After 4 successful H.I.T. Program editions, it’s time to give a big THANKS to all partner universities and their senior leadership for the long-term support and commitment. Shoutout to all my colleagues, collaborators and the incredible 100 women professors #Alumnae (check posts👇)

Classic pic, the classic pair of statisticians. Doug Altman is very much missed. If only researchers followed their guidance, we would have been spared much #ResearchWaste Matthias Egger Maarten van Smeden Hoping to return one day Gary Collins 🇪🇺 Richard Riley (R²)

📻📢 Bern, mach dich bereit! Hören Sie heute mittag zu. Entdecken Sie die #BEreadyStudie und wie Sie daran teilnehmen können SRF Kanton Bern ISPM Bern MCID Bern Universität Bern Vincenzo Ribi k. weibel 🇨🇭 Matthias Egger

New blogpost by guest author @deadneanderthals on experiences as a reviewer at MDPI. Seems the system pretty well guarantees that everything gets published eventually. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/guest-… #peerreview

A journal editor wondered if data were “too good to be true.” A BBC Radio segment featuring our Adam Marcus. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

We continue to capacitate African scientists! In collaboration with the biggest global Microbiome conference #isme19 & DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE & INNOVATION , we are hosting a two-day workshop on multi-omics in microbial ecology, focusing on open-access tools and datasets.

We urgently need MPOX vaccines in Africa!

This will be a goodie! Come and/or Tune in if you can

For 52 years, mpox was restricted to a dozen countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Could it have been stopped before spreading worldwide? Fascinating Science Magazine investigation by Jon Cohen & Abdullahi Tsanni science.org/content/articl…

Classic data sets: To demonstrate linear hierarchical models, Cochran & Cox (1957) used data from Frances Cook’s 1938 thesis work: a 3 x 6 trial on 'breakage angle' of chocolate cake. There were 15 replicates, which is a lot of cake. /4

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#Africa Regional call for proposals - The Belmont Forum 's Collaborative Research Actions promote international transdisciplinary research in the context of global environmental change. Deadline 2 Sept. EADI Swiss TPH Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) ETH for Development African Academy of Sciences snf.ch/en/WhdgbUkSIMG…

The hot new thing in causal inference is emulating a target trial, but how *exactly* do we do that? In a new paper led by Dr Julia Bond, we outline the steps and thought process for creating a target trial emulation. Now available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

#Glaciers as seen from beneath are just fascinating! So blue! 🤩 This beautiful but fleeting place visited today is only here though because of rapid glacier retreat, leaving the water-carved channels dry.

One of the reasons I've been quiet on Twitter for a few months is because I've been working on something big - something I'm really happy to share now! Pathoplexus.org A new, open-source database for pathogen sequence sharing. 👐🧬🌎 1/12

Hurry up ! First phase of registration closes on Sunday Swiss Epidemiology Winter School 20-25 January 2025 (epi-winterschool.org)

There are scientific conferences where respected experts within their fields present data, analysis, and/or policy proposals, and sometimes disagree. Then, there's whatever this collection of grifters, contrarians, and extremists are doing at Stanford University. latimes.com/business/story…

Interested in developing a clinical prediction model? Check out our new paper 🥳🥳🥳 in the The BMJ where we present a step-by-step guide bmj.com/content/386/bm… Together with Matthias Egger Georgia Salanti Konstantina Chalkou Thomas Debray. Special thanks to Richard Riley (R²) for his help!

End of the gold run for Frontiers and MDPI. 1/2

Rings a bell theguardian.com/technology/art…