Antoine Vernet

Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds Researchers say low- and no-calorie sweeteners appear to affect thinking and memory in middle age

"Sweeteners can harm cognitive health equivalent to 1.6 years of ageing, study finds"

Or does it? Let's take a look at this "study"...

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Fun fact: it has been 56 days since I notified the editors of Neurology about glaring statistical errors in this peer-reviewed study on sweeteners and cognitive health.

No expression of concern, no correction, no retraction.

Evidence that academics have been complaining about service roles for about 3000 years...

Even in the era of zero-cost LLMs, some scientists are still crafting data for their clinical trials by hand... and getting published in the @bmj.com!

Inspiring.

pubpeer.com/publications...

*puts his 20 AI generated position papers back in his bag*

The weather's been nice lately, don't you think?

A house in our neighborhood gave out potatoes this year (it’s a national trend, it turns out)

Kiddo who hates potatoes was excited he got one, but when he discovered, this afternoon, that I ate said potato (THAT HE WOULD NEVER EAT), there was Armageddon level rage

Economics Literature Search Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!

This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.

paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

😭 now I feel old too!

library(leaflet) library(sf) library(dplyr) data_path <- "...gpkg" tss_2024 <- read_sf(data_path, layer = "TSS Checklist") boundary <- read_sf(data_path, layer = "TSS Boundary") |> st_transform(crs = 4326) tss_traffic_sf <- tss_2024 tss_geographic_sf <- tss_2024 tss_timings_sf <- tss_2024 st_geometry(tss_geographic_sf) <- st_geometry(tss_geographic_sf) + 2 tss_geographic_sf <- tss_geographic_sf |> st_set_crs(27700) |> st_transform(crs = 4326) st_geometry(tss_timings_sf) <- st_geometry(tss_timings_sf) - 2 tss_timings_sf <- tss_timings_sf |> st_set_crs(27700) |> st_transform(crs = 4326) tss_traffic_sf <- tss_traffic_sf |> st_set_crs(27700) |> st_transform(crs = 4326) leaflet() |> addProviderTiles(providers$CartoDB.DarkMatter, group = "Dark") |> addPolygons(data = boundary, fillColor = "transparent", weight = 1, color = "black") |> addPolylines(data = tss_timings_sf, group = "TSS Timings", weight = 4, opacity = 0.5, color = "#878787", highlightOptions = highlightOptions(color = "#899499", weight = 6, opacity = 1)) |> addPolylines(data = tss_geographic_sf, group = "Geographic", weight = 4, opacity = 0.5, color = "#95c11f", highlightOptions = highlightOptions(color = "#AAFF00", weight = 6, opacity = 1)) |> addPolylines(data = tss_traffic_sf, group = "Traffic", weight = 4, color = "#1d71b8", highlightOptions = highlightOptions(color = "cyan", weight = 6, opacity = 1), opacity = 0.5)

Interactive {leaflet} ma showing section of Leeds roadnetwork with 3 separate variables colour-coded and offset (+2m, 0, -2m)
#30DayMapChallenge | Day 02 - Lines #rstats
(code in alt)

A joke scientific paper with the title "Over 90% of children diagnosed with autism consumed breast milk and/or formula mileL a comprehensive cross-sectional analysis of the obvious"

Who did this?!

Cover of “233 Celsius” by Ray Bradbury

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

.@warwickecon.bsky.social has a number of vacancies for Assistant Professors (Macro & Development)

Coventry has canals, an amazing cathedral etc.
... is one hour from London,
20 mins from Birmingham
90 mins from the Peak District National Park

Apply here: 👉 econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

Mastering Apply: From Matrices to Multidimensional Neuroimaging Data - Dr. Mowinckel’s Master apply() in R for multidimensional data analysis.

Just published! 🎉 My new blog post tackles the mighty `apply()` function in R. Demystify `MARGIN` and master operations from matrices to 5D neuroimaging data. Say goodbye to loops! 🧠📊

drmo.site/k40xD5

#RStats #DataScience #Neuroimaging

This seems like a reasonable take given the state of Twitter

Would it not therefore be simpler/
For 30 Conservative MPs to write letters of no confidence in the people/
and elect another?

Obesity Rate Declining in U.S. The U.S. obesity rate is showing signs of abating from its 2022 high. GLP-1 antidiabetic injectables used for weight loss may be playing a role.

GLP-1 drug effect are showing up in health survey data… news.gallup.com/poll/696599/...

You'll do great! Good luck!

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I always liked trilogies 👇

I'm doing a workshop on R package development with Positron on Jan 15 2026. Register for the virtual workshop here: sites.google.com/view/dariia-... I'll cover devtools, usethis, testthat, covr, and a few AI tools along the way to help. #Rstats

I am with you, one letter titles are so much cooler!

I wonder if gen AI is going to eventually so infest online spaces with garbage, awful, horrifying, traumatic audiovisual content that it will simply kill them.

Our net infrastructure is simply not built to contain what’s coming. In fact it is almost built to magnify and multiply all the awfulness.

Sadly, the kids are wise enough to know that if it is useful to me, it can't be fun for them. So they just refuse any such challenges

I just watched a video of someone explaining what they did to entertain their toddler instead of giving them an iPad. One of the things was to have them watch a movie. Like, what do they think the kid does on the iPad? Catch up on filing his expense claims? 🤪

Medieval picture of a smiling man being stabbed all kinds of ways by three smiling assassins

My paper in the review process

R version 4.5.2
(Not) Part in a Rumble
#rstats