Live shot of me buying a hard copy of @vincentab.bsky.social’s new book (see hand on pink book near bookshelf) 😂

Paul Naish@paulnaish.bsky.social · yesterday

As usual the T&F mixer at JSM is underway and super-busy! Come grab a coffee or a snack! @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Good news from #JSM2026: CSCAR@ISR, a statistical and methodological consulting service designed to support faculty, staff, and graduate students, is now officially open for business at the University of Michigan. This is a rebirth of CSCAR, with new features! Visit cscar.isr.umich.edu for details.

The Network for Innovative Methods in Longitudinal Aging Studies (NIMLAS) is proud to announce two new white papers presenting overviews of current best practices for increasing representation and reducing attrition in longitudinal studies of aging. (1/3)

Ok, these stats are absolutely devastating. Is anyone home in the Tigers front office, which is supposedly driven by analytics? 🙄

A question came up today: is anyone aware of work that combines the use of FIML for fitting SEMs to incomplete panel data (eg, cross-lagged models) when survey weights are also involved for the cases? So, survey-weighted FIML? Surprised to not see much on this. Multiple Imputation not an option.

This is a great video summarizing the impact of the Health and Retirement Study at the University of Michigan. I'm really fortunate that I can talk about the methods that HRS uses on a daily basis. Check it out! research.umich.edu/news-and-iss...

Michigan Research - July 2026

Discover how University of Michigan researchers are fostering collaboration and driving positive change through community engagement. From housing equity to hydrogen-powered STEM education, explore st...

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We are thrilled to have @vincentab.bsky.social back on campus for today’s PDHP workshop on interpreting statistical models in R. Please visit pdhp.isr.umich.edu for more details on this workshop and other upcoming events!

An excellent (and correct) opinion piece on the latest chaos with attacks on science. Read and absorb. Then act. www.science.org/content/blog...

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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An important thread…😑

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

We are getting ready to launch the National Survey Panel at the Survey Research Center at ISR. We are hoping to provide an avenue to keep rigorous scientific survey research available to the community. #realvoices,#respectedresearch @um-src.bsky.social

"mice: the only method here that carries imputation uncertainty into the model. Use it whenever the output is an estimate, a confidence interval, or a p-value, the typical medical or epidemiological analysis. Ten years on, it is still the right default for inference."

DataScience+@datascienceplus.bsky.social · 2w ago

Imputing Missing Data in R: mice, missRanger, and VIM Compared #rstats

TIL! I’m now going to use “Yatesian practice” in my reviews…😂

American Statistical Association History of Statistics @hos-asa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

This should be a fantastic workshop, and it is free to all!

Vincent Arel-Bundock@vincentab.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'll be in Ann Arbor next week to talk about `marginaleffects` and how to interpret statistical models. Let me know if you're around! pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/ #RStats #PyData

Here's a useful page with a **ton** of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base. arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_... #rdatatable #tidyverse

I’ve never seen anything like that France-England game. Shades of Michigan-Illinois in 2010. Madness!

In June, the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) program hosted an ice cream social with the SRC Director. @umpamdk.bsky.social and Ken Langa chatted about the Health and Retirement Study, its many sister studies, and the declining rate of Alzheimer's disease myumi.ch/Pb1E7

Ice Cream Social with the HRS

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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A great read.

Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · 4w ago

I wrote about the lads

One of the aspects of this World Cup that is not being talked about enough is the amount of advertising that Mplus is doing. If you didn’t know how powerful that software is, you will soon 😂

Interesting changes happening in the NYT/Siena poll. It’s been said that what you weight on matters more than how you do the weighting, but this is a nice example of a newer weighting method letting you weight on more things. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...

The Big Changes Coming to the Times/Siena Poll

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You simply cannot hit a ball any better than this. Goodness.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · last mo.

Lawd, the replays of the Lopes Cabral goal 🤌🏼

Cape Verde, the world salutes you. What a tournament! 💯🙏

USA! USA! What an effort tonight. With only 10 for that long…wow.

Do you conduct social/political psych research with non-probablity online samples (e.g., prolific, connect)? This new paper by Michael Stagnaro and colleagues is a must read! Will be adding this to my grad methods syllabus. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Representativeness and response validity across nine opt-in online samples - Nature Human Behaviour

Stagnaro et al. compare nine opt-in participant samples on measures of response validity, representativeness and professionalism. They find substantial variation across samples and offer guidance for ...

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Read this thread, and…grab a whiskey, I guess? 🙄

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last mo.

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

This is absolutely inexplicable. Wtf? 🤬

The Athletic@theathletic.com · last mo.

The Dallas Mavericks have named Michigan Wolverines' Dusty May as their new head coach, The Athletic confirms. May won a national championship with Michigan in April. www.nytimes.com/athletic/736...

ISR is honored to receive the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Social Sciences, alongside NORC at the University of Chicago. We are grateful to the researchers, staff, collaborators, funders, & survey participants whose contributions make social science in service of society possible.

NEW: Researchers & data advocates @apduorg.bsky.social, @copafs.bsky.social, @icpsr.bsky.social, @popassocamerica.bsky.social call for the Trump admin to rescind a ban on “noise infusion” as a way to protect people’s privacy in Census Bureau statistics or allow for public input before data changes

How can a few hundred or thousand responses represent millions of people? At the core is sampling: a carefully selected group can reflect broader population patterns, but only if the design accounts for who is included, who responds, and who is missed. stattrak.amstat.org/2026/06/01/s... #STATSSKY

How 1,000 People Speak for Millions

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WHAT A START BY THE USMNT! World class effort, and some world class finishing!

Please read the latest editorial out by Dr. Kahn, and comment on the proposed OMB rules. 🧪

Steven Kahn@sekahn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This just out in Diabetes Care. The need to highlight the destructive plans of the administration continues. Everyone needs to post comments to the OMB website. Relevant links in the article. Don’t delay!! diabetesjournals.org/care/article...