Can a ‘new AI tool’ predict cancer survival from a single face photo, as reported in @theguardian.com? Yes. Modestly. In people having radiotherapy, many with advanced cancer, their faces unsurprisingly show signs of how sick they are. But is this actually useful?!

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Book launch today! My new book, "Why You Should Read More Fiction" (Johns Hopkins), is part of a wave of digital humanities work that explains why reading fiction is so important for our minds, especially right now. I hope you'll pick up a copy and spread the word. #digitalhumanities #fiction

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I wrote up a short #rstats blog explaining how I got the pipe shortcut to work in Positron when editing in visual mode for Quarto documents. It's not pretty, but it works and I've been using Position a lot more as a result.

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This episode is actually less depressing than you think! Thank you @annaecook.com for being so open and honest.

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I am so looking forward to giving this webinar for the Statistics Society of Australia. I'll be offering a glimpse into what I'm working on right now for the next generation of parallelism. The event is still open for you to sign up - 8am BST / 9am CEST Thursday 22nd Nov - link below. #Rstats

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