Evidence Synthesis: From Pairwise To Network Comparisons 📈
📣Join us for an in-person course to learn and apply pairwise and network meta-analysis in healthcare evaluation through lectures and hands-on exercises!

📆 29-30 Oct
📍 University of Glasgow

🔗 Learn more & Sign up: buff.ly/5oRvObq

In 2025, many have heard of living systematic reviews - but how many are there? Are they all COVID-19 related? How are they conducted, reported, and disseminated?

My first PhD paper looks into this and more - giving a benchmark for how LSRs are actually done and shared.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

Join us for a webinar with Dr Lisa Hartling, a Professor at the University of Alberta and a Canada Research Chair in Knowledge Synthesis and Translation
✏️ Overviews of Reviews: Evolving Methods, Emerging Challenges
📅 2 October
🕐 1 PM
🔗 Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/RTMzPzgBpE

Believe it or not - I'm not *just* playing with Lego here...

This was taken at the Young Statisticians Meeting #YSM in Liverpool last week, where I was on the organising committee. This was the intro to the session on improving presentations by focusing on stories, scripts, and slides 😎

📢Work from my @nihr.bsky.social Pre-Doc Fellowship has been published in BMJ Evidence Based Medicine 🤩

It introduces MetaImpact, a user-friendly educational tool for encouraging users to consider the current evidence base when designing new studies✨

ebm.bmj.com/content/earl...

UNDERGRAD INTERNSHIPS | MEDICAL STATISTICS | University of Leicester | 8 weeks starting 9th June

We have received funding from NIHR to host 3 undergrad interns! The internship will involve a group and individual project (see thread for details).

Please share around🤗
Get in contact if interested😀

Great films fact-checked and visualised scene by scene. Is there really such a thing as a “true” true story in Hollywood? informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...

New paper📢

Myself and colleagues have written about our experiences of developing statistical software for evidence synthesis: doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Our biggest lesson learnt is that you need BOTH researchers and software engineers 😎

#EvidenceSynthesis #RSE

The Evidence Synthesis Hackathon (eshackathon.org) is on tour this year. In early May we will be in London at UCL (more details coming very soon) & in July we are "crossing the pond" to Madison, Wisconsin, prior to the SRSM Annual Meeting (www.srsm.org/Meetings.html). Join us!

This was a great collaboration with Maximus, Gav and @elinatakola.bsky.social. We show how network meta-analysis, a method common in medicine, could be applied in ecology. Preprint (prior to peer-review) is here: doi.org/10.32942/X2J... #evidenceSynthesis #metaanalysis

Really exciting to see this being highlighted✨
Our suite of #CRSU apps have received such funding from CZI and its the first time that we've had funding specifically for MAINTENANCE of our apps - which is equally as important as developing new features

#RShiny #EvidenceSynthesis

#ggplot tip to start the year! #R #dataviz

When using geom_polygon and restricting your axes, use coord_cartesian()!
For ages my polygons weren't drawing properly (left image). Turns out, using scale_x_continuous() removes data first and then attempts to draw!
All fixed now 😅 (right image)

Just finished modularising an #RShiny app for the first time 🎉

Initially it sometimes felt unnecessary - but I'm looking forward to making further improvements to the app, knowing that it'll be simpler to navigate and make changes within modules! 😎

As a first post I thought I'd keep it light and introduce the doggo!

BlueSky meet Boson - he's certainly a force-carrier (can you tell my husband studies Physics...)