Catherine Best

Today might be an 'Im on fire . Keep clear' day

My daughter is going a Masters. The course guidance says to send the module coordinator a hamster gif (to check who reads it). Shes just sent an email 'as per Course document please see attached hamster' 💀💀

12 Policy-driven key messages concerning #nicotine and #cardiovascularhealth #cardiology #publichealth

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Formulae for 'to the power of 1\4' incorrectly stated to simplify to the square root by Google AI overview

Your daily reminder that basic AI can't reliably copy maths formulae from the Internet

Age verification- does their personal email have a pre 1900s number in it?

This excerpt from 'Island' by Aldous Huxley is without question something worth saving to your phone, writing down in your secret notebook, committing firmly to your memory, so that when you find yourself in a dire moment, you can call upon it to aid you. ❤️

Look, I've got an AI-powered multi-omics program to sell to the worried well here, so less about the social determinants of health please.

Pay universities to do this work. We have more expertise, can do it independently, and for less money.

Amen - coefficients from different (often non-linear) models don't mean the same thing, but they get compared all the time. The "effect" of interest is a marginal effect for an explicit target population, not a parameter.

Software guided workflow could help, plug into tools like marginaleffects.com

UK Prevention Research conference next March registrations.hg3conferences.co.uk/hg3/frontend...

When the authors are 'grateful for such a careful and conscientious reading' in my 2nd round of reviewer comments. I can imagine how this is phrased in private 👹👹 🙉 🙉

re-upping this because I just overheard a fellow statistician say: "Multicollinearity is not really the problem that people make it out to be. I have a really nice paper on this I can send you which a colleague showed me a while ago."

(who was the colleague? pretty sure it was me.)

The Institute for Social Marketing and Health quarterly meeting in sunny Stirling. 🌞

New report on vape displays. Young people more likely than adults to notice vapes in a shop window and were more likely to take positive messaging from such window displays. www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/defaul...

New report on vape displays. Young people more likely than adults to notice vapes in a shop window and were more likely to take positive messaging from such window displays. www.cancerresearchuk.org/sites/defaul...

If you know anyone looking for a week long hybrid course on social statistics this summer- have a look at this one my husband is running 👇 essexsummerschool.com/summer-schoo...

Yes 'hereness'

The rise of end times fascism The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM

My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social.

The governing ideology of the far right has become a
monstrous, supremacist survivalism.

Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

BLUE is the warmest colour

Strong work here from Altmetric 😁😂. The real twist, is that a huge number of citations by-pass thought

During the pandemic, restrictions about partners being present during birth was one of the biggest sources of anxiety for UK expectant mothers in the UK. New paper bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Happy Large Enough N day for those who observe

Apply Now for PhD Studentships 2025 We are recruiting 6 PhD studentships, fully funded by the University of Stirling, which will aim to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory at multiple timescales a…

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Right. It's Friday Home Time.

Tune Trump out (if you can).

And listen to this (or whatever music works for you).

Doof doof doof.

UK PM Starmer to Zelensky:

"You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.

Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.

We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Six in 10 universities ‘consider dropping big publishing deals’ - Research Professional News Survey finds three-quarters of libraries are making budget cuts this academic year

In Jan, three unis dropped their 'big deal' with Elsevier

Now, a survey of 100+ unis found 60% might drop their big deals with the five big publishers: Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley

All these are being renegotiated this year...

@sophieatrpn.bsky.social reports

Getting paid ten of thousands of pounds to put pdfs online incredibly profitable shock.