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I have used AI to review a paper and it found methodolical flaws I never thought of. It also spotted differences of values in tables and manuscript I would never have found.

Introduction to Julia for R users – Nicola Rennie This blog post will give R users an overview of what Julia is and why they might want to use it, introduce some data processing Julia packages, and show how they can incorporate Julia into existing R ...

If you're interested in learning #JuliaLang and are currently an #RStats user (or even if you're not!), then here's a little introduction to getting started! 📊

Blog post: nrennie.rbind.io/blog/introdu...

#QuartoPub #Julia @tidierjl.bsky.social

Positron is now out of beta 🥳https://github.com/posit-dev/positron

The Nighthold

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🚨 Call for Papers: Causal Data Science Meeting 2025
📅 November 12–13, 2025 (Virtual)

📥 Submit by Sept 30: submission@causalscience.org
🎙️ Keynote: Stefan Feuerriegel (LMU Munich)

🌐 More Info and registration: causalscience.org
#CausalML #AI #DataScience #CDSM2025 #CanIPetThatDAG

Someone explain the science behind that

#ICLR2025 Marine Le Morvan presents "Imputation for prediction: beware of diminishing returns": poster Thu 24th
arxiv.org/abs/2407.19804

Concludes 6 years of research on prediction with missing values: Imputation is useful but improvements are expensive, while better learners yield easier gains.

Exclusive: the most-cited papers of the twenty-first century A Nature analysis reveals the 25 highest-cited papers published this century and explores why they are breaking records.

AI, cancer, and some psychology www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Propensity score weighting - Nature Methods The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. —Mr. Spock (Star Trek II)

This month's Points of Significance column features propensity score weighting. Check it out!
@martin-krzywinski.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."

Mr. Spock, Sozialdemokrat.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology The news that on 31 January 2025 the Trump administration instructed scientists employed by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to withdraw or retract articles from medical and sci...

BMJ will not retract published articles on request by an author on the basis that they contain so-called banned words www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Poster for Andor season 2

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Symposium "Recent Advances in Meta-Analysis" From June 30th - July 1st 2025, the symposium "Recent Advances in Meta-Analysis" will take place at TU Dortmund University.

interested in methods for #MetaAnalysis?
Symposium: Recent Advances in Meta-Analysis
Dortmund University, Germany, June 30th - July 1st, 2025 https://msind.statistik.tu-dortmund.de/en/research/events/meta-analysis-symposium-2025/

The illustrated guide to a PhD matt.might.net/articles/phd...

We have a NEW PAPER in @naturemedicine.bsky.social on reporting recommendations for addressing the unique challenges of #largelanguagemodels (LLMs) in biomedical applications

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#MLSky #StatsSky #medSky #AISky #artificialintelligence #generativeAI #transparency

Burdens of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages in 184 countries - Nature Medicine Estimates from the Global Dietary Database indicated that 2.2 million new type 2 diabetes and 1.2 million new cardiovascular disease cases were attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages worldwide in 2...

Burdens of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease attributable to sugar-sweetened beverages in 184 countries www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An evaluation framework for clinical use of large language models in patient interaction tasks https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03328-5 (read free: https://rdcu.be/d5oJ1) 🧬🖥️🧪 https://github.com/rajpurkarlab/craft-md

Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings

Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings english.elpais.com/science-tech...

This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.

Novo Nordisk stock crashed -20% today because their new weight loss drug is less effective than expected 😟

Should You Ditch Spark for DuckDb or Polars? There’s been a lot of excitement lately about single-machine compute engines like DuckDB and Polars. With the recent release of pure Python Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric, the excitement about these li...

Interesting comparison and benchmarks between spark, duckdb and polars mwc360.github.io/data-enginee...

Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor in 2024 Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor in 2024 Living with overweight or obesity has overtaken tobacco smoking as the leading risk factor contributing t...

In 2024, obesity surpasses smoking as the top preventable disease risk due to rising obesity rates and declining smoking. www.scimex.org/newsfeed/bei...

Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings

Saudi Arabia’s scheme to boost university rankings by paying foreign scientists to falsely claim Saudi affiliations has collapsed https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-scientists-stop-falsely-claiming-to-work-in-saudi-arabia.html

Chocolate intake and risk of type 2 diabetes: prospective cohort studies Objective To prospectively investigate the associations between dark, milk, and total chocolate consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in three US cohorts. Design Prospective cohort studies. ...

Dark chocolate good, milk chocolate bad 🤔🫣 www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Highly recommended 👇

BTW, what font is this?

Malaria vaccine delivered by a mosquito bite archive.ph/2024.11.23-2...

Altmetric is now on bluesky and they started tracking publications mentioned here