Last chance to apply for our free course on peer review designed for early career researchers in the biomedical sciences. You'll review real BMJ manuscripts in supportive, mentor-led groups Deadline: Aug 1st! #epidemiology #biostatistics #epitwitter #statstwitter #peerreview

One week to go! We are thrilled to welcome Matthew Fox to #Berlin for his talk on "Quantitative Bias Analysis for Better Inferences: The Role of Misclassification" on Aug 7 at 4pm CEST. Join us in person or virtually. Register here 👇 @busph Institute of Public Health Berlin #epitwitter #epidemiology

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

Have you ever used the {rio} #rstats package? Inspired by this, we have added a universal read_file() and write_file() function to TidierFiles that infers the filetype and calls the appropriate backend, bringing a consistent interface to tabular data. tidierorg.github.io/TidierFiles.jl…

Can Mendelian randomization be reclaimed from the deluge of papers and misleading findings? asks editorial by @stefanstender Helene Gellert-Kristensen lipidworld.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… In "Lipids in Health & Disease", which gets 60+ MR submissions a month. How should journals respond?

⏰ 13:30 today at #gesundheitgemeinsam2024 at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum (SR5, 1st floor) "Teaching Transformed: Trendsetting Formats for Today's Times" 👩🏽‍🏫👨‍🏫🏫 Learn how to adapt & roll out #Peerspectives program @ your institution & other cool initiatives 🤓 DG Epidemiologie, GMDS e.V., DGSMP e.V.

In Leeds this week for a teaching exchange, 🔀 Swapping ideas & activities, expanding our range. 💡 Peter Tennant and Georgia Tomova's engaging styles I can fully endorse, 🌟 Great to be a part of the #CausalIntroCourse! 🍎

HELP! For years, I have been depositing all data & code on the Center for Open Science , incl. a permanent DOI as soon the bulk of the work makes it into a preprint, agnostic to final publication venue. It turns out that the Science family of journals do not allow this BUT 1/9

Sometimes I wonder if we prefer focusing on STEM recruitment rather than retention because recruitment lets us talk about how exciting and impactful our field is, whereas retention requires us to look at our own culpability in creating environments where people don’t thrive.

Utterly obsessed with this UCL researcher who won an Ig Nobel for showing that “Blue Zones” where people supposedly live well past 100 at unusual rates are actually just full of clerical errors and people committing pension fraud ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/…

My only advice about emailing your professors is to make the subject line be “Decision on your manuscript”

Excellent session on the Target Trial Framework for observational research on day 3 #WCE2024 Miguel Hernán Matthias Egger

Well, hard to make a big discovery if you don't have a job... 🤨

Coming soon to a bookstore near you! Epidemiology: an introduction KJ Rothman, KF Huybrechts, EJ Murray 🥳🥳

One un-questioned research practice (UQRP) that does as much harm as QRPs: Ignoring sampling bias & selection effects. Nice paper showing a way to be transparent & analytical about the problem: "Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference" doi.org/10.1177/004912…

Two takes on the same paper. Different messages (one sounds a lot more positive than the other) but both are technically correct summaries.