@statsepi
Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats #IDSurveillance Views mine -> https://statsepi.substack.com/
“Several years ago, nephrologists attempted a first-of-its-kind effort: remove race from a key clinical algorithm, and attempt to undo the harms… A new study found the change had big results, impacting 27% of Black patients and resulting in 5.3 more transplants per 1000 Black candidates.”
Proposal: Give me a cohort of wealthy, supremely motivated clients who will do everything I say and I guarantee that I can also get them into "amazing shape".
Radical!
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What appears to be a simulation of the “full” 110 minute cell cycle of a minimal bacterium (stripped down to 500 genes) in 4d (time and space)…. So like 1 or 2 5 year grants away from digital twins @statsepi.bsky.social…
QGIS 4.0 Norrköping is released!
The wait is over! We are pleased to announce the new major release of QGIS 4.0. Installers for Windows, Linux, and Mac are already out. What's new? On the surface, existing users should expect to engage with a QGIS experience familiar to what they have come to […]
How much does it pay to publish an open access academic book? Read this thread for my story and 💲💰 amounts. 🧵
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97% of the papers archived the data but only 35% archived the code.
Most people are writing code but not sharing it. Time to bring up this again: scispace.com/pdf/publish-... (and if the code isn't good enough yet, maybe it's too early to publish the paper)
#openscience #reproducibility #ecopubs
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"Refine" your hypothesis.
*shudders*
I’m a new principal investigator (PI) with my own laboratory at a prestigious university. The PhD students who make it into our programme have already achieved a lot academically. But, sometimes, that masks their inexperience with the challenges of scientific research, which requires them to be independent decision makers and problem solvers. From my own graduate work, I know that it’s only when you hit an experimental roadblock that you get to refine your hypothesis and hone your technical skills. But my new graduate students feel like they’ve failed when their first experiments don’t work as planned. It takes a special kind of perseverance to be an independent researcher, and I see this lack of confidence in many of my students. However, I want to avoid ‘swooping in’ to solve my students’ problems for them. Is there a good recipe for developing the ‘perseverance muscle’ in my PhD students? — A non-helicopter PI
I can't help but read this and think it's actually about how to handle p > 0.05
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New post from me on The 100% CI. Think inside the box, part 1: The guy Euclidean distance told you not to worry about
www.the100.ci/2026/03/09/t...
A new report from the Economic and Social Research Institute has found that Ireland is significantly behind, and unlikely to meet, the targets set out in the Climate Action Plan for decarbonising residential heat
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= facebook.com/photo.l : Carmel O'Connor President and Chairperson Zoological Society of Ireland Dublin Zoo Phoenix Park Dublin 8 24 April 2024 Dear President O'Connor and Members of the Board, I write to you formally in relation to Dublin Zoo's recent Mother's Day promotion and the decision to present a drag performance character as the public face of mother's. Dublin Zoo is operated by the Zoological Society of Ireland, a registered charity and company limited by guarantee. The Society koMs a position of national cultural trost as the operator of one of Ireland's most vlatied family institutions. Coverance responsibitility for that institution ultihstify rests EDirectors of Ireland under your chetrchthsit, it ango chairmanship. Since this matter became public, my office has received a significant number of communications from members of the public expressing anger, disupponitment and genuine offence at the Board. 1. What decision-making process within Dublin Zoo or the Zoological Society of Ireland led to the selection of this performer as the public face of a Mother's Day promotion. 2. Whether the Board itself approved or was consulted regarding the promotion. 3. On what basis Dublin Zoo concluded that a drag performance portraying a satirical "mammy" character represents Irish culture in a manner suitable for a national family institution. 4. Whether the Board considered the likelihood that presenting a theatrical parody of motherhood on Mother's Day would cause offence to many mothers and families. 5. Whether the Zoological Society of Ireland accepts that the promotion has caused genuine offence to members of the public. For that reason, I believe the Board should now address the matter directly and consider whether an apology to those who felt offended by this promotion is warranted. I therefore request a detailed response from the Board addressing the matters raised above . Yours sincercly, Ken O'Flynn TD Dail Eireann Leinster House Dublin 2
Ken O’Flynn TD decided to write to Dublin Zoo to complain about his imagined yank culture war.
Oh boy, I hope for his sake this was AI generated.
(Pic courtesy of @paulmurphy.pbp.ie )
If a pharma company is throwing money at you to say "target trial emulation is great", maybe stop and ask why that is for a second
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to double the number of PhD students at your institution but without any resources whatsoever and no place for those PhD students to live. Good luck!
John Oliver on right wing grifter, "brain" behind the "censorship industrial complex" and USAID destroyer, Mike Benz:
"a chronically online lunatic"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tU8S...
Public health researchers (like myself) want to take an upstream view of obesity, focusing on environmental factors rather than individual behaviour. In this talk, I argue this is not possible with obesity. Whether we like it or not, obesity just IS an individual and moralised concept.
Added value.
Some people who think RFK Jr. is crazy wrong on vaccines (he is!) believe he's some kind of north star on food because he says "eat real food" - which EVERYONE in food has always said.
He's mostly crazy wrong about food, too.
@mikegrunwald.bsky.social explains.
www.thebulwark.com/p/robert-ken...
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
A week ahead of “serious” Irish journalists asking is it appropriate that President Connolly spoke out against the US-Israeli breaches of international law in lieu of reporting fully on said breaches of international law.
Tomorrow I'll be giving the inaugural Nick Black Annual Health Services Research Lecture, taking a look at what AI in health might mean and how we can deal with some of the potential pitfalls. It is at 5.30pm at LSHTM and all are welcome - no registration required
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
New application of the Clopper–Pearson method: a unified framework for extreme event proportion estimation. Jin Liu, Jinfang Sun, Fang Shao. Biostatistics & Epidemiology. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It's stunning how ignorant the DOGE bros were who were sent into agencies. Justin Fox cannot even articulate in his own words what his "present understanding of DEI" is: he can't even formulate a coherent sentence about it. I wouldn't hire him for basic tech support. #NEH
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Vinay Prasad's unique ability to attract criticism — even when his bosses, including the president, wanted him to keep his head low — did him in at the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/03/08/v...
It's not baffling. It's ragebait. If it wasn't for bsky, I would have long forgotten that hannan even exists.
A thoughtful response from @dermotcasey.bsky.social to an interview with @utafrith.bsky.social about the expansion of the diagnostic category of "autism"
From promoting Mein Kampf reading groups led by Ann Coulter’s white nationalist niece one day, to getting face time with the Secretary of State the next. America! We’re still the country where anything is possible!