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LinkedIn's default permission for using your data for AI kicks in on November 3. Here's where to switch it off on your account:
> Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement
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> Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement
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Act until Nov 3rd to stop LinkedIn from abusing your data to train AI! | Tuta
Soon your data like your resumes and profile information will be used to train LinkedIn, Microsoft, and Co.'s artificial intelligence. And no, you didn’t opt-in. Take action and stop this now.
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October 29, 2025 at 9:21 PM
LinkedIn's default permission for using your data for AI kicks in on November 3. Here's where to switch it off on your account:
> Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement
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> Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement
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A microsimulation model to estimate the impact of care disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer mortality using an administrative database.
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
Via @jclinepi.bsky.social
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Via @jclinepi.bsky.social
A microsimulation model based on healthcare pathways to estimate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic–induced delays on breast cancer mortality
This study aimed to develop a microsimulation model to estimate the impact of a care
disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer mortality using an administrative
database.
www.jclinepi.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A microsimulation model to estimate the impact of care disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic on breast cancer mortality using an administrative database.
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
Via @jclinepi.bsky.social
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
Via @jclinepi.bsky.social
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ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
September 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59
New study links marijuana use during IVF to higher risk of abnormal embryos, potentially providing new insights into the link between cannabis use and female fertility.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/m...
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#fertility #cannabis #marijuana #IVF #statnews
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#fertility #cannabis #marijuana #IVF #statnews
Study links marijuana use during IVF to higher risk of abnormal embryos
Researchers found marijuana's active ingredient may disrupt egg cells and embryos, adds to research that marijuana use can negatively affect male fertility.
www.statnews.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:43 AM
New study links marijuana use during IVF to higher risk of abnormal embryos, potentially providing new insights into the link between cannabis use and female fertility.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/09/m...
Via @statnews.com
#fertility #cannabis #marijuana #IVF #statnews
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#fertility #cannabis #marijuana #IVF #statnews
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With social media site Bluesky growing in popularity among academics, a new study has revealed how it measures up against X when it comes to sharing and promoting scientific research.
Science content on Bluesky attracts more engagement and originality than on X
New social media site is proving better for sharing research findings
www.chemistryworld.com
September 4, 2025 at 9:39 AM
With social media site Bluesky growing in popularity among academics, a new study has revealed how it measures up against X when it comes to sharing and promoting scientific research.
Most Americans still don’t know that #alcohol can cause #cancer — and the alcohol industry and Trump are working hard to make sure it stays that way by discrediting and burying a new report that offers new evidence of the link between drinking alcohol and dying www.vox.com/health/46008... @vox.com
Exclusive: RFK Jr. and the White House buried a major study on alcohol and cancer. Here’s what it shows.
Kennedy wants to “Make America Healthy Again” — but doesn’t want you to see a report that could do just that.
www.vox.com
September 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Most Americans still don’t know that #alcohol can cause #cancer — and the alcohol industry and Trump are working hard to make sure it stays that way by discrediting and burying a new report that offers new evidence of the link between drinking alcohol and dying www.vox.com/health/46008... @vox.com
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What's wrong with the obsession to consume high protein in your diet or via bars, supplements, or powders?
A review of the data on efficacy and safety erictopol.substack.com/p/our-preocc...
A review of the data on efficacy and safety erictopol.substack.com/p/our-preocc...
September 1, 2025 at 2:53 PM
What's wrong with the obsession to consume high protein in your diet or via bars, supplements, or powders?
A review of the data on efficacy and safety erictopol.substack.com/p/our-preocc...
A review of the data on efficacy and safety erictopol.substack.com/p/our-preocc...
Let's all try not to get surgery immediately before the weekend...
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Postoperative Outcomes Following Preweekend Surgery
This cohort study examines 30-day, 90-day, and 1-year postoperative outcomes of patients undergoing surgical procedures immediately before vs after the weekend.
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August 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Let's all try not to get surgery immediately before the weekend...
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@jamanetworkopen.com
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
@jamanetworkopen.com
Really thought provoking article on Canada's assisted dying law - and the fairly murky 'rules' that are supposed to guide clinician's on who is eligible for the procedure.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Canada Is Killing Itself
The country gave its citizens the right to die. Doctors are struggling to keep up with demand.
www.theatlantic.com
August 15, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Really thought provoking article on Canada's assisted dying law - and the fairly murky 'rules' that are supposed to guide clinician's on who is eligible for the procedure.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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NEW: In a likely first, security researchers have shown how generative AI agents can be hijacked to cause physical consequences.
They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler.
They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*
They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler.
They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*
Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home
For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.
www.wired.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:55 PM
NEW: In a likely first, security researchers have shown how generative AI agents can be hijacked to cause physical consequences.
They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler.
They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*
They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler.
They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*
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Scientists have mapped individual sugar molecules on the surface of cells at a resolution once thought to be impossible for light microscopes
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go.nature.com/40I9Ewv
Cell's sugar coating mapped at below-nanometre resolution
Nature - Super-resolution technique works with off-the-shelf optical microscopes.
