Melissa Sharp-Crowe, MPH, PhD²
@sharpmelk.bsky.social
#EvidenceSynthesis specialist, epidemiologist. Research Officer, Health Research Board. 🇺🇸 in 🇮🇪 Views=own
Postdoc: @rcsi.bsky.social
PhDs: @upcite.bsky.social, University of Split
MPH: @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
BS: @michiganstateu.bsky.social
Postdoc: @rcsi.bsky.social
PhDs: @upcite.bsky.social, University of Split
MPH: @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
BS: @michiganstateu.bsky.social
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A bit about me for any new followers:
Work: evidence synthesis, meta research (reporting guidelines), women's & mental health
Life: sell stock photos, collages, & embroidery; US immigrant to Ireland, EU since '16, married to an Irish man; love a bit of gardening, weightlifting, & yoga
Work: evidence synthesis, meta research (reporting guidelines), women's & mental health
Life: sell stock photos, collages, & embroidery; US immigrant to Ireland, EU since '16, married to an Irish man; love a bit of gardening, weightlifting, & yoga
Reposted by Melissa Sharp-Crowe, MPH, PhD²
🚨Reminder! Applications for HRB's Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellowships Programme 2026 are now open.
🔬 Up to €950K in direct costs per grant
👥 Team-based funding model
🗓️ Closing: 17 December
ℹ️More info & to apply bit.ly/49Bg1H6
#HealthResearch #PostdocFunding
🔬 Up to €950K in direct costs per grant
👥 Team-based funding model
🗓️ Closing: 17 December
ℹ️More info & to apply bit.ly/49Bg1H6
#HealthResearch #PostdocFunding
November 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🚨Reminder! Applications for HRB's Collaborative Postdoctoral Fellowships Programme 2026 are now open.
🔬 Up to €950K in direct costs per grant
👥 Team-based funding model
🗓️ Closing: 17 December
ℹ️More info & to apply bit.ly/49Bg1H6
#HealthResearch #PostdocFunding
🔬 Up to €950K in direct costs per grant
👥 Team-based funding model
🗓️ Closing: 17 December
ℹ️More info & to apply bit.ly/49Bg1H6
#HealthResearch #PostdocFunding
Reposted by Melissa Sharp-Crowe, MPH, PhD²
@METRICStanford is accepting applications for 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔-𝟐𝟕 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚-𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡: metrics.stanford.edu/postdoctoral.... The deadline for applications is February 15, 2026, the position is expected to start at October 1, 2026.
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
@METRICStanford is accepting applications for 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔-𝟐𝟕 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚-𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡: metrics.stanford.edu/postdoctoral.... The deadline for applications is February 15, 2026, the position is expected to start at October 1, 2026.
“Reliance on the private market doesn’t necessarily solve any of the problems that the legislation hopes to address. It also makes programs potentially higher cost and more risky for students who have to take on debt. #GradPlus #StudentLoans www.highereddive.com/news/end-of-...
What does the end of Grad PLUS loans mean for higher ed?
The end of the 20-year program could push more students to the private loan market and force colleges to end some of their graduate offerings.
www.highereddive.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:32 AM
“Reliance on the private market doesn’t necessarily solve any of the problems that the legislation hopes to address. It also makes programs potentially higher cost and more risky for students who have to take on debt. #GradPlus #StudentLoans www.highereddive.com/news/end-of-...
Sad to know that if I was growing up in the US today I wouldn't have the same opportunity to get my masters in #PublicHealth
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November 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Sad to know that if I was growing up in the US today I wouldn't have the same opportunity to get my masters in #PublicHealth
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Another day, another shocking move from the US government to devalue #PublicHealth and make education less accessible to lower income folks aspph.org/department-o...
Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Another day, another shocking move from the US government to devalue #PublicHealth and make education less accessible to lower income folks aspph.org/department-o...
A small bit of sunshine from the US for once...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 PM
A small bit of sunshine from the US for once...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Lots of handmade #embroidery pieces priced to move fast for this holiday season. Perfect gifts for the epidemiologist, statistician, or researcher in your life. #StatsSky #EpiSky www.etsy.com/shop/SharpSh...
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Lots of handmade #embroidery pieces priced to move fast for this holiday season. Perfect gifts for the epidemiologist, statistician, or researcher in your life. #StatsSky #EpiSky www.etsy.com/shop/SharpSh...
RTÉ's flagship #ScienceWeek TV show Futureville Ireland, supported by #ResearchIreland, is back for a second series starting this Tuesday, 11 November on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player at 7pm. www.rte.ie/learn/2025/1...
Futureville Ireland: We are going back to the city of the future
Futureville Ireland, with Carla O'Brien and Dr Lollie Mancey, returns for a second series on Tuesday, 11 November at 7pm on RTÉ One & RTÉ Player. Made with support from Research Ireland.
www.rte.ie
November 10, 2025 at 11:11 AM
RTÉ's flagship #ScienceWeek TV show Futureville Ireland, supported by #ResearchIreland, is back for a second series starting this Tuesday, 11 November on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player at 7pm. www.rte.ie/learn/2025/1...
