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Sara Conroy, PhD

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Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics NCH/OSU | #episky #statsky | @OSUpublichealth and @nationwidekids: Ohio Perinatal Research Network, Center for Perinatal Research | 3 kids | she/her

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Sara Conroy, PhD @episconroy.bsky.social · Apr 4

What stage of grief is “inability to talk about it due to rage followed by a feeling of guilt because the importance of these things needs to be communicated”?

Asking for a friend.

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Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.social · 9h

Biostats people: let's say you are writing a grant for an NIH-funded study circa 2000 or so. How long would the process take to write the grant, get funding, and start the project?

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Jordan Nafa @jordannafa.bsky.social · 9h

"You need to use a Mann-Whitney U Test here because the data is non-normal!"

My brother in Christ, I have no idea what that is but I most definitely do not need to use it to answer this question

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Elizabeth Lanphier @ethicselizabeth.bsky.social · 5d

Hello Ohio!

A few ways you can support public health & healthcare in Ohio right now with @defendpublichealth.bsky.social.

1. Help submit letters to Sen. Husted to tell him how he is hurting healthcare by filling out the form below.

2. Come to Columbus on October 15th to hand deliver letters

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 1d

Do you use mixed-mode survey data? And are you sure you know how to handle it?

Extra points if you like DAGs!

Register to attend our @royalstatsoc.bsky.social event on handling survey mode effects 👇

Richard Silverwood @rjsilverwood.bsky.social · 1d

We are organising a @royalstatsoc.bsky.social Social Statistics Section online event:

Handling survey mode effects

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 10.00AM - 12.10PM

Full info and booking: rss.org.uk/training-eve...

RSS Event: Handling survey mode effects

rss.org.uk

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Sara Conroy, PhD @episconroy.bsky.social · 1d

For real??? Because if this is real and you are looking for collaborators…

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Sara Conroy, PhD @episconroy.bsky.social · 1d

Is this because you keep letting people give you data in excel? 😂

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Sara Conroy, PhD @episconroy.bsky.social · 1d

Hey research peeps! What are your tips/tricks when writing your project abstract and project narrative for your grants? I have sources for how to… but looking for any specific rituals/hacks that work for you when you write.
#episky #grantwriting

a woman is sitting at a desk with her head down writing in a notebook

ALT: a woman is sitting at a desk with her head down writing in a notebook

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 2d

New study in @thelancet.com

“After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from preventable acute malnutrition and facing an increased risk of mortality”

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Assessment of malnutrition in preschool-aged children by mid-upper arm circumference in the Gaza Strip (January, 2024–August, 2025): a longitudinal, cross-sectional, surveillance study

After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from preventable acute malnutrition and facing an ...

www.thelancet.com

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 3d

MY DEAR FRIEND WAWA GATHERU IS ON THE DAILY SHOW TONIGHT TALKING ABOUT CLIMATE AND RACIAL JUSTICE with @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social and my heart is HAPPY.

I am so freaking proud of her. Wawa's an award winning founder of Black Girl Environmentalist. 😍 #blacksky

www.cc.com/fan-hub/the-...

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 3d

Statistician, data scientist, epidemiologist

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Catherine Bulka @drcatherineb.bsky.social · 3d

In case anyone finds this helpful, I live in FL and was able to get my Covid shot at CVS today with no issues. The website made me state whether or not I a medical condition that put me at high risk so I checked yes (physical inactivity was listed and that sounds about right!). I wasn’t asked again.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 7d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 5d

I'm looking for a doctoral student with Bayesian background to work on Bayesian workflow and cross-validation (see my publication list users.aalto.fi/~ave/publica... for my recent work) at Aalto University.

Apply through the ELLIS PhD program (dl October 31) ellis.eu/news/ellis-p...

ELLIS PhD Program: Call for Applications 2025

The ELLIS mission is to create a diverse European network that promotes research excellence and advances breakthroughs in AI, as well as a pan-European PhD program to educate the next generation of AI...

ellis.eu

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Amstat-American Statistical Association @amstatnews.bsky.social · 5d

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

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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 5d

This is Buried waaaay deep in today’s @sfchronicle.com BUT I’m glad it received coverage: see this Fun look at an important economic/cultural/historic commemoration that took place yesterday in #OaklandCA. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...

Black cowboys matter: Oakland parade and festival seek to preserve overlooked legacy

An Oakland parade and festival dating back a half-century serves as a reminder of the role of the Black cowboy in shaping the Old West.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 5d

"Deloitte Australia will issue a partial refund to the federal government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a $440,000 report littered with errors including three nonexistent academic references and a made-up quote from a Federal Court judgement."

bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 5d

“Deloitte was forced to investigate the report after University of Sydney academic Dr Christopher Rudge highlighted multiple errors in the document.”

www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Deloitte to refund government, admits using AI in $440k report

Deloitte will issue a partial refund to the government after admitting that artificial intelligence had been used in the creation of a report littered with errors.

www.afr.com

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Viki Male @vikilovesfacs.bsky.social · 20d

Props to the CDC staff who presented the science at yesterday’s #ACIP meeting.

Key points relating to #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy…

1. No increased risk of any problems in pregnancy, at birth, or for infants

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www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

A slide presented at the 18 September ACIP meeting (linked in the post). Links to CDC run studies on COVID vaccine safety in pregnancy. A list of outcomes not associated with COVID vaccination in pregnancy in these studies, including miscarriage, stillbirth, preterm birth, major birth defects, maternal or infant ICU admission.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 21d

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition.

www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

In her recommendation, Bagdasarian stated,
"Any person over the age of six months without contraindication who has not received a dose of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved or-authorized 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine may be considered to have an underlying condition that puts them at high risk for severe outcomes from COVID-19 and is thus eligible to receive an age-appropriate dose."

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Viki Male @vikilovesfacs.bsky.social · 6d

The relentless Jessica McDonald has spent two weeks and hundreds of emails to fact check claims about the safety of #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy made at the #ACIP meeting.

She couldn't have been any quicker.

A lie can get around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.

FactCheck.org @factcheck.org · 7d

A substantial body of evidence supports the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy, contrary to the suggestions of some members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently reconstituted the committee.

www.factcheck.org/2025/10/vacc...

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Viki Male @vikilovesfacs.bsky.social · 6d

Jessie and I wrote at least a dozen times over the last few weeks, and she probably wrote just as much to @jsm2334.bsky.social, @doritreiss.bsky.social who I see are also quoted - as well as to ACIP members and Pfizer.

With thanks to @kevinault.bsky.social, who pinged me to say this was up.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 6d

Slaveholders told their slaves they needed to be grateful they'd been rescued from the savage jungles of Africa & civilized with the holy bible & worked into their graves.

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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 10d

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production

Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Underpinning Bioscience - Paul A Hoskisson

www.gla.ac.uk

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Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 7d

It’s not the method that makes you causal it’s the assumptions

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 9d

Are we doing simulations wrong? This paper convinced me we are. doi.org/10.1098/rstb... Usually we run 2 sets of "worlds" w and w-out intervention. Gives large uncertainties that include negative (harm) effects of interventions that are actually always positive (beneficial)!

Figure 5. Time series showing cumulative number of cases averted at each time caused by the intervention calculated using our method (single-world) and a
standard method. Shaded regions denote 90% confidence intervals. Note that there is more variation in the middle of the epidemic, so it may seem as though the
number of cases averted is large during those times. (Online version in colour.)

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 7d

Also...you are all data stewards.

datastewards.ie

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