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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist, photographer, writer and award-winning illustrator #WomensArt #Solstice
#December21st #ArtAdvent
Painting of a stylised hare leaping over frosty ground under a red sun and pink winter sky
December 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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singlecrow.bsky.social
It's 20 December and here in London we have 17 hours of darkness. so, as I do, I commend to you Sing For The Coming of the Longest Night, co-written by me & my bff @krfabian.bsky.social: a solstice poly romance, complete with jolly vicars, haunted theremins, & deep, sweet, weird-ancient magic. ❄️🎄🏳️‍🌈
Book cover: Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night, by Katherine Fabian and Iona Datt Sharma (a deep blue background, silver text and a sprig of holly) text: The world you know is underneath the substance of another, with cracks in the firmament that let the light of its magic in… Layla and Nat have nothing in common but their boyfriend – enigmatic, brilliant Meraud – and their deep mutual dislike. But when Meraud disappears after an ambitious magical experiment goes wrong, they may be the only ones who can follow the trail of cryptic clues that will bring him safely home. To return Meraud to this world, the two of them will confront every obstacle: the magic of the wild unknowable, a friendly vicar who’s only concerned for their spiritual wellbeing, and even the Thames Water helpline. All of which would be doable, if only they didn’t have to do it together. But the winter solstice is fast approaching – and once the year turns, Meraud will be lost forever. As buried secrets lead to unexpected revelations, Nat and Layla must find a way to overcome their differences before it’s too late.
December 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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michelnivard.bsky.social
Updatedletter, I know go into soem emperical results as well: zenodo.org/records/1800...
The Apperent Negative Associations Between Early and Adult Performance in elite performers Arise from Colider Selection Bias and Baserate Neglect
Güllich et al. argue that among elite performers there is a negative association between early and adult performance, a pattern they link to distinct developmental causal mechanisms for early, and adu...
zenodo.org
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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stevesphd.bsky.social
New paper: "Alcohol consumption and risk of cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis of four biobanks and consortium data" out at BMC Medicine: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Lots of interesting findings! Brief thread:
Alcohol consumption and risk of cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis of four biobanks and consortium data - BMC Medicine
Background Alcohol consumption has been linked to cancer risk. Evidence is strongest for seven cancer types: breast, colorectum, oesophagus, liver, mouth, pharynx, and larynx. However, evidence suppor...
link.springer.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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richterscale.bsky.social
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
sardonicus.eu Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 14d
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
amymariemason.bsky.social
This is beautiful. Art saving lives.
A newspaper clipping titled “Saved by Stoppard”. It contains a letter from Michael Baum describing how watching the 1993 first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard gave him an insight into chaos theory that transformed his understanding of breast cancer progression. He recounts Thomasina’s line about equations for a bell, bluebell, and rose, and explains that this helped him realise cancer spreads non-linearly, leading to the concept of adjuvant systemic chemotherapy and improvements in patient survival. The letter ends by noting that Stoppard never knew how many lives he saved by writing the play. The author is identified as Michael Baum, Professor emeritus of surgery and visiting professor of medical humanities at UCL.
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
amymariemason.bsky.social
Friend shared a letter they have sent to girl guides. It ended with something that hit me hard:

I will continue to do my best, I just wish you could have done so too.

:'(
December 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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cam.ac.uk
Did you know that there's a wide range of scholarships, grants and bursaries at Cambridge for postgraduate study? Here are just a few of them.

Tap for a complete guide: https://bit.ly/4oOClBT

🚨 The deadline for most courses is early December so apply now.
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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sashagusevposts.bsky.social
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
The work of contemporary #printmaker Andrea Rich #womensart
Print featuring a lifelike black and blue bird perched on a diagonal twig against a hazy grey background
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social
'Saguaro Dusk' by contemporary US Impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
Painting featuring a desert at dawn or dusk in blueish light with tall cacti in silhouette against a gold and mottled purple cloudy sky
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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lswisnom.bsky.social
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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ruben.the100.ci
I built a DAG diagram with garden hoses for teaching.
Pictured: a collider bias diagram, inspired by a blocked pipe situation I experienced (which I credit with giving me the intuition though it also ruined my belongings in the flooded cellar).
me with some garden hoses connected in a X -> Z <- Y fashion. If I shut the valve at Z, water from X spills out at Y
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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mikeinouye.bsky.social
Well done @eliasallara.bsky.social! Burden of cardiovascular diseases in England (2020–24): a national cohort using electronic health records data. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Burden of cardiovascular diseases in England (2020–24): a national cohort using electronic health records data
Our study offers new insights into recent cardiovascular disease patterns and reveals important health inequalities at a whole-population scale for multiple cardiovascular diseases, during and after t...
www.thelancet.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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stevesphd.bsky.social
New pre-print "Mendelian randomization in a multi-ancestry world: reflections and practical advice" led by @amymariemason.bsky.social on - arxiv.org/abs/2510.17554
Mendelian randomization in a multi-ancestry world: reflections and practical advice
Many Mendelian randomization (MR) papers have been conducted only in people of European ancestry, limiting transportability of results to the global population. Expanding MR to diverse ancestry groups...
arxiv.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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rebeccalinnett.bsky.social
I know Professor Laura Gray at the University of Leicester has done a lot on this:

leicesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/laura-gray-b...
My journey into public involvement for statistical methodology research - NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre
A blog by Professor Laura Gray, Co-Lead for the NIHR Leicester BRC’s Data Innovation for Multiple Long-Term Health Conditions and Ethnic Health theme.
leicesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk
October 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
amymariemason.bsky.social
My current embroidery project is nearly done, so I'm looking for something new to do with my hands. Does anyone have any custom embroidery they want?

SMALL PRINT:

- Cost : donation to a trans or refugee charity of your choice

- Needs to use mostly only materials I have
Detailed embroidery of the Targaryen crest Embroidery of a my little pony Medieval style embroidery of St Agnes with lamb.
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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steamtraen.eu
Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a "delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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bharrap.bsky.social
I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own

It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries

benharrap.com/post/2025-10...

#statssky #episky #academicsky
October 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM