Doug Manuel

Are there any truly open style guides?
#OpenScience has progressed, but we still depend on proprietary guides (APA, MLA, Chicago).
CSL tackled citations, but we're missing open guides:
📝 Writing
📚 Examples
📄 Templates
✏️ Grammar
What about a Wikipedia-style academic writing guide?
#AcademicWriting

01.06.2025 11:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

https://www.thelancet.com/infographics-do/clinical-obesity-25 Flow diagram for diagnosing obesity from The Lancet. Infographic titled ‘Excess body fat?’ outlines criteria for confirming excess body fat. It provides three diagnostic options: 1) at least one measurement of body size and BMI, 2) at least two measurements of body size regardless of BMI, and 3) direct body fat measurement via methods like a DEXA scan. For body size measurements, three thresholds are defined: waist circumference (≥102 cm for men, ≥88 cm for women), waist-to-hip ratio (>0.90 for men, >0.85 for women), and waist-to-height ratio (>0.50 for all). It notes that excess body fat can also be pragmatically assumed if BMI is >40 kg/m².

Great to see renewed calls to redefine obesity by waist circumference. But how do we measure it in practice? I just rediscovered my 20-year-old #PHAC tape measure.📏
Go #ImplementationScience. #PublicHealth #Obesity @thelancet.bsky.social

20.01.2025 10:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Healthspan, quite the poetic term! But it’s often used when health expectancy makes more sense.
• Health expectancy: It’s the healthy years we hope to live; analogous to life expectancy.
• Healthspan: Our species’ maximum potential healthy years; analogous to lifespan.
#healthspan #longevity

26.11.2024 02:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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Elevator-pitch definitions of key scientific approaches 🛗
🧪 Experimental: Test _what happens when_
👁️ Observational: Observe _what is_
🌍 Modelling: Simulate _what could be_
💡 Theoretical: Explain _why things are_
We’re developing #modelling #EQUATOR guidelines for NCD diseases 👉 popcorn-statement.org

14.11.2024 15:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@CJPH_JCSP marks 50 years of the Lalonde Report, with @LauraCRosella outlining the journal's vision under her new editorship. "Both a challenge and a gift of public health is that it touches the full continuum of the human experience more than any other discipline." #Canada #publichealth

03.04.2024 10:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wastewater surveillance was one of top cited innovations in pandemic surveillance research. doi: 10.2196/49185 Yet, there's still a way to go for full adoption. Discussions at #GLOWACON how to make this a standard public health tool. #wastewater #publichealth #surveillance

19.03.2024 09:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tired of chasing colleagues' new emails? Institutions change, and contacts get lost.

ORCID is helpful, but direct messaging within the platform would be even better. This could even replace email addresses on journal articles.

Other solutions? #researcherlife #academia #ORCID #connectivity

28.02.2024 10:31 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1