Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellGrace @gracekind.net · 07/08/2026Guess what two things I’ve been confusing 2237639
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellJan Kabatek 💙💛 @jankabatek.com · 24/07/2026📢We're hiring 📢 Short notice, but Melbourne Institute is looking for a Senior Research Fellow (level C) to work on applied industrial microeconomics research using Australian administrative datasets. Apply here: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UOM_Ex...unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.comSenior Research FellowRole type: Full Time, Continuing (Research Contingent) Faculty: Faculty of Business and Economics Department/ School: Melbourne Institute of Applied Economics and Social Research Salary: Level C - $15... 1712
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellShitMyReviewersSay @shitmyreviewerssay.bsky.social · 15/06/2026"I am afraid this manuscript may contribute not so much towards the field's advancement as much as towards its eventual demise."static.klipy.comGrim Reaper: Death's SolitudeALT: Grim Reaper: Death's Solitude 0309
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellAdam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 24/03/2026New post, on how AI is normalising n=1 experiments: kucharski.substack.com/p/ai-has-an-...kucharski.substack.comAI is normalising n=1 experiments – and that’s a problemWhy your headline result may well just be a coin toss 1124
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellJohn Mullahy @johnmullahy.bsky.social · 09/02/2026Major news outlets: Please consider prominently reporting what this all-star team of researchers has found. www.nber.org/papers/w34791 210258
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellJess Morrissette @decafjedi.com · 23/01/2026BREAKING: The monkey bit someone. 2727948
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellAlex Rubinsteyn @alexr.bsky.social · 30/10/2025I've been asked about this paper (www.nature.com/articles/s41...) enough times that I finally had to read it. The basic claim is that mRNA vaccines had huge synergistic benefit with checkpoint blockade against lung cancer melanoma. tl;dr it's glam-slop & everyone involved should be embarrassednature.comSARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade - NaturemRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors. 56322
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Really satisfied with how pretty this @flomask.bsky.social decoration turned out 1364
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellYule-Walker, Texas Ranger @jcht.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Fellow econ folks! We are hiring! Come work with me and my delightful colleagues at The University of Melbourne! Applications close November 23, 2025 Link: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UoM_Ex... 02119
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellJan Kabatek 💙💛 @jankabatek.com · 05/09/2025📢We're hiring!📢 Two tenure-track positions in empirical micro, no teaching obligations👇👇 econjobmarket.org/positions/11... econjobmarket.org/positions/11... Emphasis: childhood development & indigenous outcomes Come join us in beautiful Melbourne! ‼️𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: 𝟑𝟎 𝐒𝐞𝐩‼️econjobmarket.orgEJM - Econ Job Market 12214
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 13/06/2025I'm giving a master class next week! A practical course aimed at applied tools to apply economic principles, select the right analysis methods, and integrate clinical and evaluation evidence to support decision-making. Wed 18 June 9:30am-12pm AET Get your tickets here: lnkd.in/gB36q2NJ 020
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Looking forward to joining this IHEA panel next week. Should be a great discussion! 040
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellSusan J Méndez @sjmendez.bsky.social · 20/05/2025ALGORITHMIC DECISION-MAKING IN CLINICAL CARE Evidence, equity and economics across health systems Join us for a panel discussion on Friday, 30th May. Hosted by the iHEA’s SIG on the Economics of Digital Health Technology. healtheconomics.org/event/ai-in-... 021
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellDr. Glaucomflecken @glaucomflecken.bsky.social · 05/05/2025Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social 9987522102
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 26/04/2025“Make a frittata” is the new “let them eat cake” 000
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellSarah Rossetti @sarahrossetti.bsky.social · 02/04/2025My nurse-led AI innovation reduced risk dying in hospital by over 35%. Pub in NatureMedicine today rdcu.be/ef6Zk But DOGE cancelled our NIH grant & grants to train nurse scientists who are building AI that saves lives! Nurses are #1 trusted profession. #FightOligarchyrdcu.beReal-time surveillance system for patient deterioration: a pragmatic cluster-randomized controlled trialNature Medicine - In a large pragmatic cluster-randomized trial involving 74 clinical units in 2 health systems in the United States, a real-time alert system assisting clinical care teams in... 22013
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellMona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Letter from Dem Senator Chris Van Hollen (MD) requesting a meeting with Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele To discuss MD father Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return "If Kilmar is not home by midweek – I plan to travel to El Salvador this week to check on his condition and discuss his release." 450123193103
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33% www.propublica.org/article/texa...propublica.orgTexas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban. 1314087
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 01/03/2025Will be sharing this with my kids’ teachers and kindy staff 010
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellDr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 01/03/2025www.bmj.com/content/388/...bmj.comThe role of masks and respirators in preventing respiratory infections in healthcare and community settingsThe covid-19 pandemic saw frequent changes and conflicts in mask policies and politicization of masks. On reviewing the evidence, including studies published after the pandemic, the data suggest respi... 69928
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. Cornellspaminthelab.bsky.social @spaminthelab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research. 9932011705
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellKevin Griffith @assumenormality.bsky.social · 03/02/2025🚨I've posted BRFSS data in SAS, R, and Stata formats for 1987-2023 here on this Mendeley Data Repository Free to use without restriction! data.mendeley.com/datasets/shs...data.mendeley.comBehavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS)These BRFSS datasets were downloaded prior to them being taken offline on January 31st, 2025. Special thanks to James Bailey & Doug Livingston who made earlier years of BRFSS data available! Data 20... 24014
