#Meta projected that 10% of its revenue last year (~$16 billion) would come from ads for #scams and banned products, according to internal company documents seen by Reuters. That includes duplicitous investment schemes and ads for illegal online casinos and outlawed medical products, per Reuters

#IrishDesign week is 17-21 November with lots of panels, workshops, exhibitions, and more www.dcci.ie/whats-on/iri...

A great table comparing the effects of diseases and the side effects of #vaccines on the National #Immunisation Program immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au/resources/ta...

Position statement on artificial intelligence (#AI) use in evidence synthesis across Cochrane, the Campbell Collaboration, JBI and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence 2025 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Even as the anti-vax lobby erodes public trust, new evidence confirms that "immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza have shown consistent effectiveness & safety and are associated with a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization & severe disease" www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

If #Meta is pushing back against new data protection laws, that means we must be trying to do something right... Gross lobbying... We are the products and these companies just sell our data again and again and again. Where's our kickback? 😅 www.irishtimes.com/technology/b...

Take this #ClinicalTrial Priority Setting Survey to help identify & prioritise the Top 10 research questions/opics that will improve how we plan, do, analyse and share the findings from clinical trials. Open to patient/public, researchers, health profs, etc livpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

📢 New EP PerMed Call 📢 EP PerMed's 2026 Research, Innovation & Technology Call, 'Test and Demonstration of Multimodal Data Approaches for Personalised Medicine' is now open. 🖥️Register for the online info day on 28 October➡️ bit.ly/48Dk7Oy ℹ️ bit.ly/4o5JDAY

Really well done explainer of the election system for the Irish Presidential elections using... smarties. Bonus points for showing why Irish election counting takes so long:

📢 As one of the next round of TRMP PhD students (below) you could join me, Clare Robinson, @averoniki.bsky.social and @marionkcampbell.bsky.social to work on developing a typology of research outputs in trials methodology, based at @wiphcem.bsky.social. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

A #PeerReview system reliant on free labour produces slow, poor-quality, biased results, quelle suprise :(

Five years in Ireland and I'm still learning about different ways to spelling things... skeptical vs sceptical why is there such a love for the extra curvy letters (c and s -- focussed) and dislike for the sharp ones (ks and zs -- disorganized)

truehealthinitiative.org/annual-globa... 2nd Annual Global Symposium on Health #Misinformation Register for Symposium (free) 9-10 December

Dr Jane Murphy, co-author of the recent HRB report into gaps in women’s health research across the OECD, says input from clinicians and patients is needed to address these deficiencies. Watch/listen on the HRB Evidence for Policy page: tinyurl.com/3hzwc4yy #womenshealth

As trust in the federal government's stewardship of US public health infrastructure plummets, NEJM and CIDRAP are launching a rival publication to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Story by @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has released “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”, designed to help research performing organizations. ℹ️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gSzFA6 @dorassessment.bsky.social

Immediate skin-to-skin contact between newborns and their mothers offers a better start in life, improving a number of key health metrics, according to a newly-updated Cochrane review. 🔗 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...

Interesting #preprint out on Factors influencing the trustworthiness of non-randomized studies of interventions: a survey of international experts #NRSI www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Colossal piece of work on terminology in #EvidenceSynthesis We identified 1010 unique terms to describe a type of evidence synthesis; of these, 742 terms were only mentioned once ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...

In 2008, the AAP rescinded guidance to delay introduction of #peanuts to at-risk children until age 3, as this strategy was not protective against food #allergy. Now -> the LEAP trial uncovered effectiveness of early, sustained peanut ingestion in protecting against severe AD/ egg allergy in infants

Published today: One of the biggest #science #communication studies to date. We asked 71,922 people in 68 countries how they #engage with information about #science and combined the data with several country-level factors: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #OpenAccess

📢 Applications for the 2026-2027 Morris Fishbein Fellowship in Medical Editing are due Monday, January 5. This one-year fellowship at JAMA’s Chicago headquarters offers physicians hands-on experience in editing and publishing a leading medical journal. ja.ma/3IiDkKG

A new HRB report, Effectiveness, safety, and cost-effectiveness of pharmacist prescribing, examines pharmacists prescribing compared with other prescribing healthcare professionals. Press release and link to full report www.hrb.ie/hrb/hrb-repo...

Slightly infuriating/insulting when a business does #greenwashing to try to pretend like their decision to save money on paper towels and cleaners are for #EnvironmentalHealth. They could invest in better biodegradable products. #FluSeason has started, not to mention #staph, #mrsa...

