😳

“I love my country. That’s why I despise my government.” -Edward Abbey #NoKings

nice overview of the sense i get from colleagues as well #AI

fascinating #databs

absolutely amazing review #AI

paywalls make me cry 😭 #statssky

This is an A+ Frankenstein joke and I really love it. 10/10, no notes.

#ai 😭

My morning coffee actually doesn’t taste the same without @statsepi.bsky.social and @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social’s daily gripes

Brought in to help with a project after data collection completed. Assured it would be "quick".

@murray.senate.gov how come this isn’t you? bsky.app/profile/grah...

YES

the “attenborough” style, folks

Frankenstein is waaaaaaay better in the modern “translation”

UVA school of data science is hiring this year—searches are open to folks from all disciplines. We need humanists & social scientists to teach ethics/data & society courses + do research that supports school’s mission to be holistic in the study of data science: datascience.virginia.edu/faculty-jobs

"Triangulation: moving from correlations to causation", Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Distinguished Lecture 2025, Thursday, October 16th, 5pm, in person or online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/school-of-...

when the deviates are absolutely mean?

Here are some thoughts about higher education - specifically statistics & research methods - after grading some more papers written with "assistance" from LLMs. 🧵

can’t heart this enough 😂

#rstats #dataviz Everyone loves Penguins, right? What about visualizing them using ~ schematic Chernoff faces? Here's a 1st proof-of-concept example Claude helped me with. Bill sizes are way too small. Sex is mapped to eye shape, but can't easily be seen. Anyone want to help with this?

1/2 A reminder to anyone who was RIFed. 💯 you do NOT deserve this. Quick tips if you do get a RIF notice: ❌ Do not send a read receipt ❌ Do not respond right away - the union will probably provide language for response ✅ Forward notice to your personal email

holy shit. i knew PE #healthcare was bad but didn’t realize the extent 😳🤬

this goes about the same for statistics

www.idwsds.org #rstats folks check this out if you haven’t already seen it! International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference

bwahahahahaha!

AI company alignment chart.

Rob Tibshirani, creator of the Lasso, is FSU’s 2025 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer! He'll introduce UniLasso, a new method for more stable, interpretable models, Oct 17. Learn more: magazine.amstat.org/... #Statsky #DataScience #UniLasso

my antifa granddad lost his life fighting fascism, march 1945 #AirMedal #USArmyAirCorps

i ❤️ gtsummary use it in every project

very cool!

this totally tracks

missed this before, very interesting!

Is machine learning just a bunch of regressions in a trench coat?

quantitative methods, qualitative methods, mixed methods

At some point the field of medical informatics will have to come to terms with the fact that clinicians rarely even pay attention to prediction models in the EHR. "Decision support" is a nice fantasy but there are already too many competing demands on clinician time. #statsky #medsky

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...

while experimenting with Claude Code I made a MAJOR DISCOVERY!!

JUDGE: Again, this is an emergency hearing with limited briefing. No new information has been provided about issues in Portland, so for all of the reasons stated in my prior opinion, I GRANT plaintiffs second motion for a TRO. 16/

Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from sending National Guard troops to Oregon apnews.com/article/nati...

who gives a shit? listen to what you like. 🎶

bwhahahahaha what a moron schmusk is

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Like adding googly eyes to inanimate objects. Wait, googly eyes... googly AIs... Oh my god.

posting for no discernible reason