Darren Dahly
@statsepi.bsky.social
Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats #WBE #IDSurveillance
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Darren Dahly
@statsepi.bsky.social
· Sep 15
Thanks again to @avrilkennan.bsky.social for the opportunity to share some thoughts on research integrity and methodological rigor with a room full of Irish health research funders via @hrci.bsky.social. 🙏
youtu.be/5q8l-OV9Msc
youtu.be/5q8l-OV9Msc
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Labour timidity in defending the BBC is a great shame, but explicable. To defend them here you have to point out that notwithstanding the unfortunate edit Trump *did* incite the riots, having falsely claimed the election was fraudulent, and later lauding and pardoning the rioters.
November 11, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Labour timidity in defending the BBC is a great shame, but explicable. To defend them here you have to point out that notwithstanding the unfortunate edit Trump *did* incite the riots, having falsely claimed the election was fraudulent, and later lauding and pardoning the rioters.
**the understated chuckle of a medical statistician**
November 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
**the understated chuckle of a medical statistician**
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"It’s ironic, of course, that much of the research driving our understanding of AI is produced by universities themselves."
Yeah, maybe think about that one for a minute...?
Yeah, maybe think about that one for a minute...?
Opinion: “It’s difficult to think of another sector that has so dismally failed to strategically engage with the transformative potential of information technology.”
🖊️ Ian Richardson #highered #EduSky
https://ow.ly/zXc850Xpvbu
🖊️ Ian Richardson #highered #EduSky
https://ow.ly/zXc850Xpvbu
November 11, 2025 at 8:36 AM
"It’s ironic, of course, that much of the research driving our understanding of AI is produced by universities themselves."
Yeah, maybe think about that one for a minute...?
Yeah, maybe think about that one for a minute...?
Musing: Universities that subsist on selling expensive degrees to international students via fully online delivery will be wrecked when LLMs undercut the trust that students actually earned those degrees. Institutional reputation will suffer where in-person instruction/assessment isn't the norm
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Musing: Universities that subsist on selling expensive degrees to international students via fully online delivery will be wrecked when LLMs undercut the trust that students actually earned those degrees. Institutional reputation will suffer where in-person instruction/assessment isn't the norm
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There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
There is a lot of fuss today over whether chatbots can replace human participants in social sciences research when the solution is obvious: ask chatbots to simulate the views of social scientists and survey them on attitudes towards chatbots as substitutes for human subjects.
J.F.Christ on a cracker this is grim. 20 bucks says some competent data person has been begging them to implement sensible approaches for dealing with this stuff for the past 10+ years and it all fell on deaf ears. This is how it feels every time I hear about the HSE developing an "AI strategy".
November 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
J.F.Christ on a cracker this is grim. 20 bucks says some competent data person has been begging them to implement sensible approaches for dealing with this stuff for the past 10+ years and it all fell on deaf ears. This is how it feels every time I hear about the HSE developing an "AI strategy".
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The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
To fix the BBC, focus on competence and cash
Corporation fails to learn from criticism, while politicians have consciously reduced its scope for quality journalism
www.ft.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The impossible dream some people on the British right are chasing is that you can have a BBC News operation that retreats from detail and expertise, that takes dictation from the government, but this will only create incompetence and failure when it suits you:
I hit my 9 y/o with a "Nun-ya...Nun-ya Business" and they are still in tears.
November 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I hit my 9 y/o with a "Nun-ya...Nun-ya Business" and they are still in tears.
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I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
The Trump-MAHA-Stanford nexus of US health policy | CNN Politics
In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns m...
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
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Harnessing generative artificial intelligence for teaching statistics in medical research: Strategies for accurate hypothesis testing
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Using julius.ai, the article describes how to use LLMs in a stats class. I don't want to sound harsh, but it is not clear 1/
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Using julius.ai, the article describes how to use LLMs in a stats class. I don't want to sound harsh, but it is not clear 1/
November 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Harnessing generative artificial intelligence for teaching statistics in medical research: Strategies for accurate hypothesis testing
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Using julius.ai, the article describes how to use LLMs in a stats class. I don't want to sound harsh, but it is not clear 1/
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Using julius.ai, the article describes how to use LLMs in a stats class. I don't want to sound harsh, but it is not clear 1/
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This is literally their use case for scientific research they use to advertise the service. There is no confidence interval in sight.
