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Aaron Mitchell @thewonkologist.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Our new study is out today in @jamanetworkopen.com! We looked at trends in biologic drug prices after biosimilar competition. Key takeaways: savings from biosimilars are substantial, but take longer to accrue than commonly seen with generic small molecules. 1/ jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Biologic Drug Prices in Medicare Part B After Entry of Biosimilars to the Market

This cohort study evaluates the associations of biosimilar entry to the market with the prices of originator biologics under Medicare Part B reimbursement.

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Abdullah Abdelaziz @abduaziz.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

It's probably an unpopular opinion, but the more I do research, the more I realize that it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to do transparent and reproducible research without strong programming skills.

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Abdullah Abdelaziz @abduaziz.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I am trying to access the newest version of @miguelhernan.bsky.social 's Causal Inference What If book, but it seems that Harvard's SPH website no longer shows it. Any idea how to get to the old page? #EpiSky

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Jeremy Howard @howard.fm · 25/11/2024

I've never, personally, had any direct utility from traditional academic peer review for my scientific work. I've never used that peer review as any kind of signal or credential in judging a paper or deciding whether to read it. Nearly all the papers I read are preprints.

A random snapshot of my Zotero account, showing that nearly all the papers are from arxiv

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nddpsych @nddpsych.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

How to write an effective journal peer review using a staged writing approach: a best-practice guide for early-career researchers | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2024 #MedEd academic.oup.com/ije/article/...

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How to write an effective journal peer review using a staged writing approach: a best-practice guide for early-career researchers

Abstract. Journal peer review is a gatekeeper in the scientific process, determining which papers are published in academic journals. It also supports auth

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 04/04/2024

New blog post! Seven (7!) new tidyexplain-esque animations showing how {dplyr}'s mutate(), summarize(), group_by(), and ungroup() all work together #rstats #dataskyence www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/04...

Illustration showing rows in a dataframe getting grouped, then adding a new column

Illustration showing rows in a dataframe getting grouped, summarized, and ungrouped

Illustration showing rows in a dataframe getting grouped into two groups, then summarized and ungrouped

Note from the blog post showing links to download all these videos

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Jordan Nafa @ajordannafa.com · 24/12/2023

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