It was a real pleasure to welcome Dr. @pwgtennant.bsky.social to Luxembourg 🇱🇺! He gave an inspiring talk on causal inference, and his contagious enthusiasm sparked a genuine interest in applying these methods in Luxembourg. 1/3🧵

RFK Jr has promised to release a report on the causes of autism in September. To prepare, it's a good idea to make sure we know what the common types of observational research biases are. First up: confounding by indication. Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Another phenomenon that you discuss differently once you participated in @pwgtennant.bsky.social 's #CausalIntroCourse

Before #CausalInferenceIntro: "Hmm, this association looks unusual" 🤔 After #CausalInferenceIntro: "Have you considered the possibility of collider bias?" 🤓 @pwgtennant.bsky.social @georgiatomova.bsky.social @jlrohmann.bsky.social @meghanforr.bsky.social @laurieberrie.bsky.social Rodrigo

70 people having a curry at the amazing Bengal Brasserie restaurant in Leeds City Centre! My favourite part of the #CausalIntroCourse!

#CausalIntroCourse Day 3

Ready for #CausalIntroCourse Day 2. Today's menu: DAGs and Propensity Scores

Two years ago: World Parkinson's Conference ➡️ Today: Start of the Introduction to causal inference course with @pwgtennant.bsky.social in Leeds #CausalIntroCourse

Excellent presentation by my PhD supervisor @chrismccrum.bsky.social 👏 well deserved

Everything set up for the #ISPGR2025 Next speaker: @chrismccrum.bsky.social, the promising scientist of 2025 👏 #NursesCanSciences

🧠 Parkinson’s: Not Just Frequency, But Progression Too Did you know that Parkinson's disease is 1.4 times more common in men than women? But that’s not the whole story—men also experience a faster worsening of symptoms compared to women.🧵

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Je pensais naïvement que le scorbut était une maladie du passé 😳 www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/commen...

How it started How it is going

WHAT WE FOUND: We used different statistical methods to assess if apathy (lack of motivation) in people with PD changed over time. The linear mixed effects models showed a significant increase in apathy each year whereas other methods did not find this increase.

Everyone needs to know about `easystats` in R It is so much fun to use and then share with students Teaching on regression and just used the check_model() function and look at this beautiful figure

Left: an influential conceptual figure by Poewe et al 2017 www.nature.com/articles/nrd... on symptom progression in #Parkinson's disease Right: a sex-specific symptom progression figure w longitudinal data from Luxembourg Parkinson's Study in Anne-Marie Hanff's new preprint: osf.io/f64zv/

New article from my PhD candidate Anne-Marie Hanff: Determinants of patient-reported functional mobility in people with Parkinson's disease: A systematic review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...