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Matt Parkes @mattyjparkes.bsky.social · 18h

Increasingly feels like 60% of my time is 'logging into systems', and 60% of my inbox is made up of verification codes from logging into systems.

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Makes me laugh when people don’t go to conferences for the content or the networking, but they go anyway just for the opportunity to have their calendar show “busy” so they can lock themself in a hotel room and get some work done

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Brennan Kahan @brennankahan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

***JOB ALERT*** We are seeking to appoint 3 Statistical Methodologists to work on methods related to the statistical analysis of clinical trials, or innovative design methodology. The posts will be based within the UCL Institute of Clinical Trials and Methodology. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trying to infer what’s going on in people’s brains: ‘I’m first in… where shall I sit today… by the window will be nice… except for all that horrible natural light and those views 🙅… I know – I’ll sit there but close several blinds to block out both for me and others… that’s better.’

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Why does everyone bang on about how every snowflake is unique but never apply it to popcorn

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Just passed a bloke pushing a buggy and glanced at his baby only to discover it was a loaf of sour dough. I just feel this is taking baking obsession a bit far.

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Miss Anthrope @missannthrope66.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

My grandad used to hide the proceeds of crime in an apiary. Proof that booty is in the hive of the bee holder.

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

We’re at the end of #MSMR2026 which has been superb. It’s a ‘first’ such symposium and my main criticism is the talks have been too engaging, making it difficult to plan a mental switch off. See what you missed out on here crsuzh.pages.uzh.ch/msmr/program/

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Anyone else’s kids love to just open the fridge and watch if anything happens, like it’s TV? I might take a pic of the inside and print a full-size poster for each of their bedrooms to save electricity.

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In this week’s “grammar the way statos use it”, I wonder if at some point dictionaries will extend the definition of substantive to include substantial, like when they extended the definition of literally

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Jonathan Bartlett @jonathan-bartlett.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Research Fellow post at LSHTM. Come and work with Njeru Njagi, Matteo Quartagno, Wende Clarence Safari, Aurélien Belot, Bernard Rachet and myself on extending multiple imputation methods, in particular for analyses of electronic health records in cancer. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Fellow in Statistics

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Do you get wound up when you read stuff like “Warning: what you are about to read may change your mind about [x]”?

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🤩 bingkaiwang.github.io/RCT_Bench-ma...

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

New post. People often invoke the idea of the estimands patients want. A laudable aim, but not straightforward to learn. Here are a couple of thoughts. ‘What estimands do patients care about? How can patients/researchers know? Is it a reasonable ask?’ open.substack.com/pub/tpmorris...

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What estimands do patients care about?

How can patients/researchers know? Is it a reasonable ask?

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

New rule, results now go in supplementary material and methods in the main text

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

AND HERE I AM JUST GIVING IT OUT FOR FREE TO THE UNWASHED MASSES

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This is a lot of people’s bugbear isn’t it

The ‘BATS AREN’T BUGS’ Calvin & Hobbes with class yelling ‘TARGET TRIAL EMULATION ISN’T A “STUDY DESIGN”!’

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If anyone is interested in this but missed the talk, I'm afraid it wasn't recorded on this occasion, but the slides are now available on our webpage: ciig-seminar.github.io And Vanessa is more than happy to answer questions by email!

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Hanne Oberman @oberman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

So excited to chat about Teaching Open Science and Reproducibility at MSMR this summer!

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František Bartoš @fbartos.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Check out the great program of the *1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research* organized 31 August and 1 September in Zürich! Ton of cool speakers and meta-methodological reseach! crsuzh.pages.uzh.ch/msmr/program/ (registration still open)

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The program is up for the first 1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Meta Science for Methods Research and it promises to be a BANGER! crsuzh.pages.uzh.ch/msmr/program/

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

New post: Covariate adjustment and prediction-unbiasedness. Where I embarrass myself by asking smart people a dumb question (so you don’t have to) and get a useful answer. open.substack.com/pub/tpmorris...

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Covariate adjustment and prediction-unbiasedness

This is about covariate adjustment in RCTs (for a marginal estimand).

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

JPAI expresses concern that AI will generate even more papers than he does. 😜

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Title for this paper by @annemscheel.bsky.social made me snort. Outstanding. doi.org/10.1002/icd....

Screenshot of title page of linked paper. Title is “Why most psychological research findings are not even wrong”.

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I’m at EuroCIM for the first time and a) lovely community with lots of familiar faces & nice informality b) the talks are just as technical as the abstracts imply A funny thing happened a few times today: speakers slipped into a reverie while pondering some dense notation on a slide.

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

A beginner’s guide to hot-desking etiquette: A) Pick desk by window B) Close blinds

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

New commentary in Statistics in Medicine: ‘A Causal Perspective on “Appropriate Implementation of ICH E9(R1) Addendum Strategies” (Comment on Fleming et al.)’ By me, Alex Ocampo, Jesper Madsen, Hege Michiels, Sanne Roels. 1/ doi.org/10.1002/sim....

