I've just made live the updated website that accompanies my R book (www.discovr.rocks) - it's mostly finished: almost all of the chapter solutions/task solutions are done, data are live, updated info about the `discovr` package of interactive tutorials, and it's had a face lift.

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...

WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried

If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...

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Join us Friday for PDHP's hybrid half-day workshop on Adaptive Interventions with @d3center.bsky.social experts Shiyu Zhang, Walter Dempsey, and @leb112358.bsky.social. Details and registration at pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/

Today, 1–5 pm ET: d3center faculty @leb112358.bsky.social, Shiyu Zhang, and Walter Dempsey present on Adaptive Interventions in the PDHP Workshop Series at ISR. Topics include adaptive intervention & JITAI foundations, SMARTs, MRTs, and Q&A. 📍 6050 ISR-Thompson + Zoom 🔗 pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops

🧪@d3center.bsky.social researchers discuss the sources and impact of missing data in microrandomized trials. They provide a conceptual framework to guide future investigators in anticipating missing data and making informed decisions to manage them myumi.ch/61MWn @leb112358.bsky.social

Missing data in microrandomized trials: Challenges and opportunities - Behavior Research Methods

The vision of leveraging digital technologies to deliver real-time psychological interventions in everyday settings is realized via just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI) – an intervention design...

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Mark your calendar for the next, hybrid half-day PDHP Workshop with @d3center.bsky.social experts, covering Adaptive Interventions: Dec. 12! Register at pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/ @leb112358.bsky.social

📢 Call for poster abstracts! The d3center invites submissions for the Conference on Intervention Optimization, May 18-20 in Bethesda, MD. Share your research in intervention optimization across health, education, engineering & more. Deadline: Oct 9. bit.ly/ioptimize26 #IOptimize26

The d3center is thrilled to co-host the first-ever Conference on Intervention Optimization! We're bringing together brilliant minds from health, education, engineering & beyond. May 18-20 in the DC area. Registration opens soon: bit.ly/ioptimize26 #IOptimize26

Grateful to be launching this project soon with a great team of collaborators and students 🤩

d3center@d3center.bsky.social · last yr.

Pilot Grant Spotlight 1/4: Led by @leb112358.bsky.social, this new pilot project aims to boost user engagement with mobile smoking cessation apps. Her team will develop personalized feedback visualizations designed with user input. Learn more: myumi.ch/79649

Join @ryanlinnbrown.bsky.social, David Creswell, and A. Janet Tomiyama on July 23 for a new webinar! Learn more about what distinguishes toxic stress from manageable challenges, how #stress manifests differently across cultures & life stages, and which interventions are backed by evidence.

At this point, I might as well -- Here's an infographic showing different ways to include age as a predictor. The top shows two extremes, just as a plain old numerical predictor (imposes linear trajectory) vs. categorical predictor (imposes nothing whatsoever). And then three solutions in between!

Andrew Mercer@awmercer.bsky.social · last yr.

Maybe use the same number of bins as you have knots in the spline? That’d make it easier to compare the two.

Making accessible data viz isn't just about compliance - it's about inclusion. Small changes, huge impact for 1.3 billion people with disabilities. @pavithraes.me‬ & @frank.computer‬ show you how in their recent talk at PyCon US. Watch the full session: → www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZMo...

Inclusive Data for 1.3 Billion: Designing Accessible Visualizations

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), an estimated 1.3 billion people (1 in 6 individuals) experience a disability, and nearly 2.2 billion people...

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Looking forward to marching tomorrow in Lansing, Michigan! #standupforscience

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

SO MANY STAND UP FOR SCIENCE EVENTS TO CHOOSE FROM—153 and COUNTING! To get more information on our local events and to register your own, head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ ☀️⬇️🌎

WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

NIH funding slashes aren’t ‘cutting waste’ - they're cutting progress, innovation, and the livelihoods of hardworking Americans. www.freep.com/story/news/h...

Federal research cuts would rock Michigan economy, halt clinical trials, those affected say

A Trump administration plan to cap reimbursement of federal research overhead costs could lead to job losses, stifle medical innovation in Michigan.

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It matters that scientists speak out against what is being done to US science. Staying silent is neither "objective" nor "staying out of politics". Silence now *is* political - it supports the status quo, says "nothing to worry about". We need to sound the alarm. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Trump’s siege of science: how the first 30 days unfolded and what’s next

The breakneck pace and devastating impact of the administration’s policy changes has shocked researchers.

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Looks like Michigan science supporters can plan to head to Lansing on Friday, March 7 from 12-4! #standupforscience standupforscience2025.org/local-event-...

INDIANA WE NEED A LEAD!!!! #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net · last yr.

☀️📣 Looking for a STATE LEAD and VOLUNTEERS to help us #standupforscience2025 in Indiana! Know someone interested? Fill out this form: airtable.com/app4h5wUssMG... #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

📣 DC friends - please consider supporting this rally on Wednesday, February 19th!

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · last yr.

IMPORTANT ACTION in response to the illegal firings of scientists and public health workers at HHS, NIH, CDC, and other federal agencies by the Trump administration. Rally at HHS this Wed, Feb 19 at 12 pm. Show your support! RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/... @nihfellowsunited.bsky.social

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Santiago Mayer@santiagomayer.com · 2y ago

I expected a lot of things from the Trump Administration but one thing I didn’t expect was them joining the war on cancer on the side of fucking cancer

My partner just tried to comfort me regarding my NIH K01 summary statement by sending a text saying he thinks I’m a 9 😅

To be balanced though, one of the more constructive reviewers called me "an R trailblazer" which is perhaps one of the nicest things anyone has every said to me 🥰

Lizbeth ‘Libby’ Benson, PhD@leb112358.bsky.social · 2y ago

Got a 1, 4, 1 for Candidate scores on my K01. Across the board reviewer 2 was nasty & clearly did not spend more than the bare minimum reading my proposal. I know it's common, but it's still so frustrating a person like this can totally tank an application 🙄

As a side - listing things as weaknesses w/o indicating why is ZERO helpful for career dev. candidates trying to improve a resubmission... e.g., if my Aim 2 findings don't show feasibility/acceptability, why is proposing to submit a R21 (to do intervention refinement) instead of an R01 a weakness?

Lizbeth ‘Libby’ Benson, PhD@leb112358.bsky.social · 2y ago

Got a 1, 4, 1 for Candidate scores on my K01. Across the board reviewer 2 was nasty & clearly did not spend more than the bare minimum reading my proposal. I know it's common, but it's still so frustrating a person like this can totally tank an application 🙄

Got a 1, 4, 1 for Candidate scores on my K01. Across the board reviewer 2 was nasty & clearly did not spend more than the bare minimum reading my proposal. I know it's common, but it's still so frustrating a person like this can totally tank an application 🙄

a cartoon of ariel from the little mermaid is making a sad face and says sigh .

ALT: a cartoon of ariel from the little mermaid is making a sad face and says sigh .

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This is a great write up of some really cool work that some of my colleagues in the Center for Healthy Aging at Penn State (and beyond) recently published including @leb112358.bsky.social!

PsyPost@psypost.bsky.social · 2y ago

Everyday physical activity, even light movement, improves cognitive processing speed, equivalent to reversing four years of cognitive aging. This highlights the short-term brain benefits of staying active. #CognitiveHealth #PhysicalActivity #BrainHealth #MentalWellness #HealthyLiving

We ran out of space in the first Addiction science starter pack so heres a second one! go.bsky.app/GQ31XUx