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When I was a medical student 45 years ago, I clerked in a 13 year old girl with deep jaundice and an abdominal mass. She was Hepatitis B positive. That had led to a primary liver tumour. In a 13-year-old. She was dead within the month. Avoidable with vaccination.

People who are writing PhDs into their project proposals at this point either need a credible non-academic career plan for them or should be hiring postdocs instead

I think half of my fatigue each day comes from the number of times I have to log in with a password and 2-factor authentification.

#Academicsky

We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025 Four hundred and nineteen experienced qualitative researchers from 32 countries invite readers of Qualitative Inquiry to consider their position on use of gener...

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We Reject the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence for Reflexive Qualitative Research - Tanisha Jowsey, Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, Deborah Lupton, Michelle Fine, 2025

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#JoinIn on Christmas Day

This Christmas Day join us for #JoinIn on Bluesky. Just use or look for the #JoinIn hashtag. Lovely people coming together for chat and cheer - especially for those who may be alone or troubled at Christmas, or just looking for a bit of fellowship. See you there!
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All the takes about fake LLM citations reminded me of this very good paper, "Academic urban legends" about how "a decimal point error appears to have misled millions into believing that spinach is a good nutritional source of iron."

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Postdoctoral Fellow | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute This postdoctoral fellowship is an opportunity to join our Improving Access and Care Through Implementation Science for Canadian Veterans and CAF Members (IMPACT-CVM; https://ohri.ca/en/find-researche...

📣 We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Methodological and Implementation Research Program at OHRI. We are looking for someone with a strong focus on Veteran health & improving health & care experiences for Canadian Veterans. For more info 👇
🔗 ohri.ca/en/join-us/c...
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Replications Sourcing Sheet

Join our Replicability Project: Health Behavior!

We have 55 replication studies underway, our target is 65-70.

We are only recruiting for secondary data replications--i.e., using existing data to test the original question.

Here's a list of studies we think could be feasible.

If interested...

A grey and red transit bus on the road in a city. The bus’ destination sign reads “NO? ?? ???????”

My response to anything over the next two weeks

congratulations! 🥳

I'm so sorry to hear that, and I think it was a terrible decision by Girlguiding UK with SO MUCH IMPACT for young and less young people - and not in a good way. Hugs from 🇳🇱⚜️

Today I'll be arguing that AI tools (specifically LLMs and AI agents) are NOT the future of health and social science but are more likely to be the death of health and social science.

Here's a sneak peak slide with the main components of my argument.

Meme. Photograph of an eel underwater. The eel is yellow in color, with a piercing eye and adorable nostril horns. We'll call her Brandabrenda. You can just see one of her fins at the edge of the picture. She looks to be smiling, but not a jovial smile. It's the uncertain but hopeful smile of a man meeting a blind date at a biker bar. Brandabrenda is swimming low in the water, just above a sandy-looking bottom. Her shadow looms just below her, a negative-spaced eel that reminds you of the fragility of meaning and the patience of the following dark. Imagine, if you will, that this is the last eel in the world. And *you* have to break the news to her. How would you feel? Wouldn't it be better if you could tell her that a renewed focus on eels in human history has led to a revival of the species? Let's do that. Brandbrenda deserves some good news. Meme text reads: "Have you seen my friends? I'm lonely"

Every now & again, it's useful to say why I do all these eel history tweets.

Mostly, it's because eels need our help. They're critically endangered, seeing a c.90% drop in population in the last decades.

But it's hard to get people to care! 'Cause...eels are gross & slimy. 1/2
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Mooie vacature bij de Tweede Kamer, en op een erg belangrijk moment. Kennis coördinator digtitale zaken https://werkenbij.tweedekamer.nl/vacatures/kenniscoordinator-digitale-zaken

Leading Autism and Disability Organizations Statement on CDC's Vaccines and Autism Page As national organizations dedicated to advancing the well-being of autistic individuals and partners across the disability and public health sectors, we are deeply disappointed by the latest update to...

WOW! Autism Society of America, The Autistic Self-Advocacy Network, the Autism Science Foundation, the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network and Autism Speaks put out a statement denouncing the CDC changing its website on vaccines
autisticadvocacy.org/2025/11/lead...

Hoping to attend next year!

SMDM 48th Annual Meeting at University of Oslo announces Call for Abstracts, Symposia, and Short Courses. Learn more here: smdm.org/meeting/48th...

#AnnualMeeting #MedicalDecisionMaking #Oslo #SMDM

Blonde young women wearing a red scouts uniform and an orange red white and blue scarf, holding a sign with the meme of the dog in a burning house saying this is fine.

Climate march 2025 with some Scouts, happy to reconnect and see not everyone has forgotten about the climate yet...

Het was erg fijn!

Scholarship should be open, inclusive and slow This tweet of mine from a few days ago has been getting a lot of negative attention this week, I think because of some hostile QTs, and…

Fun post, but I strongly disagree with the premise that journals (as opposed to for-profit, closed-access journals) are the problem.

This person has clearly not experienced the cancer that is CS arXiv.

medium.com/@emilymenonb...

US student handcuffed after AI system apparently mistook bag of chips for gun Baltimore county high schools have gun detection system that alerts police if it sees what it deems suspicious

We're living in a tech dystopia.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Join us in Zurich on February 11, 2026, for the "Rethinking Theorizing in Implementation Science" Symposium. Stellar speakers - @tracyfinch.bsky.social, @romankislov.bsky.social, Sarah Birken, and Lisa Pfadenhauer - are ready for exciting exchange and debate! www.ifis.uzh.ch/en/theorizin... #ImpSci

Some one in their death bed and everyone is looking to ChatGPT for last words A cartoon by Dave Coverly

Let’s get real.

A cartoon by Dave Coverly

Hi there! Would it be possible to give an online presentation if my abstract were to be accepted?

Yes indeed, and we have one for psychology. You can learn more and submit here, psych.peercommunityin.org, and read more about the background and rationale in our editorial. We would love to have you submit your work! osf.io/preprints/ps...

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

So deeply appalled by this from UC Berkeley. Esp because it’s Berkeley and should do better! Resist. Protect.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

OSF will receive a new interface and the files section on the project overview will come back. I am a bit hyped. #OSF #OpenScience 📦 #preregistration

In A Few Words essay by Alan Finkelstein, PhD:

Giving Grace

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Another excellent EHPS conference, in Groningen, comes to an end.

Great science, people & what a fantastic, vibrant community.

Thanks to the @EHPSociety Team, organisers & the wonderful EHPS Band “Revise and Resubmit” led by the one & only Ben Schüz. #ehps2025