IBD Doctor
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Interested in #rstats, reproducibility of medical research, soccer, cycling, and of course, improving care in #IBD
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Yikes.
A new breed of the 2008 cockroaches
has appeared in the US financial system
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
A new breed of the 2008 cockroaches
has appeared in the US financial system
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Opinion | How Bad Is Finance’s Cockroach Problem? We May Be About to Find Out.
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Yikes.
A new breed of the 2008 cockroaches
has appeared in the US financial system
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
A new breed of the 2008 cockroaches
has appeared in the US financial system
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
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I'm finally writing a proper paper about faux, and have so many naming & default choices I regret (it was my first solo R package). Which is a better strategy:
1. Add new functions that work the way I wish the old ones did, but keep the old ones
2. Create a faux2 package and retire faux eventually
1. Add new functions that work the way I wish the old ones did, but keep the old ones
2. Create a faux2 package and retire faux eventually
October 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
I'm finally writing a proper paper about faux, and have so many naming & default choices I regret (it was my first solo R package). Which is a better strategy:
1. Add new functions that work the way I wish the old ones did, but keep the old ones
2. Create a faux2 package and retire faux eventually
1. Add new functions that work the way I wish the old ones did, but keep the old ones
2. Create a faux2 package and retire faux eventually
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Why most polls overstate support for political violence
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...
Why most polls overstate support for political violence
Misperceptions about the popularity of violence increase public support for it — but you can help change that.
www.gelliottmorris.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Why most polls overstate support for political violence
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/most-polls...
Every once in a while I need to fiddle with long category labels in #rstats ggplot2.
It always helps me to refer back to this excellent blog post by #AndrewHeiss @cararthompson.bsky.social
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2022/06...
It always helps me to refer back to this excellent blog post by #AndrewHeiss @cararthompson.bsky.social
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2022/06...
Quick and easy ways to deal with long labels in ggplot2 | Andrew Heiss
Explore different manual and automatic ways to rotate, dodge, recode, break up, and otherwise deal with long axis labels with ggplot2
www.andrewheiss.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Every once in a while I need to fiddle with long category labels in #rstats ggplot2.
It always helps me to refer back to this excellent blog post by #AndrewHeiss @cararthompson.bsky.social
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2022/06...
It always helps me to refer back to this excellent blog post by #AndrewHeiss @cararthompson.bsky.social
www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2022/06...
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Testing is free, discreet and easy - for more information on the RAPID-IBD study visit www.royaldevon.nhs.uk/about-us/res...
NHS Royal Devon | The RAPID-IBD study
www.royaldevon.nhs.uk
October 6, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Testing is free, discreet and easy - for more information on the RAPID-IBD study visit www.royaldevon.nhs.uk/about-us/res...
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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This is what happens without vaccinations.
The ducks are adorable.
The hospitalized child with a respirator is tragic.
And now preventable.
The ducks are adorable.
The hospitalized child with a respirator is tragic.
And now preventable.
September 18, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This is what happens without vaccinations.
The ducks are adorable.
The hospitalized child with a respirator is tragic.
And now preventable.
The ducks are adorable.
The hospitalized child with a respirator is tragic.
And now preventable.
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This photo is making the rounds on social media and some have asked if it's legit.
It is.
As the curator of a new exhibit on U-M medical history that opens this weekend, I wanted to share a link showing that it was taken by a LIFE magazine photographer: www.life.com/animals/anim...
#IDsky
It is.
As the curator of a new exhibit on U-M medical history that opens this weekend, I wanted to share a link showing that it was taken by a LIFE magazine photographer: www.life.com/animals/anim...
#IDsky
September 19, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This photo is making the rounds on social media and some have asked if it's legit.
It is.
As the curator of a new exhibit on U-M medical history that opens this weekend, I wanted to share a link showing that it was taken by a LIFE magazine photographer: www.life.com/animals/anim...
#IDsky
It is.
As the curator of a new exhibit on U-M medical history that opens this weekend, I wanted to share a link showing that it was taken by a LIFE magazine photographer: www.life.com/animals/anim...
#IDsky
Fourth episode now up:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
September 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Fourth episode now up:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
DTW (the airport near Detroit) has a pet therapy dog program with dog trading cards - take a look here
cdn.metroairport.com/uploads/Publ...
cdn.metroairport.com/uploads/Publ...
September 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
DTW (the airport near Detroit) has a pet therapy dog program with dog trading cards - take a look here
cdn.metroairport.com/uploads/Publ...
cdn.metroairport.com/uploads/Publ...
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🚀 #rJavaEnv #rstats (helper for 100+ Java-dependent packages ) is about to get its biggest update yet. Just in time for ~10k downloads, Java 25 release, and its CRAN bday!
👉 Dev version: github.com/e-kotov/rJav...
New: (1) full Linux support + (2) env setup so you can build {rJava} from source.
👉 Dev version: github.com/e-kotov/rJav...
New: (1) full Linux support + (2) env setup so you can build {rJava} from source.
