Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by Eva Ranehill, Anna Sandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…

How Nobel Prizes will be given in the future 😑 #Physics #NobelPrize #NobelPrize2024 #scicomm

The informal poll results are in, & as I feared, most people are running ANOVAs in #R with functions that can give highly misleading (or flat out wrong) results. Follow along to see why using anova() and aov() is usually inadvisable & why you should be using car::Anova() 🧵

People usually think replication attempts in science are rare. Journals don't publish replications, so scientists don't do them. In reality there are countless replication attempts (and failures), it's just PhD students assume they did something wrong journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

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Your brain has been fooling you your entire life. This Nobel Prize winner spent 40 years proving it. Here are the 10 mental traps controlling every decision you make: 🧵

Back in June, I had the pleasure of moderating a webinar with the American Statistical Association's LGBTQ+ Advocacy Committee on Trans- and Gender-Nonconforming-Inclusion in STEM. The panel discussion from that webinar is now available as an article. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Our spring semester workshop schedule is up! Workshops are open and free for all Cornell University. To learn more and register, visit: cscu.cornell.edu/workshops/curr… Cornell Grad School Cornell_Library Mann Library @ Cornell Cornell Research & Innovation

CSCU Assisted Pub: Iodinated contrast dye-diluent combination exhibits longer time to full dye saturation compared to lidocaine, bupivacaine, and water in porcine cadaveric nervous tissue pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39631168/ Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine Stephen Parry

Learn to make an R package: r-pkgs.org/whole-game.html

We are pleased to announce our new book: The World of Zero-Inflated Models: Using GLLVM. Zuur and Ieno (2025) This book explores modern statistical methods for analyzing complex datasets, focusing on multivariate models, mixed-effects models, and latent variable models.

I am increasingly convinced we have a reproducibility crisis in Ecology because of the abuse of statistics and its explanatory power, particularly of complex models and analysis that many researchers do not fully understand. This paper should be an alarm call.

I just pushed a new paper to arXiv. I realized that a lot of my previous work on robust losses and nerf-y things was dancing around something simpler: a slight tweak to the classic Box-Cox power transform that makes it much more useful and stable. It's this f(x, λ) here:

CSCU Assisted Pub: An Interdisciplinary Panel of Scientists Discuss Trans- and Gender-Nonconforming-Inclusion in STEM tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Congratulations, Stephen Parry! ASA

My workshop tomorrow is on Agreement and Reliability. I'll discuss Cohen's Kappa, Krippendorff's Alpha, Gwet's AC1, as well as different measures for ICC.

A brief summary of the main takeaways of my lecture on Measures of Reliability and Agreement

Upcoming and relevant webinar: Current and Historical Trends in SOGISC Data Collection and Its Consequences. More information at: community.amstat.org/asalgbtq/event… ASA

Our first summer workshop is tomorrow (6/5) at 10am! Join us for an Overview of Dimension Reduction Methods. Free and open to all Cornell University. To learn more: cscu.cornell.edu/workshops/curr… Cornell Grad School Cornell Research & Innovation Cornell CALS

I think about this post once a month

Come join me for my workshop on Basic Data and Research skills on Monday, October 6th! cscu.cornell.edu/workshop/basic…