Angelo D’Ambrosio

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I’m never going back to Microsoft Word after mastering this open-source self-hosted tool I’m done with Word

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Scientists Discover a Viral Cause of One of The Most Common Cancers A common type of human papillomavirus (HPV) could be more dangerous than we thought.

www.sciencealert.com/scientists-d...

CRAN: Package contentanalysis Provides comprehensive tools for extracting and analyzing scientific content from PDF documents, including citation extraction, reference matching, text analysis, and bibliometric indicators. Supports multi-column PDF layouts, 'CrossRef' API &lt;<a href="https://www.crossref.org/documentation/retrieve-metadata/rest-api/" target="_top">https://www.crossref.org/documentation/retrieve-metadata/rest-api/</a>&gt; integration, and advanced citation parsing.

New CRAN package contentanalysis with initial version 0.2.0
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=contentanalysis

NIH Alzheimer’s Research Funding Is Back — for 49% Fewer Projects Though the NIH director is calling for $187 million more in funding for Alzheimer’s, the NIH is funding fewer new projects.

According to @jeremymberg.bsky.social
the number of new Alzheimer’s research projects receiving funding this yr is down 49%

Fewer projects will be funded as awards will be given in lump sum upfront.

This has been shown to lower success rates & stifle innovation.
🧪 beingpatient.com/alzheimers-r...

add diff diagnostics by avehtari · Pull Request #300 · stan-dev/loo The corresponding issue #299 This PR is not ready for merge, but needs some thought

We have a PR for `loo` package github.com/stan-dev/loo..., adding new columns to `loo_compare()` output. Check out how the new output looks in a variant of that case study users.aalto.fi/~ave/casestu...

Please, check out the case study and possibly try also that PR, and provide feedback!

3/3

A "methods primer" article in the journal "BMJ Medicine", titled "Factors associated with: problems of using exploratory multivariable regression to identify causal risk factors"

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

🦠📊 Strengthening outbreak investigation skills with R!

From 7–9 Oct 2025, ECDC and the EU Health Task Force (EUHTF) held a 3-day training in Stockholm on using R for outbreak investigations.

#ECDC #EUHTF #RStats #OutbreakResponse #PublicHealth #IDsky #EpiSky

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Limited overlap between genetic effects on disease susceptibility and disease survival - Nature Genetics www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪 #Rstats code github.com/Zhiyu-9668/P...

Yep, I thought that was the issue but probably it’s just the search algorithm not being good!

For me it’s experiments. Git ignored to hide shame

Apparently not available on cursor :/

Use .by in mutate and remove group_by and ungroup

Civil evolution

GitHub - ambiorix-web/ambiorix: 🖥️ Web framework for R 🖥️ Web framework for R. Contribute to ambiorix-web/ambiorix development by creating an account on GitHub.

Did you know that the A in FAANG stands for Ambiorix?

(and the R is for #rstats)

github.com/ambiorix-web...

Ebola update from Kasai, DRC:
2 new cases confirmed in recent days, none on the contact list — a continued concern for control efforts.
CFR remains ~60%, clearly higher than anyone would like.
On the positive side: vaccination rollout progressing well.
www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

{equatiomatic} - Convert models to equations: github.com/datalorax/eq...

#RStats bookmark from the old twitter

Childhood immunological imprinting of cross-subtype antibodies targeting the hemagglutinin head domain of influenza viruses Influenza virus cross-subtype antibodies targeting the hemagglutinin (HA) head are rare. Here, we found that a large proportion of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) isolated from individuals immunized with...

I'm proud of our new study showing that some people born in the 1990s have high levels of antibodies that cross-react to H3 viruses from the 1990s and....contemporary H1N1 viruses. Such a surprising story led by Grace Li, in collaboration with many Penn-CEIRR labs. 1/
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Does it work with brms?

A sincere question, why not use browser local storage capabilities instead of bookmarks or backend side storage?

I wish there was static compilation or JIT of function and objects of dependency packages, so that one would not wait to get all dependencies to use just a few functions

Whoa—my book is up for pre-order!

𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭 & 𝐌𝐋 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐢𝐧 #Rstats 𝐚𝐧𝐝 #PyData

The book presents an ultra-simple and powerful workflow to make sense of ± any model you fit

The web version will stay free forever and my proceeds go to charity.

tinyurl.com/4fk56fc8

From my #rstats bookmarks:
{flow} - Visualize functions and scripts as flow diagrams: github.com/moodymudskip...

plumber2 0.1.0 plumber2, a complete rewrite of plumber, has landed on CRAN, providing a modern, future proof solution for creating web servers in R. Read all about the new features here.

I am super hyped to finally share the first release of plumber2 with all of you. This has been the center of my attention for a big part of 2025 and I hope you'll find it a worthy update to the venerable plumber package.

The blog post will tell you more

#rstats

mirai 2.5.0 mirai - minimalist async evaluation framework for R - brings production-grade parallel and distributed computing to the ecosystem.

tidyverse blog: mirai 2.5.0

www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/09...

This milestone release delivers enhanced observability through OpenTelemetry, reproducible parallel RNG, and key user interface improvements.

We’ve also packed in twice as many changes as usual!
#Rstats #tidyverse

100% agree + #RStats WebR works in Notebooks 2.0 & Desktop!

I went into some detail abt Notebooks & Desktop this past week: dailydrop.hrbrmstr.dev/2025/07/31/d...

YouTube video by useR! Conference The Future of Asynchronous Programming in R - Charlie Gao

It's always a pleasure to present at useR, and I'm doing so virtually this year. Hit the following video to see how we've been upgrading async across the ecosystem at Posit, whether that's in #RShiny, the #tidyverse or our LLM tooling. #Rstats #user2025

youtu.be/sGLD8oVquho?...

The virtual useR! 2025 event is happening tomorrow (August 1). There's still time to register. Claim your spot, for free, before time runs out!

The program: user2025.r-project.org/program/virt...
Registration: user2025.r-project.org/register

#useR2025 #rstats

Why not simply use unit testing?