Doctor, researcher, author, Bad Science person. I run thedatalab.org at @uniofoxford making tools+papers from data OpenSAFELY.org OpenPrescribing
Oxford, England
Joined June 2007
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More convinced than ever that Oxford is the greatest town on earth (reasons I'll share another day). This video starts on Walton Well Rd. The factory's now flats. The guitarist, she is sadly deceased. The singer I saw in the dentists waiting room last year piped.kavin.rocks/Zq3qjtP9dj8
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I've always felt that "immortal time bias" sounds very sunny. An immaculate, untouchable state to which we should all aspire. "Get out of here. I'm in my immortal time." bmj.com/content/340/bmj.b508…
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Not one for selfies but delighted to say I saw @ProfCalumSemple and @PeterHorby in 3D last night (and we all picked the wrong end of the camera phone to make eye contact with.)
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If you're looking for an indulgent child/adult present this has entertained two strata of children in our house so far. Be prepared for the adults to be intellectually stretched about 2/3 through the book, and possibly.. to get stuck. Which is good!
turingtumble.com/
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Derek Bailey's documentary on improvisation is on YouTube. A great window into where structured composition comes from but: also, if you think music is a mirror onto other cognitive activity, all utterances and novel intellectual output.
piped.kavin.rocks/w3aaHHMUUog
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Trying to write a lecture. @JKAronson in the room next door is listening to one of my lectures very loudly. It's a bit being john malkovic.
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About to do first in-person student lecture for ages. Will wear mask on way in and out. Just call me... "Social Norm"!
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I know the point of Beethoven, or great visual art, is that it's not nonverbal intelligence. But the flavour of this chili olive oil, combined with parmesan + (slightly weird) German red in my mouth.. is really preoccupying. Like, an intellectually overwhelming sensorial cavern.
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has anyone made a really great phone/webapp for "show me every new post on this website as it comes in"? i used to love google reader for this. i find feedly clunky and unpredictable.
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Paper updating our work monitoring EU trial reporting trends in J Clin Epi this wk. Big improvements since our BMJ paper but huge differences in trial reporting between countries. NL now hosts @EMA_News who are responsible for this so will hopefly improve? jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4…
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Someone used a microscope to understand the classic 80s Yamaha DX7 synth sound chip. Greatly enjoyed the academic paper about the E Piano 1 preset in the footnotes.
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Good response to silly piece claiming preprints responsible for covid misinformation. Traditional mechanisms for assuring / communicating scientific research are costly, slow, fail on their own objectives, and have bad side effects. Kneejerk appeals to conserve them are misguided
Correcting the record: our response to the Scientist article that incorrectly held preprints responsible for HCQ misinformation 1/2 the-scientist.com/news-opini…
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Ben Get-Vaccinated Goldacre retweeted
obsessed with solopsist's deeply unsettling phone booth videos on tiktok tiktok.com/@solopsist/video/…
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"Oxford activists bring traffic to a halt in Cop26 climate march"
Here's what brings traffic to a halt in Oxford every day: drivers, in their cars, in a city with terrible cycle paths but 1,000 parking spaces built in the Westgate centre by the council.
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Ben Get-Vaccinated Goldacre retweeted
Clinical coding of #LongCovid: an analysis of 58 million patient records in English primary care doi.org/10.3399/BJGP.2021.03…
@bengoldacre @OpenSAFELY @ehr_lshtm @EBMDataLab @tpp_systmone @EMISHealth @brianmackenna
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Ben Get-Vaccinated Goldacre retweeted
If this isn’t tempting for a product person with an interest in health and data, I really don’t know what would be…
Come and work with us as a PRODUCT MANAGER in a team making open source tools for NHS data analysis. You heard right: we are in a university, but we are also a reasonably mature digital team, we know that product managers exist (gasp) we know what they do and we want a great one!
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