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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉

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Public Health Researcher at Utrecht University — preventing chronic diseases through urban environments. Also building @opencausal.org. #Epidemiology #CausalInference #Exposome #HealthyCities

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Open Causal @opencausal.org · 11/09/2026
Pleased to see the great interest in Open Causal at EuroEpi 2026 in London! @epi.ist shared the latest developments in the platform. #SSMPHEuroEpi2026 @socsocmed.bsky.social
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Secret systems used by Israel in mass killings of Gaza civilians revealed in new film
Testimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the Guardian
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Björn Brembs @brembs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026
New court case filed by @juancommander eugeniereichlaw.com/wp-content/uplo… charges that academic publishers price-gouge to a factor of up to ten above their true publishing costs: f1000research.com/articles/10-20/v2 […]
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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 25/06/2026
Came to University of Twente for #EpiCon by the Netherlands Epidemiological Society. I will demonstrate @opencausal.org tomorrow at 3pm on the main stage. Looking forward to meeting some #episky fellows! Send me a DM if you are around.
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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 22/05/2026
@dagophile.bsky.social your talk today was really thought provoking, thanks!
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Stefan Müller @stefanmuelller.lingo.lol.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026
1/ What is the job of publishers? The organize reviewing (well, this is what we scientists do in the end), they organize typesetting (well, depending on the subject, this is what we scientists do. Otherwise they mess up everything in India and we have to fix things in multiple rounds of […]
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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 27/04/2026
Constantly evaluating if the presentation I am listening is AI generated or not is very distracting!
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Open Causal @opencausal.org · 24/04/2026
Have a causal graph on your next presentation or poster? Add a QR code to invite feedback from others. OpenCausal.org now provides a QR code for every graph by default! See how errors are incorporated in this neat DAG by @javimangal.bsky.social 👇
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Open Causal @opencausal.org · 22/04/2026
Causal graphs on opencausal.org get a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)! Make your graph citable and traceable. Check out the first graph with a DOI by Amanda Durkin: doi.org/10.83031/6lw...
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Causal relationship between micro- and nanoplastics and lung function
The study quantified micro- and nanoplastic (MNP) exposure in young adults by analyzing whole-blood samples using pyrolysis gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (1). Lung function—specifically forced ...
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Open Causal @opencausal.org · 15/04/2026
Exciting workshop for graph folks! @epi.ist will be presenting latest developments in opencausal.org. Details are below 👇
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Jack McGovan @jackmcgovan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Microsoft is the priority target for @nogamesforgenocide.com given the tech corp's ties to the IDF, & small indie developer @allwillrise.bsky.social recently broke contract with Xbox to support the campaign. I spoke to them about their decision & why progressives must take up more space in games.
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Why a small indie game developer put Palestinian liberation before profit
A small indie game developer joined the No Games for Genocide campaign, even though it meant giving a significant chunk of money back to Microsoft.
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Frank de Vocht @frankdv.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Not just a jury...literally everyone, including Met and Youtube themselves. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/m...
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Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds
Jury in Los Angeles awards plaintiff damages of $6m, with Meta to pay 70% and YouTube the remainder
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Joost Vervoort @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This was a very difficult decision for us as a small indie team. Please stand with us and @nogamesforgenocide.com ❤️ #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #freepalestine
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Jeremy Labrecque @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
A very nice to initiative where you can post your DAG: opencausal.org And because they're machine readable, they're much easier to search.
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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 19/02/2026
Questions live longer than answers
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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 21/01/2026
Open Causal: the second-best way to discuss a causal graph, right after the blackboard. Reporting from the Foundations of Causal Inference Workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge. @opencausal.org
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Absolutely essential piece by @kevinbaker.bsky.social critiquing AI automation of science by pulling back the curtain on what modern science actually is. LLMs already replicate and accelerate its irrational bureaucratic structure.
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or, of GPUs, LPUs, and Goal Displacement
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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 07/12/2025
Today, I am presenting @opencausal.org at @euripsconf.bsky.social. Come say hi, if you are attending!
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Open Causal @opencausal.org · 04/12/2025
Upcoming Open Causal appearances: December 7 — Causality for Impact workshop at @euripsconf.bsky.social December 10 — Causal Inference Group meeting at @erasmusmc.bsky.social Join us if you're around!
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Open Causal @opencausal.org · 02/12/2025
🧠 New causal graph: Causal relationship between micro- and nanoplastics and lung function 🔗 opencausal.org/graph/6lwex6ix
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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 24/11/2025
👉 youtube.com/watch?v=EO14...
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I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain
YouTube video by New York Times Opinion
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Fjorida Llaha @fllaha.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I’m uploading my #DAGs on #alcohol and #cancer to this nice platform for sharing and discussion. This DAG is also available on DAGitty for easy reuse: dagitty.net/dags.html?id... A detailed explanation of the assumptions behind the DAGs is here: www.dovepress.com/article/supp...
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DAGitty v3.1
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Open Causal @opencausal.org · 13/11/2025
Today marks the official launch of opencausal.org! Hüseyin (@epi.ist) is introducing the platform on two events today. 08.30 CET - European Public Health Conference #EPH2025 (Session 5.Y.2) 13.00 CET - Causal Data Science Meeting #CSDM2025 @ephconference.bsky.social @causalscience.org
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Open Causal @opencausal.org · 13/11/2025
opencausal.org is online! Open Causal is an open platform to share, discuss and reuse causal graphs. Join now as a beta user, help shaping the future of causal graphs!