#Meta projected that 10% of its revenue last year (~$16 billion) would come from ads for #scams and banned products, according to internal company documents seen by Reuters. That includes duplicitous investment schemes and ads for illegal online casinos and outlawed medical products, per Reuters
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:03 AM
#IrishDesign week is 17-21 November with lots of panels, workshops, exhibitions, and more
www.dcci.ie/whats-on/iri...
www.dcci.ie/whats-on/iri...
Events - Exhibitions - Design & Crafts Council Ireland
www.dcci.ie
November 6, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#IrishDesign week is 17-21 November with lots of panels, workshops, exhibitions, and more
www.dcci.ie/whats-on/iri...
www.dcci.ie/whats-on/iri...
A great table comparing the effects of diseases and the side effects of #vaccines on the National #Immunisation Program immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au/resources/ta...
immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au
November 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
A great table comparing the effects of diseases and the side effects of #vaccines on the National #Immunisation Program immunisationhandbook.health.gov.au/resources/ta...
Position statement on artificial intelligence (#AI) use in evidence synthesis across Cochrane, the Campbell Collaboration, JBI and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence 2025 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Position statement on artificial intelligence (AI) use in evidence synthesis across Cochrane, the Campbell Collaboration, JBI and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence 2025 - Environmental Evid...
1. Evidence synthesists are ultimately responsible for their evidence synthesis, including the decision to use artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, and to ensure adherence to legal and ethical...
link.springer.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Position statement on artificial intelligence (#AI) use in evidence synthesis across Cochrane, the Campbell Collaboration, JBI and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence 2025 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Even as the anti-vax lobby erodes public trust, new evidence confirms that "immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza have shown consistent effectiveness & safety and are associated with a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization & severe disease"
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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October 29, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Even as the anti-vax lobby erodes public trust, new evidence confirms that "immunizations against Covid-19, RSV, and influenza have shown consistent effectiveness & safety and are associated with a substantially reduced risk of hospitalization & severe disease"
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
If #Meta is pushing back against new data protection laws, that means we must be trying to do something right... Gross lobbying... We are the products and these companies just sell our data again and again and again. Where's our kickback? 😅 www.irishtimes.com/technology/b...
Data protection rules ‘completely out of control’, Meta tells Government
Facebook owner asked Government to lead pushback against data protection laws at EU level
www.irishtimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If #Meta is pushing back against new data protection laws, that means we must be trying to do something right... Gross lobbying... We are the products and these companies just sell our data again and again and again. Where's our kickback? 😅 www.irishtimes.com/technology/b...
Take this #ClinicalTrial Priority Setting Survey to help identify & prioritise the Top 10 research questions/opics that will improve how we plan, do, analyse and share the findings from clinical trials. Open to patient/public, researchers, health profs, etc livpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Take this #ClinicalTrial Priority Setting Survey to help identify & prioritise the Top 10 research questions/opics that will improve how we plan, do, analyse and share the findings from clinical trials. Open to patient/public, researchers, health profs, etc livpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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📢 New EP PerMed Call 📢
EP PerMed's 2026 Research, Innovation & Technology Call, 'Test and Demonstration of Multimodal Data Approaches for Personalised Medicine' is now open.
🖥️Register for the online info day on 28 October➡️ bit.ly/48Dk7Oy
ℹ️ bit.ly/4o5JDAY
EP PerMed's 2026 Research, Innovation & Technology Call, 'Test and Demonstration of Multimodal Data Approaches for Personalised Medicine' is now open.
🖥️Register for the online info day on 28 October➡️ bit.ly/48Dk7Oy
ℹ️ bit.ly/4o5JDAY
October 24, 2025 at 1:54 PM
📢 New EP PerMed Call 📢
EP PerMed's 2026 Research, Innovation & Technology Call, 'Test and Demonstration of Multimodal Data Approaches for Personalised Medicine' is now open.
🖥️Register for the online info day on 28 October➡️ bit.ly/48Dk7Oy
ℹ️ bit.ly/4o5JDAY
EP PerMed's 2026 Research, Innovation & Technology Call, 'Test and Demonstration of Multimodal Data Approaches for Personalised Medicine' is now open.
🖥️Register for the online info day on 28 October➡️ bit.ly/48Dk7Oy
ℹ️ bit.ly/4o5JDAY
Reposted by Melissa Sharp-Crowe, MPH, PhD²
Really well done explainer of the election system for the Irish Presidential elections using... smarties. Bonus points for showing why Irish election counting takes so long:
Are you a little confused about how Ireland’s Presidential Election works?
Fear not: I have once again picked up some 🔴 popular 🟠 coloured 🟡 chocolate-based 🟢 confectionary 🔵 treats 🟣 to show how the #aras25 votes are counted.
@virginmedianews.bsky.social
Fear not: I have once again picked up some 🔴 popular 🟠 coloured 🟡 chocolate-based 🟢 confectionary 🔵 treats 🟣 to show how the #aras25 votes are counted.
@virginmedianews.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Really well done explainer of the election system for the Irish Presidential elections using... smarties. Bonus points for showing why Irish election counting takes so long:
Reposted by Melissa Sharp-Crowe, MPH, PhD²
📢 As one of the next round of TRMP PhD students (below) you could join me, Clare Robinson, @averoniki.bsky.social and @marionkcampbell.bsky.social to work on developing a typology of research outputs in trials methodology, based at @wiphcem.bsky.social. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 24, 2025 at 9:03 AM
📢 As one of the next round of TRMP PhD students (below) you could join me, Clare Robinson, @averoniki.bsky.social and @marionkcampbell.bsky.social to work on developing a typology of research outputs in trials methodology, based at @wiphcem.bsky.social. Details here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
A #PeerReview system reliant on free labour produces slow, poor-quality, biased results, quelle suprise :(
Cambridge University Press conducted a survey on 2.8k researchers - 𝟓𝟎% 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐨𝐫 𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦. www-cambridge-org.stanford.idm.oclc.org/us/universit...
October 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
A #PeerReview system reliant on free labour produces slow, poor-quality, biased results, quelle suprise :(
Five years in Ireland and I'm still learning about different ways to spelling things...
skeptical vs sceptical
why is there such a love for the extra curvy letters (c and s -- focussed) and dislike for the sharp ones (ks and zs -- disorganized)
skeptical vs sceptical
why is there such a love for the extra curvy letters (c and s -- focussed) and dislike for the sharp ones (ks and zs -- disorganized)
October 24, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Five years in Ireland and I'm still learning about different ways to spelling things...
skeptical vs sceptical
why is there such a love for the extra curvy letters (c and s -- focussed) and dislike for the sharp ones (ks and zs -- disorganized)
skeptical vs sceptical
why is there such a love for the extra curvy letters (c and s -- focussed) and dislike for the sharp ones (ks and zs -- disorganized)
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2nd Annual Global Symposium on Health #Misinformation
Register for Symposium (free)
9-10 December
2nd Annual Global Symposium on Health #Misinformation
Register for Symposium (free)
9-10 December
2nd Annual Global Health Misinformation Symposium 9-10 December 2025 - Agenda - True Health Initiative
Misinformation in health and nutrition is no longer just a fringe issue. It's a growing threat undermining public trust, distorting policy, enabling commercial agendas, and putting lives and livelihoo...
truehealthinitiative.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
truehealthinitiative.org/annual-globa...
2nd Annual Global Symposium on Health #Misinformation
Register for Symposium (free)
9-10 December
2nd Annual Global Symposium on Health #Misinformation
Register for Symposium (free)
9-10 December
Reposted by Melissa Sharp-Crowe, MPH, PhD²
Dr Jane Murphy, co-author of the recent HRB report into gaps in women’s health research across the OECD, says input from clinicians and patients is needed to address these deficiencies.
Watch/listen on the HRB Evidence for Policy page: tinyurl.com/3hzwc4yy
#womenshealth
Watch/listen on the HRB Evidence for Policy page: tinyurl.com/3hzwc4yy
#womenshealth
October 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Dr Jane Murphy, co-author of the recent HRB report into gaps in women’s health research across the OECD, says input from clinicians and patients is needed to address these deficiencies.
Watch/listen on the HRB Evidence for Policy page: tinyurl.com/3hzwc4yy
#womenshealth
Watch/listen on the HRB Evidence for Policy page: tinyurl.com/3hzwc4yy
#womenshealth
Reposted by Melissa Sharp-Crowe, MPH, PhD²
As trust in the federal government's stewardship of US public health infrastructure plummets, NEJM and CIDRAP are launching a rival publication to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Story by @aniloza.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
Story by @aniloza.bsky.social
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NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication
Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
www.statnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
As trust in the federal government's stewardship of US public health infrastructure plummets, NEJM and CIDRAP are launching a rival publication to the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Story by @aniloza.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
Story by @aniloza.bsky.social
www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c...
Reposted by Melissa Sharp-Crowe, MPH, PhD²
The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has released “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”, designed to help research performing organizations.
ℹ️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gSzFA6
@dorassessment.bsky.social
ℹ️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gSzFA6
@dorassessment.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) has released “A Practical Guide to Implementing Responsible Research Assessment at Research Performing Organizations”, designed to help research performing organizations.
ℹ️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gSzFA6
@dorassessment.bsky.social
ℹ️ Learn more at https://bit.ly/4gSzFA6
@dorassessment.bsky.social
Reposted by Melissa Sharp-Crowe, MPH, PhD²
Immediate skin-to-skin contact between newborns and their mothers offers a better start in life, improving a number of key health metrics, according to a newly-updated Cochrane review.
🔗 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...
🔗 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...
October 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Immediate skin-to-skin contact between newborns and their mothers offers a better start in life, improving a number of key health metrics, according to a newly-updated Cochrane review.
🔗 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...
🔗 www.cochrane.org/about-us/new...