November 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This is literally their use case for scientific research they use to advertise the service. There is no confidence interval in sight.
You do not need to see the results in order to write ~2/3 of a quant. research paper in medicine/health.
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
You do not need to see the results in order to write ~2/3 of a quant. research paper in medicine/health.
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A little more about trustworthy data visualization and the work of the philosopher Katherine Hawley.
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
Trustworthy Data Visualization
This past September I gave the closing keynote at posit::conf; it’s now on YouTube to watch. Keen-eyed observers will note from the title that it’s about trustworthy data visualization. But it’s also ...
kieranhealy.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A little more about trustworthy data visualization and the work of the philosopher Katherine Hawley.
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
It's only an interim analysis if I tell you the results 😜
November 10, 2025 at 2:16 PM
It's only an interim analysis if I tell you the results 😜
Never ask the same question two different ways unless you want to learn how unseriously people take their responses 😜
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Never ask the same question two different ways unless you want to learn how unseriously people take their responses 😜
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Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments:
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.
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Forecast intervals from my time series model be like
November 6, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Forecast intervals from my time series model be like
Every once in a while I remember those people who were so concerned about learning loss during the pandemic, and I wonder why they so obviously stopped caring about this important topic.
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Every once in a while I remember those people who were so concerned about learning loss during the pandemic, and I wonder why they so obviously stopped caring about this important topic.
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A lifehack for turning "non-significant" results into pure gold?
(ICYMI)
statsepi.substack.com/p/one-simple...
(ICYMI)
statsepi.substack.com/p/one-simple...
One simple trick that statisticians hate
If you don't like the results, just ignore the control group
statsepi.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:29 AM
A lifehack for turning "non-significant" results into pure gold?
(ICYMI)
statsepi.substack.com/p/one-simple...
(ICYMI)
statsepi.substack.com/p/one-simple...
This can't possibly be real. Except it is. This is what we reward in academic medicine.
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This can't possibly be real. Except it is. This is what we reward in academic medicine.
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Happening TODAY at 3pm GMT 👇
Have you ever wondered how the transportability of an estimate may be affected by the choice of effect measure?
Join us in Nov to hear from @mpiccininni3.bsky.social on why the causal risk ratio might be more stable and transportable across settings.
Sign up: ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#CIIG
Join us in Nov to hear from @mpiccininni3.bsky.social on why the causal risk ratio might be more stable and transportable across settings.
Sign up: ucl.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#CIIG
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happening TODAY at 3pm GMT 👇
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I'm participating in an "Open Science Exploratory Roundtable" in the Max Planck Society later this week, so bumping my grumpy thoughts about open science again. I'm as curious as everyone else to see what a club of competitive narcissists who succeeded under the status quo (the MPG) can manage!
How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...
Which Kind of Science Reform
What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.
elevanth.org
November 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I'm participating in an "Open Science Exploratory Roundtable" in the Max Planck Society later this week, so bumping my grumpy thoughts about open science again. I'm as curious as everyone else to see what a club of competitive narcissists who succeeded under the status quo (the MPG) can manage!
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Thanks Amy Campbell and the Echo for reporting the upgraded streaming service going live for the first time this evening at Cork City Council.
Join from 5:00pm for debate on cost-rental housing for key workers, childcare facilities in city council developments, and more.
📺 corkcity.public-i.tv
Join from 5:00pm for debate on cost-rental housing for key workers, childcare facilities in city council developments, and more.
📺 corkcity.public-i.tv
Cork City Council to use new system to live-stream meetings
The system will feature on-screen information showing the names of speakers, and the agenda items being discussed.
www.echolive.ie
November 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Thanks Amy Campbell and the Echo for reporting the upgraded streaming service going live for the first time this evening at Cork City Council.
Join from 5:00pm for debate on cost-rental housing for key workers, childcare facilities in city council developments, and more.
📺 corkcity.public-i.tv
Join from 5:00pm for debate on cost-rental housing for key workers, childcare facilities in city council developments, and more.
📺 corkcity.public-i.tv
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage