✅ The UK Government has today granted access to half a million UK Biobank participants' coded GP data for health research. This change will dramatically increase the power of UK Biobank's dataset to advance the diagnosis, treatment and management of conditions handled by GPs.

Tomorrow I will give a webinar on preregistration for the ManyMany's: What’s the use of preregistration for Big Team Science? You can join for free for the talk, and discussion afterwards. For more info, see: manymanys.github.io/events/

The Methods Series @ki.se is back! @epiellie.bsky.social kicks off the 2026 speaker lineup next Tuesday, "How do we actually draw a causal graph? A proposal for evidence-based best practices." 📆 Jan 27, 2026 ⏰ 15.00 CET/9.00 EST 📍 Online Register to attend 👇 stats.sender.net/forms/e7JD1d...

Thank you @rachpips.bsky.social and @suziecro.bsky.social - this is great!! 🤣

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!

We wrote an article explaining why you shouldn't put several variables into a regression model and report which are statistically significant - even as exploratory research. bmjmedicine.bmj.com/content/4/1/.... How did we do?

🚀 Exciting #DPhil project starting in 2026 using @ukbiobank.bsky.social data to explore misdiagnosis in #neurodevelopmental and #psychiatric disorders. Get I touch if you're interested! @oxpop.bsky.social #MentalHealth #Epidemiology #stats #EHRs www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/study-with-u...

Early bird access is available to our 2025 Scientific Conference! ✅ We bring together expert speakers to share the latest insights from UK Biobank data. Learn about upcoming data collections & how you can enhance your research studies. ✅ Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

If you are in the Oxford area and interested in drug policy, come catch @gwshorter.bsky.social who will be giving a guest lecture on the evidence-base surrounding overdose prevention centres 🎉 🗓️ Thursday 1st of May ⏰ 6pm-7pm 📍Wolfson College www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/event/from-s...

Launch of world’s most significant protein study set to usher in new understanding for medicine. www.ukbiobank.ac.uk/learn-more-a...