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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1h

great story, this chart RULES

Charts showing average battery pack cost in 2024 $/kWh and battery storage capacity additions globally in GW

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Jeremy Labrecque 🇨🇦 @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social · Jul 29

Should statistical software that estimates causal effects also tell you the causal assumptions under which that estimate can be interpreted as causal?

I don't know but my PhD student Maurice Korf has some thoughts (and software) to get the conversation going:

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Causal clarity in statistical software

Imagine running a simple regression in any statistical software of choice—but this time, you only get a point estimate of the regression coefficient. There

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 58m

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 51m

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · Jun 3

In the toilet doing the sudoku and the person in the stall next to me is flipping through youtube shorts at full volume, no headphones, and now I'm sure are are cooked as a society.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 1h

Sir, this is still a Lidl parking lot. Temper expectations accordingly.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 1h

Free t-tests until 17:15 in the parking lot of this Lidl, if anyone is interested.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 4h

There are no "market forces" when a few people have all the money and don't care how much of it they waste.

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 5h

Bloomberg analysis reveals that electricity in areas near data centers has risen, a lot: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Energy is up to 267% costlier in areas w/ a data center nearby:

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 6h

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 6h

But fair points regardless! 😀

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 6h

I'm not saying never use LLMs. I'm saying lets not lose sight of the value of sometimes not using LLMs. Some people clearly are in danger of the latter imo.

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 1d

I read and write, I explore and I question, I design and script and analyse, I interpret and communicate. I do this to train my mind in the hopes of one day generating new knowledge. New knowledge that might even be useful, and that no algorithm can yet be trained on.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 4d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

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Philip Boucher-Hayes @philipb-h.bsky.social · 2d

Q: Why was the person responsible for the Blackwater fish kill never found?

A: it wasn’t anybody’s job.

I talked to the heads of all the agencies involved in the investigation, about why the biggest pollution event in Irish history fell between the cracks.

Listen: 👉 www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

CountryWide - RTÉ Radio 1

The CountryWide team feature the events, people and happenings that bring colour and life to communities, towns and villages across the country.

www.rte.ie

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MESA - the malaria knowledge hub @mesamalaria.org · 3d

📊 Join this UCL @mrcctu.bsky.social Capacity Strengthening Hub webinar!

In collaboration with @lshtm.bsky.social 's ISEP team

🗓️ 13 Oct 2025 | ⏰ 10:00–11:30 UTC+1 | 💻 Online

🎙️ Speakers: Michelle Clements, Andrew Abaasa, Philip Ayieko, Vicky Simms

🔗 Register here: shorturl.at/hGtLq

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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 17d

Science can be such a headache sometimes.

This study has hit the headlines because the authors claim that it shows that soft drinks cause people to be depressed by negatively impacting their gut microbiome.

Several BIG issues with this 1/n

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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 3d

Vinay Prasad has a new deputy from Arnold Ventures world and George Tidmarsh is comparing FDA reform to Dresden...

What could it mean...

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FDA Leadership Philosophies: CBER Promotions Spark Concerns; Tidmarsh Says He’s Not A Destroyer

New promotions and social media posts may offer some hints as to the philosophies guiding agency leaders. One CBER appointee stands out for her connections to Arnold Ventures.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 2d

There must be some mistake, I read 50 Atlantic articles about how RFK Jr just wants to help Americans eat more vegetables

Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 2d

They continue to eviscerate the public health machinery that has quietly kept Americans, and others around the world, safe and healthy for decades.

The staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the journal that reports on health trends and emerging infectious threats, was also laid off. The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.

Roughly 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — the so-called “disease detectives” who respond to outbreaks around the globe — received layoff notices, according to a person familiar with them. The service was spared during an earlier round of layoffs in February.

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 1d

“Your job is not to turn in completed assignments; it's to learn how to think.”

Ted Chiang‘s succinct summary of the issue with using AI in education.

I’m not a sports guy but the athlete metaphor he uses in this interview is pretty spot on.

The Incompatibilities Between Generative AI and Art: Q&A with Ted Chiang

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · Sep 12

"Triangulation: moving from correlations to causation", Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Distinguished Lecture 2025, Thursday, October 16th, 5pm, in person or online
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/school-of-...

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 1d

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 1d

What is lost if we stopped adding to the "training data" a thousand years ago, or a hundred, or ten, or even just last year? What new thing is missed in our urge to more efficiently produce endless old things?

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 1d

I read and write, I explore and I question, I design and script and analyse, I interpret and communicate. I do this to train my mind in the hopes of one day generating new knowledge. New knowledge that might even be useful, and that no algorithm can yet be trained on.

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 4d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...

Statistics in the era of AI

How do we mentor, teach, and do stats when AI can do so much of the work?

scienceforeveryone.science

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Ben Harrap @bharrap.bsky.social · 3d

I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own

It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries

benharrap.com/post/2025-10...

#statssky #episky #academicsky

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Dr David Robert Grimes @drg.bsky.social · 7d

Asked lots about this piece on Chronic Lyme disease, and disappointed in the @guardian (a publication I both subscribe and contribute to) for running it. Short thread explaining the multitude of problems with it, and why I consider it irresponsible to run as is..🧵

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 1d

Makary is now saying that Lyme came from a lab too.

youtu.be/bQovoQaaE4w?...

Silly Makary says COVID and Lyme came from labs.

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

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