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Methodologist/Epidemiologist London - UK

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 1h
Today I'm posting a new video! This case report includes AI generated images. Despite being apparently fabricated with OpenAI tools this paper is already suggested by ChatGPT as evidence to be considered for off label treatment of an autoimmune disease. youtu.be/G9KHwXNIJyk
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Days before Brazil's election, Meta briefly blocked President Lula's campaign page from running political ads and removed an Instagram profile behind a viral video on Flávio Bolsonaro. Both decisions were reversed, but raised public concerns. Brazilian investigative journalist Laís Martins reports.
techpolicy.press
On Eve of Brazil Elections, Meta Content Moderation Decisions Raise Questions
Two recent moderation decisions—while later reversed—have raised concerns about the company's policies and practices, writes Laís Martins.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
nyti.ms
Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I'm posting a new video about a team of ophthalmology researchers in Germany who scribbled on their figures! t.co/X2U6zCw9pn
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
📝 Signed! Please sign if you can as well!
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social @olivia.science @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com Question /thought. I'm getting increasingly more common "peer" reviews that are basically LLM regurgitation.(biomedical field) And looks that the editors take those aberrations on board. What would be the solution?
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Another day, another peer review full of LLM-generated "reviews". (Full of nonsense, and also violates the norms of the journal) There's no reason to submit a manuscript for publication anymore... #academicsky #episky
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Support those who make Lancet a great journal!
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I think @epiellie.bsky.social, @pwgtennant.bsky.social and @statsepi.bsky.social will enjoy this paper. #episky
sciencedirect.com
Natural experiments of herpes zoster vaccination: Quantifying the implied vaccine effectiveness against dementia
Recent natural experiments conducted in Wales, Australia, and Canada found a lower risk of all-cause dementia among individuals eligible for live-atte…
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#angrybirds Not a birder, but I have this one in the gallery. bsky.app/profile/alan...
Angry bird
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I have discovered that my institution is negotiating an "enterprise" license to one of those LLMs... At the same time, it says that, to save costs, redundancies are necessary.... #academicsky
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 07/09/2026
Writing some scientific workflow slides for this week’s MPTC class.
Research workflow for those branches of the sciences where the important thing is to become famous.
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Alias Messier @amampersand.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Last week, I provided students with my Reasons to Hate AI mini comic, & now you can have it, too. Thanks to @nsousanis.bsky.social for suggestions & so many for the accumulated info, esp. @emilymbender.bsky.social, @alexhanna.bsky.social, @karenhao.bsky.social , @dairinstitute.bsky.social.
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
medicresai.com/fellowship This looks like AI slop for Academia. Directly from Claude prompts #academicsky #episky
medicresai.com
MedicReS | Advancing Medical Research
Design, analyze, and publish stronger medical studies with AI tools, expert collaboration, and end-to-end research support.
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Academia. What would be "Evidence of Esteem, External Visibility & Professional Activities" in a job application? Are they awards? Interviews with the media? #episky #AcademicSky #ScienceSky
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
you mean like academia?
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
www.anthropic.com/news/expandi... ... Oldest strategy ever? Give something for "free", so people can get dependent on a wasteful technology
anthropic.com
Expanding our support for scientists
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Remember to sign and share! We already passed 4,000 signatures
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
God... Description of an assistant professor position with "desirable criteria" of "use of genAI to do research."
