IBD Doctor

Otezla - SNL YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

When you stop paying attention to psoriasis ads on TV, they get even weirder.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3QM...

Could be shorter if (poorly to un-) regulated monopolies were not clinging desperately to the sunk costs of old bad investments.
Nothing like "well-regulated" utility monopolies that are actually massive lobbyists that control state regulators

Firewalled server pulls data from REDCap each AM as a cron job.
updates website HTML as a cron job,
publishes to quartopubs as a cron job.
Automated updates each AM
phiggins.quarto.pub/sgm-study-da...

RareTrials MCP Explorer This app was built in Streamlit! Check it out and visit https://streamlit.io for more awesome community apps. 🎈

#IBD folks - looking for a new treatment in a clinical trial?
go to
tcbanalytics-clinicaltrials.streamlit.app
search for "actively enrolling clinical trials" in [disease - crohn's or uc] near [city or zipcode, state]
@crohnscolitisfdn.bsky.social

How to build a DIY Lightboard – Learn how to build a lightboard with 5 quick supplies for less than $100!

The iconic @lucystats.bsky.social lightboard sets the bar pretty high
livefreeordichotomize.com/posts/2020-1...

📦 medicalcoder v0.8.0 is now on CRAN.

medicalcoder is a unified and longitudinally aware framework for ICD-based comorbidity assessment in #rstats

CRAN: cran.r-project.org/package=medi...

GitHub: github.com/dewittpe/med...

Website: peteredewitt.com/medicalcoder/

'This Is Endometriosis’ just won a BAFTA - here's where to watch it - RUSSH ‘This Is Endometriosis’ has won a BAFTA, shining a global spotlight on the chronic condition. Here’s where to watch it in Australia.

A short film about endometriosis has won a BAFTA, bringing much needed visibility to the disabling condition.

Endometriosis and adenomyosis robbed me of years of my life.

Countless surgeries, blood transfusions and hospital stays.

Doctors saying it was “no big deal”.

It’s a very big deal:

I went a little overboard with this and a little bit insane. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/t...

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I for one would appreciate a built in 'print_all(cols = )' function in the {tibble} package
Come up often enough to be a function

Data Reporter Remote, United States

Seen online: ProPublica is hiring a data reporter, 5 yrs data journalism exp req'd. Salary $110K-$135K. Knowledge of Python or #RStats.
US remote or option to work in NY, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix or Berkeley
More info:
job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...
#DDJ #JournalismJobs

as_flextable() is your friend

Perhaps you could contribute to {rstatix}
rpkgs.datanovia.com/rstatix/

1.8K views · 18 reactions | "Junk Food Junkie" - Larry Groce (born April 22, 1948) "Junk Food Junkie" is a 1975 novelty song by Larry Groce. It spent 15 weeks on the U.S. charts, reaching #9 on the B... "Junk Food Junkie" - Larry Groce (born April 22, 1948) "Junk Food Junkie" is a 1975 novelty song by Larry Groce. It spent 15 weeks on the U.S. charts, reaching #9 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was...

David Kessler declares Larry Groce a Cassandra on ultraprocessed foods. From 1976
www.facebook.com/reel/9327622...

Known, but not always discussed - the significant effects menstruation and pregnancy on #IBD symptoms
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29361085/

David Zinn: Street art that washes away in the rain - BBC News YouTube video by BBC News

Saturday Share from Ann Arbor - local chalk artist David Zinn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f885...

Somewhere there has to be a political consultant who can fill the Trump Team in - taking Matty Maroun's side in this bridge fight is a losing issue (for future decades) in Michigan.
Michiganders have been screwed by that rent-seeking maroon for decades. @atrupar.com

I’m not a real statistician, and you can be one too Cara and I were hand-in-hand, slowly strolling around Cork on a bright, summer evening.

statsepi.substack.com/p/im-not-a-r...

dplyr 1.2.0 was released last week and since I use {dplyr} a lot in my work, I wanted to take some time to try some of the new functions.

This post provides some supplemental examples of the new functions, beyond what is provided in the new Posit materials.
#rstats

cghlewis.com/blog/dplyr_u...

PSA: Do NOT Buy Ring

Ring forces facial scanning on all devices. You cannot opt-out.

They relay your location without the need of a warrant. Add your face for profiling. Have had security issues where randoms accessed private cameras.

Can you drown him out with the Bells?
Time to start planning ahead.

Also (bias alert) my daughter wrote both the episode and the song. But I think it is also a banger. YMMV.

S3E5, the Conclave Ball. Does reasonably well as a stand-alone episode.

Any thoughts on S3 "All Is Not As It Seems"?

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune
Short list for the Pulitzer
@PatBagley

Two panel cartoon. How it started: masked man beating Police Officer at the Capitol. How it’s going: identical masked man with ICE badge beating Statue of Liberty.

Remove ICE and CBP funding until real changes are made.
With apologies, I can’t find the artist to credit.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine

It's fine (as long as the patient happens to have a -80C freezer at home)

This moment is bringing out the best in some of us (like this speaker) and bringing out the worst in others of us. This is a time for choosing to live a life that you're proud of, or not. ❤️