It was a real pleasure to welcome Dr. @pwgtennant.bsky.social to Luxembourg 🇱🇺! He gave an inspiring talk on causal inference, and his contagious enthusiasm sparked a genuine interest in applying these methods in Luxembourg. 1/3🧵

Peter Tennant@pwgtennant.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited to be in Luxembourg - with the Aging, Cancer, & Disparaties Research Unit green mascot - to launch the RESCOM lecture series in causal inference! Future speakers from an amazing lineup include @georgiatomova.bsky.social, @miguelhernan.org, Mats Stenrund, & @dingdingpeng.the100.ci!

RFK Jr has promised to release a report on the causes of autism in September. To prepare, it's a good idea to make sure we know what the common types of observational research biases are. First up: confounding by indication. Read more here: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Confounding by Indication: A Research Bias You Should Know

It’s September which means RFK Jr will soon be releasing his promised report on the ‘causes’ of autism. We can prepare by learning some key types of research bias.

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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.

The end of an era.

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Another phenomenon that you discuss differently once you participated in @pwgtennant.bsky.social 's #CausalIntroCourse

Before #CausalInferenceIntro: "Hmm, this association looks unusual" 🤔 After #CausalInferenceIntro: "Have you considered the possibility of collider bias?" 🤓 @pwgtennant.bsky.social @georgiatomova.bsky.social @jlrohmann.bsky.social @meghanforr.bsky.social @laurieberrie.bsky.social Rodrigo

70 people having a curry at the amazing Bengal Brasserie restaurant in Leeds City Centre! My favourite part of the #CausalIntroCourse!

#CausalIntroCourse Day 3

Ready for #CausalIntroCourse Day 2. Today's menu: DAGs and Propensity Scores

Two years ago: World Parkinson's Conference ➡️ Today: Start of the Introduction to causal inference course with @pwgtennant.bsky.social in Leeds #CausalIntroCourse

Excellent presentation by my PhD supervisor @chrismccrum.bsky.social 👏 well deserved

Kim van Schooten@kimvanschooten.bsky.social · last yr.

And up next Promising Scientist winner #ISPGR2025 @chrismccrum.bsky.social to talk about fall prevention through the lens of a sprints coach - we don’t expect athletes to win medals without practice, so why would we expect older people to recover from falls without it?

Everything set up for the #ISPGR2025 Next speaker: @chrismccrum.bsky.social, the promising scientist of 2025 👏 #NursesCanSciences

🧠 Parkinson’s: Not Just Frequency, But Progression Too Did you know that Parkinson's disease is 1.4 times more common in men than women? But that’s not the whole story—men also experience a faster worsening of symptoms compared to women.🧵

Sex-specific progression of Parkinson's disease: A longitudinal mixed-models analysis - Anne-Marie Hanff, Christopher McCrum, Armin Rauschenberger, Gloria A Aguayo, Claire Pauly, Sonja R Jónsdóttir, O...

Background Despite its relevance, the clinical progression of motor- and non-motor symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease (PD) is poorly described an...

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Je pensais naïvement que le scorbut était une maladie du passé 😳 www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/commen...

Comment expliquer la hausse des cas de scorbut chez les jeunes en France, notamment parmi les plus précaires ?

Une étude pointe la hausse en France de cette "maladie des marins", causée par une carence en vitamine C et qui peut provoquer douleurs osseuses et hémorragies. L'inflation est dénoncée comme une caus...

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How it started How it is going

WHAT WE FOUND: We used different statistical methods to assess if apathy (lack of motivation) in people with PD changed over time. The linear mixed effects models showed a significant increase in apathy each year whereas other methods did not find this increase.

Christopher McCrum@chrismccrum.bsky.social · 3y ago

New preprint from @ahanff.bsky.social : Mixed effects models but not t-tests or linear regression detect progression of apathy in Parkinson’s disease over time: A comparative analysis. osf.io/preprints/os...

Everyone needs to know about `easystats` in R It is so much fun to use and then share with students Teaching on regression and just used the check_model() function and look at this beautiful figure

Left: an influential conceptual figure by Poewe et al 2017 www.nature.com/articles/nrd... on symptom progression in #Parkinson's disease Right: a sex-specific symptom progression figure w longitudinal data from Luxembourg Parkinson's Study in Anne-Marie Hanff's new preprint: osf.io/f64zv/

New article from my PhD candidate Anne-Marie Hanff: Determinants of patient-reported functional mobility in people with Parkinson's disease: A systematic review www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Determinants of patient-reported functional mobility in people with Parkinson's disease: A systemati...

Information on determinants of patient-reported functional mobility is lacking but would inform the planning of healthcare, resources and strategies t…

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