Eric Polley

Job Opportunities Alert: Associate Professor of Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/194358 Assistant Professor of Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/194104 EOE / Vet / Disability

“On its way to CRAN” is a great way to start the week (even if this is the second time in about a month)

Don't miss out on your chance to apply to CENS! Apply here by June 12: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Tomorrow is our discussion on “Conceptualizing Opioid Geographies”! This is a great opportunity for anyone working in substance use research, healthcare, or community advocacy. Learn more and register here: gccp.healthyregions.org

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How has being an academic now become spending half your day waiting to be verified as a human?

UChicago undergraduates and graduate students interested in using AI to tackle real-world scientific challenges are invited to join us at the AI+Science Hackathon, where machine learning meets scientific discovery! Applications are due TOMORROW datascience.uchicago.edu/events/aisci...

The R/Medicine Call for Proposals has been extended by one week! New deadline: March 13 First-time speakers are encouraged! Need feedback on your abstract? rmedicine.conference@gmail.com rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #opensource #healthcare

Nice summary on the role of the statistician in clinical research (spoiler, it is not the sample size calculation): stattrak.amstat.org/2026/03/02/c...

Upcoming session on leveraging external information for the design and analysis of clinical trials at #ENAR2026

R/Medicine CFP is open 🩺🧪 Deadline: March 6 - still time! Submit: Talks, Lightning Talks, Demos, Workshops - Using R + Shiny for health, lab, clinical data First-time speaker? Email for feedback: rmedicine.conference@gmail.com rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... #rstats #datascience

ANNOUNCE: Nominations are open for the prestigious ASA Statistical Computing and Graphic Award. 🎖️ It recognizes innovation in computing, software, or graphics that has had a significant impact on statistical practice or research. #rstats #stats community.amstat.org/jointscsg-se...

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We learned today that Paul Rathouz of UT-Austin (previously Chicago and UW-Madison) died on Dec. 10. Few people I've known have enwrapped their brilliance with such modesty, decency, and good humor. A mensch's mensch. RIP.

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youtu.be/hvDS-MhkKVo?... Bickel’s historical overview of the UC Berkeley dept of statistics

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Great lecture on Stepped Wedge designs:

🗺️ Upcoming Workshop: “Intro to Spatial Data in R” 🗓️ Thursday, October 23, 2025 🕤 9:30–11:30 AM CDT 💻 Virtual; Register here: go.illinois.edu/GCCP-OCT23 This workshop is presented as part of the JCOIN Geospatial Consortium & Community of Practice (GCCP). 👉 gccp.healthyregions.org

Job Opportunities Alert Associate Professor of Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/174768 Assistant Professor of Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/174766 EOE/Vet/Disability

Nice discussion with Mark van der Laan, covering many topics including the history of TMLE, and future efforts: causalbanditspodcast.com

SDOH&Place annual symposium next week in Chicago: symposium2025.sdohplace.org

🚨 Relaunch of CRAN Task View: Clinical Trial Design, Monitoring, and Analysis #rstats Complete rewrite by an int'l team of experts in #clinicaltrials Ya Wang, Thomas Jaki @thomasjaki.bsky.social, Laura Pascasio Harris, Orla Doyle, Elias Laurin Meyer, Wilmar Igl cran.r-project.org/view=Clinica...

Great set of R tips and helpful packages: rfortherestofus.com/2025/06/twen...

New paper in @annalsofim.bsky.social "50 ways to misinterpret clinical prediction models for treatment decisions” --> Published version: www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/... --> Open access version: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.17366

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Just got a No Kings stencil and chalk in the mail, waiting for the rain to stop and head out to the sidewalk:

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New paper out today examining heterogeneity of cardiovascular effects between 4 classes of glucose-lowering therapies: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40673553/

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Is reading grant proposals on sleep disorders after midnight a reportable conflict of interest?

Registration and a call for posters are now open for the 2025 Midwest ML Symposium (June 23-24 at UChicago)! The call for posters is a great opportunity for grad and undergrad students to share the exciting work they are doing in research groups! Learn more and register - midwest-ml.org/2025/

📣 R/Medicine 2025 virtual conference is coming June 10-13! rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we... ⭐ Early bird registration through April 10 ⭐ Submissions accepted through April 11 ⭐ All-star lineup of keynotes and workshops #rmed25 #rstats

The Biostatistics Laboratory at the University of Chicago has a new position for a Senior Biostatistician. Please visit: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern... EOE/VET/Disability

I really need to finish my ENAR presentation, so this is clearly one of the Kier tempers

Try the R/Medicine Data Challenge! Tell a Data Story about Measles cases and/or Vaccination Rates in Quarto - Student and Pro Divisions, $200 Prizes! #rstats #quarto Details at rconsortium.github.io/RMedicine_we...

Saw my first mosquito of the season and put the snow shovels away, Chicago you know what this means!

Please apply, this project involves quite a bit of fun work on combining data from observational studies with randomized trials to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects!

📢 The R Consortium is hosting an R/Medicine Webinar on "Rix: reproducible data science environments with Nix". Two weeks from today! Register to attend this virtual event now! r-consortium.org/webinars/rix... #rstats

Keeping a close eye on Pennsylvania, you doing OK?

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

Trump Admin to US Biological and Health Science: “F—— off and die” Reporting by @aniloza.bsky.social @statnews.com with details, which I paraphrased above… www.statnews.com/2025/01/22/t...