New Blog: Learning R for Good Research Practices‼️ Read Part 1: alexdgibson.com/blog/r_1/ This is the first of a multipart series where I go into my experiences learning R, highlighting tips and resources that were essential in my learning.

We need more people reading more books! Such an important skill and has done so much for me. There’s nothing better than a good book, a change in perspective, beliefs or the generation of new ideas.

Last week, #AusHSI PhD student @alexdgibson.bsky.social presented at #AIMOS2025, highlighting a new global issue of unreliable data within #clinicalprediction model research and clinical practice, which has potential to influence patient outcomes and evidence-based decisions. @aimosinc.bsky.social

Genuinely enjoying how much layered wrongness is here. A kind of beautiful tiered wedding cake of misconceptions. Just BATHE in the warm rolling folds of daftness.

First up: Alexander Gibson @alexdgibson.bsky.social: Poor Data Provenance in Published Clinical Prediction Model Research. I was seriously concerned about some of the Kaggle Datasets - those on stroke and diabetes raised concerns about data being fake. #AIMOS2025

📣 New Blog 📣 Learn more about my #PhD Research and work @aushsi.bsky.social www.aushsi.org.au/a-model-of-g...

Ok, time for a short thread about this paper. My sense over the past six months or so is that chain-of-thought prompting as used in e.g. ChatGPT o.3 improves substantially upon previous systems such as ChatGPT 4.o, at least for certain tasks. But how revolutionary is it?

🚨Job Alert! 🚨 #AusHSI is seeking a new Research Project Officer to work collaboratively with a team of leading #healthservices researchers and partners, providing support across a range of major research projects to deliver exceptional outcomes. 👉 Find out more and apply today: bit.ly/4k1ba4h

Reading over my brother’s undergraduate assignment. Criteria has a section: “Is there an appropriate amount of detail in this section so that you could replicate this study?” I don’t remember learning about replication in my undergrad! Nice to see it getting some air time.

If you're currently working—or have worked in the past 5 years—in consulting or collaborative research as a biostatistician, we’d love to hear from you. 📅 Closes 11th July This survey has been approved by the QUT Human Research Ethics Committee (approval #9691).

International #ResearchIntegrity conference taking place in beautiful Sydney Australia on 16-18 November 2025 🐨 🌏 Great speakers including @elisabethbik.bsky.social @jdwilko.bsky.social @jasonchin.bsky.social For more info contact @simongandevia.bsky.social 🧪

Lazy cross post, please help. I have a bad feeling about this.

I thought my first post on Bluesky should be something positive and motivational

I’ve not been on Bluesky for a while but there seems to be so many interesting and engaging people! Lots of good #research

Should my PhD Exist? My latest blog ✍️: alexdgibson.com/blog/good_sc... “My hope is one day science will be so rigorous, that all focus can be on progressing science forward, not identifying common problems.” #researchintegrity #metaresesrch #phd

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

#AusHSI Prof Will Parsonage is one of more than 20 experts from across the world involved in a new @thelancet.bsky.social Commission calling on the medical profession to treat coronary #heartdisease as a lifelong condition, which has the potential to save 8.7 million lives every year: bit.ly/3XEMd5G

*NEW PAPER* PROBAST+AI: an updated quality, risk of bias & applicability assessment tool for prediction models using regression or AI methods PROBAST+AI consists of two distinct parts: - model development (quality assessment tool) - model evaluation (risk of bias tool) www.bmj.com/content/388/...

New blog in the Curiosity Chronicles! “Optimism in Meta-Research” alexdgibson.com/blog/meta/ I briefly cover how I was introduced to meta-research as a field, how I view the future and my take as a PhD student on one of the best ways to progress the community.

How can research posters be improved? Mike Morrison, creator of the Better Poster Project, shares his insights in this Q&A. Check out the blog for more on how his design is changing the way science is shared. 🔗 Read the full Q&A: www.cos.io/blog/rese...

Great to see MetaROR launching at @aimosinc.bsky.social! An interesting and exciting Publish-Review-Curate model #MetaROR

The Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation is now on Bluesky! 👋 Watch our video to learn about #AusHSI and our unwavering commitment to improving the quality and value of healthcare services for better patient outcomes. Learn more at aushsi.org.au

“Undergraduates need touch points with metaresearch from day 1”, Joan Leach, director of ANU’s centre for public awareness of science giving today’s plenary for AIMOS2024. We agree!