Martin Stockler
martinstockler.bsky.social
Martin Stockler
@martinstockler.bsky.social
Grappling with oncology, clinical research, quality of life, prognostication, communication, education, rabbitohs, wallabies, cricket, and other enigmas
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Roget’s Dwarves:

Somnolent
Diffident
Jubilant
Gormless
Sternutatory
Cantankerous
Quack
September 13, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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This paper is an interesting result that I've seen at a lot of poster sessions. Complicated machine learning models look good, but often they don't perform much better than simple #statistics models, like linear regression (if they even perform better at all) […]
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scholar.social
August 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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It is baffling how many do not understand that simulation is just a (usually inferior) way of doing the calculations. It is not a way of producing evidence.
July 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
If you could have 1 person visit your trial in progress poster about a randomized phase 3 trial of accelerated BEP chemotherapy at #ASCO #GU25, who would you choose?
February 18, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
www.nature.com
January 26, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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"Misinformation and disinformation can no longer be viewed simply as an academic nuisance, but rather they are a societal threat." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Health in the age of disinformation
Health misinformation (false or misleading data shared unintentionally) and disinformation (deliberately deceptive information) are not new, but the COVID-19 pandemic marked a turning point. The sense...
www.thelancet.com
January 18, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Eagerly awaiting Dark Noon @ Sydney Town Hall with @LovelyJezebel.bsky.social,
event 6 of our 2025 #SydFest #SydneyFestival @Sydney_Festival
www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/dark-...
Dark Noon - Sydney Festival
History is told by victors. This story is told by the vanquished
www.sydneyfestival.org.au
January 18, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Eagerly awaiting Siegfried & Roy @SydneyTheaterCo Wharf Theatre with @lovelyjezebel.bsky.social,
event 5 of our 2025 #SydFest #SydneyFestival @Sydney_Festival

www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/siegf...
Siegfried & Roy: The Unauthorised Opera - Sydney Festival
A tale of fame, fortune and danger
www.sydneyfestival.org.au
January 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Eagerly awaiting
Melanie Tait’s
A Model Murder
@ Darlinghurst Courthouse
with @lovelyjezebel.bsky.social,
event 4 of our 2025 #SydFest #SydneyFestival @Sydney_Festival

www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/a-mod...
A Model Murder - Sydney Festival
The true crime story of Shirley Beiger
www.sydneyfestival.org.au
January 12, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Eagerly awaiting Back to Back Theatre's Multiple Bad Things @SydOperaHouse with @lovelyjezebel.bsky.social

Event 3 of our 2025 #SydFest #SydneyFestival @Sydney_Festival

www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/multi...
MULTIPLE BAD THINGS - Sydney Festival
They're just saying what you've already been thinking
www.sydneyfestival.org.au
January 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Eagerly awaiting Air Time @SeymourSydney w @lovelyjezebel.bsky.social
2nd event of our 2025 #SydFest #SydneyFestival @Sydney_Festival

www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/air-t...
Air Time - Sydney Festival
A chaotic nexus of wheels, dance and parkour
www.sydneyfestival.org.au
January 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Eagerly awaiting our 1st event of 2025 #SydFest www.sydneyfestival.org.au/events/as-yo...
As You Like It Or The Land Acknowledgement - Sydney Festival
Theatre with a hard twist
www.sydneyfestival.org.au
January 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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Record broken!

Via CA:

"Boxing Day Test Day 5 current attendance is 51,371. The total attendance of 350,700 is the greatest for any Test match at the MCG exceeding the total of 350,534 v England in 1937 over 6 days. (This also the greatest attendance for any Test match played in Australia.)"
December 30, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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Cripes, Bumrah is the best cricketer in the world right now. First picked in any WorldXI. An all-time great right in front of our eyes. #AUSvIND
December 29, 2024 at 4:05 AM
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"Uncertainty is part of being human, so how can we learn to live with it?" (Guardian) www.smartnews.com/en-us/articl...
Uncertainty is part of being human, so how can we learn to live with it? (The Guardian)
My father was an enthusiastic traveller, but as he got older he increasingly suffered from what he called “travel fever”, a vivid term for the acute anxiety ...
www.smartnews.com
December 15, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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December 15, 2024 at 8:16 AM