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cathbest.bsky.social
Quantitative data analysis and statistics #StatsSky . Public health. Commercial determinants of health. Maternal mental health. Associate Professor at University of Stirling Faculty of Health Sciences and Sport.
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Funded PhD studentships available at University of Stirling’s Centre for Place and Memory placememory.net/apply-now-fo...

Right. It's Friday Home Time. Tune Trump out (if you can). And listen to this (or whatever music works for you). Doof doof doof.

UK PM Starmer to Zelensky: "You are very, very welcome here in Downing Street. As you heard from the cheers on the street outside, you have full backing across the United Kingdom. We will stand with you and Ukraine for as long as it may take."

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

In Jan, three unis dropped their 'big deal' with Elsevier Now, a survey of 100+ unis found 60% might drop their big deals with the five big publishers: Elsevier, Sage, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis and Wiley All these are being renegotiated this year... @sophieatrpn.bsky.social reports

Getting paid ten of thousands of pounds to put pdfs online incredibly profitable shock.

Sexy murder poet in the introduction, basically pleasant bureaucrat in the conclusion

Is the Labour Research Department survey on behalf of UCU genuine or is this part of a Cybersecurity education intervention by my employer or actual phishing? Decisions decisions...

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Testing of these tools is very welcome. Same needs be done for AI research assistants e.g elicit

An issue that often comes up is how to set a “non-inferiority margin” in a non-inferiority trial and how to ensure it is appropriate 1/8 #MethodologyMonday #109

This is niche content & totally what I'm here for 😀

Blue skies after yesterday's storm

This is a great resource for anyone interested in trial design. So useful to have all these points pulled together in one place

High‐certainty evidence that incentive schemes conducted amongst pregnant people who smoke improve smoking cessation rates, both at the end of pregnancy and postpartum www.cochranelibrary.com/web/cochrane...

Morning All, a seasonal offering 😁 George Elgar Hicks's "Missed Christmas bin collection" Oil on canvas, 1863 Tate London

Fun fact: 2025 is a square year (45 x 45). The last one of these was 1936 (= 44 x 44). Which, er, bodes well I guess.

Outnumbered Christmas special was great. Our kids are about that age. It rings so true- very tightly written. We are still paying all the mobile phones 🤣

@cartoonralph.bsky.social I saw this posted by someone else, and then searched for you so I could follow. Thanks for the succinct way you point out what's really going on.

t tests by hand. Very peaceful, very mindful

A colleague wanted comparisons between groups where only Summary (mean and sds) available. t tests by hand -nice little task for the run up to Xmas- highly recommend💯 (my brain can't handle more than this right now)

If you are interested in tobacco packaging have a look at the REMAP website www.remap.stir.ac.uk #tobacco #tobaccocontrol

In the University of Cambridge Stories, Unit researchers @jeanmadams.bsky.social & @martinwhite33.bsky.socia argue eating well needs to be easier, to help those who lose weight using medicines like semaglutide avoid regaining it & to prevent obesity in the first place Read - https://buff.ly/3C9Ogqv

As called for in our manifesto earlier this year, we believe there should be a register of cases where AI is used in the public sector, so we welcome the government publishing how they are using algorithmic tools Our AI task force will be looking into the detail www.gov.uk/government/n...

New paper. Perinatal anxiety is most common in early pregnancy. Women do not necessarily want professional treatment eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

I'm accepting lots of meeting requests and invites to peer review right now. 2025 me is going to be so angry

New paper. Perinatal anxiety is most common in early pregnancy. Women do not necessarily want professional treatment eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Whoever this is, they’re tragically right.

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PubMed Wrapped: "these are the 10 papers you keep searching for. You are in the top 0.5% readers of this one weird paper"

"In randomized experiments, the effects of this variable are distributed among the groups by the randomization in a way that is taken into account in the standard tests of significance. ." Cochran 1957. NB "distributed". He does not say "balanced." See also errorstatistics.com/2020/04/20/s...

If you are on LinkedIn have a look at this example of sharing research findings around maternity care for women who use substances . Amazing www.linkedin.com/pulse/shinin...

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

Had a lot of fun last week discussing our paper 'Systems thinking in, and for, public health: a call for a broader path' with the very friendly Wider Determinants of Health community of interest facilitated by Public Health Wales. The paper is open access here: academic.oup.com/heapro/artic...

NIHR has a new requirement that *all applicants* must demonstrate how their research will address existing inequalities in health and social care *as a condition of funding*. Proud to have contributed to NIHR's policy with MESSAGE's work on sex and gender inclusion www.nihr.ac.uk/news/inclusi...