george davey smith Sasha Gusev UCL Gus Hamilton Ewan Birney MRC IEU Dr Adam Rutherford Veera Rajagopal  Nicholas Timpson I recently reviewed a paper that violated all the rules of MR. The methods were so poor, I decided to look up the authors to see their research background. The lead author had 20 MR papers published in the past year! I looked at a few. Same errors. They should all be retracted...

🚨urban research🚨

our paper, 'An urban overhead: Crime, agglomeration, and urban amenity' has been published open access in the Journal of Housing Economics.

*tl;dr* crime is a major urban congestion cost that erodes productivity and well-being. A 🧵...
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Keith Siau is at odds with the BSG trainee body.

Maybe as a ‘training lead’ this might instigate some reflection.

I hope trainees standing up for themselves leads to meaningful change.

𝗗𝗿 𝗔𝗷𝗮𝘆 𝗠 𝗩𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮
Partha S Kar 🇮🇳🇬🇧🏏🎥

Läs Amirs tråd.

Just nu vill alla visa handlingskraft och göra något åt gäng och gängvåld.

Men vi behöver göra saker som fungerar snarare än saker som visar handlingskraft.
Och då behöver vi också ta reda på vad som faktiskt fungerar.

Looking ahead in #eatingdisorder genetics with Kristen Brennand & Dr. Laura M. Huckins. See our #OpenAccess paper 'Dissecting the biology of feeding and eating disorders' in Trends in Molecular Medicine PGC Consortium UNC School of Medicine cell.com/trends/molecul…

Säkerhetszoner - Bu eller bä?

Jag går igenom en del relevant forskning, och killgissar slutligen att svaret varken blir bu eller bä, utan snarare meh.

Facit får vi förhoppningsvis om något år när det utvärderats.

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'Overall, results suggest that genetic variants associated with thinness are negatively associated with psychiatric disorders and therefore thinness may be differentiable from anorexia nervosa on a genomic level.' nature.com/articles/s4143…