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Eric Polley

@ecpolley.bsky.social
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Professor and Director of the Biostatistics Laboratory in the Department of Public Health Sciences at the University of Chicago

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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“On its way to CRAN” is a great way to start the week (even if this is the second time in about a month)
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ENAR @enar-ibs.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Don't miss out on your chance to apply to CENS! Apply here by June 12: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Healthy Regions + Policies Lab @healthyregions.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Tomorrow is our discussion on “Conceptualizing Opioid Geographies”! This is a great opportunity for anyone working in substance use research, healthcare, or community advocacy. Learn more and register here: gccp.healthyregions.org
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Repost != endorsement
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
How has being an academic now become spending half your day waiting to be verified as a human?
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Data Science Institute @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
UChicago undergraduates and graduate students interested in using AI to tackle real-world scientific challenges are invited to join us at the AI+Science Hackathon, where machine learning meets scientific discovery! Applications are due TOMORROW datascience.uchicago.edu/events/aisci...
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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The R/Medicine Call for Proposals has been extended by one week! New deadline: March 13 First-time speakers are encouraged! Need feedback on your abstract? rmedicine.conference@gmail.com rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #opensource #healthcare
R/Medicine 2026 Call for Proposal extended one week to March 13
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Nice summary on the role of the statistician in clinical research (spoiler, it is not the sample size calculation): stattrak.amstat.org/2026/03/02/c...
stattrak.amstat.org
Statistics Is a Journey, Not a Destination
A website for new statistics professionals navigating a data-centric world
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Upcoming session on leveraging external information for the design and analysis of clinical trials at #ENAR2026
ENAR 2026 invited Session, title: "Leveraging External Information in the Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials in the AI Era" with Ted Karrison, Herbert Pang, Mei Polley, Lorenzo Trippa, and Matt Schipper. March 16th, at 1:45 - 3:30PM.
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R Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
R/Medicine CFP is open 🩺🧪 Deadline: March 6 - still time! Submit: Talks, Lightning Talks, Demos, Workshops - Using R + Shiny for health, lab, clinical data First-time speaker? Email for feedback: rmedicine.conference@gmail.com rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #datascience
R Medicine 2026 - main graphic - Call for Proposal, deadline March 6
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
ANNOUNCE: Nominations are open for the prestigious ASA Statistical Computing and Graphic Award. 🎖️ It recognizes innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a significant impact on statistical practice or research. #rstats #stats community.amstat.org/jointscsg-se...
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The Statistical Computing and Graphics Award - Joint Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Section
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
blog.mikeswanson.com/backseat-sof...
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Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog
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John Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
We learned today that Paul Rathouz of UT-Austin (previously Chicago and UW-Madison) died on Dec. 10. Few people I've known have enwrapped their brilliance with such modesty, decency, and good humor. A mensch's mensch. RIP.
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
kottke.org/25/12/huge-c...
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Huge Collection of Laptop Sticker Art
Stickertop.art is a massive collection of the tops of laptop computers adorned with stickers. Laptop stickers are m
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
youtu.be/hvDS-MhkKVo?... Bickel’s historical overview of the UC Berkeley dept of statistics
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Peter Bickel’s Historical Overview of the UC Berkeley Department of Statistics
YouTube video by Berkeley Statistics
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
kottke.org/25/11/004787...
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Stigler’s law of eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named...
Stigler’s law of eponymy: “No scientific discovery is named after its original discoverer.” Stigler’s law
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-...
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Hi, It’s Me, Wikipedia, and I Am Ready for Your Apology
“Wikipedia, the constantly changing knowledge base created by a global free-for-all of anonymous users, now stands as the leading force for the dum...
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Great lecture on Stepped Wedge designs:
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Healthy Regions + Policies Lab @healthyregions.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
🗺️ Upcoming Workshop: “Intro to Spatial Data in R” 🗓️ Thursday, October 23, 2025 🕤 9:30–11:30 AM CDT 💻 Virtual; Register here: go.illinois.edu/GCCP-OCT23 This workshop is presented as part of the JCOIN Geospatial Consortium & Community of Practice (GCCP). 👉 gccp.healthyregions.org
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Data Science Institute @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Job Opportunities Alert Associate Professor of Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/174768 Assistant Professor of Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/174766 EOE/Vet/Disability
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Nice discussion with Mark van der Laan, covering many topics including the history of TMLE, and future efforts: causalbanditspodcast.com
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Causal Bandits Podcast
Causal Bandits Podcast: Causal AI, causality, causal inference, discovery, DAGs, machine learning and more!
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
SDOH&Place annual symposium next week in Chicago: symposium2025.sdohplace.org
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2025 SDOH & Place Symposium
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Achim Zeileis @zeileis.org · 05/09/2025
🚨 Relaunch of CRAN Task View: Clinical Trial Design, Monitoring, and Analysis #rstats Complete rewrite by an int'l team of experts in #clinicaltrials Ya Wang, Thomas Jaki @thomasjaki.bsky.social, Laura Pascasio Harris, Orla Doyle, Elias Laurin Meyer, Wilmar Igl cran.r-project.org/view=Clinica...
Screenshot of the CRAN Task View "Clinical Trial Design, Monitoring, and Analysis" at https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=ClinicalTrials
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Great set of R tips and helpful packages: rfortherestofus.com/2025/06/twen...
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Twenty-Five Things You Didn't Know You Could Do with R
Explore 25 novel ways to utilize R, including pulling data from various sources, data visualization, mapping, using Quarto for reporting, automating tasks,.
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Nan van Geloven @gelovennan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New paper in @annalsofim.bsky.social "50 ways to misinterpret clinical prediction models for treatment decisions” --> Published version: www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... --> Open access version: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17366
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The Risks of Risk Assessment: Causal Blind Spots When Using Prediction Models for Treatment Decisions | Annals of Internal Medicine
Clinicians increasingly rely on prediction models to guide treatment choices. Most prediction models, however, are developed using observational data that include some patients who have already receiv...
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
news.uchicago.edu/story/prepar...
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Preparing for health care careers: UChicago master’s programs in biomedical sciences and public health
Flexible programs equip students with real-world skills across variety of fields
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Just got a No Kings stencil and chalk in the mail, waiting for the rain to stop and head out to the sidewalk:
No Kings stencil and sidewalk chalk
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=07G4...
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David Byrne Performs 'Everybody's Coming To My House'
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
New paper out today examining heterogeneity of cardiovascular effects between 4 classes of glucose-lowering therapies: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40673553/
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Heterogeneity of Cardiovascular Effects of Second-Line Glucose-Lowering Therapies in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes Across the Range of Moderate Baseline Cardiovascular Risk - PubMed
Cardiovascular benefits of SGLT2is and GLP-1RAs exist across all levels of moderate cardiovascular risk, reinforcing the importance of choosing glucose-lowering therapies that can prevent MACE in all ...
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Still trying to find the best way to teach skepticism in data. When I say check the data, people find the issues, but without that statement there is a “Simon says” reaction. I have many examples of hiding messages (e.g. create a PCA plot it shows “nope” in the plot) but not everyone finds these.
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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 22/04/2025
#statsmeme
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Is reading grant proposals on sleep disorders after midnight a reportable conflict of interest?
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Data Science Institute @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Registration and a call for posters are now open for the 2025 Midwest ML Symposium (June 23-24 at UChicago)! The call for posters is a great opportunity for grad and undergrad students to share the exciting work they are doing in research groups! Learn more and register - midwest-ml.org/2025/
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Emily Zabor @zabore.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
📣 R/Medicine 2025 virtual conference is coming June 10-13! rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... ⭐ Early bird registration through April 10 ⭐ Submissions accepted through April 11 ⭐ All-star lineup of keynotes and workshops #rmed25 #rstats
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The Biostatistics Laboratory at the University of Chicago has a new position for a Senior Biostatistician. Please visit: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... EOE/VET/Disability
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Senior Biostatistician
Department BSD PHS - Biostatistics About the Department Public Health Sciences (PHS) is the home in the Biological Sciences Division to biostatistics, epidemiology and health services research. These ...
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I really need to finish my ENAR presentation, so this is clearly one of the Kier tempers
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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Try the R/Medicine Data Challenge! Tell a Data Story about Measles cases and/or Vaccination Rates in Quarto - Student and Pro Divisions, $200 Prizes! #rstats #quarto Details at rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we...
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Saw my first mosquito of the season and put the snow shovels away, Chicago you know what this means!
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Jared Huling @jaredhuling.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Please apply, this project involves quite a bit of fun work on combining data from observational studies with randomized trials to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects!
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Emily Zabor @zabore.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
📢 The R Consortium is hosting an R/Medicine Webinar on "Rix: reproducible data science environments with Nix". Two weeks from today! Register to attend this virtual event now! r-consortium.org/webinars/rix... #rstats
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Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP @mollyjeffery.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Mike Lauer--the Open Mike blog guy at NIH--is leaving/has left the agency. www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/n... He recently sent a memo "acknowledging that [NIH's] funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants." Source: popular.info/p/breaking-n...
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Second top NIH official, who oversaw awarding of research grants, departs abruptly
Michael Lauer, deputy director of the National Institutes of Health’s extramural research, will leave the agency at the end of the week.
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Keeping a close eye on Pennsylvania, you doing OK?
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Trump Admin to US Biological and Health Science: “F—— off and die” Reporting by @aniloza.bsky.social @statnews.com with details, which I paraphrased above… www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t...
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Trump administration’s abrupt cancellation of scientific meetings prompts confusion, concern
A flurry of scientific gatherings and panels across federal science agencies were canceled on Wednesday, at a time of heightened sensitivity about how the
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Yes, it is a struggle to get our kids to wear weather appropriate clothing in winter here in Chicago! (Crocs in snow really don’t mix) Also me in High School:
Barefoot in the snow
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Eric Polley @ecpolley.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Remy helping me review a few manuscripts tonight, in case you find your reviewer comments complain about not enough recipes in your methods section:
Pet rat looking over shoulder
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Data Science Institute @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Job Opportunity Alert: Instructional Professor (open rank) in Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/160114 EOE / Vet / Disability
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Data Science Institute @dsi-uchicago.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Save the Date! It is our pleasure to share that the 2025 Midwest ML Symposium will be held at the University of Chicago, June 23-24, 2025! Please stay tuned for further information about registration, accommodation, and transportation on the conference website midwest-ml.org/2025/
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 22/10/2024
We’re excited to announce a program to support first-time contributors to @rOpenSci.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy packages! 🎉 Are you a package maintainer who would like to mentor a new #rstats contributor? See our blog post for details and how to sign up: ropensci.org/blog/2024/10...
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Maarten van Smeden @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
We are hiring a new fully funded PhD student We are searching for an enthusiastic PhD student to work on cutting edge methods research, working on methods to combine knowledge from cardioelectrophysiology, 'conventional’ ECG analysis and machine learning. www.werkenbijumcutrecht.nl/vacatures/we...
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Vacature — PhD student SciML4Medicine
PhD student SciML4Medicine: electrocardiography analysis with mathematical modeling and deep learning.
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