We are seeking to recruit a Senior Research Fellow / Reader to join the Centre for Health Economics at @york.ac.uk More details can be found in the advert jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/seni...

Very lucky to have @jamiecummins.bsky.social as a STAR editor at Psych Science, helping us navigate these kinds of issues. This is such important work.

Jamie Cummins@jamiecummins.bsky.social · last yr.

Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵

Just 2 weeks to go to our residential course on advanced statistical methods in economic evaluation for HTA which will be held in beautiful city of York.

Andrea Manca@amancayork.bsky.social · last yr.

Do you want to expand your professional competence in HTA? Register to attend the Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced Course at the University of York🚀 ⁦‪⁦‪@CHEyork‬⁩ www.york.ac.uk/che/courses/...

Please share with your network. 3-day Advanced Course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA: Advanced Course: September 9-11, 2025! Now with an updated program including modern methods for causal inference and machine learning. www.york.ac.uk/che/courses/...

Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced

Dates - Tuesday 9th - Thursday 11th September 2025 The course will run from 9:00am to 6:00pm BST (GMT+1) on the first day and from 9:30am to 5:00pm on the next two days.  In-person (University of York...

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Do you want to expand your professional competence in HTA? Register to attend the Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced Course at the University of York🚀 ⁦‪⁦‪@CHEyork‬⁩ www.york.ac.uk/che/courses/...

Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced

Dates - Tuesday 9th - Thursday 11th September 2025 The course will run from 9:00am to 6:00pm BST (GMT+1) on the first day and from 9:30am to 5:00pm on the next two days.  In-person (University of York...

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Please share with your network. 3-day Advanced Course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA: Advanced Course: September 9-11, 2025! Now with an updated program including modern methods for causal inference and machine learning. www.york.ac.uk/che/courses/...

Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced

Dates - Tuesday 9th - Thursday 11th September 2025 The course will run from 9:00am to 6:00pm BST (GMT+1) on the first day and from 9:30am to 5:00pm on the next two days.  In-person (University of York...

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How do research careers compare across countries? New global database has some answers Online tool from the Research and Innovation Careers Observatory allows users to compare salary, typical career destinations, and more www.science.org/content/arti...

How do research careers compare across countries? New global database has some answers

Online tool from the Research and Innovation Careers Observatory allows users to compare salary, typical career destinations, and more

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At #CCR25, we saw some trials use a #CompositeOutcome (an endpoint that combines more than one outcome into a single measure) & also saw some of the problems these can throw up. I have discussed these before but thought it would be useful to revisit 1/9 #MethodologyMonday #120

@CHEyork @UoY_BizTraining @UniOfYork short courses are run face to face in beautiful York, where you’ll be able to meet and spend time interacting with our faculty of experts as well as network with other participants from the industry, consultancy and academia www.york.ac.uk/che/courses/...

Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced

Dates - Tuesday 9th - Thursday 11th September 2025 The course will run from 9:00am to 6:00pm BST (GMT+1) on the first day and from 9:30am to 5:00pm on the next two days.  In-person (University of York...

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📊Unlock the power of data!📊 Join the Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced short course at the University of York🚀 📅 9-11 September 2025 📍 York, UK Secure your spot today! 🔗 york.ac.uk/che/courses/st… #DataScience #HealthEconomics #HTA #CEA

interesting article by @investigate-europe.eu on the price of drugs in the EU, heterogeneity of access across countries and how to negotiate with Pharma www.europeanpressprize.com/article/dead.... Colleagues in York have made important scientific contributions to inform possible negotiations.

This article analyzes how nonexperts perceive AI-generated medical advice, finding that it is often rated as accurate as — or better than — doctor responses, raising concerns about overreliance and potential harm from incorrect guidance. Full article: nejm.ai/43xKDG0 #AI #MedSky #MLSky

People Overtrust AI-Generated Medical Advice despite Low Accuracy

This article presents a comprehensive analysis of how artificial intelligence (AI)–generated medical responses are perceived and evaluated by nonexperts. We conducted a study in which a total of 30...

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Delighted to offer our residential 3-day course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA: Advanced Course: September 9-11, 2025! Now with an updated program including modern methods for causal inference and machine learning. www.york.ac.uk/che/courses/...

Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for HTA - Advanced

Dates - Tuesday 9th - Thursday 11th September 2025 The course will run from 9:00am to 6:00pm BST (GMT+1) on the first day and from 9:30am to 5:00pm on the next two days.  In-person (University of York...

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[Read] LLM-based relevance assessment still can’t replace human relevance assessment arxiv.org/pdf/2412.17156. Really interesting paper, challenging the recent idea that one can use LLLM-based relevance assessments to replace human judgements as gold standard,

We are looking to recruit two Research Fellows - Grade 6/7, to work within the Economic Evaluation and Health Technology Assessment team within CHE. Closing Date - 27th April 2025. For further details, visit jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

Evaluation of Medical Devices for Product Development and Health Technology Assessment Course Date - 7th-9th October 2025 Course Leader - Dr Cynthia Iglesias You can find further details of the course on the University of York website: bit.ly/41lx4cb

Centre for Health Economics on LinkedIn: 📚 Evaluation of Medical Devices for Product Development and Health…

📚 Evaluation of Medical Devices for Product Development and Health Technology Assessment Course Date - 7th-9th October 2025 Course Leader - Dr Cynthia…

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Delighted to offer our residential 3-day course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for Health Technology Assessment: Advanced Course: September 9-11, 2025! Discover more at: lnkd.in/eY6UCP_W Now with an updated program including modern methods for causal inference and machine learning.

HealthEconomics.com | A Scientist.com Company on LinkedIn: The Centre for Health Economics University of York is delighted to offer…

The Centre for Health Economics University of York is delighted to offer its residential 3-day short course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for…

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'York would be a different city without Rowntree' www.bbc.com/news/article...

How chocolate entrepreneur's values shaped York

Joseph Rowntree's legacy lives on in city where his factory was, 100 years after his death.

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New example of opportunistic A.I. in medicine Get a liver diagnosis from an echocardiogram ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... @cedarssinai.bsky.social @ai.nejm.org

Opportunistic Screening of Chronic Liver Disease with Deep-Learning–Enhanced Echocardiography

Chronic liver disease (CLD) affects more than 1.5 billion adults, most of whom are asymptomatic and undiagnosed. Echocardiography is broadly performed and visualizes the liver, but this information...

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“Why don’t machine learning and large language model evaluations report uncertainty?” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/02/22/w...

Our lifestyle and environmental exposures are the predominant influencers of healthy aging and premature mortality, compared with polygenic risk, in the first comprehensive assessment www.nature.com/articles/s41... open-access

Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality - Nature Medicine

Based on a systematic analysis of environmental exposures associated with aging and mortality in the UK Biobank, the relative contributions of such exposures and genetic risk for mortality and a range...

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Delighted to offer our residential 3-day course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for Health Technology Assessment: Advanced Course: September 9-11, 2025! Discover more at: lnkd.in/eY6UCP_W Now with an updated program including modern methods for causal inference and machine learning.

HealthEconomics.com | A Scientist.com Company on LinkedIn: The Centre for Health Economics University of York is delighted to offer…

The Centre for Health Economics University of York is delighted to offer its residential 3-day short course on Statistical Methods in Economic Evaluation for…

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Evaluation of Medical Devices for Product Development and Health Technology Assessment Course Date - 7th-9th October 2025 Course Leader - Dr Cynthia Iglesias You can find further details of the course on the University of York website: bit.ly/41lx4cb

Centre for Health Economics on LinkedIn: 📚 Evaluation of Medical Devices for Product Development and Health…

📚 Evaluation of Medical Devices for Product Development and Health Technology Assessment Course Date - 7th-9th October 2025 Course Leader - Dr Cynthia…

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This is a great paper by Mitsuru Igami framing breakthrough AI algorithms in the familiar logic of structural economic model estimation. doi.org/10.1093/ectj... But by implication, if structural models behave like board games, such as Chess and Go, how high can their degree of realism really be?

I just wish this cartoon I drew 10+ years ago wasn't so relevant today...

Hank Green@hankgreen.bsky.social · 2y ago

People with homes are so rarely cold at night that I just don’t think homes are necessary anymore.

To our many American friends. The National Academies have assembled a package of resources for researchers facing threats or attacks in the US www.nationalacademies.org/chr/resource...

'In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.' www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel

In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.

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Evidence Lacking for Many AI Tools Used in Primary Care

This Medical News article is an interview with study author María Villalobos-Quesada, PhD, a researcher at the National eHealth Living Lab at the Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands.

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Designing effective training programs for applied mathematical modeling speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/01/14/d...

Designing effective training programs for applied mathematical modeling

Applied modeling is a highly cross-disciplinary field, requiring a unique mixture of hard skills, soft skills, and domain knowledge. Successful training programs are those that include hands-on simult...

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"We need to start understanding that Elon Musk’s X is a weapon, currently owned by a non-state entity. But from January 20 that changes. At that point it must be understood as information warfare from a hostile nation state." @carolecadwalla.bsky.social as usually one step ahead of most of us.

Total information collapse

It's started. And it's only going to accelerate from here.

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