Mastodawn

@bloor "You look like someone who'd enjoy Dubai" is one of my fave new insults

@pluralistic all of the code that runs the platform is here https://github.com/opensafely-core (including ehrQL) and fully open source

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Jon Massey Feb 13

@pluralistic there's a great blog post on its design here https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2023/09/why-ehrql/ (there's another fantastic one on how we test it!). Publishing of results is not automatic, and certainly not after a set period. Researcher's analyses can only ever produce aggregate results and are subject to strict statistical disclosure controls. Two independent reviews of every single research output verify these before data are released! This rigour is a big part of our privacy stance.

Why ehrQL? | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Why did we create a new query language?

Jon Massey Feb 13

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116056785239179997

Love to see @pluralistic 's enthusiasm for OpenSAFELY! Few (friendly) corrections: We're the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the Nuffield Dept for Primary Health Care Sciences - Ben is affiliated with Jesus but the rest of us are not. The patient data aren't held by the NHS trusts, but by the two major GP software providers (who have an effective duopoly over the English market). "modified MySQL syntax" slightly hurts my soul - ehrQL is intentionally not SQL-like ...

Jon Massey Apr 11, 2024

https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/04/opensafely-software-engineering-vacancies/ come work with us, fellow nerds. Great people doing great things

OpenSAFELY software engineering vacancies | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

We’re hiring software people and we’d love you to join us

Jon Massey Apr 2, 2024

@shanselman Hi Scott, I'm a developer/scientist at https://www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/ and we run https://www.opensafely.org/ - an open and transparent platform for privacy-preserving analysis of health records. We make extensive use of GitHub for SSO and loads of our infra relies on it (and generally we love it!). One of our researchers has had their acct suspended for a couple of weeks for and we've had no response from support messages. Do you have a recommendation for escalation? 🙏

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The Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science - pioneering the better use of data, evidence and digital tools in healthcare and policy.

Jon Massey Jan 2, 2024

Got a new sit/stand desk for crimbo, lads

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Jon Massey Dec 28, 2023

@goatsarah mine have been so much better since I swapped out some of the major parts for ones made by humans (well, robots under the control of humans anyway)

Jon Massey Dec 28, 2023

Jen Keane (Zenbuffy - she/her)Dec 28, 2023

Come for the sassy streaming service jabs, stay for my growing gender pay gap portal. The Irish government dropped the ball on a portal again, so I'm out here providing a government service like it's my job. There's even an option for you to submit data directly to be included in the database for either 2022 or 2023. If you want to help me build the data, its never been easier.

https://gpg.ie

#GenderPayGap #GenderPayGapReporting

GPG.ie - Irish Gender Pay Gap Portal

A portal cataloguing gender pay gap reports from Irish companies. Since 2022, all Irish companies with more than 250 employees must publish a gender pay gap report annually. Data is available for 2022 & 2023

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Jon Massey Dec 27, 2023

@TimWardCam yeah we've been in existence a year or so (as the Bennett Institute anyway). FKA the EBM Data Lab. Still part of the Nuffield Dept of Primary Care Health Sciences