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Health data science lecturer focused on cardiovascular disease, specifically heart failure—lover of art, history, science, travel, scuba diving, and cooking.

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jocelynfriday.bsky.social @jocelynfriday.bsky.social · Aug 30

Glasgow soaking up science in Madrid! #ESCCongress2025 #academicLife #publicHealth #cardiovascularLife @uofgscmh.bsky.social @uofgshw.bsky.social

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Retraction Watch @retractionwatch.com · May 29

"When scientific reform is weaponized to only denigrate science and scientists whose studies contradict your beliefs or your wishes, we get to a very dark place," says our Ivan Oransky.

White House blames 'formatting' for errors in RFK Jr.'s MAHA report. Authors push back.

Researchers listed in the MAHA report have come forward since its publication saying the articles cited don't exist or were used inaccurately.

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jocelynfriday.bsky.social @jocelynfriday.bsky.social · Jun 6

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jocelynfriday.bsky.social @jocelynfriday.bsky.social · May 29

I wouldn’t let my students get away with this. It would be flagged as academic misconduct.

jocelynfriday.bsky.social @jocelynfriday.bsky.social · May 29

#stats #coding #documentation #education

jocelynfriday.bsky.social @jocelynfriday.bsky.social · May 29

What are the things that you insist on having when creating more data science-y materials, be it education or general use? Where does tradition end/style start?
1. Italicise non-English words
2. Using the Oxford comma
3. Using a monospaced font for code
4. Double or single space after a full stop?

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jocelynfriday.bsky.social @jocelynfriday.bsky.social · May 17

Especially as I enjoyed and benefitted from your regression course.

jocelynfriday.bsky.social @jocelynfriday.bsky.social · May 17

Thank you! Will add!

jocelynfriday.bsky.social @jocelynfriday.bsky.social · May 17

@fredho42.bsky.social & Antonio Cannata, thank you!

jocelynfriday.bsky.social @jocelynfriday.bsky.social · May 15

Myself and a few others have been pulling together some useful health data science resoueces and references. What do you think, what are we missing? github.com/jocelynfrida...
#healthdatascience #r #stats #epidemiology

GitHub - jocelynfriday/UsefulDataSceinceResources: Papers that I've fround to be particuarly useful for health data science research (including stats, epidemiology, coding, etc.)

Papers that I've fround to be particuarly useful for health data science research (including stats, epidemiology, coding, etc.) - jocelynfriday/UsefulDataSceinceResources

github.com

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jocelynfriday.bsky.social @jocelynfriday.bsky.social · May 13

My life is much richer having these two in it.

jocelynfriday.bsky.social @jocelynfriday.bsky.social · May 6

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