This paper is a gem 🌶️

LOL'd at these graphs. Got to say it's not QUITE how I'd have continued those lines.

Two of my guests today on Einstein A Go Go 3rrrfm listened to the show when they were children and somehow ended up as scientists! There is a 50% chance that I will cry on the show today....(and yes....I feel old too!). Georgia Caruana Taya Collyer Monash University University of Melbourne The Royal Melbourne Hospital

Asked chatgpt for 3 punny sign-offs a statistician could use. They were all (sort of?) wrong: 💣 Wishing you statistically significant success! 💣 May your data always be normally distributed! 💣 With confidence intervals as wide as the Grand Canyon, cheers! #statstwitter

Delighted to have picked up Boen & Zahn 1982 but note the previous reader circled this section on "anger" 😟 #statstwitter

Good morning ! Log-transforming outcomes for nonparametric survival analysis (💣), then making no comments on the proportional hazards assumption is a red flag ⛳️ Just want to share that with the group. #IAmreviewer2 #statstwitter

Here is the last 5 hours: ✨Spend 2 hrs debugging fancy code ✨ Give up - 'will be faster to do it manually' ✨Do it manually ✨ Make spectacular blunder and delete what I did ✨Do it again Sometimes you just have to celebrate that it is done😀

Spending my weekend with Whitley (1984) how about you?

... I redid the whole thing with one line this morning, took about 10 mins. Being good at googling is the real statistical skillset. #statstwitter

FACT: I enjoy working as a sole author because I don't want to compromise on cool, memorable manuscript titles. Keywords and indexing bots be damned 💅 #academictwitter

Are you interested in PhD studies in #PublicationIntegrity & #CancerResearch? I have 2 funded PhD scholarships Sydney Health through my NHMRC Ideas grant with Adrian Barnett Applicants must be eligible to enrol University of Sydney sydney.edu.au/scholarships/c… sydney.edu.au/scholarships/c…

"[Scientific] reputational organisations, then, are characterised by incessant attempts at getting attention and imposing ideas and concepts on colleagues" (If this was true in 1984 I have no idea how to express the state of us in 2024!)

Attending WHSMelbourne2024 Come join us at lunchtime to discuss digital health platforms in women’s health Hear from 💉 Prof Helena Teede AM Kirsten Palmer Taya Collyer whsmelbourne2024.com/digital-health…

Such a great session today at #whsmelbourne2024 on the power of digital research platforms for advancing Womens health 💪 👠Translational Medicine at Monash University Nisha Khot (She/Her) Kirsten Palmer 💉 Prof Helena Teede AM National Centre for Healthy Ageing

Mates, when agreeing to a speaking engagement, asking this question is my hottest tip to ensure they know what they're getting: "Could you give me some more info about what you are hoping I can demonstrate, as well as the audience and their interests?" #AcademicTwitter

👉 (bio)statistician with an axe to grind? 👉 Want to anonymously vent about a tough experience? 👉Was the grant due tomorrow? 🏆statanon.bsky.social is live! Email your gripes to [email protected] or send a DM #statstwitter

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Fact: the egen and margins commands do half of my job for me. #stataforever 💕 #statstwitter

Very grateful for this paper to wheel out whenever I get a question about why I don't correct "imbalance" in prediction modelling work... ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… cheers Maarten van Smeden / Ben Van Calster !