The PI presenting the paper written entirely by the rest of their research team

2/ He showed that cheap root vegetables could fed to sheep kept indoors during winter rather than costly grain. This meant meat could be available & affordable even during hard times

A new paper on bounds for per-protocol effects in trials My motivation in writing this paper was to twofold: (1) provide a valid way to estimate per-protocol effects and (2) make the computational procedure as simple as possible to apply link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Computing assumption-lean bounds for per-protocol effects - Trials

Background A common approach used to estimate per-protocol effects, or the effect of perfect adherence to a defined protocol on a specified outcome, is to artificially censor individuals when they dev...

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My PhD student Han Bao, who is going to graduate soon, is looking for a job (academia/industry), either immediately or later this year. He is an expert on longitudinal causal inference, both from a theoretical and practical perspective ("target trial emulation"). Please get in touch with me/him!

4/ Also most of you young'uns don't know about the Bad Old Days when we had to look up critical test statistics in printed tables. The tables were massive and for reasons of space were limited to 3 α levels: 0.05, 0.01, and 0.001 thresholds.

Few statisticians know that Frank Yates, pioneer of experimental design, is responsible for the annoying practice of indicating 3 tiers of statistical significance by stars (*p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001). He soon regretted it and “vehemently opposed its unthinking use”. And here we are.

A brief history of the Thembisa HIV model, by Leigh Johnson. A great overview of one of the most impressive infectious disease models around https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7041598

NEW #opensaccess paper "Evidence of unreliable data and poor data provenance in clinical prediction model research and clinical practice" link.springer.com/article/10.1... #researchintegrity #dataprovenance #predictionmodels #predictiveAI

10 Mio. € für die #Biophysik: Das Konsortium #ALIVE um LMU-Physiker Erwin Frey erforscht die physikalische „Zeitrichtung“ lebenden Gewebes fernab des Gleichgewichts, um Zellorganisation zu verstehen. 🔬⌛ #LMUMuenchen

Die Zeitrichtung in lebendem Gewebe entschlüsseln

Das internationale Forschungskonsortium ALIVE unter Beteiligung von LMU-Physiker Erwin Frey hat eine Förderung von 10 Millionen Euro eingeworben.

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I have just resigned from the board of "Statistics and Computing", along with 17 other Associate Editors. This was a difficult decision: this great journal has published many tremendous articles under the leadership of EiC Ajay Jasra, and before him David Hand, Gilles Celeux, and Mark Girolami.

This is a lot of people’s bugbear isn’t it

BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Prof Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's data

Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.

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The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

The 2026 laureates are Brian Ripley, Martin Maechler, Kurt Hornik, Peter Dalgaard, and Luke Tierney who have made the longest sustained contribution to #RStats. Half of the $1m prize money is awarded to the laureates and half to the rest of the Core Team.

Interested in doing a PhD with me in epidemiology on causal inference and triangulation? In beautiful Rotterdam no less. www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1... Pro tip: if you get to the interview stage, there WILL be a question about ice hockey

Vacature: PhD student in epidemiology to develop and apply causal triangulation

Many key questions in epidemiology are fundamentally causal. Yet, we often have to rely on assumptions that cannot be directly verified to judge whether an observed association truly reflects causalit...

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This looks like a great package 👇

Lorenzo Fabbri@epilorenzo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I've been building the etverse: R packages for causal inference in epi. The idea is triangulation: come at the same question from angles that fail for unrelated reasons (different methods, designs, assumptions) and trust it more when they agree. etverse.github.io #episky #causalsky #RStats

"a ‚significant' p-value between 0.01 and 0.05 should be interpreted with the expectation that the effect is exaggerated by more than 50% (median 1.56) and that an exact replication has about a one-in-three chance of also being significant." evidenceinthewild.com/p-value-look...

The P-Value Got a Lecture. It Needed a Lookup Table.

Ten years after the ASA told us to stop misusing p-values, we're still arguing about thresholds. Erik van Zwet and colleagues did something different: they asked 23,000 clinical trials what a p-value ...

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We just published a blog post on AI-generated papers in the Position Paper Track. The core issue is not whether AI can be useful, but who bears the cost of verifying AI-generated text in peer review. We have desk-rejected around 30% of submissions, with roughly 60% of these w/o an appeal option.

NeurIPS Conference@neuripsconf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This year, the NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper Track made the decision to require that all papers be substantially human-written, with AI used for only copy-editing or similar peripheral changes to the main text! For more details, please check our blogpost: blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/a...

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/

This is a great article which helped me a lot in preparing teaching materials for case control studies 👇

Jeremy Labrecque@jeremylabrecque.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It puzzled me for a long time that people acted like estimates from cc studies can simultaneously have two interpretations, eg an RR and a cc OR. So I wrote this: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32889542/

It puzzled me for a long time that people acted like estimates from cc studies can simultaneously have two interpretations, eg an RR and a cc OR. So I wrote this: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32889542/

Do Case-Control Studies Always Estimate Odds Ratios? - PubMed

Case-control studies are an important part of the epidemiologic literature, yet confusion remains about how to interpret estimates from different case-control study designs. We demonstrate that not al...

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1/ I have never really advertised our little Github-R-package "SLbooster": Additional and Modified Learning and Screening functions for Super Learning: github.com/MichaelSchom... What does it do? 👇

GitHub - MichaelSchomaker/SLbooster

Contribute to MichaelSchomaker/SLbooster development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ich suche eine neue KollegIn als Co-RedaktorIn der Fachzeitschrift "Ornithologischer Beobachter". Es handelt sich um eine unbefristete 40%-Stelle an der Schweizerischen Vogelwarte Sempach. Bitte bewerben oder weiterleiten! www.ala-schweiz.ch

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Ala Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Vogelkunde und Vogelschutz, Ornithologischer Beobachter

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New post: Covariate adjustment and prediction-unbiasedness. Where I embarrass myself by asking smart people a dumb question (so you don’t have to) and get a useful answer. open.substack.com/pub/tpmorris...

Covariate adjustment and prediction-unbiasedness

This is about covariate adjustment in RCTs (for a marginal estimand).

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I would love to see more applied researchers attending and presenting at ACIC. So many interesting problems at the applied-theoretical interface. If you are an applied researcher with interests in causal inference, consider submitting a symposium proposal for the Pittsburgh conference!

JOB OFFER!! 🎉 🎉 I am looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join my team in the FIS3 KINMATTER Project on kin relationships 💑 👩‍👩‍👦 , health outcomes 🚑 , and inequalities. PhD required or close to completion in quantitative social sciences or (social)statistics. www.stat.unipd.it/procedura-se...

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If you weren't able to make my presentation on solutions for non-positivity (non-overlap) at #ACIC I have the slides available online here raw.githubusercontent.com/pzivich/Pres...

New collider bias example just dropped

A few places left on our online 3 day course on multiple imputation for missing data...

Jonathan Bartlett@jonathan-bartlett.bsky.social · 7mo ago

@lshtm.bsky.social will be running a 3-day online short course on using multiple imputation to handle missing data on 23-25th June 2026. Teaching staff include James Carpenter, Ruth Keogh, Clémence Leyrat, and myself. Further details about the course at www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...