John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Open source spiral: Go to write paper about package you wrote. Try example data, edge case fails. Go to package, bug is in other package you call. Go to github package, create a pull request. Need to create issue for PR. Add hotfix. "Why didn't I get anything done?" - Hard to document this work. 110
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Understood. Not my packages -- related to some work I'm doing -- so I was confused what happened, but that makes sense 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It's odd as it seemed like it just affected dvmisc, but cascaded 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Are other #rstats devs seeing archiving of packages due to `rbenchmark`? @r-foundation.bsky.social, seems odd since it is up and running: cran.r-project.org/package=rben... @eddelbuettel.com. Many seemed to archive around June 11 (example: cran.r-project.org/package=dvmisc)cran.r-project.orgrbenchmark: Benchmarking Routine for RBenchmarking of arbitrary R code, inspired by similar functionality in a Perl module, is implemented via a simple wrapper around system.time(). Given a specification of the benchmarking process (count... 200
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Every time I check the "Remember me" checkbox 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 23/09/2026ignore=`git config core.excludesFile` if [ -z "$ignore" ]; then mkdir -p ~/.config/git ignore=~/.config/git/ignore fi echo '.DS_Store' >> ${ignore} echo '.Rproj.user' >> ${ignore} echo '.Rhistory' >> ${ignore} echo '.RData' >> ${ignore} #rstats mihai.dinculescu.dev/posts/two-gi...mihai.dinculescu.devTwo git ignore files nobody told me aboutGit reads ignore patterns from .gitignore, .git/info/exclude and a global excludes file. The second one never gets committed, so your scratch files and agent plans can stop dirtying the working tree w... 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Next AI sold to job-seekers: solve LinkedIn games the fastest so you're at the top of everyone's list and people think you're smart and want to hire you. 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Seems like a lot of credit card companies are increasing late fee rates again. 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Giving a short course at #JSM2026 with Vadim (JHU) and Irina (UMich) on digital health technologies 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 14/07/20262 sides of changing std of care Me: If we change X, we can potentially reduce injury Y. If that became standard of care, you could get CPT/paid for monitoring X. MD: Yes, that would happen. Also, monitoring X would then also become required, so if you didn't monitor X, they deny pay/reimburse. 040
Reposted by John MuschelliCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/07/2026My posts most days. I'm sorry. 4745281018
Reposted by John Muschellimax power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 24/06/2026holy shit bsky has a water sealant expert that predicted the reflecting pool failure mode perfectly 423158933
Reposted by John MuschelliHeather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool 502243395590
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 23/06/2026This figure from the CDC paper is particularly telling. I think also the increase of ride shares has probably mitigated DUI related pedestrian deaths so the real “impact” could be larger www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes... 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Know of #AI postdocs looking for positions related to health and biostatistics? 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 30/05/2026It seems like a major miss that large hospital systems don't require EHR systems like EPIC @hey.epic.com provide a flexible data collections system for clinical trials that works for multi-site trials. 010
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 30/05/2026Open Access fees are not allowable to be billed to grants with new regulation www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Every grocery store app and online retailers should have to list cost per gram, ounce, serving, or unit so that I can be accurately compared across products and sorted 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Your blood has hemoglobin, which has iron that reacts to magnets, and changes shape when the blood has oxygen. Your brain cells need oxygen to break down sugar (food), and uses oxygen in that process. If we measure how the magnet sees different signals, we assume those brain cells are working. 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Magnetic Resonance Imaging uses a big magnet to "see" what's going on in the body. Functional MRI (fMRI) measures how blood reacts differently to magnets when it has oxygen versus no oxygen, which relates to areas of the brain that are using energy. 100
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal, detected in fMRI, reflects changes in deoxyhemoglobin driven by localized changes in brain blood flow and blood oxygenation, which are coupled to underlying neuronal activity by a process termed neurovascular coupling. vs. 100
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I really wish we had more layperson abstracts for most papers. For example (random pull: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... ): blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal, detected in fMRI, reflects changes in deoxyhemoglobinpmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.govCoupling Mechanism and Significance of the BOLD Signal: A Status ReportFunctional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) provides a unique view of the working human mind. The blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) signal, detected in fMRI, reflects changes in deoxyhemoglobin dri... 100
Reposted by John MuschelliChris Goodman @cbgoodman.co · 15/04/2026As promised, here’s my tax day rant. For 99% of taxpayers, the IRS already has the data to send you an almost fully completed 1040 for you to add a few pieces of data to, automatically recalculate, be done. It doesn’t because of Intuit. 618970
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 07/04/2026The DHS form search (www.pa.gov/agencies/dhs...) has no records of the form and only refers back the SNAP form that we're trying to fill out! 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Hey @governor.pa.gov, so PA DHS memorandum (www.pa.gov/content/dam/...) 'The CAO may also provide form PA 1795, “Household Members/Living Expenses” to applicants or recipients to be completed by a landlord or housing agency.' The link to PA 1795 is dead hhsdoc.dhs.pa.lcl/docushare/ds...pa.gov 100
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Are any politicians proposing to reduce the minimum limit for HSA eligible insurance plans? 001
Reposted by John MuschelliStoner Philly Fan @stonerphillyfan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026The U.S. war on Iran is now estimated to cost $1 billion per day. Meanwhile Americans are told there’s no money for healthcare, hospitals, or basic social programs. 481103433336
Reposted by John MuschelliBrent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 01/03/2026“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”politico.euHelsinki just went a full year without a single traffic deathThe capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities. 382437825
Reposted by John MuschelliJennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 09/02/2026As an R user and tidyverse devotee, I take issue with this. #Rstats 1322
Reposted by John MuschelliJoshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 09/02/2026Bayes Rule in a Super Bowl ad: ✅ 032
Reposted by John MuschelliSenator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 05/02/2026If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy. 11585203014521
Reposted by John MuschelliDee Chan @deechan17.bsky.social · 31/01/2026I support term limits for Congress, the Senate and SCOTUS. 44399141490
Reposted by John MuschelliSam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026I just thought everyone should see this 43252925987
Reposted by John MuschelliMusicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place 15213625083
Reposted by John MuschelliSimon P. Couch @simonpcouch.com · 20/01/2026Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day. On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01... 2037080
Reposted by John Muschellidietrich @burrito.space · 15/01/2026UX design so focused on optimizing for a given user task, while completely ignoring: - goal achieved, i want to get back to where i was - i want to immediately do goal again - i want to switch to different goal Way too many times is 3-4 clicks/touches just to... do more stuff with the same app. 2588
Reposted by John MuschelliJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 13/01/2026why I have trust issues 937263
Reposted by John MuschelliWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 19/12/2025this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will 305158283962
Reposted by John MuschelliDermot Lynott @dermotlynott.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Journal article: “the data are available on request” The data: 530664
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 19/12/2025Whenever I teach this, I like to remind my students that #rstats was informed by a lot of statisticians and NA means “I don’t know” so most logical tests and operators return “I don’t know”. x> 5? I don’t know. I have to know x first. 020
Reposted by John MuschelliThomas Lumley @tslumley.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Yes, exactly. Each missing value is equal to itself and unequal to other values. In contrast, R's NA is neither equal nor unequal to anything, including itself 251
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 18/12/2025From a senior faculty this morning: "As you get older you become 'former'. I'm the former chair of ..." 010
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 16/12/2025It's a good time of year to unsubscribe. A lot of happy holiday messages are showing me what lists my emails are on 000
Reposted by John MuschelliMerriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 15/12/2025Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year. 357238377189
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 03/12/2025April 14 #ChatGPT prompt tsunami: “ fill out my tax return that maximize my refund with the lowest probability I get audited” 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 02/12/2025If students and post-docs are workers, then academia may have some of worst turnover rates in any industry. 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 25/11/2025How long until the AI Chatbots start inserting ads in the responses? 000
John Muschelli @strictlystat.bsky.social · 23/11/2025media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is holding a drink and saying now you have my attention .ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a drink and saying now you have my attention . 010