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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 14/12/2024

Sometimes you don’t need to do your own research. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Well, there’s a story.

When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The Nobel Society then recast the Nobel Prizes using the original gold.

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Arghavan Salles, MD, PhD @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social · 11/12/2024

Abstracts authored by all-female teams are less likely to get accepted for presentation at economics conferences than those authored by all-male teams, even after adjusting for the authors’ prior track records and institutional prestige

Tweet from JohnHolbein1:

“All-female-authored papers are less likely to be accepted at economics conferences than all-male papers even when adjusting for...
1. the number of authors on a paper,
2. referees' traits,
3. subtield,
4. # of cites,
5. previous record of the authors,
6. connections between the authors of a given paper and the referees that evaluate it, AND
7. authors' institutional prestige.”

Screenshot of the study:
OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS, 83, 3 (2021) 0305-9049
doi: 10.1111/obes.12409
Gender Gaps in the Evaluation of Research: Evidence from Submissions to Economics Conferences*
LAURA HOSPIDOT and CARLOS SANZ

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Prof Jeffrey S Morris @jsm2334.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Just publish paper evaluating effects of vaccination on long COVID risks in children/adolescents during Delta/Omicron periods We found vaccines strongly protected against long COVID-19, and the effect was almost wholly mediated by reduced infection risk www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Neal Maskrey @stokemacca.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

We need full-on Michael Marmot and less belief in shiny toys that offer false hope of “prevention”. I know that’s not a popular position, but improving the health of populations requires doing things that improve the health of the population.

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Georgia Banjo @georgiabanjo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Really interesting work from John Hopkins & @drjoshs.bsky.social quantifying the life expectancy gap between the US & the UK: ❤️ Cardiovascular disease 57% of the gap 💉Drugs overdoses 32% 🔫Gun-related deaths 20% 🚗Car crashes 17% 😷Covid & cancer -26% (UK worse for both) shorturl.at/f3rBB

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 05/12/2024

SURVIVAL IS NOT ENOUGH. If all our survival needs are unconditionally met, suddenly we're all more able to find the things that make life meaningful. Don't you see? No one wants to just survive, so if we guarantee survival with Universal Basic Income, we catalyze the mass pursuit of true purpose.

Two images depicting Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. One depicts everyone at ground level looking up at all five levels from bottom to top: physiological, safety, love/belonging, esteem, and self-actualization. The other image depicts everyone happily existing above the bottom two levels, instead looking at only the top three and cheering how much better it is starting there instead of the bottom.

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Lesley Kay @genq5lesley.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Oh if the right people could be listening to this

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Healthwatch @healthwatch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Drug companies Pfizer and Flynn abused their dominant positions by charging excessive prices for life saving epilepsy drug, phenytoin sodium capsules between 2012- 2016 www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Tribunal fines drug firms £69m for excessive pricing after CMA investigation

Firms which raised prices for key epilepsy medicine – causing NHS costs to soar to £50 million – found by the CAT to have breached competition law.

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Alison Leary @alisonleary1.bsky.social · 29/09/2024

Our latest paper looks at why people leave #NHS roles People give multiple reasons for leaving (not just one) We have started to see supervisory burden and taskification emerge as contributory factors. Distress, overwork & understaffing were common rdcu.be/dVtUO

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Emma Vardy @emmavardy2.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

NICE consultation on prevention/assessment falls guideline. Open until 28th Nov. Please consider a response if UK based expert/organisation/interested member of public. #medsky #gerisky www.nice.org.uk/news/article...

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Consultation on updated guideline to assess and prevent falls in older people

NICE launches consultation on updated guideline to assess and prevent falls in older people.

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