Myra McGuinness
@myramcguinness.bsky.social
Biostatistician who nerds out on clinical and epidemiological ophthalmology. 🇦🇺
This week! Prof Ian Marschner from the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre will be presenting the @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar on Confidence distributions.
All welcome online or in person.
Friday 21 November 9:30am AEDT, Monash SPHPM.
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/confid...
All welcome online or in person.
Friday 21 November 9:30am AEDT, Monash SPHPM.
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/confid...
Confidence distributions: new tools to design, adapt and analyse clinical trials
Confidence distributions provide a holistic s
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November 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This week! Prof Ian Marschner from the NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre will be presenting the @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar on Confidence distributions.
All welcome online or in person.
Friday 21 November 9:30am AEDT, Monash SPHPM.
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/confid...
All welcome online or in person.
Friday 21 November 9:30am AEDT, Monash SPHPM.
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/confid...
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If you are interested in the problem of conflicts of interest, in any scientific field, please consider filling in this survey: erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
(and please repost this for a snowball effect!)
(and please repost this for a snowball effect!)
Survey - Conflict of Interest Statements
This survey investigates incentives for conducting and publishing research and how conflicts of interest should be disclosed.
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November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If you are interested in the problem of conflicts of interest, in any scientific field, please consider filling in this survey: erasmusuniversity.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
(and please repost this for a snowball effect!)
(and please repost this for a snowball effect!)
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Mark your diaries! The ViCBiostat Summer School returns from 13-20 Feb 2026, in Melbourne and online.
Courses include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework.
Further details TBA shortly - sign up to our mailing list at www.vicbiostat.org.au
#statistics
Courses include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework.
Further details TBA shortly - sign up to our mailing list at www.vicbiostat.org.au
#statistics
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Mark your diaries! The ViCBiostat Summer School returns from 13-20 Feb 2026, in Melbourne and online.
Courses include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework.
Further details TBA shortly - sign up to our mailing list at www.vicbiostat.org.au
#statistics
Courses include causal inference, cluster randomised trials, meta-analysis and the estimand framework.
Further details TBA shortly - sign up to our mailing list at www.vicbiostat.org.au
#statistics
#ViCBiostat Summer School 13-20 Feb 2026
#Causal inference
#Estimands in trials
#Cluster randomised trials
Advanced #meta-analysis
In Melbs and online.
More details to come.
www.vicbiostat.org.au
#Causal inference
#Estimands in trials
#Cluster randomised trials
Advanced #meta-analysis
In Melbs and online.
More details to come.
www.vicbiostat.org.au
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
#ViCBiostat Summer School 13-20 Feb 2026
#Causal inference
#Estimands in trials
#Cluster randomised trials
Advanced #meta-analysis
In Melbs and online.
More details to come.
www.vicbiostat.org.au
#Causal inference
#Estimands in trials
#Cluster randomised trials
Advanced #meta-analysis
In Melbs and online.
More details to come.
www.vicbiostat.org.au
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Just over 2 weeks to go until the Australian Trials Methodology Conference! Join us on 20th November in Melbourne (or online) to hear the latest developments in clinical trial methodology! #atmc25 @austrim-cre.bsky.social
www.atmc25.com/home
www.atmc25.com/home
#atmc25
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November 3, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Just over 2 weeks to go until the Australian Trials Methodology Conference! Join us on 20th November in Melbourne (or online) to hear the latest developments in clinical trial methodology! #atmc25 @austrim-cre.bsky.social
www.atmc25.com/home
www.atmc25.com/home
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Strengthen your research skills in observational studies!
📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom
Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇
🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom
Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇
🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
Observational Studies: Modern concepts & analytic methods - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
www.mcri.edu.au
August 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Strengthen your research skills in observational studies!
📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom
Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇
🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📅 27–31 Oct 2025 | 💻 Online via Zoom
Reduced rates available for selected participants- more details and registration👇
🔗 www.mcri.edu.au/research/res...
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This week! Don’t miss Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen’s @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar on proximal causal inference!
Join the October @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar to hear Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen speak on proximal causal inference.
