I’ll be talking about Symmetric Vaccine Efficacy (a collab with @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social & Michael Hudgens) this morning! #JSM2026 📍 253 C ⏰ 9:50a 🎞️ docs.google.com/presentation...

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Symmetric Vaccine Efficacy Lucy D’Agostino McGowan Department of Statistical Sciences Wake Forest University Interpretable Estimation and Inference for Vaccine Trials

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BREAKING The R Core Team just awarded the prestigious Rousseuw Prize in statistics, stats equivalent of Nobel Prize 🏆 🏆🏆🏆 #rstats A team effort over many years suitably recognized

Come join me for a all new slidecrafting workshop! 2 hours of all new content, teaching you to go from zero to hero in quarto slides! It is free and open to anyone, very minimal quarto knowledge required, we are starting with the basics! pos.it/slide-wrkshp #quarto #slidecrafting

Slidecrafting Workshop with Emil Hvitfeldt

This will be a 2-hour workshop (with a short break) led by Emil Hvitfeldt all about making great slides in Quarto! Wed, Aug 12, 2026 12:00 PM EDT

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The Honest Case for the #Humanities open.substack.com/pub/napinill...

The Honest Case for the Humanities

Or: Why I’m Tired of My Colleagues Making Arguments That Only Work on Us

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Fable 5 is the new highest scorer on bluffbench! The eval measures models' ability to accurately describe plots that show counterintuitive patterns. Six months ago, the strongest models were still in the single digits. simonpcouch.github.io/bluffbench/

An intersection of two of my favorite things: improv+sci comm! @wakeforest.bsky.social just brought this group to train a bunch of us a few weeks ago, it was so fun!! www.wsj.com/lifestyle/sc...

Alan Alda’s Solution to Eroding Trust in Science: More Improv

The “M*A*S*H” star’s program to help researchers overcome their communication challenges now draws thousands. We sat in on a class.

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If you ever wanted more out of `code-line-numbers` in your revealjs slides this new extension might be the one for you. I tried expanding the type of highlighting we could do on a line by line basis github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto #slidecrafting

I need better branding for this but I am 100% on team “waste more time” because it’s not actually time wasted ♥️

Lauren Deschain@thatnerdchick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Thanks, Vonnegut. 💜

This month we feature Staci Hepler, whose work spans teaching, research, and service—strengthening both the statistical community and the next generation of statisticians. Follow her journey from math tutor to statistics professor. magazine.amstat.org/blog/2026/05...

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Andrea Howard@drandreahoward.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hi, me again. This sample was restricted to *only teens who had nighttime background phone data* which means everyone whose phones went unused between 10 and 6 were excluded. Also no serious discussion of teen sleep problems ignores early school start times as the core problem.

#Statistics thought of the day: Virtually all of single-event survival analysis (including Kaplan-Meier, Cox PH, AFT) is a special case of cumulative probability semiparametric ordinal regression models: hbiostat.org/rmsc/ordsurv #StatsSky

We love our grads!! 👩‍🎓Congratulations! We can’t wait to hear about all of the exciting things you do next! #wfugrad @sarahlotspeich.bsky.social

In fisheries models, natural mortality (M) is often set to 0.2 per year. A detailed derivation of this result was provided by John Pope in 1975, see below:

I have LOVED getting to know so many brilliant folks at the Workshop on Applied Statistics in Agriculture & Natural Resources! Thank you so much for the invitation! My talk today was about the “causal gap” 🎞️ Slides here: www.lucymcgowan.com/talk/keynote...

Julia Piaskowski@jpiaskowski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great talk by @lucystats.bsky.social at the Agricultural Statistics conference in Lincoln. wasanr.unl.edu

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

the only good thing* about having to use the delta method is getting to make @drob.bsky.social’s “(Taylor’s Version)” joke when writing it up *besides the fact that it “gets me” the “answer that I need”🙄

Resurrecting my old remake of @rafalab.bsky.social & @wjakethompson.com's #rstats plot in honor of Star Wars Day livefreeordichotomize.com/posts/2020-0...

