Paul Pharoah

Do people eat mints any more?

Almost certainly 😜

There goes my bonus.

Aren't you supposed to go into the office and not hang out in the local restaurants?

I like the sound of the pint.

I generally enjoy reading The Onion, but joking about suicide is utterly tasteless.

I am pleased to be able to tell you that I have never heard the term - until now. You have ruined my day.

I've just realised that this is my first first-author manuscript for 9 years.

One of endless moments...

Labour have managed to achieve in 18 months something that took the Tories a decade of lies and corruption. Spectacular incompetence.

Swear away. It's so awful.

Saying 'canc instead of 'tin' is done by someone who thinks using an Americanism makes them sound more erudite.

The banality of evil: how Epstein’s powerful friends normalised him Long after his conviction for sexual abuse, people in royalty, academia, business, journalism and politics sought his ear

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Epstein files show us a "world where immense wealth, privileged access and proximity to power can insulate individuals from accountability and consequences".

In short they tell us nothing that we did not already know.

There are still a lot of people in science using Twitter.

Thank you. I will try again.

So proud of our flagship Kent Council, who cut wasteful spending by painting yellow lines outside a school that has been closed for nine years.

Key point is that they are all much of a muchness and, given all the vagaries of study design and the vagueness of any inference you might draw from the estimates, it doesn't matter which one you use. CI estimation arguments is the 'how many angels fit on a pinhead' argument of statisticians.

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Good summary of the issue. It highlights the important point that excess mortality requires assumptions about the counterfactual and those assumptions need to be sensible. But, MAGA manipulators are not interested in anything sensible.

2/2 The web implementation of PREDICT breast continues to be highly used.

breast.v3.predict.cam

Our next task is to raise some funds to enable us to do the required web programming for the updated version. Donations gratefully recieved.

#breastcancer

1/2 Our update of the PREDICT breast prognostic and treatment benefit model is now published by BMC Research Notes.

rdcu.be/ePXTJ

It's tipping down in West Hollywood. Feels about right for watching and enjoying the rugby (England v All Blacks).

Of all the depressing things going on in the world, the disastrous efforts of Labour to govern sensibility are right up there.

And no grasp of the most important science for this sort of thing, epidemiology.

Are you sure about that?

When God said chins
I thought she said gins
So I asked for a double.

I get stuck after Remrats.

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

“Cake causes herpes?” - promiscuous dichotomisation induces false positives - BMC Medical Research Methodology Background Continuous biomedical data is often dichotomized into two or more groups for analysis, despite long-standing warnings from statisticians that this constitutes bad practice. This dichotomisa...

Nice one, from @drg.bsky.social and @jamesheathers.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sometimes you give the impression of being on another planet 🎂🎈