All welcome online 23 October.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/fortif...
#casualinference #biostatistics @upenncgh.bsky.social
All welcome online 23 October.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/fortif...
#casualinference #biostatistics @upenncgh.bsky.social
Fortified Proximal Causal Inference with many imperfect negative controls
Abstract: Causal inference from observational
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October 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
This week! Don’t miss Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen’s @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar on proximal causal inference!
Join the October @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar to hear Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen speak on proximal causal inference.
All welcome online 23 October.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/fortif...
#casualinference #biostatistics @upenncgh.bsky.social
All welcome online 23 October.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/fortif...
#casualinference #biostatistics @upenncgh.bsky.social
Fortified Proximal Causal Inference with many imperfect negative controls
Abstract: Causal inference from observational
www.vicbiostat.org.au
October 7, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Join the October @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar to hear Prof Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen speak on proximal causal inference.
All welcome online 23 October.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/fortif...
#casualinference #biostatistics @upenncgh.bsky.social
All welcome online 23 October.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/fortif...
#casualinference #biostatistics @upenncgh.bsky.social
Someone on here recently used a term like "paper laundering" when low quality evidence is included in meta-analyses. I'm pretty sure I am guilty of that here. In retrospect, perhaps we could have presented individual study estimates without a pooled estimate. >
www.ajo.com/article/S000...
www.ajo.com/article/S000...
Effectiveness and safety of cross-linking in keratoconus patients with corneal thickness <400μm: A systematic review and meta-analysis
In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we aimed to investigate the effectiveness
and safety of corneal cross-linking (CXL) in patients with keratoconus and thin corneas
(corneal thickness <400μm...
www.ajo.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Someone on here recently used a term like "paper laundering" when low quality evidence is included in meta-analyses. I'm pretty sure I am guilty of that here. In retrospect, perhaps we could have presented individual study estimates without a pooled estimate. >
www.ajo.com/article/S000...
www.ajo.com/article/S000...
This week! Join us on Thursday for the September ViCBiostat seminar on stat methods for registry-based trials.
September @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar:
Camila Olarte Parra from @causalab.bsky.social Karolinska will speak on combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials.
All welcome online 25 September.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/combin...
Camila Olarte Parra from @causalab.bsky.social Karolinska will speak on combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials.
All welcome online 25 September.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/combin...
Combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials
Even though the advantages of randomised tria
www.vicbiostat.org.au
September 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This week! Join us on Thursday for the September ViCBiostat seminar on stat methods for registry-based trials.
Lovely video from my work about the motivation behind research into gene therapy for Usher syndrome. youtu.be/4Km9jZh_X1A?...
Hope in Sight Giving Day 2025: Be a sport and help us end Usher syndrome
YouTube video by Centre for Eye Research Australia | CERA
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September 19, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Lovely video from my work about the motivation behind research into gene therapy for Usher syndrome. youtu.be/4Km9jZh_X1A?...
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Join us at #atmc25 as we explore "Better Trials Through Better Methods"
Invited speakers and program details now available - more at www.atmc25.com
Secure your ticket today! Early🐦 must end 26/9
Invited speakers and program details now available - more at www.atmc25.com
Secure your ticket today! Early🐦 must end 26/9
September 10, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Join us at #atmc25 as we explore "Better Trials Through Better Methods"
Invited speakers and program details now available - more at www.atmc25.com
Secure your ticket today! Early🐦 must end 26/9
Invited speakers and program details now available - more at www.atmc25.com
Secure your ticket today! Early🐦 must end 26/9
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📢 Australian Trials Methodology Conference 2025
🗓 20 Nov | 📍Melbourne & Online via Zoom
Join leading speakers from academia, industry & healthcare.
🎟 Early-bird rates until 26 Sep!
🔗Register: atmc25.com
#ClinicalTrials #TrialMethodology #Biostatistics
@vicbiostat.bsky.social
🗓 20 Nov | 📍Melbourne & Online via Zoom
Join leading speakers from academia, industry & healthcare.
🎟 Early-bird rates until 26 Sep!
