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Georgia Tomova

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research fellow @clscohorts.bsky.social epidemiology, causal inference, methods

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · Aug 31

A fantastic teaching example of a predictor being misinterpreted as having a causal effect.

#CausalSky #EpiSky

First week 'critical' to avoid children missing school later, parents told

Data suggests more than half of children who miss a day at the start of term become persistently absent.

www.bbc.com

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 20h

Thank you for giving me the skills to succeed: DAGs and cynicism.

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 1d

"A UK study involving nearly 20,000 people, found that those who spent at least a total of 120 minutes every week in greenery were significantly more likely to report good health and higher psychological well-being."

is it ✨magic✨ or is it ✨confounding✨

Nature and outdoors can help boost your health - here's how

Spending just 20 minutes in nature can lower blood pressure, heart rate and stress levels.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

We should do a study on how much of the funded applied research suffers from problems that the unfunded methods research could have helped prevent or resolve

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 1d

I recently travelled by train all the way from the UK to Bulgaria. It was a mix of type 1 and type 2 fun

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 3d

peer review is
a process of
removing every sentence
every sentence
every
sentence
you
liked

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 1d

The differences between portrayals in the UK and US suggests different understandings of masculinity and expectations of male mental health.

The evolution of male mental health in television

The differences between portrayals in the UK and US suggests different understandings of masculinity and expectations of male mental health.

tcnv.link

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Jose Pina-Sánchez 🇪🇺 @jpinasanchez.bsky.social · 3d

Over the next six weeks, I’ll be touring Europe talking about sentencing disparities, cars and crime. If you're into any of those topics, maybe I’ll see you in Prague, London, Bled, or Barcelona. See below for details of the events, some of them are hybrid and open to everyone.

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

Why don't you sign up to find out? 😉

Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

girls just wanna have funDS 💃

Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

We should do a study on how much of the funded applied research suffers from problems that the unfunded methods research could have helped prevent or resolve

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

Do you use mixed-mode survey data? And are you sure you know how to handle it?

Extra points if you like DAGs!

Register to attend our @royalstatsoc.bsky.social event on handling survey mode effects 👇

Richard Silverwood @rjsilverwood.bsky.social · 2d

We are organising a @royalstatsoc.bsky.social Social Statistics Section online event:

Handling survey mode effects

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 10.00AM - 12.10PM

Full info and booking: rss.org.uk/training-eve...

RSS Event: Handling survey mode effects

rss.org.uk

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

I think if we started putting coins into a piggybank, the chances of funding this work would still be higher than with a grant application

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

depends, are you a person or an LLM? 😜

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

we should try and get funding for this ... oh wait

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

We should do a study on how much of the funded applied research suffers from problems that the unfunded methods research could have helped prevent or resolve

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 2d

I get very angry at the absolute rubbish that gets funded by the top health and medical funders in the UK, all while throwing scraps to fund methodology and meta science because they claim it doesn't have immediate impact on patients and the public.

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 2d

What percentage of the health research funding pot do you think goes on methods and meta science?

Around 2% (if you add together all mention of research design and methodologies across all areas from research.hscni.net/sites/defaul...)

Just 2% spent on the part that underpins EVERYTHING we do.

Dr Will Ball @wpball.com · 2d

Reading some interest stats about health research funding in the UK in recent years.

- Only 7% goes to Mental Health research
- Only 5% of that MH funding goes to studies related to prevention

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 2d

Effective Business leaders: "It takes several months for new employees to become fully productive members of the team..."

Universities: EXCITING 6 MONTH POSITION REPLACING THE LAST PERSON WHO WAS HERE 6 MONTHS.

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 4d

🔈 Do you want to use programming language R in your longitudinal data analyses? Take part in a two-day in-person, paid short course running on 3–4 November 2025 at UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus. Head to the UCL Online Store to find out more and register 👉

K26 Using R for Longitudinal Data Analysis | UCL Online Store

This is an in-person two-day course for quantitative researchers wanting to perform longitudinal data analyses with the programming language R. The course

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 3d

Even exceptional work often remains unduly noticed if it's not marketed in the right way.

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 5d

Uh oh

Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 5d

@pwgtennant.bsky.social said it was *the* best talk at EuroCIM 😎 And he is a harsh critic!

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 5d

I'm SO thrilled for the return of the CIIG this term with the most exciting presenter possible 💃 Everyone sign up join us!

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 5d

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 5d

The seminar series is fully online though we could arrange a watch party for this one 😁🤔

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 8d

"Uncooperative statistician": the term used (typically by a senior clinician) to describe a well-trained and knowledgeable statistician who refuses to conduct flawed or fraudulent research.

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 5d

I'm getting this tattooed

Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 7d

It’s not the method that makes you causal it’s the assumptions

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