I make all of my pubilcations open access. Why do people still ask for them on ResearchGate? Is it laziness or do they not understand they can get the papers themselves?

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I have just started a course called Two2Tango - teaching in the Glocal (global and local) classroom. I am really looking forward to exchanging views with other teachers from around the globe on teaching in the international classroom. Looking forward to learning more and improving my practice.

I enjoyed the Hanna Hirsch Pauli exhibit at the Swedish National Museum today. A little inspiration and beauty to brighten up the day. This painting was considered controversial at the time (1886) because of how the subject was depicted and what that implied about women’s roles and behavior.

Ice is the Gestapo. Trump is insane. Elon’s Grok is publishing child porn. Stephen Miller is a white supremacist. JD Vance is making shit up. Somebody release the Epstein Files.

Good morning epi methods community! Please consider applying for (and spreading the word about) this position here at Minnesota. It's a great place to be! (You can read the whole description and apply here: apply.interfolio.com/179313) #EpiSky

On a positive note, got an article accepted for publication today which we started over a year ago. 🥳

Manuscript and grant reviewers in biomedical sciences: Do you have any major pet peeves when it comes to formatting of papers or grants that you're reviewing? Anything else not format-related? I'm putting together some recommendations for trainees in our #epidemiology program. Thanks!

Just got two grant rejections in one day! Merry Christmas to me!

Nothing like a good old reply-all message thread affecting what it looks like most of KI as an early Christmas present! 😂

Sending articles I’ve read to people I think will enjoy them is my love language. #episky

I have learned a new term today: Productive Procrastination Avoiding the thing you most don't want to do by doing something else you've also been avoiding. Example: avoiding grading student exams by picking up long-dormant projects to complete.

The international relations office has sent out an email only in Swedish. I sometimes wonder if internationalization means something different than I think it means.

I needed to change all the documents in a folder from word into pdf format. I asked CoPilot, who wrote me a word macro, which did it in seconds. 🙏

It’s astonishing how many researchers seem to believe that a cluster analysis is such a sensible analysis that it needn’t even be justified through a coherent research question. Just cluster analysis go brrrrr

I asked copilot how many years of a woman's life is spent on oral contraceptives, to get some numbers for a grant. It told me about 30 years 😅 - it then told me it assumed a woman starts using oral contraceptives at age 18 and stops at age 45 and 45-18=27.

I use general population comparators matched to people with the disease under study to make them comparable to the disease group. There's hype about "digital twins" and it looks just like what we've been doing for years, just with more bullsh*t. Or did I miss some nuance here? #episky

Really enjoyed presenting my poster on malignancy risk associated with sarcoidosis. I got some great questions and comments from people - and now I have like 10 more study ideas 😂 first I need to finish this study! #ERS2025

“Don’t look for certainty in the science of uncertainty- it’s like looking for snow in the dessert” - Nicola Orsini ending his talk on statistical thinking in public health #episky

Professor Olof Stephansson from Karolinska is our next speaker - we need precision medicine in obstetrics. One example: trisomy detection (Down’s syndrome). Initially only maternal age was used to identify pregnancies for amniocentesis. Then ultrasound was added and now KUB, improves accuracy.

Next presentation: Professor Jonas Halfvarsson from Örebro University on precision medicine in inflammatory bowel disease. They have developed diagnostic lipid and protein signatures

A framework for clinical translation in precision medicine

The next speaker is Professor Paul Franks from Lund University who explains why we need precision medicine for cardiometabolic diseases like diabetes. #episky

First speaker of the day, Assistant Professor Megan Roberts from University of North Carolina explains what precision public health is: the right intervention at the right time to the right population. #episky

Strategic research in epidemiology day has started! @ki.se The theme is precision medicine and we have a great line-up of speakers

At a responsible internationalization seminar: It is a national security risk to _not_ collaborate internationally - we will otherwise not understand eachother, and not have connections to experts in other countries.

Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be https://theonion.com/area-man-passionate-defender-of-what-he-imagines-consti-1819571149/

Great seminar by Andrea Bellavia on defining interpretability of machine learning for epidemiology. “When using ML for etiological research, don't forget about causality. The machine doesn't distinguish between confounders, mediators, or main predictors-it treats all variables equally.”

What are your thoughts on this "short-term supplement model for...research supported by foreign subawards" at NIH? #episky #academicsky grants.nih.gov/news-events/... were there specific problems with previous foreign subawards or is this just a result of a government which is anti-foreigner?

I read this paper so many times when conducting the study on incidence and prevalence of sarcoidosis in Sweden we published in 2016. Blast from the past!

It's really nice when other people see your potential when you sometimes can't see it for yourself. Tell your junior colleagues today where you see them going in the future, might seem obvious to you but probably eye-opening to them! #episky #academicsky

European Respiratory Society is offering Short-Term Research Fellowships for early career scientists to carry out projects that last 1-3 months. If you'd like to come and work with observational data on sarcoidosis using Swedish registers, get in touch! www.ersnet.org/education-an...

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Such mixed feelings when they extend a grant deadline - I was almost done with it, but now I have one more week to have it hanging over my head.

I am shocked that I had to, in 2025, as a reviewer of a cohort study for a decent journal, request the authors (all with PhDs) to add a statistical analysis section. 🤯

My very talented PhD student Ngoc Nguyen will be presenting his poster on thiopurines and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy at #ISPE tomorrow (Monday, 11:30 - 13:00, poster # B-277) stop by and say hi! He is a rising star in pharmaco- epidemiology 🌟🤩

I've been asked to review a lot of studies coming out of the UK Biobank lately, I say no to all mendelian randomization studies which are the majority. But there are some non-MR ones which take the data at face value w/out considering basic epidemiological biases ( #epidemiology rant).

Meditations for mortals by Oliver Burkeman: How can we protect time to have the opportunity for “unpredictable moments of human connection” and, I’d like to add, more creativity, taking risks, in our work?

Nice to see this paper published by colleagues at the Clinical Epidemiology Division @ki.se - it is an excellent example of using a Swedish quality register (Swedish Neonatal Quality Register) to provide information that will help to improve care.

I make sure that all of my work is published open access. On Research Gate, there are still people asking me for copies of my studies - have they even looked to see if they can download it from the journal's website?

Our study on thiopurines and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) has just been published online! journals.lww.com/ajg/abstract... Excellent work by doctoral student Ngoc Nguyen! And a great collaboration including @arthurmageau.bsky.social , @rheumepi.bsky.social and others

I have been asked to review so much lately- it’s too much. I can often see from the abstract that there are flaws in the study. Why do editors even send these out? My guess is (in some cases) that they don’t have enough training in basic epidemiology.

Kennedy Claims Doctors Profit Off Vaccines. In Fact, Many Lose Money on Them. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/w...

As research institutions are being dismantled in the US, Europe is stepping up to recruit talent. research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/news/all-res...

Come to Sweden where we retire every summer! At the Karolinska, I have 35 vacation days. (With weekends that is 7 weeks)

I finally did the thing I was dreading I was going to do: wrote in my query to co-pilot in a microsoft teams chat field to someone I do not know well. 😱 Was able to delete it... if they saw it, hope they don't mind being asked to simulate a dataset in R 😅

Assistant professor positions open (n=20) at Karolinska Institutet across several different fields. A big investment to support early-career 🧪 researchers ki.se/en/about-ki/...

Here’s another posting for an assistant professor position - this one is at the department of Global Public Health #episky ki.varbi.com/what:job/job...

We are recruiting an Assistant Professor to join us at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. 📅 Application deadline: 2nd September, 2025 🌍 Open to international applicants 👉 More info and application: ki.varbi.com/en/what:job/...