@platinumjoy.bsky.social
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Why do humans take risks that no other species would dare? How did our ancestors’ gambles shape our evolution? And could the very trait that made us dominant on Earth now lead to our downfall? Curious? Don't miss Don Ross' talk on Jan 20! reses-argumenta.fi?p=1126
@don-rosseconomist.bsky.social
@don-rosseconomist.bsky.social
January 12, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Why do humans take risks that no other species would dare? How did our ancestors’ gambles shape our evolution? And could the very trait that made us dominant on Earth now lead to our downfall? Curious? Don't miss Don Ross' talk on Jan 20! reses-argumenta.fi?p=1126
@don-rosseconomist.bsky.social
@don-rosseconomist.bsky.social
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Join us for a New PhD Course on Discrete Choice Modelling at the University of Oslo! 🌍🧠
🗓 Save the Dates: June 2 - 6, 2025
🌍 Enrolment is open to international PhD students, subject to availability.
📩 Sign Up for Info Here: nettskjema.no/a/475618
#PhDCourse #ChoiceModelling
#HealthEconomics
🗓 Save the Dates: June 2 - 6, 2025
🌍 Enrolment is open to international PhD students, subject to availability.
📩 Sign Up for Info Here: nettskjema.no/a/475618
#PhDCourse #ChoiceModelling
#HealthEconomics
December 4, 2024 at 10:15 AM
Join us for a New PhD Course on Discrete Choice Modelling at the University of Oslo! 🌍🧠
🗓 Save the Dates: June 2 - 6, 2025
🌍 Enrolment is open to international PhD students, subject to availability.
📩 Sign Up for Info Here: nettskjema.no/a/475618
#PhDCourse #ChoiceModelling
#HealthEconomics
🗓 Save the Dates: June 2 - 6, 2025
🌍 Enrolment is open to international PhD students, subject to availability.
📩 Sign Up for Info Here: nettskjema.no/a/475618
#PhDCourse #ChoiceModelling
#HealthEconomics
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Using AI to synthesize causal evidence for policy analysis...
Approach here compares AI results w/ prior, manually-done meta-reviews of the policy instrument, & finds them broadly consistent & complementary. Conclusion: despite limitations, approach can help synthesize causal evid. policysky 🛟📉
Approach here compares AI results w/ prior, manually-done meta-reviews of the policy instrument, & finds them broadly consistent & complementary. Conclusion: despite limitations, approach can help synthesize causal evid. policysky 🛟📉
A semi-automated approach to policy-relevant evidence synthesis: combining natural language processing, causal mapping, and graph analytics for public policy - Policy Sciences
Although causal evidence synthesis is critical for the policy sciences—whether it be analysis for policy or analysis of policy—its repeatable, systematic, and transparent execution remains challenging...
link.springer.com
December 1, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Using AI to synthesize causal evidence for policy analysis...
Approach here compares AI results w/ prior, manually-done meta-reviews of the policy instrument, & finds them broadly consistent & complementary. Conclusion: despite limitations, approach can help synthesize causal evid. policysky 🛟📉
Approach here compares AI results w/ prior, manually-done meta-reviews of the policy instrument, & finds them broadly consistent & complementary. Conclusion: despite limitations, approach can help synthesize causal evid. policysky 🛟📉
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Tory MP Edward Leigh, insists that palliative care can prevent pain. "There is no need for [the fear of dying in pain]. When I talk to consultants, practitioners, in palliative care, they say that they can manage pain." This is not correct.
November 29, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Tory MP Edward Leigh, insists that palliative care can prevent pain. "There is no need for [the fear of dying in pain]. When I talk to consultants, practitioners, in palliative care, they say that they can manage pain." This is not correct.
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I'm going to do some coverage on here of the assisted dying debate. If you're not interested please mute this thread now. It'll probably go on a while.
November 29, 2024 at 8:53 AM
I'm going to do some coverage on here of the assisted dying debate. If you're not interested please mute this thread now. It'll probably go on a while.
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The meme I didn't know I needed
November 29, 2024 at 1:06 AM
The meme I didn't know I needed
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🧪 🛟 For this Epi Explained, we're covering Cohort Studies! By following groups over time, cohort studies uncover links between exposures and health outcomes, shaping public health insights. Link: https://buff.ly/3ZeOKUj #EpiSky #StudyDesign #PublicHealth #MedSky #EduSky
Epi Explained: Understanding Cohort Studies -
ALT: A pencil sketch of Twenty Young Girls in a Group Walking to the Left by Thomas Stothard (English, 1755-1834).
buff.ly
November 27, 2024 at 11:00 PM
🧪 🛟 For this Epi Explained, we're covering Cohort Studies! By following groups over time, cohort studies uncover links between exposures and health outcomes, shaping public health insights. Link: https://buff.ly/3ZeOKUj #EpiSky #StudyDesign #PublicHealth #MedSky #EduSky
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For context:
It's estimated that the most vulnerable countries in the world need at least $1.3T per year to accelerate the clean energy transition and build resilience to climate impacts.
COP29 closed yesterday with an agreement for $300B per year (not the actual funds, just the agreement).
It's estimated that the most vulnerable countries in the world need at least $1.3T per year to accelerate the clean energy transition and build resilience to climate impacts.
COP29 closed yesterday with an agreement for $300B per year (not the actual funds, just the agreement).
Just going to park this here.
(2023 = $2.4 trillion)
(2023 = $2.4 trillion)
November 24, 2024 at 8:00 PM
For context:
It's estimated that the most vulnerable countries in the world need at least $1.3T per year to accelerate the clean energy transition and build resilience to climate impacts.
COP29 closed yesterday with an agreement for $300B per year (not the actual funds, just the agreement).
It's estimated that the most vulnerable countries in the world need at least $1.3T per year to accelerate the clean energy transition and build resilience to climate impacts.
COP29 closed yesterday with an agreement for $300B per year (not the actual funds, just the agreement).
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New paper out at @jamacurrent.bsky.social led by @ojwouters.bsky.social on the empirical assumptions underlying differential protection for biologics & small-molecule drugs.
Upshot: We found no good evidence supporting differential treatment by FDA (or under IRA).
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Upshot: We found no good evidence supporting differential treatment by FDA (or under IRA).
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Legal Protections for Biologics vs Small-Molecule Drugs in the US
This Special Communication analyzes and compares development times, clinical trial success rates, research and development costs, patent protection, market exclusivity periods, revenues, and treatment...
jamanetwork.com
November 25, 2024 at 5:10 PM
New paper out at @jamacurrent.bsky.social led by @ojwouters.bsky.social on the empirical assumptions underlying differential protection for biologics & small-molecule drugs.
Upshot: We found no good evidence supporting differential treatment by FDA (or under IRA).
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Upshot: We found no good evidence supporting differential treatment by FDA (or under IRA).
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
November 19, 2024 at 12:27 PM
The strain on scientific publishing: we set out to characterise the remarkable growth of the scientific literature in the last few years, in spite of declining growth in total scientists. What is going on?
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A 🧵 1/n
#AcademicSky #PhDchat #ScientificPublishing #SciPub
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Imagine being a grown-ass professional take-haver and still thinking that science isn't political because E = mc² doesn't care about your feelings.
November 22, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Imagine being a grown-ass professional take-haver and still thinking that science isn't political because E = mc² doesn't care about your feelings.
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When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
November 22, 2024 at 4:32 AM
When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
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Indeed. bsky.app/profile/kath...
I'm seeing a lot of free-floating hot takes these days re what scientists "should" and "shouldn't" be doing in today's increasingly anti-science atmosphere.
Philosophers have been discussing this topic for centuries and there is a rich + robust body of scholarship on this topic. As we discuss here.
Philosophers have been discussing this topic for centuries and there is a rich + robust body of scholarship on this topic. As we discuss here.
Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism - npj Climate Action
We argue that Büntgen’s (2024) claim that climate science must be separated from activism is fundamentally flawed. Activism does not inherently lead to biased science and striving for value-free scien...
www.nature.com
November 22, 2024 at 5:16 AM
Indeed. bsky.app/profile/kath...
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Since some seem determined not to get it:
Arguing science shouldn’t be political is like arguing that ducks shouldn’t be waterfowl.
Sure, whatever floats your boat, but they wouldn’t be ducks then would they?
Science is a collective human effort at sensemaking—the very definition of political.
Arguing science shouldn’t be political is like arguing that ducks shouldn’t be waterfowl.
Sure, whatever floats your boat, but they wouldn’t be ducks then would they?
Science is a collective human effort at sensemaking—the very definition of political.
When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit.
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention.
Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"
November 22, 2024 at 7:53 AM
Since some seem determined not to get it:
Arguing science shouldn’t be political is like arguing that ducks shouldn’t be waterfowl.
Sure, whatever floats your boat, but they wouldn’t be ducks then would they?
Science is a collective human effort at sensemaking—the very definition of political.
Arguing science shouldn’t be political is like arguing that ducks shouldn’t be waterfowl.
Sure, whatever floats your boat, but they wouldn’t be ducks then would they?
Science is a collective human effort at sensemaking—the very definition of political.
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I'm seeing a lot of free-floating hot takes these days re what scientists "should" and "shouldn't" be doing in today's increasingly anti-science atmosphere.
Philosophers have been discussing this topic for centuries and there is a rich + robust body of scholarship on this topic. As we discuss here.
Philosophers have been discussing this topic for centuries and there is a rich + robust body of scholarship on this topic. As we discuss here.
Challenging the neutrality myth in climate science and activism - npj Climate Action
We argue that Büntgen’s (2024) claim that climate science must be separated from activism is fundamentally flawed. Activism does not inherently lead to biased science and striving for value-free scien...
www.nature.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:02 PM
I'm seeing a lot of free-floating hot takes these days re what scientists "should" and "shouldn't" be doing in today's increasingly anti-science atmosphere.
Philosophers have been discussing this topic for centuries and there is a rich + robust body of scholarship on this topic. As we discuss here.
Philosophers have been discussing this topic for centuries and there is a rich + robust body of scholarship on this topic. As we discuss here.
