Digging into assumptions for RCS vs. standard OLS regression, thought this was a very clear resource for breaking down how RCS handles non-linearity (and thinking through non-linear interactions). #RStats andreabellavia.github.io/RCSplines/co...

Re-upping for the Monday morning crowd.

Jeremy Labrecque@jeremylabrecque.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Interested in doing a PhD with me in epidemiology on causal inference and triangulation? In beautiful Rotterdam no less. www.werkenbijerasmusmc.nl/en/vacancy/1... Pro tip: if you get to the interview stage, there WILL be a question about ice hockey

The SSA is pleased to introduce the first cohort of PhD students and fellows through the Addiction Healthcare Goals flagship research leadership programme – a major new initiative funded by the UK Government's Office for Life Sciences. Find out more: www.addiction-ssa.org/news/meet-th...

Don't forget about spatial confounding: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Adding Spatially-Correlated Errors Can Mess Up the Fixed Effect You Love

Many statisticians have had the experience of fitting a linear model with uncorrelated errors, then adding a spatially-correlated error term (random effect) and finding that the estimates of the f...

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This has been a wild ride of a week: a couple of days as the most junior member of the editorial team attending the @addictionjournal.bsky.social regional editors’ meeting (where I got to meet the who’s who of addiction science research from across the world) to my team smashing it at Synthsprint!

Not gonna lie, the impostor syndrome is syndroming today

Such a lovely afternoon of meeting with friends and collaborators and sharing the work done by the researchers in the unit. Thank you for spending time with us!

Barts Charity@bartscharity.bsky.social · 3mo ago

What a pleasure to go to Parliament yesterday! We heard about amazing work of @qmulresilience.bsky.social over past five years to build knowledge around young people & how they use social & community networks to build resilience. Thanks to @dennisougrin.bsky.social & team for an amazing event.

Some stretches of our genome encode mysterious peptide sequences of very short amino acid length that lack matching versions in other organisms, so are omitted from proteome databases. In a new @nature.com paper, the TransCODE Consortium dubs these ‘peptideins’ & provides a framework to study them.🧪

Revealed: the mysterious ‘dark’ proteins that might play a big role in biology

Thousands of ‘dark proteins’ have been reclassified as peptideins and added to databases as a new category.

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Why do I keep getting referred to as mid-career, I’m scared 😱

Oof, I am super overstimulated and overwhelmed today by the many, many exciting developments in my corner of the research world. I want to roll my sleeves up and get stuck into, well, everything because it all seems important and interesting. But I can’t because I’m not a robot!

UK Biobank suspends access after massive data breach Flagship research resource promises to “severely” restrict downloads after data found for sale in China www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...

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Flagship research resource promises to “severely” restrict downloads after data found for sale in China

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In the interest of looking after myself, to future me: the answer is NO, you don't have capacity to pick that up right now. It doesn't have to be you to do it. You are doing enough and you don't have anything to prove to anyone. Breathe, and move on. :)

Apply for our Peer Coaching (PeCo) programme 2026 before it's too late! 🚀 Join PeCo to tackle career challenges & learn coaching approaches to apply in your #mentalhealth #research role. This programme will equip you with actionable solutions to challenges you are facing.💫 APPLY NOW buff.ly/nvmz1rU

Finally got around to updating my website to highlight my amazing team members, students, and partners: justinyang.me/people/ What do we think? 😊

Despite having had an early and healthy start to the day with some exercise, I've reached the early afternoon without having much to show in the way of work. Answering emails, coding, writing -- everything seems to feel like it's going slower and less productively than I'd like. 😔

I’m permitting myself a little bit of saltiness over a funding rejection despite scoring in the 8-8.9 range. Looks like I had the misfortune of having one of the marginal applications where the cards didn’t quite fall my way. What can you do? I’ll shelve the idea for now and rework it maybe.

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Stigmatizing language in #EHRs isn't limited to discrete terms but is embedded in linguistic practices that shape how #patients are represented & understood, particularly those describing how they fail to align w/clinical expectations www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #MedSky #PatientExperience

How words discredit: A taxonomy of stigmatizing language in the electronic health record

Language in electronic health records (EHRs) can transmit stigma, discrediting patients in ways that undermine the clinician-patient relationship and …

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I feel very privileged to work with amazing, caring, and clever people to hopefully improve things for people living with serious and long-term needs. Sometimes, the work can feel slow and marginal, but purpose and intention is behind of all my work. I feel enormously thankful and hopeful today.

I am trapped in what can only be described as a Kafkaesque situation in which one organisation refuses to set up a purchase order until they receive an invoice and another refuses to invoice until a purchase order is set up. All this needs to be resolved by the end of the fiscal year or catastrophe.

Deeply humbled at how old I must seem to students whenever I teach (and I only teach postgraduates!). Doomed to age into a living fossil whilst my students remain perpetually young.

Received the very happy news today that my application for settlement (indefinite leave to remain) under the long residence pathway was successful. It’s sometimes strange to think I have lived here now for over 10 years but thankful for the stability to continue in this chapter of my life.

If you missed this seminar, you can: 📹 watch the recording here: youtu.be/n5HHg4RJQns?... 📖 read the (brand new!) paper here: doi.org/10.23889/ijp... cc @rjsilverwood.bsky.social @clscohorts.bsky.social @sriucl.bsky.social

Georgia Tomova@georgiatomova.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Administrative data are commonly used in research but they often have limited information on confounders, making analyses prone to residual confounding. Join us to hear from @rjsilverwood.bsky.social about a multiple imputation-based approach to address this using linked cohort data. Link below👇

Our new blog captures highlights from the launch of the Complex Emotions Hub — from research updates to big conversations about how we understand complex emotions. A great day of collaboration and ideas. www.complexemotionshub.co.uk/explore/blog...

Complex Emotions Hub - Launching The Complex Emotions Hub

In late February 2026 we brought together researchers, lived experience partners and collaborators to mark the launch of the Complex Emotions Hub. While much of the work has already been developing be...

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Really happy to share that I've been presenting some results and everyone is super supportive and helpful? Like...I'm not solving world hunger or curing cancer, but I'm doing good science and adding to the evidence base. And...that's good enough? I need to sit with this over the weekend.

Does anyone else suffer from the “water is wet” problem as a researcher? I try to do rigorous and good research but findings ca sometimes be intuitive or commonsensical such that I dismiss them as “water is wet” findings. Am I too close to the data and analysis? How do I regain perspective?

While I feel pretty darn lucky to get to work with some of the smartest, kindest, most passionate people in my line of work, I am working myself at such an unsustainable pace that I fear I am going to burn out and crash out soon…like one bad email away from disaster. :(

Despite increasing use of observational data in public health, researchers are still hesitant to use strong causal language (for fear of overpromising). New paper and comment in @bmj.com sets out new guidance on appropriate use/misuse of causal language www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Researchfish is dead! Long live..Research Octopus? Our regular Ivory Tower comedy column reveals the many-tentacled successor to the often unpopular impact-tracking service. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

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Ivory Tower: as everyone’s favourite impact-tracker heads into the sunset, we reveal its many-tentacled successor

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We've listened to your feedback - the application period for GROW 2026 has now been extended 11.59pm on 2 March (end of day)! 🙌 Are you an early career #mentalhealth #researcher interested in developing your career and building your network? APPLY NOW! 🌱 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/grow/

Mental Health Research Incubator@mhrincubator.bsky.social · 7mo ago

On your marks, get set...GROW! 🌱 Applications for our GROW 2026 Researcher Development Programme for #mentalhealth and #addiction early career researchers are now open. ‍💫 APPLY NOW 👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/grow/