Harvard longevity scientist sparks furor with claim about reversing aging in dogs
Megan Molteni writes STAT
statnews.com/2024/03/05/dav…
See my critical review of the study here.
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[Spoiler alert: the supplement does NOT reverse aging in dogs]

Agree completely with Miguel Gómez here.

It is worrying that the editorial team at NatureEcoEvo seems to have such a narrow view of what evolutionary biology is as a field.

Evolutionar biology is definitely more than genomics!

Our most recent publication from the NUDGE-FLU trial lead by my brilliant friend and colleague Dr. Ankeet S. Bhatt, MD, MBA, assessing the effectiveness of electronic nudge letters to increase flu vaccine uptake amongst citizens with a previous MI
Department of Biomedical Sciences | UCPH CPR Trials & CIRL University of Copenhagen Research Harvard University

Dear doctors

Pharmacists know more about drugs than we do.

Please remember.

Thanks.

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Nature now charges $12,290 US to publish a single article open access. Shall we list some things that cost less than that? I'll go first: a 2017 BMW 330i sedan, a 7-day cruise for a family of four, six Louis Vuitton purses. 🤪

I study bullying. The poor behaviour of academics and MDs on Twitter is gross. It illustrates the link between bullying and narcissism and debunks the stereotype of bullies being low achieving goons.

Public trust is eroded when we act like this. So frustrating to see.

I don't know who needs to hear this but you absolutely do *NOT* need an MRI or FDG-PET scan at 35 years old, especially if you are not experiencing symptoms!

Independent SAGE Prof. Devi Sridhar The BMJ Scot Gov Fairer Dr Gabriel Scally devi sridar Nicola Sturgeon Although the interventions themselves are--rightly--associated with Xi Jinping's China, it was Western policy makers & advocates who framed them as a progressive response, and promoted them vigorously under all-too-simplistic, but memorable and infinitely retweetable, hashtags.

CfP: 4th Workshop on Bias and Fairness in AI (BIAS) event located at the ECML PKDD 2024. Learn more about #Bias and #Fairness in AI!
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As far as I can tell, this is where the table originates from. *NOT* from the study that Bar-Yam linked here. No, it's from his own post. Even though it's labeled 'Table 1' so we're supposed to believe it's from a research paper. x.com/yaneerbaryam/s…

Interesting origin story if you’re into how misinformation can spread.

Also let’s stop applying linear best fit lines to things that are clearly not linear just to get a slope/correlation coefficient

Madhav Thambisetty Eric Widera, MD Simon Mead Andrew Lees Robert Howard Jason Cohen cachuchas Lon S. Schneider, MD Seb Walsh Michael Schöll Vincent Planche Stefano L. Sensi Alberto J Espay Nicolas Villain Kasper Planeta Kepp Timothy Daly, PhD Gill Livingston Ryan Townley Jesse F Ballenger (mastodon.world/@jfballenger) Jason Karlawish James Rupert Fletcher Adam M. Brickman Dr. Jennifer Manly Sarah Ackley, PhD FORTUNE TIME Erin Prater TIME Financial Times Hannah Kuchler CTAD NIH Alzheimer's Association Howard Gleckman American Geriatrics Society Kathy Liu Richard Merrick Nancy Lundebjerg (she/her/hers) Nathaniel Chin U.S. FDA NICE Raymond Koopmans Maastricht University Kariem Ezzat Dr Ben Underwood NHS England The Observer Xiong-feii Simon Ducharme Explaining the Variability of Alzheimer Disease Fluid Biomarker Concentrations in Memory Clinic Patients Without Dementia neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WN… via Vincent Planche et al

Neurology's most enduring, always shattered dream: diverging slopes between treatments within the window of trials predict greater effects beyond them.
(1/5) Donepezil: had it not been for the washout period, this 24-week trial seemed disease-modifying.
neurology.org/doi/10.1212/wn…

Just seen the left-hand chart doing the rounds on Twitter

Helpful reminder that starting points matter for time series. The chart on the right starts in 2009 and changes the story a bit!

Pretty bad practice from BBC - it was an active (and disingenuous) choice to start in 2013

🚨paper alert🚨
#Epistasis makes combining mutations unpredictable.🤷
This complicates #enzymedesign and predicting the effect of mutations.⁉️
Through in-depth evolutionary analysis, we recently uncovered an underappreciated mechanism for epistasis.🧬♻️🔍
nature.com/articles/s4192…

Review: exercise 🏋️‍♀️🚴 triggers autophagy => improved neurological function => lower risk ⬇️ for neurological diseases 💀: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30769113/

Because it is sadly still needed to remind people. You may not have encountered some infectious diseases, and there is a good reason. We, collectively, have tried very hard to prevent them; illness, death and secondary effects. It is called vaccination, and it works!

Our new #GBD study:
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the gains in life expectancy & the adverse effects were #unevenly spread among #populations . However, continued progress in combatting many key causes of death has led to improved global life expectancy
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