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Uffe Heide-Jørgensen

@uffeheide.bsky.social

mathematician posing as a statistician - I also like board games

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Carlos Scheidegger@cscheid.net · last yr.

Putting myself out there a bit. Honest request from an open-source developer: Can I please ask you to encourage people you know to stop with the "any updates on this?" discussion post? Every post like that genuinely makes me die inside a little bit. I'll try to explain in this thread. 1/

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · last yr.

I’ve seen situations in which people try to correct the scientific record and then critics act like that was superfluous or just not the right way to use one’s energy because “science is self-correcting.” This just came to my mind

Dog only throw no take frisbee meme First panel: self-correction please Second panel: no correction Third panel: only self-collection
Adriana Guatame-García@guatamite.bsky.social · last yr.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
Uffe Heide-Jørgensen@uffeheide.bsky.social · 2y ago

To be honest I think the control group is so poorly defined here that I put next to no value into the results. Then again I am biased against Nature as a journal going more for wow than quality. No serious journal puts the methods section at the end of a manuscript

F. Perry Wilson, MD@fperrywilson.bsky.social · 2y ago

Every week, I see a new study talking about this or that effect of GLP-1 receptor agonists like #ozempic. FINALLY, we have a study evaluating all the outcomes (good and bad) in one dataset. There are some... surprises. 🧵

Uffe Heide-Jørgensen@uffeheide.bsky.social · 2y ago

If only more researchers realized that sometimes the right thing to do is to abandon an infeasible study, we could do things that are feasible, instead of wasting our (and reviewers'/readers') time trying to make sense of the senseless

Maarten van Smeden@maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · 2y ago

Finally, another real advantage of causal inference is that you will better recognise situations where you cannot actually estimate the causal effect you are interested in, in any reliable way. So it is a good way to avoid doing things that are hopeless

Uffe Heide-Jørgensen@uffeheide.bsky.social · 2y ago

have not had time to appreciate this in detail, but I love the colour scheme

Vincent Arel-Bundock@vincentab.bsky.social · 2y ago

𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out! It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG. And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

Adam Kucharski@adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 2y ago

While we’re all putting #rstats opinions out there: base plot is better than ggplot because it’s default is so rubbish it forces people to think about design, whereas ggplot default is just about OK enough (but still far from good) to make people not bother.

Stefan Hansen@stefanforfan.bsky.social · 2y ago

To new users and followers: Here's a Shiny app showing the differences between three ways of including a continuous covariate in linear regression models. Feel free to use it in your teaching or elsewhere! #rstats #datascience #statssky #stats #epi #episky

Stefan Hansen@stefanforfan.bsky.social · 3y ago

I made a Shiny app to showcase the differences between using a linear fit, a categorical fit and a (restricted cubic) spline fit under various data generating mechanisms. The app is available at: apps.biostat.au.dk/stefan/splin... Feel free to use it in your teaching #rstats #datascience #statssky