Greg Atkinson
@gregatki.bsky.social
Honorary Visiting Professor at LJMU. Exercise & Nutrition Science, Circadian Rhythms and Jet lag, Research Methods & Statistics, Bike Racing, BBC6-played singer-songwriter. https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=8Gog69EAAAAJ&hl=en
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Most university strategies seem to boil down to someone shouting "more"
a close up of a person 's hand holding a gun in a dark room .
ALT: a close up of a person 's hand holding a gun in a dark room .
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February 15, 2026 at 12:16 PM
Most university strategies seem to boil down to someone shouting "more"
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This is a very cool study and, as far as I can tell from a quick read, robust.
Statins probably don't cause most of the side-effects that people think they do.
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Statins probably don't cause most of the side-effects that people think they do.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Assessment of adverse effects attributed to statin therapy in product labels: a meta-analysis of double-blind randomised controlled trials
Adverse event data from blinded randomised trials do not support causal relationships
between statin therapy and most of the conditions (including cognitive impairment,
depression, sleep disturbance, ...
www.thelancet.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:00 AM
This is a very cool study and, as far as I can tell from a quick read, robust.
Statins probably don't cause most of the side-effects that people think they do.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Statins probably don't cause most of the side-effects that people think they do.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Die, Dichotomy.
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A brief post encouraging you to read the original paper with @erik-van-zwet.bsky.social and @f2harrell.bsky.social .
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A brief post encouraging you to read the original paper with @erik-van-zwet.bsky.social and @f2harrell.bsky.social .
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Die, Dichotomy
We have studied 21 435 unique randomized controlled trials (RCTs) from the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR).Of these trials, 7224 (34%) have a continuous (numerical) outcome and 14 211 (...
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February 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Die, Dichotomy.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/die-di...
A brief post encouraging you to read the original paper with @erik-van-zwet.bsky.social and @f2harrell.bsky.social .
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
www.linkedin.com/pulse/die-di...
A brief post encouraging you to read the original paper with @erik-van-zwet.bsky.social and @f2harrell.bsky.social .
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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We are delighted to recognise our Exceptional Referees for 2025 🎓 🏆
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Visit the webpage below to see the list of referees celebrated for the volume, timeliness, and exceptional quality of their reports & exemplary service to the discipline!
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February 4, 2026 at 5:17 PM
We are delighted to recognise our Exceptional Referees for 2025 🎓 🏆
Visit the webpage below to see the list of referees celebrated for the volume, timeliness, and exceptional quality of their reports & exemplary service to the discipline!
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Visit the webpage below to see the list of referees celebrated for the volume, timeliness, and exceptional quality of their reports & exemplary service to the discipline!
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New draft: "Decline effects, statistical artifacts, and a meta-analytic paradox". In this manuscript I show how a common practice in meta-analysis (eg the 2015 Open Science Collaboration) creates artifactual signatures of poor scientific behavior. PDF: raw.githubusercontent.com/richarddmore... 1/x
February 2, 2026 at 2:56 PM
New draft: "Decline effects, statistical artifacts, and a meta-analytic paradox". In this manuscript I show how a common practice in meta-analysis (eg the 2015 Open Science Collaboration) creates artifactual signatures of poor scientific behavior. PDF: raw.githubusercontent.com/richarddmore... 1/x
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Judging by the poor quality of biomarker research I see reported in biomedical journals, my article "How to Do Bad Biomarker Research" must have been hugely influential: www.fharrell.com/post/badb/in... #Statistics #StatsSky #EpiSky
How to Do Bad Biomarker Research – Statistical Thinking
This article covers some of the bad statistical practices that have crept into biomarker research, including setting the bar too low for demonstrating that biomarker information is new, believing that...
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January 23, 2026 at 12:41 PM
Judging by the poor quality of biomarker research I see reported in biomedical journals, my article "How to Do Bad Biomarker Research" must have been hugely influential: www.fharrell.com/post/badb/in... #Statistics #StatsSky #EpiSky
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100 years ago RA Fisher set out his views on randomisation. This blog of mine errorstatistics.com/2020/04/20/s... from five years ago tries to explain them.
