Sara Conroy, PhD

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Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics NCH/OSU | #episky #statsky | @OSUpublichealth and @nationwidekids: Ohio Perinatal Research Network, Center for Perinatal Research | 3 kids | she/her

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Stef @[email protected] Christensen

Bingo!!! When evidence of effectiveness is weak, finding a dose-response relationship is useful for persuading the regulatory agencies. The dose-response p-values are entirely impossible (even if you forgive them double-counting 50 & 100mg, and triple-counting 200mg.

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Hey #episky, join me in celebrating @marybrushe.bsky.social being a finalist in the South Australian Science Excellence and Innovation Awards! She researches the link between screen time and toddler language development - super important #academicsky #scisky www.telethonkids.org.au/news--events...

Early childhood researcher a finalist in peak South Australian science awardswww.telethonkids.org.au A Telethon Kids Institute researcher whose PhD studies highlighted the link between screen time expo

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Measles exposure: Santa Clara County / Santa Cruz County / San Jose airport/Southwest airlines 1. A Starbucks at 624 Blossom Hill Rd. in Los Gatos 2. Taqueria Los Pericos in Santa Cruz 3. San Jose Airport 4. Chicago airport Paywall free link archive.is/2024.07.08-2...

Passengers on Southwest flight out of San Jose may have been exposed to measleswww.sfchronicle.com An adult with measles who flew out of San Jose this month may have exposed others at the airport and on a Southwest flight during their infectious period.

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Dear #episky community. Is it difficult to change epi field after a Postdoc? Let’s say I research environmental risk factors for cardiovascular diseases and then I want to shift to cancer

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Meanwhile eight states, seven Democratic trifectas (CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM) and Vermont, took a lesson from the pandemic and made universal free school meals permanent.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

This seems like a cool study #episky

New study by Linsey Marr: “We aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 & pulled it through masks. After 1hr we were able to recover infectious virus from fabric masks but not an N95 or surgical mask. When we pressed artificial skin against the masks we found viral RNA but no infectious virus on the skin.” #MasksWork

Stability of Aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 on Masks and Transfer to Skinpubs.acs.org The potential for masks to act as fomites in the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 has been suggested but not demonstrated experimentally or observationally. In this study, we aerosolized a suspension of SAR...

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I'm 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 to be speaking at #useR2024 next week. How to Interpret Statistical Results with the marginaleffects 📦 for #RStats Here’s a pre-recorded video on Youtube in case you can’t make it youtu.be/ANDC_kkAjeM Let me know if you're in Salzburg and want to chat!

How to Interpret Statistical Results with marginaleffects for Ryoutu.be Practice recording for my talk at User! 2024 in Salzburg.

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Jess Calarco

Because to achieve that goal, we had to make pregnancy a scary option, which meant leaving families with kids without a decent social safety net. No paid family leave. No universal childcare. No child allowances. No baby boxes with supplies. Minimal cash welfare. 8/

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We’ve just published our work linking electronic health records to social work data which identifies children at risk of significant harm. We found increased risk of mental health prescribing and referral for children who had been on the child protection register doi.org/10.1016/j.so... #Episky

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Just skimming over this paper on 'upstrapping' for interim analyses of trials. Idea involves repeated simulation where you resample-with-replacement n (full trial size) from trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Upstrapping to determine futility: predicting future outcomes nonparametrically from past data - Trialstrialsjournal.biomedcentral.com Background Clinical trials often involve some form of interim monitoring to determine futility before planned trial completion. While many options for interim monitoring exist (e.g., alpha-spending, c...

“Unless our scientific institutions are willing to step up and denounce attacks on those who risk their lives to defend principles of science and public health, the fragile fabric that is our society will begin to unravel. That unravelling is already far advanced in America.” #episky

Powerful defense of Dr. Athony Fauci by Richard Horton in The Lancet: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... “why is the international scientific community so quiet? ... The answer is self-censorship"

Offline: In defence of Dr Fauciwww.thelancet.com “Is this what we have become? Is this what we have devolved into?” US Congressman Kweisi Mfume was reacting to comments from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene at a hearing of the Select Subcommitt...

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A relatively short talk on sample size theater in designing randomized controlled trials (from last year). www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1R8...

Dr Darren Dahly - Principles of Sample Size Estimating for Randomised Trialswww.youtube.com YouTube video by HRB TMRN

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📣 Our team’s article, “Sexual orientation disparities in gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy,” was just published by Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology! Article 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #episky #queerepi #reprosky (1/6)

Sexual orientation disparities in gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancyonlinelibrary.wiley.com Background Sexual minority (SM) individuals (e.g., those with same-sex attractions/partners or who identify as lesbian/gay/bisexual) experience a host of physical and mental health disparities. Howe...

Super excited to check this out! (And share with everyone I know) #episky @malcolmbarrett.malco.io @lucystats.bsky.social

Causal Inference in R www.r-causal.org The book is in the making. What is available so far looks useful for teaching and accessibly written #CausalSky #rstats

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📹 Exciting news! The workshop recording is now available for viewing. Check it out and enhance your web development skills with us! 👉 youtu.be/KVMwJvoM9CE 😌 rladiesrome.org/talks/2024/m... #WomenInTech #RLadies @RLadiesNYC @DorotaRizik

R-Ladies Rome (English) - Building a Website in Ryoutu.be This tutorial is designed to be accessible to beginners, with no prior experience required, just a basic knowledge of RStudio and Quarto, plus an idea of wha...

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Tip: We aren't comparing the effect of the treatment (tx) to the effect of placebo. We are *defining* the effect as the *difference* in outcome between those allocated to standard of care (SoC) + tx to those allocated to SoC + placebo, where placebo is used for blinding.

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"Ratios in regression analyses with causal questions" - interesting new paper in @amjepi.bsky.social warning about the casual use of ratio variables in regression analyses when interested in causal effects. #EpiSky academic.oup.com/aje/advance-...

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With #TargetTrial emulation becoming increasingly popular, it's important to understand what it can and can't do. In this podcast I discuss how target trial emulation can improve causal inference from observational data and extend inferences from randomized trials edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/...

Target Trial Emulation for Causal Inference From Observational Data With Dr Hernánedhub.ama-assn.org Miguel A. Hernán, MD, DrPH, professor of epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, discusses Target Trial Emulation: A Framework for Causal Inference From Observational Data with JAMA Statistical Editor Roger J. Lewis, MD, PhD.

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Also, please help me encourage a more diverse group of people to use the #StatsSky hashtag, so everyone interested in statistics can find them.

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Statisticians! Please use hashtags like #stats, so your work or question or idea appears in the StatsSky feed and can be found by people interested in that topic! And please promote other people's work there too, especially if they aren't typically represented in science feeds.

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“Statisticians shouldn’t be allowed to name things” 🤣😂

Another confusing missing data #stats term to add to the pile. Fraction of Missing Information (FMI). Is it the percentage of missing data? No! It's how much information about an estimand is lost due to missing data after imputation. Statisticians shouldn't be allowed to name things.

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Something that has helped is people contacting to say they've read the preprint & it introduced them to, e.g. tautological associations. And they think they've spotted an example from their own field! This was the dream all along! Helping people see these issues for themselves.

#episky Take a look at this! Congratulations Bryan! 🥳

Aim 1 paper from our NIA R01AG072559: "Correlates of missed or late versus timely diagnosis of dementia in healthcare settings" first authored by our amazing postdoc Yi Chen! A Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center & GW Inst for Brain Health collab alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Correlates of missed or late versus timely diagnosis of dementia in healthcare settingsalz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com INTRODUCTION There is limited evidence about factors related to the timeliness of dementia diagnosis in healthcare settings. METHODS In five prospective cohorts at Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center,...

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'Depicting deterministic variables within directed acyclic graphs (DAGs): An aid for identifying & interpreting causal effects involving derived variables and compositional data' Thrilled this has been published in @amjepi.bsky.social! Pls share! academic.oup.com/aje/advance-... #EpiSky

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I’m thrilled to be here! 🎓🎓🎓

We at the IEHHS are very excited to have @profgoldberg.bsky.social (University of Colorado) with us! Prof Goldberg will give the seminar "Understanding Health Stigma in Clinical Settings as a Key to Preventing It". The event will take place in presence on 4 July, 2024 from 5:15 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.

Änderung: Seminare mit Gastdozentwww.uni-augsburg.de

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#PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🛟 In JAMA Pediatrics: "This cohort study ... found that the Texas abortion ban was associated with unexpected increases in infant and neonatal mortality in 2022." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Infant Deaths After Texas’ 2021 Ban on Abortion in Early Pregnancyjamanetwork.com This cohort study of recorded infant deaths examines infant mortality after the passage of the 2021 ban on early abortions in Texas.

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Looking for a mind-growing distraction? How about my 3 part intro to Bayesian causal inference. It's like a condensed version of my book, 10 weeks of causal computation in 3 short blog posts. Take with plenty of water. #stats elevanth.org/blog/2021/06...

Regression, Fire, and Dangerous Things (1/3)elevanth.org It isn't my job to disappoint people, but I'm good at it.

Just saw Inside Out 2… 10/10 highly recommend. My youngest (only 7!) has huge anxiety issues that we have been working on with a professional for about a year now. She has made amazing progress. This movie spoke to her in all the ways.