Lse job post (assist prof.) asking for candidates with experience in genAI for research purposes
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/08/2026
Friends, I think Ghent University should hear from us as the eugenicists are out in full force. This letter is from academics there to counter the ridiculous letter supporting the white supremacist now being called a "whistleblower" by his ilk You can add your name👇🏽 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com
Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University
***Version française en dessous*** We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decisio...
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I was thinking in the "associated with" type of paper, and maybe those strange "hierarchical models"(cesar Victoria) (not mixed models) makes sense in this context. For example, the model 1) with only age/sex (not confunded by anything).. 1/n #episky
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Some points need to be addressed: 1. Causal language throughout the manuscript - "Effect" and direct causal phrasing still appear in several places and should be softened to association-based language:" peer review comment of an article I'm collaborating.... ffs #episky
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
My partner had a job interview and received the most ludicrous feedback about the use of genAI (the interview specifically mentioned Gemini /Claude). Specifying Claude as "agentic AI". This was for an admin job / not for vibe code the shit out. 1/n
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
" Statins reduce hospital admissions but increase overall healthcare use " - www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/news/statins... This headline is confusing... the paper shows a decrease in use per person-time... Any thoughts? @pwgtennant.bsky.social @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social @georgiatomova.bsky.social #episky
Curves from healthcare use with very strong assumptions (110 years old)
"Assuming all participants died at age 110 years, the summary ends in year 60 for people aged 40 to 60 and in year 45 for people aged 60 to 70."
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 17/08/2026
Please sign @goodlawproject.org's demand for a public inquiry into the media's role in Jason Arday's death -> goodlawproject.org/petition/jas...
goodlawproject.org
Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Cat 🐈 @mrsbadcrumble1975.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Twat.
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
FFS, BBC has a stupid far-right fetish www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... They keep interviewing people in the middle of the day (stupid selection bias, and present it as "the people") Even the page (preview..."share joy") On the page: "What do Nigel Farage's constituents think of his re-election?"
bbc.co.uk
Nigel Farage's Clacton voters share joy at his by-election win
The Reform leader wins the by-election he triggered, and wins more votes.
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I woke up hopeful that I would have a good surprise from the people of Clacton-on-Sea.... But not.
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The Journal of Infectious Diseases @jidjournal.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Early Transcriptional Signature in Chikungunya Predicts Chronic Arthralgia and Reveals Deficient Antiviral Response ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 bit.ly/4xalUnh
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404 Media @404media.co · 10/07/2026
ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.
404media.co
AI Fiction Is Easy to Detect Because It's Stupid and Bad, Research Finds
ChatGPT uses too many dream sequences and Gemini won’t stop describing characters.
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
What a joke!
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
After llms, a lot of times when I m checking someone else code and I see "implementations" from scratch, for example PS matching with caliper using crazy loops instead of MatchIt from @noahgreifer.bsky.social . It makes the work so much harder, because the new func probably has some flaws #rstats
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Why?!? Why!? "To adjust for baseline confounding a pseudo-population was generated using propensity score overlap weighting. This created an emulated trial scenario ...." For the description ... it even doesn't account the time varying charact. of vax (GBM - PS) #episky
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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Come work at Ouroboros University! Where our students submit work produced by AI to be graded by profs using AI. And check out our metrics!! We are highly ranked by AI for all the incredible research papers our profs churn out using AI! H/T @wiringthebrain.bsky.social #IWantNoneOfThis #ResistAI
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Kristoffer Magnusson @rpsychologist.com · 25/06/2026
New interactive blog! "Why Adjusted Regression Coefficients Are Less Descriptive Than They Look" rpsychologist.com/descriptive-...
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Epi survey. What is your opinion about "hierarchical models" (not a random effects model) - pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9126524/? It is the idea of building sequential models from "distal to proximal" variables #episky #rstats 1/n
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The role of conceptual frameworks in epidemiological analysis: a hierarchical approach - PubMed
Conceptual frameworks provide guidance for the use of multivariate techniques and aid the interpretation of their results in the light of social and biological knowledge.
