Matt Parkes

Oh good. Finally. Sheesh lads. 😜

Anyway, everyone do pretty please check out @sonrai.bsky.social for all things research data management and stewardship in Ireland (and beyond).

📢 Chelsea&Westminster Hospital NHS Trust Research Dept. are looking for an enthusiastic & dedicated senior statistician with experience working on drug trials to lead on the statistical work for a small portfolio of sponsored studies.
For details please see here: www.chelwest.nhs.uk/about-us/wor...

Announcing a new special guest edition in Digital Health! Everything on patient-reported outcomes in mHealth, including algorithmic treatment and measurement allocation, N-of-1 trials, preference learning & handling subjective measurements. 📲

Take a look!

journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

Awesome. Always got time for font nerdery. I know our university font and colour guides and try to make all my graphs and slides consistent, which is ridiculously irrelevant time wasting, but oh so satisfying.

Exceptionally pleased to welcome the Michelle Gabriel of the MHRA to the meeting with key updates for delegates around changes to the regulations around clinical trials & recent GCP Inspection findings.

Direct conversations between CTUs & regulators are vital!

#UKCTUNetwork #ClinicalTrialQA2025

Curious about creating a reproducible workflow for your research? 🔍 We provide several self-paced tutorials about tools that make your work more efficient, reproducible, and collaborative.
Self-Paced Tutorial of the Day: Introduction to R 📊 lmu-osc.github.io/introduction...

Handling Missingness, Failures, and Non-Convergence in Simulation Studies: A Review of Current Practices and Recommendations Simulation studies are commonly used in methodological research for the empirical evaluation of data analysis methods. They generate artificial datasets under specified mechanisms and compare the p...

Handling Missingness, Failures, and Non-Convergence in Simulation Studies: A Review of Current Practices and Recommendations

@amstatnews.bsky.social #openaccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in research data literacy and data skills training? Join the University Library and the @ukdataservice.bsky.social on the 22nd. Lunch is provided!
This event forms part of the Research Data Stewardship community activities - join their Teams space to stay in touch!

Introduction to INSPECT-SR Training Workshop November An introductory 2-hour online workshop will introduce participants to the INSPECT-SR tool for assessing trustworthiness of randomised controlled...

Introductory online INSPECT-SR workshop. November 6th, 12-2pm UK-time. Free, places limited. BOOK: www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...

Exactly. True, quality datasets from real phenomena are expensive to obtain, and there are no shortcuts. While the risk that these training datasets get ‘polluted’ with generated stuff gets bigger by the day.

(I mean this is also true of any modelling, but it seems like using in silico data means making an order of magnitude more assumptions than usual)

I think the worrisome bit is that it might be right, but these approximations mean making a whole bunch of untestable assumptions (some explicit, but many implicit), so if you’re wrong, you have no idea why it’s wrong…

This looks great! The question you should *always* ask if you're thinking about doing an SWT.

I'm doing a webinar in two weeks (15 Oct 1-2pm BST), part of NIHR Research Support Service's Methods Academy series, on the age-old question: should I do a stepped wedge trial?

Free registration, details here: tinyurl.com/z6cjvce3

@nihr-rss.bsky.social @wiphcem.bsky.social @qmul-wiph.bsky.social

We're hiring researchers to work on OpenSAFELY | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science Come and work with us! We’re looking for Epidemiologists / Health Data Scientists to join our growing research team.

We are hiring researchers!

We’re looking for Epidemiologists / Health Data Scientists to join our growing research team at the Bennett Institute.

Please check out the job advert and tell your friends!

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

Impact by design: The importance of ensuring rigorous research methods right from the start This was a presentation for Health Research Charities Ireland (September, 2025).

ICYMI:

statsepi.substack.com/p/impact-by-...

Brutalita Sans Brutalita is an experimental font and font editor, edit in your browser and download OTF.

Some of you monsters will like this: Brutalita Sans - a custom font editor. I recommend a font in which every vowel has a random diacritical mark. As a treat. brutalita.com

What happens when a #ClinicalTrial processes deviate from the approved #protocol? How do we help ensure participate safety is maintained at all times?

A new tool, developed by the @ukcrc-ctu.org.uk network, including the team at SCTU, helps trial teams navigate the process.

Full article below 👇

Why randomized controlled trials matter and the procedures that strengthen them Randomized controlled trials are a key tool to study cause and effect. Why do they matter and how do they work?

Read more about RCTs and why they’re so important: ourworldindata.org/randomized-c...

New #OpenScience resource alert!📣

Data Management Plans in Open Science: What, Why, & How

Learn why DMPs matter, how they boost transparency & reproducibility, & how to create one for your research

🔗Access the full resource: shorturl.at/nBxtg
#FORM4Open

Biostatisticians Meet AI: Navigating Shifts While Preserving Principles Click on the article title to read more.

Biostatisticians Meet AI: Navigating Shifts While Preserving Principles. Bin Zhu. Statistics in Medicine. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Constantly!

Perennial advice:

‘Patronising’ is great for that.
“IT’S PAY-TRON-IZING / PA-TRON-IZING” said in an (ironically) patronising way.

(But I do use Lick-urt!)

For the record, it’ll always be ‘gif’ with a hard ‘g’ to me.

A slide with a black background. The text written in white and all caps is: "It's pronounced 'JIF' not 'GIF'". Steve Wilhite's slide at the 2013 Webby Awards arguing that the word ‘gif’ should be pronounced with a soft ‘j’ sound rather than a hard ‘g’ sound.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pronunc...

Pretty keen to listen to this one…

Wonderful discussion with @f2harrell.bsky.social and @statberry.bsky.social !

New paper in @jclinepi.bsky.social led by my super cool PhD student @kahin-tai.bsky.social with the SHARE-CTD (@sharectd.bsky.social) crew. It is the 2nd paper in a “JCE trilogy” on data sharing by SHARE-CTD: the 1st one addressed the topic in broad terms, and the third will focus on data reuse.