It's happening! Canada launched two programs to recruit international researchers. Canada Impact+ Research Chairs (1 million/yr for 8 yrs +) Canada Impact+ Emerging Leaders. I will do my best to facilitate the process for those interested. Hit me up. www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

I look forward to defending free speech from its progressive critics — and conservative assailants == as the Tanner Letures Nov. 12 and 13 @princeton.edu A timely topic, sadly lectures.princeton.edu/lectures/202...

We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing: a 🧵 1/n Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820 Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/... Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...

Opinion: Chaos is coming for scholarly publishing. Buckling of commercial models alongside maturing of community-led efforts promises major shifts, says Caroline Edwards (@theblochian.bsky.social). www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

encountered this article by David Weimer from 1986 (cited by 7) with three good ideas for improving science that just a few short decades later, we've started to implement. Collective Delusion In The Social Sciences: Publishing Incentives For Empirical Abuse doi.org/10.1111/j.15...

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

McGill's @healthsciences.mcgill.ca Jay Kaufman critiquing public health guidance that "promote the powerful ideological message that being normal or abnormal ultimately depends on one’s race. That premise should be regarded as the truly malignant pathology" lareviewofbooks.org/article/does...

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

"Credit card perks for educated, usually urban professionals are being subsidized by people who have less. In other words, when you book a hotel room or enjoy entry to an airport lounge at no cost, poor consumers are ultimately footing the bill." www.nytimes.com/2023/03/04/o...

Today, our article "The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly" is finally published in PNAS. I hope that it proves to be a wake-up-call for the whole scientific community. reeserichardson.blog/2025/08/04/a...

What is going on here? Why does Aalborg (or Copenhagen, Montreal, San Diego, etc.) even need a zoo? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...

Two PhD studentships available in real-time infectious disease modelling, jointly with LSHTM, Imperial and UKHSA. January 2026 start + 3.5 years of funding: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

🤔🤔🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/w...

Gold standard science

'Scientific conferences are leaving the US amid border fears' www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor" Francesca Gino

This report by ProPublica probably has more detailed description of methods than many *peer-reviewed* published papers. AND they shared their code! (github.com/propublica/t...)

If you're looking for a post-doc in social health inequalities research and causal inference? Joost Oude-Groeniger and I have just such a position opening up. www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1...

📣📣 We are looking for an Assistant Professor (tenure track) in the Department of Global and Public Health @mcgillspgh.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...

💥José Manuel Aburto is seeking an early career colleague to join his forming team as a postdoc 🌿 JM is an exceptional mentor and friend. And now he is inviting a lucky colleague to join for an exciting ride. It's a highway to the frontier of demography. Catch this unique chance 🚀 lnkd.in/dBJyaF9p

Feels somewhat self-indulgent given the news cycle, but I want to take this moment to thank the anonymous students that sent a note of appreciation to me via @mcgill.ca 's 'Thank-a-Prof' program. These small gestures actually mean a lot and help keep us motivated to do more, better. Thank you!

“They cut speed limits, changed street design, removed space for cars… Now it appears that work is paying off. Oslo & Helsinki are reaping the rewards of committed action on making their roads safer, reducing pedestrian fatalities to zero last year.” #VisionZero #SpeedKills #Oslo #Helsinki

New results from "The Nation's Report Card" just dropped and they are pretty bad. I got a sneak peek as a member of IES’s Standing Committee, so I had an extra day or so to ruminate about them. A few thoughts 👇 1/n

FDA purges material on clinical trial diversity from its site, showing stakes of Trump DEI ban From me and @lizzylawrence.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/01/23/f...

There is just no going back from this. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u...

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/u... "dragged into the crowd ... attacked with a stun gun" "used an American flag to pummel another officer" "charged with using a baseball bat to beat officers" "swinging a metal flagpole at an officer" "attacked the police with a chair and chemical spray"

We've had a paper reviewed by ERROR, which has concluded we had a "major error that affects a core conclusion" Few comments on the conclusion and the process in general 1/n

Literally every Global Burden of Disease appendix

"Seriously, I don’t care how much it costs. Take every dime I have. But know this: I would level my house to the ground before I paid slightly higher property taxes to fund infrastructure that would prevent a landslide from leveling my house to the ground."

