Honoured to receive the 25th Anniversary MRC Millenium Medal. My mid-1980s epidemiological apprenticeship was at the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cardiff in the mid-1980s, and my senescence with the MRC IEU, closing in March 2028
🙏 MRC!
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Finally in Navi Mumbai located my favourite beer since first coming to work in India in 1992, it is increasingly difficult to find, and now often only the STRONG ~8% “premium” version the only one available

Reassuring to see a cow at a major road junction in Bangalore; after a third of a century of work trips to India most things have changed out of all recognition, but a silicon valley thriving bovine represents continuity

Are there earlier occurrences of groups being established to archive biological data to make them available for future analyses by researchers than this, which is from The British Association Committee on Biological Measurements, 1927?

Great to have @markmccarthy985.bsky.social at @uob-ieu.bsky.social giving a seminar tomorrow (Friday) at 12.30 online or in person www.bristol.ac.uk/integrative-...

"Triangulation: moving from correlations to causation", Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine Distinguished Lecture 2025, Thursday, October 16th, 5pm, in person or online
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4/n It is a seminal "introduction to, and apology for, multistage models" (see the introduction below, surely you can't stop reading where it leaves off?) of vast subtlety & depth. The interlibrary loan of "The need for ignorance in cancer research" arrived and I read /cont

1/n I first read this sitting on a stool in the HK Lewis medical bookshop on Gower Street soon after it came out; the book was outside my budget & the rest not so interesting. It felt like the 19th century in Lewis' anachronistic shop, there were hardly any customers /cont

Prescient words from the great Richard Levins in his 1996 Edinburgh Medal address “When science fails us”, a piece on why we need a dialectical epidemiology, ecology and agricultural science.
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The empty Colston plinth in Bristol with the original and new labelling

My favourite visual representation of Mendelism is below, but as always the story is more complex than it seems ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2022/07/15/t...

Is there a future for Mendelian randomization? 10th March 11.00 Canadian time, online and in person @mcgilluniversity.bsky.social, I'll discuss this and why - if I had been better read - I would have used the term "meiotic randomization" rather than "Mendelian randomization" in the initial papers

Contralateral cancers are an enigma: the unaffected organ is perfectly matched on exposures across life, yet despite this at older ages the risk of cancer in that organ is not much higher than a randomly selected organ from the same population. What can be happening? youtu.be/7rbsGpz9-XE

Altos labs are apparently going to crack ageing (at least among billionaires) apparently .. here's how the great Clive McCay (who initiated the first calorie restriction studies in mice in the 1930s) envisaged progress would be made

Journals are packed full of papers reporting supposedly new epidemiological / statistical methods, though many never get used. In 2001 Shah Ebrahim and I considered this when asking "Epidemiology: is it time for to call it a day" in
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Google Scholar profiles are officially ridiculous - much as I like "10.15 Saturday Night", "Boys don't cry" etc ...

Cartoon I used ~30 years ago, following nonsense dietary epidemiology studies; the same cohorts continue to publish these, even though RCTs have so often shown their findings to be meaningless. Dark chocolate the most recent silly paper; a blog here ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/12/04/d...