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A Causal Perspective on “Appropriate Implementation of ICH E9(R1) Addendum Strategies” (Comment on Fleming et al.)

This commentary offers perspectives on delivering “rigorous causal inference on meaningful estimands” that differ from the opinions recently shared by Fleming et al. We (1) depict a more robust pathw...

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Donald Szlosek @dszlosek.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

For anyone who is doing statistical simulation work, I honestly cannot recommend @timpmorris.bsky.social's elegant 2019 manuscript on ADEMP framework enough. Outlining a structured approach to planning sim studies, w/in-depth examples+how to display Monte Carlo SEs. #statssky#statistics #academicsky

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Note to self: I never ever want to present an RSS discussion paper. The experience of ‘discussions’ like these would drive me to the bottle.

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

A colleague just wrote “Small Ns” in a chat and it reminded me of the Rabois fallacy, and I want to remind you too so that you get to experience that wistful chuckle

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Laure Wynants @laurewynants.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

✨ New open-access book✨ I’ve seen how powerful prediction models can be, but also how often they fall short. We wrote a book, covering not just development, but also when models are needed, and how to ensure real-world impact. www.maastrichtuniversitypress.nl/cpm

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Open Access book by Luc Smits, Sander van Kuijk, and Laure Wynants: This open-access textbook offers a practical and comprehensive guide to developing, validating, and implementing clinical prediction...

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Great, you managed to get “INSPIRED” out of those bullets… now, what were the bullets again? Laboriously-constructed acronyms: - Good for trials because it’s just about having a shortcut name. - Bad where people need to remember the elements.

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Alexander Fox @alexanderfox1.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I simply refuse to believe this isn’t a Chris Morris sketch:

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I assume lots of you are also receiving this. Somehow the entire message comes off as dripping with contempt. Hooold!

Email subject screenshot: “Reminder: Invitation to join the Metascience Novelty Indicators Challenge”

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Stumbled across this podcast on clinical trials today and enjoyed it. I like skilled interviews talking to experts and this is that. cc @andygarrett.bsky.social @timpmorris.bsky.social open.spotify.com/show/1FfO4fr...

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Spotify – Web Player

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

I love when someone quotes a good bit of ancient wisdom

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

My mother-in-law just sent “This rain 🌧️🤨” to the family whatsapp and within 60s almost everyone had replied with the current rain status in their locality. Take THAT everyone who says the weather isn’t a banger of a conversation starter.

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Anouk Bouma @anoukbouma.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Preprint!📢 We examined reporting- and open science practices in simulation studies in psychology with a questionnaire Importantly, we asked ‘why?’ Why were results omitted? Why weren’t MCSEs reported? Also: how do researchers evaluate simulation studies in their field? doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵

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Andy Tattersall @andytattersall.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

I was chatting to a friend about AI, academia, fraud, authenticity and creativity and for some reason it led me down a rabbit hole to the classic satirical TV news show, The Day Today; and the great bluffer of the reporting world, Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan. Bear with me on this one... 1/6

Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan on a TV screen from the fictional satirical comedy series, The Day Today with Chris Morris as the news anchor in the studio

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Wonderful bit of ‘added value’ here. New manuscript system seems to use ‘AI’ to suggest my primary affiliation for an accepted paper. That the paper is accepted means I already told the system my affiliation. What a superb list 😆

Suggestions for my possible affiliation. It’s selected ‘LETS Go UK, Portsmouth, United Kingdom’, but then offered some others:
‘We found potential matches. Please review the suggestions below:
- UK Athletics, BIRMINGHAM, GB
- UK Private Investigators, LONDON, GB
- United Kingdom Anti-Doping Ltd, LONDON, GB
- United Kingdom National External Quality Assessment Service, SHEFFIELD, GB
- The United Kingdom Environmental Law Association, BRISTOL, GB
- Search for a different affiliation’

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

What’s your personal protocol when you receive an “as per my earlier email” but the thing was not in fact in the earlier email? Tumbleweed?

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Don't you f**king dare.

Screen shot of a youtube video titled "AI.FILL Function Explained: 10X Productivity in Excel with AI" with the caption "Let ChatGPT fill your missing data"

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I've done an analysis where the outcome unit was in hours, and in the results we report decimal hours (e.g. 0.89 hours) rather than in HH:MM. A respected colleague thinks we should use the later. Who is more correct? True pedants only please. *ahem* @timpmorris.bsky.social

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Thank you to the company who just emailed this reassurance/encouragement 😘

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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Please can someone create a bot that replies to all covid commentary papers with the title followed by ‘(needless to say, I had the last laugh)’ appended?

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

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