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Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I'm genuinely gobsmacked that the Home Office think this is a good idea. How do they envisage "training" technology to verify the age of a young person from (say) Darfur or Iraqi Kurdistan? They might as well get the calipers out and start doing phrenology

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 07/07/2025

The only problem is that the citations go to papers that don't actually exist.

Sources:

P. Siler et al., PNAS (2015) – analysis of peer review outcomes and rounds

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Richard Riley (R²) @richarddriley.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

* New preprint led by Joao Matos & @gscollins.bsky.social "Critical Appraisal of Fairness Metrics in Clinical Predictive AI" - Important, rapidly growing area - But confusion exists - 62 fairness metrics identified so far - Better standards & metrics needed for healthcare arxiv.org/abs/2506.17035

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

“[A] key irony of automation is that by mechanising routine tasks and leaving exception-handling to the human user, you deprive the user of routine opportunities to practice judgement and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared when the exceptions do arise.”

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Use It or Lose It - Flight Safety Foundation

Without practice, pilots find that some flying skills — especially cognitive skills — grow weak.

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Royal Statistical Society @royalstatsoc.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Do you work in UK health and care analytics using data to deliver better outcomes for patients? Why not enter our Florence Nightingale Award supported by @healthfoundation.bsky.social Enter by 30 April: rss.org.uk/training-eve...

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Emily Petherick @drepetherick.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Such a nice example of the potential pitfalls of drawing conclusions from research using routine data without understanding how the data are generated.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Big piece on how the UK is not getting the data it needs and how this is affecting policymaking. A key issue seems to be that the shift from surveys to admin data has not worked well as govt departments have not allowed the ONS access to the data it needs on.ft.com/3WSCN6h

on.ft.com

How flawed data is leaving the UK in the dark

Trouble at the Office for National Statistics means policymakers cannot rely on key economic numbers, including on employment

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Luisa N. Borrell @lborrell.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Please check the @ises-epi.bsky.social announcement for the 2025 Call for Awards to recognize the work of doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, and early career researchers in social epidemiology. Deadline is April 30, 2025. #PublicHealth #EpiSky #SocialEpi #SDoH

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Society for Social Medicine & Population Health @socsocmed.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

*Free/subsidised place opportunities for NHS and Local Authority colleagues to attend the 2025 Society for Social Medicine and Population Health Annual Conference in Bradford (10-12 Sept)* 10 to those in the Bradford district; 10 from elsewhere in the UK and Ireland. Apply here: bit.ly/3FCh8JR

Picture of Bradford City Hall - taken from the end of Thornton Road by Betty Longbottom

Picture of Market Street, Bradford by Tim Green

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

MIT offering travel advice (or rather do not travel advice) for international visitors and green card holders. If folks at other institutions are receiving similar guidance, please consider sharing here. Please be as safe as you can.

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The Sutton Trust @suttontrust.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

🚨 NEW: Only a fraction of medical students come from working class backgrounds, despite recent efforts to widen access. Our new research finds persistent issues with access to careers in medicine, as working-class people remain hugely underrepresented in the profession 🧵⬇️

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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 20/02/2025

📢 Are you or someone you know considering a career in the think tank sector? We're hosting an online webinar for those interested in the sector, aimed particularly at those from under-represented groups. Find out more and sign up here👇 buff.ly/3CYMwky

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David Hackney @davidnhackney.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

acog.org

ACOG Endorsed

The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 02/02/2025

An anonymous person at the CDC just archived all the public CDC datasets as of 1/28 and uploaded it to archive.org

archive.org

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

“People will get sick. And, especially in cases like congenital syphilis where you cannot lose a day to treat, babies will die.” The appalling human cost of this insane exercise in gender censorship mustn’t be forgotten. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-std...

cbsnews.com

CDC purges STD and vaccine recommendations after Trump gender order

Health experts say the website purge could result in deaths.

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SocArXiv @socarxiv.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If you post a paper on SocArXiv, and then your authoritarian employer demands that you change certain words, of course you can post a revised version - but the original version will be preserved and remain available. FYI.

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Jules @julesholroyd.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Here's the research paper with @matthewjcull.bsky.social and @fionawoollard.bsky.social that takes applied philosophy of language to gender inclusion in pregnancy and birth and shows how it CAN be done well. You just need a toolbox of linguistic strategies! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

cambridge.org

Caring for Everyone: Effective and Inclusive Communication in Perinatal Care | Hypatia | Cambridge Core

Caring for Everyone: Effective and Inclusive Communication in Perinatal Care

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Prof Nisreen Alwan @nisreenalwan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

"The Food Foundation found that 1,000 calories of healthy food such as fruit and veg costs £8.80, compared to £4.30 for the equivalent amount of less healthy food, such as ready meals and processed meats." Your health is shaped by what you AFFORD to eat. #PublicHealth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Healthy food costs more than double less healthy options, analysis says

Low-income families are being priced out of being able to afford to eat healthily, a charity warns.

