Forgive me, epi colleagues, for I have sinned... I did what the reviewer wanted and wrote in "not statistically signficant" everywhere they wanted me to. They broke me down after 3 rounds of review. I did, however, refuse to adjust for mediators.

It’s a little odd that people call the assistant professor positions open at KI ”tenure track” - but maybe I don’t understand what tenure track means. After 6 years you could get a ”permanent” position- but if you don’t have your own funding at that point you’re out of a job.

This is a great article about how crappy many of the studies are from TriNetX. #episky www.science.org/content/arti...

The feeling that conflicts have increased in the world is supported by data academic.oup.com/jpr/advance-...

My amazing doctoral student is about to defend his thesis!! 🎉🥰

Woke up to another request from a reviewer to adjust for what they call confounders but what are obviously mediators. I’m dying by a thousand cuts! so tired of teaching epidemiology to anonymous overconfident reviewers in online forms. 😭

Enjoyed the talk by @mattpfox.bsky.social at Karolinska @ki.se today on intuition in epidemiology. We sometimes have a good ”gut feeling” but sometimes it can lead us astray. How do we teach students better?

Corner of a Garden https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/corner-of-a-garden

"Adopted children who have grown up in more favourable family environments than their siblings are at lower risk of mental health issues, criminality and social problems – benefits that, in some cases, extend to the next generation." news.ki.se/family-envir... #episky

This is my unsurprised face: 😑 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Really enjoying the Italian National Sarcoidosis conference. #sarcoidosis Here is one of the major people in the field with a simple message: doctors should listen to their patients.

Check out the blog by the Swedish Rheumatology Quality Register (SRQ) - Forskning ger hopp (research gives hope) - this month focuses on #SLE research #lupus #rheumatology #reumatologi If you are a patient with SLE in Sweden, make sure you are registered in SRQ! srq.nu/forskningger...

The presentation was a success! I started off with "isn't epidemiology just having a dataset and pushing a button? - Nope!" and went from there. They appreciated the talk and I got a lot of questions that showed genuine interest and understanding of the value of epidemiological expertise.

University of Gothenburg is hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in Biostatistics and Epidemiology #postdoc

I have been asked to speak to a group of (mostly) clinicians about #epidemiology. This is a group who has repeatedly shown that they believe all I do is push a button to conduct my studies... Any tips on how to show them it's more than that, and encourage them to work with experts? #episky

In May, the Norwegian Sarcoidosis Association will host a webinar for patients. I am really honored to take part. Come and learn more about #sarkoidos #sarcoidosis #sarkoidose www.sarkoidose.no/nyheter/webi...

Jag skulle vilja anställa studenter under en kort tid - vilka är nackdelarna med detta förslag? www.svd.se/a/zOAjwv/c-n...

Love is Blind is quite the game of chicken. I still don’t understand why they don’t just date once they meet.

That moment when you realize that you have put a lot of work into a grant application that you probably will not get, and even if you get it, it won't cover your salary, so you have to apply for 10 more grants...😪

Happy lunar new year! 🧧

Uppsala University is hiring: Postdoctoral Researcher in AI and Epidemiology #postdocposition

Much better doom scrolling this than other options!

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. ”It depends…” #episky

Anyone out there on #episky working with natural language processing to get data from electronic health records? It’s a steep learning curve but I think it will be worth it in complex immune mediated diseases like lupus and sarcoidosis. Just submitted my first grant on this topic🤞

Starting off the Olympics with watching some curling. Never watched curling before I moved to Sweden!

What is the point of a letter of intent? Mine (2 pgs) was rejected & the reviewer said that the details of the plan were not clear.... How many details for a project are expected in a 2 page LOI?!? Or is this just an excuse for the reviewer to tank a project that they didn't like?

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?

📢 Hiring: Postdoctoral Fellow in LGBTQ Reproductive Health Disparities at Harvard Medical School 🌈🧬 Focus on rigorous epi methods + big data (longitudinal cohorts, EMR, claims) 📊 Ideal for epi/biostats folks who want rich cross-Harvard collaborations Details👇 Please boost + tag! 📣

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