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What a great way to start the weekend! 🤩 Today, Nils Skajaa from @HealthAarhusUni successfully defended his PhD thesis on the epidemiology of #stroke in Denmark. Huge congratulations, Nils! 👏 PhD Association at Health Aarhus University Aarhus Universitet Aarhus Uni.hospital

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"I regard his [Neyman’s] approach as unrealistic for most medical research because it forces each study to pretend it is the sole decision node in treatment evaluation, which is patently absurd" – quotes by Sander Greenland

Richard McElreath 🦔 When asked what they thought of the Royal Statistical Society naming its magazine "Significance", someone said it's like naming a chemistry magazine "Phlogiston", an astronomy magazine "Astrology", or a psychiatry magazine "Lobotomy", with the latter capturing statistics best.

Epidemiologists: if you are *certain* something is true and were vocally campaigning to implement your favoured intervention before your research was conducted, you are unlikely to be an appropriate researcher to work on this issue, and publish it in leading clinical journals

The best recommendation from a guideline 🙌🏼

"The implications of matching by confounders in case–control studies are less straightforward than previously thought." -- Mohammad-Ali Mansournia and Poole

"Is the large hadron collider a representative part of the universe? If not, why are physicists wasting our money?" Nautilus

Megha Mehrotra Peter Tennant has moved to Bluesky Are we to dismiss Egyptian astronomy, Phoenician celestial navigation, Indigenous natural history, Greek psychology, and Roman mechanics for not being tested by deliberate intervention? What? The sun will not rise tomorrow at the specified hour, the tide will not come in today

Congrats to CAUSALab's Director Miguel Hernán for being awarded APHA's 2023 Lowell Reed Award! This award recognizes Miguel Hernán's groundbreaking work in the field of #causalinference & his contribution to shaping #healthpolicy & #research #methodology worldwide.

Why Stating Hypotheses in Grant Applications Is Unnecessary JAMA Miguel Hernán Sander Greenland jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

So proud of our latest commentary in ⁦Annals of Int Med! Led by David Savitz and co-authors⁩ Ken Rothman⁩ @collettencube ⁦Jennifer Yland⁩ Julia Bond⁩⁩ Mary Willis @akwesselink & Elizabeth Hatch acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

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Just published: the third edition of Epidemiology, An Introduction, with stellar co-authors Krista Huybrechts and Ellie Murray:

Composite variable bias: causal analysis of weight outcomes nature.com/articles/s4136…