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by Richard Shaw

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One of the big challenges of today is that we have allowed selfish individualistic people to define aspiration.

The result is apathetic "leaders" only interested in their own wealth, gratification or prestige, and completely oblivious to a system that is malfunctioning and falling apart.
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by Richard Shaw

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The training is the easy part. People also need to have the resources and the time to do what they are trained to do. This requires better management to make better use of existing resources.
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by Richard Shaw

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One thing that rapidly becomes obvious in public health is that behaviour change is dependent on more than knowledge and education.

Yet social media is full of "experts" in public health who completely ignore this and constantly stating that the solution is more training and education.
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by Richard Shaw

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Not everybody can be good at anything. Communication needs to be done as team with scientists in different roles depending on their skills and aptitude.
To do this well scientists need secure funding and reasonable workloads as well as the knowledge.
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by Richard Shaw

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I really liked this. Spelling out the assumptions explicitly in model out output has the potential to help reinforce what people are learning through other media.

by Richard Shaw

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I may be missing something but isn't this called teaching?
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Reposted by Richard Shaw

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Join us next week for our #PublicHealth seminar on using casual inference in #epidemiology research for asthma & kidney disease #HealthData

🗓️ Tuesday 14 October, 12:50 BST
📍 LSHTM | Online

Details ⬇️
www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...
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by Richard Shaw — Reposted by Alastair H. Leyland

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The European Commission has cancelled all NGO operating grants for 2025. EUPHA was receiving around 400,000 euros a year and has been left with nothing. @eupha.bsky.social have started a solidarity campaign to address the short fall. whydonate.com/fundraising/...
Fundraiser by EUPHA European Public Health Association | U* are Public Health - Stand up for Science
EUPHA European Public Health Association Needs Your Help | U* are Public Health Stand with us to protect science, equity, and public health in Europe. Public health is under attack — but together we c...
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by Richard Shaw

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There are more equitable ways of raising money from international students. The wealthier ones are consuming more luxuries and taking holidays, perhaps raise taxes in these areas? Others are struggling financially and having to work to support themselves while studying.
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 15d
Using the proposed levy on international students towards maintenance grants doesn't make the levy any more sensible as a funding instrument.
And if Govt is bringing back maintenance grants, let's have them cover all arts, humanites & social sciences
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/respons...
British Academy responds to government announcement on university maintenance grants
The British Academy has issued a response to the government's announcement on using a proposed levy on international students to fund maintenance grants.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

Reposted by Richard Shaw

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In our latest blog, Peter Lynn takes an overview of survey methods, and says understanding and care are more important than budget
How do you build a survey that works? - Understanding Society
Peter Lynn, Associate Director of Understanding Society, tackles the question in an article in Nature: Human Behaviour Peter Lynn, Associate Director of Understanding Society, examines the features of...
www.understandingsociety.ac.uk
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by Richard Shaw

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I am starting to appreciate how little training academic researchers get on how to present and frame things. In particular the ethics around it. The default is focused on framing things for journals, and the limited training on knowledge exchange emphases "impact" not balanced advice.
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by Richard Shaw

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This is not new as Bertrand Russell said "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
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by Richard Shaw

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On many issues the science is so complex that it's not possible for anybody to understand it all and people emphasise parts of it in biased way often very loudly and aggressively. This is political but it is not a proper debate.
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by Richard McElreath — Reposted by Richard Shaw, Jill A. Jacobson

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Was asked about collinearity again, so here's Vahove's 2019 post on why it isn't a problem that needs a solution. Design the model(s) to answer a formal question and free your mind janhove.github.io/posts/2019-0...
tl;dr Collinearity is a form of lack of information that is appropriately reflected in the output of your statistical model. When collinearity is associated with interpretational difficulties, these difficulties aren’t caused by the collinearity itself. Rather, they reveal that the model was poorly specified (in that it answers a question different to the one of interest), that the analyst overly focuses on significance rather than estimates and the uncertainty about them or that the analyst took a mental shortcut in interpreting the model that could’ve also led them astray in the absence of collinearity. If you do decide to “deal with” collinearity, make sure you can still answer the question of interest.
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Reposted by Richard Shaw, Michael H. Whitworth

