damiano cerasuolo
@damiacer.bsky.social
medicinæ doctor in public health/biostatistics. statistics, #rstats, #clinicalresearch, photography and random stuff.
caen, paris and rome
mastodon: https://scholar.social/@damiacer
github/io: damiacer.github.io
caen, paris and rome
mastodon: https://scholar.social/@damiacer
github/io: damiacer.github.io
(in the US. Where else?)
Between 2017 and 2024, the percentage of newborns not receiving intramuscular vitamin K for prophylaxis nearly doubled, with refusal rates highest outside hospital births and among certain racial and ethnic groups.
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January 25, 2026 at 12:29 PM
(in the US. Where else?)
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I finally understood B-splines by working through the Cox-deBoor algorithm step-by-step, discovering they’re just weighted combo of basis functions that make non-linear regression linear. What surprised me is going through Bayesian statistics helped me understand the engine behind the model! #rstats
Understanding Basis Spline (B-spline) By Working Through Cox-deBoor Algorithm | Everyday Is A School Day
I finally understood B-splines by working through the Cox-deBoor algorithm step-by-step, discovering they're just weighted combinations of basis functions that make non-linear regression linear. What ...
www.kenkoonwong.com
June 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
I finally understood B-splines by working through the Cox-deBoor algorithm step-by-step, discovering they’re just weighted combo of basis functions that make non-linear regression linear. What surprised me is going through Bayesian statistics helped me understand the engine behind the model! #rstats
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On the plus side, LLMs also reduce barriers for non-native speakers, facilitate the discovery of prior literature, and remove traditional signals of scientific quality such as language complexity. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
December 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
On the plus side, LLMs also reduce barriers for non-native speakers, facilitate the discovery of prior literature, and remove traditional signals of scientific quality such as language complexity. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Hélas, I can relate. I’ve never thought that my accent is “charmant”.
New paper alert!
"Public Speakers With Nonnative Accents Garner Less Engagement" -- now out in Psych Science!
This is my first graduate student's first first-author paper (and it was her first-year project).
Short THREAD on the results:
"Public Speakers With Nonnative Accents Garner Less Engagement" -- now out in Psych Science!
This is my first graduate student's first first-author paper (and it was her first-year project).
Short THREAD on the results:
December 4, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Hélas, I can relate. I’ve never thought that my accent is “charmant”.
A periodic reminder in #statistics:
How post-hoc power calculation is like a shit sandwich | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
November 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM
A periodic reminder in #statistics:
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📘 An interesting initial book release by David Rossell on variable and model selection:
👉 davidrusi.github.io/modelSelecti...
it provides accessible material for students learning the fundamentals of high-dimensional model selection, and it documents the R package modelSelection (formerly mombf).
👉 davidrusi.github.io/modelSelecti...
it provides accessible material for students learning the fundamentals of high-dimensional model selection, and it documents the R package modelSelection (formerly mombf).
High-dimensional model choice. A hands-on take
High-dimensional model selection with the modelSelection R package
davidrusi.github.io
October 23, 2025 at 7:59 AM
📘 An interesting initial book release by David Rossell on variable and model selection:
👉 davidrusi.github.io/modelSelecti...
it provides accessible material for students learning the fundamentals of high-dimensional model selection, and it documents the R package modelSelection (formerly mombf).
👉 davidrusi.github.io/modelSelecti...
it provides accessible material for students learning the fundamentals of high-dimensional model selection, and it documents the R package modelSelection (formerly mombf).
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Fred Ramsdell, who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine yesterday for work on immunology, hasn't been informed of his win as he's "off the grid" hiking, and can't be contacted.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Fred Ramsdell, who received the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine yesterday for work on immunology, hasn't been informed of his win as he's "off the grid" hiking, and can't be contacted.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Data visualisation using R, for researchers who don’t use R by Emily Nordmann, Phil McAleer, Wilhelmiina Toivo, Helena Paterson and Lisa DeBruine
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/data%20visualization.html#data-visualisation-using-r-for-researchers-who-dont-use-r
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/data%20visualization.html#data-visualisation-using-r-for-researchers-who-dont-use-r
October 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Data visualisation using R, for researchers who don’t use R by Emily Nordmann, Phil McAleer, Wilhelmiina Toivo, Helena Paterson and Lisa DeBruine
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/data%20visualization.html#data-visualisation-using-r-for-researchers-who-dont-use-r
#RStats
https://bigbookofr.com/chapters/data%20visualization.html#data-visualisation-using-r-for-researchers-who-dont-use-r
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Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!>
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
October 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!>
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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🚀 Curious about Positron, Posit’s new open-source IDE?
