Can anyone recommend tools for collaborating on latex files?? Looking for something friendly to ppl with little tech background (no git) and with capacity for adding comments. There's overleaf but it's expensive and limits the number of collaborators

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Science people!! What software are you using to draft papers (besides MS Word 🤮)? Looking for something that 1. Allows for easy collab (with non-tech ppl, so latex is out) 2. In format accepted by journals (so no typst?) 3. Has reference manager integration Is it just googledocs/libreoffice?

New paper!! We find that prevalent exposure designs are very common in dementia research, explain why they are ill-suited for causal inference, and show how the target trial framework helps us move beyond them. Read here👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Moving beyond the prevalent exposure design for causal inference in dementia research

As randomised trials are not always feasible or practical, observational studies remain crucial for addressing many causal questions in the dementia prevention field. Through a systematic search, we f...

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