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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc

@jorgeandr3s.bsky.social
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Social epidemiologist and public health researcher. "Here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it." Find me philosophizing at substack.com/@andresdelgadoron

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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 12m
Yes, you have [written/shared what someone wrote] about this in the past, something like "virtue signaling"
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 5h
But in the same paper: "However, a cursory Google-based search revealed reports" and in the registration "Whenever feasible, we will apply descriptive statistics." osf.io/zugw8 The conclusion: "we showed thanatosis is associated with a survival advantage in animals as well as humans." (2/2)
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 5h
There is also the misuse of prerregistrations "As to the strengths of this paper, we used pre-specified work packages to investigate the association... and we registered our protocol prior to data collection in order to avoid data cherry-picking." pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... (1/2)
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James Dinneen @jamesdinneen.bsky.social · 9h
Exclusive in @nature.com: A Canadian startup just completed first test of a method to stem emissions from thawing permafrost, placing woody mats on areas of rapid erosion. Researchers say the concept is promising, but faces steep obstacles to scaling up in the Arctic. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Woody ‘blankets’ are being deployed on Arctic permafrost to reduce carbon emissions
A start-up company is testing whether stabilizing areas of rapidly eroding permafrost can prevent greenhouse-gas emissions.
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The reason people who almost die look at their bodies “from the corner of the ceiling” andresdelgadoron.substack.com/p/the-reason...
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The reason people who almost die look at their bodies “from the corner of the ceiling”
Changes in perception during near-death experiences
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Mel Goodale @action-brain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good to see that our opinion piece on grand theories of consciousness is out. #consciousness #neuroskyence #philsci #philsky🧠 #neuroscience #brain 🧪
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Adrian M. Owen, OBE, FRS @comadork.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Have grand theories of consciousness earned their keep? Our opinion, published in @cp-neuron.bsky.social today. @action-brain.bsky.social @cifar authors.elsevier.com/a/1nupi3BtfH...
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is so refreshing. Thank you for saying it out loud.
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just finished my free labour duties reviewing three manuscripts. 1 minor revision 1 major revision 1 rejection < how do you plan to reach a scientific conclusion with just 3 variables and killing your sample as adjustment? #episky
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Florian Naudet @floriannaudet.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🍫 or 💩? About the effect size reported in a trial that shaped the estimated effect of fluoxetine in meta-analyses of pediatric depression, my stellar co-author @ploederl.bsky.social says: “It’s the kind of effect size you only get if you ask people whether they prefer chocolate or faeces.” 👇👇👇
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Prozac use for childhood depression skewed by single flawed medical trial
One small study in Iran swayed meta-analyses in favour of antidepressant use in children, researchers say.
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A recent paper proposes that NDEs may have evolved from the same defensive response that causes animals to “play dead.” INTERESTING; but can five unverified anecdotes support a scientific theory about near-death experiences? Read the full article below. www.linkedin.com/pulse/eviden...
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No Evidence in the Planned Search? Five Anecdotes from Google would do: Neuroscientists
Near-death experiences are a scientific mystery. We have credible reports of people describing out-of-body experiences, life reviews, and other unusual phenomena—but we still don't know how they happe...
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moin syed @syeducation.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Gave a talk in my dept. on the OSF transition. I wrote up a rough script of the session, which could be of interest to others. I synthesize existing resources and provide my own perspectives. Comments and corrections welcome! zenodo.org/records/2306...
the header for a paper describing "Life after OSF" #metascience
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Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You set us up
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Reappraising the claims of evolutionary continuity between thanatosis and near-death experiences academic.oup.com/braincomms/a...
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Reappraising the claims of evolutionary continuity between thanatosis and near-death experiences
Jorge A Delgado-Ron; Reappraising the claims of evolutionary continuity between thanatosis and near-death experiences, Brain Communications, , fcag368, htt
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I wish it was an alternative medicine problem
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here comparativepopulationstudies.de/index.php/CP...
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Does Marriage Increase Couples’ Life Satisfaction? Evidence Using Panel Data and Fixed-effects Individual Slopes | Comparative Population Studies
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have an idea for the next @criticalcarereviews.com...
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Cinq choses à savoir… Expériences de mort imminente CMAJ doi.org/10.1503/cmaj... via @cmaj.ca #fr
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 25/09/2026
"Systematic reviews are only as credible as the studies they include" INSPECT-SR was published yesterday, giving concrete guidance on how to exclude untrustworthy studies. Cochrane's statement: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... Article: www.cochrane.org/about-us/new... Guidance: inspect-sr.com
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New tool helps researchers spot problematic trials before they distort evidence | Cochrane
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I was invited to address the UN Security Council this afternoon to discuss the unprecedented threat posed by uncontrolled frontier AI agents.
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Nature @nature.com · 20/09/2026
Controversy around OpenAI’s claim to have solved the Navier–Stokes problem highlights how researchers could be inadvertently sharing — and absorbing— ideas through chatbots. go.nature.com/4xwcjXs
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OpenAI maths bombshell sparks debate about who gets credit in age of AI
Nature - Controversy around OpenAI’s claim to have solved the Navier–Stokes problem highlights how researchers could be inadvertently sharing — and absorbing— ideas through chatbots.
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@badboyofscience.bsky.social Hey, what would you tell to someone that says that quantum entanglement is just a complicated way of saying you tried splitting a particle but it seems the particle is still together, just across space-time. In other words, a true "atom" (indivisible)
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
1/6 An extraordinary @nature.com paper has just landed from the lab of @sergiuppasca.bsky.social. They found a way to create "xenocortical mice" which have ~92% of their cortex occupied by a cortical organoid derived from human stem cells.
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Are targets for *social network size* and *daily interaction frequency* appropriate for public health guidelines on social connection? We analyzed data from 1,325 Canadians searching for an ideal number exists to reduce loneliness, anxiety, and depression Read to find out: doi.org/10.1016/j.ss...
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My money is in multiple waves of data collection for the same question.
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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter”. Blaise Pascal (probably).
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CMAJ @cmaj.ca · 10/09/2026
We don't talk about our dead: A neurosurgeon reflects on unwritten rules of his profession ➡️ www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.260727
“No one teaches physicians how to carry a child’s death. Everyone improvises privately and calls it coping.”
— Mirko Micovic MD PhD

