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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No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
No one says to legit business owners, "hey I see there's an underground market selling toxic knock-offs of your product: how will you incorporate the toxic product AND protect your customers against its harms?" But apparently it's fine to make this suggestion to educators with respect to AI.
Sciences like anthropology are so valuable because they provide refutations to "this is the way it always was, and thus the way it has to be" type assertions. Its very different to the science I do, but perhaps even more valuable.
honestly something i'm noticing is that whenever a midwit hack wants to make an empirical claim about "the way humanity is" without reading any social science they always just go to primatology
December 26, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Sciences like anthropology are so valuable because they provide refutations to "this is the way it always was, and thus the way it has to be" type assertions. Its very different to the science I do, but perhaps even more valuable.
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I'm away from the office bookshelf, but those hoping to find two stable genders, clear distinctions between plants and animals, or between individuals and collectives, will find there is enough weird variation and "well, it depends" beasties down there to be quite upsetting.
December 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I'm away from the office bookshelf, but those hoping to find two stable genders, clear distinctions between plants and animals, or between individuals and collectives, will find there is enough weird variation and "well, it depends" beasties down there to be quite upsetting.
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Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
December 24, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name.
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
"These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."
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Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God reut.rs/4pbeags
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God
Pope Leo said in a Christmas Eve sermon on Wednesday that the story of Jesus being born in a stable because there was no room at an inn should remind Christians that refusing to help the poor and strangers today is tantamount to rejecting God himself.
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December 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Pope Leo, on Christmas Eve, says denying help to poor is rejecting God reut.rs/4pbeags
I had a big year at Lidl. Pretty proud of this achievement, ngl.
December 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I had a big year at Lidl. Pretty proud of this achievement, ngl.
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I don't know that anyone has ever made a very good UX for sampling from high dimensional joint distributions, but etiquettes can work well in their native equilibria #linklog
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
buttondown.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I don't know that anyone has ever made a very good UX for sampling from high dimensional joint distributions, but etiquettes can work well in their native equilibria #linklog
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I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites
US bars former EU commissioner Breton and others over tech rules ft.trib.al/TgoG45B
US bars former EU commissioner Breton and others over tech rules
France hits out at visa sanctions as Washington targets what it calls the ‘global censorship-industrial complex’
ft.trib.al
December 24, 2025 at 11:12 AM
I’ll just note that the US didn’t do this to China, which outright bans US social media websites
Ships are gonna close for 36 hours and we're out here like preppers.
December 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Ships are gonna close for 36 hours and we're out here like preppers.
Once again, John Ioannidis should just shut the fuck up.
December 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Once again, John Ioannidis should just shut the fuck up.
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that’s the real rosetta stone to all of this. some nerds who now have money are mad it didn’t make them cool, and since introspection is woke, it gets expressed as making all the women in the office as uncomfortable as possible
December 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
that’s the real rosetta stone to all of this. some nerds who now have money are mad it didn’t make them cool, and since introspection is woke, it gets expressed as making all the women in the office as uncomfortable as possible
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Ireland has gone 10 years with the freedom to change gender and... society did not collapse. No scandals have erupted. No vile criminal behaviour has resulted. Just 300+ people per year having the right to become themselves. #SpeirGorm
‘For the first time, she could tell people who she was’: Ireland’s gender recognition decade
Ireland’s 2015 Gender Recognition Act was born in an era of optimism and consensus, but as gender-critical activism grows so does debate whether it can hold
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Ireland has gone 10 years with the freedom to change gender and... society did not collapse. No scandals have erupted. No vile criminal behaviour has resulted. Just 300+ people per year having the right to become themselves. #SpeirGorm
Its really nice to live in a country where the head of state (the Taoiseach) can walk down streets of Cork all alone, completely unharassed. I did notice a few grumbles in his wake though :)
December 23, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Its really nice to live in a country where the head of state (the Taoiseach) can walk down streets of Cork all alone, completely unharassed. I did notice a few grumbles in his wake though :)
People can chalk it up to just jokes, but all Chappelle is doing is normalizing violence against transgender people for having the nerve to exist. He's helping to make the world scarier for people who deserve their peace. By a little or a lot, it doesn't matter.
December 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
People can chalk it up to just jokes, but all Chappelle is doing is normalizing violence against transgender people for having the nerve to exist. He's helping to make the world scarier for people who deserve their peace. By a little or a lot, it doesn't matter.
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The hepatitis B vaccine is amazing.
It was the first viral protein subunit vaccine, the first recombinant vaccine, AND the first vaccine to prevent a type of cancer.
That's right: we've had a cancer vaccine for over 40 years.
Our new three-hour episode of Hard Drugs is all about it:
It was the first viral protein subunit vaccine, the first recombinant vaccine, AND the first vaccine to prevent a type of cancer.
That's right: we've had a cancer vaccine for over 40 years.
Our new three-hour episode of Hard Drugs is all about it:
The first cancer vaccine
open.spotify.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The hepatitis B vaccine is amazing.
It was the first viral protein subunit vaccine, the first recombinant vaccine, AND the first vaccine to prevent a type of cancer.
That's right: we've had a cancer vaccine for over 40 years.
Our new three-hour episode of Hard Drugs is all about it:
It was the first viral protein subunit vaccine, the first recombinant vaccine, AND the first vaccine to prevent a type of cancer.
That's right: we've had a cancer vaccine for over 40 years.
Our new three-hour episode of Hard Drugs is all about it:
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Happy unprecedented wave of super-flu season to those who fabulate.
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Happy unprecedented wave of super-flu season to those who fabulate.
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Suppose you ask #AI for improvements to your writing.
The #LLM was trained on, but doesn’t mention, Smith’s work.
You adopt the suggestions containing Smith’s ideas.
You don’t even realize YOU’VE PLAGIARIZED because you’ve never read or heard of Smith.
The #LLM was trained on, but doesn’t mention, Smith’s work.
You adopt the suggestions containing Smith’s ideas.
You don’t even realize YOU’VE PLAGIARIZED because you’ve never read or heard of Smith.
LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
Nature Machine Intelligence - LLM use in scholarly writing poses a provenance problem
doi.org
December 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Long profile of Director Bhattacharya in Science. Lots of perspectives.
www.science.org/content/arti...
1/13
www.science.org/content/arti...
1/13
Will NIH’s new director reform his agency—or destroy it?
Jay Bhattacharya is struggling to make the case he’s in charge and has the agency’s best interests at heart
www.science.org
December 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Long profile of Director Bhattacharya in Science. Lots of perspectives.
www.science.org/content/arti...
1/13
www.science.org/content/arti...
1/13
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We pulled this one out of the paywall for today, because, well
From October 2025: “I might invoke Edward R. Murrow, but they remember him. They don’t have any goodwill toward you. They don’t know who you are at all. And they are not going to defend you when you screw up.”
Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:
Read more from @lopatto.bsky.social:
Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed
Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?
www.theverge.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We pulled this one out of the paywall for today, because, well
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is this "free speech campaigner Bari Weiss" or a different one? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
is this "free speech campaigner Bari Weiss" or a different one? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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What once was largely limited to Stormfront and the fever swamps of the internet just a few years ago is now accepted discourse from the White House.
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 22, 2025 at 12:04 AM
What once was largely limited to Stormfront and the fever swamps of the internet just a few years ago is now accepted discourse from the White House.
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60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site | Documentary Series
Watch full episodes of FRONTLINE, the PBS documentary series, and explore news investigations from FRONTLINE's award-winning journalism team.
www.pbs.org
December 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...
Truly, the question of our times.
December 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Truly, the question of our times.
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I drafted a letter to the editor, please help me out by DMing, commenting, emailing feedback if you are an expert on colliderbias, id obviosuly ad you as a author, Ideally we submit within 24-48 hrs, draft: zenodo.org/records/1800... (click download if the pdf doesnt preview on zenodo)
Negative Associations Between Early and Adult Performance Arise from Colider Selection Bias
Güllich et al. argue that among elite performers there is a negative associationbetween early and adult performance, a pattern they link to distinct developmentalcausal mechanisms for early, and adult...
zenodo.org
December 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I drafted a letter to the editor, please help me out by DMing, commenting, emailing feedback if you are an expert on colliderbias, id obviosuly ad you as a author, Ideally we submit within 24-48 hrs, draft: zenodo.org/records/1800... (click download if the pdf doesnt preview on zenodo)
One of my offspring has started blogging lol (it's mostly about french fries)
open.substack.com/pub/manbland...
open.substack.com/pub/manbland...
Macceytown
on paul street
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December 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
One of my offspring has started blogging lol (it's mostly about french fries)
open.substack.com/pub/manbland...
open.substack.com/pub/manbland...