Julian Wolfson @drjwolfson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025So proud that UMN Biostat & Health Data Science's own Leif Verace received the John van Ryzin Award for best student paper at ENAR. Congrats Leif (and advisor/co-author Dr. Erjia Cui)! 080
Reposted by Julian WolfsonPhilip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 19/03/2025powerful detailed account of ICE captivity "To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me...Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comI’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnappedI was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky 20167212738
Reposted by Julian WolfsonDimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 10/03/2025“How bad can it be to have an anti-vaccine zealot leading our health agencies?” 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️ 38323
Reposted by Julian WolfsonAndrew Rothstein @asrothstein.bsky.social · 08/02/2025MINNESOTA NIH Awards Funding: $718 M Jobs Supported : 7,992 Economic activity supported: $ 1.74 B www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...unitedformedicalresearch.orgNIH In Your State - United For Medical ResearchSelect a state on the map to see the impact of NIH funding across America. 084
Reposted by Julian WolfsonCédric Vidonne @cvidonne.bsky.social · 16/01/2025🚀 {unhcrthemes} 0.6.3 is out! The latest version of our R package for creating UNHCR-styled charts is now on CRAN. 🎨📊 🔗 Check it out: cran.r-project.org/web/packages... (1/3)cran.r-project.orgunhcrthemes: UNHCR 'ggplot2' Theme and Colour PalettesA 'ggplot2' theme and color palettes following the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Data Visualization Guidelines recommendations. 172
Reposted by Julian WolfsonEvan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social · 30/12/2024There are post-doc openings for the @minnpop.bsky.social Training Program in Population Health Science. Apply by the end of January if you're interested and eligible! And spread the word please! pop.umn.edu/training/pos...pop.umn.eduPostdoctoral Training | Minnesota Population CenterPostdoctoral TrainingWe hire both project-based Post Doctoral Associates and program-based Post Doctoral Trainees. 084
Julian Wolfson @drjwolfson.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Receiving a "Model Release" (the Zoolander kind, not the glm kind) form from NCI definitely wasn't on my bingo card for today. 070
Reposted by Julian WolfsonVeerle Eeftink - van Leemput @veerle.hypebright.nl · 10/12/2024Another edition of Shiny Source Code Explained ✨🤓 And this time it is all about the code behind the new busy indicators that were added in Shiny 1.9 (July 2024)! hypebright.nl/en/shiny-en/... Enjoy! #rshiny #rstatshypebright.nlShiny Source Code Explained: Busy Indicators - HypebrightCurious how Shiny busy indicators work? Take a closer look at the source code behind spinner overlays and pulsing banners, and find out! 0182
Reposted by Julian WolfsonQuarto @quarto.org · 25/11/2024Quarto 1.6 is out! 🎉 Download it here: quarto.org/docs/download/ Quarto 1.6 supports unified branding across formats, updates to RevealJS, a new shortcode to reorder content, a landscape page block, and more. Blog post: quarto.org/docs/blog/po...quarto.orgQuarto 1.6 – QuartoQuarto 1.6 supports unified branding across formats, updates to RevealJS, a new shortcode to reorder content, a landscape page block, and more. There are also a couple of breaking changes that will af... 222762
Julian Wolfson @drjwolfson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Feel-good story? Check. Public health connection? Check. Cute dog? Check. Awesome person doing inspiring things? Check and check. www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...cbsnews.comAfter completing a half marathon, this running duo aims to continue pushing boundaries togetherMichael Fuller and Mahesh Mathew are finding purpose on Twin Cities running paths together. 040
Reposted by Julian WolfsonSharon Machlis @smachlis.bsky.social · 23/11/2024The {tidyprompt} #RStats 📦 *under development* is designed for prompting your #LLMs “the tidy way.” It includes function calling, so you “can define your own R functions and give the LLM the ability to call them.” By Luka Koning & Tjark Van de Merwe #GenAI tjarkvandemerwe.github.io/tidyprompt/ 0156
Reposted by Julian WolfsonDan Malinsky @danielmalinsky.bsky.social · 21/11/2024The Columbia public health school published this Q&A about my work on causality & algorithmic fairness. Read on to learn how the IMF's imposed austerity policies post-2009 financial crisis led me down a path toward studying causal inference* *not among the intended effects shorturl.at/KkeWupublichealth.columbia.eduA Biostatistician Pursues Causality and Algorithmic FairnessA Q&A with Daniel Malinsky, assistant professor of biostatistics. 082
Julian Wolfson @drjwolfson.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Interesting but not surprising. The next frontier is leveraging this kind of daily activity pattern data to improve health and well-being rather than harm it. 010
Reposted by Julian WolfsonStephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 20/11/2024For anyone curious, I've never written a browser extension before, and I only know enough Javascript to be dangerous in Shiny/Quarto. I took a screenshot of a bioRxiv page and pasted into Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and asked it to build one for me. Worked with minimal follow up prompts. ~5 minutes in total. 1275
Reposted by Julian WolfsonSimon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 19/11/2024I've been working a new #rstats package called pal🤖 Pals bring a library of LLM prompts into your RStudio/Positron sessions, editing code directly at the press of a keyboard shortcut. Read more: simonpcouch.github.io/pal/ 811628
Julian Wolfson @drjwolfson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024A bingo card for (bio)stat researchers! I’m dangerously close to a black-out… 020
Julian Wolfson @drjwolfson.bsky.social · 18/11/2024What's the statute of limitations on backlogged random thoughts and opinions that didn't get posted at The Other Site? Asking for a friend... 100
Julian Wolfson @drjwolfson.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Trying again with a working link: We’ve just posted a new Contract Assistant Professor position at UMN Biostat & Health Data Science! Happy to discuss with anyone interested. #biostatistics #healthdatascience #academicjobs hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/365...hr.myu.umn.eduCareersRequired qualifications:Applicants must have a PhD in biostatistics, statistics, or a closely related field, by the start of appointment and a strong interest in collaborative research with biomedical investigators across the health sciences. 097
Reposted by Julian WolfsonSherri Rose @sherrirose.bsky.social · 16/11/2024I made a starter pack for health policy statistics! 📈🔢 128425
Reposted by Julian WolfsonJared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Reposting since people are actually on bsky: 172
Reposted by Julian WolfsonTheresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 16/11/2024#ICHPS2025 approaches! @sherrirose.bsky.social, @whitneyepi.bsky.social, and @susanpaddock.bsky.social will deliver keynote and plenary sessions. Attend sessions by @rhubbbstat.bsky.social, @lizstuart.bsky.social, @jaredhuling.bsky.social, and @drjwolfson.bsky.social. #hspr #hpss #statssky #episkyww2.amstat.org2025 International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS)Throughout the last 20+ years, the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics—organized by the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association—has played a vital rol... 3154