The dumbest thing PhD programs do is send acceptances, then sit on a pile of rejections for a month just because

I was watching the movie Critical Thinking (dito montiel John Leguizamo) the other night and had a thought: what if there was a remake called Causal Inference? Instead of chess it is causal inference training that someone, say university junior faculty, is teaching as a service

Great to be at #APOS2024 to present the International Recommended Guidelines for Sexual Care for Prostate Cancer Patients with #DrChrisNelson today. We missed you Daniela Wittmann, leader of this huge initiative. Thank you APOS for endorsing the Guidelines supported by Movember USA

Heard a story on the news about a police “cleanup” of a large homeless encampment and it was really cringeworthy. They aren’t vermin or trash in need of removal, they’re people! Very dehumanizing. The welfare of people is more important than “local business owners” in my opinion.

The idea that there is widespread diversion of B.C. #SafeSupply drugs is "simply not true," RCMP commanding officer says. B.C. public safety minister slams Conservative politicians for making claim. vancouversun.com/health/no-wide… via The Vancouver Sun #HarmReduction

Creativity at midnight before an econometrics exam. A short doodle about fixed and random effects. Still learning. #EconTwitter

One week left to register for #Pharmacoequity2024! No other conference gives you the opportunity to learn from and network with international leaders in providing solutions to equitable medication access. Join us next week! Registration is free! calendar.pitt.edu/event/3rd_annu…

Pygformula for #causalinference now available on our GitHub! This comprehensive package is the 1st to implement #gformula in Python. Development led by Postdoc Fellow Jing Li. GitHub repository: github.com/CausalInferenc… Package documentation: pygformula.readthedocs.io

The sense of optimism I’ve felt in the last six weeks is palpable. We’ve been conditioned to be against – against Ottawa, against frontline workers, against our neighbours. It’s time for us to be FOR something. For Alberta. For all of us.

In 2020, James Diao and I began studying race adjustment in lung-function equations. With amazing coauthors, today we published the past years of work in NEJM, estimating the many clinical, financial, and occupational implications. #ATS2024 Full paper: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act today in 1830. It killed about 15k Native Americans out of the 100k the U.S. removed. Very important to know this affected more than the 5 largest Indigenous nations—it included many smaller ones like the Potawatomi people who suffered

The proposed approach is intuitive and very easy to apply through our R package sim.BA, which is available on CRAN. Huge shout out to Noah Greifer for making this package a breeze to use cran.r-project.org/web/packages/s…

Spectacularly elegant tools to investigate missing data are provided in the #rstats package smdi(). This jam-packed paper explains missing data bias then applies and validates solutions in #EHR data. A veritable handbook on missing data. Software here: gitlab-scm.partners.org/janickweberpal…

Excited for International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology conference (August 24-28) in #Berlin where I will present two projects from my #postdoc Brigham and Women's Hospital Harvard Medical School in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics #icpe2024:

This cutting-edge summer school/hackathon in reproducible critical care research was created by students and ECEs Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Planning to attend following International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology Conference in #Berlin: s-nos.org/reprodicubilit…

A “nocebo effect” is just a harmful “placebo effect”, but most people don’t even understand what a placebo effect is. Placebo and nocebo effects are NOT simply change over time. And they definitely can’t be measures via ~vibes~. Read more: academic.oup.com/aje/article/19…

Proposal: add "pharmacoepidemiology" to all text editor dictionaries. IMHO, if someone spells it correctly - they intended to. Working across Overleaf Posit PBC Quarto LibreOffice The ONLYOFFICE Microsoft on multiple machines, it takes a minute to add manually. thx! :)

Today is National Voter Registration Day! Take a few minutes to visit IWillVote.com/Obama and make sure you’re registered and have a plan to vote. Then check in with your friends and family and make sure they’re registered, too. Let’s get it done.