Together with Penelope Yong, I ported some of Michael‘s nested quantile visualization tools to FlexiChains.jl. These are super useful for model critique — a key part of Bayesian workflow! Make sure to check out Michael‘s repo if you’re using R or Python.

Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt@betanalpha.bsky.social · 4w ago

Today I learned that some of my nested quantile visualizations implemented for R and Python in github.com/betanalpha/m... have been implemented for Julia in the FlexiChains library, pysm.dev/FlexiChains..... Neat!

While #EULAR2026 is slowly coming to an end, there's still more interesting contributions happening today. Join @simonsteiger.bsky.social and @nilssteinz.bsky.social at the poster view session starting at 10:15 am BST. 👇👇👇

🧳 It's #EULAR2026 week! Over the coming days, our team will share insights from SQUEEZE contributions, posters, workshops, and discussions in London - from patient involvement & implementation science to precision medicine & treatment optimisation in #RheumatoidArthritis. Join us for the ride! 👇

New LearnBayes Pluto notebook about the math behind GPs! This is a by-product of a homework assignments for @matvil.bsky.social excellent Advanced Bayesian Learning course at SU. Take it if you have the opportunity! learnbayes.se/julia/gps

High disease activity is high disease activity is high disease activity? - Nope! Not all patients with rheumatoid arthritis are the same – even when they have exactly the same disease activity score! Full article: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41839530/ Part of #SPIDERR and @squeezeproject.bsky.social

Can alternative means of phenotyping rheumatoid arthritis reduce its apparent heterogeneity? A comparison of three disease activity classifications with DAS28 - PubMed

Separating subjective and objective dimensions reveals different RA patient profiles that are grouped together by DAS28, demonstrating the extent to which DAS28 is confounded by factors beyond RA disease activity. Disentangling and treating heterogeneous RA patient profiles may therefore require mor …

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I'm certainly a #julialang evangalist, but I've toned it down a bit - a lot of scientists don't have the time or inclination to go against the grain. Then again, when someone makes it this easy... #tidytuesday #rstats nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

Introduction to Julia for R users – Nicola Rennie

This blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ...

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“But even if you do not “produce” something, eg as a birder who just likes to watch birds, it is still something people value in you. That is because Spinozist full expression of yourself is virtuous.”

Helen De Cruz@helendecruz.net · last yr.

Latest post. Don’t know how many I have still in me helendecruz.substack.com/p/cant-take-...

Earlier this month I gave a workshop on Bayesian methods in epidemiology. With my hosts I developed a pretty elaborate, demonstrative analysis for the workshop which I am happy to share publicly here. HTML: betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapt... PDF: betanalpha.github.io/assets/chapt...

Check this out: an accessible math font which actually looks nice! www.luciole-vision.com/en/math.html

Luciole

Luciole is a new typeface developed explicitly for visually impaired people.

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Back home, back to the promotion grind. This August and September! Four brand new remote courses, each covering a powerful Bayesian modeling technique with comprehensive Stan exercises! Enthusiastic punctuation! www.eventzilla.net/e/advanced-b...

My new favourite pastime: - find a bird (of course) on Wikipedia - switch language to Suomi 🇫🇮 - translate the page using some plugin - benefit I present to you, the Hippie Ovenbird (also known by it's lesser known, and far more boring name "Pallas's Leaf-warbler")

Join us for the Learn Bayes Methods Week at Karolinska Institutet from 12-15 May! Monday through Thursday will be packed with fantastic seminars and workshops in this all-you-can-eat Bayesian buffet (or smörgåsbord).

Want to participate in #TidyTuesday but #julialang is more your speed? Check out #TidierTuesday! github.com/TidierOrg/Ti... Big shout out to @jonthegeek.com , @frankiethull.bsky.social , and the folks behind @tidierjl.bsky.social for their work making this happen.

I'll talk about Bayesian workflow Thu 24th April 11-12 CEST in Learn Bayes seminar by Karolinska Institutet @ki.se learnbayes.se/events/bayes... (zoom available) The focus will be different to my previous workflow talks (see users.aalto.fi/~ave/videos....). This time more flowcharts and shortcuts

Friendly reminder for those in the greater Sweden area that I'll be hosting a free, day long workshop on Bayesian inference and modeling with interactive epidemiology exercises on Wednesday May 14, learnbayes.se/events/gener.... Additional info at learnbayes.se/information/....

TidierCourse is a free, work-in-progress set of materials for learning Julia and Tidier.jl. tidierorg.github.io/TidierCourse...

o1 musing to itself in German: "Sister, I am working on considering all possibilities."

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IJIMAI leads the way for journal submissions with Typst – Typst Blog

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Breaking news: In May I'll be hosting a one-day, interactive workshop on Bayesian modeling with an emphasis on epidemiology for the Learn Bayes Methods Week at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, learnbayes.se/events/gener.... Free to attend but on-site only, learnbayes.se/information/....

There is a great initiative by researchers at KI to teach and learn more about Bayesian methods. This is open to all, inside and outside KI - check it out! Join the email list so you can get the zoom links for seminars by really excellent speakers learnbayes.se #epidemiology #biostatistics