Donald Szlosek
@dszlosek.bsky.social
Biostatistician @IDEXX. @johnshopkins. Formerly @harvardmed, @BIDMChealth, @nasa. Real-world evidence, clinical trials, diagnostic validation. CoOrganizer BostonR. Mainer. he/him.
Such an amazing conference! Glad I got the opportunity to present a poster and meet such wonderful people! Blows my mind they accomplished this whole event starting March! #mlsky #datascience
Theresa Kim, PhD, MS@tyk314.net · 20h agoFun times with #STAIX26 at @harvard.edu . #AIsky #statsky #MLsky
Ecstatic to be partnering with @posit.co and @microsft.bsky.social for our upcoming Boston R User Group Event! Lightning Talks Welcome!! RSVP: tinyurl.com/bostonRaug26 #rstats #statistics #datascience #Boston
Lightning Talks & Data Social Hour @ Microsoft, Wed, Aug 19, 2026, 5:00 PM | Meetup
**Lightning Talk & Data Social Hour @ Microsoft** We’re excited to bring the Greater Boston useR Group together for another in-person meetup! Join us at the **Microsoft N
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Saddened to hear of Lex Jansen’s passing. There was a time when much of what I knew about statistical programming came from lexjansen.com. Although I’ve since moved away from #SAS, his commitment to openness and knowledge sharing left a lasting impact on our community. He will be deeply missed.
Excited to be joining my first JSM conference AND presenting at the STAI-X conference! Don't be a stranger and feel free to connect to grab some coffee! #rstats #statistics #jsm2026
I had the fortunate event of seeing this talk at @jhubb1995.bsky.social and cannot recommend it enough! AND it is hybrid!
Peter Tennant@pwgtennant.bsky.social · 3w agoTIME CHANGE! My farewell lecture on whether DAGs have fulfilled their promise has been moved to 1pm Eastern Time (6pm UK time) on Wednesday 15th July so it does not clash with England vs Argentina! I hope you can all still attend!
TIME CHANGE! My farewell lecture on whether DAGs have fulfilled their promise has been moved to 1pm Eastern Time (6pm UK time) on Wednesday 15th July so it does not clash with England vs Argentina! I hope you can all still attend!
Peter Tennant@pwgtennant.bsky.social · last mo.I couldn't leave the USA without giving my DAG talk one last time! Come and join my 'farewell lecture' in New Haven (or online!) on 15th July at 4pm Eastern Time! Sign-up to attend in-person or online at: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
So Thankful for the MASSIVE turn out at our second event for the Greater Boston R User Group meeting! Outstanding Conversations from econometrics, to health equity / policy, to clinical trials and causal inference #rstats
Man, I should put "numbers" in quotations more often. That hurts like a knife in the chest
Is Repeated Bayesian Interim Analysis Consequence-Free? See this excellent conversation that has taken place over the past year at #datamethods tinyurl.com/fhdatamethods #StatsSky #Statistics #ClinicalTrials
Who has a paper on why mediation analysis is bullshit / a legit thing we should do?
Physicist has written a fascinating big beautiful paper.Let’s not be afraid to call it what it is - groundbreaking. arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852
@chrisstaecker.bsky.social Apropos of today's ⚽️🏟🏆 match, I'm trying to make a trigonometry joke for the sequence Wirtz, Havertz, Haversine, Sine but I'm just going around in unit circles
We got a big bump in traffic yesterday when people learned about us on NPR. Thank you to @npr.org for covering our launch and bringing our story to people's attention! And thank you to all our new followers. We can do this together! 🌍️🧪💪 #ClimateAction #ClimateForUs #ProtectScience
A thought came across my head today. I wonder if there would be appetite for scheduled debates on Bluesky around specific topics related to causal inference / AI / TMLE/ stats where where some experts offer to comment / reply for a limited amount of time #askacadmia #episkty #statssky
This paper is worth it for table 1 alone. 👏 @sabinehoffmann11.bsky.social @boulesteixlaure.bsky.social et al onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
When to Adjust for Multiple Testing: A Unifying Guiding Principle
Most original articles published in the medical literature report the results of multiple statistical tests. In a few simple cases, there is agreement on whether to adjust for the number of performed...
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Excellent discussion Julia. @stephensenn.bsky.social would have a field day with this paper.
Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · last mo.Had to read this one to figure out whether it's as click-bait-y as the title. As somebody who has written a lot about causal inference with observational data, I'm quite conflicted about it.> asteriskmag.substack.com/p/the-case-a...
Had to read this one to figure out whether it's as click-bait-y as the title. As somebody who has written a lot about causal inference with observational data, I'm quite conflicted about it.> asteriskmag.substack.com/p/the-case-a...
The case against randomized controlled trials
Everyone knows RCTs are the gold standard of evidence...right?
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Twin Piques is an absolutely diabolical name for this article by @stephensenn.bsky.social on the limitations/skepticism surrounding digital twins www.linkedin.com/pulse/twin-p...
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Excellent new blog article by Steve Ruberg: analytixthinking.blog/2026/06/28/b... #Statistics #rct #pharma #clinicaltrial #StatsSky
No. 24: Estimands Part 1 – Just Do ITT?
Randomization and complete data on the randomized experimental units are needed for cause-and-effect inference. What happens when that logic is broken?
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#Statistics thought of the day: At the heart of much nonsense research lies data analysis (including machine learning) of a complexity that the effective sample size cannot support: hbiostat.org/hdata #StatsSky
Challenges of High-Dimensional Data Analysis
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Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
Catherine Frieman@cjfrieman.bsky.social · 2mo agoOne reason i think everyone should take an archaeology class is to internalise with tangible examples that there is no pure, natural past utopia and that antibiotics and vaccines are what stand between us and a 50% child mortality rate and scores of women dying needlessly during pregn and birth
Remembering this WSJ graphic from 2007. Been thinking about "reverse statistics" lately, which means deriving the minimal set of assumptions that justify a result. Here I wonder if there is any function of the data that when max/min would produce such a curve. Ordinary Worst Squares?
Today I was reminded of a conversation with Terry Therneau at an R/Medicine conference some years ago (maybe 2019) where he told me a different version of the classic quote by George Box: “Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful”
