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George Davey Smith
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George Davey Smith is a British epidemiologist. He has been professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Bristol since 1994, honorary professor of public health at the University of Glasgow since 1996, and visiting professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine since 1999. .. more

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 1d
Free book starting with how politics could consider happiness as an outcome (without resorting to slapstick)

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Danny Dorling @dannydorling.bsky.social · 1d
I think your summary is not bad. A free PDF copy of the book can be downloaded from here: www.dannydorling.org/books/better...
Home Page | A Better Politics
A Better Politics: How Government Can Make Us Happier By Danny Dorling
www.dannydorling.org

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 4d
ALSPAC is known locally as Children of the Nineties, now tagging them @childrenofthe90s.bsky.social
mendelrandom.bsky.social George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 4d
The UKB 1/2 million (of which I am one) are indeed reasonably investigated, but in comparison to the ALSPAC cohort - who were recruited as foetuses and followed up into middle age - what I've had done in UKB is tiny. ALSPAC has 3 generations too. We need both study types! www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 4d
It’s an extremely broad category Paul, running from very early middle age (you) to extremely extremely if not impossibly late middle age (me)

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 4d
The UKB 1/2 million (of which I am one) are indeed reasonably investigated, but in comparison to the ALSPAC cohort - who were recruited as foetuses and followed up into middle age - what I've had done in UKB is tiny. ALSPAC has 3 generations too. We need both study types! www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 10d
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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 10d
It’s been amazing colleagues like you Gemma that has made working as a researcher seem both fun and (sometimes at least) worthwhile

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 10d
“A better NHS is possible”; Starmer’s Labour Party has sadly forgotten this. A better Labour Party is also possible!
doctorsinunite.com Doctors in Unite @doctorsinunite.com · 10d
'Chaotic' and 'incoherent' - accusing unions of being cartels, looking to AI as the answer to all ills, and a 10 Year Plan that is at best a wish list.

A better NHS is possible. Join us at the @keepournhspublic.bsky.social primary care fight back on Nov 29th.

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Wes Streeting accused of ‘chaotic and incoherent approach’ to NHS reform
Exclusive: thinktank report finds health secretary has failed to improve productivity, with the health service unlikely to meet its targets
www.theguardian.com

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Doctors in Unite @doctorsinunite.com · 10d
'Chaotic' and 'incoherent' - accusing unions of being cartels, looking to AI as the answer to all ills, and a 10 Year Plan that is at best a wish list.

A better NHS is possible. Join us at the @keepournhspublic.bsky.social primary care fight back on Nov 29th.

keepournhspublic.com/event/primar...
Wes Streeting accused of ‘chaotic and incoherent approach’ to NHS reform
Exclusive: thinktank report finds health secretary has failed to improve productivity, with the health service unlikely to meet its targets
www.theguardian.com

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 11d
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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 11d
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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 11d
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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 11d
It was, though it’s difficult now to envisage that I was ever young 🤣

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 11d
Honoured to receive the 25th Anniversary MRC Millenium Medal. My mid-1980s epidemiological apprenticeship was at the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cardiff in the mid-1980s, and my senescence with the MRC IEU, closing in March 2028
🙏 MRC!
@ukri.org @uob-ieu.bsky.social
www.ukri.org/news/mrc-mil...

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Genetics Society UK @gensocuk.bsky.social · 11d
Congratulations to Richard Durbin on being awarded our Genetics Society Medal!

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Kartik Chundru @chundru.bsky.social · 17d
New paper on everyone’s favourite topic, QC!
We show why you should do genotype-level QC on your WGS data

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very real quotes about this paper -
“The most exciting, mind-blowing paper of the year!”
“On a par with Fisher 1918”
“I read it every night. Just so beautiful”
Genotype-level quality control substantially reduces error rates in population-scale whole-genome sequencing
Population-scale whole-genome sequencing data will contain many individual-level genotype errors, even after allele-level quality control (QC). We establish the need for genotype-level QC using UK Bio...
www.biorxiv.org

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 24d
Now safe in the knowledge that A Windsor won’t be drinking it 🤣

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 24d
Finally in Navi Mumbai located my favourite beer since first coming to work in India in 1992, it is increasingly difficult to find, and now often only the STRONG ~8% “premium” version the only one available

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · 27d
Reassuring to see a cow at a major road junction in Bangalore; after a third of a century of work trips to India most things have changed out of all recognition, but a silicon valley thriving bovine represents continuity