Extensive Propublica story about grant terminations Sharing specifics and putting faces on the research… Definitely worth a read projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

Shattered Science: The Research Lost as Trump Targets NIH Funding

The Trump administration cut research funding that sought cures for future pandemics, examined the causes of dementia and tried to prevent HIV transmission. More than 150 researchers shared with ProPu...

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🚨: New publication « Data management and sharing » in @jclinepi.bsky.social with Claude Pellen, @synthymama.bsky.social, Anna Catharina Armond, Ulrich Mansmann, Maximilian Siebert. A 🧵.

Our work on immortal time bias "Illustrating the structures of bias from immortal time using directed acyclic graphs" led by Emma Guoyi Yang @yanggy_hku is out at International Journal of Epidemiology: doi.org/10.1093/ije/.... Brief thread:

Illustrating the structures of bias from immortal time using directed acyclic graphs

AbstractBackground. Immortal time is a period of follow-up during which death or the study outcome cannot occur by design. Bias from immortal time has been

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1/ That "immortal time" is so frequent in survival analyses for #causalinference is fascinating. Because "immortal time" doesn't exist in the data, *we* create it when misanalyzing the data. Our new paper pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39494894/ summarizes why immortal time arises & how to prevent it.