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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 1d

Looks like a great opportunity for pop health researchers... #demography #episky
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities

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Louise, Prof/Dr @louiselocock.bsky.social · 1d

N.B. from a proper journal, not one of those ridiculous Great Barrington type 'journals'

Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

💉 2024–25 Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness

In U.S. veterans, the updated vaccine reduced 6-month risks of Covid-related ED visits (-29%), hospitalisations (-39%), and deaths (-64%) vs flu-only group.

🔗 doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa2510226

#SciComm #COVID19 #Vaccines 🧪

Association of 2024–2025 Covid-19 Vaccine with Covid-19 Outcomes in U.S. Veterans | NEJM

Amid the declining clinical severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and diminishing public uptake of annual coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) vaccines, ...

doi.org

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Paul Lawton @pauldlawton.bsky.social · 2d

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AIN/Sandipan Shringi @nephrosage.bsky.social · 2d

EKFC or CKD-EPIASR-NB2009 formula. Which equation to use?
More info: academic.oup.com/ndt/article/...
@ndt-era.bsky.social, @hjanders.bsky.social

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Paul Lawton @pauldlawton.bsky.social · 2d

How does one promote self-reflection among those resistant to the concept, who are racist (polite or not) despite available evidence?

Paul Lawton @pauldlawton.bsky.social · 2d

Is this why they could not see or hear the obvious racism and lies in the Brexit campaign, & voted for it anyway?

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Millions of older Britons likely to have undiagnosed sight and hearing problems, study finds

Those affected at risk of falls, mental ill-health and leading socially restricted lives, say doctors Millions of people aged 50 or over in the UK are predicted to have undiagnosed sight or hearing problems, prompting calls for that age group to have checkups more regularly. Doctors involved in the related research said the findings were “deeply concerning”, and warned that those affected were at risk of falls, mental ill-health and leading socially restricted lives. 6.7 million people in the UK aged 50 or over have trouble seeing out of one or both eyes 2.4 million of them are visually impaired in one eye 20.3 million people have some form of hearing loss in one or both ears 7.7 million people cannot hear clearly with both ears Continue reading...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

Immigrant Nobel Prize winners exiting the United States

Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 2d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Paul Lawton @pauldlawton.bsky.social · 2d

So read these & tell me why the Nobel Committee ignored @birmo.bsky.social for yet another year

Dave Hooper @davehooper.com · 2d

Recently finished reading this from @birmo.bsky.social and I enjoyed it. I was going to say that it’s not his usual style, but what is? He has such a diverse range of material it’s impossible to pigeon hole it. Anyway, go read it! www.amazon.com.au/Girl-Came-Co...

The Girl Who Came In From The Cold (Licensed to Love: The Agency Files)

The Girl Who Came In From The Cold (Licensed to Love: The Agency Files) eBook : Birmingham, J.P.: Amazon.com.au: Books

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Per Engzell @pengzell.bsky.social · 4d

peer review is
a process of
removing every sentence
every sentence
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 2d

Loss of peak health group raises many concerns and questions – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/loss-of-peak...
By Jason Staines

Loss of peak health group raises many concerns and questions

Jason Staines writes: The impending closure of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA), the national peak body for public

www.croakey.org

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Croakey Health Media @croakeynews.bsky.social · 2d

Loss of peak health group raises many concerns and questions www.croakey.org/loss-of-peak... #publichealth

Loss of peak health group raises many concerns and questions

www.croakey.org

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Paul Lawton @pauldlawton.bsky.social · 5d

Never seen the Hattah-Kulkyne with water: fantastic!

Paul Lawton @pauldlawton.bsky.social · 5d

Build awareness I think. Shifting policy is hard

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Alastair H Leyland @alastairleyland.bsky.social · 10d

New book: 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀, 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 (free to download from link.springer.com/book/10.1007...) 1/7

Health Systems, Health Services and Inequality in Population Health

This open access book shows the scientific and policy-added value of combining health systems, health services and population health research.

link.springer.com

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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 10d

Just finished reading this *excellent* article by Gabriel et al. which discusses which effects can be identified in randomized controlled trials. With DAGs!>

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials
using directed acyclic graphs

