Are you interested in smartphone interventions?📱 We are too. Specifically we were interested in increasing retention in a digital friction intervention. Let me tell you about our new preprint (1/n) with @dgruning.bsky.social @frederik.riedel.wtf @malte.the100.ci using one sec

Datatype, a variable font that turns text to charts > franktisellano.github.io/datatype/ Maybe useful for small charts inline with text and tables?

Datatype — variable font that turns text into charts

An OpenType variable font that turns simple text expressions into inline charts. No JavaScript, no images — just type.

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The Bennett conference returns to Oxford! December 8th and 9th Open code in science Read more and register www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/07...

Coming 8-9 December: The 2026 Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Join us for the 2026 Bennett Oxford Symposium on Open Code in Science

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#statstab #581 Marginal and conditional summary measures: transportability and compatibility across studies Thought: "Because marginal and conditional summary measures do not generally coincide, their naïve pooling in evidence synthesis can produce bias" #estimands arxiv.org/html/2507.21...

The Man in the High Castle destroyed every swastika prop after filming, so nothing could end up as a souvenir or extremist symbol.

This week on my substack: a write up of my talk "y code when ai" (my thoughts on why knowing how to code is still relevant), along with a brief description of how I turned a video of my talk into this post. Read it at open.substack.com/pub/tidydesi... !

y code when ai?

A talk on AI and coding

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GitHub - loukesio/ltc-color-palettes: "ltc_palettes: Tailored for data visualization enthusiasts, ltc_palettes is an R package that offers a curated collection of color palettes. Crafted to enhance cl...

"ltc_palettes: Tailored for data visualization enthusiasts, ltc_palettes is an R package that offers a curated collection of color palettes. Crafted to enhance clarity and impact, these palett...

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Here's a useful page with a **ton** of common tasks in #RStats, done with parallel syntax for tidyverse vs. data.table vs. base. arelbundock.com/posts/dt_tb_... #rdatatable #tidyverse

If you are in @fbmh-uom.bsky.social @fbmhdocacad.bsky.social then we have some good news for you about #Stata!

Stata License Now Available for FBMH

The statistical software Stata (version 19.5) is now available to students and staff in the Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health (FBMH). Find out how to get access!

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🚨 WORLD CUP SCORIGAMI 🚨 FINAL: France 🇫🇷 (4), England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (6) 6–4 has NEVER happened in men's World Cup history (1930–present).

Data Steward Competencies: Findings from a European Job Description Study @sonrai.bsky.social @norfireland.bsky.social datastewards.ie/data-steward...

What are ORCID Trust Markers? 🧐 Think of them as digital provenance stamps. When a university or publisher writes verified data to your record, they leave a permanent marker of authenticity. 🎬 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=1rZvFGLe7bg 📄 Read: info.orcid.org/a-day-in-the-life-of-orcid-data/

What Your ORCID Record Can Do For You

Managing your research across different systems, institutions, and career stages can be exhausting. But is your ORCID iD just a required checkbox, or is it actually working for you? In this video, learn how to unlock the full potential of your record. Save Time by reducing manual data entry by seamlessly logging into systems, autofilling grant forms, and syncing your data across platforms. Build Trust through Trust Markers that signal your information has been verified and added directly by trusted institutions, funders, and employers. Stay in Control of how your data is shared, viewed, and managed with fully customizable visibility settings. The research ecosystem works best when everything connects. Explore your record today to see how much more your ORCID iD can do. 👉 Manage your record at orcid.org #ORCID #ResearchCommunity #OpenScience

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⚙️ New on the COS blog: Principal Research Scientist Noah Haber (@whaleactually.com) shares how the SCORE project developed a collaborative reproducible manuscript workflow, walks through two different approaches, and introduces an open-source R package. www.cos.io/blog/toward-...

Toward Collaborative Reproducible Manuscripts

COS Principal Research Scientist Noah Haber shares how the SCORE project developed a collaborative reproducible manuscript workflow, walks through two different approaches, and introduces an open-sour...

