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Mollie Wood

@anecdatally.bsky.social
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Asst. prof of epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill | training at HSPH, UiO, UMass Med, BUSPH | interests in rxepi, repro-perinatal epi, methods | she/her/dr

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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Appreciate the heads up!
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
UNC Epidemiology is hiring! Up to 4 Assistant Professors: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/324... (also 1-2 Open Rank positions: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/324...)
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Assistant Professor
Application review will begin September 15 and continue until positions are filled.  Up to four full-time tenure-track faculty positions in the rank of Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemi...
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Homer Simpson Retreats into a Bush
ALT: Homer Simpson Retreats into a Bush
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Maybe some sort of threshold, like if w is <0.05 then the CI is informative 😏
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Carrboro Coachella, y'all.
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Look, some opinions are too important to wait for trivial things like editing and asking your friend if you maybe come off as a bit of a dick
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
(time to dig out my half-assed commentary "Forget emulating a trial, how about we try emulating a cohort study")
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Oh no, oh no, oh no
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I really like your per protocol tutorial with Lucia and Ellie- super helpful for teaching. Link for anyone else interested: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Or As Treated, it’s just less clear who your customer base is.
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Look, I have already named my alternate-career bakery (the Pastriarchy) but someone really needs to open one called Intention To Treat.
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
You should be good ordering a (dobbel?) latte! “Ta med” means take with/to go 🙂
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
That feeling of excitedly finding a paper that solves your current methods headache, only to realize you found the paper last year and fully memory-holed it.
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I can't help but think that the "Think of AI as an eager grad student" people just... don't like working with grad students very much.
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Prior and Prejudice?
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Next week: ISPE webinar on avoiding immortal person time bias in pregnancy medication studies (link below to register, registration is free and open to non-ISPE members). us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Avoiding Immortal Time in Studies of Medication Use During Pregnancy. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Immortal time persists in studies of medication use during pregnancy conducted with real-world data. Even among experienced pharmacoepidemiologists, the challenge often lies not in defining immortal t...
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
It's not 1536, but Anne Boleyn has taken over the news. Recently a team of computer scientists, electrical engineers and a historical novelist think they have discovered the “true face” of Anne (& her mother) by applying AI-based computational facial recognition to Holbein sketches. The catch? /1
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I think it's like an intention-to-planet versus as-planeted effect
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The amount of time I just spent thinking about whether the reclassification of Pluto counts as manipulation…
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Truly an A+ example of "guy who read half a book about a thing and is now an expert"
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
…wait, is there a dunk tank?
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
WHAT
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The quotes on this one are a gift.
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Important work!
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Peter over here posting about his favorite pizza, which is definitely a sandwich
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Teaching sibling comparison designs on Friday, which means I get to bust out this slide:
From left to right: a picture of the creepy twins from The Shining movie, a picture of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny Devito from the movie Twins, and a picture of two siblings
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Last year I decided that if I make no other contribution to the UNC Epidemiology Department, at least my students will pronounce "Aalen-Johansen" correctly. It... is not going well so far.
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Oh no oh no oh no
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David Juurlink @davidjuurlink.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The official journal of the Canadian Paediatric Society has just acknowledged that more than 100 of its case reports are fabricated. Incredible reporting from @retractionwatch.com retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/c...
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Not all heroes etc etc
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
But I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. Only a hippopotamus will do.
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Felix Thoemmes @felixthoemmes.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Rearranging variables can make this clearer. In plot below, it's relatively easy to see that total effect needs no adjustment, and that direct effect from A to Y needs to block the indirect path that traverses D and C. D is a collider, and C the child of the collider, hence adjustment on B is needed
DAG display
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
This is a hell of a year to be staring down the tenure clock, having yet to secure 'R01 or equivalent' funding. I've submitted 10 proposals this year: 6 as PI, 2 foundations. It's weird to feel both anxious about this, and also guilty for feeling anxious about this amid all the *gestures wildly*
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I went to undergrad with a guy who thought eating was a waste of time, so he blended and drank all his meals. I can’t remember his name, but the tuna fish sandwich shakes will be branded into my brain until the day I die.
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I'm hiring a researcher to work on several ongoing funded projects at the University of Oslo! Details below: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Researcher in PharmacoEpidemiology and Biostatistics (289818) | University of Oslo
Job title: Researcher in PharmacoEpidemiology and Biostatistics (289818), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Tuesday, December 2, 2025
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Potential outcomes tabs in Outlook! DAGs in your Google query! Marginal structural models to help you plan your next vacation!
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Not to mention "The journal is affiliated with the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society (NAFIPS)" !!
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
I have a weekly meeting with a USian who works in Norway and this is the first time our 10-minute politics-related therapy session at the top of the hour has been hopeful, so.
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Python Software Foundation @python.org · 27/10/2025
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... 🧵
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Ah yes, let's try the "have you tried turning it off and on again" approach to fixing US healthcare.
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Weekly Ruport: bad news cycle means more emotional support pillows
A picture of a chocolate labrador curled up on a pile of throw pillows and looking sleepily at the camera
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
As a post script, I also want to say that I find the “medically necessary” language around APAP use ridiculous and insulting. Do they think pregnant women are taking acetaminophen for fun? Or mistaking the pills for candy?
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
PPE 2019 study: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ppe.12568
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Prenatal paracetamol exposure and neurodevelopmental outcomes in preschool‐aged children
Background Recent studies have suggested an association between prenatal paracetamol exposure and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in children. However, these findings may be confounded by unmeas...
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
IJE 2015 study: academic.oup.com/ije/article/...
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Neurodevelopmental problems at 18 months among children exposed to paracetamol in utero: a propensity score matched cohort study
Abstract. Background: Previous studies showed that children exposed to paracetamol during fetal life might have an increased risk of neurodevelopmental pro
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
You wouldn’t know it from this thread, but other people have opinions about APAP in pregnancy and neurodevelopmental outcomes. @perdamkier.bsky.social in particular has written a lot about the topic, including this piece: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Annotations and Reflections
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
...for specific conditions during pregnancy. Active comparator designs would strengthen these types of studies significantly, particularly for conditions where “no treatment” is not a realistic or ethical recommendation.
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
People taking high doses of APAP for long periods of time aren’t irresponsible, they’re desperate. Most frustratingly, APAP isn’t a particularly good drug for chronic pain conditions. All of which is to say: I think research needs to focus more on comparing clinically meaningful treatments...
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
And in this small study done in a single hospital in Norway, we saw many women switching from previous migraine treatments to APAP, and reporting high levels of pain not managed by APAP: bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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Patterns and predictors of analgesic use in pregnancy: a longitudinal drug utilization study with special focus on women with migraine - BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background Few studies have investigated the drug utilization patterns and factors predicting drug use in pregnant women with migraine. This longitudinal drug utilization study aimed to describe patte...
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
But it is critical to understand what is driving high-dose, long-duration APAP use in pregnancy. In this descriptive study of migraine in pregnancy, we saw decreasing use of other drugs and increases in APAP: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Polypharmacy and comorbidities during pregnancy in a cohort of women with migraine - Mollie E Wood, Rebecca C Burch, Sonia Hernandez-Diaz, 2021
Objective To describe longitudinal patterns of medication use throughout pregnancy in women with migraine. Methods We used the IBM MarketScan healthcare claims...
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Mollie Wood @anecdatally.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
My pet hypothesis, for which I only have indirect evidence, is something like this: I think it is possible that very high doses of APAP over extended periods of time (i.e., 500+mg daily for multiple weeks) could cause neurodevelopmental differences in exposed fetuses.
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