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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 1d

🔈 Do you want to use programming language R in your longitudinal data analyses? Take part in a two-day in-person, paid short course running on 3–4 November 2025 at UCL’s Bloomsbury Campus. Head to the UCL Online Store to find out more and register 👉

K26 Using R for Longitudinal Data Analysis | UCL Online Store

This is an in-person two-day course for quantitative researchers wanting to perform longitudinal data analyses with the programming language R. The course

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 8h

Even exceptional work often remains unduly noticed if it's not marketed in the right way.

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

Uh oh

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

@pwgtennant.bsky.social said it was *the* best talk at EuroCIM 😎 And he is a harsh critic!

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

I'm SO thrilled for the return of the CIIG this term with the most exciting presenter possible 💃 Everyone sign up join us!

Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 2d

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈

You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2d

The seminar series is fully online though we could arrange a watch party for this one 😁🤔

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 5d

"Uncooperative statistician": the term used (typically by a senior clinician) to describe a well-trained and knowledgeable statistician who refuses to conduct flawed or fraudulent research.

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 3d

I'm getting this tattooed

Chelsea Parlett @chelseaparlett.bsky.social · 4d

It’s not the method that makes you causal it’s the assumptions

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 5d

Why are you epi boys not creating such cool content?

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 5d

Longing for simpler times on bluesky

Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · Oct 9

Epi boys > stats boys

fight

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · 12d

We are finished

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 18d

I guess this is my job now

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 18d

I can confirm there's chaos at Berlin Brandenburg! Everyone has to be checked in by hand (taking 10-15 mins per passenger). Rumours of hand written boarding passes.

We need a cyber security expert to comment on the interreliance and vulnerability of these check in systems!

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 21d

We’re excited to be at @adruk2025.bsky.social in beautiful Cardiff. If you’re at the conference, come visit our stall in the main entrance hall near the welcome desk. 🐻

Wishing all delegates at #ADRUKConf25 an enjoyable few days.

Lisa Calderwood and Karen Dennison at the Centre for Longitudinal Studies booth

CLS mascot teddy at the ADR UK conference

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · 29d

We're excited to announce CLS will lead the first new nationally representative UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. Generation New Era will follow the lives of more than 30,000 babies born in 2026, during their early years, and potentially beyond. Read more: bit.ly/4gfttBP

Photo of three babies lying on the carpet

Graphic describing some of the key features of the study: 30,000 babies will take part, it is the first new UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years, babies will be age 9-11 months at the first survey, and 3-4 years at the second survey.

Graphic showing sample sizes in the four UK countries: 16,300 babies in England, 5,000 babies in Scotland, 4,500 babies in Wales, and 4,200 babies in Northern Ireland.

Graphic describing some of the elements of the study. This includes boosts for ethnic minority and low income families, interviews with fathers as well as mothers, consent to linkage to administrative data.

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Society for Social Medicine & Population Health @socsocmed.bsky.social · 29d

Let us know if you're coming to the #SSM2025 Early Career Researcher day!

We get started at 09:30 with a packed schedule of sessions from considering how to best include the public in research, the role of qualitative methods in health research, to presenting research in the media.

See you soon!

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · Sep 1

Yes definitely, but my understanding is the “intervention” here is exactly this first week enforcement/encouragement, rather than addressing any background reasons

Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · Aug 31

This allows us to predict future behaviour. However, it does not mean that attendance in the first week itself has any *effect* on future attendance.

In other words, it does not mean that enforcing attendance during the first week would somehow improve attendance later on.

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · Aug 31

“Pupils in England who missed school during the first week back in September 2024 were more likely to be absent for large parts later in the year, figures suggest.”

This only tells us that those who miss school once are more likely to miss school again in the future. It’s not very surprising.

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Georgia Tomova @georgiatomova.bsky.social · Aug 31

A fantastic teaching example of a predictor being misinterpreted as having a causal effect.

#CausalSky #EpiSky

First week 'critical' to avoid children missing school later, parents told

Data suggests more than half of children who miss a day at the start of term become persistently absent.

www.bbc.com

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · Aug 26

✨ One week to go! We're looking for a new Director. Find out more about the role and apply on the CLS website: bit.ly/452oe4v

Text saying: Apply now Professor and Director of the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, closing date: Tuesday, 2 September 2025, plus photo of UCL portico

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · Aug 14

👉 We're looking for a new Director. Find out more about the role and apply on the CLS website: bit.ly/452oe4v

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UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies @clscohorts.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎉 News from the 1958 National Child Development Study! Data from the Age 62 Sweep are now available to download from the @ukdataservice.bsky.social. This is the most comprehensive data collection of the cohort’s adult lives.

Find out more: bit.ly/4lIwpJa

Senior businesswoman is doing paperwork in her stock factory.

Big news! 1958 National Child Development Study Age 62 Sweep
Data now available.
Centre for Longitudinal Studies

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George Davey Smith @mendelrandom.bsky.social · Jul 25

Great to see a joint 2026 SSM/IEA meeting, marking the 70th anniversary of SSM and one of the potential 70th anniversary dates for the IEA (though in 1956 it was called the International Corresponding Club). My first SSM & IEA conferences occurred closer to the founding dates than to today

Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · Jul 24

SAVE THE DATE: The 2026 IEA European Congress of Epidemiology and 70th @socsocmed.bsky.social Annual Conference will take place in London, UK on 8th-11th September 2026!

#EpiSky #EuroEpi2026

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · Jul 24

This will be:

* the first European Congress of Epidemiology since Cork, Ireland 2019

* the 70th conference of the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health

* the 70th anniversary of the first meeting of the International Epidemiological Association

So a real celebration of Epi in Europe!

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