Medical Doctor in Public Health and Social Medicine, MPH, PhD candidate. I work as (bio)statistician at the University Hospital of Caen and I teach #statistics and #PublicHealth at the University of Caen, Normandy. #Statsodon #StatsInMed
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[blog] Introducing distionary for Building and Probing Distributions đ đ
Vincenzo Coia presents distionary, a package for quickly and easily making probability distributions from a couple of inputs or from the built-in library.
Explore the package's main features with some nice examples and usecases.
https://ropensci.org/blog/2026/01/20/introducing-distionary/
đ Shoutouts to reviewers Katrina Brock and Christophe Dutang
The anti-autocracy handbook: how scientists can cope with democratic backsliding. This guide is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism.
The Anti-Autocracy Handbook is a call to action, resilience, and collective defence of democracy, truth, and academic freedom in the face of mounting authoritarianism. It tries to provide guidance to scholars navigating the growing global trend of democratic backsliding and autocratization, in particular in the U.S. To this end, it sets out how autocracies often follow a common playbook, built around the â3 Psâ: populism, polarization, and post-truth. Leaders present themselves as voices of âthe peopleâ against âcorrupt elitesâ, inflame societal divisions, and undermine facts to avoid accountability. This leads to a cascade of dangers for scholarship, including censorship, restrictions on funding and research collaboration, and even violence. The Trump administration serves as a contemporary example, with policies that curtail international scientific cooperation, revoke research grants, and suppress studies related to public health, climate change and minority issues. Because open inquiry and dissent are central to science and academiaâqualities antithetical to authoritarian controlâacademia is often among the first targets of autocrats. To help scholars resist authoritarian developments, the handbook highlights both historic and contemporary measures aimed at attacking scholars, their institutional environments, and their scholarship. The handbook also sets out a framework for action based on personal risk levelâlow, medium, high, or extreme. This is designed to help scholars think about their own risk and purposefully choose actions in line with it. The handbook considers tools for enhancing digital safety and highlights the importance of ongoing documentation, preserving imperilled data, and creating distributed archives as a defence against erasure. It also calls on scholars to tell their storiesâpublicly or anonymouslyâto inspire others, maintain accountability and preserve a historical record. Accompanying the handbook is a living wiki that will continue to incorporate new developments and provide updates on global efforts by scholars to push back against authoritarianism and safeguard the democratic foundations that enable free inquiry. Available translations German version: Das Anti-Autokratie-Handbuch: Ein Leitfaden fĂŒr Forschende zum Umgang mit erodierenden Demokratien Italian version: Il manuale Anti-Autocrazia: Una guida per aiutare gli studiosi ad orientarsi nell'arretramento democratico
Registration is open for the useR! 2025 Virtual Program! The program features speakers from a diverse range of industries and parts of the world, covering topics from the basic to the advanced. Registration is free with options for suggested donations.
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Oh, and yeah, we published that a few weeks ago: https://academic.oup.com/ckj/article/18/4/sfaf028/8024413
#ADPKD #kidney #epidemiology #statistics #rstats #MedMastodon #medicine
"Europe is ready to assume its responsibilities.
ReArm Europe could mobilise close to âŹ800 billion for a safe and resilient Europe.
This is a moment for Europe. And we are ready to step up."
â President von der Leyen on the defence package
Interesting short paper about the debates on Bayesian inference in the 1950s
Bayesian issues in the 1950s: an episode involving Karl Popper and Jimmie Savage
- Stephen M Stigler
If you ask #LeChat by #MistralAI whether it uses or not your data, it answers that it is not concerned since it is not associated with Mistral AI and its application.
But questions about its data use have been raised. To read [in French] https://www.frandroid.com/culture-tech/2502271_la-start-up-francaise-mistral-le-chat-dans-la-tourmente-pour-entorse-presumee-au-rgpd
That sounds so familiar nowadays.
âCarsonâs book, Crooked Cross, predicted the scale of the Nazi threat and is to be republished for the first time this spring, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war. Controversial in its day, her novel had to tread a careful path to avoid the accusation that it was alarmist about the FĂŒhrerâs aims.â
rOpenSci
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
useR! 2026 Conference
European Commission
F. Javier Rubio