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Javier Mancilla-Galindo @javimangal.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Don't miss @epi.ist's presentation this Thursday during the online #CDSM2025. - Open Causal: a FAIR Platform for Causal Graphs I'm very excited about this project, where we aim to promote transparent sharing, discussion, and reuse of causal assumptions through graphs.
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Nick Brown @steamtraen.eu · 07/11/2025
Oops. Ooooooooooooops. I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years. arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675 h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social
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Jeroen Sondervan @jeroenson.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
What might seem like a small announcement—it’s just one institution—actually carries substantial weight and has a strong symbolic meaning. @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...
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Access to Web of Science will end on 1 January 2026
The university library has decided not to renew the licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports).
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Frank de Vocht @frankdv.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
We’ll present our research on #advertising of unhealthy products and #publichealth at #EvidenceWeek @senseaboutsci.bsky.social on 4th Nov: senseaboutscience.org/evidence-wee... We "invented" a game for it! @danaldridgemp.bsky.social @sadikal-hassanmp.bsky.social @kennethstevenson.bsky.social
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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 22/10/2025
Presenting our ontology proposal for geospatial exposome data at the Int'l Society of Exposure Science workshop in Lisbon. Nice to see that it already attracts great interest from other groups, highlighting the need for metadata standards in the exposome field. Feedback is welcome. osf.io/sy256
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Matti Vuorre @matti.vuorre.com · 14/10/2025
Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/... Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 28/09/2025
Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee
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Why I gave the world wide web away for free
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
In an essay for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, SFI External Professor Allison Stanger examines how AI firms are reshaping infrastructure, governance, and power. Her piece draws historical parallels and raises pressing questions about the role of private technology in public life.
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The AI Raj: How tech giants are recolonizing power
Just as the East India Company’s success justified new powers, AI firms seek to leverage technical prowess to assume public functions.
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Harry Eccles @harryeccles.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
The British establishment have all ready covered this new Banksy up. Can we get it Reposted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes?? Protect the right to protest! Repost!
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Joost Vervoort @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
This message has been spreading online. It is indeed unprecedented to see Utrecht University use the word 'boycott'. Let's see if it entails any changes to current policies. If action can meet discourse, this would be a great step for UU in taking moral responsibility, and an example for others.
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The world's largest academic association of genocide scholars - the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars - has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 01/09/2025
Last week, I attended a course on Target Trial Emulation by @miguelhernan.org at @cemfi.es in Madrid. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found - www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
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Millions in EU funds have gone to Israeli defence industry, investigation finds
Money has continued to flow to military tech firms since siege of Gaza in 2023
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Jack Birch @jackmbirch.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Very happy to see a big paper from my PhD *OUT TODAY* We explored if there were inequalities in the attendance & effectiveness of behavioural weight management interventions in an individual participant data meta-analysis. See the thread for findings 👇 bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/...
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Are there inequalities in the attendance at and effectiveness of behavioural weight management interventions for adults in the UK? An individual participant data meta-analysis
Objectives Interventions for obesity that require individual behaviour change, such as behavioural weight management interventions, may contribute to health inequalities. We explored if there was evid...
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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 07/08/2025
"...thousands and thousands of people queueing every day at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site, even though it is almost certain on any given day that they will be fired upon. The fact they are going there anyway, even though they may not return..." www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
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Expert comment: Famine in Gaza | LSHTM
An alert issued by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) on 29 July 2025 has stated that ‘the worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip’.While The IPC
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
"but the impact on children is worse. The developmental damage is irreversible" "The process of development stops, the process of building a brain, of creating neurons that will establish cognitive ability, will stop" www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
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'No longer able to cry': Inside Gaza's scarily silent clinics
Doctors and aid workers say the world's concern over the aid blockade in Gaza has come too late. Many of the children you've read about probably can't be saved.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Photo of the Day. Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops. This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people. Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.
From above everything looks grey or black. Smoke is seen rising from building ga at the top of the photo. In the foreground many buildings have collapsed entirely. Photo credit to Heidi Levine taken for the Washington Post.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them. Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse
An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 31/07/2025
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 29/07/2025
“The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” the world’s leading hunger monitor said in its strongest warning yet on the rapidly growing starvation crisis.
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Famine unfolding across Gaza, says global hunger monitor
The U.N.-developed panel, known as IPC, said conditions “worsened dramatically” in recent months, with food consumption at its lowest level since the conflict began.
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WHO @who.int · 27/07/2025
Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the #Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July. The crisis remains entirely preventable. Deliberate blocking and delay of large-scale food, health, and humanitarian aid has cost many lives. Statement from WHO. www.who.int/news/item/27...
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Malnutrition rates reach alarming levels in Gaza, WHO warns
Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July. Of 74 malnutrition-related deaths in 2025, 63 occurred in July – including 24 children under five, a c...
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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 24/07/2025
Stillness and foul air Together, they dim the mind Data whispers faint Our new paper investigated the syndemic effects of air pollution and physical inactivity on cognitive decline. doi.org/10.1123/jpah...
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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 23/07/2025
Thought experiment: Submit a manuscript to a top journal. Meticulously address all reviewer requests. Once accepted, withdraw and submit it to the next-best journal. You may repeat the process infinitely and never receive a response like: “This is already good enough, I have no further comments."
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Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉 @epi.ist · 14/07/2025
I'd like to write about the scientific communication ecosystem I imagine. But first, let me list things that I don't want to see there 🧵
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