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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Got ideas on the future of Canada's international cooperation? International financing architecture, aid policy, Canada's approach to Africa, anything else Cooperation Canada is offering $2,000 for short papers with big ideas, especially from young people cooperation.ca/call-for-big...

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Call for Big Ideas: Shaping the Future of International Cooperation

Cooperation Canada is inviting bold, forward-looking ideas to shape strategic discussions at the 2025 Leaders’ Forum.We’re looking for big, catalytic concepts that reimagine the future of Canadian int...

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Ankur Pandya @ankurfactorial.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Omg @wrightcensored.bsky.social did it she’s wearing her old poster at #SMDM25

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Heather Gold, PhD @htgoldphd.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

False headlines were more believed by folks with more trust in AI #SMDM25 Prof Val Reyna

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JAMA @jama.com · 09/06/2025

Most viewed this week from JAMA: A blood-based test demonstrated acceptable accuracy for colorectal cancer detection in an average-risk colorectal cancer screening population. ja.ma/4knUjcd

Clinical Validation of a Circulating Tumor DNA–Based Blood Test to Screen for Colorectal Cancer

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Alton Russell @altonrus.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

I don't know Noah, but his R packages for propensity modelling and their documentation are a tremendous, free contribution to applied stats and epi. His next employer will be lucky to have him.

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Prof Damien Page @profdamienpage.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

We’ve all met that academic

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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Cost-effectiveness of transplanting older candidates with acceptable quality deceased donor kidneys www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…

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Dr. Dawn Bowdish @msmacrophage.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Publication alert: "No evidence of immune exhaustion after repeated SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in vulnerable and healthy populations" ‪@natcomms.nature.com‬ The backstory is particularly interesting-it's a tale of the conflicting needs of scientists & decision makers in times of disinformation ....1/n

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No evidence of immune exhaustion after repeated SARS-CoV-2 vaccination in vulnerable and healthy populations

Nature Communications - Repeated vaccination is needed to maintain high levels of SARS-CoV-2 immunity in vulnerable populations, but there is concern that it could lead to immune exhaustion. Here,...

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Mr. Chimpanzy @cyanescens.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

After over a decade we *finally* start seeing a drop in the overdose death rates & thanks to MAGA we’re going to go & undo that progress as fast as we can.

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Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) @smdm.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Join us for an in-depth webinar on Understanding the ACIP: Evidence, Policy, and Practice in U.S. Vaccine Recommendations. 🗓️ 30 June 🔗 Learn more: smdm.org/meeting/unde... #ACIP #PublicHealth #SMDM

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Matt @mjc598.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I'm very excited to present the work I've been doing with @syndemicslab.bsky.social this year at @smdm.bsky.social annual conference! So grateful for the work done with my co-authors and excited to continue working with you!

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Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) @smdm.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Join #SMDM25 for a focused session on Causal Diagrams, Target Trial Emulation, and Causal Inference in health decision modeling! 🔍 🗓️ 15 June 2025 🕐 9:00 AM-12:30 PM ET 🎙️ Featuring: Uwe Siebert, MD, MPH, MSc, ScD 👉 Register now: smdm.org/hub/page/cau...

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Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) @smdm.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Would you like to be featured in an SMDM social media post? Help build excitement and participation in our 47th Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Sign up today! form.asana.com?k=9Pjeoq_Ox8...

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 04/03/2025

A legend died today. In his memory, how about a heartwarming heme #skeetorial? #hemesky #nerdalert Today the world lost the man with the "golden arm" 1/n

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Keegan Korthauer 🇨🇦 @keegankorthauer.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Excited to see our work on Bayesian Decision Curve Analysis appear in Statistics in Medicine! doi.org/10.1002/sim.... Work led by @giulianonetto.bsky.social - check out the stellar thread (from the old platform) on our preprint here: x.com/giulianonett...

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Bayesian Decision Curve Analysis With Bayesdca

Clinical decisions are often guided by clinical prediction models or diagnostic tests. Decision curve analysis (DCA) combines classical assessment of predictive performance with the consequences of u...

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Raza @transfusion.health · 04/12/2024

Great primer on Federated Learning (FL) methods and their potential for enabling large collaborative data analyses in transfusion medicine. Crucial for ML-worthy sample sizes Key idea: Bring the model to the data, not the data to the model onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #MLSky

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Mohsen Sadatsafavi @msafavi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Great (and very well written - a joy to read) work by @giulianonetto.bsky.social and @keegankorthauer.bsky.social, with rigorous theory and extensive empirical analyses (and well documented software).

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Tim Triche, Jr.🔰 @timtriche.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

How dare people not Trust the Science™️. Really now. Related: metaror.org/kotahi/artic...

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Researchers are willing to trade their results for journal prestige: results from a discrete choice experiment

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Alton Russell @altonrus.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Stumbled on a nice quote I'll add to my lecture on why we still build decision models with limited info. #smdm "Far better an approximately answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise" John Tukey 1962

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Alton Russell @altonrus.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Happy to see @isbt.bsky.social and @aabbupdates.bsky.social here! Looking forward to blood banking and transfusion medicine content in the feed

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Alton Russell @altonrus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Unique to select Quebec schools, IVADO postdoc fellows receive a generous salary to do research for robust, reasoning, and responsible AI. A student I mentored was offered a fellowship last year. Contact me if you're interested in applying! Due Dec 1 ivado.ca/en/scholarsh...