This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC)
#RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies
Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT
www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...
This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC)
#RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies
Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT
www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...
Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction, Thu, Oct 9, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Curious about Positron, the new open-source data science IDE from Posit? This session will walk RStudio users through the basics of Positron, highlight familiar features, a
www.meetup.com
September 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🚀 Curious about Positron, Posit’s new open-source IDE?
This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC)
#RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies
Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT
www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...
This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC)
#RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies
Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT
www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...
Europe thinks that free and private communication is not a fundamental right.
Danish Minister of Justice and chief architect of the current Chat Control proposal, Peter Hummelgaard:
"We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services."
Share your thoughts fightchatcontrol.eu, or [email protected]
"We must break with the totally erroneous perception that it is everyone's civil liberty to communicate on encrypted messaging services."
Share your thoughts fightchatcontrol.eu, or [email protected]
September 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Europe thinks that free and private communication is not a fundamental right.
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Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED.
Despite expressing concerns about breaking end-to-end encryption, Germany refrained from taking a definitive stance on the Chat Control proposal during the September 12th LEWP meeting. A willingness to negotiate and compromise remains.
Despite expressing concerns about breaking end-to-end encryption, Germany refrained from taking a definitive stance on the Chat Control proposal during the September 12th LEWP meeting. A willingness to negotiate and compromise remains.
September 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED.
Despite expressing concerns about breaking end-to-end encryption, Germany refrained from taking a definitive stance on the Chat Control proposal during the September 12th LEWP meeting. A willingness to negotiate and compromise remains.
Despite expressing concerns about breaking end-to-end encryption, Germany refrained from taking a definitive stance on the Chat Control proposal during the September 12th LEWP meeting. A willingness to negotiate and compromise remains.
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DifferentialEquations.jl is many things, and lots of people only use a small portion of it. Check out the JuliaCon 2025 workshop: introduces many aspects of the packages that the developers feel are underutilized and under-understood!
#julialang #sciml
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSGF...
#julialang #sciml
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSGF...
A Deep Dive Into DifferentialEquations.jl | JuliaCon Global 2025 | Rackauckas, Smith
YouTube video by The Julia Programming Language
www.youtube.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:06 AM
DifferentialEquations.jl is many things, and lots of people only use a small portion of it. Check out the JuliaCon 2025 workshop: introduces many aspects of the packages that the developers feel are underutilized and under-understood!
#julialang #sciml
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSGF...
#julialang #sciml
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSGF...
catholic church: always on the right side of the history 🙄
[pope leo XIV says that the holy see doesn’t pronounce the word g3nocid3]
[pope leo XIV says that the holy see doesn’t pronounce the word g3nocid3]
Per la verità non l’aveva pronunciata neppure tra il 1942 e il 1945 quindi non è molto affidabile
September 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
catholic church: always on the right side of the history 🙄
[pope leo XIV says that the holy see doesn’t pronounce the word g3nocid3]
[pope leo XIV says that the holy see doesn’t pronounce the word g3nocid3]
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The anti-autocracy handbook: how scientists can cope with democratic backsliding. This guide is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of #democracy and #academicfreedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism zenodo.org/records/1569... @EU_Commission
August 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The anti-autocracy handbook: how scientists can cope with democratic backsliding. This guide is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of #democracy and #academicfreedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism zenodo.org/records/1569... @EU_Commission
Bayesian Hierarchical Mixture Cure Modelling Framework to Utilize Multiple Survival Datasets for Long-Term Survivorship Estimates #stats
A Bayesian Hierarchical Mixture Cure Modelling Framework to Utilize Multiple Survival Datasets for Long‐Term Survivorship Estimates: A Case Study From Previously Untreated Metastatic Melanoma
Time to an event of interest over a lifetime is a central measure of the clinical benefit of an intervention used in a health technology assessment (HTA). Within the same trial, multiple end-points m...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
June 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Bayesian Hierarchical Mixture Cure Modelling Framework to Utilize Multiple Survival Datasets for Long-Term Survivorship Estimates #stats
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Any potential gain from a switch to renewables and tech-heavy futures is inevitably undone if the underlying system of extractivist colonial enterprises and growth at all costs remains unchanged. The suffering just gets shifted to new places.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Any potential gain from a switch to renewables and tech-heavy futures is inevitably undone if the underlying system of extractivist colonial enterprises and growth at all costs remains unchanged. The suffering just gets shifted to new places.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
AI’s anwers are still so biases and prompt-dependent, I don’t see how it could replace humans. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/b...
