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Tutorials are most useful when they also address substantive questions of interest. I think #episky also has some good sneak tutorial examples (which often serve as what Julia calls "template articles")! You can find her whole slide deck at osf.io/ujpsq (extra points for openness 🏆) #EuroCIM2025

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I really agree... Especially because domain subject-matter knowledge is so critical for causal inference. There is often little awareness of what's out there and making "first contact" with a field is so important. #EuroCIM2025

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You know Pearl's causal ladder, but Julia introduced a different type of ladder : how can we get cutting edge causal inference methods into applications? #EuroCIM2025 so important!

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And you can really replace "psych" with most any applied medical research field... We can do better! This slide got a lot of laughs at #EuroCIM2024 (just so true!) Tough to do at 5pm, but @dingdingpeng.the100.ci is a pro!

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Final talk of the day... By the fabulous Julia Rohrer aka @dingdingpeng.the100.ci #EuroCIM2025 definitely wins the award for best title slide thus far. (Anyone want to try to top it tomorrow morning??)

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Another #EuroCIM2025 poster for #episky: Elise Dumas presented "Inference on sustained treatment strategies, with a case study on young women with breast cancer" on behalf of colleagues from EPFL and France. Lots of interesting stuff to unpack here!...

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There are some very interesting posters #EuroCIM2025! Sharing a handful here I thought might be of interest to #episky: #1 - "Confounding of the competing event in time-to-event analyses" by Jost Viebrock, Bianca Kollhorst & Vanessa Didelez. This poster looks at "competing confounding", that is...

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➕ And an important intro slide for those not yet familiar with bipartite interference!

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Last three slides (couldn't type fast enough, but still snapped them if you're interested!). I guess I'm rusty on live posting ;) paper will be on arxiv soon!

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& the estimands corresponding to the relevant questions. ie. What if we intervene and compare all plants having filters vs. none? What if we compare status quo filter situation vs. none? What about all filters vs. status quo? These are all unique estimands!

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Assumptions first! (Of course, this is a causal inference conference)

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Here's more detail about what their forthcoming work adds. After relevant estimands are defined (for policy decision making), they developed design-based estimation overcoming the issues commonly encountered in the presence of bipartite inference.

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I liked her discussion about how there are two separate "tasks" at hand here: defining the structure of the interference and defining the estimands (which are typically not informed by the direct effects typically estimated in these types of studies).

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She presents an example for air pollution epidemiology. Specifically, looking at effects of installing filters on smokestacks to reduce air pollution emissions.

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An interesting talk by Fabrizia Mealli kicks off the #EuroCIM2025 "Interference and continuous exposures” session. I'll actually start with the conclusions slide to give you an idea of the content. 🧵...

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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Nice to see some familiar faces from the Berlin causal inference community (@HertieSchool) involved in that work!

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My first time in the absolutely picturesque Ghent! Caught a bit of sun before seeing all the #EuroCIM2025 stars 🤩 Who else from #episky is here this week? 👋🏻 @eurocim.bsky.social

Beautiful cherry blossom trees in full bloom 🌸

Evening view of the city behind the river

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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Spotted on the way to the office. I love Berlin. 😁 Happy Friday!

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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

💡 Have an idea to improve research culture & practice? 🧪 📝 Submit your proposal to the Responsible Research in Action Unconference (Sep. 22-24, Berlin) ⌚ Due Feb 9th 🙌 If selected, your fees & travel will be covered ➕ a motivated team will help make it happen! 💪 rr-in-action2025.org/info-for-app...

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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

We're looking to connect Berlin & Brandenburg researchers working with causal graphs from all disciplines! ➡️ "Direct" link: applied-causal-graphs.de ⬅️ ⏱️ Abstracts due Feb 7th! #CausalInference #DAGs #Berlin #CausalGraphs ⭐ Keynotes by @philippbach.bsky.social @pwgtennant.bsky.social & Simone Maxand

Flyer for 2025 Applied Causal Graphs Workshop in Berlin, to be held on March 4th, 9:00-17:30 at the Charité Virchow Klinikum. Accepting abstracts until Feb 7th, 2025. Additional information at applied-causal-graphs.de

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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

PLEASE SHARE! 💡 Have an idea to improve research culture & practice? 📝 Submit a project proposal for the Responsible Research in Action Unconference (Sep. 22-24, Berlin) ⌚ Due Jan. 26! 🙌 If selected, you'll lead a team of 20, working together to make it happen! rr-in-action2025.org/info-for-app...

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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Breathtaking #Berlinsky today. Everything but a #Bluesky here... and it's glorious. What a sunset! #Berlin

beautiful Berlin sunset behind the cathedral and Museum island

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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Thanks for sharing! I've been looking for a good, quicker alternative to sourdough, which, though delicious and beautiful (see evidence below 😊) has simply become too challenging with fewer home office days.

3 sourdough bread leaves I'm most proud of

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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Starting off 2025 the right way: by finishing a great book. "Graphic memoir" was a new genre for me... Brilliant and thought-provoking. If you haven't read Alison Bechdel yet, you should!

Kitchen table with coffee mug and Fun Home book by Alison Bechdel (2006)

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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Kudos to @societyforepi.bsky.social for this initiative- a very concrete way to help those with less experience submitting abstracts to such conferences understand how to improve their abstracts before the submission deadline.

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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Important enough to get up early during my holidays! 📣#SaveBrainCity 🧠 For context: 1) www.rbb24.de/politik/beit... 2) www.rbb24.de/politik/beit... The Berlin Senate has approved a budget with €3 billion in cuts for 2025 including cutting support for the Berlin School of Public Health.

BSPH muss bleiben sign - (BSPH must remain)

sign with "save brain city" outside of the Berlin Senate building (Abgeordnetenhaus)

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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

We took Peerspectives on the road this week visiting @ox.ac.uk! Great discussions as always thanks to @tfeend.bsky.social and @tglatz.bsky.social & a great group of motivated, method-focused ECRs.

View of Oxford from the top of the univ. church tower

Teaching team posing in front of our lecture slides

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To close out Day 1 of the Epidemiology Teaching Working Group Workshop in Berlin, we hit the rodelbahn—sledding our way into some downhill fun after all the uphill thinking! 🛷🎉

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German societies' joint working group on Epidemiology Teaching: World Cafe, Part 3: Open Science. Can be particularly tricky to promote/realize in Germany (origin of the GDPR) compared with other settings / our int'l epi colleagues. Still a lot we can & should do in training the next generation!

Brainstorming of ideas related to open science & teaching epi

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German societies' joint working group on Epidemiology Teaching: World Cafe, Part 2: Future of the working group / what can/should we do better/differently moving forward? Lots of good stuff here! We all agreed we will try to work together more & share courses/content across Germany...

The future of the working group "Teaching in Epi" brainstorm list

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