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damiacer.bsky.social
damiano cerasuolo
@damiacer.bsky.social
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medicinæ doctor in public health/biostatistics. statistics, #rstats, #clinicalresearch, photography and random stuff.

caen, paris and rome

mastodon: https://scholar.social/@damiacer
github/io: damiacer.github.io
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damiacer.bsky.social
A periodic reminder in #statistics:
How post-hoc power calculation is like a shit sandwich | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
November 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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fjrubio.bsky.social
📘 An interesting initial book release by David Rossell on variable and model selection:

👉 davidrusi.github.io/modelSelecti...

it provides accessible material for students learning the fundamentals of high-dimensional model selection, and it documents the R package modelSelection (formerly mombf).
High-dimensional model choice. A hands-on take
High-dimensional model selection with the modelSelection R package
davidrusi.github.io
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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evolutionistrue.bsky.social
Fred Ramsdell, who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine yesterday for work on immunology, hasn't been informed of his win as he's "off the grid" hiking, and can't be contacted.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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bigbookofr.com
Data visualisation using R, for researchers who don’t use R by Emily Nordmann, Phil McAleer, Wilhelmiina Toivo, Helena Paterson and Lisa DeBruine
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/data%20visualization.html#data-visualisation-using-r-for-researchers-who-dont-use-r
October 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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dingdingpeng.the100.ci
Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!>

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs Although the ideal randomized clinical trial is the gold standard for causal inference, real randomized trials often suffer from imperfections that may hamper causal effect estimation. Stating the estimand of interest can help reduce confusion about what is being estimated, but it is often difficult to determine what is and is not identifiable given a trial’s specific imperfections. We demonstrate how directed acyclic graphs can be used to elucidate the consequences of common imperfections, such as noncompliance, unblinding, and drop-out, for the identification of the intention-to-treat effect, the total treatment effect and the physiological treatment effect. We assert that the physiological treatment effect is not identifiable outside a trial with perfect compliance and no dropout, where blinding is perfectly maintained Table 1 showing the Identifiability of target estimands depending on whether there is blinding, full compliance, and no drop-out An example DAG from the paper. Fig. 4: A blinded trial with noncompliance. U are unobserved confounders, Z is treatment assignment, C is compliance, X is the realized treatment, S is the subject's physical and mental health status, Xself and Xcln are the treatment that the participant and the clinician believed the participant received, Y is the outcome.
October 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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simisani.bsky.social
🚀 Curious about Positron, Posit’s new open-source IDE?

This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC)

#RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies

Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT

www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...
Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction, Thu, Oct 9, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Curious about Positron, the new open-source data science IDE from Posit? This session will walk RStudio users through the basics of Positron, highlight familiar features, a
www.meetup.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
damiacer.bsky.social
Europe thinks that free and private communication is not a fundamental right.
fightchatcontrol.bsky.social Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · Sep 14
Danish Minister of Justice and chief architect of the current Chat Control proposal, Peter Hummelgaard:

"We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services."

Share your thoughts fightchatcontrol.eu, or [email protected]
Danish Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard.
September 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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fightchatcontrol.bsky.social
Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED.

Despite expressing concerns about breaking end-to-end encryption, Germany refrained from taking a definitive stance on the Chat Control proposal during the September 12th LEWP meeting. A willingness to negotiate and compromise remains.
Overview of current support and opposition for the Chat Control legislation by Patrick Breyer (https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/chat-control/). Countries opposing include the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Finland, and Estonia. Undecided countries are Germany, Slovenia, Romania, and Greece. All remaining member states supports Chat Control.
September 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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chrisrackauckas.bsky.social
DifferentialEquations.jl is many things, and lots of people only use a small portion of it. Check out the JuliaCon 2025 workshop: introduces many aspects of the packages that the developers feel are underutilized and under-understood!

#julialang #sciml

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSGF...
A Deep Dive Into DifferentialEquations.jl | JuliaCon Global 2025 | Rackauckas, Smith
YouTube video by The Julia Programming Language
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
damiacer.bsky.social
catholic church: always on the right side of the history 🙄

