Navjoyt Ladher

🎯 TARGET Guideline published 🎉

TARGET is a reporting guideline for observational studies of interventions that use the target trial framework.

Over 3 years the @TARGETGuideline was rigorously developed and was co-published today in @jama.com & @bmj.com

doi.org/10.1001/jama.2025.13350

#episky

World Scientists Look Elsewhere as U.S. Labs Stagger Under Trump Cuts

World scientists look elsewhere as US labs stagger under Trump cuts - featuring my brother discussing his students lack of interest in US research jobs (🎁 gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/w...

Incidence and prevalence of dementia among US Medicare beneficiaries, 2015-21: population based study Objective To determine the incidence and prevalence of dementia in a nationally representative cohort of US Medicare beneficiaries, stratified by important subgroups. Design Population based study. ...

Proud to share my latest paper in @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/.... Takeaways: Dementia incidence ⬇️, prevalence ⬆️, and dementia is unequally distributed. In an opinion article, I argue we need to redouble our efforts to manage multimorbidity across the life course: www.bmj.com/content/389/...

The UK is going its own way on AI regulation in health, but problems lie ahead It is a frenzied time for UK health policy. NHS England is set to be abolished, amid an emerging 10 year plan, and every UK country faces difficult financial situations. This is set against two histor...

The UK is going its own way on AI regulation in health, but problems lie ahead
"The EU seeks to reassure patients and citizens. The UK focuses on appealing to investors and businesses. There is a risk that patients and citizens here feel less reassured as a result"
www.bmj.com/content/389/...

The MAHA Report Cites Studies That Don’t Exist The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.

RFK Jr's "MAHA" report came out last week. It misinterpreted data, had broken links to some citations, and cited 7 articles that don't exist.

That last one is a hallmark of AI hallucinations.

How much of the MAHA report was AI generated? 🤔

www.notus.org/health-scien...

RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

Going after medical journals is the next step it seems.

Determining where science can be published limits dissemination and limits transparency

www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

The BMJ's research methods & reporting section, expertly tended by @tfeend.bsky.social, is a treasure trove. In the past two months alone we've had reporting guideline updates, a guide to DAGs, an MRC framework on natural experiments, core GRADE and so much more

🔗 www.bmj.com/research/res...

Trump watch: US drug pricing to be slashed, attorney who threatened journals is removed, and more US president Donald Trump has announced an executive order aimed at reducing US prescription drug costs by 30-80%. The policy would align US drug prices with the lowest prices paid internationally…

Trump watch: US drug pricing to be slashed, attorney who threatened journals is removed, and more www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Title: SOME GRAMMATICAL VOICES FOR USE IN SCIENTIFIC WRITING ACTIVE VOICE e.g. Our team collected samples and then we tested them. CLICKBAIT VOICE e.g. We collected some samples... You won't believe what happened next! PASSIVE VOICE e.g. Samples were collected and tested. HAIKU VOICE e.g. Quiet science lab. Workers arrive with samples. The testing begins. PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE VOICE e.g. We did all the collecting and testing. No need to thank us. Just doing our job. CONSPIRACY VOICE e.g. Mysterious "Samples" were harvested and covertly "tested" by so-called scientists.

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

NEW @bmj.com research investigates the impact of retracted trials on the production and use of healthcare evidence in the evidence ecosystem
www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Misinformation

Misinformation represents a serious threat to individual and global health.

We need to understand more about how susceptibility to misinformation is socially patterned so that it doesn’t deepen health inequalities, say Simon Williams and @profsanderlinden.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Editorially-minded clinicians and academics - we need your help!

We are looking for a panel of editorial advisors to bring their expertise to The BMJ's manuscript meetings and help improve the quality of the research we publish. More details here: jobsearch.bmj.com/jobs/job/Fre...

• Al Overview The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again. Here's a more detailed explanation: • Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone. • Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

Lovely tribute to the late, truly great, and extraordinarily humble Professor Doug Altman.

I was very, very lucky to work and learn alongside him @bmj.com and on many research reporting statements, including #CONSORT2010

Freelance Research Editorial Advisor | 04 May, 2025 | Jobs and careers with BMJ Group Jobs and careers with BMJ Group -

The BMJ is seeking UK and international clinical editorial advisers to join our manuscript meeting for research papers.

You will attend 4-6 virtual meetings a year, read papers in advance, and actively contribute to decision making.

Apply and read more details ⬇️
jobsearch.bmj.com/jobs/job/Fre...

NEW PAPER: Updated CONSORT-2025 for reporting randomised trials is now available in the @bmj.com @jama.com , @thelancet.bsky.social, @plos.org and @naturemedicine.bsky.social

—> www.bmj.com/content/389/...

#openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky

I'm delighted to have co-authored this critical paper alongside other African global health experts (@seyeabimbola.bsky.social and Dr Ebere Okereke) on how Africa's health systems can adapt and build resilience following the abrupt USAID cuts.

🧵 1/11 📚 Our new rapid systematic review, led by @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social in @bmj.com examines the role of physician associates (PAs) and anaesthetic associates (AAs) in the UK. This is a crucially important question in light of the Leng Review

The role of physician associates in the NHS A lesson in how not to do workforce reform Over recent months, a fierce and sometimes toxic debate has been taking place in the UK about the introduction of physician associates and anaesthetic assoc...

My BMJ editorial today on the introduction of physician associates calls for more and better workforce research, evidence-based workforce reforms, and modernisation of professional regulation. That's all! Open access at bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Seven reasons for keeping Elon Musk as a Fellow of the Royal Society Last November, I wrote a blogpost explaining why I had resigned as a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS). In brief, over the summer a group ...

« If the Royal Society is really worried about reputational damage, then they should realise that being designated as 'woke' or 'elitist' by your opponents is far less of an insult than being described as cowardly by your friends. » by @deevybee.bsky.social

My new post on how people struggle to accept the reality of new threats:
kucharski.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

Abandoning research participants is an unconscionable betrayal In 1964, the Declaration of Helsinki created a set of universal ethical principles to protect human participants in health research.1 Described as “the cornerstone of research ethics,”2 these principl...

🧵 Trump’s USAID funding freeze abruptly halted critical global health research, abandoning participants mid-trial. A gross ethical violation. @bachynski.bsky.social & I explain what happened and why it matters @bmj.com . ⬇️
www.bmj.com/content/388/...

A picture of a trophy. The real award looks much cooler.

Do you know any early career researchers in the UK who have contributed something special to improve research practices?

The call for the 2025 Dorothy Bishop award is open now! Nominations close on 26 January 2025.

www.ukrn.org/2024/12/12/t...

Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation on Diary of CEO podcast Disproven health claims are accepted with little challenge by host on number one podcast, BBC investigation finds.

What’s that? An entirely unregulated media ecosystem dominated by overconfident and underqualified men gives space and weight to dangerous conspiracy theories, pseudoscience and misinformation? Surely not

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The BMJ will be 185 years old in 2025.

We believe that the time is right to move to fortnightly print publication, which means that from the first issue of 2025 we will publish the print edition every two weeks, @kamranabbasi.bsky.social
www.bmj.com/content/387/...

If you had to read one book on global health... If there is 1 book that you would like all global health students to read, it would be.....? Here is an impressive list of over 400 books generated by this question on Twitter!

To all the global health nerds joining @bsky.app, here are some welcome gifts 🎁

A compilation of over 400 amazing books on global health!

communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you...