We don't talk about our dead
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.260727
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Ultimately, this letter from NSF is an announcement that universities will be funded a lot less and politically-connected industry will be funded a lot more. Fancy words around old-fashioned corruption.
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NSF leadership in a new golden age of science
The U.S. National Science Foundation was established in 1950 to keep American discovery at the frontier. That mission has not changed. The science and technology ecosystem around it has...
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Paper Skygest Team @paper-feed.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
**Please repost** If you're enjoying Paper Skygest -- our personalized feed of academic content on Bluesky -- we'd appreciate you reposting this! We’ve found that the most effective way for us to reach new users and communities is through users sharing it with their network
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
“Since NDE pushes at the limits of proposed neurobiological explanatory models, we should probably rethink our metaphysical implications about the mind–body relation” Oleksowicz, M., Gaitán, L. Near-death experiences: feasibility and advantages of the mechanistic explanation. Synthese202, 78 (2023)
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For a second, I thought this was about the discussion of miracles on Substack. But this is not much different, is it?
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
As an Ecuadorian, this is so underwhelming
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I just saw the Lind Initiative is announcing its most recent iteration. I was part of the inaugural cohort. Some of the best memories from my first year at UBC.
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Did I ever think I would be discussing Selection Bias as it relates to reincarnation? No, I did not see that coming andresdelgadoron.substack.com/p/an-epidemi... #EpiSky
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An Epidemiology of Reincarnation (Part 2): Incubation Period
What the time between lives reveals about rebirth syndrome
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Meme of Bernie Sanders face or it does not count
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
An Epidemiological Profile of "Reincarnation" or children who seem to recall past lives substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Causal Inference for the Afterlife: An Epidemiology of Reincarnation
How does Science test supernatural claims?
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The Conversation CA @laconversationca.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Ce que cinq décennies de recherche nous ont appris sur la façon de faire face à la mort. Un article de Jorge Andrés Delgado-Ron, chercheur à la Faculté des sciences de la santé, Simon Fraser University. theconversation.com/pourquoi-de-...
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Pourquoi de plus en plus de médecins reconnaissent-ils la validité des expériences de mort imminente ?
Ce que cinq décennies de recherche nous ont appris sur la façon de faire face à la mort.
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I don't like the gratuitous inclusion of near-death experiences as a woo woo topic, but I have to side with you in the overall treatment of most episodes (including NDEs).
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The only definitive conclusion I can take from "Psychedelics align brain activity with context" (I mostly align with the first reviewer's initial assessment) is that when people say "that movie goes well with mushrooms" they are onto something. doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Psychedelics align brain activity with context - Nature
The psychedelic psilocybin reorganizes brain activity into structured, context-aligned patterns that integrate internal and external processing, providing a neural basis for the felt continuity betwee...
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A permanent marker for an impermanent object is a bit silly though. I loved OSF, but I clearly see how one can abuse that system
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Just to clarify that was the press-release from Nature. Now onto the paper.
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"In other words, psilocybin did not simply desynchronize brain activity; it reorganized it into neural states tuned to the immediate environment. Rather than contradicting the entropic brain hypothesis, these findings refine it." This is so sad. @anilseth.bsky.social
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Tell me you used LLMs without saying it: "The machine-learning analyses, however, revealed a second and more surprising layer. Rather than becoming increasingly random, whole-brain activity formed distinct, context-locked trajectories that reliably distinguished between the four conditions."
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Do I get an award from the author team?
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
No issues on my end
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J Andrés Delgado-Ron MD, MSc @jorgeandr3s.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
At least 2008: doi.org/10.1046/j.13... But systematically 2012: www.bmj.com/content/349/...
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Preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015: elaboration and explanation
Protocols of systematic reviews and meta-analyses allow for planning and documentation of review methods, act as a guard against arbitrary decision making during review conduct, enable readers to asse...
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Jiaying Zhao @jiayingzhao.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Honored to be featured in @pnas.org to discuss an important study showing that a one-time cash transfer to alleviate poverty can have lasting benefits on the recipients: www.pnas.org/post/journal...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨 1. Can changed trial characteristics explain fluoxetine's loss of efficacy for pediatric depression? New paper by @floriannaudet.bsky.social @richlyus.bsky.social and me is out. It is a secondary meta-regression on an already existing meta-analysis. Why was this important? ->
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Can fluoxetine’s diminished efficacy in pediatric depression be explained by study sites, baseline severity, age, and psychological interventions? A secondary exploratory meta-regression.
Fluoxetine’s efficacy estimates in pediatric depression trials have declined to the range of placebo equivalence. We investigated whether changes in t…
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The Lancet @thelancet.com · 12/08/2026
A study in The Lancet Healthy Longevity found that stopping statins in adults over 75 with no history of heart disease or stroke does not increase the risk of death within three years. Authors say further trials are needed to confirm these findings. 🔗 spkl.io/633247MUPY
Kaplan–Meier curves of all-cause mortality for the primary estimand. Copyright: 2026 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. CC BY 4.0.
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