Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Steve Senior

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 7h

With this HHS RIF, everyone is aggressively “calling” what data sources or government functions are dead, and I’m a bit uncomfortable. Not every team is zeroed out. Many people still doing their jobs. Reporters still need to substantiate claims about e.g. unreliable data. Not sure this is helping

3 17 56

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 6h

Babe, wake up, a new public health crisis just dropped.

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · 8h

Last night I heard of another friend of a friend who has been lost to a rabbit hole of online propaganda. We need to start treating this as a serious public health concern.

1 9

Reposted by Steve Senior

Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 14h

6 32 150

Reposted by Steve Senior

Nuffield Trust @nuffieldtrust.org.uk · 12h

The government has been locked in a dispute with pharmaceutical companies over how much the #NHS pays for new branded medicines. 💊

Sally Gainsbury & Huseyin Naci set out the issues at stake and the role of price controls in balancing competing demands on the NHS budget. #bigpharma

The tough choices at the heart of the government’s dispute with big pharma

The government has been locked in a dispute with pharmaceutical companies for a number of months over how much the NHS pays for new branded medicines. Sally Gainsbury and Huseyin Naci set out the…

buff.ly

4 7

Reposted by Steve Senior

Betteridge’s Law @betteridgeslaw.bsky.social · 12h

Can AI Save Us From Misinformation?

Can AI Save Us From Misinformation? - Betteridge’s Law

No.

betteridgeslaw.com

1 1 4

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 11h

I helped lead the vaccine roll out in my council area and in December 2020 I could hand on heart tell our GPs that pretty much nothing else they'd do in the next 12 months that would save as many lives. That's just not true anymore and hasn't been for some time. But it's hard to adjust.

3

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 11h

I think it's hard to get your head around how enormous the difference in effectiveness between dose 1 and booster n is. From memory the number needed to vaccinated to prevent a death in the over 80s was 20 for dose 1. Now probably somewhere around 2,000. So about 1% as effective.

1 2

Reposted by Steve Senior

Simon Wheeler @simonwheeler.bsky.social · 11h

I’m not an ID expert but I’ve reviewed COVID booster efficacy recently and I’m seeing people with good motives posting what I see as outdated claims.
As I understand it, they:
- do little to prevent contagion
- do not stop you getting ill
- just prevent worst outcomes in most vulnerable
Am I wrong?

2 1 1

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 11h

Difficult to know efficacy vs mild infection since those likely aren't picked up by the health care system consistently. So they might help there, or shorten symptoms and we might not know.

1 2

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 11h

Great way to trash the brand, Oxford.

Cambridge: you know what to do.

University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 23d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

2

Reposted by Steve Senior

Mark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 14h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

Loeb has found aliens

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 18h

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 19h

"The chancellor approved it"

2 1 9

Reposted by Steve Senior

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

73 1.2K 2.2K

Reposted by Steve Senior

CarolineJMolloy @carolinejmolloy.bsky.social · 1d

Now this is productivity advice I can get behind

Rebecca Lambert (She/Her) ♾️🐭🍉 @ladyliminal.bsky.social · 1d

Channel the GOBLIN 😉
🎨 @wizardofbarge - insta

1 1 21

Reposted by Steve Senior

Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 1d

Unsolicited Herr Flick pic

6 4 69

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

I'm very much enjoying how much you've embraced this one Kate. Bravo.

1

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

bsky.app/profile/loca...

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

Lol milkshake duck but wait, no maybe cancel the cancelling of Cola Bottle Nate?

Seems Nathan Rimmington did learn something from his experience on Go Back To Where You Came From.

Go Back To Where You Came From: Barnsley man on taking part in show

Lorry driver Nathan Rimmington says outlook on life has changed after replicating refugees' journey.

www.bbc.co.uk

1

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

bsky.app/profile/donm...

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

The whole internet loves Cola Bottle Nate, a lovely guy who almost kills himself eating Haribro cola bottles! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you Mr. Rimmington is racist

Nathan Rimmington, 33, is a haulier and owner of an HGV driving school in Barnsley. Huge, tattooed, always sweating and always pining for a pint, he is portrayed in the series as an incorrigible joker: "If the government don't crack down on immigration, my kids will have to go to school on fucking camels."

1

Reposted by Steve Senior

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

76 1.2K 2.7K

Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 1d

That's the gif I was looking for!

Reposted by Steve Senior

Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 1d

Teaching scientists about statistics is not even that difficult. But it slows down how many papers get published, so we can't do it. I mean, why would we put any brakes on LLM produced papers by insisting scientists and reviewers understand the output!? Madness.

Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 3d

As coding gets more plug and play, it becomes IMPERATIVE for us as educators to teach fundamentals about what the statistical tests are comparing and assumptions.

Students might not need to understand how to code things up, but they should understand what the snippets are doing and why

Terry McGlynn @hormiga.bsky.social · 3d

Y'all. I just got ChatGPT to do everything in R for this manuscript. I mean EVERYTHING. And it's all legit and reproducible. I'm shook.

How are we mentoring our trainees in statistics now? Who needs to learn coding in R line by line, and who doesn't?

scienceforeveryone.science/statistics-i...