Lucas Calais Ferreira
lcalaisferreira.bsky.social
Lucas Calais Ferreira
@lcalaisferreira.bsky.social
Epidemiologist (PhD) focused on improving population health equity through science, evidence, and change. Profile: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/ao98
Really useful thread!
Let us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025
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December 23, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Reposted by Lucas Calais Ferreira
Hopefully not too rushed given I've got a Year 11 English exam tomorrow - but behalf of all of @6newsau.bsky.social, I have made a submission to the relevant Committee regarding the social media ban for under-16s

There's less than 24hrs to make a submission: aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
November 21, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Happy to see this platform finally taking off. I look forward to learning and connecting with folks with similar interests (epidemiology, data linkage, social epi, justice health, twin studies, etc.) #epi #episky
November 12, 2024 at 1:34 AM
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it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science
December 14, 2023 at 10:35 AM
Reposted by Lucas Calais Ferreira
Another paper from my PhD has been published:

Mental and neurodevelopmental health needs of Aboriginal children with experience of out-of-home care: a Western Australian data-linkage study

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Mental and neurodevelopmental health needs of Aboriginal children with experience of out-of-home care: a Western Australian data-linkage study
To identify additional mental and neurodevelopmental health needs of Aboriginal children born in Western Australia, who are placed in out-of-home care…
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October 10, 2024 at 12:44 AM