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Society for Social Medicine & Population Health @socsocmed.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

*Early Career Researchers* Prof Alastair Leyland at the University of Glasgow has shared a workshop on the environmental impact of climate change in the Amazon and its effect on population health happening in June 2025 in Brazil. More information and apply at lnkd.in/g4D8bk5a Deadline 07/02/25

An advert for a workshop happening in Manaus City, Brazil, in June 2025. The workshop is on "Quantifying the environmental impact of climate change in the legal amazon and its effects on population health: from the local to national level"

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Emily Petherick @drepetherick.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Following online today, sounds like such a great resource with an impressive coverage of lower and middle income countries.

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I love & appreciate all the academics doing the studies to confirm what feels instinctually obvious. Want to get rid of Nigel Farage’s support & banish the far right across Europe? People must be able to access quality public services. It doesn’t feel like rocket science.

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Duncan Cooper @duncancooper10.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

An AI system used by the DWP to detect welfare fraud is showing bias according to people’s age, disability, marital status & nationality BUT we are not allowed to know yet what the bias is? Be useful to know for advocacy/support, we do have equalities law also www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

theguardian.com

Revealed: bias found in AI system used to detect UK benefits fraud

Exclusive: Age, disability, marital status and nationality influence decisions to investigate claims, prompting fears of ‘hurt first, fix later’ approach

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

How many children’s lives has the measles vaccine saved in 50 years? Around 90 million. Important to remind ourselves that vaccines save lives ourworldindata.org/data-insight... @ourworldindata.org

Chart showing estimates of number of lives various vaccines have saved over 50 years

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Ben Barr @benjaminbarr.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

We have 4 post-doctoral positions, working with linked data to improve public health and health services with www.liverpool.ac.uk/population-h... and www.liverpool.ac.uk/civic-health... #episky #econsky #AcademicSky @profbuchan.bsky.social

liverpool.ac.uk

Health Inequalities Policy Research Group (HIP-R) | Institute of Population Health | University of Liverpool xlinkedinUniversity of Liverpool on FacebookLivUni on InstagramLivUni on XLivUni on ...

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...

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Emily Petherick @drepetherick.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Be a little extra careful when submitting articles! 🫣

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Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

For years, some of us have fought back against terrible misinformation that somehow attributed Covid vaccines to a big risk of heart problems. It’s always been Covid infection, not the Covid vaccine. Yet another study revealing the truth: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/22/w... #medsky

nytimes.com

Covid Can Raise the Risk of Heart Problems for Years

People who had severe infections are especially vulnerable.

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Emily Petherick @drepetherick.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

If you can see this, repost with a favourite photo of the sky you've taken recently

Photo of a rainbow taken from my office at Loughborough University

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Brian Elliott @brianelliottmd.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

2024 is the 170th anniversary of the most famous public health story, John Snow and his map of cholera cases in Soho. You’ve likely heard how he heroically traced an epidemic to a single water source: the broad street pump. But that’s not how the story really ended… #histmed #medicalhistory #medsky

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Stefano Canossa @stecanossa.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

@jay.bsky.team @bsky.app linking a profile to orcid.org or verifying an orcid ID might be indeed something exclusive and valid for every academic/researcher. Especially if this has some kind of 'profile authenticity verification' character, it can be huge for our X-quit process.

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Hana Ayoob @hanaayoob.co.uk · 20/11/2024

ScienceWrite, a UK scheme for aspiring STEM writers from minoritised backgrounds, is open for 2025 applications! The 3rd year @romatheengineer.bsky.social & I are running this, with support from @royalsociety.bsky.social & I am SO EXCITED Deadline 3rd Jan #SciComm 🧪 www.sciencewrite.co.uk

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Mark D. Levine @marklevinenyc.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Insane that we even need to discuss this but this is why we have fluoride in our water. (Chart by @steverattner.bsky.social)

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

New Lancet paper 'The cost of not investing in the first 1000 days'. Cites our Cochrane review on preschool-based feeding programmes in socio-economically deprived settings. FEED STARVING CHILDREN in a timely way. Later (when they're older) may be too late. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧪

thelancet.com

The cost of not investing in the next 1000 days: implications for policy and practice

Building on the evidence from the first paper in this Series highlighting the fundamental importance of healthy and nurturing environments for children's growth and development in the next 1000 days (...

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Alex Selby-Boothroyd @alexselbyb.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

He forgot the first rule: don't get high on your own supply www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Chart by The Economist showing tweets by Elon Musk from 2014 to 2024, by time of day. There is a considerable increase in volume after he bought Twitter at the end of 2022, and fallow periods throughout the day seem to dwindle

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Diego Silva @dsilvaphd.bsky.social · 21/11/2023

Not anything terribly new here, but the morality of treating athletes - elite or not - as ends in themselves is as relatively simple an idea as it is hard to implement in reality.

espn.com.au

Time to treat footballers like human beings, not products - ESPN

As more young players suffered long-term injuries during this international break, it's clear that football's calendar has become too unforgiving.

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