I've got the bonus of being on a 12 month contract, so the PhD students I am enthusiastically recruiting might outlast me at the university💣
10.03.2026 01:50
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I've got the bonus of being on a 12 month contract, so the PhD students I am enthusiastically recruiting might outlast me at the university💣
Yes of course 😊
Ok, it's primary care data? Is it a national or regional population? I only analyse routinely collected health data and there quite a lot of potential complexities... I'd be happy to chat next week if you like? I think 9am Cardiff is 8pm in Melbourne which generally works pretty well.
How is diagnosis operationalized in this routinely collected dataset? Are you relying on clinical codes (eg ICD) at the episode level?
@aidybarnett.bsky.social has already made a lot of progress with this! See:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32025338/
cc @bharrap.bsky.social
Read this for the thread below on why it's misleading and the Lancet should feel bad
And babies.
"Participants with an ED discharge outcome of death were excluded from the final analysis as this impacted on their re-presentation rate."
Hmmmmmmm.....
#statsky #biostats
Wow. Has this been trained on actual assessor feedback? I have a full application draft so don't need assistance with any statements.
... Thank you. I removed a code after considering this analysis.
Just a normal week eh
#academia #momademia
ISCB 2026 is in Freiburg Germany. The JSM is in Boston :)
Not at a biostats conference! Come join us haha.
Hello #statsky folks I had a baby but I'm back.
What did I miss? 😅
New #preprint with @nicolewhite.bsky.social and @tayacollyer.bsky.social. We examined if Australian ethics committees use qualified statistical expertise. Our results revealed a large variation in practice, with some committees using qualified statisticians […] (1 of 4)
osf.io/preprints/os...
At the stage of data analysis where I don't even know how many people are in the cohort, nothing is consistent and nothing adds up 👍
(Been around long enough to know this happens on every single project with big, messy, administrative data)
There's a slim possibility I can make it to Switzerland from Australia for this ISCB. I am hoping/planning to visit @laurewynants.bsky.social and could visit Utrecht if there was time...
I will have a 6 month old baby with me, but how hard can it be? 😜
Me trying to get it all done before maternity leave:
#statsky #episky
Ok this one is a lot 👀
#statsky #biostats
A tough round with just 1/10 funded. Hoping you got some good news! 🌻
Yeah ok. The keyword Dementia will get you a long way there but I'll have a think.
If you include midlife in life course then yes we do a lot of stuff looking at midlife exposures and cognition in later life. And we have one 30y study of diabetics underway. Those datasets are pretty rare!
Everyone seems to have a different definition of what counts as life course! Maybe?
(Also... I am really interested in looking at Disruptive papers in the dementia literature...)
Working on a tiny human being! (Until February) 🍼
Otherwise just working my magic with large hospital datasets and doing some cool dementia population epi 😊
Welcome aboard, sir!
Mate I think at this point you just need to come out as a Sociologist of Scientific Knowledge. Come and join the SSK club!!
In clinical research, you will often receive feedback on study design, stats, and/or data analysis from an editor or reviewer that is simply wrong. Here is a list of common "statistical myths" and references you can use to push back.
discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...
Man I've got to upgrade my stata 😅
Ah I see. Well, being a time-poor academic I would need to want that for myself more than I want to push out the next paper... That has always been the crux of the challenge for me.
I am a stata holdout.
Only one dataset in memory is v lame. But I like the way regressions are reported, margins is a showstopping command, and the syntax is so much more efficient.
I use R for weird things which are too hard in stata. But for my white-bread biostats stuff, I'm hooked...
