@amymariemason.bsky.social
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Alt S2 opening storyline for Blackbeard that just occurred to me:
Upset about Stede having left him, trying to reinvent himself while having a broken heart, he gets drunk one night, grabs a knife, and gives himself bangs.
Everyone must compliment his new look because they’re terrified of him.
Upset about Stede having left him, trying to reinvent himself while having a broken heart, he gets drunk one night, grabs a knife, and gives himself bangs.
Everyone must compliment his new look because they’re terrified of him.
January 22, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Alt S2 opening storyline for Blackbeard that just occurred to me:
Upset about Stede having left him, trying to reinvent himself while having a broken heart, he gets drunk one night, grabs a knife, and gives himself bangs.
Everyone must compliment his new look because they’re terrified of him.
Upset about Stede having left him, trying to reinvent himself while having a broken heart, he gets drunk one night, grabs a knife, and gives himself bangs.
Everyone must compliment his new look because they’re terrified of him.
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We are seeking candidates for a PhD position in biostatistics at the University of Oslo!
The project is on methods for casual inference and event history analysis, motivated in particular by the study of vaccine effects. See the full call for more details.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
The project is on methods for casual inference and event history analysis, motivated in particular by the study of vaccine effects. See the full call for more details.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
4-year PhD position in Biostatistics (292171) | University of Oslo
Job title: 4-year PhD position in Biostatistics (292171), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Wednesday, February 4, 2026
www.jobbnorge.no
January 15, 2026 at 11:08 AM
We are seeking candidates for a PhD position in biostatistics at the University of Oslo!
The project is on methods for casual inference and event history analysis, motivated in particular by the study of vaccine effects. See the full call for more details.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
The project is on methods for casual inference and event history analysis, motivated in particular by the study of vaccine effects. See the full call for more details.
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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So the mathematician's answer is that humans have either seven or eight holes.
Topologically speaking, our bodies are less like Swiss cheese and more like a carefully constructed onesie for an octopus.
9/10
Topologically speaking, our bodies are less like Swiss cheese and more like a carefully constructed onesie for an octopus.
9/10
January 11, 2026 at 8:00 AM
So the mathematician's answer is that humans have either seven or eight holes.
Topologically speaking, our bodies are less like Swiss cheese and more like a carefully constructed onesie for an octopus.
9/10
Topologically speaking, our bodies are less like Swiss cheese and more like a carefully constructed onesie for an octopus.
9/10
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Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist, photographer, writer and award-winning illustrator #WomensArt #Solstice
#December21st #ArtAdvent
#December21st #ArtAdvent
December 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Catherine Hyde, contemporary UK artist, photographer, writer and award-winning illustrator #WomensArt #Solstice
#December21st #ArtAdvent
#December21st #ArtAdvent
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It's 20 December and here in London we have 17 hours of darkness. so, as I do, I commend to you Sing For The Coming of the Longest Night, co-written by me & my bff @krfabian.bsky.social: a solstice poly romance, complete with jolly vicars, haunted theremins, & deep, sweet, weird-ancient magic. ❄️🎄🏳️🌈
December 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
It's 20 December and here in London we have 17 hours of darkness. so, as I do, I commend to you Sing For The Coming of the Longest Night, co-written by me & my bff @krfabian.bsky.social: a solstice poly romance, complete with jolly vicars, haunted theremins, & deep, sweet, weird-ancient magic. ❄️🎄🏳️🌈
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Updatedletter, I know go into soem emperical results as well: zenodo.org/records/1800...
The Apperent Negative Associations Between Early and Adult Performance in elite performers Arise from Colider Selection Bias and Baserate Neglect
Güllich et al. argue that among elite performers there is a negative association between early and adult performance, a pattern they link to distinct developmental causal mechanisms for early, and adu...
zenodo.org
December 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Updatedletter, I know go into soem emperical results as well: zenodo.org/records/1800...
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New paper: "Alcohol consumption and risk of cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis of four biobanks and consortium data" out at BMC Medicine: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Lots of interesting findings! Brief thread:
Alcohol consumption and risk of cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis of four biobanks and consortium data - BMC Medicine
Background Alcohol consumption has been linked to cancer risk. Evidence is strongest for seven cancer types: breast, colorectum, oesophagus, liver, mouth, pharynx, and larynx. However, evidence suppor...
link.springer.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
New paper: "Alcohol consumption and risk of cancer: a Mendelian randomization analysis of four biobanks and consortium data" out at BMC Medicine: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Lots of interesting findings! Brief thread:
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
This is beautiful. Art saving lives.
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
This is beautiful. Art saving lives.
Friend shared a letter they have sent to girl guides. It ended with something that hit me hard:
I will continue to do my best, I just wish you could have done so too.
:'(
I will continue to do my best, I just wish you could have done so too.
:'(
December 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Friend shared a letter they have sent to girl guides. It ended with something that hit me hard:
I will continue to do my best, I just wish you could have done so too.
:'(
I will continue to do my best, I just wish you could have done so too.
