Darren Dahly
@statsepi.bsky.social
Epidemiologist + Statistician | Clinical Research Facility - University College Cork | UCC School of Public Health | #ClinicalTrials #Epidemiology #Statistics #RStats #WBE #IDSurveillance
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Darren Dahly
@statsepi.bsky.social
· Sep 15
Thanks again to @avrilkennan.bsky.social for the opportunity to share some thoughts on research integrity and methodological rigor with a room full of Irish health research funders via @hrci.bsky.social. 🙏
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Isn't Deloitte advising the HSE on "AI strategy"?
Canadian governments need to stop sending out tax payer money to these bullshit consultant firms who now seem to just be using LLMs to produce their "reports" fortune.com/2025/11/25/d...
Deloitte just got caught again citing fabricated and potentially AI-generated research—this time in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government | Fortune
In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.
fortune.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Isn't Deloitte advising the HSE on "AI strategy"?
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Canadian governments need to stop sending out tax payer money to these bullshit consultant firms who now seem to just be using LLMs to produce their "reports" fortune.com/2025/11/25/d...
Deloitte just got caught again citing fabricated and potentially AI-generated research—this time in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government | Fortune
In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.
fortune.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Canadian governments need to stop sending out tax payer money to these bullshit consultant firms who now seem to just be using LLMs to produce their "reports" fortune.com/2025/11/25/d...
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Some well-founded warnings about the use of LLMs in medicine:
LLMs for Medical Practice: Look Out
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Some well-founded warnings about the use of LLMs in medicine:
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Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence.
Meet the researcher aiming to halt use of ‘fundamentally flawed’ database linking IQ and nationality
Rebecca Sear Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence. To maintain the integrity of scientif…
retractionwatch.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Rebecca Sear is on a mission to convince publishers to retract articles that use a database that purports to rank countries based on intelligence.
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EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
Witkoff Advised Russia on How to Pitch Ukraine Plan to Trump
US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff, fresh from the triumph of the Gaza peace deal, held a phone call last month with a senior Kremlin official to suggest they work together on a similar plan for Ukraine — and that Vladimir Putin should raise it with Donald Trump.
bloom.bg
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
EXCLUSIVE: US presidential envoy Steve Witkoff advised Russia on how to pitch Ukraine plans to Trump, in audio files reviewed by Bloomberg
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I ran across this 1896 editorial in a medical journal.
The author is discussing a smallpox outbreak in Gloucester, England (pop 42,000). The town was a hotbed of anti-vaxxers until there was a massive outbreak.
At that point, 25,000 people lined up for smallpox vaccines.
The author is discussing a smallpox outbreak in Gloucester, England (pop 42,000). The town was a hotbed of anti-vaxxers until there was a massive outbreak.
At that point, 25,000 people lined up for smallpox vaccines.
An Object Lesson for Antivaccinists
An official website of the United States government
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 PM
I ran across this 1896 editorial in a medical journal.
The author is discussing a smallpox outbreak in Gloucester, England (pop 42,000). The town was a hotbed of anti-vaxxers until there was a massive outbreak.
At that point, 25,000 people lined up for smallpox vaccines.
The author is discussing a smallpox outbreak in Gloucester, England (pop 42,000). The town was a hotbed of anti-vaxxers until there was a massive outbreak.
At that point, 25,000 people lined up for smallpox vaccines.
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Started/Going with Dr. Rachael Bedard.
There is no common ground between science and RFK Jr.
There is no common ground between science and RFK Jr.
November 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Started/Going with Dr. Rachael Bedard.
There is no common ground between science and RFK Jr.
There is no common ground between science and RFK Jr.
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It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It’s especially ironic because the lecture is exactly about the ‘paralyzing cowardice’ of today’s elites.
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
About universities, corporations and media networks bending the knee to authoritarianism. /4
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The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The Secretary of Defense, ladies and gentlemen
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ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
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If you want to read something completely nuts from the unregulated world of direct to consumer genomics, look no further.
And when I say completely nuts, I’m being restrained and polite. Criminal is another word that springs to mind.
And when I say completely nuts, I’m being restrained and polite. Criminal is another word that springs to mind.
"Concerns about the legitimacy and integrity of Nucleus Genomics", by X account @sichuan_mala
totalhealthoptimization.com/2025/11/21/c...
totalhealthoptimization.com/2025/11/21/c...
Concerns about the legitimacy and integrity of Nucleus Genomics – Total Health Optimization
totalhealthoptimization.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
If you want to read something completely nuts from the unregulated world of direct to consumer genomics, look no further.
And when I say completely nuts, I’m being restrained and polite. Criminal is another word that springs to mind.
And when I say completely nuts, I’m being restrained and polite. Criminal is another word that springs to mind.
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New fully funded PhD opportunity to come and work with me at the University of Glasgow exploring the role of data-driven interventions (audit and feedback) to improve environmental sustainability of the NHS. Deadline to apply: 12th Jan 2026.
Find out more here:
www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
Find out more here:
www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
New fully funded PhD opportunity to come and work with me at the University of Glasgow exploring the role of data-driven interventions (audit and feedback) to improve environmental sustainability of the NHS. Deadline to apply: 12th Jan 2026.
Find out more here:
www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
Find out more here:
www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/mvl...
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A bit more here.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
Rutger Bregman accuses BBC of 'cowardice' after anti-Trump quotes purged from Reith Lecture
The corporation axed part of a lecture in which the Dutch historian described Trump as 'the most openly corrupt president in American history'
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A bit more here.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...
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this is one of my favourite observations about sample size calculations. (afaik first articulated by Miettinen in 1985)
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
this is one of my favourite observations about sample size calculations. (afaik first articulated by Miettinen in 1985)
Shout out to my colleagues in the @crf-ucc.bsky.social, and particularly Dr Erin Crowley, who coordinates our academic-led studies and all of the inputs we provide to applications.