Although the ideal randomized clinical trial is the gold standard for causal inference, real randomized trials often suffer
from imperfections that may hamper causal effect estimation. Stating the estimand of interest can help reduce confusion
about what is being estimated, but it is often difficult to determine what is and is not identifiable given a trial’s specific
imperfections. We demonstrate how directed acyclic graphs can be used to elucidate the consequences of common imperfections,
such as noncompliance, unblinding, and drop-out, for the identification of the intention-to-treat effect, the total
treatment effect and the physiological treatment effect. We assert that the physiological treatment effect is not identifiable
outside a trial with perfect compliance and no dropout, where blinding is perfectly maintained

Table 1 showing the Identifiability of target estimands depending on whether there is blinding, full compliance, and no drop-out

An example DAG from the paper.
Fig. 4: A blinded trial with noncompliance.

U are unobserved confounders, Z is treatment assignment, C is compliance, X is the realized treatment, S is the subject's physical and mental health status, Xself and Xcln are the treatment that the participant and the clinician believed the participant received, Y is the outcome.

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NPR @npr.org · 11d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Paul Lawton @pauldlawton.bsky.social · 16d

Of course!

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · Sep 5

National summit tackles wide-ranging barriers to health equity – Croakey Health Media www.croakey.org/national-sum...
By @mariemcinerney.bsky.social for Croakey Conference News Service

National summit tackles wide-ranging barriers to health equity

Introduction by Croakey: An upcoming national summit on equity is being promoted as an event "for those who believe in

www.croakey.org

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · Sep 1

Social cohesion Australia is fraying. Not because of immigration. Social cohesion is eroding because of increasing inequality. Fear results. Hope must be restored for social cohesion to build. But hope is dead if uncertainty reigns. Uncertainty ends when the future feels assured.

Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · Sep 1

The term social cohesion has been said A LOT over the last few days. Most people using the term don’t know what it actually means. It’s not about assimilation or multiculturalism. It’s much broader, encapsulating class, social capital and inequality. www.abc.net.au/religion/and...

belonging (including pride in Australia and the importance of maintaining Australian culture and way of life);
worth (sense of financial satisfaction);
social justice and equity (fairness of and trust in government);
participation (especially in political life, including voting); and
acceptance and rejection, and the legitimacy of the system (especially in relation to immigration).

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therealdwoo.bsky.social 🚣🏻‍♂️🏡 @therealdwoo.bsky.social · Aug 22

WAKE THE FK UP

There's something happening here
But what it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware
I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look, what's going down?
There's battle lines being drawn
youtu.be/YVhn1edWaDA?...

NEW 📀 For What It's Worth - Buffalo Springfield -4K- {Stereo} 1966

YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine

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Peter Hollo @peterhollo.com · Aug 14

This is incredibly hard to watch, as it goes on and on.
Please do, watch it all. Hear their names.
Stop Killing Journalists

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMq8...

Stop Killing Journalists

YouTube video by withMEAA

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · Jul 12

This should be more than ample grounds for Segal to step down from the Envoy position

Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · Jul 12

🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians...
theklaxon.com.au/hrgd

Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon

Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.

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Moley𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕄𝕠𝕝𝕖 @moleymole.bsky.social · Jul 11

The yardstick in my mind is from school GCSE history when I was shocked to learn of the 1919 Amritsar [now Jallianwala Bagh] massacre - approx 379+ fatalities and 1500+ injured. That still resonates over 100 years on, so this is not going to disappear anytime soon. 😔

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Pete Scarborough @petescarbs.bsky.social · Jul 11

Bloody Sunday used to be the most shocking event I knew. The British army fired on civilians and killed 14 people. David Cameron gave an official apology for the atrocity 38 years afterwards.

57 times as many people have been killed whilst trying to obtain food aid in Gaza. This is not normal.

Nearly 800 killed at Gaza food hubs and aid convoy routes since end of May, UN says

UN human rights office says 615 of the deaths were in vicinity of sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

www.theguardian.com

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Saw, but if he were handsome and cool @mpbmke.com · Jul 12

Siegel & Schuster created Superman as a literal response to Naziism and fascism. Not implicitly or subtextually. Literally. That the same kinds of people are whining about Superman upholding the same values as he did back then tells you all you need to know about them.

Anthony Breznican @brezwrites.bsky.social · Jul 11

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

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