Ben Moran
@benmoran.bsky.social
Intensivist/Anaesthetist. Novice Researcher & Statistician. PhD Cand. Chronic Pain after ICU & Longitudinal Causal Inference. Bayes-curious. #rstats #T1DM
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Did you know, that in 'honour' of wakefield, there is an #rstats package named after him that generates fake data?
Makes me proud to be an R user.
Makes me proud to be an R user.
November 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Did you know, that in 'honour' of wakefield, there is an #rstats package named after him that generates fake data?
Makes me proud to be an R user.
Makes me proud to be an R user.
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Yes - on track for next year
November 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Yes - on track for next year
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Hello #rstats! 👋 Do you have an #rstats package or skill or strategy you love and would be willing to share with the @rladies.org community? We are looking 👀 for a couple more speakers 🔊 for the 2025–2026 R-Ladies St. Louis season. Reply here and we will contact you to find a date! 💜 💜 💜
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Hello #rstats! 👋 Do you have an #rstats package or skill or strategy you love and would be willing to share with the @rladies.org community? We are looking 👀 for a couple more speakers 🔊 for the 2025–2026 R-Ladies St. Louis season. Reply here and we will contact you to find a date! 💜 💜 💜
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personally i simply refuse to acknowledge the existence of any Star War which occurred after 1983
a non-zero amount of the reason Vance and NatCons are mad at liberals is The Last Jedi
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
personally i simply refuse to acknowledge the existence of any Star War which occurred after 1983
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No. I don't teach at the moment. Search committees are free to slide into my DMs, though
November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
No. I don't teach at the moment. Search committees are free to slide into my DMs, though
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As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.
Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland
YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica
youtu.be
October 10, 2025 at 7:23 AM
As is always correct and in accordance with all the laws of the internet, I just watched Tom Holland's epic Lip Sync Battle performance, and now I am sharing it with all of you so you can do the same.
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This is related to a private conversation I had recently.
IMO, if you want to use Bayesian statistics in your professional work, either (a) work through at least one Bayesian textbook yourself or (b) collaborate with someone who has already done that work themselves.
Take your data seriously.
IMO, if you want to use Bayesian statistics in your professional work, either (a) work through at least one Bayesian textbook yourself or (b) collaborate with someone who has already done that work themselves.
Take your data seriously.
November 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
This is related to a private conversation I had recently.
IMO, if you want to use Bayesian statistics in your professional work, either (a) work through at least one Bayesian textbook yourself or (b) collaborate with someone who has already done that work themselves.
Take your data seriously.
IMO, if you want to use Bayesian statistics in your professional work, either (a) work through at least one Bayesian textbook yourself or (b) collaborate with someone who has already done that work themselves.
Take your data seriously.
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Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
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once again seeking others' opinions to guide my life choices: of those who dropped out of a PhD or converted to Masters, did anyone subsequently complete a PhD with a different topic and supervisors? thoughts for or against this path?
November 3, 2025 at 3:54 AM
once again seeking others' opinions to guide my life choices: of those who dropped out of a PhD or converted to Masters, did anyone subsequently complete a PhD with a different topic and supervisors? thoughts for or against this path?
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New post, on the time Einstein had his first run in with the US peer review system: kucharski.substack.com/p/einstein-v...
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
New post, on the time Einstein had his first run in with the US peer review system: kucharski.substack.com/p/einstein-v...
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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This is an excellent point that generalizes.
Researchers often defend suboptimal practices by referring to future studies with better designs.
But: Why would anybody run those studies when you can just throw a bunch of variables into a regression and make sweeping "preliminary" claims?
Researchers often defend suboptimal practices by referring to future studies with better designs.
But: Why would anybody run those studies when you can just throw a bunch of variables into a regression and make sweeping "preliminary" claims?
October 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
This is an excellent point that generalizes.
Researchers often defend suboptimal practices by referring to future studies with better designs.
But: Why would anybody run those studies when you can just throw a bunch of variables into a regression and make sweeping "preliminary" claims?
Researchers often defend suboptimal practices by referring to future studies with better designs.
But: Why would anybody run those studies when you can just throw a bunch of variables into a regression and make sweeping "preliminary" claims?
