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In this episode of the best things that I’ve read: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Reviewers don’t forget to suggest your postdoctoral mentees as reviewers if you decline a manuscript. Sponsorship is so important with regard to helping someone develop a national reputation!

The word transformational should be reserved for things that are truly transformational.

I just received an email asking me to evaluate the grand rounds lecture that I gave last week.🧐 It was fabulous?🤷🏻‍♀️

Halting NIH business operations isn’t efficient or fiscally or socially responsible.

I want to be a feline reproductive epidemiologist.

I need a self-inking stamp that says, “Data are plural; datum is the singular.”

Not a fan of the look of Times New Roman. No offense, @nytimes.com

Tip of the day for early career folks: use Dr. or credentials, not both. For instance, I’m either Dr. Courtney Lynch or Courtney Lynch, PhD MPH NOT Dr. Courtney Lynch, PhD MPH

It’s bad when your home network is more reliable than your network at the office.🫠

Agar should really smell better than it does!

Don’t yell at or curse at graduate students (or other colleagues). We’re all adults. Please act like it.

Well, this feels like more credibility than I deserve.😂 Thank you F&S for the merch!

I made one for 'types of paper in epidemiology and public health' #EpiSky

I think Elon needs some demographers to speak with him about population transition.

Still waiting for someone to tell me something positive about being HLA B27+.

I feel like we should be doing more… www.aap.org/en/news-room...

Random mentoring advice: you should subscribe to the eTOC of JAMA and NEJM (and at least skim them each week) regardless of your specialty. It’s a really good way to stay up to date with what is going on in medicine.

Whitney Houston’s Star Spangled Banner is elite.

For once, I’d like to be able to find my car in the parking deck on the first try.

I feel like I’m back in the 90s when the batteries in my wireless mouse die. I need to upgrade to something rechargeable.

Good morning #episky! What is everyone up to today? Teaching, writing? I’m working on a student’s F31.

SER has two publications that it sponsors: @AmJEpi.bsky.social and Epidemiology Reviews. They both provide quality #epidemiology research, so make sure to check them out. SER members have access to content from both of these journals!

Being able to purchase out of the area memberships to public libraries with extensive electronic collections is one of the greatest things to ever happen to readers. Couple that with Libby and the options are endless!

Libraries are precious and beautiful and must be defended

If other government agencies join Bluesky and become your favorite agency just remember who was here first and who has two eagles in their logo.

This ⬇️ !!!

A great place for academics to hide and write!

Waiting on a new control board for our double oven, after purchasing a new W&D last week.🙄😒 Me: I’m annoyed it’s not arriving until Friday. They said 92% of their orders arrive in 2 days. What a scam. Son: You didn’t get scammed; you’re part of the 8%.🤷🏻‍♀️ Me: 🫠 #math

Co-authoring a paper or grant in Google docs is a mess IMO. That said, not a M365 fan either.

My whole aesthetic is emotional support cold brew in my Yeti of the day (color-matched to my outfit).🎀

In clinical research, you will often receive feedback on study design, stats, and/or data analysis from an editor or reviewer that is simply wrong. Here is a list of common "statistical myths" and references you can use to push back. discourse.datamethods.org/t/reference-...

My department is hiring! The George Mason University Department of Global and Community Health invites applications for a full-time term assistant professor/term associate professor (9-month, non-tenure track, state- funded) starting August 2025. listings.jobs.gmu.edu/jobs/global-...

Might be a controversial take, but I really don’t care for non-inferiority trials. The inferiority margin chosen is always somewhat arbitrary; so, they’re difficult to interpret.

An election concern that I don’t hear many people talking about… Many young people my son’s age were not taught cursive in school in the US. Some young people had the legitimacy of their votes scrutinized because their signatures don’t match. Folks, they don’t know how to sign their name!!!

My son is applying to college and asked me yesterday what my PhD means. I said Doctor of Philosophy. He said, oh, so you’re an expert in thinking? I said, I guess. This conversation made me realize that I don’t spend enough time really thinking these days. I need to make space for it.

Why has research on the role of fathers/partners really lagged behind in fertility and DOHaD work?

Is this national scientists jump ship day? I feel like I missed something.

World’s greatest interview opportunity.

At NIH making lots of progress finalizing planning for ECHO, Cycle 2. Our Prenatal, Perinatal, and Postnatal Outcomes group had a very productive meeting.

We’re pleased to share that our team will be joining the NIH ECHO Program. I’m excited to be leading this work with my fabulous MPIs: Sarah Keim, Jon Slaughter, and Kartik Venkatesh. wexnermedical.osu.edu/mediaroom/pr...

I need Word to stop autocorrecting EHR to HER.

Okay scientist friends, have you ever had an “other significant contributor” on your grant? Were they inside or outside your org? What did they do?

Mood.

Allen Wilcox is still leading the way in reproductive epidemiology. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama-health-forum/fullarticle/2807903

FDA’s CDER is hosting a virtual hiring event on August 2nd. There are #chemjobs plus: Business Informatics Data Science Regulatory Health Project Mgmt Biology Epidemiology Pharmacology Physician Pharmacy Health Science Policy Toxicology & more https://fdacderjobs.vfairs.com/

I miss #epitwitter.☹️