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Steve Senior

@stevensenior.bsky.social

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Consultant in Public Health. Recovering policy wonk. Lapsed neuroscientist. Ex-paper boy and former donut stand operator. Ultracrepidarian. Works in Greater Manchester, lives in West Yorkshire. Opinions my own, re-posts are not endorsements.

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CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 4h

Now this is productivity advice I can get behind

Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @ladyliminal.bsky.social · 19h

Channel the GOBLIN 😉
🎨 @wizardofbarge - insta

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 6h

Unsolicited Herr Flick pic

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 6h

I'm very much enjoying how much you've embraced this one Kate. Bravo.

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 7h

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 7h

Lol milkshake duck but wait, no maybe cancel the cancelling of Cola Bottle Nate?

Seems Nathan Rimmington did learn something from his experience on Go Back To Where You Came From.

Go Back To Where You Came From: Barnsley man on taking part in show

Lorry driver Nathan Rimmington says outlook on life has changed after replicating refugees' journey.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 7h

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8h

The whole internet loves Cola Bottle Nate, a lovely guy who almost kills himself eating Haribro cola bottles! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you Mr. Rimmington is racist

Nathan Rimmington, 33, is a haulier and owner of an HGV driving school in Barnsley. Huge, tattooed, always sweating and always pining for a pint, he is portrayed in the series as an incorrigible joker: "If the government don't crack down on immigration, my kids will have to go to school on fucking camels."

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21h

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 23h

The people getting laid off are some of the highest-trained and most specialized people in healthcare. They don’t just get replaced by hiring some new people when a sane administration takes over. This is a huge loss for America.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 23h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 9h

That's the gif I was looking for!

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 14h

Teaching scientists about statistics is not even that difficult. But it slows down how many papers get published, so we can't do it. I mean, why would we put any brakes on LLM produced papers by insisting scientists and reviewers understand the output!? Madness.

Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 2d

As coding gets more plug and play, it becomes IMPERATIVE for us as educators to teach fundamentals about what the statistical tests are comparing and assumptions.

Students might not need to understand how to code things up, but they should understand what the snippets are doing and why

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 14h

Unsolicited click pic

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 14h

Unsolicited lick pic

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 16h

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 16h

Vibes

an old man with a beard is singing into a microphone .

ALT: an old man with a beard is singing into a microphone .

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 16h

Unsolicited tick pic

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

You get the feeling the journalist had fun with this one, don't you?

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

I look forward to that.

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

All I'm saying is some people find their patriotism in things that aren't flags.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

As a public professional it would be entirely wrong of me to glorify or otherwise condone in any way this sort of behaviour.

And yet...

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

I think if we're honest the Welsh win this one and it's not even close.

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Rimmington said: "It's not the cleverest thing I have ever done in my life."

Shai @shaiuk.bsky.social · 1d

The man didn’t research so you don’t have to.

3kg of sweets in 3 days is likely bad for your health.

Important pre-Halloween EBM.

Barnsley man in hospital after three-day cola bottles binge

Nathan Rimmington ate his way through 3kg of sweets - and doctors were shocked he survived.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

I must have watched hours of her picking apart why Layne Stayley was so great.

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Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social · 1d

This month in 1909 -

Lady Wrestler Violet Stanley, who had recently performed at the Agricultural Hall, Islington was imprisoned for three months for keeping a brothel. She was later done for sex work as Emily Baillie, and in 1911 for using counterfeit coins in Newcastle as Rose Daley.

LADY WRESTLER SENT TO PRISON At the Clerkenwell Police-court on Saturday afternoon, Bertram Young, 26, described as a salesman, and Violet Stanley, 22, a “lady wrestler,” were charged with assisting in the management of a brothel at Caledonian-road, between the 11th and 17th September. Mr Bramall prosecuted for the Islington Borough Council, and Mr. Harry Ricketts appeared for the defence. Sub-divisional Inspector Rogers, G division, executed the warrant, after the usual police observation, and in the coarse of the case it was stated that both the prisoners had travelled the country as wrestlers - the lady having given an exhibition side show in the Agricultural hall. The couple had cohabited together. When the police raided the premises in Caledonian-road a loaded revolver, ready cocked, and two "life preservers” were found there.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

Correct. Pitch forks and flaming torches on standby.

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

You can't stop the revolution Leigh. I have paint sticks now.

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

Sarcasm detection fail. Rebooting social media. Deleting account.