Dr Will Ball
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Dr Will Ball
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Interested in working out how to reduce unfair and avoidable differences in health. Mostly youth mental health.

Chancellor's Fellow at Robert Gordon University | Social Epidemiologist | Pro Cycling | Rstats | Causal Inference 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🍉
It's really quite depressing that people like this can be handed so much power.
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
She is/was Chair of Genomics England though, so everything will presumably just end up as a massive Biobank.

Best get practicing those GWAS methods.
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
It's a good sign of the capture that capitalists have on public discourse that taxation is considered an issue in itself, rather than how public funds are spent.
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
If you don't have visions naturally, the role comes with it's own ayahuasca budget.
November 26, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I've always been partial to the idea of 'Researcher degrees of freedom'

Not sure that's one specific type of bias though.
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Better completion %age than JJ McCarthy though
November 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
This is where schedule send comes into play.

4:55pm on Friday afternoon!
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Protest works.

No Israeli registered teams in the pro peloton please.
November 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Reliable statistics!
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If you're buying I will take it. Preferably not in Paret-Peintre size though.
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
It's also at the forefront of my mind today - went for a dog walk and saw a local remembrance procession which included members of the local orange order lodge (In a small NE Scottish town)
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
It's definitely selective remembrance for the most part in the UK.

Having relatives who fought for & against the British army at roughly the same time (one died at the Somme & another was in the IRA during the war of independence), the poppy-mania has always made me uncomfortable.
November 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Live pictures coming through of a mediation analysis illuminating a causal structure.
a man in a black coat is standing next to a child with the number 666 on the bottom
Alt: Uncle Fester putting a light bulb in his mouth and the bulb lights up
media.tenor.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It must be an honorary doctorate. The University should definitely revoke that after these revelations.
November 4, 2025 at 7:38 AM
I was wondering if that was an alternative option, will have an explore. Thanks
November 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM