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• Post #2628262

  Epigrams (esp. early modern ones) are the closest older writers were to toots/tweets. People always loved witty, very short forms! So to honor that tradition, here's my attempt at translating one famous in Czechia: Don't go skating with the Lords, Bill, many a case is known: the Lord he falls - and still - the poor guy breaks a bone. Karel Havlíček Borovský, Epigrams 1845 (h/t Rafe Meager for the observation: https://bsky.app/profile/economeager.bsky.social/post/3mlfxczx5n22s...

• Post #2033911

  We have a cover! Excited to be part of this. The publisher site for the book is https://www.routledge.com/Bayesian-Workflow/Gelman-Vehtari-McElreath-Simpson-Margossian-Yao-Kennedy-Gabry-Burkner-Modrak-Barajas/p/book/9780367490140 Note that a PDF will be freely downloadable once the book is out!

• Post #1177398

  An IMHO extremely good and refreshing take on randomized trials with a lot of useful context to the somewhat well known discussion about whether randomizing newborns to not receive Extracorporeal Life Support was ethical (it was not, but for a different reason than usually discussed) #stats #rct #ebm #EvidenceBasedMedicine https://cjblunt.com/the-parachute-problem-extracorporeal-life-support-and-the-demand-for-trials/