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Philip Haywood discussed the pitfalls of cost consequence studies in virtual care. What is the value of freed up resources? #HSR24 051
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellDr. Genevieve Eastabrook, MD FRCSC (she/her) @placentadoc.bsky.social · 05/12/2024I’ve been a doctor for more than 20 years & this is the first time that I’ve seen a paediatric stroke awareness campaign (from the American Heart Association). Gosh, what could possibly have changed in the past 5 years* which is increasing the risk of paediatric stroke? *Spoiler alert: it’s COVID 15801361
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Thomasina Donovan created an implementation costing tool! #HSR24 040
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Afternoon sessions, no better 😕 Venues need to be pushed on this and held accountable. 040
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024And Australia won’t let us vaccinate our children. Criminal. 052
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024An Duy-Tran was flooded for requests for his diabetes life expectancy simulation, leading him to create a synthetic population of 5 million diabetes patients to estimate life expectancies #HSR24 121
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellRuth Tulleners @ruthtulleners.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Lots of people report they’re building a clinical prediction model, but how many actually end up being published? Not many, says A/Prof @nicolewhite.bsky.social 061
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Loving #HSR24, but @hsraanz.bsky.social can we do something about the poor ventilation in the meeting rooms? I recorded this in Meeting Room 3. These CO2 levels not only represent a real risk of this becoming a superspreader event, it makes people sleepy! 130
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Some personal news: I ate an undisclosed number of these delicious scones with cream and jam at HARAANZ #HSR24 1100
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Prof Adler-Milstein provides the “cold blanket” view of EHRs: aside from computerized order entry, every other dimension of quality has failed to see major improvements in care #digitalhealth #HSR24 273
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellMark Meiselbach @markmeiselbach.bsky.social · 03/12/2024New letter our at @journalgim.bsky.social with Henry Larweh, Kali Thomas, and Andrew Anderson @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social. We identify and characterize the growing list of MA "affinity plans", marketed for the needs of underserved beneficiaries. #healthpolicy link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comTrends and Enrollment in Medicare Advantage “Affinity Plans” - Journal of General Internal MedicineJournal of General Internal Medicine - 153
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 02/12/2024So looking forward to #HSR24 this week and meeting new friends and colleagues in Australia! 040
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Great story on why both boys and girls should be vaccinated against cancer 0276
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellChristina Virgil @christinavirgil.bsky.social · 28/11/2024“When hospital staff began masking again, the rates of hospital-onset respiratory viral infections decreased by 33%”medpagetoday.comWant to Limit Respiratory Virus Infections? Mask and Test in HospitalsHealthcare workers masking makes a difference, study found 16462186
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellSnarky pediatrician🎗️🦄🇮🇱🇺🇦 @snarkypeds.medsky.social · 16/11/2024#pedsky #medsky The American Academy of Pediatrics is collecting stories from physicians about patients we have cared for with vaccine preventable diseases to help in their advocacy against RFK’s confirmation. Please share your stories to patientstories@aap.org 36979514
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. Cornelltern @1goodtern.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I became a little bit obsessed with this hole in the black clouds yesterday. 56192489
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 21/11/2023POV: you can’t find your mask, so you put on a fresh one, and then discover in the mirror the other one is still around your neck. (Kids, did I do POV right?!) 1161
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 07/11/20233yo, matter of factly: “we need to get these train parts off of the f******g floor.” 🫠😅🤦♀️ 010
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. Cornellfluxt [née fluxed] @fluxt.bsky.social · 21/10/2023"Over the next decade, the number of people with long COVID could approach the number who currently have heart disease... We call for a moonshot for long COVID, a commitment — from the US government — to invest at least US$1 billion annually over the next ten years to address the problem."nature.comLong COVID research risks losing momentum – we need a moonshotInvesting US$1 billion every year for the next ten years into long COVID research could improve the lives of millions and save trillions in economic costs. Investing US$1 billion every year for the ne... 134
Dr. Portia Y. Cornell @portiacornell.bsky.social · 19/10/2023I’m today’s episode of “extremely three,” my child has been crying for 5 minutes because I sliced his banana into half-moon shapes instead of full circles. Parenting own-goal. How is your morning going? 010
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellDr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 01/09/2023Every space where a majority of people mask makes that space more accessible to everyone, especially higher risk people. Everyone has the right to access essential spaces like healthcare and public transport safely, even if COVID is spreading elsewhere. 226189
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellEmily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 29/07/2023I’m not saying we’re in the WORST timeline, but I feel like it’s not the best timeline either 1463
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellEd Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 01/08/2023Whenever I write about long-covid or ME, I get waves of emails from chronically ill folk who say they feel seen and heard. But with this piece on fatigue (and PEM), I'm *also* hearing from healthy people saying that they finally get what their loved ones are going through. Which feels amazing.theatlantic.comFatigue Can Shatter a PersonEveryday tiredness is nothing like the depleting symptom that people with long COVID and ME/CFS experience. 281212422
Reposted by Dr. Portia Y. CornellAndrew Sparling @awsparling.bsky.social · 01/08/2023Oh, great. Medpage Today is reporting that leprosy is probably endemic in central Florida. 051