Happy to announce that I have accepted an assistant professorship… in this board game of academia

'It is no coincidence that autocratic regimes seek either to repress or take control of history, literature or the arts – they are the cultural lifeblood of societies, and often uncomfortable sources of critique'

Line of the week from Marcus Munafò at our Behavioural Research UK open science webinar “we are incentivised to publish more than we are incentivised to be right” 😬

I’m curious - aside from GMC registration*, which of these duties cannot be fulfilled by PH Specialists with backgrounds other than medicine?

(*PH Specialists not registered with GMC have professional registration with UKPHR)

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My university has banned staff from making 'unfairly disparaging' remarks about the university.

I am not therefore at liberty to share my (extremely) disparaging opinions on this new policy, in case someone decides they are 'unfair'.

Kyle Ireton, PhD 🕊️🇺🇦☮️ That’s the life of being a statistician. Everyone wants your help, until they get your help

The deadline is almost here! Submit your methods in social epidemiology papers today! You can read the full call for papers here: academic.oup.com/aje/pages/call…

Do it
Do it
Do it

It’s truly life altering (in a good way)

My university has banned staff from making 'unfairly disparaging' remarks about the university.

I am not therefore at liberty to share my (extremely) disparaging opinions on this new policy, in case someone decides they are 'unfair'.

'The standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.'
- Noam Chomsky

Five places left! #CausalIntroCourse

The Alan Turing Institute is being hindered in its goal of being the UK’s national centre for data science and artificial intelligence because of its governance structure and other issues, according to a new report
timeshighereducation.com/news/alan-turi…

David Hand's 'Classifier Technology and the Illusion of Progress' from 2006 is still one of the most useful papers I use in peer review. IMHO, it is a must read for anyone comparing algorithms (stats vs ML, anyone?) on their datasets

Open access: projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1149…

The number of UK institutions making redundancies has passed 50, reflecting scale of financial challenge facing sector — but even some senior leaders fear a rush into irreversible changes will do long-term harm timeshighereducation.com/news/too-hard-… via Times Higher Education

'mental illness used to be the ups and downs of life'

No, mental illness used to be your mum taking to her bed for 20 years with what was euphemistically called 'nerves'.

Stop letting men make things.

I told a grad-student co-author 'try to imagine me as the guy from 'Memento' who can't remember anything & needs clues to pick-up the thread on projects' and they said 'I believe you, because you already used that memento analogy'

We are hiring @GHPU! Details below for a 2 year research fellow post on commercial determinants working with our work package on the UKRI health hub on commercial determinants. Deadline 20/5! Do get in touch with any questions! #CDoH School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh GECI-PH network elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…