:'(
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Did you know that there's a wide range of scholarships, grants and bursaries at Cambridge for postgraduate study? Here are just a few of them.
Tap for a complete guide: https://bit.ly/4oOClBT
🚨 The deadline for most courses is early December so apply now.
Tap for a complete guide: https://bit.ly/4oOClBT
🚨 The deadline for most courses is early December so apply now.
November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Did you know that there's a wide range of scholarships, grants and bursaries at Cambridge for postgraduate study? Here are just a few of them.
Tap for a complete guide: https://bit.ly/4oOClBT
🚨 The deadline for most courses is early December so apply now.
Tap for a complete guide: https://bit.ly/4oOClBT
🚨 The deadline for most courses is early December so apply now.
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I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
The missing heritability question is now (mostly) answered
Not with a bang but with a whimper
theinfinitesimal.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 10:34 PM
I wrote a little bit about the "missing heritability" question and several recent studies that have brought it to a close. A short 🧵
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The work of contemporary #printmaker Andrea Rich #womensart
November 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The work of contemporary #printmaker Andrea Rich #womensart
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'Saguaro Dusk' by contemporary US Impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 AM
'Saguaro Dusk' by contemporary US Impressionist style painter Erin Hanson #WomensArt
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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I built a DAG diagram with garden hoses for teaching.
Pictured: a collider bias diagram, inspired by a blocked pipe situation I experienced (which I credit with giving me the intuition though it also ruined my belongings in the flooded cellar).
Pictured: a collider bias diagram, inspired by a blocked pipe situation I experienced (which I credit with giving me the intuition though it also ruined my belongings in the flooded cellar).
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I built a DAG diagram with garden hoses for teaching.
Pictured: a collider bias diagram, inspired by a blocked pipe situation I experienced (which I credit with giving me the intuition though it also ruined my belongings in the flooded cellar).
Pictured: a collider bias diagram, inspired by a blocked pipe situation I experienced (which I credit with giving me the intuition though it also ruined my belongings in the flooded cellar).
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Well done @eliasallara.bsky.social! Burden of cardiovascular diseases in England (2020–24): a national cohort using electronic health records data. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Burden of cardiovascular diseases in England (2020–24): a national cohort using electronic health records data
Our study offers new insights into recent cardiovascular disease patterns and reveals
important health inequalities at a whole-population scale for multiple cardiovascular
diseases, during and after t...
www.thelancet.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Well done @eliasallara.bsky.social! Burden of cardiovascular diseases in England (2020–24): a national cohort using electronic health records data. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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New pre-print "Mendelian randomization in a multi-ancestry world: reflections and practical advice" led by @amymariemason.bsky.social on - arxiv.org/abs/2510.17554
Mendelian randomization in a multi-ancestry world: reflections and practical advice
Many Mendelian randomization (MR) papers have been conducted only in people of European ancestry, limiting transportability of results to the global population. Expanding MR to diverse ancestry groups...
arxiv.org
October 27, 2025 at 8:43 AM
New pre-print "Mendelian randomization in a multi-ancestry world: reflections and practical advice" led by @amymariemason.bsky.social on - arxiv.org/abs/2510.17554
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I know Professor Laura Gray at the University of Leicester has done a lot on this:
leicesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/laura-gray-b...
leicesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/laura-gray-b...
My journey into public involvement for statistical methodology research - NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre
A blog by Professor Laura Gray, Co-Lead for the NIHR Leicester BRC’s Data Innovation for Multiple Long-Term Health Conditions and Ethnic Health theme.
leicesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk
October 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I know Professor Laura Gray at the University of Leicester has done a lot on this:
leicesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/laura-gray-b...
leicesterbrc.nihr.ac.uk/laura-gray-b...
My current embroidery project is nearly done, so I'm looking for something new to do with my hands. Does anyone have any custom embroidery they want?
SMALL PRINT:
- Cost : donation to a trans or refugee charity of your choice
- Needs to use mostly only materials I have
SMALL PRINT:
- Cost : donation to a trans or refugee charity of your choice
- Needs to use mostly only materials I have
October 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
My current embroidery project is nearly done, so I'm looking for something new to do with my hands. Does anyone have any custom embroidery they want?
SMALL PRINT:
- Cost : donation to a trans or refugee charity of your choice
- Needs to use mostly only materials I have
SMALL PRINT:
- Cost : donation to a trans or refugee charity of your choice
- Needs to use mostly only materials I have
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Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
October 13, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
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I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own
It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries
benharrap.com/post/2025-10...
#statssky #episky #academicsky
It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries
benharrap.com/post/2025-10...
#statssky #episky #academicsky
October 10, 2025 at 1:05 AM
I clearly had a lot of thoughts/feelings from reading Terry's blog post, so I wrote one of my own
It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries
benharrap.com/post/2025-10...
#statssky #episky #academicsky
It ended up being a bit of a stream-of-thought post but I think it captures some of my worries
benharrap.com/post/2025-10...
#statssky #episky #academicsky