Finally in Navi Mumbai located my favourite beer since first coming to work in India in 1992, it is increasingly difficult to find, and now often only the STRONG ~8% “premium” version the only one available

Reassuring to see a cow at a major road junction in Bangalore; after a third of a century of work trips to India most things have changed out of all recognition, but a silicon valley thriving bovine represents continuity

Reassuring to see a cow at a major road junction in Bangalore; after a third of a century of work trips to India most things have changed out of all recognition, but a silicon valley thriving bovine represents continuity

A special collection of 6 papers on cohort studies in China is just out in @bmj.com www.bmj.com/collections/... with an editorial on the collection and the current publication climate www.bmj.com/collections/...

Galton calling for data sharing in 1901 - does anyone know of earlier examples?

Are there earlier occurrences of groups being established to archive biological data to make them available for future analyses by researchers than this, which is from The British Association Committee on Biological Measurements, 1927?

Fantastic opportunity to lead the Equity Lab @wellcometrust.bsky.social working with the legendary Jimmy Volmink, details here wellcome.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/Wellco... Please repost so as many as possible can see this great opportunity

Fantastic opportunity to lead the Equity Lab @wellcometrust.bsky.social working with the legendary Jimmy Volmink, details here wellcome.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/Wellco... Please repost so as many as possible can see this great opportunity

Met @mendelrandom.bsky.social at a pub in Bristol after my talk yesterday to chat about causality, ratio variables, and the state of Epidemiology in Europe. Behind him, on the bookshelf, was an old copy of Mendel's Principles of Heredity. A remarkable coincidence that required a photograph!

TOMORROW IN BRISTOL! "Have DAGs fulfilled their promise in epidemiology and health research?" 📆 22 October ⏰ 13:00 - 14:00 📍Queens Building, 1.18LT at the University of Bristol Cc @bristoltarg.bsky.social @uob-ieu.bsky.social @mendelrandom.bsky.social @garethjgriffith.bsky.social

For the tech bros who are intending to live forever it must be a shock to hear the big crunch is gonna end it all in 20 billion years .. they'll still be in middle age then www.sciencealert.com/physicists-p...

For the tech bros who are intending to live forever it must be a shock to hear the big crunch is gonna end it all in 20 billion years .. they'll still be in middle age then www.sciencealert.com/physicists-p...

Do you have heavy or painful menstrual periods? If so, please consider filling in our short survey so that we can better understand how these symptoms interact with mental health and wellbeing. exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Just replace dark chocolate for whatever the nutritional exposure in today's news story is in the below ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/12/04/d...

Great to have @markmccarthy985.bsky.social at @uob-ieu.bsky.social giving a seminar tomorrow (Friday) at 12.30 online or in person www.bristol.ac.uk/integrative-...

Apply to do a PhD with me, Laura Corbin, Gareth Hawkes and George Davey Smith ( @mendelrandom.bsky.social) in Bristol on identifying rare effects on health using new and innovative methods. Amazing team, great educational environment, lovely city. Forward to your undergrads wrapping up!

"Triangulation: moving from correlations to causation", Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Distinguished Lecture 2025, Thursday, October 16th, 5pm, in person or online www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/school-of-...

Mendelian randomization (MR) was partly a response to the many epidemiological studies suggesting vitamins were protective against various diseases, only for randomised trials to be null. The story of how fallacious MR attempted to resurrect the spurious claims here academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

A brilliant 1984 chapter in the "Encyclopaedia of Medical Ignorance" by Richard Peto anticipated much of the advances in understanding of cancer since then, and is now accessible in @SpringerNature European Journal of Epidemiology. A personal on it/ cont link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Mendelian randomization (MR) was partly a response to the many epidemiological studies suggesting vitamins were protective against various diseases, only for randomised trials to be null. The story of how fallacious MR attempted to resurrect the spurious claims here academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

This will be a great lecture from a brilliant and impactful epidemiologist

Seems like a good idea to me!