[pope leo XIV says that the holy see doesn’t pronounce the word g3nocid3]
marcogervasoni.bsky.social Marco Gervasoni @marcogervasoni.bsky.social · Sep 18
Per la verità non l’aveva pronunciata neppure tra il 1942 e il 1945 quindi non è molto affidabile
September 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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maxplanck.de
The anti-autocracy handbook: how scientists can cope with democratic backsliding. This guide is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of #democracy and #academicfreedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism zenodo.org/records/1569... @EU_Commission
August 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
damiacer.bsky.social
Bayesian Hierarchical Mixture Cure Modelling Framework to Utilize Multiple Survival Datasets for Long-Term Survivorship Estimates #stats
A Bayesian Hierarchical Mixture Cure Modelling Framework to Utilize Multiple Survival Datasets for Long‐Term Survivorship Estimates: A Case Study From Previously Untreated Metastatic Melanoma
Time to an event of interest over a lifetime is a central measure of the clinical benefit of an intervention used in a health technology assessment (HTA). Within the same trial, multiple end-points m...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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julianhoffman.bsky.social
Any potential gain from a switch to renewables and tech-heavy futures is inevitably undone if the underlying system of extractivist colonial enterprises and growth at all costs remains unchanged. The suffering just gets shifted to new places.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
damiacer.bsky.social
AI’s anwers are still so biases and prompt-dependent, I don’t see how it could replace humans. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/b...
Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed 'for most things'
A new era of "free intelligence" powered by AI will change the way humans work, says billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
www.cnbc.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
damiacer.bsky.social
#r code written by AI seems to be unnecessarily complicate.
March 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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sponce1.bsky.social
📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W11 | Palm Trees
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🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali...
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#rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
Alluvial diagram showing growth form patterns across palm subfamilies. The visualization flows from left to right, connecting palm subfamilies (Arecoideae, Calamoideae, Ceroxyloideae, and Coryphoideae) to growth forms (Erect, Non-erect, and both) to stem types (Solitary Stem, Clustered Stems, and both). The diagram reveals distinctive patterns: Arecoideae palms show diverse growth habits, Calamoideae are predominantly erect with clustered stems, Ceroxyloideae show a mix of growth forms, and Coryphoideae are mainly non-erect with solitary stems. The flow width represents the percentage of species with each characteristic.
March 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
damiacer.bsky.social
bioRxiv and medRxiv will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Preprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independence
The popular repositories, where life scientists post research before peer review, will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv.
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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wviechtb.bsky.social
The Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference (ESMARConf) is back! It will be held June 11th to the 13th, 2025: esmarconf.org/2025/

Recordings of the talks and workshops from previous years can be found here: esmarconf.org/recordings/

#ESMARConf #MetaAnalysis #EvidenceSynthesis #RStats
2025 - ESMARConf
esmarconf.org
March 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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cghlewis.bsky.social
Just a reminder for anyone who receives SPSS, Stata, or SAS files but does not have licenses for these programs (🙋), you can import any of these files into #rstats and work them! My favorite package for working with these files is {haven}.
haven.tidyverse.org
March 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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josephpolitano.bsky.social
Now that we've cut all US foreign aid, we can at least spend that money on helping people in need here at home, for example by gambling on crypto to support our Great Patriot Bag Holders
brendanvduke.bsky.social Brendan Duke @brendanvduke.bsky.social · Mar 2
A prediction: this is gonna be in contention with absorbing Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal as Trump’s worst polling policy.
March 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
damiacer.bsky.social
study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that environmental factors (i.e. smoking and physical activity) and living conditions have a greater impact on health and premature death than our genes. #health #medicine www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality - Nature Medicine
Based on a systematic analysis of environmental exposures associated with aging and mortality in the UK Biobank, the relative contributions of such exposures and genetic risk for mortality and a range...
www.nature.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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newscientist.com
Feedback is intrigued by a theory arguing that when maleness is threatened, men overcompensate with increased support for war and homophobia – and interest in SUVs
How a theory about maleness could explain the state of the world
Feedback is intrigued by a theory arguing that when maleness is threatened, men overcompensate with increased support for war and homophobia – and interest in SUVs
www.newscientist.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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o.simardcasanova.net
Due to the poor productivity of the time, our ancestors also had to use children as free labor

Should we bring back child labor, then?

These people may claim to have the highest IQ or be “geniuses” and whatnot, but they're actually just ignorant, uncurious, and overconfident
matthewfacciani.bsky.social Matthew Facciani @matthewfacciani.bsky.social · Feb 16
Our ancestors also had 50% of their children die before they reached puberty.
February 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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pgourevitch.bsky.social
What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
February 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
damiacer.bsky.social
If you ask #LeChat by #MistralAI whether it uses or not your data, it answers that it is not concerned since it is not associated with Mistral AI and its application.

But questions about its data use have been raised. To read [in French] www.frandroid.com/culture-tech...
le chat answer to data use
February 13, 2025 at 11:01 AM