New paper explores patterns and perceptions of vaping among adults living in social housing🏠 Despite higher vaping rates in social housing residents, harm perceptions of vaping products vs cigarettes were more inaccurate among smokers in social housing link.springer.com/article/10.118…

In principle I'm fine with students and job applicants using chatGPT to help them. But I can't bear to read any more of the utter rubbish it generates. I find the gramatically correct nonsense lists particularly infuriating

We're recruiting a senior research fellow (£43,742 to £50,056) to join Bradford Centre for Health Data Science - the leading centre for applied epidemiology and quantitative health research in the north of England - jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

Noah Greifer Regular reminder that we almost had the meat axe.

Dan Lewer it is a dark and twisted tongue, made as a mockery to all that is beautiful

Let's talk about the "5%" model. You just can't contribute meaningfully to a research project with 5% of your time. If you have 20 parallel projects, you literally just go to meetings and do nothing.

Inflation is usually measured the change in prices compared to one year previously. Therefore, a reducing but still positive inflation figure often means REDUCING pricing month-on-month. A positive inflation figures does not always mean prices are going up.

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The BMJ If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Before you stock up on dark chocolate read this response from george davey smith ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/12/04/dar…

📷 We did some life table modelling among people who use heroin. Tobacco smoking causes as many premature deaths in this group as illegal drugs. Yet public health policies overlook smoking: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… New research with Sharon Cox and Harry Tattan-Birch, PhD

Among people who use heroin, tobacco smoking and illegal drugs cause a similar number of premature deaths buff.ly/tIC0Fqp Dan Lewer Harry Tattan-Birch, PhD Sharon Cox