Michel Nivard

michelnivard.bsky.social

03 September 2026 07:32

🚨& 🧵 Our new Nature paper is out! Across 46 cohorts and up to 1.14M people per Big Five trait, we do GWAS and ask how robust, generalizable and consequential the genetic signals underlying personality really are. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Peter Tennant

pwgtennant.bsky.social

28 August 2026 05:46

Does the new shingles vaccine (Shingrix) protect against cardiovascular disease (CVD)? Yes, according to a new 'natural experiment' study in @natmed.nature.com. But the truth is sadly far less convincing! Pull up a chair and let's examine another peer review failure in a Nature journal. 1/10 🧵

Michel Nivard

michelnivard.bsky.social

28 August 2026 05:45

Peter identifies crucial issue. A natural experiment should evaluate the effect of “pseudo random exposure” on - controls, like sex, ancestry, age, etc. If the exposure affects the -cntrls/confounders you basically have to switch to describing your study as observational…

George Davey Smith

mendelrandom.bsky.social

28 May 2026 12:20

If you're interested in the history and philosophy of randomization in all its forms I'm co-organising a *FREE* conference in glorious Bristol 2-3rd July wth the legendary Samir Okasha, registration is here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/randomizat... If you think it looks interesting please advertise

Cian O'Donnell

cianodonnell.bsky.social

18 May 2026 00:58

in my view the UK needs to grow up, move to a proportional representation voting system which will favour more sensible politics, cross fingers for a leader with some vision and spine, who can face down the far right threat and reintegrate with the EU Anything less will hasten the country's decline