Sir David Spiegelhalter delivers a sixty scond evisceration of the numbers served up at the daily briefings #Marr

My latest article: "Why it’s Time to Abandon the ICER". rdcu.be/b35vc. Arguments supported by a lengthy paper published in the same issue, which describes many critical limitations associated with ICERs not previously discussed. rdcu.be/b35s5. Chris Carswell

What if we defined "the economy" as "the way we take care of one another"? Since that's what it ultimately is. What would economic indicators then look like?

Please spread word - PhD opportunities looking at anti-microbial resistance and estimating opportunity costs of health policies with me, Beth Woods, Marta Soares and Mark Sculpher NIHR EEPRU york.ac.uk/che/news/news2…

Calculating the Expected Value of Sample Information in Practice: Considerations from 3 Case Studies - now officially published. ConVOI journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

This is the letter I have just sent to my local Conservative MP. #dominiccummimgs

I'd like to point everyone to a tweet I wrote back in 2010 which said 'In 2020 we will discover that Cummings, oblivious to the wayback feature of the internet, tried to con us into thinking he had the foresight to warn us about a pandemic that would strike in March'.

I am extremely unhappy about this very cool graphic.

I AM ANTIFA

Criminology/policing is an area of scholarship where a little statistical training could make a big difference. So much ad hoc nonsense being published. I would do a thread with examples, but we have another policing paper in press, so will wait until that drops.

Imagine how little we’d know about Hitler if it weren’t for the statues of him everywhere

Monument of Queen Victoria being removed from in front of Leinster House, Dublin (1948)

I’m thrilled to see my next PhD paper published in ISPORJournals! Together with my amazing collaborators from ConVOI, we provide practical step-by-step guidance for analysts looking to compute EVSI and use it for study design #ValueOfInformation valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S1098-…

Beatrice Cherrier Marshall Steinbaum 🔥 could achieve. Why isn't the unequal distribution of ex ante lifetime income—inequality of opportunity—conceptualized by us economists as the greatest of all market failures? And why isn't the distribution of political power that creates & preserves a property order of unequal 3/

Hi everyone, I'm really really happy about this BBC Future piece "Who is to blame for climate change?" which came out yesterday. It does a great job at explaining that allocating emissions is not the same as allocating responsibility. Short thread. bbc.com/future/article…

The past 4 years, multiple young students, particularly young WOC, have brought up Ash Sarkar in class. When I drop in "oh, she is a mate" its like they just heard that their PE teacher knows Rhianna. If these losers can't deal with 1 Ash, they are gonna weep in a few years time.

Am planning a three week online course (only €100) so British journalists can learn to pronounce Mícheál. We’ll be focusing on one syllable per week. Graduates can then take the more advanced Taoiseach module.

Why is mortality disproportionately high for minority groups, and why are these groups disproportionately affected by the economic impacts of the lockdown? #LSECOVID19 ⏰ 2pm BST, Wed 1 July ℹ️: bit.ly/2NuXgK2

Interesting idea.

Nick HK They seem to connect immutable truth with the legitimacy of empire in strange ways. Like if there is more than one way to do math then maybe there’s more than one form of legitimate government.