Great to see a joint 2026 SSM/IEA meeting, marking the 70th anniversary of SSM and one of the potential 70th anniversary dates for the IEA (though in 1956 it was called the International Corresponding Club). My first SSM & IEA conferences occurred closer to the founding dates than to today

Oh shit Ozzy Osborne just 10 years older than me and he had a relatively healthy lifestyle 😞

Prescient words from the great Richard Levins in his 1996 Edinburgh Medal address “When science fails us”, a piece on why we need a dialectical epidemiology, ecology and agricultural science. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Prescient words from the great Richard Levins in his 1996 Edinburgh Medal address “When science fails us”, a piece on why we need a dialectical epidemiology, ecology and agricultural science. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

After the Act, showing at London’s Royal Court Theatre, tells the story of Section 28, and the teachers, pupils and activists who lived through it. Kelly Rogers spoke to writer and director Billy Barrett and writer and actor Ellice Stevens. www.workersliberty.org/story/2025-0...

I'd like to tell you a story about a scientist you may not have heard of, but who shaped a lot of modern health research... 🧵

Incisive talk @royalsociety.org by legendary South African HIV researcher Salim Karim on "Science under threat: the politics of institutionalised disinformation" pulls few punches on science in the age of Trump and Musk royalsociety.org/science-even...

We should introduce the term “real human researchers” (RHR) to go with other nonsense phrases like “real world evidence”

Finally, something AI can do just as well as real "researchers". www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Here practical considerations for examining and reducing biases in #MendelianRandomization analyses #Genetics @mendelrandom.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jcem/advance...

An oldster speaks of his younger hero youtube.com/watch?v=pvQF...

Also empirical estimates don't agree with the simulation.... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24068246/

Commentary by @mendelrandom.bsky.social and me on paper suggesting highly prevalent East Asian #ALDH2 null variant may magnify adverse effects of maternal alcohol use during pregnancy on child development. ▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @uob-ieu.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

The empty Colston plinth in Bristol with the original and new labelling

Thanks to the Tulsa World for running my essay on the importance of federal data! #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #PRAMS #CDC #DataScience #ScienceHomecoming "We must rely on the kindness — and data — of strangers" tulsaworld.com/opinion/colu...

We have 2-3 group leader positions opening @fimm-uh.bsky.social !! We are looking for outstanding candidates in human genetics and precision medicine. This time we have a focus on population health data science. E.g. AI for EHR/health data        Generous starting package 💰 shorturl.at/FAk6n

I have an opportunity to hire a staff scientist for my lab. Looking for someone with outstanding skillset in ML/statistics, genomics applications; interest in mentoring, strong publication record, PD experience required. Email CV to me+cc my assistant (see 'contact' on my website). Ad to follow.

Multi-analyst approaches discussed @dingdingpeng.the100.ci More work required in the epidemiological space is one conclusion

Additionally, "if a study offers nothing more than the mechanical application of a statistical package to publicly available summary data, then it may not warrant the use of editorial and reviewer time, and journal space". @mendelrandom.bsky.social tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/33/5...

I was sceptical of AI generated podcasts, especially if covering ideas rather than empirical data. This generated from academic.oup.com/ije/article/... & academic.oup.com/ije/article/... & link.springer.com/article/10.1... was better than I imagined possible notebooklm.google.com/notebook/d53...

This is simultaneously a noodle, a no nulls and a numbskulls, congrats to all concerned youtu.be/N1vklBXG2do?...

RIP David Thomas, of Pere Ubu, a simply extraordinary artist and curmudgeon, for whom I had the terror of organising a gig for some decades ago youtu.be/z6IJRxonxi0 Give their wonderful back catalogue a listen ...

A simple but vital point, still too often ignored: You can only adjust for what you can measure. If your measurements are imprecise, then your adjustment must obviously suffer. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... (from @mendelrandom.bsky.social)

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

Why do Labour supporters tolerate this?

My favourite visual representation of Mendelism is below, but as always the story is more complex than it seems ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2022/07/15/t...

Triangulation of evidence in medical research explained, in work led by Sirena Gutierrez and @mariaglymour.bsky.social Will do a thread when I get a moment link.springer.com/article/10.1...