Finally out 🥳Big thanks to interviewees and reviewers for their essential contributions. doi.org/10.1080/2473...
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Finally out 🥳Big thanks to interviewees and reviewers for their essential contributions. doi.org/10.1080/2473...
Final spurt of winter.
Reading recommendation: If quantity is the criterion - quantity will prevail. Not surprising - but the clarity of the simulation is still stunning. dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos...
Our sports medicine research group in Innsbruck, Austria, is hiring a PhD candidate. Funded position for 3 years, new labs, nice colleagues, and the mountains just outside the window. www.i-med.ac.at/karriere/job...
In Germany home owners and tenants are required to do so by law. If you fail to keep your stretch of sidewalk clear and non-slippery and someone falls you can be sued for damages.
Judging by the poor quality of biomarker research I see reported in biomedical journals, my article "How to Do Bad Biomarker Research" must have been hugely influential: www.fharrell.com/post/badb/in... #Statistics #StatsSky #EpiSky
Yes. I will be happy to send it by eMail.
Writing is thinking
"On the value of human-generated scientific writing in the age of large-language models."
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
I find it hard to understand why skirmishes keep flaring up around approaches for estimating TRH from standard RCTs. They are all workarounds with performance depending on contestable assumptions (SD-IR having an intuitive rationale). Considering limited forms of replication could be more helpful.
I took quite a lot from "Elements of statistical learning", especially regarding the challenges and limitations of ML. From my perspective the book is close to "Statistics for ML".
doi.org/10.1186/s407...
‼️#1 watchlist recommendation 2026 ‼️Eye-opening explanations and obvious applications to sport science / sports medicine. (Don't expect to keep up with the plot on the first go - but it takes root with repetition...)
"How can funders avoid crossing the Szilard point?"
The Szilard point is "the threshold at which the total cost of competing for a grant equals (or surpasses) the value of the available funding."
Doug Altman was an internationally renowned statistician who served as The BMJ’s chief statistical adviser.
Read about life and work that made this statistician a "citation millionaire"
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
I am hiring a postdoc in sports medicine / sport science. Fully funded position for 4 years. Great team and labs in Innsbruck, Austria (view is from office window). German not mandatory. Pre-application inquiries welcome! lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karri...
Thank you!
🚨 CEN Colloquium 🚨
The idea that spending time in natural settings can promote health and well-being is not new, so why is it so hard to implement?
Today we are lucky to host health and environmental psychologist Mat White @univie.ac.at. Join us!
📅 9 DEC 15:00
📍MPIB & online
shorturl.at/VwDe4
What is an OS? Some examples. 1) Doll & Hill lung cancer patients 2) D&H UK doctors 3) Framingham 4) Jerry Morris bus drivers and conductors 5) Whitehall studies. 1) is case control 2,4 &5 are cohort 3) cohort or registry?
All of the above important & representativeness irrelevant in all cases.
Walkung the dog tonight
Gerd Gigerenzer on the legacy of Daniel Kahneman
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/12/03/g...
In case you have missed Simine Vazire's excellent webinar yesterday, here is the link to watch it online: youtu.be/_vb1CNwC3CM Thanks again @simine.com for staying up so late and thanks to the audience for the great questions!
lecture finished 👩🏫 - weekend ahead 🏔️
Wie können wir uns als Gesellschaft besser auf zukünftige Herausforderungen in der öffentlichen Gesundheit vorbereiten?
🗓️ Montag, 1. Dezember 2025, 19 Uhr, Stadtbibliothek Innsbruck
#floriankrammer #gisagerold @i-med.ac.at
Maybe it simply depends. If relevant moderators vary among relatively unselected individuals, then "actual" response can vary. With narrow, well-informed inclusion criteria tailored for efficient investigation of the average treatment effect there will be little response variation.
New 'Preliminary Report' submission format at Science and Medicine in Football. An idea that should be interesting for other journals! Explicitly make space for honestly reported smaller sample-size studies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Finnish railway 😃
Reminds of the smoking and lung cancer story - history repeats. However, last time the interests involved were more obvious (at least in retrospect).
Same for me 😊
The biggest problem is the leadership of the institutes, the directors, people like me. Most of us got appointed by being successful in a system that lacks the reforms that are needed. And the job encourages a kind of competitive narcissism that views complaints about the system as weakness. Why would you trust us to implement reform? The good news is that a lot of directors are going to retire in the next 10 years. More than 100 of them. If hiring is done right, a lot of change can be accomplished. But we’ll have to be less focused on hiring people based upon how many Nature papers they’ve published. Instead we’ll need to hear that they have a persuasive vision for how to improve the conduct of research in their field. No more Brotgelehrte with high h-indices, please.
age/gender distribution of Max Planck directors. Left is men. Right is women. Vertical axis is age. Horizontal is count.
The relevant bit of grump from the quoted post (left). And age distribution of Max Planck directors (right)
