Christoph
@christph.bsky.social
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Nicola Rennie
@nrennie.bsky.social
· Aug 18
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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Christoph
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· Jul 4
Christoph
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· Jun 21
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· Apr 28
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Christoph
@christph.bsky.social
· Feb 5
Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology
The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...
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Christoph
@christph.bsky.social
· Jan 7
Burdens of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages in 184 countries - Nature Medicine
Estimates from the Global Dietary Database indicated that 2.2 million new type 2 diabetes and 1.2 million new cardiovascular disease cases were attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages worldwide in 2...
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Christoph
@christph.bsky.social
· Dec 27
Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia
This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings
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Anna Abalkina
@abalkina.bsky.social
· Dec 21
Over 100 German Universities Partner with #MDPI in New National Agreement
Over 100 German Universities Partner with MDPI in New National Agreement
More than 100 German universities and research institutions have entered into a national agreement with MDPI. The publication agreement negotiated...
buff.ly
Christoph
@christph.bsky.social
· Dec 20
Christoph
@christph.bsky.social
· Dec 15
Should You Ditch Spark for DuckDb or Polars?
There’s been a lot of excitement lately about single-machine compute engines like DuckDB and Polars. With the recent release of pure Python Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric, the excitement about these li...
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Christoph
@christph.bsky.social
· Dec 11
Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor in 2024
Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor in 2024
Living with overweight or obesity has overtaken tobacco smoking as the leading risk factor contributing t...
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Christoph
@christph.bsky.social
· Dec 7
Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia
This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings
english.elpais.com
Christoph
@christph.bsky.social
· Dec 5
Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies
Objective To prospectively investigate the associations between dark, milk, and total chocolate consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in three US cohorts.
Design Prospective cohort studies.
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