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50th Annual Symposium of the Kettil Bruun Society (KBS) for Social and Epidemiological Research on Alcohol: Glasgow, Scotland, 9th – 13th June 2025 @kettilbruunsociety.bsky.social

09.06.2025 08:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Every 10 seconds vaccination saves a life. Immunization for all is Humanly Possible

It’s #WorldImmunizationWeek

Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute.

A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives.

#VaccinesWork
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24.04.2025 05:50 — 👍 814    🔁 304    💬 13    📌 17

#NewPLOSMentalHealthArticle: Benefits of a growth mindset

A longitudinal survey from University of California Riverside & Landmark College shows that a growth mindset (belief that things can change) could be protective for mental health during challenging times

journals.plos.org/mentalhealth...

08.01.2025 05:57 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Health literacy in relation to web-based measurement of cognitive function in the home: UK Women’s Cohort Study Objective Older adults may require additional support to comprehend written information due to inadequate health literacy, which involves components of cognitive function including reaction time. This...

At-home web-based reaction time tests can measure cognitive function, for dementia research. However, results are affected by volunteer bias. Younger, educated and more intelligent women are more likely to volunteer: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/3... #DementiaResearch #CognitiveAging #Bias

07.03.2025 10:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Emotion regulation and compassion fatigue in mental health professionals in a context of stress: A longitudinal study Introduction Mental health professionals (MHP) are exposed to several stressors and have emotionally demanding jobs. They must effectively manage their emotions within their everyday practice. Emotion...

#NewPLOSMentalHealthArticle

Frederick Philippe & colleagues at Universite du Quebec a Montreal examine how mental health professionals regulate their emotions and susceptibility to compassion fatigue. They also consider how approaches change during times of stress.

doi.org/10.1371/jour...

27.02.2025 06:41 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Biological plausibility

26.02.2025 20:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Critical appraisal checklists like STROBE already include this. It is good practice to report such characteristics.

18.02.2025 21:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

From the archive: Building partnerships with the voluntary and community sector
Dr Gareth Hagger-Johnson @gh-j.bsky.social looks back on their March 2006 feature.
www.bps.org.uk/psychologist...

10.02.2025 09:35 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

From the literature on data linkage errors in clinical settings: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12044131/

12.01.2025 14:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Book cover of the book 'Exploring complex survey data analysis using R', showing a light blue background with a hand-drawn map showing mountains, houses, roads and the sea.

To celebrate this gem of a book by @statsteph.bsky.social, @ivelasq3.bsky.social and Rebecca Powell on complex survey data with #RStats and the #tidyverse, we are giving away one copy to a lucky winner. To enter, re-post this and follow me by Nov 24. Not affiliated with bsky.

21.11.2024 09:09 — 👍 111    🔁 87    💬 1    📌 4

An illusion of predictability in scientific results: Even experts confuse inferential uncertainty and outcome variability | PNAS Traditionally, scientists have placed more emphasis on communicating inferential uncertainty (i.e., the precision of statistical estimates) compare...

Here's a paper that explains the difference between standard errors and standard deviations:

bmj.com/content/331/...

Here's our paper, which shows that experts (doctors, professors, data scientists) mix them up:

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

17.08.2024 08:47 — 👍 249    🔁 109    💬 8    📌 7