The first ever tweet is surely the hardest to write. ISCB ASC 2018 and @tmorris_mrc provided the motivation. #ISCBASC

Sander Greenland has started a new topic with some great thinking: personal principles and guidelines for statistical practice - a topic to which we hope many statisticians+epidemiologists will contribute: datamethods.org/t/principles-a…

Great Sandro Galea talk "The limits of risk factors revisited: is it time for a causal architecture approach" UNSW Medicine & Health, though Q&A moderator didn't approve my question 'How do we get around the fact that risk factor research is easier and produces more publications faster?'

What does it take to grow critically needed capacity in biostatistics?

#DyeingToChange @3DN_UNSW and advocates with #intellectualdisability dyeing mo's blue in a great #Movember2019; Help us stop preventable deaths in ppl with #intellectualdisability Movember Australia CancerCouncilOz

Current view in Sydney. A bit limited by rain. Need to make a note in my photos that this is not smoke.

Recommended: Tom Chivers’ review of ‘Radical Uncertainty’ by Mervyn King and John Kay unherd.com/2020/02/the-ma…

Those who value new ideas in science and love its history may well have had this story come to mind recently. Glad others also find it inspiring.

Editorial - I am not biased. It is everyone else’s problem. You can read the full editorial on the #SpinalCord website ➡️ nature.com/articles/s4139…

Beyond fighting the semantic abuse and inferential confusion caused by "statistical significance" and "confidence": As Judea has argued for decades, integration of causality into teaching and interpretation of probability and statistics is long overdue - arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pape…

I wonder if coffee causes (some) researchers to rush doing their research plan/analysis/writing tasks instead of thinking more before they do them?? Need another publication, need to meet that deadline, need to get more grant funding so I have an income ...

30 pharmacoepidemiology must-reads ! 💪💊 The list has been compiled following massive input from #epitwitter (see link below!). Here, we present the full list, all nicely wrapped up into one methods package for all your pharmacoepi methods needs! linkedin.com/pulse/30-pharm…

Diversity is smarter than homogeneity. New data on 6.6 million science papers in all 45 subfields of medicine: mixed-gender teams generate more novel and influential work than same-gender teams. Similarity breeds groupthink. Variety fuels deeper reflection and broader learning.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Richard McElreath 🦔 When asked what they thought of the Royal Statistical Society naming its magazine "Significance", someone said it's like naming a chemistry magazine "Phlogiston", an astronomy magazine "Astrology", or a psychiatry magazine "Lobotomy", with the latter capturing statistics best.

Final print version of my rejoinder to comments on "Divergence vs. decision P-values" is at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sj… All commentators agreed the main distinction is important, but raised key issues, esp. the need to be alert to insensitivities of a diagnostic to model violations.