Landmark systematic review of the British birth cohorts, providing further evidence of Generational Health Drift. Led by the fantastic Laura Gimeno with superstar team: @dmorenoagostino.bsky.social @martindanka.bsky.social @yiling1015.bsky.social Alice Goisis & @drjenndowd.bsky.social

UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies@clscohorts.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Millennials and gen Z may spend more years in poor health than their earlier born counterparts, according to a new review of 51 studies comparing UK birth cohorts. Read more on the CLS website - bit.ly/4wKqclU

Our preprint is now out! 📄 We looked at whether five flexible IPTW / propensity score weighting approaches can be used for count exposures, and whether they can be combined with multiple imputation. We also illustrate the methods using BCS70 data. Link: doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.23726

Such a useful update for day-to-day data cleaning. Very excited to finally have look up tables in the tidyverse!

Davis Vaughan@davisvaughan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

If you use survey data collected through mixed modes (f2f, telephone, online), check out this @royalstatsoc.bsky.social event with @rjsilverwood.bsky.social @georgiatomova.bsky.social and others.

Richard Silverwood@rjsilverwood.bsky.social · 11mo ago

We are organising a @royalstatsoc.bsky.social Social Statistics Section online event: Handling survey mode effects Wednesday 12 November 2025, 10.00AM - 12.10PM Full info and booking: rss.org.uk/training-eve...

What percentage of the health research funding pot do you think goes on methods and meta science? Around 2% (if you add together all mention of research design and methodologies across all areas from research.hscni.net/sites/defaul...) Just 2% spent on the part that underpins EVERYTHING we do.

Dr Will Ball@wpball.com · 11mo ago

Reading some interest stats about health research funding in the UK in recent years. - Only 7% goes to Mental Health research - Only 5% of that MH funding goes to studies related to prevention

We are looking for some community feedback on 3 new dplyr functions! - replace_when() - recode_values() - replace_values() New tools for recoding (think, lookup tables!) and replacing (think, replace `-99` with `NA` in `col`) in the tidyverse - I'm pretty excited about these!

Libby Heeren@libbyheeren.bsky.social · last yr.

Remember this #rstats post? I wasn't the only one talking about it & the tidyverse team was listening 😎 #databs New #dplyr functions? They're looking for feedback!! 🤔 replace_when, recode_values, replace_values 👀 Read this: github.com/tidyverse/ti... 🗣️ Comment on PR: github.com/tidyverse/ti...

📢 Job opportunity! 📢 I am recruiting a 2-year postdoc to join me at @clscohorts.bsky.social to work on a SUPER exciting project on the quantitative study of intersectional inequalities in youth mental health across time and place! See www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... for more info and how to apply!

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Excited (and a little nervous!) to be giving a talk on 30 June at the Turing’s CIIG seminar series. If you're interested in IPTW/propensity score methods, or in seeing some cat photos 🐾 (with the former obviously being more likely!), everyone’s welcome to join.

Peter Tennant@pwgtennant.bsky.social · last yr.

DON'T MISS: "Inverse Probability Weighting of Count Exposures: A Simulation Study Motivated by Examining the Health Consequences of Psychological Distress" The next #CIIG seminar with @martindanka.bsky.social on 30 June at 3pm BST! Register: turing-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... #EpiSky #CausalSky

✨ Have you booked yet? Join us for our free webinar NEXT WEEK introducing 1970 British Cohort Study data at age 51. Discover more about the experiences of generation X in midlife: cls.ucl.ac.uk/events/bcs70... #BSC70 #ageing

Just came across this gem on survey designs and survey weights with R. Free online version available.

Stephanie Zimmer (she/her)@statsteph.bsky.social · 2y ago

We're thrilled to announce our book, Exploring Complex Survey Data Analysis Using R, is now available for preorder! Learn to conduct tidy survey analysis in R. Free online version: tidy-survey-r.github.io/tidy-survey-... or preorder at: www.routledge.com/Exploring-Co... @ivelasq3.bsky.social and RJP

1/2 Thrilled my 1st PhD study on how adolescent social connections influence BMI trajectories has been published🎉 Huge thanks to my coauthors @yvonne-kelly.bsky.social @tattanbirch.bsky.social @martindanka.bsky.social, Liam Wright, Daisy Fancourt, Ellie Iob 🤝 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Social connections with family and friends in adolescence: Shaping body mass index trajectories into adulthood

To investigate whether adolescent social connections influence body mass index (BMI) trajectories into adulthood and explore whether associations are …

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Our JSS article is out! And now I get to focus on {marginaleffects} 1.0.0. Stay tuned. www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...

Excited to see a new causally-informed epi textbook 🎉

Dr Ellie Murray, ScD@epiellie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Curious what's new in Epidemiology An Introduction, 3rd ed? More Pioneers of Epi highlighting collaborative work! Clearer distinction between Associations and Causal Effects! Updated chapter on Infectious Disease! New chapters: Field Epidemiology and Advanced Topics! And so much more!

Also had the chance to give a peer workshop on causal inference. It was rewarding to see how much clarity the frameworks bring to diverse areas and to learn from the discussions. The takeaway is that causal inference is less intimidating when seen as a way asking clear questions. #causalinference

Katie Sarah Taylor@katie-taylor.bsky.social · 2y ago

We also had a brilliant causal inference workshop by Soc-Bs own @martindanka.bsky.social 🫶🏼 Martin managed to maintain a light-hearted, entertaining atmosphere that made learning complex concepts simple 👏🏻 I know the entire cohort has benefited from your hard work! #causalinference #phd

It was wonderful to finally meet one of my causal inference heroes @pwgtennant.bsky.social in person at our Soc-B PhD workshop. A brilliant and inspiring talk.

Katie Sarah Taylor@katie-taylor.bsky.social · 2y ago

A fantastic and engaging talk from @pwgtennant.bsky.social at our PhD workshop yesterday 👏🏻 Inspiring to see someone I’ve followed for a long time be so passionate about applying causal inference to social epidemiology 🤩 Excited to implement what I’ve learnt 🫡 #causalinference #phd #epidemiology