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Great article! also the paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
sciencedirect.com
Worship me at the office altar: Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work
Leaders have displayed diverging reactions to remote work, with some supporting it and others resisting it. Surprisingly little research has examined …
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Mattan S. Ben-Shachar @mattansb.msbstats.info · 15/06/2026
#statsmeme? (Prompted by a conversation with a student who's double majoring in stats-econ and said that stats courses make more sense to him)
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Arguably @arguablymag.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“The truth is that ministers have not the faintest clue what to do”. @gsoh31.bsky.social writes on the quiet collapse of Britain’s universities and why so few people seem to care. www.arguably.uk/p/the-quiet-...
arguably.uk
The quiet collapse of British universities
One of our great triumphs and economic advantages is fading away
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
causal meditation folks. Help! I have a scenario in which Rcde / Rpnde / Rtnde are <1, and Rpnie/Rtnie >1 (way weaker than the direct ones). It's VAX (exp), infection (med), and MACE (outcome). I m struggling to interpret this. #episky #rstats
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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 28/05/2026
Also this www.friendsoftheearth.ie/news/the-cos...
friendsoftheearth.ie
The cost of data centre growth in Ireland: Households paid an estimated €715 million more in electricity bills
Ireland’s current approach to data centres is increasingly a cost-of-living issue
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Spotted in San Diego. “WE THE STUDENTS DO NOT WANT THIS AI IS MORE HARMFUL THAN HELPFUL”
Sign taped to a pole that shows the letters AI with it crossed out and:  TEACHERS SHOULD NOT BE REQUIRED TO USE AI AT E3 CIVIC HIGHSign taped to a pole that reads:

KEEP GENERATIVE AI OUT OF OUR CURRICULUM
E3 Civic High is an Al-forward school. They implement the use of language models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, CoPilot, and Claude Sonnet in our class rooms.
They use it...
• To create and grade assignments
• As a replacement for trustworthy sources of information
• To encourage students to create generated images for art
and coding classes
• As an alternative for general human communication (Talking about our feelings, review, help with ideas WE THE STUDENTS DO NOT WANT THIS E3 DOES NOT CARE ABOUT OUR EDUCATION AND WELLBEING!
AI IS MORE HARMFUL THAN HELPFUL
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Taxing the rich: it's good. #mapoli www.raiseupma.org/news/dor-fai...
raiseupma.org
DOR: Fair Share Revenue Up 20% Over First 10 Months of FY26, Already Exceeding $3 Billion — Raise Up Massachusetts
Tax on Million-Dollar Earners Continues to Exceed Revenue Projections, Proving Fears of Millionaire Flight False BOSTON – The State Department of Revenue yesterday certified that Massachusetts...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.
Rule:
The use of AI is prohibited for aid in conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising,
translating, or editing any work submitted for credit. AI use is prohibited for any use for
any purpose in any exam situation. Students may not upload course
materials—including assignments, readings, slides, class recordings, or other class
content—into generative AI systems. AI can be used for research on papers ONLY for the
limited purpose of identifying sources, such as cases, statutes, or secondary sources.
Students are responsible for the accuracy of their research and all other aspects of their
submitted work. Citations to sources that do not exist will raise a presumption of
prohibited AI use
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 21/05/2026
I can only suggest to start noticing it as a first step. Time to stop the typical weird and gross habit of the whole world citing very specific USA scholars, when they never even read our work properly let alone cite it, but certainly benefit from it. Honestly, start ignoring these people. 3/
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Nature Medicine @natmed.nature.com · 14/05/2026
News & Views: New data reveals that a past #tuberculosis diagnosis increases the risk of death up to 14 years later regardless of treatment outcome, which should prompt urgent prioritization of global prevention efforts.
dlvr.it
The ghost of tuberculosis past - Nature Medicine
The analysis of the 100 Million Brazilian database reveals that a past tuberculosis diagnosis increases the risk of death up to 14 years later regardless of treatment outcome, which should prompt urgent prioritization of global prevention efforts.
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Looking at a paper, it appears that the Table 2 fallacy (on steroids) was rediscovered by environmental epidemiology. Contrafactual of multiple variables. Where is @cameronpat.bsky.social preaching the word? #rstats #episky
Table showing multi
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