📣 Job alert: We are looking for a PhD Candidate in causal inference & health data science🔎 📍 Berlin (Responsible Health Data Analysis Team, BIH-QUEST) 📅 Starting: Oct 1, 2026 (3 years) 💼 100% E13 position 🔗 Read more and apply (deadline Aug 17): karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan... Please share!

PhD Candidate (all genders) BIH QUEST Center (Team “Responsible Health Data Analysis”)

full-time | 17.08.2026 | BIH Berlin Mitte

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I'm interested in finding and potentially supporting people who are interested in doing long-form writing on the big efforts in global health: Gavi, Global Fund, PEPFAR, etc. If this is you or someone you know, please make yourself known!

Yesterday, the Health Foundation published analysis finding no evidence that the Palantir/FDP tool OPTICA, has cut discharge delays, further undermining NHS England claims that it had. bsky.app/profile/dian...

Diane Coyle@dianecoyle1859.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s a rip-off price, the vendor is toxic, and it seems the software doesnt deliver: www.ft.com/content/cbd1... Palantir tool has not cut hospital discharge delays, study says

In case you were wondering WHY someone would mail their scabs, the earliest inoculation available for smallpox involved grinding up the scabs and inoculating someone with a scratch on the skin. This method reduced the fatality rate from 30% to about 1%. 🧪 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variola...

Variolation - Wikipedia

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Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Historian friend was reading a civil war era letter in an archive, the letter said “In this envelope I include my smallpox scabs” and sure enough there they were. Had to call CDC for a hazmat team.

Does the (live) shingles vaccine protect against dementia? Fergus Hamilton and colleagues provide important evidence in a new preprint using hospital data from the whole of England in a regression discontinuity design from which we *don't* show evidence of a meaningful protective effect /cont

"We are not called to the legal minimum of hospitality. We are called to the radical welcome of the one who sought out the excluded and the overlooked. To trans people in Wales...you are known. You are loved. You are welcome here, as you are, always."

Anupama Ranawana@msamrc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Incredible statement from the Church in Wales on the ignominious Code of Practice: "The Church in Wales will not use equality law exemptions to exclude trans people from our worship, our sacraments, our pastoral care, or our common life." www.churchinwales.org.uk/en/news-and-...

A very detailed political history of Palantir's rise in the UK www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS

A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...

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WE ARE HIRING! Come work with us (me + @malte.the100.ci) on developing and validating RegCheck. PhD or postdoc applications welcome. Folk with backgrounds in meta-science, psychology, (pre)clinical trials, and/or economics are especially invited to apply. jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern

Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science

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Something beautiful for the weekend! An extraordinary Acheulean handaxe knapped around a fossil shell c. 500,000-300,000 years ago! From West Tofts, Norfolk 📷 MAA Cambridge University collections.maa.cam.ac.uk/objects/4509... #Archaeology

The good news is that someone else now gets to join this amazing team! If you're keen to help develop RegCheck, I'd strongly encourage you to apply. Working with @jamiecummins.bsky.social and @malte.the100.ci is reason enough to apply! jobs.unibe.ch/job-vacancie...

PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science - Universität Bern

Universität Bern is looking for PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science

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My clever internet friends, teaching this outside of unis is _vitally_ important. That includes all these helpful posts! We have much more data than sense now, but people in the wild do want to get this right. It's a diplomatic process, with many small opportunities. We have to be relentless.

Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · last mo.

My kumbaya take on the matter is that we should teach causal inference really well — this should in principle prepare people to do better observational causal inference, to do better RCTs, to understand what is suitable in which scenario, & to appreciate the (limited) magic of randomization.

This is vital information- don’t think takeover of key institutions couldn’t happen here 😟

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · last mo.

📢NEW RESOURCE: A new web resource and accompanying report to explore the vulnerabilities to political interference of 33 key UK scientific public bodies & 11 scientific advisory committees! unchecked.uk/public_body_... 1/7

ACE is seeking an experienced researcher to act as Deputy Director (Methodology). The role will provide methodological leadership across CHaRT’s portfolio of clinical trials and related research. For more info and to apply, follow this link: www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci...

You know the canonical "Data Organisation in Spreadsheets"? Is there something that clear and basic for data vis? Important it be a legit publication (university/govt site, journal). For audience starting to make graphs from tidy spreadsheets www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #rstats #dataBS

"Awardees will receive their salary (if required) and up to £200,000 for up to two years to strengthen their academic careers."

Wellcome Trust@wellcometrust.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you’re a researcher of Black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani heritage in the UK, our Accelerator Awards might be for you. It offers flexible grants for research or research-adjacent activities, such as training, secondments and networking. (1/2)

Glasgow's new Research Culture Action Plan just dropped! It builds on the significant progress made since the launch of our first Research Culture Action Plan in 2020. Find and download it here: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/ri...

Formidable champion of women in medical profession: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) Britain's first qualified woman physician & surgeon, co-founder & Dean of London School of Medicine for Women, first female Dean of British medical school. Portrait: John Singer Sargent 1900, NPG London

"Across Europe, governments are reducing their reliance on US technology companies... these actions are driven by concerns around political developments in the past few years, such as worries over data privacy and the decline in academic freedom in countries such as the United States"

Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 2mo ago

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Lovely short sketches here

Oddlet - Lovable Weirdos@lovableweirdo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

He was elected to the Royal Society for figuring out how baby cuckoos roll eggs out of nests. Then he had an idea about cows, a gardener's son, and a lancet. Edward Jenner: violinist, balloonist, planter of roses, inventor of vaccination. https://oddlet.com/p/tk6 #HistSci #history #SciComm

It's alive! 🎉 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗔𝗻𝗮𝗹𝘆𝘀𝘁'𝘀 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 is out -- an introduction to causal inference in practice. The first two chapters are available for free here: theissbendixen.com/dag-book/ More below 👇

An adorable late Roman/early Byzantine infant's sock or bootee (length 11,5cm). It has been remarkably preserved because of Egypt's arid desert climate. Made of wool, nalbinding technique (single needle looping). Found in #Egypt dating 4th/5th c. AD. 📷Royal Ontario Museum

I promise to stop going on about this soon, but my list of moving queens 900-1150 is now up to 122 women 👸 blogs.ed.ac.uk/cwest3/2026/... There are probably still errors/omissions (tell me if you spot one!), but thanks to everyone who's made suggestions on here or by email❤️

Come and work @downingstreet as a data scientist! We're hiring for a data scientist working on health and education. You'll be right at the heart of UK policy making and (IMO) working with the best tech stack in the UK public sector. Link: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

On Monday the HSJ named me as the "arguably the single most influential voice on ethics and AI policy" on their list of top 50 influential people for NHS tech in 20216 www.hsj.co.uk/news/the-50-... is (a) very kind; (b) most likely untrue. BUT FWIW here are my current top 10 AI messages 🧵:

"The House of Commons technology committee called on ministers to trigger a 2027 break clause in the company’s £330mn contract to build the Federated Data Platform (FDP), a tool that connects disparate NHS data into a single system, and instead seek a UK-based provider." www.ft.com/content/dd35...

Palantir should not have ‘significant role’ in UK public data systems, MPs say

Technology committee calls on government to trigger break clause in flashpoint NHS contract

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Here’s a guide on how to contact your MP about the new trans ban in the UK. I think, too, you should write to anyone of influence in your area. It’s worth contacting your local vicar or priest to engage with the MPs. You should also contact any union [u don’t have to be a member] & let them know too

Trans+ Solidarity Alliance@transsolidarity.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Ask yours to join them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

This looks awesome! A data viz course from the authors of Data Feminism, @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social. So excited to teach with these materials! openvisualizationacademy.org/courses/data...

Alberto Cairo@albertocairo.com · 2mo ago

BIG NEWS in the Open Visualization Academy: openvisualizationacademy.beehiiv.com/p/data-femin... We're launching 'Data Feminism for Data Visualization' by @laurenfklein.bsky.social and @kanarinka.bsky.social #dataViz #infographics #dataVisualization #dataJournalism

Engaging the public in humanities & social sciences feels more important than ever. So we are offering £8k grants for researchers to work with galleries, libraries, archives, museums or performing arts organisations to do this. Please help spread the word! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

SHAPE Involve and Engage

A funding programme for innovative public engagement from the British Academy.

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say it again: SOCIALIZE TO ORGANIZE www.laborpolitics.com/p/bouncy-cas...

Why is the Left No Fun?

Bouncy Castle Communism is the Solution

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No shade to this post in particular, but big shade to academic jobs. A lecturer post that's only secure for 3 years, that will have intense deliverables in grant capture, research, and teaching. In AI. For £41k.