Post a pic of your trip to Phoenix for #SER2026! We are expecting over 1000 epidemiologists to join us for what might be the hottest epidemiology gathering in history! 🔥☀️🥵

Yep! We are in full excitement mode! Hope to see you there. You should post a travel pic. bsky.app/profile/soci...

Mechanism and updated prediction for the epic fail of Lincoln Memorial Bioreactor's polyurea coating! First chemistry, then physics It was sprayed in big sections. In addition to pool edges, failure will concentrate at the OVERLAP SEAMS between sections because they likely barely bonded at all. 1/x

Come work @lshtm.bsky.social modelling STIs in UK & evaluation of new interventions. 3yr research fellow modelling post - feel free to get in touch to discuss. Current closing date 30th June @rozeggo.bsky.social @adamjkucharski.bsky.social @grahammedley.bsky.social @drlouisedyson.bsky.social

Do we have #SER2026 yet?? Are people posting about next week? #episky

What could this look like? Some potential guidelines: 1. Try to use no more than 100 words in the whole poster (outside of text inside of tables and figures). 2. Make the figures giant. 3. Present *way less information.* 4. Ask a question on the poster to engage the audience.

Or, I think better, a trailer for the movie: something that takes 1-2 minutes to consume (rather than a movie's 90-150 minute runtime); with very few words (some of which don't even appear in the movie!); full of flashy visuals; and (critically) *leaving you wanting to consume the whole thing.*

HAVE YOU SUBMITTED YOUR OMB PUBLIC COMMENT YET???? If not, join us tomorrow at 2pm et: events.standupforscience.net/stand-up-for...

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

You could hardly ask for a better example of investing in vibes over value than shutting down *real* cancer research to free up money for teaching more words to the word-guessing machine because it's about to become God and cure cancer. 11/

It's Thursday and Russell Vought is still trying to take over all federal grant making, put it under his thumb and political control. It's a mad power grab. We need to stop it. Click on this and write a letter to your members of Congress. And share, share, share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

Zero. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What’s that? You’re in Dublin this week? And you’re into open research? Well then get yourself registered for the @irishrepronetwork.bsky.social talk with @statsepi.bsky.social and @wiringthebrain.bsky.social taking place in TCD this Thursday! Register here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/irish-repr...

The 2026 Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics has been awarded to the R Project. #RStats www.rousseeuwprize.org/2026

The Citi training I am doing just said CONSORT was to used evaluate the quality of a study. 🫣😭 This is incorrect. Reporting guidelines are not meant to measure quality of a study, but rather provide the a guidance on what information should be shared so we can assess the quality of a study.

Do you use NHANES data? If so, consider submitting a comment in support of the data The prior request for comments received only THREE responses www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

AND everyone can submit comments on the rule until 13 July. Read this on how to submit. Federal grants affect us all. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/what-we-ne...

The trouble with saying "Violence gets results - just look at the Right!" is that the results the Right currently wants (less social cohesion, more individual power) are *achievable* by violence The results the Left wants (more social cohesion, collective safety) are actively undermined by violence

Strawberries… 🫣

This is really important. The US government wants to end independent scientific and medical research. Please comment and push back on the sweeping proposal that would give the White House veto and clawback power over Federal R&D funding. Here's guidance

Brilliant science communication from @cdelawalla.bsky.social ; I will be showing this to my students when I teach public health messaging!

Now that's what I call a spicy opeing: Understanding mechanisms is not a research question.

Why we should rethink causal mediation, and what to do instead? Come to hear the answer from Vanessa Didelez at the next CIIG seminar! The seminar will be hybrid. If you are in London, come join us in person at UCL! Otherwise, you can join on Zoom as usual. Registration links in comment below.

My grant status was updated from “Not discussed” to “competitive -not discussed”. That feels like an improvement so I am taking that as a win. 😂😂

What does the new OMB proposal mean for science? How can we STOP VOUGHT and SAVE SCIENCE together? All of these questions and more to be discussed at the Emergency Science Meeting on June 2nd, 4PM ET, hosted by Stand Up for Science! Register at the link in our bio, or go here: zurl.co/g3vTZ

In the last 12 months I’ve seen AI biographies generated about me online that include completely made up quotes and sources. At festivals I’ve been introduced by lovely & well meaning hosts who have used Ai for bio information that is completely false. Ai threatens expertise across the board.

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Osterholm on hantavirus: We’re missing ‘main point of this outbreak’ "Respiratory person-to-person transmission is not new with the Andes hantavirus," CIDRAP Director Michael Osterholm points out www.cidrap.umn.edu/m... Photo: Chris Cooper / University of MN

The Vaccine Integrity Project completed a comprehensive review of peer-reviewed evidence on Tdap vaccination during pregnancy with the Evidence Foundation. Full press release: ow.ly/JqYA50YYXHh

If we actually want to appreciate moms, we should be providing free childcare, healthcare, and guaranteed income for stay-at-home parents to put more money in families’ pockets and ensure no SAHP is reliant on a partner for their economic security. Idk I think that’s better than 15% off a vacuum.

The Department of Epidemiology here at the University of Iowa is searching for a new department chair! Please consider applying or sharing with others who may be interested! jobs.uiowa.edu/faculty/view... www.public-health.uiowa.edu/epi-deo-sear...

Hantavirus to the left of me Norovirus to the right Stuck in the middle with flu

End of day update: my lab is still down five (5) million dollars

Hey #edusky / #datasky: I'm hiring! If you're a data person who cares about education equity, social equality, and working toward a less divided America, check it out! newamerica.applytojob.com/apply/LVDvuZ... #datajobs #edjobs #edpolicy

My biggest complaint about causal inference is that as its methods become more popular, the thinking shifts from understanding the DGP, the data at hand, and the underlying assumptions, to simply implementing the identification strategies.

It’s official. May is completely booked…. I am scheduling meetings in June. 😵‍💫 mid June (after grant submissions)

I don’t care what we’re talking about; the goal should be zero dead children.

850 Tomahawk missiles could be $3,060,000,000... That is 3 billion sixty million US dollars. That is 1224 5 year biomedical research grants. Literally, over 6 millennia of biomedical research.

I typically like good reviewer feedback and sometimes can tell that my writing needs to be more clear. However, it is REALLY FRUSTRATING when it seems the reviewer only half read the paper and the comments are wrong or asking for things that are already in the paper.

Maybe the slogan "Measles will make us lose money" is what would finally break through in a society suffering from end stage capitalism.🤷🏽‍♀️ 1.5 billion dollars cost annually for every percentage drop in vaccination coverage just might be what does it. www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-...

As an old out of touch fart I’m not familiar with her, but kudos! 👏👏👏

rules are rules

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

I was an opportunity scholar at #positconf in 2023, and I hope that this encourages you to apply, just like someone encouraged me to apply. It was a life-changing chance to do something I never dreamed I could do! What have you got to lose? #databs #rstats #pydata #WiDS

#rstats The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics will be running a special issue commemorating the 25th anniversary of the official release of R. (The Univ. of Auckland was the birthplace of R.) They invited various people to contribute articles, including me. 🧵 1/

This feels a lot like academia in the U.S. right now

📣 PhD studentship - Biostatistics 💻 University of Bristol, UK Help improve methods for something that affects us all - how accurate are tests for disease? Learn, apply & develop Bayesian models to estimate accuracy from varying study designs, synthesise evidence & optimise design of future studies

Mail ballots currently lean overwhelmingly Democratic and the party is likely to be disproportionately affected if thousands of votes are tossed out because of bans on grace periods for mail ballots in Ohio and elsewhere.