Made it to Phoenix 🌵☀️ & ready to kick off #SER2026 with a session on peer review for epi ECRs tomorrow (Tues) at 8:30AM with the fabulous @tfeend.bsky.social!

One of my first German language articles! Thankfully, I had a lot of support :) The whole issue is really great... if you can read German, be sure to check out the 11th edition of Albert!

⏰ Final Call Just a quick reminder that the deadline to submit your abstract for the Applied Causal Graphs Workshop 2026 is *February 28*. You can get more details and send us an abstract from the website below. Looking forward to seeing you all in Potsdam in May!

CAUSAL GRAPHS ➡️ HAPPINESS. 😍 Agree? & Work in/around Berlin? 🐻 Sign up for the 2026 Applied Causal Graphs Workshop! 🌟 Deadline Feb 28th ⬇️ applied-causal-graphs.de This 3rd edition is hosted by the great folks at Uni Potsdam 💡

As part of @berlinscienceweek.bsky.social 2025, @berndpulverer.bsky.social @embopress.org & Alex Freeman @octopus-ac.bsky.social debated the future of academic publishing – from reforming the system to creating something new. Explore key arguments: award.einsteinfoundation.de/events/debat...

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

BERLIN + CAUSAL GRAPHS = HAPPINESS. Agree? Follow: bsky.app/profile/appl... Spoiler: Edition #3 in the making for Q2 2026! Stay tuned!

Thrilled to debate the future of scientific publishing with Alex Freeman, founder of Octopus.ac, moderated by @jlrohmann.bsky.social & hosted @einsteinberlin.bsky.social in a suitably vibrant Berlin setting. Votes elegantly split half way before & after arguments - strikingly, many changed sides : )

Berliners, help welcome @philippbach.bsky.social to the local causal inference scene! :) 👋

That merely being “under review” by a Nature family journal is offered as a quality proxy for a paper is a tragic illustration of the extent to which academia is addicted to brands and outsources evaluation

It was a pleasure to take part in this inspiring event with a group of so many movers and shakers. ⭐ This is the energy and urgency needed in this space. I learned a lot and look forward to our joint output from this workshop. Thanks to @idibaps.bsky.social & @eu-life.bsky.social for organizing!

Hey Berlin-based researchers who also wear journal editor hats! 👩‍🔬 We’re building a cross-discipline network for people like you, and we’d love your help reaching more folks. If you know contacts or places—like groups, mailing lists, or platforms—where we can share our invite, please DM me! Thanks!!

Next Monday (September 29th), Jessica Rohmann (@jlrohmann.bsky.social) & Toivo Glatz will give an interesting talk on Peerspectives, a researcher-led peer-review training course @zpid.bsky.social! Join us at ZPID or online! More info and registration here: leibniz-psychology.org/en/products/...

Excited to be back in Berlin for the second gathering of the Einstein Circle on Causal Inference from Observational Health Data! With @jlrohmann.bsky.social, @meghanforr.bsky.social, @chisatoito.bsky.social, @mpiccininni3.bsky.social, Venessa Didilez, Toivo Glatz, Rodrigo Huerta, & others! #EpiSky

Last chance to sign up -- register today! #Berlin #ResponsibleResearch #RRIA2025

🧪 Don't miss this unique event taking place in Berlin, Sept 22-24! We're looking for researchers, science managers, funders, publishers and community leaders looking to improve science in a tangible way. Check out the @plos.org blog post, take a look at the interesting projects & register soon!

SAVE THE DATE: The 2026 IEA European Congress of Epidemiology and 70th @socsocmed.bsky.social Annual Conference will take place in London, UK on 8th-11th September 2026! #EpiSky #EuroEpi2026

No one teaches collider bias like @pwgtennant.bsky.social in the #CausalIntroCourse. Lighthearted dice rolling 🎲 before the big reveal. Puzzled looks. Then 🤯 shock, as the implications for their research fields sank in. You could hear a pin drop during the compelling lecture that followed! 👏🏻

It is now possible for participants to sign up for the "Unconference" focused on taking action on responsible research! Scientists, science managers, journal editors, policy makers & more - take a look at the 10 interesting projects that will be developed on site during the event! 🧪 🌟Please share!🌟

Shape research culture + practices! Join the Responsible Research in Action Unconference 2025, Sept 22–24, Berlin, to collaborate on innovative solutions – from reproducibility checks to researcher-driven funding models. rr-in-action2025.org @dfg.de @ucoimbra.bsky.social @berlinualliance.bsky.social

Good Science xkcd.com/3101/

I love @epidbydesign.bsky.social 's peer review policy for questions @ this morning's #SER2025 session! 🤩 All conferences should do this! @societyforepi.bsky.social

Enjoying the side by side timelines of T Swift's life vs Epidemiology journal's evolution kicking off the "Eras" session at @societyforepi.bsky.social #SER2025. 😂

Really appreciate this piece, @simine.com — it’s so refreshing to see a journal openly laying out how it’s working to earn trust. Thanks for your leadership and for putting in the hard, thoughtful work. 💪

New post on why national and global data is so important for public health: www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-y... If others have more info on PRAMS that I should include, feel free to let me know. I don't work on perinatal health but I think it's critical to discuss. #EpiSky #DataScience #PublicHealth

Another nice #EuroCIM2025 poster by Christiane Didden. She presents the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition & how we think about the “explained” part of disparities—specifically in the context of the gender pay gap....