S. Senn: Randomisation is not about balance, nor about homogeneity but about randomness (Guest Post)
Stephen Senn Consultant Statistician Edinburgh The intellectual illness of clinical drug evaluation that I have discussed here can be cured, and it will be cured when we restore intellectual primac…
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January 16, 2026 at 7:45 AM
100 years ago RA Fisher set out his views on randomisation. This blog of mine errorstatistics.com/2020/04/20/s... from five years ago tries to explain them.
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Check out this #EPicks video from James Betts (@uniofbath.bsky.social), as he chats about his article published in @expphysiol.bsky.social which focussed on physiological rhythms and metabolic regulation!
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January 14, 2026 at 1:34 PM
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Are you passionate about supporting the funding of high-quality methods research in health? If so, please consider applying for the role of Deputy Chair of the NIHR/MRC Better Methods Better Research funding Committee - closing date 22 Jan. See: www.nihr.ac.uk/get-involved...
January 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Are you passionate about supporting the funding of high-quality methods research in health? If so, please consider applying for the role of Deputy Chair of the NIHR/MRC Better Methods Better Research funding Committee - closing date 22 Jan. See: www.nihr.ac.uk/get-involved...
“Assessing the properties of the prediction interval in random-effects meta-analysis” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Assessing the properties of the prediction interval in random-effects meta-analysis | Research Synthesis Methods | Cambridge Core
Assessing the properties of the prediction interval in random-effects meta-analysis
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January 10, 2026 at 7:10 AM
“Assessing the properties of the prediction interval in random-effects meta-analysis” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Our letter to editor about Caldwell et al (J Appl Physiol 139: 1220–1227, 2025) is published: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
There seemed misconceptions about variance comparison stats. We also commented on the author's “SD of treatment effects”. Suppl stuff: zenodo.org/records/1777...
There seemed misconceptions about variance comparison stats. We also commented on the author's “SD of treatment effects”. Suppl stuff: zenodo.org/records/1777...
journals.physiology.org
January 9, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Our letter to editor about Caldwell et al (J Appl Physiol 139: 1220–1227, 2025) is published: journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10....
There seemed misconceptions about variance comparison stats. We also commented on the author's “SD of treatment effects”. Suppl stuff: zenodo.org/records/1777...
There seemed misconceptions about variance comparison stats. We also commented on the author's “SD of treatment effects”. Suppl stuff: zenodo.org/records/1777...
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This #Editorial from Damian Bailey (University of South Wales), David Poole (@kstate.bsky.social) and Ronan Berg (Rigshospitalet) provides an update on the journal from the perspective of our Editor-in-Chief and Deputies for the USA and Europe!
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January 2, 2026 at 3:21 PM
This #Editorial from Damian Bailey (University of South Wales), David Poole (@kstate.bsky.social) and Ronan Berg (Rigshospitalet) provides an update on the journal from the perspective of our Editor-in-Chief and Deputies for the USA and Europe!
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Reflections on the I-squared index for measuring inconsistency in meta-analysis. Julian P. T. Higgins, José A. López-López. Research Synthesis Methods. bit.ly/48Xsjce
Reflections on the I-squared index for measuring inconsistency in meta-analysis | Research Synthesis Methods | Cambridge Core
Reflections on the I-squared index for measuring inconsistency in meta-analysis
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December 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Reflections on the I-squared index for measuring inconsistency in meta-analysis. Julian P. T. Higgins, José A. López-López. Research Synthesis Methods. bit.ly/48Xsjce
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It has a name now 😜
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
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Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
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✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
December 29, 2025 at 11:19 AM
It has a name now 😜
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
Many thanks to Ken for agreeing to put his good name to my...artwork. The image is in the public domain (CC 0), but citations to the linked documents are warmly welcomed.
✅ zenodo.org/records/1808...
✅ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24452418/
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The best bit about the show Tipping Point is when the host, Ben Shephard, says "let's find out what would have happened if you'd decided to play". There's always a nagging doubt at the back of my mind: that's not really what *would* have happened, is it?
