Luisa N. BorrellOct 7, 2024
#Mediation & #DAG: “The main mediation models show that there is a partial mediation between cognitive ability, gender, & self-reported well-being, as well as between gender, cognitive ability, & well-being.” #Epiverse #CausalInference https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1396682/full
Frontiers | Cognitive ability, gender, and well-being in school contexts: longitudinal evidence from Sweden

While well-being does generally constitute a moderate predictor of school achievement, research on the predictive validity of cognitive ability for well-bein...

Frontiers
Hilda BastianJun 9, 2024

New paper with everything you might need to know about CAMELOT & its development. It's a tool for assessing the methodology of qualitative research for Cochrane reviews:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cesm.12058

Also, TIL that Cochrane has a qualitative research methods glossary: https://training.cochrane.org/QES-glossary

#EpiVerse

Hilda BastianJun 8, 2024

There's an important new review about the effectiveness of masks from @trishgreenhalgh & colleagues.

Digging into it & comparing it with the controversial Cochrane review clarified several issues for me, & left me optimistic about masks & scientific consensus.

If you've ever wondered how meta-analyses can have different conclusions on the same question, this post is for you, too!

New @PLOS: https://absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2024/06/07/what-a-new-review-reveals-about-the-mask-effectiveness-debate/

#Covid #Covid19 #EpiVerse #Epidemiology #MetaScience #MetaAnalysis #Statistics

What a New Review Reveals About the Mask Effectiveness Debate - Absolutely Maybe

Last year I wrote that a day may come, when we have evidence about masks that’s so strong, so convincing, only the…

Absolutely Maybe
Noam RossJun 7, 2024

A little-known virus (Oropouche) on the rise in South America could overwhelm health systems: https://www.science.org/content/article/little-known-virus-rise-south-america-could-overwhelm-health-systems, in @ScienceMagazine

#EpiVerse #OneHealth #EpiMastodon #Epidemiology #Virus #Oropouche

Luisa N. BorrellJun 2, 2024
A must needed project: “Estimating the Reliability and Robustness of Research (ERROR), pays specialists to check highly cited published papers, starting with the social and behavioural sciences (see go.nature.com/4bmlvkj).” #Academia #epiverse https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01465-y
Pay researchers to spot errors in published papers

Borrowing the idea of ‘bug bounties’ from the technology industry could provide a systematic way to detect and correct the errors that litter the scientific literature.

Luisa N. BorrellApr 23, 2024
If you are interested in learning MAIHDA from the best Dr. Clare Evans this is the paper to read! #Methods #SocialEpidemiology #EpiVerse #AcademicChatter #Academia #SocialEpi https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235282732400065X?via%3Dihub
Christian TestaApr 5, 2024

Hello #rstats programmers! I want to promote this event that I am helping to run:

Come give an R Programming Lightning Talk, co-hosted by the @RUGatHDSI and the Harvard Kennedy School Data & Donuts program! If you're in the #Boston area you should join in-person

I know lots of #EpiVerse folks are using R — come share your #epidemiology R wisdom!

We have a $50 gift card to give away to the voted best-lightning talk, and I think there will be some other prizes, especially in-person.

Luisa N. BorrellMar 6, 2024

The second edition of Health Inequality is out! @MelB
#EpiVerse #HealthInequities #HealthInequalities #SocialEpidemiology

amazon.com/gp/aw/d/074569…

Luisa N. BorrellFeb 16, 2024
#Editors must be mindful of #AI use accusations: “One reviewer wrote that it was “obviously ChatGPT”, and the handling editor vaguely agreed, saying that they found “the writing style unusual” #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #Academia #PeerReview #Publication #EpiVerse https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00349-5
‘Obviously ChatGPT’ — how reviewers accused me of scientific fraud

A journal reviewer accused Lizzie Wolkovich of using ChatGPT to write a manuscript. She hadn’t — but her paper was rejected anyway.

EPI-PHAREJan 24, 2024

🔴 [communiqué de presse] EPI-PHARE publie un rapport qui apporte de nouvelles données sur le risque de saignements menstruels abondants après la #vaccination contre le #COVID19.

💡 Cette étude réalisée à partir du #SNDS a porté sur l'ensemble des femmes de 15 à 50 ans en France ayant eu un diagnostic de saignements menstruels abondants à l’hôpital (hospitalisation de jour ou avec hébergement de nuit) entre le 12 mai 2021 et le 31 août 2022. #EpiVerse #SNDS

🔗 https://www.epi-phare.fr/actualites/communique-de-presse-24-01-2024/

Vaccins Covid‑19 et saignements menstuels abondants

Communiqué de presse : Nouvelles données en faveur d’un risque accru de saignements menstruels abondants après la primovaccination contre le COVID-19

EPI-PHARE