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August 3, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Scientists have mapped individual sugar molecules on the surface of cells at a resolution once thought to be impossible for light microscopes
go.nature.com/40I9Ewv
go.nature.com/40I9Ewv
The U.S. is paying $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of contraceptives - including IUDs, implants & pills - meant for low-income countries that don't expire until 2027 to 2031. This takes the Republican madness to boost the birth rate by any means to a new level...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
The U.S. is destroying $9.7 million in contraceptives. Is there another option?
This planned destruction of birth control devices is part of the dismantling of USAID services — and is linked to allegations by the government that cite abortion. Critics are speaking out.
www.npr.org
July 29, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The U.S. is paying $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of contraceptives - including IUDs, implants & pills - meant for low-income countries that don't expire until 2027 to 2031. This takes the Republican madness to boost the birth rate by any means to a new level...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Great article from Nichola Ibe feat. some (hopefully helpful) insights from me on the need for professional indemnity insurance as a science writer.
"Doing good quality work should be protection enough" - but it's always good to have some insurance - as well as indemnity clauses in your contract.
"Doing good quality work should be protection enough" - but it's always good to have some insurance - as well as indemnity clauses in your contract.
🧪 What do you mean you need insurance as a science writer? Our fellow, Nichola Ibe asks that very question in our latest piece, where she dives into the risks of science journalism, and how writers can best protect themselves 🔗
What Do You Mean I Need Insurance As A Science Writer?
Imagine you write and publish an article about a complex scientific topic after months of meticulous research and interviews. It’s…
www.journoresources.org.uk
July 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Great article from Nichola Ibe feat. some (hopefully helpful) insights from me on the need for professional indemnity insurance as a science writer.
"Doing good quality work should be protection enough" - but it's always good to have some insurance - as well as indemnity clauses in your contract.
"Doing good quality work should be protection enough" - but it's always good to have some insurance - as well as indemnity clauses in your contract.
Starting to have this awful, sinking feeling that the 24h+ of "planned maintenance" on PubMed is just going to turn into the US government shutting down the site completely in pursuit of their silencing of evidence-based medicine. Here's hoping we're wrong...🤞🏻 #pubmed #research #evidence
July 22, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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At least since the mid-20th century, England has left mass hunger behind. How was this possible? How did English farmers prove Malthus wrong?
My 'Data Insight' on @ourworldindata.org today is about rising yields and falling hunger.
→ ourworldindata.org/data-insights
My 'Data Insight' on @ourworldindata.org today is about rising yields and falling hunger.
→ ourworldindata.org/data-insights
July 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
At least since the mid-20th century, England has left mass hunger behind. How was this possible? How did English farmers prove Malthus wrong?
My 'Data Insight' on @ourworldindata.org today is about rising yields and falling hunger.
→ ourworldindata.org/data-insights
My 'Data Insight' on @ourworldindata.org today is about rising yields and falling hunger.
→ ourworldindata.org/data-insights
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Prospective registration was associated with a reduced risk of bias for randomised controlled trials: a meta-research study.
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
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#riskofbias #bias #reportingguidelines #trialregistration #clinicaltrials #research #evidence
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#riskofbias #bias #reportingguidelines #trialregistration #clinicaltrials #research #evidence
Prospective registration was associated with a reduced risk of bias for randomized controlled trials: a meta-research study
To investigate the association between trial registration and the risk of bias (RoB).
www.jclinepi.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Prospective registration was associated with a reduced risk of bias for randomised controlled trials: a meta-research study.
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
Via @jclinepi.bsky.social
#riskofbias #bias #reportingguidelines #trialregistration #clinicaltrials #research #evidence
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
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#riskofbias #bias #reportingguidelines #trialregistration #clinicaltrials #research #evidence
More than half of the UK government’s nutrition advisers are paid by world’s largest food companies, including Nestlé, Unilever and Tate & Lyle, generating big conflicts of interest.
www.bmj.com/content/386/...
Via @bmj.com
#OA #openaccess #conflictofinterest #nutrition #food #publichealth
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#OA #openaccess #conflictofinterest #nutrition #food #publichealth
June 3, 2025 at 10:07 AM
More than half of the UK government’s nutrition advisers are paid by world’s largest food companies, including Nestlé, Unilever and Tate & Lyle, generating big conflicts of interest.
www.bmj.com/content/386/...
Via @bmj.com
#OA #openaccess #conflictofinterest #nutrition #food #publichealth
www.bmj.com/content/386/...
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#OA #openaccess #conflictofinterest #nutrition #food #publichealth
New dental costs of $9.8 billion are expected if the rest of the USA follows Utah and Florida in banning the addition of fluoride to water, based on a new cost-effectiveness analysis.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/f...
@statnews.com
#evidence #research #fluoride #dentalhealth #health #dentistry
www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/f...
