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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Aug 30

ISCB 2026 is in Freiburg Germany. The JSM is in Boston :)

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Aug 30

Not at a biostats conference! Come join us haha.

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Apr 19

Hello #statsky folks I had a baby but I'm back.

What did I miss? 😅

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Adrian Barnett @aidybarnett.bsky.social · Jan 31

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)
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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Dec 12

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)

a man in a suit is holding a jacket and a cigarette .

ALT: a man in a suit is holding a jacket and a cigarette .

media.tenor.com

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Dec 12

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? 😜

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Dec 9

Me trying to get it all done before maternity leave:

#statsky #episky

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Dec 1

Ok this one is a lot 👀

#statsky #biostats

statanon.bsky.social @statanon.bsky.social · Dec 1

Was asked to give stats advice on an RCT of stem cells from placental tissue.

I sat in the meeting, 30 weeks pregnant, while (male) PIs discussed logistics of getting my donated placenta across state lines so it could be included.

No one asked my thoughts. I have never felt so invisible.

#episky

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 25

A tough round with just 1/10 funded. Hoping you got some good news! 🌻

Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 24

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!

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 24

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...)

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 24

Working on a tiny human being! (Until February) 🍼

Otherwise just working my magic with large hospital datasets and doing some cool dementia population epi 😊

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 24

Welcome aboard, sir!

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 22

Mate I think at this point you just need to come out as a Sociologist of Scientific Knowledge. Come and join the SSK club!!

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · Nov 12

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-...

Reference Collection to push back against "Common Statistical Myths"

Note: This topic is a wiki, meaning that this main body of the topic can be edited by others. Use the Reply button only to post questions or comments about material contained in the body, or to sugge...

discourse.datamethods.org

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 6

Man I've got to upgrade my stata 😅

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 6

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.

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 6

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...

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 5

Slurpy Pikachu backrub for you ✨

a yellow pikachu is holding a green caterpillar with a pink tongue

ALT: a yellow pikachu is holding a green caterpillar with a pink tongue

media.tenor.com

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 5

Soooo it's a targeted bribe then??

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 5

I am a data lady! 👋

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statanon.bsky.social @statanon.bsky.social · Nov 4

Clinician on Friday: I have 20 patients, 5 have a condition and 15 do not. How do I get a p-value showing that my data is significant?

Me: What is your hypothesis?

Clinician: I don't have one. How do I get a p-value?

#statsky #biostats #episky

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 1

This.... Is art.

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Nov 1

Ok I don't know what is happening but I'm grateful for all the new followers!

Get ready for some cheerful biostats snark in your feed! 🏆

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Taya Collyer @tayacollyer.bsky.social · Oct 3

This is so important. Routine, unthinking adjustment for race is a really bad habit.

In peer review I have started asking authors to outline the explicit hypothesis about race, or remove race from multivariable analyses.

(So far everyone has responded by removing race)

#episky #statsky

Luisa N. Borrell @lborrell.bsky.social · Sep 27

Race and lung function equation: The use of the race-neutral equation could increase annual disability payments by 17%, or $1.1 billion, for Black veterans and drop by about 1%, or > $500 million, for White veterans. #Racism

undark.org/2024/09/24/t...
www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Implications of Race Adjustment in Lung-Function Equations | NEJM

Adjustment for race is discouraged in lung-function testing, but the implications of adopting race-neutral equations have not been comprehensively quantified. We obtained longitudinal data from 369...

www.nejm.org

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