Aaron Jones
@profaaronjones.bsky.social
Asst Prof, Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University. Site Director, ICES McMaster
#HealthServicesResearch | #OlderAdults | #Dementia | #Geriatrics | #rstats | #Biostatistics | #Epidemiology | #DataScience | #HamOnt
#HealthServicesResearch | #OlderAdults | #Dementia | #Geriatrics | #rstats | #Biostatistics | #Epidemiology | #DataScience | #HamOnt
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Fitting a generalized mixed model with a gamma distribution log link and random slopes to reaction time data to arrive at precisely the same point estimate as the authors did by simply averaging and conducting a t-test:
May 28, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Fitting a generalized mixed model with a gamma distribution log link and random slopes to reaction time data to arrive at precisely the same point estimate as the authors did by simply averaging and conducting a t-test:
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Angel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said.
Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.
Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules
Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere
Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.
Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules
Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere
April 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Angel of the Lord: He is not here, He is risen, just as He said.
Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.
Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules
Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere
Come and see the place where He lay. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead.
Alito: Okay, first of all, this violates ALL sorts of rules
Thomas: This was a LAWFUL execution, who is God to interfere
February 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Imagine trying to play Pandemic but *plot twist* you can't leave North America.
You'd lose every time.
apnews.com/article/cdc-...
You'd lose every time.
apnews.com/article/cdc-...
CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal
U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.
apnews.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Imagine trying to play Pandemic but *plot twist* you can't leave North America.
You'd lose every time.
apnews.com/article/cdc-...
You'd lose every time.
apnews.com/article/cdc-...
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Not every analysis of multiple () requires multiplicity adjustments (correcting p-values for multiple testing):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Inconsistent multiple testing corrections: The fallacy of using family-based error rates to make inferences about individual hypotheses
During multiple testing, researchers often adjust their alpha level to control the familywise error rate for a statistical inference about a joint uni…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 6, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Not every analysis of multiple () requires multiplicity adjustments (correcting p-values for multiple testing):
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Let us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025
a countdown clock with the number 10 in the center
ALT: a countdown clock with the number 10 in the center
media.tenor.com
December 23, 2024 at 10:36 AM
Let us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025
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Wow that paper is delicious. If #MachineLearning can predict from an image of the knee whether the person has eaten refried beans in the past 12 months, overfitting/overinterpretation/declaring noise as signal must be in play. Predicting weird outcomes is a great way to do bullshit detection.
Of course they do. Statistical models can work this way too. The algorithms, in this sense, are not the problem. The problems lie in the foolish ways some try to apply them, and a broad lack of interest in actually evaluating whether the predictions they generate are clinically useful.
The authors point out that AI models base their predictions on sneaky shortcut effects all the time; they're just easier to identify when the conclusions (beer drinking) are clearly spurious.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
December 16, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Wow that paper is delicious. If #MachineLearning can predict from an image of the knee whether the person has eaten refried beans in the past 12 months, overfitting/overinterpretation/declaring noise as signal must be in play. Predicting weird outcomes is a great way to do bullshit detection.
Our recent work featured in CBC news.
Too many patients are dying in hospital waiting to be discharged. ED/hospital overcrowding has its root cause in lack of adequate capacity in community and subacute settings.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
#MedSky
Too many patients are dying in hospital waiting to be discharged. ED/hospital overcrowding has its root cause in lack of adequate capacity in community and subacute settings.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
#MedSky
www.cbc.ca
January 13, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Our recent work featured in CBC news.
Too many patients are dying in hospital waiting to be discharged. ED/hospital overcrowding has its root cause in lack of adequate capacity in community and subacute settings.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
#MedSky
Too many patients are dying in hospital waiting to be discharged. ED/hospital overcrowding has its root cause in lack of adequate capacity in community and subacute settings.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
#MedSky
Updated overnight and my default font on Microsoft apps has shifted from Calibri to Aptos. Naturally my immediate reaction is that I hate it.
Any font nerds out there to help me decide if I should just roll with it? Could be an opportune moment to pick a different font entirely.
#AcademicSky
Any font nerds out there to help me decide if I should just roll with it? Could be an opportune moment to pick a different font entirely.
#AcademicSky
January 10, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Updated overnight and my default font on Microsoft apps has shifted from Calibri to Aptos. Naturally my immediate reaction is that I hate it.
Any font nerds out there to help me decide if I should just roll with it? Could be an opportune moment to pick a different font entirely.
#AcademicSky
Any font nerds out there to help me decide if I should just roll with it? Could be an opportune moment to pick a different font entirely.
#AcademicSky
Question of the week for #academicsky: Which is more anxiety-inducing?
Checking your work email
Or
Not checking your work email
Checking your work email
Or
Not checking your work email
December 29, 2023 at 5:43 PM
Question of the week for #academicsky: Which is more anxiety-inducing?
Checking your work email
Or
Not checking your work email
Checking your work email
Or
Not checking your work email
A very merry Squishmallow Christmas to anyone in the general proximity of children this year!
