Taxing the rich: it's good. #mapoli www.raiseupma.org/news/dor-fai...

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

I can only suggest to start noticing it as a first step. Time to stop the typical weird and gross habit of the whole world citing very specific USA scholars, when they never even read our work properly let alone cite it, but certainly benefit from it. Honestly, start ignoring these people. 3/

News & Views: New data reveals that a past #tuberculosis diagnosis increases the risk of death up to 14 years later regardless of treatment outcome, which should prompt urgent prioritization of global prevention efforts.

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

Looking at a paper, it appears that the Table 2 fallacy (on steroids) was rediscovered by environmental epidemiology. Contrafactual of multiple variables. Where is @cameronpat.bsky.social preaching the word? #rstats #episky

"AI, as it’s being used today, is colliding with institutional incentives to create more rather than better research"

There are already too many creeps who never spent a second of concern for other people, but that demand rights for algorithms. And it's gonna get so much worse.

LLMs have entered the chat. And the guardrails are off. I've had the "pleasure" of seeing some R code that is clearly the result of some misguided prompt producing some very wrong and worse than useless results. This is bad. It's worse than "decision tree statistics", worse than not knowing. 4/

Why so many "prompt" courses. Ffs... Apart from the normal toxicity from LinkedIn, nlw it is "AI"...

It might seem ridiculous for Nvidia to spend more on AI programming than it would cost to have humans to do the same programming. But it makes sense if you consider Silicon Valley's back-scratch culture, since spending on AI flows to other tech companies, who then funnel it back to Nvidia.

This is well worth a read. ky.fyi/posts/ai-bur...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/04/22/f... @adolfont.github.io @olivia.science @irisvanrooij.bsky.social It's strange that in the text, the person states "Without... using it(LLM), you would have had to do the research yourself.... gain understanding... ", but also defendsfend the use of LLM

Waiting @statsepi.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social @wiringthebrain.bsky.social to point out possible problems 😀

Just read a comment: "... In my use, there is plenty of critical reasoning and direction by me in getting AI to do tasks that I want...." Is it like a gambler addict thinking they can direct the slot machines and they are learning techniques?

In a Brazilian self-controlled case series of 5055 hospitalizations for Guillain–Barré syndrome, laboratory-confirmed dengue was associated with an increased risk of Guillain–Barré syndrome occurring within 42 days. Learn more: nej.md/4cjXU8h

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

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🦟 New research @lshtm.bsky.social found dengue patients had (up to) 30-times at greater risk of developing Guillain-Barré syndrome As the first study to link the two conditions with large-scale health records, it has important clinical implications Find out why 🔽 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Reminder if you support us to sign and share if you can! ✍🏻 We're coming up to a year since I sent this letter to my executive board and I will resend it on or close to the year mark with even more international and national support against AI. Thank you! openletter.earth/open-letter-...

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... Sharing my last paper. It was an attempt to quantify /proof something suspected for a long time. Dengue can trigger Guillain-Barré syndrome (we have case reports from 1998). 1/n #episky

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aacrjournals.org/cancerrescom... Ecological like (individual level data in cases but no real cohort) analysis showing marriage protects against cancer Anyone free to dissect some biases? @pwgtennant.bsky.social @dingdingpeng.the100.ci @georgiatomova.bsky.social #episky #rstats

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I keep seeing these types of papers: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... (LLM to "help/screening/etc" in Sys. Rev) With the main argument of reducing workload. For what? Churn out more low-quality articles?

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I just saw a paper using Poisson regression with the "Age-standardised" as the outcome. This feels very weird to me, as I expected something as count ~ vars + offset(log(py)). Can anyone explain to me why it would be a valid parametrisation? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #episky #econsky #rstats

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

I found it funny the "example case" of Consensus with Claude being in such a bogus theme....(consensus.app/home/mcp/) @statsepi.bsky.social @deevybee.bsky.social

👀ICYMI: "For some datasets, we estimate that the amount of mass-manufactured research now outnumbers legitimate research by ten to one" @aidybarnett.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #OpenData #ResearchIntegrity

🌏 Ahead of World TB Day, new research @lshtm.bsky.social highlights how TB survivors still face worse outcomes up to 14 years after diagnosis and treatment Findings make compelling case for long-term follow-ups after TB treatments to #EndTB Read more 🔽 www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

Any good schematics for target trial emulation framework? I see a lot of schematics mixing analysis (e.g. CCW) with the framework/idea #episky #rstats

Job losses at UK research-intensive universities double in two years. Exclusive: Scale of redundancies branded a “disaster”. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

"We are seeing readily available data assets, such as... the UK Biobank, NHANES, and many other databases, being weaponized to generate manuscripts with minimal scholarly value and utility"

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#BMJExclusive: Doctors should not engage with any aspect of the NHS Federated Data Platform outside direct patient care because of its links to the controversial US tech giant Palantir, the BMA says https://bit.ly/3OnZxcG

@pwgtennant.bsky.social @georgiatomova.bsky.social Do you guys have any paper/comment about misuses of "target trial emulation"? I'm writing a piece about misuses in causal inference. Like use of buzzy words just for the hype

#AcademicSky For the second time this year, I received a *clear* LLM peer-review in a paper submitted to a "high-impact" journal. Ffs, at least read/edit the fucking text before submitting the aberration to the journal. If any editors are around, should I email the journal? (appeal)

Everyday struggles

@pwgtennant.bsky.social Can you examine the change in score in this "econometric" context? Seems... bad 🙃 @dingdingpeng.the100.ci Germany context? royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10....

The solutions of the past 3 decades have failed to change the incentives of #PublishOrPerish. As a result, researcher funding, time, control, and trust has been lost. The ONE CONSTANT in the wake of the serial crisis, #PlanS and #OpenAccess reform has been publish profit margins. 2/n

Wrote up a little intervention post/explanation for my class about why using LLMs for trying to learn programming (as first time learners!) is bad and detrimental datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-11...

www.nature.com/articles/d41... This ultra-competitive scenario makes me very anxious. 1) almost a lottery 2) It is possible that the lottery would be more fair, as at least it wouldn't have the conscious/unconscious bias (mainly the "weights" the institution of origin carries)

@grahamkendall.bsky.social you could check the pattern of self citations of this group : journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Every paper of them in this topic cite almost all of the previous ones. Rarely citing other groups

A study of ~7 million Brazilian births shows that infection with #chikungunya, #dengue or #Zika viruses during pregnancy is associated with increased risk of adverse perinatal outcomes @csthiago.bsky.social#chikungunya#dengue#Zika#viruses #epidemiology #pregnancy

Help! Where can I find resources about causal mediation of ordinal outcomes? (using SEM) Thanks 😄 #rstats @dingdingpeng.the100.ci

I’ve had the same impression while looking at academic epidemiology postdoc offers. So much focus on AI, machine learning, LLM experience. Are these the core skills we need now? What about subject matter knowledge, study design, bias, statistics, population health knowledge? Outdated?