November 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Shout out to my colleagues in the @crf-ucc.bsky.social, and particularly Dr Erin Crowley, who coordinates our academic-led studies and all of the inputs we provide to applications.
Remember starter packs? 😀 Here is one for UCC. I've surely missed people so just let me know if you'd like to be added (you might first check that you aren't already there).
go.bsky.app/CytFGSt
go.bsky.app/CytFGSt
November 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Remember starter packs? 😀 Here is one for UCC. I've surely missed people so just let me know if you'd like to be added (you might first check that you aren't already there).
go.bsky.app/CytFGSt
go.bsky.app/CytFGSt
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Surrogate outcomes
Screening versus prevention schools of thought
And much more in this extremely readable @hildabast.bsky.social post absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t...
(Remember Nordic Cochrane aka Gøtzsche went off the rails a few years ago? This is the outcome)
Screening versus prevention schools of thought
And much more in this extremely readable @hildabast.bsky.social post absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t...
(Remember Nordic Cochrane aka Gøtzsche went off the rails a few years ago? This is the outcome)
This Evidence Fundamentally Shifts the Debate About the HPV Vaccine - Absolutely Maybe
We’ve had to wait a long time to get to this point. If cervical cancer develops after HPV infection, it will take…
absolutelymaybe.plos.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Surrogate outcomes
Screening versus prevention schools of thought
And much more in this extremely readable @hildabast.bsky.social post absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t...
(Remember Nordic Cochrane aka Gøtzsche went off the rails a few years ago? This is the outcome)
Screening versus prevention schools of thought
And much more in this extremely readable @hildabast.bsky.social post absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/24/t...
(Remember Nordic Cochrane aka Gøtzsche went off the rails a few years ago? This is the outcome)
Wonderful to get the feedback from school that our kid is talking to their friends about the existence of things that their parents aren't equipped to talk to their kids about, and somehow that's a problem for my family to solve.
November 25, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Wonderful to get the feedback from school that our kid is talking to their friends about the existence of things that their parents aren't equipped to talk to their kids about, and somehow that's a problem for my family to solve.
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Studies of fecal bacteria have led some researchers to propose a link between the gut microbiome and autism.
But a new paper argues the claim rests on shaky foundations. https://scim.ag/48lckEh
But a new paper argues the claim rests on shaky foundations. https://scim.ag/48lckEh
Research linking gut microbes to autism is deeply flawed, critics say
Amid growing investment in the field, a new paper argues it rests on shaky foundations
scim.ag
November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Studies of fecal bacteria have led some researchers to propose a link between the gut microbiome and autism.
But a new paper argues the claim rests on shaky foundations. https://scim.ag/48lckEh
But a new paper argues the claim rests on shaky foundations. https://scim.ag/48lckEh
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This by @whippletom.bsky.social is brilliant. A little dose of epistemic humility goes a long way.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
We’ll need good data next time or lockdown arguments multiply
At the start of the pandemic two professors, Martin Landray and Peter Horby, did something that should have been banal but was also rare: they tested drugs
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This by @whippletom.bsky.social is brilliant. A little dose of epistemic humility goes a long way.
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
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Remember when vacating your student accommodation every weekend for airbnb became norm?
Greedy landlords targeting students is not new thing in Ireland
Today I came across this post about cost & realities of student life in Galway City back in 2019
#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland
Greedy landlords targeting students is not new thing in Ireland
Today I came across this post about cost & realities of student life in Galway City back in 2019
#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Remember when vacating your student accommodation every weekend for airbnb became norm?
Greedy landlords targeting students is not new thing in Ireland
Today I came across this post about cost & realities of student life in Galway City back in 2019
#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland
Greedy landlords targeting students is not new thing in Ireland
Today I came across this post about cost & realities of student life in Galway City back in 2019
#HousingCrisis #DerelictIreland
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I think it's hard to overstate how much Simine has changed research practices and standards in psychology for the better, despite at times massive resistance from powerful parties with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Very well deserved award imho 🥳
Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
November 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I think it's hard to overstate how much Simine has changed research practices and standards in psychology for the better, despite at times massive resistance from powerful parties with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. Very well deserved award imho 🥳
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"the problem with surveillance tools is that I am not guaranteed access to surveillance data for research" says researcher
this piece is a layer cake of bad frames, bad inferences, and bad faith and i'm surprised it's from today instead of ten years ago
this piece is a layer cake of bad frames, bad inferences, and bad faith and i'm surprised it's from today instead of ten years ago
Rewiring city's technology ties following ShotSpotter saga
At a moment when an authoritarian president is seeking every tool possible to target his perceived political enemies, there is no better time for Chicago to rethink how it does business with technolog...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:29 PM
"the problem with surveillance tools is that I am not guaranteed access to surveillance data for research" says researcher
this piece is a layer cake of bad frames, bad inferences, and bad faith and i'm surprised it's from today instead of ten years ago
this piece is a layer cake of bad frames, bad inferences, and bad faith and i'm surprised it's from today instead of ten years ago
We are recruiting an information systems manager to support our data management and stewardship efforts. 13-month contract on 53k/year, but I'll be looking to extend the role contingent on renewed funding for our CRF. Small, close-knit team + flexible working arrangements.
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New job opportunity with the CRF-UCC: Information Systems Manager
The CRF-UCC is #hiring an IS Manager to continue to grow Electronic Data Capture supports offered through the Statistics, Data & Anal...
www.linkedin.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We are recruiting an information systems manager to support our data management and stewardship efforts. 13-month contract on 53k/year, but I'll be looking to extend the role contingent on renewed funding for our CRF. Small, close-knit team + flexible working arrangements.