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October 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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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?
October 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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?
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This is excellent, and I'm so glad this paper was finally written, and so clearly as well. I basically write an equivalent every time I am consulting with someone proposing this type of study, and I'm so glad I can save my effort and just send them this instead!
October 27, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is excellent, and I'm so glad this paper was finally written, and so clearly as well. I basically write an equivalent every time I am consulting with someone proposing this type of study, and I'm so glad I can save my effort and just send them this instead!
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My journey in anaesthesia research @bjajournals.bsky.social @thermh.bsky.social @anzca.bsky.social @anzcactn.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social topmedtalk.libsyn.com/perioperativ...
TopMedTalk: Perioperative Profiles - Kate Leslie
Andy Cumpstey interviews internationally renowned anaesthetist and researcher, Kate Leslie, Head of Research in the Department of Anaesthesia and Pain Management at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and Ho...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
My journey in anaesthesia research @bjajournals.bsky.social @thermh.bsky.social @anzca.bsky.social @anzcactn.bsky.social @unimelb.bsky.social topmedtalk.libsyn.com/perioperativ...
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after some cool theoretical background, I think these slides sum up Thomas Lumley's talk well
especially "resist mathematical defaults", "rank tests have stronger assumptions than the t-test" & "ordinal data is not the easy option"
a very different take from Frank Harrell's writing on the subject!
especially "resist mathematical defaults", "rank tests have stronger assumptions than the t-test" & "ordinal data is not the easy option"
a very different take from Frank Harrell's writing on the subject!
October 27, 2025 at 4:13 AM
after some cool theoretical background, I think these slides sum up Thomas Lumley's talk well
especially "resist mathematical defaults", "rank tests have stronger assumptions than the t-test" & "ordinal data is not the easy option"
a very different take from Frank Harrell's writing on the subject!
especially "resist mathematical defaults", "rank tests have stronger assumptions than the t-test" & "ordinal data is not the easy option"
a very different take from Frank Harrell's writing on the subject!
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"Pavlovian causal inference": the inherent human tendency to infer causation from mere association, even when we know we ought not to.
The Big Data fallacy 😱
Research by Vosgerau et al suggests decision-makers tend to interpret correlational relationships as causal when sample sizes are large (vs small)—even when given experimental evidence showing no or opposite causal effect:
buff.ly/5ZjWJ8E
Research by Vosgerau et al suggests decision-makers tend to interpret correlational relationships as causal when sample sizes are large (vs small)—even when given experimental evidence showing no or opposite causal effect:
buff.ly/5ZjWJ8E
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 AM
"Pavlovian causal inference": the inherent human tendency to infer causation from mere association, even when we know we ought not to.
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Some days I get a treat on my walk in to teach…
October 21, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Some days I get a treat on my walk in to teach…
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Key point from my invasive CO talk the other day #CHEST2025
October 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Key point from my invasive CO talk the other day #CHEST2025
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The recording is now available so that you can confirm that I indeed have a German accent and color-match my outfits with my Zoom background.
youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...
youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...
October 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The recording is now available so that you can confirm that I indeed have a German accent and color-match my outfits with my Zoom background.
youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...
youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...
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Does anyone know a workaround for modeling residual correlations in multivariate models in {brms}? It only works for Gaussian and Student distributions right now, but maybe someone has a hack…
#RStats (Maybe @solomonkurz.bsky.social?)
#RStats (Maybe @solomonkurz.bsky.social?)
October 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Does anyone know a workaround for modeling residual correlations in multivariate models in {brms}? It only works for Gaussian and Student distributions right now, but maybe someone has a hack…
#RStats (Maybe @solomonkurz.bsky.social?)
#RStats (Maybe @solomonkurz.bsky.social?)
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People sometimes ask why we want to rate DAGs. Couldn't we just rate statistical models instead?
We like to explain it with capybaras and bicycles.
We like to explain it with capybaras and bicycles.
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
People sometimes ask why we want to rate DAGs. Couldn't we just rate statistical models instead?
We like to explain it with capybaras and bicycles.
We like to explain it with capybaras and bicycles.