Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

Quantifying U.S. life expectancy gains from reductions in Black-White mortality disparities: A simulation study Substantial gaps remain in life expectancy (LE) between Black and White Americans. The present study aimed to simulate hypothetical reductions in exce…

Happy to share my latest study which aimed to answer the following question:

How much could we improve overall #LifeExpectancy (LE) among Americans if we closed the Black-White mortality gap across all ages and in particular age groups?

#RacialDisparities #SocialEpi #EpiSky #PublicHealth

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Estimating and presenting non-linear associations with restricted cubic splines Abstract. Most of the regression models commonly used in epidemiology—including logistic regression and methods for time-to-event outcomes such as Cox regr

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#episky #statssky

Let's say that one wanted to go from 0 to computational social science. With the end goal being to write a real research paper using this approach.

What are the texts and resources that you would suggest to achieve this goal?

Air Force reverses decision to pull course with Tuskegee Airmen following backlash The Tuskegee Airmen were the country’s first all-Black military airmen who fought during World War II.

UPDATE: The Air Force has reversed its decision to remove courses with videos relating to the legendary Tuskegee Airmen following backlash.

To see so many industries walking back support of DEI initiatives in these times affirms the skepticism I had of their proclamations back in 2020.

At the end of the day, they can always protect themselves from cultural backlash by dropping the programs, but my race can’t be dropped or hidden.

#Rstat folks, I need help: What is the proper package to do GEE regression ?
I use {geepack}, but its a pain: slow, if not ordered does not work, not compatible with broom::tidy, etc.
What is your best option ?
#StatsSky #episky

Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Professor (and Head of Department) The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

Job opening for full professor and head of dept in infectious disease epidemiology and dynamics at @lshtm.bsky.social. Deadline 31st Jan: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

With Beyoncé’s performance over, I can go back to ignoring the NFL until the draft when my Giants get to start over. 😭

Today is the 10th anniversary of “Meet me in Temecula”

I am so very thankful that our cat took 1 nibble of our artificial tree and immediately lost all interest in it. 😂

The safety studies have already been done. The safety studies have already been done. The SAFETY STUDIES HAVE ALREADY BEEN DONE YOU LYING SHITBIRDS! Vaccines do NOT cause AUTISM.

Let’s talk numbers!

👉 Ask yourself whether you really need numbers to support your main message
👉 Explain numbers in practical terms
👉 Avoid percentages
👉 Choose simpler math concepts.

Latest *open access* paper on the @MRCLHA Insight 46 cohort explores the relationship between vascular risks across the life course and cerebral haemodynamics/blood flow. A great collaboration with colleagues @amsterdamumc journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant or Research Fellow The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

The Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health is seeking to appoint a Research Assistant or Research Fellow to support the efforts of The Lancet Commission on Evidence-Based Implementation (EBI) in Global Health focusing on reducing gaps and inequities in health

jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Figures 2B and 2C from the JAMA Original Investigation "Evaluating Performance and Agreement of Coronary Heart Disease Polygenic Risk Scores"

Despite similar performance at the population level, different coronary heart disease polygenic risk scores produced highly variable individual-level risk estimates. #AHA24

https://ja.ma/3YTigyp

It feels that the longer I do statistics, the harder it becomes. I never get an analysis just "right". There is always one more assumption to change or one more term to add to my model.

I really don’t understand this whole ‘stay on Twitter and fight’ thing. You’re jousting with bots and reply guys and wading through ads it’s not Waterloo.

Might be a good time to read up on the history of science & how it's fundamentally a social process (as it is carried out by humans) & how it's deeply intertwined with power relations. Decades of literature! Will be super helpful when having (yet another) debate about science and politics! 🧪⚕️🛟

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

3 new studentships in social epidemiology
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

BREAKING: President Biden racks up a huge win by finalizing an agreement with a massive semiconductor manufacturer to invest billions of dollars in Arizona facilities.

The $6.6 billion grant agreement was made possible through the historic Chips and Science Act.

Please share to thank Joe Biden!

Today in JAMA

Analysis of US prescription data (2013-2023) revealed a significant increase in the use of PrEP for HIV prevention. Despite recent availability of oral antivirals and injectable cabotegravir, their uptake remains low. ja.ma/3ACjsy8

We’re talking about mediation in class and SERious Epi released an episode on it today. The universe is on my side! 🙏🏾

Laundry cat. 🐱

4 - Making Academic Publishing More Equitable with Julia Robinson

If you're interested in how PLOS Global Public Health came to be, or what we're trying to do over at the journal, or how to upend academic publishing for the better, please check out a recent podcast interview I did with the wonderful @loisking.bsky.social

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I’m a bit sad to leave that other place, but the vibe here is so much better. The different feeds and starter packs are great good ideas!