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IVADO Postdoctoral Research Funding Program 2024-25 | IVADO

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 23/06/2024

Looking for a mind-growing distraction? How about my 3 part intro to Bayesian causal inference. It's like a condensed version of my book, 10 weeks of causal computation in 3 short blog posts. Take with plenty of water. #stats elevanth.org/blog/2021/06...

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Regression, Fire, and Dangerous Things (1/3)

It isn't my job to disappoint people, but I'm good at it.

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Dr. Ari Kozik @drkozik.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Here's a starter pack of Black Scientists and Organizations (currently STEMM disciplines)! go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a

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Alton Russell @altonrus.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

@aportnoy.bsky.social welcome 🤗 Added you to the small but growing SMDMer list. Lmk who I'm missing! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Adam Raymakers @araymakers.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Presenting some work on QALY-based cost-effectiveness analyses at #SMDM24 a few weeks back that shows some arguments against the use of QALYs lack empirical justification.

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Sarah Medeiros, MD, MPH 🩺🎙️ @drsarahem.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

New starter pack! First attempt at curating a community of amazing #womeninmedicine Who else should I add? #MedSky

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Emily Tucker @emilyltucker.bsky.social · 21/09/2023

Hello BlueSky Community! I'm an Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Clemson. I develop optimization models and methods to improve access to social good under strain. These problems tend to involve integrality, stochasticity, and trade-offs.

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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 11/11/2024

Time for another heme #skeetorial #Medsky Let’s talk about Racism in medicine. Sadly, sickle cell disease (SCD) highlights this issue all too well. 1/n

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Updated Global Health Nerds starter pack Will create part 2! go.bsky.app/DgwRPwD

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Raza @transfusion.health · 10/11/2024

Bias Variance Trade-off is a tricky concept, in no small part because the terms are so loaded with differing meanings in other contexts. What made it finally click was thinking of bias as consistent error, variance as information density #ML #stats uniathenaprods3.uniathena.com/s3fs-public/...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

A lot of what NIH does is fund basic research into public health that is not profitable for pharmaceutical companies to do. This is what you get with someone who does not believe in research.

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Jo Bibby @jobibby.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

I’ve put together a starter pack of organisations that produce useful data, evidence and insight into health and health inequalities. Not comprehensive by any means - I will keep adding and suggestions are welcome! go.bsky.app/7teKEPq

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Alton Russell @altonrus.bsky.social · 27/10/2024

On the way to Boston for SMDM24!

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 15/10/2024

8/ Meredith McCoy, an educator of Native descent, notes federal law guarantees Native education, yet “the patterns of underfunding are so extreme that it’s hard not to see it as a systematic approach to underfunding Native people." Read the full story below ⬇️

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Tribal College Campuses Are Falling Apart. The U.S. Hasn’t Fulfilled Its Promise to Fund the Schools.

Decades ago, Congress made a commitment to fund a higher education system for Indigenous communities. But a quarter-billion-dollar annual shortfall has led to crimped budgets and crumbling buildings, ...

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 08/10/2024

Uh-oh... Another consequence of climate change, showing that the US is not walled-off from the world nor are Americans from their ecosystem. Hoping mosquito spraying doesn't end up facing local libertarian-ish opposition as it has elsewhere. Dengue can be nasty. 🛟🩺 idsky health policy policysky

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First Locally Acquired Dengue Case Reported In San Diego County

To prevent the disease from spreading, County Vector Control began spraying this weekend for mosquitoes at about 170 homes in Escondido.

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Amy Vants to Suck Your Blood 🩸 @msfoxifurnasty.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

“There is stardust in your eyes,” I shriek as we wither into radioactive ash.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 03/10/2024

US "Pandemic preparedness... has...emphasized... respiratory virus illnesses... Mosquito-transmitted virus infections & parasitic illnesses cld present our next greatest challenge...esp...in the Southern US... an enormous public health & socioeconomic toll" 🛟 🩺🧪📈😷 Sociology health policy policysky

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Prepare for the Next Pandemic Threat, Mosquito-Transmitted Viruses and Parasitic Illnesses | Baker Institute

This brief is part of “Election 2024: Policy Playbook,” a series by the Baker Institute and Rice University that offers nonpartisan, expert analysis and recommendations to equip policy leaders governi...

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/09/2024

Scotland has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13. Vaccines are incredible.

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HPV vaccine study finds zero cases of cervical cancer among women vaccinated before age 14

In a large Scottish study, no cases of cervical cancer were found among women who received HPV vaccines before they turned 14.

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Alton Russell @altonrus.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Love running angle plummet algorithms to instruct counterfeit brain organizations 🙃

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

A true horror story 🧛

A social post from @Le_Severine_Cox that says: INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE 2ND ROUND INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE ZOOM INTERVIEW WITH THE TEAM WITH THE VAMPIRE WE HAVE DECIDED TO PURSUE ANOTHER CANDIDATE BUT WILL KEEP YOU IN MIND IF FUTURE POSITIONS OPEN UP WITH THE VAMPIRE ... :

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Alton Russell @altonrus.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

SMDMers, I made a new bsky feed! Using smdm in a post should make it show in this feed. You can pin the feed to your homepage bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

If you're looking for a good place to donate, the Give Smart drive to boost North Carolina Democrats' standing in the state legislature is it: app.oath.vote/donate?p=tsp...

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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 16/09/2024

Prepping for my "Intro to health services research" lecture new slide: 3 Guesses about the Future of Health Services Research 1 of 3: The clinical nuance from EHR’s will replace coded chart diagnoses to understand eligible patients and heterogeneity of treatment effects

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Faculty position opportunity at McGill University Tenure track Assistant professor position in the field of biostatistics! mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/mcgill...

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