Predictably enough, one of the people funded by Wellcome LEAP's FORM project is James B. Adams brainfoundation.org/brain-invest..., whose work featured in our recent review www.cell.com/neuron/fullt..., and not in a good way.
see wellcomeleap.org/form/
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
Great opportunity for a post-doc position with the amazing Luisia Zuccolo @humantechnopole.bsky.social Details here careers.humantechnopole.it/job/Postdoc-...
Can anyone now seriously deny that we’re living within the society of the spectacle? As foresighted in its way as Marx and Engels’ “all that is solid melts into air”
I never had you down as a situationist Darren ;-)
How the processes of recuperation vitiate apparent methodological advances in medical research, from meta-analysis to Mendelian randomization
Brilliant inaugural lecture by Professor Evie Stergiakouli on her career so far, @uob-ieu.bsky.social so lucky to have secured her talents right from its inception. Thx Evie!
“There is nothing that utterly destroys all chance for scientific investigation or any continuous work, like having a Distinguished Guest on your hands” H S Jennings, c1925
Perhaps counterintuitively higher prepubertal BMI is strongly protective against breast cancer in later life
Grace Power, @mendelrandom.bsky.social and others (not me!) takes a plausible causal FX of BMI on breast cancer, and narrow down *when* that effect plays out. They find the effects of later BMI on breast cancer are steeply attenuated when conditioned on early BMI. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Newspaper headlines often share compelling quick fixes for health issues - but often the realities of what causes health conditions is more complex. In this blog post @mendelrandom.bsky.social explains why he encourages scientists to look for ways they might be wrong. www.ukri.org/blog/why-evi...
Even Confuseus has caught up on colliderscopes academic.oup.com/ije/article/... 🤣 @f2harrell.bsky.social @michelnivard.bsky.social
Happy New Year! To start the year, do read this @ukri.org interview with our director @mendelrandom.bsky.social, recipient of the prestigious MRC Millennium Medal. medium.com/@UKRI/why-co...
I know a bit about the past of MR, something about the present, and look forward to discussing whether MR has a future, and if so, how that should look
On a Wensleydale pilgrimage - geographically and back in time - to where and when epidemiology was about fieldwork (or practice) amongst real people in actual populations, and involved literally crossing fields … check out his beautifully written papers as a seasonal treat to yourself …
If you enjoy @michelnivard.bsky.social collider bias posts you might enjoy “why epidemiologists who can maintain eye contact are bad at maths” in here www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zPq...
It gets dull after a while 🤣
I'm sure @mendelrandom.bsky.social will be gratified to learn that their ads kept popping up during his outstanding YouTube presentation (congrats on the award, George):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zPq...
If you watch one talk on epidemiology this month, make it this one.
🙏 @greally.bsky.social sadly the ads not part of my efforts to become a 💰YouTuber
I have become mightily interested in the causal effect of “forever chemicals” and plastics on gynecological health.
I want to make sure our new menstruation data in ALSPAC and Born in Bradford can be used to research this.
Anyone know who’s big in (causal) epidemiology of this sort of exposure?
Abolish it!
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Here’s a video of Eysenck in 1994 in Edinburgh presenting his nonsense. Tony Pelosi hammers him in the discussion and I told him his “findings” reached the very high bar of being literally impossible youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...
Here’s a video of Eysenck in 1994 in Edinburgh presenting his nonsense. Tony Pelosi hammers him in the discussion and I told him his “findings” reached the very high bar of being literally impossible youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...
Have you seen George Davey Smith telling him the smoking findings were completely implausible at a seminar in Edinburgh 1994? youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...
Its notable that some (in this case @mendelrandom.bsky.social (George Davey-Smith)) were on to him while he was alive, video a young GDS confronting Eysenk in a Q&A in 1994 for his data being inconsistent: youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...
Just heard of the death last month of Joe Byrd of the extraordinary United States of America; this song from 1968 seems timeless www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx0U...
David Blunkett on Radio 4 Today programme saying "if you don't know what bread and dripping is, you don't know about what poverty is" takes me back ~60 years to what was my favourite food (had to be white bread ..), and to remember tripe and onions, heart, offal in general, and other delights
🚨 Rachel Reeves JUST unveiled “the most complex government budget in history.” But without a proper wealth tax we’ll never fix the NHS or fund schools properly. So we HACKED a billboard in her constituency with the real solution: TAX THE F*CKING RICH
Free book starting with how politics could consider happiness as an outcome (without resorting to slapstick)
