“‘Out of curiosity,’ says the patient, hoping to delay the injection, ‘what was the odds ratio for those without the genetic variant?’ The doctor pauses, puts down the needle, and turns back to the study. ‘The odds ratio for those without the genetic variant was also 4.’”

Noah Greifer@noahgreifer.bsky.social · 17h ago

Knowing that I said something profound enough to be in your blog post is an honor :) My own irreverent take on odds ratios: ngreifer.github.io/blog/an-odds...

Fascinating and clear paper by @corymccartan.com and @melodyyhuang.bsky.social, greatly enhancing our understanding of how Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) works and why it is so effective. A must-read for my fellow BART enthusiasts. #statssky #causalinference

ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM)@paperposterbot.bsky.social · 3d ago

arXiv📈🤖 Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Gaussian Process Limit of BART By McCartan, Huang

On Thursday, I'm giving the last of the 2026 Ihaka lectures on "Spotting the weird ones" (about anomaly detection using #rstats). It's an honour to speak at something named after Ross Ihaka. It will be live-streamed for those who can't be there. www.auckland.ac.nz/en/science/a...

Willing to help me test T, a new domain-specific language for building reproducible pipelines (in #RStats, #Python or #Julia)? I'd like to see how easy it is for people to use agents with T to build reproducible pipelines. If you're interested in trying it out, please follow these instructions.

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!

We're hiring in statistics, econometrics, ML, statistical computing, data vis, etc. It's a great place to work, which is why I've been here for more than 30 years! Details at bit.ly/3Tld8UV. Level is roughly equivalent to Assistant/Associate Prof in North America. #stats #datascience #rstats

📣 Job alert: We are looking for a PhD Candidate in causal inference & health data science🔎 📍 Berlin (Responsible Health Data Analysis Team, BIH-QUEST) 📅 Starting: Oct 1, 2026 (3 years) 💼 100% E13 position 🔗 Read more and apply (deadline Aug 17): karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan... Please share!

PhD Candidate (all genders) BIH QUEST Center (Team “Responsible Health Data Analysis”)

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23andMe is hiring for 2 amazing roles! - Scientist, ML for Health Risk Prediction: build next-gen health prediction tools integrating genetics. - Scientist, Population Genetics: build state-of-the-art algorithms for genetic relationship & ancestry inference. Links below!

fwiw I do think the guidance is a bit ambiguous and hard to parse for this scenario. If it helps, here’s what I did for an R package that represents a port from SAS: github.com/cran/nrba/bl...

nrba/DESCRIPTION at master · cran/nrba

:exclamation: This is a read-only mirror of the CRAN R package repository. nrba — Methods for Conducting Nonresponse Bias Analysis (NRBA) - cran/nrba

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need to start using the dutch word for "party animal"

#rstats #databs what does CRAN expect in terms of attribution and licensing when an R package is a direct port of another software but does not include code from that software?

Do you dabble in Quarto, and really want to make slides that make people go, wow 😯 Learn from the amazing @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social tomorrow, where he will demonstrate the ✨ art of slidecrafting✨ for creating reusable, custom slide themes. Hope to see you there! pos.it/dslab

The PSF is hiring a Security Developer! Help triage vulnerabilities in CPython, fight malware/supply-chain attacks on PyPI, and build tools to keep the #Python ecosystem safe for millions of users 🐍🔒 This is a global, remote, 1 year term role, with the possibility of renewal. #Security Apply today:

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Heads up ruff users - with the release of 0.16.0 this week the number of default rules went up from 59 to to 413. This means that if you're ruff version auto updates, your CI pipelines might start failing on you all of a sudden.

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · 2w ago

Ruff 0.16.0 - Astral's fast Python linter - came out a few days ago and increased the number of default-enabled rules from 59 to 413, which highlighted all sorts of problems across my projects (1618 in sqlite-utils alone) simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/25/...

Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca

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

Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly. Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time? So, I visualized it myself!

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

I made today's LA Times crossword with @oliogrids.bsky.social, my first newspaper crossword! Free to play online! www.latimes.com/games/daily-...

Raffi you’re so right

Defeated Man Too Tired To Fight New $14.99 Fee On Phone Bill https://theonion.com/defeated-man-too-tired-to-fight-new-14-99-fee-on-phone-1847501796/

One week from today is the first of the 2026 Ihaka Lectures. Kieran Healy will speak about "Trustworthy Data Visualisation" It's in Science bldg 303, opposite Albert Park. Refreshments 6pm for 6:30pm start (NZST, UTC+12). There's live streaming and a recording later.

the food safety stuff is another reminder that a large, huge, gigantic part of being a republican is going “lmao why are we spending money to prevent horrifying disasters from happening if they never happen 🤪”

Neat. Positron now recognizes a pyproject.toml, offers to build an environment with one click using uv 🚀 opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

USDA Fills Key Advisory Role With Prominent Chewing Skeptic https://theonion.com/usda-fills-key-advisory-role-with-prominent-chewing-skeptic/

It's Proust's birthday so I must share this photo again!!!!!

Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · 3y ago

Marcel Proust playing air guitar on a tennis racket appreciation moment

I made a free tool to help people write their comments re: OMB proposed rule change. Please use it before July 13 bsky.app/profile/drru...

Ruth Ann Crystal@drruth.bsky.social · 4w ago

$1.1 trillion in federal grants is on the line, including Medicaid, Head Start, and community health centers. Learn about a free tool that I built to help you write your public comment in <5 minutes. 🔗 drruth.substack.com/p/i-built-yo... Deadline: July 13. Every voice counts. #medsky #2CFR200

The latest release of Positron leverages `uv` to make getting started with Python as easy as a single click 👾 I wrote up a lil blog post on the places Positron elevates `uv` to help with Python workflows. You can read it here: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-07...

Positron + uv: Python setup in one click

Exploring the Positron features that use uv to enable Python installation and management.

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Relatedly, math departments have set themselves up for failure in the LLM-age by allowing themselves to be suckered by Texas Instruments to teach with decades-old tech at an incomprehensibly large markup instead of keeping up with actual computational approaches

Kieran Healy@kjhealy.co · 4w ago

lol

Latest version of Positron can open xlsx files in the data viewer(!) and it has a dropdown menu now for previewing different formats of #QuartoPub documents And—most importantly, but also from a few weeks ago, so less new—the plots panel can pick up dimensions from chunk options!!!! #rstats