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Tomáš Formánek

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MSCA Fellow @ Aarhus University and Visiting Researcher @ University of Cambridge studying the mental-physical health interface. I focus on the aetiology of co-occurring mental and physical health conditions and the consequences of such co-occurrences.

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Keep thinking about this myself! Seems logically inconsistent that X1 and Y1 would be each other's causes and consequences at the very same time. But I'm curious what the people think 🤓

29.01.2026 18:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Conclusions in our study: "X really does not seem to by doing Y"

Paper citing our study: "X is certainly doing Y"

OK, then 🥲

11.01.2026 16:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Casual" instead of "causal" all the time 😬

10.01.2026 18:25 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Many congratulations, Eiko 🎉🤗

01.12.2025 21:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Signed up for my first trail running event!

17.10.2025 17:25 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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A day in the life with Deutsche Bahn 😳

15.10.2025 18:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The streets of Amsterdam are asking crucial epidemiological questions!

15.10.2025 08:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Any contexts in which it *can be* beneficial? 🥸

08.10.2025 13:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Love this 😂

07.10.2025 08:03 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A bit late, but please consider donating to the cause of these magnificent and majestic creatures! 🦍🥺

25.09.2025 17:10 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I’M IN BERLIN 🇩🇪 for the WFSBP Congress this week, and would love to catch up for coffee, lunch, dinner! Give me a shout if around ✋

08.09.2025 07:22 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Reading a co-reviewer's comments who suggests that the authors should have ideally conducted an RCT to establish causality between mental disorders and premature mortality. Now I've seen it all!

03.09.2025 14:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

His tempo at the end was furious! Will probably not run that fast in any context, not to mention after 50km in the Alps 😄

28.08.2025 19:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Protective causal factor" feels like the one I was looking for! It is succinct and feels intuitive. Thanks a lot for sharing it 🤓

27.08.2025 11:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's challenging to be technically 100% correct but also succinct 😬 My problem is that saying "negative association" or "inverse association" is neither 100% correct but also not really casually understandable 🥲

26.08.2025 17:06 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It always depends 😄

Your example would work nicely for reporting the actual results. However, imagine that you want to succinctly describe the character of the association. Positive and null results are fairly clear labels for standard purposes. Inverse association seems difficult to grasp, though.

26.08.2025 05:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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What terminology does #episky prefer for "X decreasing the risk of Y"? Negative association? Inverse association? Dissociation? Others?

25.08.2025 18:53 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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I recently used this meme for illustration 🤡

12.08.2025 11:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No RStudio either!

07.08.2025 17:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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If ever wondered, it seems that giraffes are not immune to lightning (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) 😱

04.08.2025 19:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Hope this little fella will come back – would be the coolest neighbour!

03.08.2025 19:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I'm delighted that Amadeus returns to the cinemas – I'm going to see it tonight! A total cinematic treat!

29.07.2025 15:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0 The functional programming toolkit for R gains new capabilities for parallel processing and distributed computing using mirai.

#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing!

Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems.

Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance.

Read more at:
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...

10.07.2025 22:35 👍 190 🔁 59 💬 4 📌 4
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Any peeps in Lisbon 🇵🇹 currently? Will spend the next month there – would be happy to grab a coffee or something 🤗

26.06.2025 18:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Brilliant – I can hear the swearing when making typos trying to call the package 😆

01.06.2025 10:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

indiscrete? But cheekycont sounds pretty good 😄

31.05.2025 15:17 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

ConTreat? Or ContinueR? 🤡

31.05.2025 15:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Logistic Regression: Why We Cannot Do What We Think We Can Do, and What We Can Do About It Abstract. Logistic regression estimates do not behave like linear regression estimates in one important respect: They are affected by omitted variables, ev

Ah, that one is on hazard ratios, here are two specifically on odds ratios: academic.oup.com/esr/article-... academic.oup.com/aje/article/...!

02.04.2025 16:59 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Relative rates not relative risks: addressing a widespread misinterpretation of hazard ratios The use of the Cox proportional hazards model is ubiquitous in modern medical research. Despite the widespread implementation of this model, the termi…

I'm not a statistician, but I think interpreting odds ratio magnitude is particularly tricky. Here is a nice discussion: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

02.04.2025 16:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Last couple of weeks to apply!

01.04.2025 14:49 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0