This shit is WILD. Turns out the phenomenon of "Blue Zones," where people have exceptionally long lifespans, are not real and it's just people committing pension fraud.
A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders? People would not regularly die at 30 in pre-industrial times, and it only looks like that on graphs of average life spans because historians - for some reason - insists on including infant deaths in them. The actual number is ~55-60.
New paper alert, looking at neuronal death following peripheral nerve injury (hint, we see lots of death!) journals.lww.com/pain/fulltex...
. In this study, we have used a range of transgenic recombinase driver mouse lines to genetically label molecularly defined subpopulations of DRG neurons and track their survival following traumatic n...
Our team has been extra-productive: here is another preprint for those of you interested in pain in RA; have you ever wondered about the analgesic effects of JAK inhibitors? Congrats Yuening and team 🎉🥳 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Possibly my favorite paper of 2023.
Here's a paper that explains the difference between standard errors and standard deviations: bmj.com/content/331/... Here's our paper, which shows that experts (doctors, professors, data scientists) mix them up: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Traditionally, scientists have placed more emphasis on communicating inferential uncertainty (i.e., the precision of statistical estimates) compare...
If you are interested in stem-cell models, Gcamp imaging and/or pain research, check out our latest pre-print: doi.org/10.1101/2024...#academicchatter#academicsky#neuroskyence#PhDsky
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I actually like that relatively few people are on bsky. I once again feel like I can say whatever outrageous thing I want without worrying about any backlash. For example... p-values are fine, get over it. 😜 statsepi.substack.com/p/no-you-can...
But I'm going to try and do it in as few as possible. #fml