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Eric Polley
@ecpolley.bsky.social
Professor and Director of the Biostatistics Laboratory in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago
Tomorrow is our discussion on “Conceptualizing Opioid Geographies”! This is a great opportunity for anyone working in substance use research, healthcare, or community advocacy. Learn more and register here: gccp.healthyregions.org
Healthy Regions + Policies Lab@healthyregions.bsky.social · 3mo ago🌏 Panel & Roundtable: “Conceptualizing Opioid Geographies” Experts in epidemiology, medicine & sociology discuss modeling communities impacted by the opioid epidemic. 🗓️ Wednesday, May 20, 2026 🕤 3-4:30PM CT 💻 Virtual—Register here: go.illinois.edu/GCCP-MAY20 Learn more: gccp.healthyregions.org
How has being an academic now become spending half your day waiting to be verified as a human?
UChicago undergraduates and graduate students interested in using AI to tackle real-world scientific challenges are invited to join us at the AI+Science Hackathon, where machine learning meets scientific discovery! Applications are due TOMORROW datascience.uchicago.edu/events/aisci...
The R/Medicine Call for Proposals has been extended by one week! New deadline: March 13 First-time speakers are encouraged! Need feedback on your abstract? rmedicine.conference@gmail.com rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #opensource #healthcare
Nice summary on the role of the statistician in clinical research (spoiler, it is not the sample size calculation): stattrak.amstat.org/2026/03/02/c...
Statistics Is a Journey, Not a Destination
A website for new statistics professionals navigating a data-centric world
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Upcoming session on leveraging external information for the design and analysis of clinical trials at #ENAR2026
R/Medicine CFP is open 🩺🧪 Deadline: March 6 - still time! Submit: Talks, Lightning Talks, Demos, Workshops - Using R + Shiny for health, lab, clinical data First-time speaker? Email for feedback: rmedicine.conference@gmail.com rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #datascience
ANNOUNCE: Nominations are open for the prestigious ASA Statistical Computing and Graphic Award. 🎖️ It recognizes innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a significant impact on statistical practice or research. #rstats #stats community.amstat.org/jointscsg-se...
The Statistical Computing and Graphics Award - Joint Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Section
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We learned today that Paul Rathouz of UT-Austin (previously Chicago and UW-Madison) died on Dec. 10. Few people I've known have enwrapped their brilliance with such modesty, decency, and good humor. A mensch's mensch. RIP.
youtu.be/hvDS-MhkKVo?... Bickel’s historical overview of the UC Berkeley dept of statistics
Peter Bickel’s Historical Overview of the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics
YouTube video by Berkeley Statistics
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🗺️ Upcoming Workshop: “Intro to Spatial Data in R” 🗓️ Thursday, October 23, 2025 🕤 9:30–11:30 AM CDT 💻 Virtual; Register here: go.illinois.edu/GCCP-OCT23 This workshop is presented as part of the JCOIN Geospatial Consortium & Community of Practice (GCCP). 👉 gccp.healthyregions.org
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Nice discussion with Mark van der Laan, covering many topics including the history of TMLE, and future efforts: causalbanditspodcast.com
Causal Bandits Podcast
Causal Bandits Podcast: Causal AI, causality, causal inference, discovery, DAGs, machine learning and more!
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SDOH&Place annual symposium next week in Chicago: symposium2025.sdohplace.org
2025 SDOH & Place Symposium
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🚨 Relaunch of CRAN Task View: Clinical Trial Design, Monitoring, and Analysis #rstats Complete rewrite by an int'l team of experts in #clinicaltrials Ya Wang, Thomas Jaki @thomasjaki.bsky.social, Laura Pascasio Harris, Orla Doyle, Elias Laurin Meyer, Wilmar Igl cran.r-project.org/view=Clinica...
Great set of R tips and helpful packages: rfortherestofus.com/2025/06/twen...
Twenty-Five Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with R
Explore 25 novel ways to utilize R, including pulling data from various sources, data visualization, mapping, using Quarto for reporting, automating tasks,.
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New paper in @annalsofim.bsky.social "50 ways to misinterpret clinical prediction models for treatment decisions” --> Published version: www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... --> Open access version: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17366
The Risks of Risk Assessment: Causal Blind Spots When Using Prediction Models for Treatment Decisions | Annals of Internal Medicine
Clinicians increasingly rely on prediction models to guide treatment choices. Most prediction models, however, are developed using observational data that include some patients who have already receiv...
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Just got a No Kings stencil and chalk in the mail, waiting for the rain to stop and head out to the sidewalk:
New paper out today examining heterogeneity of cardiovascular effects between 4 classes of glucose-lowering therapies: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40673553/
Heterogeneity of Cardiovascular Effects of Second-Line Glucose-Lowering Therapies in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Across the Range of Moderate Baseline Cardiovascular Risk - PubMed
Cardiovascular benefits of SGLT2is and GLP-1RAs exist across all levels of moderate cardiovascular risk, reinforcing the importance of choosing glucose-lowering therapies that can prevent MACE in all ...
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Still trying to find the best way to teach skepticism in data. When I say check the data, people find the issues, but without that statement there is a “Simon says” reaction. I have many examples of hiding messages (e.g. create a PCA plot it shows “nope” in the plot) but not everyone finds these.