🔗Register: atmc25.com
#ClinicalTrials #TrialMethodology #Biostatistics
@vicbiostat.bsky.social
August 25, 2025 at 5:18 AM
📢 Australian Trials Methodology Conference 2025
🗓 20 Nov | 📍Melbourne & Online via Zoom
Join leading speakers from academia, industry & healthcare.
🎟 Early-bird rates until 26 Sep!
🔗Register: atmc25.com
#ClinicalTrials #TrialMethodology #Biostatistics
@vicbiostat.bsky.social
🗓 20 Nov | 📍Melbourne & Online via Zoom
Join leading speakers from academia, industry & healthcare.
🎟 Early-bird rates until 26 Sep!
🔗Register: atmc25.com
#ClinicalTrials #TrialMethodology #Biostatistics
@vicbiostat.bsky.social
September @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar:
Camila Olarte Parra from @causalab.bsky.social Karolinska will speak on combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials.
All welcome online 25 September.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/combin...
Camila Olarte Parra from @causalab.bsky.social Karolinska will speak on combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials.
All welcome online 25 September.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/combin...
Combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials
Even though the advantages of randomised tria
www.vicbiostat.org.au
August 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
September @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar:
Camila Olarte Parra from @causalab.bsky.social Karolinska will speak on combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials.
All welcome online 25 September.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/combin...
Camila Olarte Parra from @causalab.bsky.social Karolinska will speak on combining information from trial participants and non-participants in registry-based trials.
All welcome online 25 September.
More info:
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/combin...
We are looking forward to hearing @jonathan-bartlett.bsky.social speak on the G-formula for causal inference using synthetic multiple imputation at the July @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar!
All welcome online Thursday 24th, 4:00pm Aus EST (7:00am UK time).
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/g-form...
All welcome online Thursday 24th, 4:00pm Aus EST (7:00am UK time).
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/g-form...
G-formula for causal inference using synthetic multiple imputation
G-formula is a popular approach for estimatin
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July 23, 2025 at 2:04 AM
We are looking forward to hearing @jonathan-bartlett.bsky.social speak on the G-formula for causal inference using synthetic multiple imputation at the July @vicbiostat.bsky.social seminar!
All welcome online Thursday 24th, 4:00pm Aus EST (7:00am UK time).
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/g-form...
All welcome online Thursday 24th, 4:00pm Aus EST (7:00am UK time).
www.vicbiostat.org.au/event/g-form...
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🔍 Looking for your next big opportunity in Bayesian statistics? Join the team at Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity as a Research Assistant or Research Fellow in Bayesian analysis.
📍 Based in Melbourne | 💼 Apply now: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...
📍 Based in Melbourne | 💼 Apply now: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...
Research Assistant / Research Fellow in Bayesian Statistics
Role type: Full-time; Fixed-term for 2 years Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences Department/School: Department of Infectious Diseases Salary: Level A – $85,555 to $116,094 (P...
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July 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
🔍 Looking for your next big opportunity in Bayesian statistics? Join the team at Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity as a Research Assistant or Research Fellow in Bayesian analysis.
📍 Based in Melbourne | 💼 Apply now: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...
📍 Based in Melbourne | 💼 Apply now: unimelb.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/UoM_External...
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🚨Join our team at the University of Melbourne as a RA/Research Fellow in Biostats. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful public health research within a supportive and collaborative environment.
📅 Applications close: 28 July 2025
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📅 Applications close: 28 July 2025
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Methods and Implementation Support for Clinical and Health research Hub hiring Research Assistant / Research Fellow in Biostatistics in Parkville, Victoria, Australia | LinkedIn
Posted 3:25:23 AM. Role type: Full-time; Fixed-term for 12 months (maternity cover) Faculty: Faculty of Medicine…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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July 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
🚨Join our team at the University of Melbourne as a RA/Research Fellow in Biostats. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to impactful public health research within a supportive and collaborative environment.
