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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Jun 14

About ESMARConf The Evidence Synthesis Hackathon’s (https://www.esmarconf.org) Evidence Synthesis & Meta-Analysis in R Conference (#ESMARConf2025) will take place on 11th-13th of June 2025. ESMARConf ...

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Jun 14

Interested in research synthesis, meta-analysis, systematic reviews, methodology, software, guidelines, best practices? 😀 📊

This #YouTube channel is really the best spot to learn and meet our community! 👇

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Jun 13

I don’t know about inspiring — but definitely long-winded 😂

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · Jun 13

I love watching @lajeunesselab.bsky.social talk about meta-analysis - so inspiring. At ESMARConf2025 he explores teaching meta-analysis in a world with AI resources to help students youtu.be/vOVhHnI2Ylc?... @eshackathon.bsky.social

ESMARConf2025: Keynote - Learning to synthesize, synthesizing to learn:... - Marc Lajeunesse

YouTube video by ESMARConf

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Jun 11

Curious about teaching meta-analysis?🤨

Catch my talk about how my approach to #teaching this tool has changed throughout the years #ESMARConf2025 #youtube #synthesis

Starting at 05:00 AM EDT on:
www.youtube.com/@esmarconf

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Jun 11

Curious about teaching meta-analysis?🤨

Catch my talk about how my approach to #teaching this tool has changed throughout the years #ESMARConf2025 #youtube #synthesis

Starting at 05:00 AM EDT on:
www.youtube.com/@esmarconf

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Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) @envevidence.bsky.social · Jun 11

Happening soon! Join CEE UK's @nicolaprandall.bsky.social‬ and other panelists at #ESMARConf2025 to learn about #EvidenceSynthesis capacity building in the agri-food sector! @eshackathon.bsky.social‬

🕣 (UTC): 12:30pm | (EDT) 8:30am
Watch live: www.youtube.com/@esmarconf/s...

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About ESMARConf The Evidence Synthesis Hackathon’s (https://www.esmarconf.org) Evidence Synthesis & Meta-Analysis in R Conference (#ESMARConf2025) will take place on 11th-13th of June 2025. ESMARConf…

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Evidence Synthesis Hackathon @eshackathon.bsky.social · Jun 11

ESMARConf2025 Starts today at 08:00am UTC! All presentations will be available on our YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/@esmarconf, you can follow the schedule on our website: www.esmarconf.org/2025/#progra..., and don't forget to get involved with by joining our Slack: join.slack.com/t/esmarconfw...

ESMARConf

About ESMARConf The Evidence Synthesis Hackathon’s (https://www.esmarconf.org) Evidence Synthesis & Meta-Analysis in R Conference (#ESMARConf2025) will take place on 11th-13th of June 2025. ESMARConf…

www.youtube.com

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Wolfgang Viechtbauer @wviechtb.bsky.social · Jun 10

Just a reminder that #ESMARConf2025 is starting tomorrow! This is a free online conference about evidence synthesis and meta-analysis using #Rstats. Further details can be found here: esmarconf.org/2025/

2025 - ESMARConf

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Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) @envevidence.bsky.social · Jun 9

CEE will be at #ESMARConf2025 this week! Join our virtual workshop to learning more about our mission and the #EvidenceSynthesis services & tools we offer! 🌎 🧪
📆 June 12
📍 Online
🕙 10 am EDT
🔗 esmarconf.org/2025/

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Evidence Synthesis Hackathon @eshackathon.bsky.social · May 30

With just over a week to go before #ESMARConf2025. We have some great content planned. Look out for details on presentations, workshops and panels over the next week. You can check out the draft schedule now at: esmarconf.org/2025/ by clicking on the programme.

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Apr 17

I think only the abstract submission are open now, with registration occurring later

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Apr 17

Register here:

esmarconf.org/2025/

2025 - ESMARConf

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Apr 17

Research synthesis is just plain hard 😡

But did you know there's a community that aims to make things easier and more accessible in R 😍

Join us at the free Evidence Synthesis & Meta-analysis in R Conference #ESMARConf2025

Abstracts due real soon: Monday April 21st!

#MetaAnalysis #Rstats

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · Apr 2

🚀 Join ESMARConf2025! 🚀
Submit your abstract by April 21: shorturl.at/G3LpO
ESMARConf is the leading online event for evidence synthesis in R!
📅 June 11–13, 2025
📺 54K+ views across past conferences
More info: esmarconf.org/events/
#ESMARConf #MetaAnalysis #Rstats #EvidenceSynthesis

ESMARConf - Events

ESMARConf Events - February 2024 - packed with presentations, workshops, panel discussions & tutorials, with commitment to diversity, accessibility & inclusion

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Neal Haddaway @nealhaddaway.bsky.social · Apr 3

🚀 Boost Your Systematic Review Skills! 🚀

Join the Systematic Review & Mapping Methods Course with Dr Jacqualyn Eales!

📅 3-4 June | 📍 Online
✅ Hands-on training
✅ Transparent research methods

🔗 Register now: opencollective.com/esmarconf/ev...

#SystematicReview #EvidenceSynthesis #ESMARConf

Systematic Review and Mapping Methods Course - Open Collective

A 2-day online workshop on how to plan and conduct a systematic review or systematic map

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Mar 27

Our yard gator has returned! 🐊❤️

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Mar 14

Simulation R script:

github.com/mjlajeunesse...

GitHub - mjlajeunesse/switchboard_simulations: Archive of Monte Carlo experiments using the switchboard package for R

Archive of Monte Carlo experiments using the switchboard package for R - mjlajeunesse/switchboard_simulations

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Mar 14

Can you estimate pi using jigglypuff? 🤔

Well…

Happy #piDay !!

#rstats #math #simulation #pokemon

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Shinichi Nakagawa @itchyshin.bsky.social · Mar 7

A new paper led by @mlagisz.bsky.social - how to know how good your search string is

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Mar 2

#correlation without #causation via #ColliderBias

a spurious relationship between the dependent (Y) & independent (X) variable can occur, when each effect a 3rd variable (C, #collider), and this 3rd is included in the linear model lm(Y~X+C) 🤔

#Rstats #CausalModelling #dataviz

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Mar 2

R code for simulations found here:

github.com/mjlajeunesse...

GitHub - mjlajeunesse/switchboard_simulations: Archive of Monte Carlo experiments using the switchboard package for R

Archive of Monte Carlo experiments using the switchboard package for R - mjlajeunesse/switchboard_simulations

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Mar 2

#correlation without #causation via #ColliderBias

a spurious relationship between the dependent (Y) & independent (X) variable can occur, when each effect a 3rd variable (C, #collider), and this 3rd is included in the linear model lm(Y~X+C) 🤔

#Rstats #CausalModelling #dataviz

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Feb 14

Batch downloading a bunch of papers today with R — getting a little help from #pikachu and angry oyster 🦪 from the #rstats package {switchboard} to track progress 📈

#happyFriday!

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Marc J. Lajeunesse @lajeunesselab.bsky.social · Feb 8

The R scripts for this simulation is found here: lajeunesse.myweb.usf.edu/switchboard/...

The switchboard package in R was used for realtime interactive viz:

youtu.be/Zj3MBV4f_PE?...

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