NINDS just launched a $50K prize competition for early-career scientists championing research rigor beyond their normal duties. Do you organize workshops, journal clubs, or do work to try and shift culture? This could be you. www.challenge.gov?challenge=ni...

Difficult to express the joy of finding Valentina in a random shop in Copenhagen after several months without it…

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes The mass resignation is the 20th such episode since early 2023, according to our records.

“You will be visited by three spirits”

Some nice reporting and data viz here by @brookings.edu trying to get at the rise and fall of US homicides in recent years. It's a (familiar) story about concentrated poverty, gender, employment, and guns. www.brookings.edu/articles/why...

This is so depressing. So many of the papers that I found inspiring as a student, early- and mid-career researcher were commentaries, but here we are... www.science.org/content/arti...

I participated in this @ucbitss.bsky.social RT2 training many years ago and highly recommend it for anyone interested in research #transparency www.bitss.org/events/resea...

I don't think that #annarbor city clerk's office (@A2GOV on the other place) is here. But I have to send a huge thanks to them for honoring my request to send an awesome werewolf 'I Voted' sticker all the way to Copenhagen (credit to 12-year-old Jane Hynous from Detroit). You guys rock.

What happened when public universities in 🇨🇦 started publicizing faculty salaries? ... ... ... The salary gap between men and women declined by 20-40% as a direct result. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Funding available to do a PhD on statistical methods for assessing the integrity of RCTs, based in Aberdeen, with Alison Avenell, myself, Graeme MacLennan and Mark Bolland. Competitive process, funded by MRC Trials Methodology Research Partnership: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨 NEW PAPER: When low-income Americans get $1,000/month for 3 years, what happens to their political views & behavior? The OpenResearch Unconditional income Study reveals surprising findings about the effects of income on politics... 🧵

Our JSS article is out! And now I get to focus on {marginaleffects} 1.0.0. Stay tuned. www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...

Q for pop health folks. Given how important "Eight Americas" was for shaping our thinking about population health (places with high homicide rates have low life expectancy!), are you similarly compelled by the altogether different-but-kinda-same TEN Americas? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Register for WHO's book launch of 'Health inequality monitoring: harnessing data to advance health equity' www.who.int/news-room/ev...

Think you know about guaranteed income? Prove it: forecast the results of two pilot programs in Chicago and Cook County before they are known: socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/bf... Accurate forecasts get a prize.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Progress Stalled? The Uncertain Future of Mortality in High-Income Countries For anyone that wants detailed demographic and epidemiological crystal ball gazing. .. this is truly excellent Detailed Few stones left unturned

Starter Packs feels a bit like making a mixtape to this 80s kid... I ran into the max number pretty fast so apologies to anyone I missed and I'll have to make a Volume II!: go.bsky.app/2ZUFQtv

Lucky enough to be in Berlin to catch a screening of ‘Metropolis’ with a live orchestra. Amazing and why isn’t there more of this!? babylonberlin.eu/orchester/13...

We've put together an #Epidemiology / #EpiSky starter pack with some of our members & friends! Please share! TESTIMONIALS 'The original data scientists' - @miguelhernan.bsky.social 'The new rock stars' - @nytimes.com 'A science of high importance' - @natureportfolio.bsky.social go.bsky.app/K6DXCGi

I, Niall Bolger, & @mjskay.com suggest practical guidelines for discussing & visualizing heterogeneity in a new working paper: mvuorre.github.io/heterogeneit... Overall we think it is useful to focus on the distributional uncertainty of effects in the population & communicate accordingly.

I fixed the headline. And I honestly don't understand how any journalist could write this story without mentioning the study author's own "extreme productivity".