📅 Applications close: 28 July 2025
👉 lnkd.in/gCRhts9K
📅 Applications close: 28 July 2025
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Great to see this work by John Carlin & @margaritamb.bsky.social on the uses and abuses of regression models finally published. @vicbiostat.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/sim....
doi.org/10.1002/sim....
Rejoinder to Commentaries on: On the Uses and Abuses of Regression Models: A Call for Reform of Statistical Practice and Teaching
Click on the article title to read more.
doi.org
June 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Great to see this work by John Carlin & @margaritamb.bsky.social on the uses and abuses of regression models finally published. @vicbiostat.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1002/sim....
doi.org/10.1002/sim....
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I'm looking for a senior research fellow or research fellow to join my group (the Cluster Cluster!) at Monash University, to develop statistical methodology of adaptive longitudinal cluster randomised trials. Come join us for 3 years in marvellous Melbourne! careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
May 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I'm looking for a senior research fellow or research fellow to join my group (the Cluster Cluster!) at Monash University, to develop statistical methodology of adaptive longitudinal cluster randomised trials. Come join us for 3 years in marvellous Melbourne! careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
Three cheers for compulsory voting. Hopefully that means the politicians care what we think. Democratic vibes are good in Dunkley this morning.
May 2, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Three cheers for compulsory voting. Hopefully that means the politicians care what we think. Democratic vibes are good in Dunkley this morning.
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NEW PAPER: Updated SPIRIT-2025 for reporting protocols of randomised trials is now available in the @BMJ.com, @JAMA.com, @thelancet.bsky.social, @PLoS.org, and @natmedicine.bsky.social.
—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky
—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky
April 29, 2025 at 5:59 AM
NEW PAPER: Updated SPIRIT-2025 for reporting protocols of randomised trials is now available in the @BMJ.com, @JAMA.com, @thelancet.bsky.social, @PLoS.org, and @natmedicine.bsky.social.
—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky
—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...
#openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky
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🚨 Our popular two-part #Stata course is back — running virtually on May 6 & 7!
📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
👉 Visit the links to register for a spot!
📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
👉 Visit the links to register for a spot!
Stata 1 - Online and Classroom Mode - Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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April 24, 2025 at 1:28 AM
🚨 Our popular two-part #Stata course is back — running virtually on May 6 & 7!
📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
👉 Visit the links to register for a spot!
📊 Stata 1: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
📈 Stata 2: mcri.edu.au/research/res...
👉 Visit the links to register for a spot!
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📊 Observational Studies: Modern Concepts & Analytic Methods
✍️This course provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts for observational studies in clinical and health research
📅 Next online iteration: 19–23 May from 9 AM-1PM each day
🔗https://shorturl.at/CYDUB
✍️This course provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts for observational studies in clinical and health research
📅 Next online iteration: 19–23 May from 9 AM-1PM each day
🔗https://shorturl.at/CYDUB
April 24, 2025 at 1:30 AM
📊 Observational Studies: Modern Concepts & Analytic Methods
✍️This course provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts for observational studies in clinical and health research
📅 Next online iteration: 19–23 May from 9 AM-1PM each day
🔗https://shorturl.at/CYDUB
✍️This course provides a comprehensive introduction to key concepts for observational studies in clinical and health research
📅 Next online iteration: 19–23 May from 9 AM-1PM each day
🔗https://shorturl.at/CYDUB
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Well designed and properly executed randomised trials are considered the most reliable evidence on the benefits of healthcare interventions.
This update to the CONSORT guidelines includes new changes to the checklist
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
This update to the CONSORT guidelines includes new changes to the checklist
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
April 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Well designed and properly executed randomised trials are considered the most reliable evidence on the benefits of healthcare interventions.
This update to the CONSORT guidelines includes new changes to the checklist
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
This update to the CONSORT guidelines includes new changes to the checklist
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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The disabilty and health unit at unimelb is hiring! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...
Details : Research Fellow/Senior Research Fellow (Disability and Health Unit) : The University of Melbourne
Careers at The University of Melbourne
jobs.unimelb.edu.au
April 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
The disabilty and health unit at unimelb is hiring! jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/9...