'Where there are gaps in evidence, there are gaps in care.' Dr Linda Biesty tells the Health Research Podcast that the HRB’s OECD-wide review of women’s health research highlights real-world impacts. Watch/Listen: tinyurl.com/3hzwc4yy #womenshealth #evidenceforpolicy

Shaping Ireland’s first national roadmap for public engagement in open research Coffee Morning Tuesday 21 Oct | 11–12pm | Trinity Long Room Hub @tcddublin.bsky.social NORFest 2025, Our Community Workshop with the @norfireland.bsky.social #OpenResearch #PublicEngagement #NORFest2025

#MetaResearch #PostDoc opportunity working with routine health data and clinical trial data (with Prof. Lars Hemkens) www.jobs.apps.be.ch/job-vacancie...

Women are less included in trials, and female-specific outcomes are under-reported, says Dr Susan Smith, Professor of General Practice at Trinity College Dublin on the Health Research Podcast. @Watch/listen on the HRB #evidenceforpolicy page: tinyurl.com/3hzwc4yy #womenshealth

Spot the Spin: A Workshop on #Misinformation & Elections with Dr Eileen Culloty This interactive workshop invites participants to navigate real-world examples of misinformation & #disinformation, from viral memes to misleading headlines. 15 Oct 6:30-7:30 PM IST www.tickettailor.com/events/dlrli...

Ahh yes, that important part of the scientific method where you "make the proof"

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has released “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”, designed to help research performing organizations. ℹ️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gSzFA6 @dorassessment.bsky.social

‼️ Global call 🌍 DORA is seeking new Steering Committee members! We especially welcome applications from Africa, Asia, and Latin America/Caribbean. Help shape the future of responsible research assessment. Submit your self-nomination by October 31: forms.gle/rqjCBeFbPHak...

"Undermining confidence in one of the few safe and effective pain and fever relief drugs in pregnancy risks causing unintended harm." Pregnant women are often excluded from clinical trials and evidence gaps enable unsubstantiated claims, @louiseckenny.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/391/...

Get ready for lift-off! The fourth National PPI Festival is happening from 1st–31st October 2025. Have a look at all the events organised so far tinyurl.com/4bb7vzma Register for what interests you and share broadly!

The email obtained by NPR instructs employees working on energy efficiency & #RenewableEnergy projects to avoid using about a dozen words/phrases including: " #ClimateChange ," "# decarbonization ," " #CleanEnergy ," and "energy transition"

HRB report finds substantial gaps across the OECD, in understanding of conditions affecting women, including early pregnancy loss and mental health after childbirth. More, incl publication & interactive gap maps: tinyurl.com/2vmvme6m #womenhealth

The @ppi-ignite-net.bsky.social National PPI Festival 2025 runs this October and will kick off with a free, two-day event at RCSI. The festival showcases how patients and the public can be involved in planning, conducting and sharing research. Learn more 🔗 www.rcsi.com/dublin/news-... #RCSIEngage

I'm stuck behind a #paywall. Any assistance? #medlibs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For the past 9 years, I normally see my parents in Florida 1x year but this year is the first one where I'm genuinely concerned about going. I'm not outspoken but I am critical (publicly here) of what's going on there, I have an EU spouse, & I don't feel comfortable contributing to their economy..

We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven. The degree to which those comments can undermine public health—is violence against the truth. - Barack Obama

Anyone have a good reference on the move away from * ** and *** for p values in tables? #StatsSky #StatisticsSky #EpiSky

Same goes for public schools, colleges, and universities.

A global study seeks people who conduct, commission, or use qualitative evidence syntheses to take part in a Delphi study to improve the reporting quality of qualitative #EvidenceSyntheses ( #PRISMA #QES ). #ReportingGuidelines sites.google.com/view/prismaq...

But #PublicHealth advocates say the final document released this week by the #WorldHealthOrganization falls far short of an earlier draft that endorsed much more aggressive measures to tackle some of the biggest drivers of #NonCommunicableDiseases which account for 75% of all deaths worldwide. #CDoH

US couldn't accept promotion of abortion & “gender ideology.” “We believe in the biological reality of sex...global bureaucrats have absolutely no business attacking the sovereignty of nations that wish to protect innocent life.” UN declaration does not mention reproductive rights or gender ideology

Our October Methods Support Unit clinic will feature a presentation on Version 2 of the ROBINS-I tool to assess risk of bias in non-randomized studies of interventions. 🗓️ Thursday 2nd October 8am UTC 🔗 Sign up here: www.cochrane.org/events/versi...

#ChatGPT appears to have some ability to assess RoB and is unlikely to be guessing or “hallucinating”. The estimated agreement for “Overall RoB” is well above estimates of agreement reported for some human reviewers, but below the highest estimates. #evidencesynthesis

We're currently looking for a Trials Methodologist/Senior Trials Methodologist to join our team. You can find out more about the role and how to apply here: jobs.icr.ac.uk/vacancies/13... #ResearchJobs #TrialsMethodology🧪

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