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🚨 New blog post! 🚨 Collaborating on Quarto documents can be tricky, especially if you're working with people who don't need to write code 🫂 So I've pulled together some options for collaborating on Quarto documents into a blog post! Link: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/collabo... #QuartoPub #RStats

Collaborating on Quarto documents – Nicola Rennie

Collaborating on Quarto documents, particularly non-technical collaborators who don’t want or need to edit any code, is hard. This blog post outlines a few different options that might make it a littl...

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We're seeking participants for the Y Survey, a short survey about why clinical trial participants stop or reduce their participation in clinical trials. Feel free to share. - More info in image - Survey link: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/leeds/y-su... - 84-second intro video: youtu.be/eAgOqO1LR9U

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Did you know you can search for R packages by what they do, as opposed to just their names? Look! 👉🏼 rwarehouse.netlify.app @kylieainslie.bsky.social made The Warehouse for just this purpose. Send it to a new R programmer today ❤️ because it's the resource we all wish we'd had at some point #rstats

If you have access to any the following stats software, would you be willing to run some chi squared tests on a handful of simulated datasets and send me results? I need to verify that that my R implementation of what other software does is correct. - Stata - SAS - StatXact - SPSS DM me :)

We launched our beta version 0.0.1 of Metacheck today! After our second year of work on the tool, we now have validated modules, hugely expanded functionality, optional (or local) LLM use, checks inside code files, and much more! Try it out in R now: www.scienceverse.org/metacheck/

📣 Registration is open for our next How to Be a Great Chief Investigator workshop, taking place in Birmingham on 28 Sept 2026. Build your skills, learn from experienced CIs & other trialists, & grow your peer network. 🔗 Register here tinyurl.com/48ku2ywx #UKCTUNetwork #ChiefInvestigatorTraining

*EPIC FREE LECTURE ON THURSDAY IN OXFORD* Our heroic CTO Seb Bacon on open science, open code, OpenSAFELY and more!

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Inaugural Lecture Klaxon! Our magnificent CTO Seb Bacon is a hero of the modern age, and now PROFESSOR Seb Bacon... Come to his inaugural lecture in Oxford! OpenSAFELY! OpenPrescribing! TrialsTracker! OpenCorporates! Open Code! Open Everything! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2026/05... bacon.boutique

Very much appreciating the explicit mentions (and importance) of following the FAIR principles, transparency, and *code sharing* in this paper...

Florian Naudet@floriannaudet.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Super happy to have contributed to this super important and timely paper, "Using Routinely Collected Data for Research Purposes: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies", led by @sabinehoffmann11.bsky.social and just published in @bmj.com... www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Super happy to have contributed to this super important and timely paper, "Using Routinely Collected Data for Research Purposes: Challenges and Mitigation Strategies", led by @sabinehoffmann11.bsky.social and just published in @bmj.com... www.bmj.com/content/393/...

The program is up for the first 1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research and it promises to be a BANGER! crsuzh.pages.uzh.ch/msmr/program/

A bit of pondering and a little announcement

Scrapheap and Reality TV

A subtle but important difference

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. @priyasilverstein.com discussed the role of editors in #OpenScience, and offered the example of the guide for #SocialScience journal editors on easing into #OpenScience link.springer.com/article/10.1... #JEDI #JournalEditing #AcademicPublishing #NightshiftEditor

A guide for social science journal editors on easing into open science - Research Integrity and Peer Review

Journal editors have a large amount of power to advance open science in their respective fields by incentivising and mandating open policies and practices at their journals. The Data PASS Journal Edit...

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One thing never changes: the #OpenDataHandbook is still the most searched-for item on our website. Despite having been created a decade ago, this resource continues to shape new generations of #opendata practitioners. 🔖 Bookmark it: buff.ly/G1l5wO2

How do clinical trials help bring new medicines to patients? 🧪 Our latest video explains how clinical trials work, the role of patients in research, and why these studies are essential for safe and effective medicines. Watch now!

Explaining Clinical Trials

YouTube video by European Medicines Agency

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Happy #ClinicalTrials Day Trial design and conduct is no place for novices with best intentions. Patient participants make sacrifices. Medical progress holds its breath. Large sums of public and private money is invested. So get it right, from the start. statsepi.substack.com/p/dealing-wi...

Dealing with

There are no negative trials - just ones we learn from and ones we don't

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