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Lucas Calais Ferreira

@lcalaisferreira.bsky.social

Epidemiologist (PhD) focused on improving population health equity through science, evidence, and change. Profile: https://go.unimelb.edu.au/ao98

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Sap? How about preparing them a delicious, succulent meal? πŸ˜†

22.01.2025 00:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally, as others have raised, we do not have long-term evidence on the impacts of COVID-19 and reinfections, especially in the level of granularity required for individualised decisions like the one you mentioned. But that has more to do with how comfortable you are with risk than anything else?

15.01.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Another point I'd like to raise is the clickbaity title, including the conflation I raised above. This is something to consider in the era of misinformation, given your role as a science communicator (which I think you do a great job on, btw)

15.01.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What I am trying to understand here is why evidence at a population level is being extrapolated to personal decisions and individual circumstances. Each person (and child) is different; I'm not sure about this direct 'translation' from one situation to another

15.01.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Would you recommend that one for someone who hasn't read Rebus stories before? I have it here and wondering if that could be my next read

02.01.2025 02:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really useful thread!

23.12.2024 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hopefully not too rushed given I've got a Year 11 English exam tomorrow - but behalf of all of @6newsau.bsky.social, I have made a submission to the relevant Committee regarding the social media ban for under-16s

There's less than 24hrs to make a submission: aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

21.11.2024 11:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1118    πŸ” 337    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 24

a burger might be technically both a sandwich and a roll, but in reality a burger is a burger

18.11.2024 11:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amazing stuff about your 1. From what I gathered, you're working with previous users of Stata, are you intending to help them transition into R or help them integrate between the two? For 2, I'd get stuck in the definition of sandwich. For example, is a burger a sandwich?

17.11.2024 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Happy to see this platform finally taking off. I look forward to learning and connecting with folks with similar interests (epidemiology, data linkage, social epi, justice health, twin studies, etc.) #epi #episky

12.11.2024 01:34 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka)Β β€” and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know

this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

14.12.2023 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1327    πŸ” 528    πŸ’¬ 41    πŸ“Œ 33

I think the best selling point is that it will give the analyst freedom to find their own 'style' of working by using two complementary tools. R can do anything Stata does and more, but Stata works and presents results in a way that R does not (or at least requires time investment to get there)

08.11.2024 03:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Mental and neurodevelopmental health needs of Aboriginal children with experience ofΒ out-of-home care: a Western Australian data-linkage study To identify additional mental and neurodevelopmental health needs of Aboriginal children born in Western Australia, who are placed in out-of-home care…

Another paper from my PhD has been published:

Mental and neurodevelopmental health needs of Aboriginal children with experience of out-of-home care: a Western Australian data-linkage study

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

10.10.2024 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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