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Using the proposed levy on international students towards maintenance grants doesn't make the levy any more sensible as a funding instrument.
And if Govt is bringing back maintenance grants, let's have them cover all arts, humanites & social sciences
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/respons...
British Academy responds to government announcement on university maintenance grants
The British Academy has issued a response to the government's announcement on using a proposed levy on international students to fund maintenance grants.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
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Reposted by Richard Shaw, Ismael Peña‐López

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Gender pay gap
S Korea 31%
Israel 25%
Japan 21%
Canada 17%
US 17%
Mexico 17%
UK 15%
Germany 14%
Turkey 10%
France 9%
Spain 7%
Italy 3%
Belgium 1%
Chart shows difference between median full-time earnings of men and women as % of median earnings of men in OECD countries.
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by Richard Shaw

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I am all for making sure politicians retrospectively get the terrible ratings they deserve . On this basis of failing to implement the Dilnot report, austerity and Brexit, David Cameron is the worst PM of my lifetime.
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by Richard Shaw

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Two decades ago David Coleman from a right wing perspective and Danny Dorling from the left seemed to be able to maintain a much higher profile than anybody does now.

It's almost as if the discipline is actively trying not to upset anyone.
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by Richard Shaw

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It does raises concerns over what the UK's academic demographers have been doing for the last couple of decades.

Demography has been driving UK Politics for more than a decades, and they are almost completely invisible.
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Reposted by Richard Shaw, W Grant, David Murakami Wood

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Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee
Why I gave the world wide web away for free
My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for
www.theguardian.com
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by Richard Shaw

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Please only repost the first or key posts in a thread. If people are interested in it they will naturally follow it. Reposting all of them ends up with the thread in the wrong order and makes it harder to read.
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Reposted by Richard Shaw, Elizabeth Stokoe, Laurent Hébert‐Dufresne

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In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs.

He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade.

Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k.

Why?
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by Jan R. Boehnke — Reposted by Richard Shaw

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I have been following #psychometrics jobs in #Scotland for a while. I think this is the first one* I am notified about in 2 years
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU426/d...

I have no experience with/connection to the employer. Given its rarity, it seemed worth passing on.

#DataAnalysis #Job #MedicalEducation
Data Analyst at Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Discover Data Analyst jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
www.jobs.ac.uk
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by Richard Shaw

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Well provide support for your position with evidence from a survey on why clinicians are leaving research. The limited data in the article focuses on security of funding.
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by Richard Shaw

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I have reread the article, the main focus s on the job security and funding for researchers NOT salaries. Hardly surprising as job security has always been the main concern of early career researchers. The solution to that is senior academics showing more solidarity to their junior colleagues.
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by Richard Shaw

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There are thousands of people losing their jobs in academia due to funding problems. MRC units are being closed. Inflation is running at 3.8% the current pay offer for non-academics is 1.4%. The solution to this is solidarity, and that requires focusing the support on the most disadvantage.
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by Richard Shaw

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The difference between being nice and being kind. It is important to recognise the difference.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Think you’re kind? Maybe you’re just being nice. I’ve learned there’s a big difference | Ann Russell
Like many women, I was conditioned to people-please – until I realised that this was neither helping others, nor myself, says author Ann Russell
www.theguardian.com
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by Richard Shaw

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We have also known for probably an even longer time that not only the academic career structure has incentived novelty over rigour. But also that workloads and job insecurity have made it really difficult to change the system.
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by Richard Shaw

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The idea that population health needs to take a socioecological approach has been well established for decades see for example Tony McMichael's article on the Prisoners of the Proximate, doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
and related ideas have been developing since at least the 19th Century.
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Reposted by Richard Shaw

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NIHR ARC Wessex withdraws from X/Twitter

@nihrarcs.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social

www.arc-wx.nihr.ac.uk/post/nihr-ar...
NIHR ARC Wessex closes X/Twitter platform account after comments from owner
NIHR ARC Wessex has withdrawn from the X/Twitter platform following comments at the weekend by its owner Elon Musk. See BBC article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvr5782yp3o We would encourage...
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