Hüseyin Küçükali 🍉

Today marks the official launch of opencausal.org!

Hüseyin (@epi.ist) is introducing the platform on two events today.

08.30 CET - European Public Health Conference #EPH2025 (Session 5.Y.2)

13.00 CET - Causal Data Science Meeting #CSDM2025

@ephconference.bsky.social @causalscience.org

opencausal.org is online!

Open Causal is an open platform to share, discuss and reuse causal graphs. Join now as a beta user, help shaping the future of causal graphs!

Don't miss @epi.ist's presentation this Thursday during the online #CDSM2025.

- Open Causal: a FAIR Platform for Causal Graphs

I'm very excited about this project, where we aim to promote transparent sharing, discussion, and reuse of causal assumptions through graphs.

Oops. Ooooooooooooops.

I do hope that nobody has been given or denied a job/promotion based on their SpringerNature citation counts in the past 15 years.

arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01675

h/t @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social

I even think the former might be a concern for the editor/publisher. A reviewer can focus only the latter. Maybe also the soundness of the assumptions.

Access to Web of Science will end on 1 January 2026 The university library has decided not to renew the licence for access to the Web of Science citation database (including Journal Citation Reports).

What might seem like a small announcement—it’s just one institution—actually carries substantial weight and has a strong symbolic meaning.

@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social, has taken another bold step: it won't renew its Web of Science license. www.uu.nl/en/news/acce...

We’ll present our research on #advertising of unhealthy products and #publichealth at #EvidenceWeek @senseaboutsci.bsky.social
on 4th Nov:
senseaboutscience.org/evidence-wee...

We "invented" a game for it!

@danaldridgemp.bsky.social @sadikal-hassanmp.bsky.social @kennethstevenson.bsky.social

Thanks Julia! We are planning to launch the beta next month. I'll let you know then.

Presenting our ontology proposal for geospatial exposome data at the Int'l Society of Exposure Science workshop in Lisbon. Nice to see that it already attracts great interest from other groups, highlighting the need for metadata standards in the exposome field. Feedback is welcome.

osf.io/sy256

The offshore editorial office seems forgot inviting a second reviewer for one of our papers. I tried reaching the editor several times. Everytime my emails were redirected the office and I recieved copy-pasted response from same person while our paper waiting for nothing last 6 months.

Against Publishing: universonline.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Preprints are read, shared, and cited, yet still dismissed as incomplete until blessed by a publisher. I argue that the true measure of scholarship lies in open exchange, not in the industry’s gatekeeping of what counts as published.

Why I gave the world wide web away for free My vision was based on sharing, not exploitation – and here’s why it’s still worth fighting for

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

The AI Raj: How tech giants are recolonizing power Just as the East India Company’s success justified new powers, AI firms seek to leverage technical prowess to assume public functions.

In an essay for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, SFI External Professor Allison Stanger examines how AI firms are reshaping infrastructure, governance, and power. Her piece draws historical parallels and raises pressing questions about the role of private technology in public life.

The British establishment have all ready covered this new Banksy up.

Can we get it Reposted 10,000 times to show that they can never cover up their complicity in war crimes??

Protect the right to protest! Repost!

No PDF layouts designed as if it will ever be printed

This message has been spreading online. It is indeed unprecedented to see Utrecht University use the word 'boycott'. Let's see if it entails any changes to current policies. If action can meet discourse, this would be a great step for UU in taking moral responsibility, and an example for others.

The world's largest academic association of genocide scholars - the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars - has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...

Last week, I attended a course on Target Trial Emulation by @miguelhernan.org at @cemfi.es in Madrid.

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Millions in EU funds have gone to Israeli defence industry, investigation finds Money has continued to flow to military tech firms since siege of Gaza in 2023

I dug into the Israeli entities that have received EU funding. Here’s what I found -
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...

No acceptance-to-publication time. But also no ahead-of-print or early/online/first/access. No looking the other way while they are playing one more impact factor game.

No article processing charges or colored page fees

No copyright transfer agreements

No assuming quality just because something is peer reviewed

No citing reviewers' papers

Are there inequalities in the attendance at and effectiveness of behavioural weight management interventions for adults in the UK? An individual participant data meta-analysis Objectives Interventions for obesity that require individual behaviour change, such as behavioural weight management interventions, may contribute to health inequalities. We explored if there was evid...

Very happy to see a big paper from my PhD *OUT TODAY*

We explored if there were inequalities in the attendance & effectiveness of behavioural weight management interventions in an individual participant data meta-analysis.

See the thread for findings 👇

bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/3/2/...

Expert comment: Famine in Gaza | LSHTM An alert issued by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) on 29 July 2025 has stated that ‘the worst-case scenario of Famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip’.While The IPC

"...thousands and thousands of people queueing every day at the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution site, even though it is almost certain on any given day that they will be fired upon. The fact they are going there anyway, even though they may not return..."

www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

'No longer able to cry': Inside Gaza's scarily silent clinics Doctors and aid workers say the world's concern over the aid blockade in Gaza has come too late. Many of the children you've read about probably can't be saved.

"but the impact on children is worse. The developmental damage is irreversible"

"The process of development stops, the process of building a brain, of creating neurons that will establish cognitive ability, will stop"

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

From above everything looks grey or black. Smoke is seen rising from building ga at the top of the photo. In the foreground many buildings have collapsed entirely. Photo credit to Heidi Levine taken for the Washington Post.

Photo of the Day.

Israel threatened reprisals if the press filmed Gaza from above during airdrops.

This is why. A scene of destroyed & burnt out buildings in what is left of Gaza City, the pre-war home to 800,000 people.

Credit to Post photographer Heidi Levine who defied the ban & took this.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

For thousands of years, we have been parasitised, exploited and destroyed by elites. Our survival depends on overthrowing them.
Fascinating article by @dpcarrington.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza.

“A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said.

Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn