If you are interested in working on scaling laws for foundation wearable models, please do apply to work with us OxWearables and Big Data Institute. Interns will be paid a stipend. DDL: 10 May 😉

Congratulations to Reuben President Lionel Tarassenko, who has been appointed as a non-party-political peer in the House of Lords: reuben.ox.ac.uk/article/reuben… #reubencollege #reubenites #reubennews

Association of daily steps with incident non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Evidence from the UK Biobank cohort medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

Just published: Performance of our open-source, transparent method for deriving steps from wrist-worn accelerometry 'StepCount'. journals.lww.com/acsm-msse/abst… 1/2

For ISMPB (and other) researchers interested in using UK Biobank wearable sensor data, we have a really exciting workshop at the #ICAMPAM2024 conference with @DrAJLewandowski, UK Biobank Alaina Shreves, National Cancer Institute ismpb.org/workshop-progr…

The British Heart Foundation has awarded the University of Oxford £5 million funding to support its world-class cardiovascular disease research over the next five years. Find out more ⬇️ ox.ac.uk/news/2024-05-2…

Congratulations Rosemary!

Members of our @Oxwearables group will be delivering 4 oral presentations, 1 workshop, 1 symposium and 1 poster at next weeks #ICAMPAM2024 conference organised by ISMPB We are all looking forward to coming and sharing the work of our group.

I had a great time presenting and discussing my poster with others at #ICAMPAM2024 yesterday. OxWEARS will produce the largest annotated validation dataset in the world, and will join other datasets made publicly available by the OxWearables group at Oxford Population Health (OxPop) University of Oxford

New Oxford-Aarhus-Copenhagen collaboration - not yet launched - 2 postdocs, 2 senior postdocs and postdoc coordinator in Oxford. Jobs 173031-3 at jobs.ox.ac.uk Methods-focussed in group Holmes, Visscher, Evans, Nicholson, Christopher Yau, てん etc, Denmark ads soon

Neat report from World Health Organization (WHO) Physical activity measurement and surveillance in adults: report of a scoping and planning meeting, 27-28 November 2023. World Health Organization. iris.who.int/handle/10665/3… Of interest to ISMPB ProPASS Consortium ISBNPA ISPAH and others

Applications are still open for this exciting course

*Ten* 3-year post-doc/assistant prof jobs advertised for our Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed - address key questions in common complex diseases through development of new stat/comp tools & software. A new Denmark-Oxford collaboration. Critical mass! smartbiomed.dk/join-the-centr…

10(!) 3yr post-doc/assistant prof jobs at the Pioneer Centre for SMARTbiomed, a Denmark-Oxford center led by Naomi Wray. Develop new stat/comp tools & software for key questions in common complex diseases. Jobs in Aarhus, Copenhagen or Oxford. smartbiomed.dk/join-the-centr…

Evaluating Step Counting Algorithms on Subsecond Wrist-Worn Accelerometry: A Comparison Using Publicly Available Data Sets doi.org/10.1123/jmpb.2…. Overall, open source algorithm github.com/OxWearables/st… algorithm worked best for estimating steps from accelerometers

NEW REVIEW—Digital health technologies to strengthen patient-centred outcome assessment in clinical trials in inflammatory #arthritis thelancet.com/journals/lanrh…