Courtney D. Lynch, PhD MPH

Welcome @ppe-journal.bsky.social, the official journal of @spercomms.bsky.social. Give them a follow for the latest in pediatric and perinatal epidemiology.

Estimating Treatment Effects From Observational Data This Viewpoint describes the target trial emulation approach and the importance of it being used thoughtfully and correctly.

In this episode of the best things that I’ve read:
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Reviewers don’t forget to suggest your postdoctoral mentees as reviewers if you decline a manuscript.

Sponsorship is so important with regard to helping someone develop a national reputation!

The word transformational should be reserved for things that are truly transformational.

I strive to deliver the grandest and roundest talks of them all.😂

I just received an email asking me to evaluate the grand rounds lecture that I gave last week.🧐

It was fabulous?🤷🏻‍♀️

Halting NIH business operations isn’t efficient or fiscally or socially responsible.

And data are plural, at least in the scientific literature.🤷🏻‍♀️

Plural data and the Oxford comma for life.

I want to be a feline reproductive epidemiologist.

I need a self-inking stamp that says, “Data are plural; datum is the singular.”

I like Calibri for tables and Arial for text.

I’m a sans serif kind of person.

Not a fan of the look of Times New Roman.

No offense, @nytimes.com

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Tip of the day for early career folks: use Dr. or credentials, not both.

For instance, I’m either Dr. Courtney Lynch or Courtney Lynch, PhD MPH

NOT

Dr. Courtney Lynch, PhD MPH

It’s bad when your home network is more reliable than your network at the office.🫠

Agar should really smell better than it does!

Don’t yell at or curse at graduate students (or other colleagues). We’re all adults. Please act like it.

I can live without SAS. Thank you for the intel!

Stata, R, and SAS.

Well, this feels like more credibility than I deserve.😂

Thank you F&S for the merch!

I made one for 'types of paper in epidemiology and public health'
#EpiSky

Orange boys are the best!!!

I think Elon needs some demographers to speak with him about population transition.

Still waiting for someone to tell me something positive about being HLA B27+.

I feel like we should be doing more…

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Random mentoring advice: you should subscribe to the eTOC of JAMA and NEJM (and at least skim them each week) regardless of your specialty. It’s a really good way to stay up to date with what is going on in medicine.

Whitney Houston’s Star Spangled Banner is elite.