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cameronpat.bsky.social
stats consultant and PhD student in Epidemiology & Biostatistics (multiple imputation, causal inference, clinical trials) @ University of Melbourne. always graph your data. also runs, bikes, hikes, etc. he/him #BiInSci 🏳️‍🌈 https://cameronpatrick.com/
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American exceptionalism is electing a pariah government so repugnant that it tanks the electoral prospects of aligned right wing governments across the entire anglosphere

"Extremely stoppable force repeatedly colliding with eager to move objects" is so good

“All I wanted for the rest of my days was to smugly walk around Harvard in my lifted-heel cowboy boots while owning the libs and raking in speaker fees from the rubes and it was just lovely and such fun and now you’ve gone and ruined it, absolutely ruined it”

one MILLION percent tariff

"Do Americans Really Want To Bring Back Manufacturing?" reason.com/2025/04/15/d... "But do a quarter of Americans actually believe that they'd be better off in manufacturing? The economic concept of revealed preference suggests otherwise."

terf island is at it again, so let me state clearly: this account believes that > trans women are women > trans men are men > \forall x, trans x are x

If you work with Qualtrics, and want to import a file into R without the extra rows of metadata, here is one way to do that. #rstats

Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take

Looking forward to speaking at the CAUSALab methods seminar series next week! 👇

there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

The rest of the world understands what happened yesterday. Do Americans? www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

i hope that one day it will be acceptable to simply not use capital letters in formal writing in this utopia, incorrect use of apostrophes would nevertheless be punishable by being hung upside down in the scorpion pit

This is the reason this comic by @zachweinersmith.bsky.social lives rent free in my head forever. The further we depart from weirdos hanging out to talk about stuff they're interested in, the further we turn university into a pointless certificate mill. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/libera...

Cameron Patrick is, er, ah, just some guy I guess? (i'm terrible at saying nice things about myself)

An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.