September 8, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🚀 #rJavaEnv #rstats (helper for 100+ Java-dependent packages ) is about to get its biggest update yet. Just in time for ~10k downloads, Java 25 release, and its CRAN bday!
👉 Dev version: github.com/e-kotov/rJav...
New: (1) full Linux support + (2) env setup so you can build {rJava} from source.
👉 Dev version: github.com/e-kotov/rJav...
New: (1) full Linux support + (2) env setup so you can build {rJava} from source.
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Reminds me of when we had a Ukranian refugee join us at work, he sat in his new class and immediately 3/4 boys ran over and started talking to him. They had all learned some Ukranian phrases that might be useful and really looked after him. Nobody asked them, they were just wonderful kids!/1
September 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Reminds me of when we had a Ukranian refugee join us at work, he sat in his new class and immediately 3/4 boys ran over and started talking to him. They had all learned some Ukranian phrases that might be useful and really looked after him. Nobody asked them, they were just wonderful kids!/1
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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The website rspatialdata is a collection of data, tutorials, and more to help you learn to work with geospatial data. Put together by @paulamoraga.bsky.social and Laurie Baker, the website is a goldmine.
rspatialdata.github.io/index.html
rspatialdata.github.io/index.html
rspatialdata
rspatialdata.github.io
April 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The website rspatialdata is a collection of data, tutorials, and more to help you learn to work with geospatial data. Put together by @paulamoraga.bsky.social and Laurie Baker, the website is a goldmine.
rspatialdata.github.io/index.html
rspatialdata.github.io/index.html
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When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
"Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't
YouTube video by Farm to Taber
youtu.be
September 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
That's... usually not the case!
In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.
We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?
youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk
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The next episode of the Crush-Cast is out now!
This episode stars the wonderful Monica Dollive. We discuss our years-long Twilight feud, whether Monica had a "Dad Thing", and the one and only crush we can agree on: Kevin Bacon in Footloose.
You can find us on Apple, Spotify or YouTube!
This episode stars the wonderful Monica Dollive. We discuss our years-long Twilight feud, whether Monica had a "Dad Thing", and the one and only crush we can agree on: Kevin Bacon in Footloose.
You can find us on Apple, Spotify or YouTube!
September 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The next episode of the Crush-Cast is out now!
This episode stars the wonderful Monica Dollive. We discuss our years-long Twilight feud, whether Monica had a "Dad Thing", and the one and only crush we can agree on: Kevin Bacon in Footloose.
You can find us on Apple, Spotify or YouTube!
This episode stars the wonderful Monica Dollive. We discuss our years-long Twilight feud, whether Monica had a "Dad Thing", and the one and only crush we can agree on: Kevin Bacon in Footloose.
You can find us on Apple, Spotify or YouTube!
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🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget!
House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion.
To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!
House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion.
To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!
September 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
🧪 And House appropriators say: no cuts to NIH budget!
House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion.
To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!
House subcommittee version just came out (link below). Holds NIH flat at $48 billion.
To be clear: this is far from over. But a good sign that science still matters across both sides of aisle.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!
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Last Week's Episode: open.spotify.com/show/1q0u9ta...
I Deserve a Big Love with Camila Quiñones
open.spotify.com
August 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Last Week's Episode: open.spotify.com/show/1q0u9ta...
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New Crush-Cast drops tomorrow! 😉 ❤️ 🥳 My friend Jackson has a great ep about his crushes, where we talk Magic Mike XXL, Red Dead Redemption, tiny moments in Dune, and learning how to live authentically in your own sexuality.
August 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
New Crush-Cast drops tomorrow! 😉 ❤️ 🥳 My friend Jackson has a great ep about his crushes, where we talk Magic Mike XXL, Red Dead Redemption, tiny moments in Dune, and learning how to live authentically in your own sexuality.
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Apple Podcasts Link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Crush-Cast
Relationships Podcast · Welcome to the Crush-Cast! This is a place where we discuss crushes past and present, and what they can tell us about ourselves. Tune in every Tuesday, as a new guest takes us ...
podcasts.apple.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Apple Podcasts Link: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
A new podcast for those who pod:
We discuss crushes past and present, and what they can tell us about ourselves. Tune in as a new guest takes us on a crush retrospective: from their childhood crushes, to celebrities, to fictional characters, and everything in-between.
We discuss crushes past and present, and what they can tell us about ourselves. Tune in as a new guest takes us on a crush retrospective: from their childhood crushes, to celebrities, to fictional characters, and everything in-between.
August 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
A new podcast for those who pod:
We discuss crushes past and present, and what they can tell us about ourselves. Tune in as a new guest takes us on a crush retrospective: from their childhood crushes, to celebrities, to fictional characters, and everything in-between.
We discuss crushes past and present, and what they can tell us about ourselves. Tune in as a new guest takes us on a crush retrospective: from their childhood crushes, to celebrities, to fictional characters, and everything in-between.
Baboons grooming in Kenya
August 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Baboons grooming in Kenya