Matt Parkes
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Matt Parkes
@mattyjparkes.bsky.social
Statistician. Interests: clinical trials methods, psychology, MSK medicine, rheumatology, oncology, chronic pain, adaptive trials, outcomes, digital health/wearables, Open Research, Stata, R, and code ligatures.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1574-9933
@weratedags.com Saw this one *years* ago, but it's lived in my mind rent-free ever since.

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October 17, 2025 at 1:03 PM
September 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I think Quarto does this in HTML by default doesn't it?

It make this mouseover to my document without any extra packages, just by rendering to HTML (sidenote: HTML should be the default for science, who needs paginated output when you're reading on a screen, and you can add interactivity!).
September 5, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Example:
July 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
This quote reads like the last words of a supervillain as the superhero sends them into a vat of acid
April 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It’s an old pattern, over and over again…
January 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This one too!
September 21, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Share a screenshot you can hear
September 21, 2024 at 10:16 PM
Be seeing you!
September 17, 2024 at 10:52 AM
We're doing a workshop on improving transparency and reproducibility in clinical trial analysis code 👩‍💻 (and more about open science in trials).

It's on the 3rd October, at ICTMC2024 conference, Edinburgh, UK.

Interested?

Register here ➡ ictmc.org
September 3, 2024 at 10:49 AM
"We thank Academic #4762 for their valuable contributions to ResearchFish, high mean impact factor, and considerable net grant money intake..."
August 9, 2024 at 1:54 PM
June 6, 2024 at 12:39 PM
You’ve been murdered, who do you want on the case?
March 23, 2024 at 1:04 PM
Also known as the classic quote…
January 30, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Rule #408 of data wrangling:
January 28, 2024 at 8:34 PM
Exactly. I think Liverpool has a few more SAS users too (please correct me if that’s not right!). But exactly, Stata’s much easier to QC/make reproducible. I’m keen to do this in R in our unit, but its certainly harder to implement, and more vulnerable to this:
January 26, 2024 at 9:06 AM
Congrats! If you use a font with code ligatures (Fira Code; Victor Mono; Cascadia Code) in RStudio the new pipe becomes a cute l'il arrow which is pretty and more intuitive (imo).
January 3, 2024 at 9:58 PM