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Henri Pesonen @hpesonen.bsky.social · Sep 1

I'm looking for a Doctoral Researcher (PhD student) to work with me on simulation-based inference at Data Science Research Centre, Tampere University Check the link for details and send an application before October 10th.

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Doctoral Researcher (simulation-based inference) / Väitöskirjatutkija (simulaatio-pohjainen päättely)

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Ashani Weeraratna @ashi-w.bsky.social · Jul 11

Good morning! Heading to the beach this weekend? Just working outside? Strolling to your local coffee shop? Please read!

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Jun 27

www.fhi.no/nyheter/2025...

For få pasienter kommer til legen tidsnok for å unngå spredning av melanom

Forebygging og tidlig diagnostikk er avgjørende for hvordan det vil gå med pasienter som får påvist melanom, også kjent som føflekkreft. Flere steder i landet burde sykdommen vært oppdaget enda tidlig...

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Jun 19

The nice weather continues in Oslo - today is the traditional summer party in the research group for occupational/environmental epidemiology

Cancer Registry of Norway
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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Jun 18

Last Epistat group meeting before summer - outdoors!
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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Jun 1

Krysser fingrene for rekordstor deltagelse i viktig forskning på kvinners helse @uitnorgesarktiske.bsky.social www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnm...

UiT Norges arktiske universitet skal forske på kvinnehelse i Norges største undersøkelse

UiT startet nå på Norges største undersøkelse om kvinnehelse. De håper det kan bidra til økt livskvalitet for eldre kvinner.

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · May 30

Six common false statements on the effects of sun and sunscreens academic.oup.com/bjd/advance-...

Common false statements on the effects of sun and sunscreens

Media features regarding sun on the skin are a part of summer. However, such features often contain factual errors. This letter describes the most common e

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Valeria Vitelli @valeriavitelli.bsky.social · May 27

JOBS ALERT! PhD position & 3-y postdoc position in statistics within my research group at @ocbe.bsky.social @uio.no
Both are linked to a project funded from the Research Council of Norway on Integrative Bayesian clustering for high-dim data in omics

Deadline: 13 June 2025

More info & links below!

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · May 17

Hipp hipp hurra!

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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · May 14

Only 4 days left to the deadline: Become our new colleague as associate professor in biostatistical machine learning at Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social and our Centre of Knowledge-driven Machine Learning Integreat!
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · May 8

Join us in beautiful Oslo!
Associate Professor @ocbe.bsky.social
@uio.no
Deadline May 18th
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Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924) | University of Oslo

Job title: Associate Professor at the Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology (276924), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Sunday, May 18, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · May 4

This study from Tromsø highlights an elevated risk of myocardial infarction among occasional smokers, with higher relative risk in women. There is no safe threshold for smoking, underlining the importance of smoking cessation.

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Occasional smoking is a risk factor for myocardial infarction in the population-based Tromsø Study, 2001–21

AbstractAims. While the association between daily smoking and myocardial infarction (MI) risk is well-established, little is known concerning the relations

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Apr 30

Great that the health minister is interested in stricter regulation of indoor tanning and to ban advertising. www.vg.no/i/4BAeqg?utm...

Vil stoppe uregulert solariebruk

Nå skal det bli vanskeligere for unge å ta solarium. Dersom helseministeren og Kreftforeningen får det som de vil.

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Manuela Zucknick @manuelazucknick.bsky.social · Apr 29

Tomorrow last day for early-bird registration to PrefStat 2025, 2nd International Summer School on Preference Learning for Ranking and Ordinal Data (www.prefstat.org)! In Oslo, 30.06 – 04.07. Register here: www.integreat.no/events/publi...
@valeriavitelli.bsky.social @ocbe.bsky.social @uio.no

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Apr 25

Our new monthly newsletter!

Oslo Centre for Biostatistics and Epidemiology @ocbe.bsky.social · Apr 25

We have started a new monthly newsletter, the OCBE newsletter!!! where will be showcasing our recent publications and other relevant news. Check out the first edition here:

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OCBE newsletter, April 2025 - Institute of Basic Medical Sciences

Welcome to the OCBE newsletter! This month we showcase our recent publications on environmental exposures and cancer risk, drug repurposing, bacterial DNA sequencing and much more.

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Jon Michael Gran @jmgran.bsky.social · Apr 25

Open permanent position as researcher in causal inference for infectious diseases at the Norwegian Institute for Public Health! Deadline May 16.

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Researcher with statistical competence in causal inference for infectious disease | FINN.no

The Section for Modelling and Bioinformatics, in the Department of Method Development and Analytics, is recruiting a researcher for a permanent position. In

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Apr 21

Beautiful spring at campus @uio.no

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Apr 14

Nice about eggs by @erikarnesen.bsky.social and Jacob🐣Eggs can be part of a healthy and varied diet. The recommendations vary between countries.

www.med.uio.no/om/aktuelt/b...

Er egg bra for helsa? - Det medisinske fakultet

«Egg kan inngå i et sunt og variert kosthold» – slik lyder anbefalingen om egg i de norske kostrådene. Hva betyr egg for helsa, og hvor mye kan man spise med god samvittighet?

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Apr 13

Little snow where we start but still nice to ski this pre-Easter weekend #Vågå 🐥⛷️

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Apr 9

There is no safe limit for UV radiation from sunbeds

IMPACT Melanoma @impactmelanoma.bsky.social · Mar 31

Using tanning beds before age 35 increases your risk of melanoma by 75%. ☀️🚫 There’s no such thing as a “safe tan” from a tanning bed. Protect your skin—skip the booth and opt for sun-safe habits instead.

Learn the risks: bit.ly/3DJr8xE #MelanomaMonday #IMPACTMelanoma

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Apr 7

A well-managed dataset is a technical asset zenodo.org/records/1504...

The immortal life of poorly managed data: technical debt in registry-based research

Technical debt refers to inefficiencies caused by prioritizing quick fixes over best practices in data management and processing. This poster highlights the negative consequences of technical debt in...

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Apr 6

Surprisingly, some sessions with only men on stage (chairs & speakers), but there is light in the tunnel
WCM & EADO 2025

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Apr 6

Back in Oslo after interesting days at the WCM/EADO 2025 in beautiful Athens. Among the highlights:
@shainlab.bsky.social The journey from melanocytes to melanoma
@gvlongphdmd.bsky.social Neoadjuvant therapy: a new standard of care for melanomas

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Mar 28

3-year PhD position @ocbe.bsky.social in beautiful Oslo.

We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate interested in statistial applications and occupational epidemiological research

Join our team!

Deadline: April 21

More information:
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

PhD Research Fellow in Epidemiology (278150) | University of Oslo

Job title: PhD Research Fellow in Epidemiology (278150), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, April 21, 2025

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Marit B. Veierød @maritbveierod.bsky.social · Mar 24

A Bayesian Belief Network model to predict CVD in subjects with T1D, from our Horizon 2020 collaboration
Ornella Moro
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Norwegian Centre for E-Health Research
UiT The Arctic University of Norway
@ocbe.bsky.social
IUIBS

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A Bayesian Belief Network model for the estimation of risk of cardiovascular events in subjects with type 1 diabetes

Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) represent a major risk for people with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Our aim here is to develop a new methodology that overcom…

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