@statnews.com
#evidence #research #fluoride #dentalhealth #health #dentistry
25 million cavities and $9.8 billion: Study estimates the costs of removing fluoride from water
Researchers estimated 7.5% more U.S. children would get cavities, affecting 25.4 million additional teeth, if fluoridation were banned nationwide
www.statnews.com
June 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
New dental costs of $9.8 billion are expected if the rest of the USA follows Utah and Florida in banning the addition of fluoride to water, based on a new cost-effectiveness analysis.
www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/f...
@statnews.com
#evidence #research #fluoride #dentalhealth #health #dentistry
www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/f...
@statnews.com
#evidence #research #fluoride #dentalhealth #health #dentistry
Had enough of the Google AI overview search page nightmare? We’ve changed over to @startpage.com as a browser. Excellent so far! It uses Google’s search engine with super duper privacy protection. It also doesn’t throw up the annoying accept/reject cookies notice every time you open your homepage! 🎉
May 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Had enough of the Google AI overview search page nightmare? We’ve changed over to @startpage.com as a browser. Excellent so far! It uses Google’s search engine with super duper privacy protection. It also doesn’t throw up the annoying accept/reject cookies notice every time you open your homepage! 🎉
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In the wake of several countries legalising #marijuana, questions remain about the drug's long-term #health effects. A new study has found that people who smoke weed or use edibles do worse on measures of vascular health that predict cardiovascular risk.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
@jama.com
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@jama.com
Endothelial Dysfunction and Chronic Cannabis Use
This cross-sectional study aims to determine whether cannabis use is associated with vascular endothelial function.
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May 29, 2025 at 11:45 AM
In the wake of several countries legalising #marijuana, questions remain about the drug's long-term #health effects. A new study has found that people who smoke weed or use edibles do worse on measures of vascular health that predict cardiovascular risk.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
@jama.com
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
@jama.com
This critical work from @hsph.harvard.edu scientists continues to compile a list of the NIH & NSF grants that have been cut by the Trump administration in 2025.
Over 2,100 grants have gone, many with a focus on minorities - women, LGBTQ, others.
grant-watch.us
#grantwatch #science #research
Over 2,100 grants have gone, many with a focus on minorities - women, LGBTQ, others.
grant-watch.us
#grantwatch #science #research
May 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This critical work from @hsph.harvard.edu scientists continues to compile a list of the NIH & NSF grants that have been cut by the Trump administration in 2025.
Over 2,100 grants have gone, many with a focus on minorities - women, LGBTQ, others.
grant-watch.us
#grantwatch #science #research
Over 2,100 grants have gone, many with a focus on minorities - women, LGBTQ, others.
grant-watch.us
#grantwatch #science #research
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A scoping review of carbon emissions associated with clinical trials finds that several trial activities, including travel and meetings, trial facilities, and sample & lab activities, are consistently carbon heavy.
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
@jclinepi.bsky.social
#scopingreview #openaccess
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
@jclinepi.bsky.social
#scopingreview #openaccess
May 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
A scoping review of carbon emissions associated with clinical trials finds that several trial activities, including travel and meetings, trial facilities, and sample & lab activities, are consistently carbon heavy.
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
@jclinepi.bsky.social
#scopingreview #openaccess
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
@jclinepi.bsky.social
#scopingreview #openaccess
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Brand new SPIRIT and CONSORT #reporting #guidelines are out now!
🎯 CONSORT 2025 for reporting RCTs now has a 30-item checklist
🎯 SPIRIT 2025 for reporting trial protocols now has a 34-item checklist
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
@jclinepi.bsky.social
#SPIRIT #CONSORT #RCTs #protocols
🎯 CONSORT 2025 for reporting RCTs now has a 30-item checklist
🎯 SPIRIT 2025 for reporting trial protocols now has a 34-item checklist
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
@jclinepi.bsky.social
#SPIRIT #CONSORT #RCTs #protocols
May 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Brand new SPIRIT and CONSORT #reporting #guidelines are out now!
🎯 CONSORT 2025 for reporting RCTs now has a 30-item checklist
🎯 SPIRIT 2025 for reporting trial protocols now has a 34-item checklist
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
@jclinepi.bsky.social
#SPIRIT #CONSORT #RCTs #protocols
🎯 CONSORT 2025 for reporting RCTs now has a 30-item checklist
🎯 SPIRIT 2025 for reporting trial protocols now has a 34-item checklist
www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...
@jclinepi.bsky.social
#SPIRIT #CONSORT #RCTs #protocols
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A new reporting guideline has just been published for the involvement of patients and caregivers in identifying and designing healthcare interventions: the IDEAS framework www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... HT @jclinepi.bsky.social #OA #openaccess #IDEAS #coproduction #patients #partners #research
May 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A new reporting guideline has just been published for the involvement of patients and caregivers in identifying and designing healthcare interventions: the IDEAS framework www.jclinepi.com/article/S089... HT @jclinepi.bsky.social #OA #openaccess #IDEAS #coproduction #patients #partners #research