Darren Dahly

@statsepi

Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats Posts not for everyone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Views mine ->

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Darren Dahly@statsepi· 20d

About to give a giga-lecture on the ideas underpinning both frequentist and Bayesian approaches to statistics to a room full of clinical academic fellows. Wish me luck friends.

Darren Dahly@statsepi· 25d

nope

Darren Dahly@statsepi· 28d

🤩 bingkaiwang.github.io/RCT_Bench-ma...

Darren Dahly@statsepi· 29d

But I do kind of have to respect Tyler's game here, ending the whole thing with "Please make more high-paying, tenured jobs that only me and 2 other people on earth would be 'qualified' for"

Within academic institutions, actively
carrying out faculty searches, or
even establishing endowed chairs,
on research topics that might be
of greater interest to conservatives
may provide a critical path
forward

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jul 13

How I feel wearing 2 pairs of underpants in this heat.

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jul 13

How to people like this even get out of bed in the morning?

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jul 12

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jul 10

Preach on it, amen.

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jul 3

Having openai make you a "xkcd style" infographic for your linkedin post about the use of AI in teaching is kind of f**ked up imo. Or maybe I'm the asshole? @xkcd.com www.linkedin.com/posts/peter-...

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jul 3

Why is Ezra Kline so popular? *taps the sign*

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jul 3

Exciting day for UCC...shout out to the social media managers who will have their work cut out for them. 😜

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 27

nb4 😘:

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 27

Shout out to everyone still holding on to the promise of a blank page, and the urge to organize your own thoughts.

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 23

🤢

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 23

Despicable. HT @drg.bsky.social archive.ph/cjbhZ

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 22

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

At the recent launch of the new AI policy at Ireland’s largest university, the Microsoft man representing the UCD-industry partnership told those in attendance that women in Ireland are not adopting AI tools as fast as men.

He then said if he had a magic wand to grant one wish, he would get the Government to supercharge Ireland’s AIready training program so that more women would get on board and start using AI.

Rather than uncritically accepting the Microsoft executive’s suggestion that big tech companies want to collaborate with government and universities to help women, what if the problem is not the women but big tech and their AI platforms?

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 21

That's the hard part :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX1I...

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 19

Thanks for @irishrepronetwork.bsky.social et al for a lovely day (and to @philipnolanmu.bsky.social for getting a photo where at least my mouth was closed). We were all mic'ed up, so a recording should be coming toot sweet.

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 19

cc @aidybarnett.bsky.social re:

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 19

*le sigh*

miss_strings <- c(
"No data", "NA", "Not done", "no data", "not done", "Not checked",
"not avail", "Not performed", "Not commented on", "Nor commented",
"Not commented", "Not avail"
)

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 16

It's giving:

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 15

Hold on I think my eyes just rolled out of the back of my head.

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 15

ggrepel (code in alt).

2 plots with years along the x-axis and % change on the y axis with sin-wave like lines running across both. Each plot also has a set of vertical lines with numeric labels.

Relevant label code for the bottom plot:

geom_text_repel(
aes(x = date, y = 0.16, label = code), size = 3,
direction = "both", color = cols_[3],
ylim = c(0.16, 0.30),
min.segment.length = 0,
max.overlaps = Inf,
hjust = 0,
nudge_x = 1, nudge_y = 1,
segment.alpha = 0.3
) +
coord_cartesian(ylim = c(-0.15, 0.15), clip = "off")

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 13

web.archive.org/web/20260205...

Real Clear’s evolution traces a similar path as other right-leaning political news outlets that have adapted to the upheaval of the Trump era by aligning themselves with the president and his large following, its writers taking on his battles and raging against the left.

As the administration lurched from one crisis after another — impeachment, the coronavirus, a lost election the president refuses to concede — Real Clear became one of the most prominent platforms for elevating unverified and reckless stories about the president’s political opponents, through a mix of its own content and articles from across conservative media.

In recent days, as Mr. Trump and his loyalists repeated baseless claims of rampant voter fraud and counting errors, Real Clear Politics gave top billing to stories that reinforced the false narrative that the president could still somehow eke out a win. Headlines on Monday — more than a week after Mr. Biden had clinched the race — included “There’s Good Reason Not To Trust Election Results” and “Trump Attorney Says Results in Several States Will Be Overturned.”

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 13

🎯 As a respected neutral country, Ireland is big. As a military power, Ireland can only be less than tiny. This isn't hard.

As a small state, Ireland has historically benefited from rules-based international institutions. We do not possess the military power to impose our will on others. We rely instead on diplomacy, international law, and multilateral cooperation.

If those institutions are failing, surely our first instinct should be to strengthen and reform them rather than quietly abandon them.

Ireland has a unique credibility on this issue. Few countries can claim our record in peacekeeping. Irish soldiers have served with distinction under the blue helmet for generations. We have consistently punched above our weight in diplomacy and conflict resolution.

We should be leading conversations about reforming the United Nations, particularly the Security Council veto, rather than treating the organisation as an inconvenience to be bypassed.

That would be a far more ambitious vision of Irish foreign policy than simply aligning ourselves ever more closely with the strategic priorities of larger powers.

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 11

What are you doing to me @avrilkennan.bsky.social!!? 😜

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 10

Look, just ask people to give a probability. It works a lot better I promise.

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 10

"Radical Collaboration" www.researchireland.ie/news/rinn-ne...

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 9

ICYMI

Darren Dahly@statsepi· Jun 9

I guess Vinay will be our first test case of how once respected academics that went on to egregiously and unambiguously damage public health and health science will be welcomed back into the warm embrace of academia. I think you all know what I think will happen.