Are there any truly open style guides?
#OpenScience has progressed, but we still depend on proprietary guides (APA, MLA, Chicago).
CSL tackled citations, but we're missing open guides:
📝 Writing
📚 Examples
📄 Templates
✏️ Grammar
What about a Wikipedia-style academic writing guide?
#AcademicWriting

Great to see renewed calls to redefine obesity by waist circumference. But how do we measure it in practice? I just rediscovered my 20-year-old #PHAC tape measure.📏
Go #ImplementationScience. #PublicHealth #Obesity @thelancet.bsky.social

Healthspan, quite the poetic term! But it’s often used when health expectancy makes more sense.
• Health expectancy: It’s the healthy years we hope to live; analogous to life expectancy.
• Healthspan: Our species’ maximum potential healthy years; analogous to lifespan.
#healthspan #longevity

Elevator-pitch definitions of key scientific approaches 🛗
🧪 Experimental: Test _what happens when_
👁️ Observational: Observe _what is_
🌍 Modelling: Simulate _what could be_
💡 Theoretical: Explain _why things are_
We’re developing #modelling #EQUATOR guidelines for NCD diseases 👉 popcorn-statement.org

@CJPH_JCSP marks 50 years of the Lalonde Report, with @LauraCRosella outlining the journal's vision under her new editorship. "Both a challenge and a gift of public health is that it touches the full continuum of the human experience more than any other discipline." #Canada #publichealth

Wastewater surveillance was one of top cited innovations in pandemic surveillance research. doi: 10.2196/49185 Yet, there's still a way to go for full adoption. Discussions at #GLOWACON how to make this a standard public health tool. #wastewater #publichealth #surveillance

Tired of chasing colleagues' new emails? Institutions change, and contacts get lost.

ORCID is helpful, but direct messaging within the platform would be even better. This could even replace email addresses on journal articles.

Other solutions? #researcherlife #academia #ORCID #connectivity