Darren Dahly

New paper in @jclinepi.bsky.social led by my super cool PhD student @kahin-tai.bsky.social with the SHARE-CTD (@sharectd.bsky.social) crew. It is the 2nd paper in a “JCE trilogy” on data sharing by SHARE-CTD: the 1st one addressed the topic in broad terms, and the third will focus on data reuse.

How Healthy Is Zucchini?

We don't have tools to suss out health benefits of particular vegetables. They're all good!

Eat the vegetables you enjoy.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/w...

I read it...I found the paper...and I can't even be bothered anymore to comment on this stuff.

Guess which one of these vehicles has a motor that prevents it from going too fast for the safety of others?

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black.

Do you understand?

Now is the time to zag and make micro-dosing water a fad. Scratch that. Hydration patches. Neon, and worn on the neck. You'll sell a billion.

Reminder that all three books I've co-authored are freely available online for non-commercial use (and the fourth will be, too)

Crime rates in all three cities have gone down, and in Baltimore at astounding levels, in part by treating crime as a public health crisis, rather than a "need more cops" crisis. popular.info/p/the-secret...

These assholes will all be welcomed back into their respective faculty lounges with open arms crikey that's upsetting lol.

Hot dog guy gif let this mother fucker never know peace again.

NIH director: mRNA vaccine contracts were canceled because public lacks trust in technology NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya offered an explanation for the cancellation of mRNA vaccine contracts that didn't align with that of his boss, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#NIH director Jay Bhattacharya says the #BARDA mRNA contracts were terminated because the platform isn't viable because people don't trust it.
Experts question some of the claims Bhattacharya made. www.statnews.com/2025/08/11/m...

wild stuff!

Simple tips for recording data in spreadsheets Especially if you want ME to analyze them.

This is the advice I give collaborators and trainees.

statsepi.substack.com/p/simple-tip...

Was ready to hate read this piece from @sjmelchor.bsky.social, but it was good and had sensible quotes from @cghlewis.bsky.social , @heidiseibold.bsky.social, Karl Broman and others. 😜

These goofballs.

cc @bapalmer.bsky.social

Key Concepts in Clinical Epidemiology: FAIRification of Biomedical Research Data - PubMed The FAIR guiding principles promote Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reuse of data to enhance data management and stewardship. In biomedicine, particular ethical, legal, and technical...

"Key Concepts in Clinical Epidemiology: FAIRification of Biomedical Research Data "

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40774362/

Which paper would you use? Code Availability and Different Standards for Public Health Research Just been reading a nice paper from Thomas Ward, @OvertonC and co on IFR estimation which seems to do a really nice job: The real-time infection hospitalisation and fatality risk across the COVID-19 p...

A slightly random stumble towards some points about how we assess papers and how to weight different priorities.

community.epinowcast.org/t/which-pape...

One particularly telling - and troubling - comment came from Vinay Prasad, a high-level FDA official handpicked by Kennedy. (He recently left his position only to return weeks later.) After being asked whether Americans should forgive public health figures for their missteps, Prasad responded: "I don't believe in forgiveness because in my opinion these pieces of shit are still lying." This raw, venomous language from a senior public official doesn't just reflect deep frustration - it helps fuel a culture of dehumanization that may instigate real-world violence.

less than 24 hours after CDC was shot up due to covid vaccine disinformation and lies about public health workers, RFK Jr. rehired this man. www.statnews.com/2025/08/09/c...

Wikipedia loses Online Safety Act legal challenge

Wikipedia has lost a High Court challenge against the UK Government over verification requirements in the Online Safety Act

Gell-Mann amnesia effect - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Ma...

Great, we've automated podcasters.

a close up of a sad cat with the words pleeeaasse written below it ALT: a close up of a sad cat with the words pleeeaasse written below it

plz share?

@rosenetwork.bsky.social

We also have cases where they say an RCT is indicated AND it would be easy (relatively speaking) to do, and yet nobody does them because it's even easier to churn out another obs. study. Micorbiome/probiotics world is absolutely full of this. Easy to blind, administer & comply, yet proper RCTs rare

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

And remember any checks to spot and reduce bias/discrimination like this needs to not only be up-front and on the model, but also ongoing and at the level of product/services/&c too

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

What we talk about when we talk about risk How embryo selection exploits our flawed intuitions about risk

I wrote about how genetic risk works in the context of embryo selection and how people often think about it all wrong. A short 🧵:

Irish residential electricity prices also rose 46%, from 23.8 to 34.8 euro-cents per kWh, over the last five years as annual data center electricity demand grew from ~0 to ~4.5 TWh.

www.seai.ie/data-and-ins...

And by "often conclude", I mean "make this conclusion every single time in every single academic paper ever written"