Darren Dahly
@statsepi.bsky.social
Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats #WBE #IDSurveillance
Views mine -> https://statsepi.substack.com/
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Darren Dahly
@statsepi.bsky.social
· Sep 15
Thanks again to @avrilkennan.bsky.social for the opportunity to share some thoughts on research integrity and methodological rigor with a room full of Irish health research funders via @hrci.bsky.social. 🙏
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This new Normal Rockwell painting is on the nose.
January 19, 2026 at 10:47 AM
This new Normal Rockwell painting is on the nose.
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Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
lucumr.pocoo.org
January 18, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
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If you have any Iranian friends, please consider reading this article* to see what it’s like to be those of us outside Iran right now
*includes my thoughts
*includes my thoughts
Iranian Women in Exile Watch, Wait, and Worry for Their Homeland.
Thousands of miles from home, British-Iranian women are haunted and sustained by every notification, blackout, and unanswered call.
www.marieclaire.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 6:01 AM
If you have any Iranian friends, please consider reading this article* to see what it’s like to be those of us outside Iran right now
*includes my thoughts
*includes my thoughts
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Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...
January 16, 2026 at 6:56 AM
Evergreen: “The men who were less-skilled at the game and performing worse relative peers—made frequent, nasty comments to female gamers. In other words, sexist dudes are literally losers.” www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-int...
I think that the mass enthusiasm we see around gen AI is manufactured, and I think this because it doesn't exist for renewable energy, despite it being more measurably impactful (and also technologically wonderous)
January 17, 2026 at 10:39 PM
I think that the mass enthusiasm we see around gen AI is manufactured, and I think this because it doesn't exist for renewable energy, despite it being more measurably impactful (and also technologically wonderous)
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Access to #GeneralPractice is a public priority- but what can we expect from the solutions expounded by the NHS ten year plan? Our new study in @bmj.com offers a glimpse of what the future might hold…
#PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine
#PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine
NEW @bmj.com research reports experiences of access to general practice in England.
It finds that the three proposed shifts in the NHS 10 year plan may not be what patients or practices want
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
It finds that the three proposed shifts in the NHS 10 year plan may not be what patients or practices want
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
January 17, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Access to #GeneralPractice is a public priority- but what can we expect from the solutions expounded by the NHS ten year plan? Our new study in @bmj.com offers a glimpse of what the future might hold…
#PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine
#PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine
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South Carolina measles outbreak is growing incredibly fast. Another 124 cases reported Friday to a total of 558. 531 people in quarantine dph.sc.gov/news/friday-...
January 17, 2026 at 2:07 PM
South Carolina measles outbreak is growing incredibly fast. Another 124 cases reported Friday to a total of 558. 531 people in quarantine dph.sc.gov/news/friday-...
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3 years since Micheál Martin declared Ireland "turning corner" on house building the reality is that 2025 was the lowest number in a decade
The dishonesty & lack of integrity is truly shocking
Their policies are costing lives & traumatising generations
Get angry & call this out
#speirgorm
The dishonesty & lack of integrity is truly shocking
Their policies are costing lives & traumatising generations
Get angry & call this out
#speirgorm
January 17, 2026 at 11:44 AM
3 years since Micheál Martin declared Ireland "turning corner" on house building the reality is that 2025 was the lowest number in a decade
The dishonesty & lack of integrity is truly shocking
Their policies are costing lives & traumatising generations
Get angry & call this out
#speirgorm
The dishonesty & lack of integrity is truly shocking
Their policies are costing lives & traumatising generations
Get angry & call this out
#speirgorm
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🔥"The medical establishment should focus on quality care for menopause symptoms ... not pathologizing half the population for reaching a life stage our species evolved to experience. Women’s bodies aren’t malfunctioning when they stop ovulating. They’re working exactly as designed." wapo.st/4qVYe2P
Opinion | Menopause isn’t a disease
Aging, fertility, Iran and refugees, through readers’ eyes.
wapo.st
January 17, 2026 at 10:11 AM
🔥"The medical establishment should focus on quality care for menopause symptoms ... not pathologizing half the population for reaching a life stage our species evolved to experience. Women’s bodies aren’t malfunctioning when they stop ovulating. They’re working exactly as designed." wapo.st/4qVYe2P
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How can we end homelessness when our proposed solutions are deemed unattainable?
Last week, our Executive Director wrote a letter to the editor of the Irish Times commenting on the housing crisis in Ireland and it's impact on people experiencing homelessness & housing insecurity 🏘️
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#Spéirgorm
Last week, our Executive Director wrote a letter to the editor of the Irish Times commenting on the housing crisis in Ireland and it's impact on people experiencing homelessness & housing insecurity 🏘️
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#Spéirgorm
January 15, 2026 at 10:59 AM
How can we end homelessness when our proposed solutions are deemed unattainable?
Last week, our Executive Director wrote a letter to the editor of the Irish Times commenting on the housing crisis in Ireland and it's impact on people experiencing homelessness & housing insecurity 🏘️
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#Spéirgorm
Last week, our Executive Director wrote a letter to the editor of the Irish Times commenting on the housing crisis in Ireland and it's impact on people experiencing homelessness & housing insecurity 🏘️
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#Spéirgorm
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Oh look. The US is a major source of drugs into Ireland. And all the boom growth in smuggling occurred in the past year, since Trump took office
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
US becomes main cannabis supplier to Irish market as drug smuggling booms
American producers take biggest share in cannabis supply as Trump warns other countries flooding US with drugs
www.irishtimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:58 AM
Oh look. The US is a major source of drugs into Ireland. And all the boom growth in smuggling occurred in the past year, since Trump took office
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...
oh no the health economist just used nestle as the example of positive shared value creation lol
January 17, 2026 at 9:52 AM
oh no the health economist just used nestle as the example of positive shared value creation lol
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The publishers of Frontiers are very proud of their fraud-detection software and have appointed themselves as "Guardians of Research Integrity". Also, they publish stuff like this.
January 16, 2026 at 8:24 PM
The publishers of Frontiers are very proud of their fraud-detection software and have appointed themselves as "Guardians of Research Integrity". Also, they publish stuff like this.
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#SpecialIssues have fueled the growth of some of the largest #OpenAccess publishers. Does a journal that allows a #GuestEditor to both plan a special issue and write many articles in it have a conflict of interest? #scicomm #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
Some guest editors pack special issues with their own articles
Thousands have penned more than one-third of a journal issue, raising conflict-of-interest concerns
www.science.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:09 AM
#SpecialIssues have fueled the growth of some of the largest #OpenAccess publishers. Does a journal that allows a #GuestEditor to both plan a special issue and write many articles in it have a conflict of interest? #scicomm #peerreview @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
Even now the author of this article cant help but be completely credulous about the people involved, even though so many others immediately recognized them as FoS from the jump. These people basically conjured the crisis this institute was supposed to solve. They are marks or charlatans all.
The staff and students who initially thought UATX stood for “open inquiry” were naive.
This imperfect but in-depth investigation shows the fake university going MAGA, with a day-one suspension of a student AND the teaching of ensoulment.
It’s something.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
This imperfect but in-depth investigation shows the fake university going MAGA, with a day-one suspension of a student AND the teaching of ensoulment.
It’s something.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.
Inside the civil war at the anti-woke university backed by Bari Weiss.
www.politico.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Even now the author of this article cant help but be completely credulous about the people involved, even though so many others immediately recognized them as FoS from the jump. These people basically conjured the crisis this institute was supposed to solve. They are marks or charlatans all.
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There's an obvious next step here: identify examples of criminal conduct to date, and prosecute - as you would expect to happen if it were anyone else. Dismay doesn't cut it.
Statement on the meeting between X and Niamh Smyth.
Govt to meet on Monday.
Doesn’t sound like X gave much.
Govt to meet on Monday.
Doesn’t sound like X gave much.
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
There's an obvious next step here: identify examples of criminal conduct to date, and prosecute - as you would expect to happen if it were anyone else. Dismay doesn't cut it.
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They have quite an operation going.
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
Minneapolis church has delivered more than 12,000 boxes of groceries to families in hiding
DHH church has hundreds of volunteers packing and delivering groceries to families who have been too scared to leave their homes during the immigration operation.
www.mprnews.org
January 16, 2026 at 1:02 PM
They have quite an operation going.
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...
Everyone please red this and then vigorously attack @timpmorris.bsky.social 😜
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How to read ‘evidence pyramids’
To get past the pointless bit of the arguments
tpmorris.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Everyone please red this and then vigorously attack @timpmorris.bsky.social 😜
tpmorris.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...
tpmorris.substack.com/p/how-to-rea...
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This op-ed holds up a mirror to all of us. The mirror also reflects back on the editors and journalists who seek to normalize this administration by playing both sides so late in this game. Yes coverage has gotten better, but there’s still an enormous appetite for BS. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
Opinion | They Were Ordinary Germans. We Are Ordinary Americans.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:01 AM
This op-ed holds up a mirror to all of us. The mirror also reflects back on the editors and journalists who seek to normalize this administration by playing both sides so late in this game. Yes coverage has gotten better, but there’s still an enormous appetite for BS. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
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My updated syllabus for Quantitative Text Analysis is available online. As I previous years, I made quite a few changes and added recent literature. Part 1 (still) covers classic text-as-data approaches; Part 2 focuses on transformers and LLMs.
📄 muellerstefan.net/teaching/202... (PDF)
📄 muellerstefan.net/teaching/202... (PDF)
January 16, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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My updated syllabus for Quantitative Text Analysis is available online. As I previous years, I made quite a few changes and added recent literature. Part 1 (still) covers classic text-as-data approaches; Part 2 focuses on transformers and LLMs.
📄 muellerstefan.net/teaching/202... (PDF)
📄 muellerstefan.net/teaching/202... (PDF)
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 AM
My updated syllabus for Quantitative Text Analysis is available online. As I previous years, I made quite a few changes and added recent literature. Part 1 (still) covers classic text-as-data approaches; Part 2 focuses on transformers and LLMs.
📄 muellerstefan.net/teaching/202... (PDF)
📄 muellerstefan.net/teaching/202... (PDF)
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100 years ago RA Fisher set out his views on randomisation. This blog of mine errorstatistics.com/2020/04/20/s... from five years ago tries to explain them.
S. Senn: Randomisation is not about balance, nor about homogeneity but about randomness (Guest Post)
Stephen Senn Consultant Statistician Edinburgh The intellectual illness of clinical drug evaluation that I have discussed here can be cured, and it will be cured when we restore intellectual primac…
errorstatistics.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:45 AM
100 years ago RA Fisher set out his views on randomisation. This blog of mine errorstatistics.com/2020/04/20/s... from five years ago tries to explain them.