They are indeed very squishy.
They are indeed very squishy.
December 25, 2023 at 8:48 PM
A very merry Squishmallow Christmas to anyone in the general proximity of children this year!
They are indeed very squishy.
They are indeed very squishy.
Happy winter solstice! The light returns following the longest night.
December 22, 2023 at 1:55 AM
Happy winter solstice! The light returns following the longest night.
Dear #AcademicSky
I'm new to the senior author role and am fighting the urge to rewrite large portions of my students' papers.
How heavy a hand do you wield when editing for clarity and style?
I'm new to the senior author role and am fighting the urge to rewrite large portions of my students' papers.
How heavy a hand do you wield when editing for clarity and style?
December 11, 2023 at 3:57 PM
Dear #AcademicSky
I'm new to the senior author role and am fighting the urge to rewrite large portions of my students' papers.
How heavy a hand do you wield when editing for clarity and style?
I'm new to the senior author role and am fighting the urge to rewrite large portions of my students' papers.
How heavy a hand do you wield when editing for clarity and style?
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asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.
November 30, 2023 at 10:31 PM
asking for an image of a professor and asking to make it "more professor", a thread.
Hey #EpiSky do you frequently find students (or researchers) feel they must include a multiple regression analysis in every paper? There's a perception that the paper is not complete otherwise.
We need to teach students that regression is not a 🔨 to be used in every quantitative analysis.
We need to teach students that regression is not a 🔨 to be used in every quantitative analysis.
November 2, 2023 at 4:32 PM
Hey #EpiSky do you frequently find students (or researchers) feel they must include a multiple regression analysis in every paper? There's a perception that the paper is not complete otherwise.
We need to teach students that regression is not a 🔨 to be used in every quantitative analysis.
We need to teach students that regression is not a 🔨 to be used in every quantitative analysis.
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Thanks to @elpais.skyfleet.blue for covering our "The Strain on Scientific Publishing" preprint! You can find their article in English here, but they also have the original write-up in Spanish!
#AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
#AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Public funds being swallowed up by scientific journals with dubious articles
An analysis suggests that some academic publishers have multiplied their income thanks to accepting trivial studies en masse
english.elpais.com
October 31, 2023 at 11:08 PM
Thanks to @elpais.skyfleet.blue for covering our "The Strain on Scientific Publishing" preprint! You can find their article in English here, but they also have the original write-up in Spanish!
#AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
#AcademicSky #ScientificPublishing
english.elpais.com/science-tech...
Excellent commentary by my colleague Dr. Jennifer Watt on recently FDA-approved amyloid beta-directed antibodies for Alzheimer's Disease (none are presently approved in Canada)
Uncertain ❔ risk/benefit ratio with high 🔼 costs
#MedSky #AlzSky
www.cmaj.ca/content/195/...
Uncertain ❔ risk/benefit ratio with high 🔼 costs
#MedSky #AlzSky
www.cmaj.ca/content/195/...
Disease-modifying drugs for Alzheimer disease: implications for people in Canada
KEY POINTS
At least 250 000 people in Canada live with mild dementia, and 1.3 million live with mild cognitive impairment.[1][1]–[3][2] Alzheimer disease is implicated in 60%–70% of cases of demen...
www.cmaj.ca
October 30, 2023 at 7:16 PM
Excellent commentary by my colleague Dr. Jennifer Watt on recently FDA-approved amyloid beta-directed antibodies for Alzheimer's Disease (none are presently approved in Canada)
Uncertain ❔ risk/benefit ratio with high 🔼 costs
#MedSky #AlzSky
www.cmaj.ca/content/195/...
Uncertain ❔ risk/benefit ratio with high 🔼 costs
#MedSky #AlzSky
www.cmaj.ca/content/195/...
Insightful editorial by Shah et al. on our work on recurrent ED visits among people with dementia. Geriatric-focused EDs are only becoming more relevant. Excited to be writing a grant on this for the fall.
#medsky #episky #gerisky #dementia
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#medsky #episky #gerisky #dementia
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
https://agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.18610
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October 11, 2023 at 5:22 PM
Insightful editorial by Shah et al. on our work on recurrent ED visits among people with dementia. Geriatric-focused EDs are only becoming more relevant. Excited to be writing a grant on this for the fall.
#medsky #episky #gerisky #dementia
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#medsky #episky #gerisky #dementia
agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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OUCH this is perfectly accurate
#crt #academicsky #trek
#crt #academicsky #trek
Due to Falling Enrollments, We Will No Longer Offer Courses in Romulan at Starfleet Academy
Stardate 59963.2
Welcome to a new school year. In the coming days, a cohort of cadets will begin arriving on campus, and I look forward to continui...
www.mcsweeneys.net
October 6, 2023 at 4:27 PM
OUCH this is perfectly accurate
#crt #academicsky #trek
#crt #academicsky #trek