My super smart quantum physicist boyfriend is doing a reddit AMA this afternoon. Check it out if you're curious about medical applications of quantum technologies.
www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/s/Je9...
Ha, what a blast from the past! So nice to hear 😊
screenshot of my post
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
Really nice to see this being used - a real blast from the past. If anyone is keen to help get this back on CRAN or do other work on it that would be amazing!
🥼 Join our #healthdata seminar, which will introduce the target trial emulation framework #TTE for emulating randomised clinical trials #PublicHealth
🗓️ Thursday 6 November, 10:00-11:00 GMT
📍 LSHTM | Online
Details ⬇️
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
Want to understand serological data better? We've compiled a suite of tools which can help you out
🔗 seroanalytics.org
These tools are free, open source, peer reviewed and have comprehensive documentation. Big thanks to @alexlizhill.com, @jameshay.bsky.social and others for their contributions!
In my blonde era
Not saying the Trump coin is a good sign, but we do always have the living head of state on our coins in the UK.
I think this kind of translational work is one of the best use cases for AI
🚀 New tool: Reversible Jump MCMC running in your browser!
Built an interactive widget for fitting mixture distributions when you don't know how many components you need.
Check it out: dchodge.github.io/rjmc-widget-...
This is so cool! Javascript FTW 😍
Child's drawing of two stick figures - a girl in pink dress with brown hair, and a man all in black with no arms or legs and a sad face
This is the picture my four year old brought home for me today.
Me: lovely honey, who's it a picture of?
Her: that's me in the pink dress, and that's a dead guy
*spotting my horrified look*
Her: don't worry, he was bad
I'm giving a free public talk asking 'How certain is certain enough?' at @lshtm.bsky.social on Monday 24th November at 5.30pm, as part of the Global Health Lecture Series. From epidemic response and clinical trials to online misinformation and AI, I'll look at how truth emerges – and why it falters.
At least one person on the panel would not have shared your ick!
The US Department of Health announcing they've found the cause of autism has a similar vibe to the time the Egyptian army announced it had a cure for AIDS.
Crazy to watch US governmental institutions deteriorate at such a rapid pace.
www.bbc.com/news/blogs-t...
Another triumph for human tenacity, intelligence and compassion over the brutally indifferent force that is evolution.
Every debate at HowTheLightGetsIn festival on transhumanist themes:
Transhumanists: We should reduce suffering by all means available to us
Audience: *shaking heads in disapproval*
Opponent: This feels icky to me
Audience: *loud applause*
🚨 New paper out in PLOS Computational Biology! 🚨
We're excited to share our new paper, serojump, a new probabilistic framework and R package for inferring infections and antibody kinetics from longitudinal serological data.
📄 Full paper: tinyurl.com/re7du3t2
R package: seroanalytics.org/serojump
💡 Open science: A team of researchers at Shandong University has attempted to replicate Oprea (2024 AER). The results do not replicate.
Oprea 2024 reported an online lab experiment, and found that prospect theory anomalies occur not only for lotteries, but also for deterministic 'mirrors'.
I know of one account! From a feminist called Finn Mackay (who calls it 'sex dysphoria' for reasons they outline in their book). As someone who has body dsymorphia it sounds quite closely related, phenomenologically. Book is Female Masculinities and the Gender Wars: The Politics of Sex.
Amazing. How exactly could this be done while also respecting the previous clause (no ideological tests as hiring criteria?!)
"[A]ll civilisation involves an ever-increasing foresight for others, even for others as yet unborn". - Havelock Ellis, 1911
For the last couple of months I've been working on something and I'm excited to finally share an early preview:
Say hello to plumber2 🎉
plumber2 is a full rewrite of the plumber package for creating powerful webapis in #rstats. It takes everything we have learned from plumber and adds even more
I'm writing a series of blog posts on the subject of women and free love, partly out of my interest in the history of free love, partly out of a sort of affectionate prurience about sex-positive women of yore.
This first one is about free love in the 1800s and the first woman to run for president.
Wild that Gen Zs appear to think Chappell Roan has written the first ever lesbian country song. Sorry KD Lang! Not to mention Melissa Etheridge, Brandi Carlile, Melissa Ferrick etc
One of my least popular views is that women will not truly be emancipated until bionic wombs are readily available.
As great as IVF is, the process of retrieving eggs still feels v inefficient: you have to incubate the eggs inside yourself, inject hormones for a fortnight and hope that the oocytes mature at a similar rate. Maturing them in vitro would be a huge improvement.
worksinprogress.co/issue/fertil...
Congrats sis, sounds cool!
Yeah if you read it as there's demand for curves supplied by models, it doesn't really sound like an explanation as implied by the "because".
Mug with a picture of a graph that resembles a woman dressed like a stripper, with words: economists do it with models because there's no shortage of demand for the curves that the supply.
I was gifted this mug that I feel sure is offensive to women but I can't quite figure out why, or indeed, what it means at all. Are the economists the ones supplying the curves? Very confusing.