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Is sharing our writing a thing here? 😊
Proud of this piece because it represents the work of so many trying to make medicine and communication better for our patients. #MedSky
www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/action/showP...
Proud of this piece because it represents the work of so many trying to make medicine and communication better for our patients. #MedSky
www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/action/showP...
November 19, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Is sharing our writing a thing here? 😊
Proud of this piece because it represents the work of so many trying to make medicine and communication better for our patients. #MedSky
www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/action/showP...
Proud of this piece because it represents the work of so many trying to make medicine and communication better for our patients. #MedSky
www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/action/showP...
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You've probably heard that Bicarbonate has to turn into CO2 to raise the pH.
“Don’t give bicarb if you can’t increase ventilation.” But why?!
How much CO2 is there in an amp of sodium bicarbonate? Hos much does it raise pH? And how long does it last?
A 🧵 all about our ICU frenemy NaHCO3
1/
“Don’t give bicarb if you can’t increase ventilation.” But why?!
How much CO2 is there in an amp of sodium bicarbonate? Hos much does it raise pH? And how long does it last?
A 🧵 all about our ICU frenemy NaHCO3
1/
November 19, 2024 at 1:46 PM
You've probably heard that Bicarbonate has to turn into CO2 to raise the pH.
“Don’t give bicarb if you can’t increase ventilation.” But why?!
How much CO2 is there in an amp of sodium bicarbonate? Hos much does it raise pH? And how long does it last?
A 🧵 all about our ICU frenemy NaHCO3
1/
“Don’t give bicarb if you can’t increase ventilation.” But why?!
How much CO2 is there in an amp of sodium bicarbonate? Hos much does it raise pH? And how long does it last?
A 🧵 all about our ICU frenemy NaHCO3
1/
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Blog on our new JoPACS viewpoint led by @molthof.bsky.social, highlighting problems of ignoring socio-environmental causes for psychopathology, using the example of the p-factor for which all dominant theories position liability *within* the person.
eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...
eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...
Are causes of mental disorders in the person or in the environment? » Eiko Fried
Brief summary of our new paper on the personal-internal reification of p-factor causes with Merlijn Olthof and Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff
eiko-fried.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Blog on our new JoPACS viewpoint led by @molthof.bsky.social, highlighting problems of ignoring socio-environmental causes for psychopathology, using the example of the p-factor for which all dominant theories position liability *within* the person.
eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...
eiko-fried.com/causes-of-me...
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The openness of BlueSky leads to a lot of creative apps can be made from the API - found this great list of a variety of apps to explore BlueSky in a new way on Reddit
github.com/fishttp/awes...
github.com/fishttp/awes...
GitHub - fishttp/awesome-bluesky: A list of all known tools available for the Bluesky platform
A list of all known tools available for the Bluesky platform - fishttp/awesome-bluesky
github.com
November 18, 2024 at 12:36 AM
The openness of BlueSky leads to a lot of creative apps can be made from the API - found this great list of a variety of apps to explore BlueSky in a new way on Reddit
github.com/fishttp/awes...
github.com/fishttp/awes...
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New article by me & Lucas at Our World in Data!
The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have killed more than 25 million people; it caused grief & suffering among their loved ones, impacted people's health worldwide & disrupted work & lifestyles.
We look back on the pandemic with 17 charts:
The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have killed more than 25 million people; it caused grief & suffering among their loved ones, impacted people's health worldwide & disrupted work & lifestyles.
We look back on the pandemic with 17 charts:
17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic has resulted in over twenty million deaths. In this article, we review the key insights from global data on COVID-19.
ourworldindata.org
November 18, 2024 at 10:21 AM
New article by me & Lucas at Our World in Data!
The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have killed more than 25 million people; it caused grief & suffering among their loved ones, impacted people's health worldwide & disrupted work & lifestyles.
We look back on the pandemic with 17 charts:
The COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have killed more than 25 million people; it caused grief & suffering among their loved ones, impacted people's health worldwide & disrupted work & lifestyles.
We look back on the pandemic with 17 charts:
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The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 3:19 PM
The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/
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If anyone is collecting absurd "LLMs are ..." takes: and want to add to "... just a fuzzy JPEG of the internet" / "... just a big matrix" / "... literally God", then how about "... an Oxford-school analytical philosopher c.1957 who can read really fast."
paulmainwood.substack.com/p/a-plea-for...
paulmainwood.substack.com/p/a-plea-for...
A plea for Large Language Models
ChatGPT as an ordinary-language analytic philosopher
paulmainwood.substack.com
November 14, 2024 at 12:21 PM
If anyone is collecting absurd "LLMs are ..." takes: and want to add to "... just a fuzzy JPEG of the internet" / "... just a big matrix" / "... literally God", then how about "... an Oxford-school analytical philosopher c.1957 who can read really fast."
paulmainwood.substack.com/p/a-plea-for...
paulmainwood.substack.com/p/a-plea-for...
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Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.
We need to get back to reading and critical thinking
Because 2024 feels different from 2016.
open.substack.com
November 14, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.