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Daniel Weiand

@send2dan.bsky.social
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#NHS consultant medical microbiologist, Newcastle upon Tyne | #Rstats enthusiast | cyclist (gravel/road/commuting) | NHS-R bsky.app/profile/nhsrcommunity.bsky… | NHS-OA

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Tan G. @tangandhara.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The shifting bell curve. Every summer since 1941, at every place on land, measured against how much that place's summers used to vary. In 1951–1980, a summer more than three standard deviations hotter than normal covered 0.1% of the land. In 2026 it covered 34%. #dataviz
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The shifting bell curve — summer heat on land, 1941 to now — celsius.earth
In 1951–1980, 0.1% of the world's land had a summer more than 3σ above normal. In 2026: 34%. Watch the whole distribution move, year by year.
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Salary stand-off delays abolition of NHS quango - www.ft.com/content/0a6d... via @FT The administrative body tasked with managing the fallout of doctors fighting for better pay is now stalling a national health reform because they refuse to be subjected to standard public sector pay scales
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Salary stand-off delays abolition of NHS quango
Health service leaders are urging ministers to set up a temporary body to resolve deadlock
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=aXut... Sleazy sleazy politicians
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Going undercover to expose Reform's secret donations plot
YouTube video by Channel 4 News
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Mid terms are November 3rd 2026. Go register voters. @usrbinr.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
i love #rstats. that is all. that is the post.
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Very happy to share with you that our work has just been announced as Winner of the Innovation category of the National Excellence in Clinical Audit Awards 2026 Were it not for the help and guidance of NHS-R community, our work would never have come to fruition. #CAAW26 #RSTATS #NHSOA #git #NHSR
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CAAW26 Innovation award winners announced - HQIP
Find out who won the Innovation category of the Excellence in Clinical Audit Awards 2026, part of Clinical Audit Awareness Week.
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Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) @hqip.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🏆 The winners of the Innovation category of the #CAAW26 Excellence in Clinical Audit Awards have been announced! OVERALL WINNER: Data Science and Infection Prevention and Control Team, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Read more: www.hqip.org.uk/news/caaw26-innovation-announcement
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (@HQIP) on X
🏆 The winners of the Innovation category of the #CAAW26 Excellence in Clinical Audit Awards have been announced! OVERALL WINNER: Data Science and Infection Prevention and Control Team, Newcastle upon...
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Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) @hqip.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Don’t miss the next @hqip.bsky.social #CAAW26 event on Innovation, with the Innovation award announcement, from 12.45pm today! 📲Register in advance: www.hqip.org.uk/caaw26
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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Aaron Tay @aarontay.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
This!!
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Fred Whitton challenge ✅ Big thanks also go to Simon @ gosforthbikeworks.com for setting my bike up for the ride Another 178 or so km ticked off Re 700km target for month of May in support of MND. Link: mnd.sync.giving/fr/cr-xjvkp0y8… 🎷🐛 101.6 new miles -- From Wandrer
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Simon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 08/05/2026
The newest release of Posit Assistant, an agent for coding and data analysis, includes a "data cleaning mode." When enabled, the agent will run quality checks and surface decisions about e.g. import issues, factor levels, etc to the user. In the AI Newsletter: opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05...
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Stephen Turner @stephenturner.us · 09/05/2026
Great cover on The Lancet this week www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
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A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 08/05/2026
European Commission has updated its follow buttons. ✅ Mastodon and Bluesky are in; ⛔ X, Facebook, YouTube are out. (Only when you scroll all the way down, FB and YT are still there, but no longer X.) commission.europa.eu/index_en
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Up for 280km of 700km target for May I'm cycling 700km in May for a world free from MND Every kilometre matters. Every day, six people are told they have motor neurone disease (MND). No matter how big or small, every donation matters. Thank you. mnd.sync.giving/fr/cr-xjvkp0...
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Added another 75 miles or so onto the tally in support of #MND mnd.sync.giving/fr/cr-xjvkp0...
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
strava.app.link/IavZwye4M2b Mons Chimay Mons 105km Gravel route completed 👍 Great day out in support of MND association First 105km of 700km target for May - done ✅ raise.ing/91yi37pkkkkrk #MND
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
raise.ing/qol37gpk6jjqx I'm cycling 500km in May for a world free from MND Every kilometre matters. Every day, six people are told they have motor neurone disease (MND). No matter how big or small, every donation matters. Thank you.
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Smartphones to be banned in schools in England - www.ft.com/content/64f8... via @FT This is good news
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Smartphones to be banned in schools in England
Government bows to pressure from teachers, parents and the Conservative Party
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that outsmarts even smart headphones - Škoda Storyboard
Pedestrians wearing headphones are exposed to an increased risk of accidents. In an effort to reduce collisions with cyclists, Škoda Auto, in collaboration with scientists, introduces an innovative bi...
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Skoda develops bike bell that can bypass noise-cancelling headphones, and then gives the technology away for free | Cyclingnews share.google/AUbY0U5Bt7O5...
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Skoda develops bike bell that can bypass noise-cancelling headphones, and then gives the technology away for free
The clever dual-frequency design can trick algorithms and be heard from 50 feet further away than traditional bells
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Your household's income : Where do you fit in? ifs.org.uk/tools_and_re...
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Your household's income : Where do you fit in? | Institute for Fiscal Studies
When you think about your income, do you feel rich, poor, or just plain average? Find out where you lie in the UK income distribution.
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The market failure beneath the manosphere - www.ft.com/content/a00c... via @FT
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The market failure beneath the manosphere
Confronting the misogyny and get-rich-quick schemes of influencers means talking openly to young men about success
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Hey! I’ve started a fundraiser for MND Association and I'd love your support. Every donation makes a difference. Thank you. You can make a donation to my page here: raise.ing/91yj37pkkkkrk x.com/i/status/204...
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Totoro @nigelsq.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I can't really over sell how important using #Quarto is to me. Even if no one else sees my results, Quarto helps me think in a way nothing else can. #Rstats
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
www.facebook.com/100049105764... Carl Cox will be headlining the CycloRave at the Crook Inn www.ridetothesun.co.uk/register
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Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training @forrt.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
In case you missed it 👀 ❗ FORRT has launched the Open Research Games Portal — a collection of games and interactive activities for teaching open and reproducible science ! Explore it here: forrt.org/games/ and feel free to browse and use ✨
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Tomasz Kalinowski @t-kalinowski.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
ragnar 0.3.0 is now on CRAN! 🚀 An R toolkit for RAG from your docs: faster ingestion, better retrieval, Azure OpenAI + Snowflake embeddings, and MCP serving. tidyverse.org/blog/2026/01... #rstats #rag #ai
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ragnar 0.3.0
The new release of ragnar adds faster ingestion, new embedding providers, improved retrieval, and new integrations for using ragnar stores from tools.
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James Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This IS the droid you're looking for. webRoid v1.0.0: R on Android. Console, editor, plots, packages, 9 themes. No server required. Tested extensively on emulators. Your actual device? The Force is strong, but no promises. play.google.com/store/apps/d... #rstats #webR #Android #WebAssembly
Promotional card for webRoid v1.0.0 with the tagline "R on Android" on a dark navy background with green circuit-trace accents. Three phone screenshots show the R console after running a plot command (with a notification badge on the Plots tab), the plots gallery displaying the resulting scatter plot, and the code editor with syntax-highlighted R script and output panel.
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CRAN Package Updates Bot @cranberriesfeed.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
New CRAN package rformat with initial version 0.1.0 #rstats cran.r-project.org/package=rformat
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CRAN: Package rformat
A minimal R code formatter following base R style conventions. Formats R code with consistent spacing, indentation, and structure.
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 28/12/2025
My two cents: Anyone who has worked with data knows that analytics involves a lot of repetitive manual tasks—essentially the intellectual, well-paid equivalent of wood chopping. In the short run, automating those functions will require organizational changes, but we'll get used to it.
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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 28/11/2025
What does this do? Allow you to write ```{r} #| fig-cap: Number of participants was {data$n}. ``` ?
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Crystal Lewis @cghlewis.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
While I had been using rainbow parentheses for a while, I only recently found out about rainbow indentation thanks to @ijlyttle.bsky.social and @3mmarand.bsky.social 🌈 #rstats
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Posit @posit.co · 24/09/2025
Want to win the 2025 Table Contest? Get inspired by @bamattre.bsky.social's interactive table, which turns the Board Game Geek database into a practical tool ✨ His entry: bamattre.github.io/boardgames/ Submit your table using any #RStats or #Python package! Details: github.com/rich-iannone...
Top Ranked Board Game Table Contest Entry
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Why law firms want to recruit more data scientists - on.ft.com/3loWXkf via @FT There's a huge amount of overlap here with what's happening in medicine and the NHS. As in legal practice, much of Medicine is document-based -- and "words are data points", as highlighted here
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Eric Wastl @was.tl · 01/12/2024
🚨 GRADY IS BACK 🚨
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Eric Wastl @was.tl · 01/12/2024
This was my tenth(!) year building 25 days of puzzles for #AdventOfCode. You can solve them all for free! Most people write code to solve them, but you can solve them however you like. I hope they help people become better programmers. 🌟 The first puzzle comes out in two hours: adventofcode.com
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Advent of Code 2024
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superboreen @superboreen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Glowing! Probably ugly #rstats code, but I did Day 1 of this year’s #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1 Will try to keep up.
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Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
adventofcode.com/2024/day/1 #Rstats Advent of code 2024- my first time joining in. Really like the way it's presented almost in old fashioned RPG video game style from the 90s
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Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024
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Jenni Hislop @jenjensuperjen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
The learning curve is steep in #RStats but the payoffs do come: "I now spend well over 90% of my work time thinking about and programming in R... as I built better tools...it becomes even easier to build new tools... and I have many techniques on-hand (in-brain) for solving new problems."
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NHS-R Community @nhsrcommunity.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
We have our brand.yml page on the Posit Gallery posit-dev.github.io/brand-yml/in...! All our colours can be used for NHS England. Thanks to @send2dan.bsky.social for the issue on the Posit GitHub and @grrrck.xyz for all your help with getting this to a successful Pull Request. #RStats #Python
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Inspiration – brand.yml
Unified branding with a simple YAML file
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Vincent Arel-Bundock @vincentab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out! It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG. And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
They say shy bairns get nought. Happy to say Posit are working on an NHS themed _brand.yml, which should be very helpful when creating NHS themed Quarto outputs: github.com/posit-dev/br... Further general info here: github.com/posit-dev/br... posit-dev.github.io/brand-yml/ 🙏 #Rstats #NHS
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NHS brand · Issue #53 · posit-dev/brand-yml
For the UK it would be helpful to publish branding for the National Health Service (NHS) - The UK's largest employer after all
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Chris Beeley @chrisbeeley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
At #NHSRPySoc and thinking for the quadrillionth time that a sane NHS would make sure that data scientists have somewhere to deploy their projects so they can show them to interested parties. Tiny investment, massive benefit
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Daniel Weiand @send2dan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Happy to attend the #NHSRPySoc 2024 conference in Birmingham at the ICC
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IBD Doctor @ibddoctor.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
For #rstats folks, sharing this post from @cararthompson.bsky.social on the power of {scales} (a ggplot2 dependency you probably already have) to format more readable numbers (in tables, plots, etc.) www.cararthompson.com/posts/2024-0...
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Building Stories With Data - Formatting numbers for easy readability in R
Sometimes you want a raw number. Other times, you want a number that you can instantly verbalise. This post explores an easy solution for getting from “1234567890” to “1,234.6M” without installing any...
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Dr. Nyssa Silbiger @nsilbiger.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Have you ever thought to yourself… how can I make my #rstats plot UGLIER? Well, look no further, cuz it’s good plot-bad plot time! My students made plots that will make you want to laugh, cry, and throw your computer out the window. Which one do you think is the worst? 🧵🧪
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Fredrik @barbiche.eurosky.social · 31/10/2024
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