For 17 years, UK Biobank promised that 'insurance companies...will not be given any individual’s information, samples or test results”.

Now an investigation reveals they have repeatedly shared data with insurance companies.

A shocking breech of trust.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

If you look at this graph and still believe we'll reach net zero by 2050 I'm afraid you're seriously delusional.

Source: unfccc.int/documents/6316…

You don't understand academia unless you have been in academia. I was a tenured professor of mathematics and gave up tenure to get out.

Academia is not totally bought. The most brilliant get their chance. But it is totally f&%ked in ways you could not possibly understand.

This is quite alarming: “The analysis estimates that 1.5–2% of all scientific papers published in 2022 closely resemble paper-mill works. Among biology and medicine papers, the rate rises to 3%.”
nature.com/articles/d4158…
World Conf Research Integrity Retraction Watch

250.000 people are in need of immediate assistance after last week's earthquake in Nepal.
My sister, who is there to volunteer with 4apurpose, has a gofundme to buy goods they need to help, such as tarp, blankets, clothes and food.

gofund.me/a315d599

QRP related to grant applications in Flanders. 'More than 60% responded that they engaged regularly in at least one of such practices'.
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

The trouble with society is that the most reasonable people are also the most quiet.

Check out the collection of Tutorials in Biostatistics published in Statistics in Medicine ow.ly/4Xnz50Q1s4X

Started 4 years ago (tinyurl.com/5n7me3bs), but we've finally submitted the TRIPOD+AI #reporting recommendations for prediction model studies using either regression or #machinelearning methods.

Original 2015 guidance here tinyurl.com/bdd6e2at and
tinyurl.com/2tvdydfc

Met leden van de AYA roepen we Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam en UvA Amsterdam vandaag op in het Het Parool om niet meer mee te doen met de Times Higher Education ranglijst van universiteiten.

parool.nl/columns-opinie…

What a great week at ISUOG in Seoul!
Really happy and honoured that our work was recognised with the Young Investigator award and best in category for managing ovarian masses 🎉

Accuracy of package inserts of SARS-CoV-2 rapid antigen tests: comparison of manufacturer versus systematic review data

Jacob Bigio Rishav Das Emily MacLean Giorgia Sulis, MD PhD Mikashmi Kohli Claudia Denkinger Jon Deeks FMedSci FIND & team

thelancet.com/journals/lanmi… via The Lancet Microbe

'World league tables for higher education are flawed, poorly used and entrench inequity.'
nature.com/articles/d4158…

This is very simple

If academics are required to publish in order to keep their jobs, they will find a way to publish

The only way for the system to work well for scholars is to make publishing a reliable result from doing good science

Wish I’d had registered reports in my PhD

'I was not considered faculty quality, because I didn’t have a first author publication in Nature and didn’t have an Ivy League education.'
Katalin Karikó (Nobel prize) -yet another example of the stupidity of metrics
aargauerzeitung.ch/leben/intervie…

👍 Utrecht University
Defending the rankings seems to me like you value business, politics and reputation more than what really matters in science (rigor, mentorship etc).

No no no no no no no no no.

Thankfully, this advise was ignored by the authors. But this wide spread but unspoken belief is why NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR reviewing for empirical papers is totally broken.

I wish as academics we could focus on producing evidence and not waste time reformatting. I am glad this has now been quantified. But I would like to think these may reflect a lower bound on the true cost as there is an extensive margin as well.

I have a whole trail of perfectly…

This is why I am against rankings in science. They just don’t make sense.

Albert Einstein could barely get into this list, scoring 786th in physics.

Rudolph Marcus is 507th in chemistry.

And Roger Penrose and Frances Arnold didn't even get into the list...

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Perhaps, this…

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