Bill Gates: Within 10 years, AI will replace many doctors and teachers—humans won't be needed 'for most things'
A new era of "free intelligence" powered by AI will change the way humans work, says billionaire Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
www.cnbc.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:59 AM
AI’s anwers are still so biases and prompt-dependent, I don’t see how it could replace humans. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/b...
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📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W11 | Palm Trees
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#rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
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#rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
March 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W11 | Palm Trees
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🔗: stevenponce.netlify.app/data_visuali...
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#rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
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#rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
bioRxiv and medRxiv will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Preprint sites bioRxiv and medRxiv launch new era of independence
The popular repositories, where life scientists post research before peer review, will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv.
www.nature.com
March 11, 2025 at 9:26 PM
bioRxiv and medRxiv will be managed by a new organization called openRxiv. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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The Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference (ESMARConf) is back! It will be held June 11th to the 13th, 2025: esmarconf.org/2025/
Recordings of the talks and workshops from previous years can be found here: esmarconf.org/recordings/
#ESMARConf #MetaAnalysis #EvidenceSynthesis #RStats
Recordings of the talks and workshops from previous years can be found here: esmarconf.org/recordings/
#ESMARConf #MetaAnalysis #EvidenceSynthesis #RStats
2025 - ESMARConf
esmarconf.org
March 6, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The Evidence Synthesis and Meta-Analysis in R Conference (ESMARConf) is back! It will be held June 11th to the 13th, 2025: esmarconf.org/2025/
Recordings of the talks and workshops from previous years can be found here: esmarconf.org/recordings/
#ESMARConf #MetaAnalysis #EvidenceSynthesis #RStats
Recordings of the talks and workshops from previous years can be found here: esmarconf.org/recordings/
#ESMARConf #MetaAnalysis #EvidenceSynthesis #RStats
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Just a reminder for anyone who receives SPSS, Stata, or SAS files but does not have licenses for these programs (🙋), you can import any of these files into #rstats and work them! My favorite package for working with these files is {haven}.
haven.tidyverse.org
haven.tidyverse.org
March 4, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Just a reminder for anyone who receives SPSS, Stata, or SAS files but does not have licenses for these programs (🙋), you can import any of these files into #rstats and work them! My favorite package for working with these files is {haven}.
haven.tidyverse.org
haven.tidyverse.org
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Now that we've cut all US foreign aid, we can at least spend that money on helping people in need here at home, for example by gambling on crypto to support our Great Patriot Bag Holders
A prediction: this is gonna be in contention with absorbing Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal as Trump’s worst polling policy.
March 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Now that we've cut all US foreign aid, we can at least spend that money on helping people in need here at home, for example by gambling on crypto to support our Great Patriot Bag Holders
study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that environmental factors (i.e. smoking and physical activity) and living conditions have a greater impact on health and premature death than our genes. #health #medicine www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality - Nature Medicine
Based on a systematic analysis of environmental exposures associated with aging and mortality in the UK Biobank, the relative contributions of such exposures and genetic risk for mortality and a range...
www.nature.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:46 PM
study led by researchers from Oxford Population Health has shown that environmental factors (i.e. smoking and physical activity) and living conditions have a greater impact on health and premature death than our genes. #health #medicine www.nature.com/articles/s41...