These missions' weakness is that many struggle to articulate how strategies for tackling societal issues will directly translate into urgent, immediate GHG reduction, or how they'll double the effect tomorrow. GHGs have a time value: 1 ton/year displaced today is far better than next year.

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

Position as professor/associate professor in biostatistics in Tromsø. Deadline October 12. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

Apply to do a PhD with me, Laura Corbin, Gareth Hawkes and George Davey Smith ( @mendelrandom.bsky.social) in Bristol on identifying rare effects on health using new and innovative methods. Amazing team, great educational environment, lovely city. Forward to your undergrads wrapping up!

Smuk kronik i @politiken.dk om hvordan vi kan påvirke men ikke kontrollere livets gang. "Vaner formes langsomt, som floder, der slider deres mønster ind i landskabet, af det liv, vi lever, de mennesker, vi er tæt på, og de rammer, vi færdes i." politiken.dk/debat/kronik...

One for you, @felixthehauskat.bsky.social

🤔 Have you ever wondered "What do we actually know about legume consumption and liver/gallbladder health?" 🫘👩‍⚕️ No? Well, we did because we found some old reviews and animal studies that hypothesized better liver health would be at the expense of more gallstones. 1/3 academic.oup.com/nutritionrev...

23. There should be time-varying sensitivity analysis called "when-sitivity analysis"

#Copenhagen colors

hoping that when they say the LLM talks like a Ph.D.-level expert, they mean "holds indecipherable decades-long academic grudges expressed largely in the form of questions that are actually more of a comment"

Can Bluesky say every word in the dictionary? I dunno but I plan to find out! I made a website that tracks every single word said on bluesky (as of yesterday).

Some cities run on solar 95% of the time – cheaper than coal. With falling battery prices (-40% in a year), solar can run almost 24/7 in the sunniest cities. And 60% of the time in cloudy ones. This isn’t theory. It’s already happening. @carbonbrief.org

Jeg har strikket til mine døtre. DESVÆRRE har Sigrid (hende med hættetrøjen) mistet sin på baren Osborne på Nørrebro i København i fredags. Hun vil blive mega glad (og også moren, der så ikke skal strikke en ny 😌) hvis den dukker op igen. Vil I dele?

Me walking into Monday with no plan and an attitude. #MondayMotivation 📷 Peter Christian

Happy days just before summer break! Two PhD students have had papers accepted on our work with sustainable diets and health! 🥳🥳 Stay tuned for more information...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

✨️The application deadline has been extended to July 1st. ✨️ Open to all PhD students and junior researchers with an interest in nutritional epidemiology.

Looking lovely this evening, @au.dk

I min Claus Meyer Almanak fra 2010 står der "Hylden blomstrer fra sankthans og 2-3 uger frem". I dag har jeg sagt til mine drenge at hvis vi skal ud og sanke hyldeblomster, skal det være nu, for dem på vores eget træ er toppet. #klimaændringer

This thread really resonates with my anecdotal experiences with my 13 year old son, who I really really want to be like the reader I was as a child, and who absolutely adored Wimpy Kid and Captain Underpants. When he finds a novel that grabs him, he swallows it raw. But finding him that book...🥲

Apply for the Doctoral Scholarship in Epidemiology & Public/Global Health at the University of Antwerp! Shape global health with groundbreaking research. Apply now! www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...

So much bad stuff on your feed, too? Take a step back and reconnect to the better side of the human condition: "Kindness as a public health action" www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Do you want to learn about integrating modern methods like food substitution and target trial emulation in nutritional epidemiology studies? Then do I have the course for you! ✨ Nutritional Epidemiology, a residential course at Sandbjerg Estate, a beautiful historic manor in Southern Denmark. ✨

Cycling isn't just transport. It's a daily dose of movement that can improve cardiovascular fitness and support mental health. Investing in bike lanes keeps cyclists safe and supports active, healthy communities. #MedSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky

Congratulations to Christian Antoniussen for the excellent oral defense of his PhD thesis, "Longitudinal measures of alcohol consumption throughout adulthood and the risk of invasive breast cancer among postmenopausal women" last week! 🎉

Thinking of my dear mentor Kim Overvad, sadly recently deceased, as I comment manuscripts with "this is a proportion, not a rate" and "higher or lower risk when comparing two groups, not increased and decreased". #EpiSky

Do parental BMI and socioeconomic position interact in children's growth? Children with greater parental BMI had steeper BMI growth than peers, regardless of family SEP or social mobility. @christinadahm.bsky.social

I finally found a strategy that’s dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions from food, and it’s a hilariously simple strategy. I wrote about it for @canarymedia.com. www.canarymedia.com/articles/foo...

My birthday is April 14th, also known as the date Abe Lincoln was shot, the date the Titanic hit the iceberg, and now this

It must be onto something if the industry is reacting like this. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🧠📉 Concussion cuts education chances A new study has found that a child who suffers even a mild concussion is 15% less likely to reach higher education as an adult – showing lasting impacts of brain injury on learning. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s106... #SciComm #Concussion 🧪 #Education

UFO-forening: Hver femte ‘UFO-observation’ i Danmark er blot Elon Musk #dkvid #dkforsk

Every week, the Sun is a little bit higher on the horizon during my Friday walk while the kids are at swim class #Spring #Light

New report shows that NIH grants fueled $95 billion in economic activity and 407,782 jobs in 2024. That's not to mention the countless lives that biomedical research has saved. Show me a better investment than that. www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Kate Bush running up that hill on the radio. Is #StrangerThings season 4 worth watching, #bluesky friends? I enjoyed season 1 best of 1-3.

Happy International Women’s Day. This message was sent via WiFi, the invention of Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr.

There's probably not a better time than right now to remind people that they should think critically and independently.

✨Once in a lifetime!! Sådan ser himlen ud i morgen aften kl. 18.30. Peter Lauersen, @cosmicdawncenter.bsky.social står bag billedet her, hvor du kan se alle vores syv naboplaneter på samme tid.👇 ing.dk/artikel/du-f...

Our research on Need for Chaos was focused on how some voters wanted to watch the world burn: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... With DOGE it now seems to be official government strategy from Trump & Musk But the goal seems the same: Burning down existing structures for selfish status gain

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

Great piece: "Rather than use population for political gain, we need instead to harness the power of demography to solve our way out of the gigantic mess we’re in. The key is ensuring young people have a future worth living"

Imagine this: you go diving every day in the same spot in the ocean. Pretty soon, fish turn up to swim with you. But they don't just follow anyone. It's you they recognize. A first-ever study of human recognition in wild fish @royalsocietypublishing.org 🧵 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Can't say I'm surprised.

Denmark has just set up a 50bn kroner defence fund because of fear of large scale war.

Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked

Whale Effigy Chumash (California, West Coast) c. 1200-1600

Sigh…

Time for: Where on Earth? 🌍 Do you know where this location is?

👏 “After one year of the zone, nitrogen dioxide from traffic was lower, GP visits for respiratory illnesses were down by 25% and those for heart problems decreased by 24%”

This list is laughably bad and will mean grants on so many random topics risk being pulled, but remember: They don’t actually care about being “right” in what they defund, they just want to defund stuff. Plus, would you really be okay with this if they had a better selection process?? i wouldn’t.