Manuela Zucknick
@manuelazucknick.bsky.social
Professor, Statistical learning in molecular medicine. Director Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social, @uio.no & Oslo University Hospital. Posting in my own capacity. (Bio)statistics, climate breakdown, train journeys.
Når Listhaug sier på TV at folka som storma over grensa til Ceuta kan bevege seg fritt i Schengen-området, skulle jeg så veldig gjerne ønske at vi hadde gode nok journalister i Norge til at de bare skyter inn «men det stemmer jo ikke» uten å engang tenke seg om. Istedenfor blir løgnen bare stående.
Tror FrP at det å ikke adressere klimaendringene er et alternativ som er priset til 0 kroner? En tråd.
"What It Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math" spectrum.ieee.org/ai-in-mathem...
What it Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math
Researchers debate motivation, purpose, and the field’s future
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15 years after the Norwegian mass murderer killed 77 people, mostly children, motivated by conspiracy theories about cultural marxists and white genocide, his race war manifesto is more or less repeated verbatim to millions of people by the world's richest man, Elon Musk. Let that fucking sink in.
David Klemperer@dmk1793.bsky.social · 2w agoWe must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies.
AUSTRALIA. ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE. www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/the-gra...
The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
Every so often the Earth produces a signal that is impossible to ignore. This graph is one of them. It shows sea-surface temperatures in the Niño 3.4 region of the equatorial Pacific, one of the most ...
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The curse of underfunded academic research has struck again - my position has been made redundant. Hit me up if you are looking for a passionate and enthusiastic biostatistician.
De er visst spesielt interessert i å rekruttere flere norske fotball-entusiaster som studie-deltakere! www.worldcupfever.study Heia Norge! 😀⚽🇳🇴-🏴
World Cup Fever - Universität Bielefeld
Wir analysieren die
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Manuela Zucknick@manuelazucknick.bsky.social · 4w agoHere is a fun study by colleagues from Bielefeld University on football "World Cup fever" using pulse rate data from smart watches: www.worldcupfever.study You can still participate (if you own a smart watch and are into the World Cup...) - sign up using the link below.
Here is a fun study by colleagues from Bielefeld University on football "World Cup fever" using pulse rate data from smart watches: www.worldcupfever.study You can still participate (if you own a smart watch and are into the World Cup...) - sign up using the link below.
World Cup Fever - Universität Bielefeld
Wir analysieren die
worldcupfever.study
There’s a scene in the dystopian sci-fi movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is riding in an autonomous vehicle that gets remotely commandeered by the police to bring him into custody. The audience is supposed to see this as flagrant disregard for privacy and due process.
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 4w agoWaymo car delivers misbehaving teen passengers to San Mateo police
Anthropic shipped Claude Science this week. The useful thing to know first: it's not a smarter model. It runs the same Claude models everyone already has (Opus 4.8), no special access, no gating. What you get is the wiring, not more intelligence.
Ove Øyås 🇺🇦@oveoyas.bsky.social · 4w agoOur paper on minimal metabolic pathways is finally out! 🙌 www.cell.com/cell-systems... I have summarized the new methods and some applications they enable in the thread below. 🧵 A stable version of the mptool toolbox is on PyPi and a major update is already on GitLab. 🤖 gitlab.com/csb.ethz/mpt...
The Trump administration is paying Duke Energy $129 million in taxpayer dollars to stop its North Carolina offshore wind farm. Trump has now paid over $2.5 billion to terminate offshore wind projects that would have provided affordable energy to millions. He's enriching Big Oil at our expense.
To celebrate a rebellion is to know that, from a flawed world, we can make new things. We can hold on, we can find each other, and not just imagine but create a much better America. It is a special 250th – it is ours. Video in link: snyder.substack.com/p/on-tyranny...
On Tyranny — Special 250th Edition
With friends, on video, to recall and to rebel
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"Despite looking like gambling, Polymarket is actually a scam."
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last mo.“Polymarket [Backed by Peter Thiel] Allegedly Paid Influencers to Stage Fake Wins … According to [WSJ], Polymarket & its contractors reportedly built near-identical clone sites — including a domain called poiymarket.com — where creators cld simulate trades without risking real money.” 6/23/26 … 1/
Following the decision of Statistics and Computing to charge (high!) APCs to *all* accepted papers, I decided to resign from the Editorial Board. (Sorry to the let EiC down, he's doing a super job).
F. Javier Rubio@fjrubio.bsky.social · last mo.“Springer about to hijack Statistics & Computing” xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/s...
“Springer about to hijack Statistics & Computing” xianblog.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/s...
Springer about to hijack Statistics & Computing
I recently learned that Springer Nature is about to make the reference journal Statistics and Computing, where I published close to twenty papers over the years, fully “open access”, wh…
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A really nice data visualization and story-telling in the scrolling of this Pudding article on women's clothing sizes. They are a mess but this shows you in which ways they are messed up: pudding.cool/2026/02/wome...
Sizing chaos
The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women
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Jeg skjønner ikke: Hvordan kan regjeringen i det hele tatt si dette? Ut fra min forståelse innebærer dette i praksis å instruere Økokrim om å ignorere brudd på forurensingsloven - hvilket formelt grunnlag mener ministeren at han har for det? www.nrk.no/vestland/nor...
Nordic Mining får halde fram å tømme avfall i Førdefjorden
Tillatinga til å tømme gruveavfall i Førdefjorden var ugyldig, slo Høgsterett fast. Likevel får selskapet halde fram.
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"We declared a War On Cancer in the 1970s and we have not made significant progress on treating cancer despite ever-increasing funding. It's a welfare program for academic labs" Bro what the FUCK are you talking about. The survival statistics do not bear this out even at first glance
New paper "To select or not to select: predictively consistent priors instead of model selection" with Anna Elisabeth Riha, Leevi Lindgren, @davidkohns.bsky.social, @paulbuerkner.com arxiv.org/abs/2606.22850 Model selection is not a substitute for building good models in the first place 1/
For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.
Elon Musk's $1.32 Trillion, to Scale
The first trillionaire's fortune, one pixel per $1,000 — scroll past every dollar, and see what a fraction of it could do instead.
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The EU is all too happy of late to frame itself as being "behind". It may be behind on billionaires and unicorns and wealth inequality, but it's streaks ahead on regulation and digital rights. When did that become something not worth shouting about? I had some thoughts on this on Inside Story.
When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.
yes, and we should forcefully defend the importance of the university as, in Chris Mole's terms, a place of collective attention. The value of education is not (just) about the acquisition of personal skill, it is about learning how to lead our collectives *together.*
Daniel Kelly@dryan149.bsky.social · 2mo agoWe need a more straightforward and persuasive argument. We teach a set of skills that you cannot get anywhere else. AI has made those skills more valuable. Those skills matter not only at work but in every domain of life. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
Confirmed: atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa averaged 432.3 ppm in May, probably the highest in 15 million years, and 1.8 ppm higher than last year.
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