December 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
The best bit about the show Tipping Point is when the host, Ben Shephard, says "let's find out what would have happened if you'd decided to play". There's always a nagging doubt at the back of my mind: that's not really what *would* have happened, is it?
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Nice piece on the COVID inquiry by Oliver Johnson
open.substack.com/pub/bristoli...
open.substack.com/pub/bristoli...
COVID Inquiry (slight return)
The evidence before the court is incontrovertible
open.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Nice piece on the COVID inquiry by Oliver Johnson
open.substack.com/pub/bristoli...
open.substack.com/pub/bristoli...
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Personalised Decision-Making without Counterfactuals (Dawid, Senn) This article is a response to recent proposals by Pearl and others for a new approach to personalised treatment decisions, in contrast to the traditional one based on statistical decision theory. We argue that this approac
Personalised Decision-Making without Counterfactuals (Dawid, Senn) This article is a response to recent proposals by Pearl and others for a new approach to personalised treatment decisions, in contrast to the traditional one based on statistical decision theory. We argue that this approac
December 18, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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Personalised Decision-Making without Counterfactuals (Dawid, Senn) This article is a response to recent proposals by Pearl and others for a new approach to personalised treatment decisions, in contrast to the traditional one based on statistical decision theory. We argue that this approac
Personalised Decision-Making without Counterfactuals (Dawid, Senn) This article is a response to recent proposals by Pearl and others for a new approach to personalised treatment decisions, in contrast to the traditional one based on statistical decision theory. We argue that this approac
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Doug Altman was an internationally renowned statistician who served as The BMJ’s chief statistical adviser.
Read about life and work that made this statistician a "citation millionaire"
#BMJChristmas
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Read about life and work that made this statistician a "citation millionaire"
#BMJChristmas
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December 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Doug Altman was an internationally renowned statistician who served as The BMJ’s chief statistical adviser.
Read about life and work that made this statistician a "citation millionaire"
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Read about life and work that made this statistician a "citation millionaire"
#BMJChristmas
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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Check out this #EPicks video from James Betts (@uniofbath.bsky.social), as he chats about his article published in @expphysiol.bsky.social, which focussed on physiological rhythms and metabolic regulation!
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Read the full article here:
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December 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Check out this #EPicks video from James Betts (@uniofbath.bsky.social), as he chats about his article published in @expphysiol.bsky.social, which focussed on physiological rhythms and metabolic regulation!
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Read the full article here:
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Do not try to reproduce p-values from rounded summary statistics. You can (should) check whether they are consistent - you can achieve this by calculating the largest/smallest p-value consistent with the rounded data. Mark Bolland’s app may help: reappraised.shinyapps.io/check_p_vals...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Do not try to reproduce p-values from rounded summary statistics. You can (should) check whether they are consistent - you can achieve this by calculating the largest/smallest p-value consistent with the rounded data. Mark Bolland’s app may help: reappraised.shinyapps.io/check_p_vals...
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The mathematician David Bessis believes that mathematical skill is not innate, but learned. “Genius is not an essence. It’s a state. It’s a state that you build by doing a certain job.”
Mathematical Thinking Isn’t What You Think It Is | Quanta Magazine
The mathematician David Bessis claims that everyone is capable of, and can benefit greatly from, mathematical thinking.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The mathematician David Bessis believes that mathematical skill is not innate, but learned. “Genius is not an essence. It’s a state. It’s a state that you build by doing a certain job.”
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Using Monty Python’s silly walks to tackle the obesity pandemic. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Using Monty Python’s silly walks to tackle the obesity pandemic. physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/...
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What's next? There are still many interesting questions at the trait level. For example, heritability estimates for BMI vary substantially across methods and suggest that more complex environmental interactions may be at play (an echo of prior work: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28692066/).
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
What's next? There are still many interesting questions at the trait level. For example, heritability estimates for BMI vary substantially across methods and suggest that more complex environmental interactions may be at play (an echo of prior work: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28692066/).