George Davey Smith

I have become mightily interested in the causal effect of “forever chemicals” and plastics on gynecological health.

I want to make sure our new menstruation data in ALSPAC and Born in Bradford can be used to research this.

Anyone know who’s big in (causal) epidemiology of this sort of exposure?

Abolish it!

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YouTube video by Philip Corr Hans Eysenck (1994) personality and cancer lecture

Here’s a video of Eysenck in 1994 in Edinburgh presenting his nonsense. Tony Pelosi hammers him in the discussion and I told him his “findings” reached the very high bar of being literally impossible youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...

YouTube video by Philip Corr Hans Eysenck (1994) personality and cancer lecture

Here’s a video of Eysenck in 1994 in Edinburgh presenting his nonsense. Tony Pelosi hammers him in the discussion and I told him his “findings” reached the very high bar of being literally impossible youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...

YouTube video by Philip Corr Hans Eysenck (1994) personality and cancer lecture

Have you seen George Davey Smith telling him the smoking findings were completely implausible at a seminar in Edinburgh 1994? youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...

Its notable that some (in this case @mendelrandom.bsky.social (George Davey-Smith)) were on to him while he was alive, video a young GDS confronting Eysenk in a Q&A in 1994 for his data being inconsistent: youtu.be/K9pyS7EGCV8?...

YouTube video by sbritt The United States Of America "The Garden Of Earthly Delights"

Just heard of the death last month of Joe Byrd of the extraordinary United States of America; this song from 1968 seems timeless www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx0U...

David Blunkett on Radio 4 Today programme saying "if you don't know what bread and dripping is, you don't know about what poverty is" takes me back ~60 years to what was my favourite food (had to be white bread ..), and to remember tripe and onions, heart, offal in general, and other delights

🚨 Rachel Reeves JUST unveiled “the most complex government budget in history.” But without a proper wealth tax we’ll never fix the NHS or fund schools properly. So we HACKED a billboard in her constituency with the real solution: TAX THE F*CKING RICH

Free book starting with how politics could consider happiness as an outcome (without resorting to slapstick)

ALSPAC is known locally as Children of the Nineties, now tagging them @childrenofthe90s.bsky.social

It’s an extremely broad category Paul, running from very early middle age (you) to extremely extremely if not impossibly late middle age (me)

The UKB 1/2 million (of which I am one) are indeed reasonably investigated, but in comparison to the ALSPAC cohort - who were recruited as foetuses and followed up into middle age - what I've had done in UKB is tiny. ALSPAC has 3 generations too. We need both study types! www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/

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“A better NHS is possible”; Starmer’s Labour Party has sadly forgotten this. A better Labour Party is also possible!

It’s been amazing colleagues like you Gemma that has made working as a researcher seem both fun and (sometimes at least) worthwhile

“A better NHS is possible”; Starmer’s Labour Party has sadly forgotten this. A better Labour Party is also possible!

Genotype-level quality control substantially reduces error rates in population-scale whole-genome sequencing Population-scale whole-genome sequencing data will contain many individual-level genotype errors, even after allele-level quality control (QC). We establish the need for genotype-level QC using UK Bio...

New paper on everyone’s favourite topic, QC!
We show why you should do genotype-level QC on your WGS data

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very real quotes about this paper -
“The most exciting, mind-blowing paper of the year!”
“On a par with Fisher 1918”
“I read it every night. Just so beautiful”

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It was, though it’s difficult now to envisage that I was ever young 🤣

Congratulations to Richard Durbin on being awarded our Genetics Society Medal!

Honoured to receive the 25th Anniversary MRC Millenium Medal. My mid-1980s epidemiological apprenticeship was at the MRC Epidemiology Unit in Cardiff in the mid-1980s, and my senescence with the MRC IEU, closing in March 2028
🙏 MRC!
@ukri.org @uob-ieu.bsky.social
www.ukri.org/news/mrc-mil...

Now safe in the knowledge that A Windsor won’t be drinking it 🤣

Finally in Navi Mumbai located my favourite beer since first coming to work in India in 1992, it is increasingly difficult to find, and now often only the STRONG ~8% “premium” version the only one available

Reassuring to see a cow at a major road junction in Bangalore; after a third of a century of work trips to India most things have changed out of all recognition, but a silicon valley thriving bovine represents continuity

Reassuring to see a cow at a major road junction in Bangalore; after a third of a century of work trips to India most things have changed out of all recognition, but a silicon valley thriving bovine represents continuity

A special collection of 6 papers on cohort studies in China is just out in @bmj.com www.bmj.com/collections/...
with an editorial on the collection and the current publication climate www.bmj.com/collections/...