📢HRB's Applied Partnership Awards - Women's Health 2026 call for proposals is now open.
📌Funding for up to 10 #womenshealth research projects at €200,000 each
📌Closing date 27 March 2026
ℹ️Call details including guidance notes, FAQs and more➡️ bit.ly/4jG3OE0
16.01.2026 13:14
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Too many people are scared to act on principle over some fear they will be accused of being "political". As if this commitment to a social media website demonstrates their centrist, reasonable sensibilities; or their ability to avoid overacting to others' "emotional" responses or "virtue signalling"
07.01.2026 11:34
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Internationally renowned and a genius but also just a genuinely nice person and mentor. I didn't know him for long but as an early career researcher, I'll always value the insights and hope that he shared that you could still make it to the top in academia but stay kind and graceful
07.01.2026 10:18
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📣 Call for Speakers – Pint of Science Ireland 2026
We’re looking for researchers to give informal, engaging talks to public during our festival on 18–20 May 2026.
📍 Events across Ireland
⏳ Apply by Jan 30
🔗 Application form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#STEMIreland #pint26 #research
07.01.2026 09:54
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"The making of a statistician: Doug Altman" - just published in @bmj.com celebrating his 1 million citations and reflecting on his remarkable career and legacy. One of the most influential statisticians in modern medical research.
--> www.bmj.com/content/391/...
#BMJChristmas #methodologymatters
19.12.2025 12:40
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‘Just an unbelievable amount of pollution’: how big a threat is AI to the climate?
Defenders say AI can do good to fight the climate crisis. But spiralling energy and water costs leave experts worried
But in #Ireland, the computational hunger for energy has reached levels that are impossible to ignore. #Datacentres guzzle 1/5 of the country’s electricity and are projected to devour nearly 1/5 of it within a few years. #AI
05.01.2026 09:30
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📣Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has announced €2M for women's health research. HRB will launch a new call for up to 10 #womenshealth research projects through its Applied Partnership Awards.
🗓️Call opens 16 Jan
📌Budget €200,000 each
ℹ️Read more▶️ bit.ly/45gtr8l
18.12.2025 09:46
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At least 254 quarantined in SC over 'accelerating' measles outbreak
Of 111 measles cases reported in the state's northwest region, 105 people were unvaccinated and 3 were partially vacinnated, health officials said.
Measles, which is most common among unvaccinated children, was declared eliminated in the US in 2000, but declining vaccination rates have led to recent outbreaks.
Of the 111 cases, 105 were unvaccinated, the health department said.
eu.usatoday.com/story/life/h...
12.12.2025 12:47
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Synthesis Report 2025 #HealthPolicy Reform Trends in the #EU eurohealthobservatory.who.int/publications...
Part 1:
-preventing non-communicable diseases
-accelerating #DigitalHealth transformation
-strengthening #PrimaryCare
-promoting affordable access to pharmaceuticals/innovation
11.12.2025 14:33
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Department of Health Statement of Strategy 2025-2028
Department of Health Statement of Strategy 2025-2028 published by @roinnslainte.bsky.social yesterday
www.gov.ie/en/departmen...
11.12.2025 08:35
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Pharmacies to roll out scheme to give medicines for eight conditions without GP prescription
The conditions are cold sores, shingles, two types of thrush, uncomplicated urinary tract infections, allergic rhinitis, conjunctivitis, and impetigo
Pharmacies are starting to roll out a new scheme to allow the public to get medicines for eight common conditions without a GP prescription. An agreement between the Government and the Irish Pharmacy Union will see Boots Ireland starting now, & the McCabes Pharmacy network set to begin within weeks.
11.12.2025 08:37
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Bill on regulation of puppy farms to be debated in Dáil
The manner in which many pups are born in Ireland is "absolutely horrific", according to Social Democrats TD Jennifer Whitmore, who is calling for further regulation of puppy farms.
Absolutely shocking with the state of legislation around #puppyfarms in Ireland. It's so shameful that we're the 'puppy farm capital of Europe.' We rescued a doggo this past year from one & it's heart-breaking to think of what she went through before she had a loving home
www.rte.ie/news/2025/12...
10.12.2025 10:58
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Reproducibility of meta-analytic results in systematic reviews of interventions: meta-research study
Objective To determine how often meta-analyses of effects of interventions are reproducible.Design Meta-research study.Setting Systematic reviews with meta-analyses of the effects of health, social, b...
New study on the reproducibility of meta-analytic results in #SystematicReviews of interventions
Making data files and analytic code publicly available will facilitate future investigations of reproducibility of meta-analyses and allow updates of reviews to be completed more quickly. #OpenScience
05.12.2025 08:42
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#ROBINSI Nov 2025 version
Q2.5 Were further classification errors (not influenced by
knowledge of the outcome or risk of the outcome) likely?
Does it look like the algorithm was not updated from 2024?
if No, further classification errors likely, shouldn't that be less biased not more?
04.12.2025 14:55
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A user-friendly tool for anyone conducting an evidence synthesis project has been launched by Knowledge Translation Program @ktprogram.bsky.social. The Right Review Tool has been updated in collab w/ Dr Barbara Clyne.
rightreview.knowledgetranslation.net
@hiqa.bsky.social @rcsilibrary.bsky.social
04.12.2025 09:26
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The scientific arm of the #EuropeanCommision: the Joint Research Centre.
The best decisions are made from the best available evidence. Science for policy is science for democracy. Policies for the people.
03.12.2025 14:16
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Ireland's Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill speaks about govt's commitment to supporting scientific research & reflects on the public service of trying to improve the health of ppl you may never meet.
Plant the seed for a tree that will some day give shade to people you may never meet
03.12.2025 12:53
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Connecting Ireland to the wider EU policymaking context, two recent landmark agreements support research and innovation in policy making and we're learning from our neighbours through the Twin Transition programme #HRBEvidenceForPolicy
03.12.2025 10:27
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Zooming out, great to see an overview of how research evidence is engaged in policy in #Ireland
Researchers in the government sector have increased over time (but at a much slower pace than other sectors)
03.12.2025 10:15
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The features of an effective evidence ecosystem (presented by John Lavis) #EvidenceSynthesis #HRBEvidenceForPolicy
03.12.2025 10:05
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🚨Reminder! Applications for HRB's Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellowships Programme 2026 are now open.
🔬 Up to €950K in direct costs per grant
👥 Team-based funding model
🗓️ Closing: 17 December
ℹ️More info & to apply bit.ly/49Bg1H6
#HealthResearch #PostdocFunding
20.11.2025 09:34
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