Catching up on my posting today... still have a few nice #EuroCIM2025 posters to share! Here is a neat one about barriers to integrating #causalinference methods into curricula & strategies to overcome these barriers...

Just been reading this great blog post by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci on accessible technical writing. Lots of good advice (some of which I knew, some was new to me) clearly laid out in one handy place! www.the100.ci/2024/12/01/w...

It’s a wrap! My #euroCIM2025 take-away message is 1. People are working on causal inference topics that go waaaay over my head 2. Many applied researchers are still unaware of the heroic assumptions they make 3. Both groups need to make efforts to close this gap

Very excited about this 🤩 I honestly believe that marginaleffects will be a game changer!

what software do people use to generate pretty-looking causal DAGs for their papers? (answers that take the form of an R package preferred, but “we always use Powerpoint/Canva/… because doing it in code is too hard” is a useful data point too) cc @pwgtennant.bsky.social @dingdingpeng.the100.ci

Proudly presenting the (for now) final version of "Why experiments work." To share the materials in a slightly more professional manner, I added a "Resources" page to my website: juliarohrer.com/resources/. That was long overdue anyway; now there's also a curated list of my papers and blog posts.

#EuroCIM2025 : very nice applied work right this way... :)

About 2 head home from #EuroCIM2025 (wanted a chance 2 kiss my kids goodnight). My take-home messages: 1. A lot of amazing people work on cutting-edge causal inference problems. 2. We need to ensure that these advances influence applied research practices—which often still struggle with the basics

We loved this shout-out! If anyone from #EuroCIM2025 wants to get involved as an editor/peer review mentor, please reach out! Read more about what we do here: iph.charite.de/en/academic_...

Tutorials are most useful when they also address substantive questions of interest. I think #episky also has some good sneak tutorial examples (which often serve as what Julia calls "template articles")! You can find her whole slide deck at osf.io/ujpsq (extra points for openness 🏆) #EuroCIM2025

I really agree... Especially because domain subject-matter knowledge is so critical for causal inference. There is often little awareness of what's out there and making "first contact" with a field is so important. #EuroCIM2025

You know Pearl's causal ladder, but Julia introduced a different type of ladder : how can we get cutting edge causal inference methods into applications? #EuroCIM2025 so important!

And you can really replace "psych" with most any applied medical research field... We can do better! This slide got a lot of laughs at #EuroCIM2024 (just so true!) Tough to do at 5pm, but @dingdingpeng.the100.ci is a pro!

Time for @dingdingpeng.the100.ci's invited talk on "How Can We Make Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream?" 🎉🎉🎉 #EuroCIM2025 #CausalSky

Final talk of the day... By the fabulous Julia Rohrer aka @dingdingpeng.the100.ci #EuroCIM2025 definitely wins the award for best title slide thus far. (Anyone want to try to top it tomorrow morning??)

Another #EuroCIM2025 poster for #episky: Elise Dumas presented "Inference on sustained treatment strategies, with a case study on young women with breast cancer" on behalf of colleagues from EPFL and France. Lots of interesting stuff to unpack here!...

There are some very interesting posters #EuroCIM2025! Sharing a handful here I thought might be of interest to #episky: #1 - "Confounding of the competing event in time-to-event analyses" by Jost Viebrock, Bianca Kollhorst & Vanessa Didelez. This poster looks at "competing confounding", that is...

An interesting talk by Fabrizia Mealli kicks off the #EuroCIM2025 "Interference and continuous exposures” session. I'll actually start with the conclusions slide to give you an idea of the content. 🧵...

Very nice coverage of the first keynote at #EuroCIM2025 by Jonas Peters here!

I’m at a causal inference conference this week #EuroCIM2025 - so fair warning: posts may skew toward methods and counterfactuals. If you follow me for peer review or research reform: thanks for bearing with me! 💪🏻 For those not here: I'll try to live post highlights from some of the sessions ⭐📻

Okay, I'm not done yet but I have been instructed to head to the #EuroCIM2025 student mixer and I guess you get the idea. I've been struggling to explain this in talks just working with the equations; I think the figures should make it a lot easier to follow along.

My first time in the absolutely picturesque Ghent! Caught a bit of sun before seeing all the #EuroCIM2025 stars 🤩 Who else from #episky is here this week? 👋🏻 @eurocim.bsky.social

A day late (and a character short) for #MEstimatorMonday (13/52) Let's start dissecting the sandwich variance and some of its features. This is part 1

Spotted on the way to the office. I love Berlin. 😁 Happy Friday!