May the Fourth Be With You (#rstats style) –

Rafael Irizarry made a fabulous TIE fighter plot in R, Jake Thompson recreated it using ggplot2 and gganimate, I added some stars.

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Disclaimer: this is my first #quarto extension, I don't know what I'm doing That said, for who knows what reason I've always wanted a RevealJS feature where you can summon Wayne Knight to deliver his iconic "ah ah ah" line from Jurassic Park You're welcome (sound on) github.com/benharrap/ah...

Last week, I gave a keynote at appliedml.us/2026/ on machine learning and engineering. Like a lot of us, I've had questions and anxiety around software development today. The talk covers why good engineering is still important (and 🌷). vickiboykis.com/2026/04/20/b...

Build yourself flowers

Living and working in a world of generated code.

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Please enjoy some of my finest work. In collaboration with my sister, Teesa D’Agositno, we bring you “I’m Just a Slope” a tribute to our love of statistics & The Lonely Island youtu.be/9EwUl6gyVGQ?...

Just a Slope

YouTube video by LucyStats

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✍️ [blog] Expanding the Editorial Team: Alec Robitaille and Lucy D''Agostino McGowan Join as Editors We're excited and grateful to welcome Alec and Lucy as new editors! Read more in the blog post: https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/04/16/editors2026/ #RStats

Expanding the Editorial Team: Alec Robitaille and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan Join as Editors

Introducing two new editors for rOpenSci statistical software peer review

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I had the pleasure of speaking to students at both Duke University and Wake Forest University about the existential crisis that many of them are feeling right now: In the age of AI, is my degree worthless? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kTx...

Existential crisis! Is my degree worthless?

YouTube video by Davis Vaughan

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Interesting fact - while both calendars are drifting relative to the equinox, the Hebrew calendar's drift is much bigger (~1day/3000yrs vs ~1day/200yrs)! This means that Passover, typically before Easter, will eventually be typically after Easter (in about two thousand years...) Happy holidays! 🥚

Waited to post this so no spoilies but goodness once again, 🐝 yesterday with Sherwin-Williams #6397 👀

Talking to some undergrads tomorrow about the why no one actually pays us to type model.fit() and asked them ahead of time to submit answers to a "trivially easy" data problem Fun to see the results come it, wild to know how many business run with a not dissimilar fog of war

👋 nerd friends, who had heard of hypochlorous acid? Apparently kills norovirus in one minute?? And safe on skin?? And I can make it in my kitchen with a bit of electrolysis?? 👀 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Hypochlorous Acid: A Review

The surgeon needs to have an inexpensive, available, nontoxic, and practical disinfectant that is effective in sanitizing against the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) virus. The purpose of this article was to review the evidence for using ...

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Eigenspace Jam

Demetri@phdemetri.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I believe eigen fly. I believe eigen touch the sky.

Saw Jen Tullock’s amazing show and was so enamored throughout that I snapped not a single photo, but got to chat after for a bit with the brilliant @hamburgerwaiter.bsky.social …we did discuss elevator pitches 👀😅

So proud of @ashleymullan.bsky.social -- featured on the cover of @significancemag.bsky.social! Check out her beautiful interrupted time series plot 😍

Significance magazine@significancemag.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The red-hot November issue of Significance is now published - and it's a double issue! academic.oup.com/jrssig/issue (Want it but not an RSS/ASA/SSA member? academic.oup.com/jrssig/subsc...)

And for my next talk, “The Role of Congeniality in Multiple Imputation for Doubly Robust Causal Estimation” #IDWSDS2025 In which I insist imputation models MUST include: ✅outcome ✅exposure ✅all in PS model ✅all in outcome models *in the same functional form* 🎞️: www.lucymcgowan.com/talk/idwsds_...

The Role of Congeniality in Multiple Imputation for Doubly Robust Causal Estimation | Lucy D'Agostino McGowan

This talk provides clear and practical guidance on the specification of imputation models when multiple imputation is used in conjunction with doubly robust estimation methods for causal inference. Th...

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