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Tomáš Formánek
@tformanek.bsky.social
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MSCA Fellow @ Aarhus University and Visiting Researcher @ University of Cambridge studying the mental-physical health interface. I focus on the aetiology of co-occurring mental and physical health conditions and the consequences of such co-occurrences.
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Nov 17
Other epi disciplines already have their lovely starter packs, so for establishing parity of esteem, here comes the psychiatric epidemiology starter pack 👇

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Please nominate other people to grow our ranks ☺️
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · 20h
Any contexts in which it *can be* beneficial? 🥸
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Love this 😂
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · 13d
A bit late, but please consider donating to the cause of these magnificent and majestic creatures! 🦍🥺
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 14d
Sept. 24 is observed as World Gorilla Day. It was launched in 2017 to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of a Rwanda-based gorilla study center founded by Dian Fossey, the American primatologist and conservationist who gained global renown for her research.
What to know about endangered gorillas and tourist tours tracking them
World Gorilla Day is observed on September 24. It began in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of a gorilla study center in Rwanda founded by Dian Fossey.
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Sep 8
I’M IN BERLIN 🇩🇪 for the WFSBP Congress this week, and would love to catch up for coffee, lunch, dinner! Give me a shout if around ✋
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Sep 3
Reading a co-reviewer's comments who suggests that the authors should have ideally conducted an RCT to establish causality between mental disorders and premature mortality. Now I've seen it all!
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Aug 28
His tempo at the end was furious! Will probably not run that fast in any context, not to mention after 50km in the Alps 😄
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Aug 27
"Protective causal factor" feels like the one I was looking for! It is succinct and feels intuitive. Thanks a lot for sharing it 🤓
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Aug 26
It's challenging to be technically 100% correct but also succinct 😬 My problem is that saying "negative association" or "inverse association" is neither 100% correct but also not really casually understandable 🥲
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Aug 26
It always depends 😄

Your example would work nicely for reporting the actual results. However, imagine that you want to succinctly describe the character of the association. Positive and null results are fairly clear labels for standard purposes. Inverse association seems difficult to grasp, though.
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Aug 25
What terminology does #episky prefer for "X decreasing the risk of Y"? Negative association? Inverse association? Dissociation? Others?
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Aug 12
I recently used this meme for illustration 🤡
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Aug 7
No RStudio either!
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Aug 4
If ever wondered, it seems that giraffes are not immune to lightning (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...) 😱
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Aug 3
Hope this little fella will come back – would be the coolest neighbour!
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Jul 29
I'm delighted that Amadeus returns to the cinemas – I'm going to see it tonight! A total cinematic treat!
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Charlie Gao @shikokuchuo.net · Jul 10
#tidyverse purrr 1.1.0 is out - now with parallel processing!

Scale your #rstats map operations reliably and efficiently across multiple cores and even distributed systems.

Powered by the mirai framework, this unlocks new levels of performance.

Read more at:
www.tidyverse.org/blog/2025/07...
Parallel processing in purrr 1.1.0
The functional programming toolkit for R gains new capabilities for parallel processing and distributed computing using mirai.
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Jun 26
Any peeps in Lisbon 🇵🇹 currently? Will spend the next month there – would be happy to grab a coffee or something 🤗
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Jun 1
Brilliant – I can hear the swearing when making typos trying to call the package 😆
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · May 31
indiscrete? But cheekycont sounds pretty good 😄
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · May 31
ConTreat? Or ContinueR? 🤡
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Apr 2
Ah, that one is on hazard ratios, here are two specifically on odds ratios: academic.oup.com/esr/article-... academic.oup.com/aje/article/...!
Logistic Regression: Why We Cannot Do What We Think We Can Do, and What We Can Do About It
Abstract. Logistic regression estimates do not behave like linear regression estimates in one important respect: They are affected by omitted variables, ev
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Apr 2
I'm not a statistician, but I think interpreting odds ratio magnitude is particularly tricky. Here is a nice discussion: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....
Relative rates not relative risks: addressing a widespread misinterpretation of hazard ratios
The use of the Cox proportional hazards model is ubiquitous in modern medical research. Despite the widespread implementation of this model, the termi…
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Emanuele Osimo @em-os.bsky.social · Apr 1
Last couple of weeks to apply!
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Emanuele Osimo @em-os.bsky.social · Mar 14
🚨job alert!
Fancy working on mental health electronic health records #EHR?
Working across the Uni of Cambridge and industry, alongside Akrivia Health?
We are looking for an experienced postdoctoral researcher or engineer to help develop common data models for EHR.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50667/
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Mar 28
After opening them 😬
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Tomáš Formánek @tformanek.bsky.social · Mar 24
🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨

Are the associations between autoimmune arthritides (rheumatoid arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis) and mental disorders predominantly the consequence of the burden of the former, or might common causes influence the susceptibility to both?
Psychiatric morbidity in people with autoimmune arthritides as a model of inflammatory mechanisms in mental disorders
Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) are autoimmune illnesses characterised by chronic inflammation demonstrating differential associations with psychiatric conditi...
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