Our department just announced a new Associate Professor position in quantitative research methodology 🇳🇴 One of the favorable qualifications is experience with open science practices + R/Python experience www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Also oil

What everyone who stayed up to watch the England Mexico game looks like on teams this morning

New analysis suggests other factors may explain the harms blamed on “ultra-processing.” www.vox.com/future-perfe...

‘We urge the Government to prioritise this issue. Should this situation continue unchecked, the damage to the health of higher education, research and innovation will be profound and have long-lasting consequences.’ www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/stateme...

A utterly heroic performance from England! Absolutely incredible rear guard effort.

This game is everything a World Cup match should be. Wow.

"The findings raise questions about one of the most-hyped UK AI developments, and suggest a centrepiece of US-UK AI cooperation was in fact little more than a press release"... When hype meets reality case number too many to count... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

An absolute banger of an exclusive from the Sunday Times. It's devastating. For the first time, I'm uncertain if Farage can actually survive this www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

To celebrate #America250 as an Englishman, I am reenacting the Expulsion of the Loyalists by fleeing to the old world.

Take a bow Cabo Verde, you inspired us all! THANK YOU! 🇨🇻

So management came to us last week with an offer to end the boycott. It increased buy outs for VR, extended the VR time, and offered to pay back some of the pay they stole from those participating in IA.

"We end with a vision for a different research culture in which causal inference is pursued in a much slower, more deliberate, and collaborative manner"

Which brings me to vibe coding. As I've written, there's a world of difference between writing code for production and writing "personal software" that solves a problem *you* have. 50/

Be like Spain : The Spanish government has implemented a blacklist against the US data analytics firm Palantir on 1 July, barring public and private state-controlled companies from establishing new contracts with the company.

🚨🚨Great news: Culture Secretary Lisa #Nandy has announced she and her department are leaving Elon #Musk's #X platform explaining that " the platform "isn't healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don't want to support it". 🧵 www.bbc.com/news/article...

55% of 2026 World Cup watchers have a negative opinion of the decision to hold a half-time show during the final 60% of watchers agree with the BBC/ITV decision to not show it yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

💦 66% of 2026 World Cup watchers have reacted negatively to hydration breaks yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

I couldn't leave the USA without giving my DAG talk one last time! Come and join my 'farewell lecture' in New Haven (or online!) on 15th July at 4pm Eastern Time! Sign-up to attend in-person or online at: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

You should have had a merch table!

I'm here for both!

I couldn't leave the USA without giving my DAG talk one last time! Come and join my 'farewell lecture' in New Haven (or online!) on 15th July at 4pm Eastern Time! Sign-up to attend in-person or online at: yale.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We urgently need a proper financial settlement for UK Higher Education or the UK's golden goose will be gone forever.

This was also a predictable outcome years ago yet senior leadership teams in UK universities and Whitehall were in denial about the risks of it happening until only a few weeks ago

Don’t miss this talk by @hjhansford.bsky.social on the need for and the story behind TARGET, the relevance of which is only increasing as more and more researchers are emulating target trials in observational data (or, as Harrison puts it, “claim” to be emulating target trials) 👇🏻

Another funding call with a net negative value. Well done Town of Culture programme managers.

please don't call statisticians "data scientists," they hate that, survey finds www.amstat.org/docs/default...

I'm really sorry to hear this news. The Research Professional team are excellent and have helped the HE and research sector keep up with what is happening. We will be less intelligent without it. Good luck to individual staff members affected, who are excellent writers and journos.

I increasingly believe that improving the quality and rigor of funding panels is the single most important intervention to reduce waste in the scientific system. Alas, while I have applied to serve on several UK funding committees over the years, I have never been chosen.

MY DREAM: Run a blog that publicly reviews every applied/population health research study funded by a major UK biomedical funder. With running estimates of: * % papers "fundamentally flawed" * Total research funding wasted Not sure I'd ever get a job or funding in the UK ever again, though!

In fact, this study seems even worse than the news reports suggest. 1) they only study people being scanned for chest pain, which may introduce distorting selection bias 2) They appear to have gone fishing, testing 28 different body composition measures and focussing on the significant ones.

This is really sad news. Apart from this offering excellent journalism in the sector and often covering key areas that similar outlets miss, Research Professional News has consistently tackled problems in the sector and held academia to account. Good people work there, too.

I can't wait to see this! I remember first learning about the Bayeux tapestry when I was 11 and have been fascinated ever since!

"People with strong chest and back less likely to have a heart attack" <- The British Heart Foundation funded someone to show that healthier people are less like to have a heart attack. Sadly they don't show whether strength training helps reduce heart attack. Which would have been useful.

Top football chit chat on #Bluesky. Why would anyone persist with Twitter?

My cardiologist stopped my statin and put me on a daily regimen of tearing phone books in half

"People with strong chest and back less likely to have a heart attack" <- The British Heart Foundation funded someone to show that healthier people are less like to have a heart attack. Sadly they don't show whether strength training helps reduce heart attack. Which would have been useful.

Why is Google AI Overview still so incredibly bad??

Wondering who is in charge of our social media accounts including LinkedIn and BlueSky? Meet The Society for Epidemiologic Research Communications Committee at #SER2026!

Staying in the conference hotel = easy access to naps

All conferences should adopt @epidbydesign.bsky.social ‘s question rules as standard! #SER2026

Nobody actually understands the full process of buying a house in the UK. Everyone involved just nods along to the terminology and jargon, maintaining an unspoken bond of ignorance.

Reading about clinical medicine in Nature

"Life is more than work" A phenomenal and moving presidential address from @societyforepi.bsky.social Wendy Nembhard 🥺 #SER2026

New for this year! @epidbydesign.bsky.social has been circulating some 'teeny tiny methods zines'! A limited supply were avaliable for a few minutes, before being snaffled up. Look out for more tomorrow! #SER2026

Made a zine for #SER2026 with @epidbydesign.bsky.social and @haidonglu.bsky.social!

Congratulations to the winners of the first #SER2026 poster session!

"Life is more than work" A phenomenal and moving presidential address from @societyforepi.bsky.social Wendy Nembhard 🥺 #SER2026

Made a zine for #SER2026 with @epidbydesign.bsky.social and @haidonglu.bsky.social!

As an editor, I can tell there are regional research communities that are very much into methods that were fashionable in the US/Western Europe some years ago and have fallen out of favor due to clear issues.>