Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 14hSorry, while I have you here, I might also suggest that the methods and incentives for creating new knowledge can be very different from those used to create innovations. 020
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 14h"Innovation" and "new knowledge" are not synonyms! That is all. Thank you. 170
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 16hNot exactly scary, but I was somehow allowed to watch the Elephant Man by myself at night when I was about 5 or 6. Profoundly sad and I've probably never cried that hard, before or since. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ele...en.wikipedia.orgThe Elephant Man (1980 film) - Wikipedia 281
Reposted by Darren DahlyJames Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly 414860
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 19hLooking forward to seeing my fellow IFUT members today on the quad for a one hour work stoppage in pursuit of a credible pay proposition from government. www.ifut.ie/content/ifut... 081
Reposted by Darren DahlyRichard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 03/10/2026And your regular reminder of the innumeracy of this metric (a pseudo mean calculated from two different datasets and applied to a non-normal distribution) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 34311
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Which is just to say that in medicine, we can see how useful non-representative RCTs can be. 040
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 05/10/2026"Similarly, there are many medical interventions that have been brought to market on the back of RCT evidence that indeed panned out to be widely effective treatments. One could even argue that non-representative trials producing widely generaliz- able results are a key driver of medical progress."fertstert.org 140
Reposted by Darren DahlyDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/05/2026a new investigative journalism audit of the Kenyan SHA system-AI that calculates affordability for access to healthcare-just dropped & its scandalous "The AI income predictor systematically overcharged those who could least afford it while undercharging the well-off" sha.africauncensored.onlinesha.africauncensored.onlineHiding Behind AIHow SHA Was Used to Load Health System Costs Onto Poorest. 611865
Reposted by Darren DahlyJulia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 04/10/2026This is very good. “Over 2.2 million cancer deaths can be attributed to Costco; that’s more than 20% of all cancer deaths between 2000 and 2018.” 1111423
Reposted by Darren DahlyJoe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026'Israel, Hedges said, “is admired by the far right because it has turned its back on humanitarian law and uses indiscriminate lethal force to ‘cleanse’ its society of those condemned as human contaminants”.' 01817
Reposted by Darren DahlyRichard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Scientists have repeatedly warned that flawed studies are affecting the results of systematic reviews in medicine and other fields, but it’s rare to find such a clear example, says @floriannaudet.bsky.social . Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comProzac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trialOne small study in Iran swayed meta-analyses in favour of antidepressant use in children, researchers say. 1183
Reposted by Darren DahlyJsonGeller @jgeller1phd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026New tutorial finally in press with @rmkubinec.bsky.social @chelseaparlett.bsky.social and @matti.vuorre.com. It has everything you could possible want: Quippy headings, a whole lot of beta, bayesian analyses and frequentist analyses side by side in harmony. link.springer.com/article/10.3...rdcu.be 27825
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Plus we *already* had that problem before AI. I've seen estimates that the "normal" exponential growth of academic papers is 7-10% annually. 040
Reposted by Darren DahlyHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Good piece from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & @sarahoconnorft.ft.com on AI in science. It’s making some bits faster, but there is a new ‘verification tax’ taking up time. And there are heightened bottlenecks in physical experiments & data collection. AI is a workflow problem www.ft.com/content/4508...ft.comThe AI Shift: Is AI supercharging science?Productivity gains in analysis are getting stuck in physical-world bottlenecks 56522
Reposted by Darren DahlyIn Preparation @inprep.bsky.social · 29/09/2026inpreparation.substack.comSixth Grant Resubmission Described As Most Faithful Adaptation Of The OdysseyCHAPEL HILL, NC—Praising it as the definitive treatment of the source material, literary scholars confirmed Monday that Prof. 02710
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026... 🎯irishtimes.comFintan O'Toole: Living in Milwaukee with a Mayo granny automatically makes you Irish. Living here doesn’tWe have twice as many new citizens coming through the channel that demands no actual connection to Ireland 000
Reposted by Darren DahlyCole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not enough people take seriously "funding delays"/"bureaucratic nonsense can kill people" but here it is right here. If I was mad when a patient died because it took a few extra months for lawyers to try to look for a legal basis for an international data transfer, I'm incandescent, now.cnbc.comNIH funding cuts delayed a promising childhood brain cancer trial. Patients lost time they didn't haveA delayed clinical trial underscores the stakes of federal research funding cuts for children with DIPG, a deadly brain tumor with few treatment options. 317684
Reposted by Darren DahlyarXiv @arxiv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026arXiv has updated our policy on rate limiting for all submitters. This update was made to fairly distribute moderator time & support the arXiv community of staff, volunteers, readers & authors. Please read our announcement to learn more: blog.arxiv.org/2026/10/01/updated-r… 216573
Reposted by Darren DahlyMelissa Sharp-Crowe, MPH, PhD² @sharpmelk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026The living evidence approach is increasingly used, particularly for intervention questions. However, maintaining and consistently reporting these reviews remains challenging, as fewer than half were updated over two years.jclinepi.comLiving Evidence Syntheses in Practice: Methodology, Standards, dissemination and publication challenges.Paper 1: Introduction - Are Living Evidence Syntheses Truly ‘Living’?This first paper in the Living Evidence Synthesis in Practice series examines how living evidence syntheses (LES) have been defined, implemented, reported, and updated over time. It introduces key con... 001
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'll take things Cork city council can't seem to get a grip on for 500 Alex. It's wet and falls from the sky. What is rain? Correct! 140
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Zero value created. Zero social benefit. Pure transfer of wealth, preying on the vulnerable. I don't understand how anyone involved sleeps at night. 1193
Reposted by Darren DahlyNPR @npr.org · 02/10/2026The dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections. n.pr/4hzSuJ0n.prHe was banned by betting sites, and filed for bankruptcy. Then he relapsed on KalshiThe dark side of the prediction market boom is becoming more clear: Experts say the sites have become go-to outlets for gambling addicts to relapse as the companies avoid state consumer protections. 1321182
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Pouring one out for people doggedly trying to publish research that evaluated a now badly outdated LLM. 2160
Reposted by Darren DahlyHilda Bastian @hildabast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When we started the Cochrane Collaboration—over 30 years ago!—I wrote a proposal for consumer participation in the organization & its work, including setting up a Consumer Network as one of the constituent groups... 1/2 173
Reposted by Darren DahlyKlaus Pforr @klauspforr.eurosky.social · 02/10/2026The sheer figure of 20% blows my mind. Experts are probably well aware of that. That seems to be a little higher than the chances for russian soldiers to die within one year on the front. And we talk about scaring them away by depriving them of money or putting them in camps. And people think it's 12013
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026static.klipy.comBoo This Man MemeALT: Boo This Man Meme 130
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Free t-tests at the Starbucks in Dublin. First come first serve. 7322
Reposted by Darren Dahlymaura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun. 168186644685
Reposted by Darren DahlyJim MacMillan (he/him) @jimmacmillan.com · 01/10/2026And this conversation could almost be a CMAT song: expressing genuine sympathy for Ed Sheeran while absolutely taking him apart.youtu.beCMAT On Embodying Funeral Humor in “Euro-Country” | The Daily ShowYouTube video by The Daily Show 001
Reposted by Darren DahlyBarbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026An ERC committee member said in front of a crowd that there was already a triage of applications based on the applicant's CV. Now he expected that AI would be used. Preparing an ERC takes MONTHS, you have to work out the financial plan as well as the science. Imagine being doomed from the start. 63712
Reposted by Darren DahlyRichard Shaw @richardshaw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"The population and systems medicine board awarded just three grants in spring 2026, which represents a success rate of 3.7 per cent, compared with an average of 12.7 per cent in 2025 and 18.6 per cent in 2024." 151
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026static.klipy.comRoll Safe: Feel Me, Think About It MemeALT: Roll Safe: Feel Me, Think About It Meme 020
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sadly he did not tell the guy right next to me who is reading this to NOT EAT HIS STINKY FUCKING SANDWHICH THREE INCHES FROM ANOTHER HUMAN FACE. 350
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Praise be to the aircoach driver who told everyone to listen to their devices using headphones. 1180
Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026A need for reproducibility is another factor. I need a recipe someone else can replicate. 150