Clare Griffiths

Binge drinking rises sharply among gen Z in their early 20s Research challenges idea of ‘generation sensible’ as alcohol and drug use increase after teenage years

Was surprised to see reports today of rising binge drinking among young adults. But the comparison is current 23 year-olds with themselves when they were 17, not with any previous generation. So we've no idea if binge drinking *in 23 year-olds* is rising or not.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

2026 Radical Statistics Conference This year's conference will be held in London on Saturday,14 March at St Luke’s Community Centre, London, EC1V 8AJ.

RadStats annual conference 2025 is being held on 14 March at St Luke's community centre. The theme is using data to promote progressive change and there is a wide range of talks and workshops which is still being added to! Sign up now, students go free. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2026-radic...

Bands named after shopping centres?

Same!

Boo, I laugh in the face of your so called rules!

Haha, love that! And thanks for doing the fact check 😁

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

Amazing

Steppenwolf Born to be Wild first mention ever of heavy metal?? 😁

I heard there was a secret code
That purged effects of survey mode
But you don’t really care for bias, do ya

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📊 Ref lead of 2pts, Grns in second
Westminster voting intention

REF: 23% (-1)
GRN: 21% (+4)
CON: 16% (-2)
LAB: 16% (-2)
LDEM: 14% (-)

via @YouGov, 01 - 02 Mar
Chgs. w/ 22 Feb

👇 Read this
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Civil Service People Survey 2025 - Results Highlights

People survey results out for 2025 yesterday, ICYMI with everything else going on www.gov.uk/government/p...

Me also, what a shame

Lewisham will be very interesting I think (perhaps just to me!) - we could see a return to a much more split council like we had in 2006 (how is that 20 years ago?!)

okay, here it is, the five key takeaways from this by-election:

1. Denton Kebab House
2. The Crispy Cod, Denton
3. Reddish Tandoori, Gorton
4. Cottage Chippy, Gorton
5. The Continental Takeaway, Denton

was discussing this morning whether the Greens have enough activists to field full slates everywhere...

yes!!

My radio responded to this by eventually simply refusing to work. Too much Moyles.

A spoof Allister Heath Telegraph headline: "Allister Heath The civil service Blob is using the wankers who can't afford meths to stage a Marxist coup"

I really need to get back to work.

This is basically why, at least in medicine, I think it's a fool's errand to pretend like we are estimating effects. I think it's much more realistic to frame it as evaluating claims, and accepting that at some point residual uncertainty will have to be left to clinical judgement.

This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions.

It does not.

It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed.

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Amazon Web Services vibe-codes itself an outage or two pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/20/a...

"the agentic tool determined that the best course of action was to 'delete and recreate the environment'"

-> everything is awesome lol

Epidemiologist joy…The OG Broad Street Pump.
Thanks, Dr. John Snow, for the steadfast reminder of why we do what we do!
#episky #publichealth @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social

*puts What's the story on full blast* 😆

I tried to tell y'all.

Definitely Maybe is definitely not Oasis's best album. That is What's the story morning glory. And by a long way! Why are politicians so rubbish at answering pop culture questions even when they are about 30 year old bands?

You don’t defeat Nazi propaganda by going on Goebbels’s broadcast, you defeat it by storming the beaches of Normandy

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

- Stephen Jay Gould

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

@statsgeekclare.bsky.social ye olde Chris Whitty