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I'm launching a newsletter over at Substack: you can sign up for free here. It's called Living With Evidence. I'll be chatting about what I'm thinking and writing, and keeping readers up-to-date with my work.
I'll slowly retire this website. There's a bunch of posts here – I'll notify the new links for those in plenty of time, both here and via the newsletter. If you have links to something and want to be on the safe side in the meantime, you could link to the version in the Wayback Machine.
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Hope to see you Living With Evidence!
First up this month, a look at Covid vaccines for the youngest kids globally: Covid Vaccine Results for the Under 5s in Trials, Rollout, & Off-Label Use.
Next up, Another Bit of Pandemic Fallout: The Weaponization of Absolute Risk Statistics.
And finally, re-visiting a topic I wrote about 2 years ago at WIRED – Women Versus Men Leaders in the Pandemic: An Update and Dig Into the Latest Data.
My first post this month was a long overdue answer to a tweet I hadn't known how to answer: Where is the Line Between Being Critical & Contrarian? Thoughts On a Plague.
Sputnik V has now been hit by wartime sanctions. I dug through the propaganda and evidence: Did We Ever Find Out How Effective Sputnik V Actually Is?
And when I realized I knew nothing about the history of women scientists in Ukraine, I went down a mind-blowing rabbit hole. It was hard to pick, but I whittled it down to 15 amazing women born before WWII. The Early Women Scientists of Ukraine series:
- Part 1: From Fossils to the Planets and Back
- Part 2: From Mushrooms to Physics, a Programming Language, Plants & Bees
- Part 3: From Birds to Math, Space, & Plants in Space
Observing the 1914 solar eclipse in Ukraine (via Wikimedia)
Sometimes, a tweet makes your head explode – and then you realize it's an explainer's dream! That... 4 Ways This Tweet Shows How Public Health Messaging Can Go Off the Rails
It could be closer than you think – The Race to Reduce Covid-19 Transmission: An Update on 67 Intranasal & 6 Oral Vaccines.
And more on boosters: The Evidence on 4th Doses of Covid Vaccines & the Thorny Question of Age Thresholds.
From the last few months of 2021, some posts on science culture and practice:
- Peeling Back the Layers of "Medical Conservatism"
- 5 Things We Learned About Journal Peer Review in 2021 – the fifth post in my ongoing roundup of highlights in peer review research
I was an invited participant for a discussion at Metascience 2021, but had to pull out (the reason why, is at the end of this post. Simine Vizire graciously read some comments from me for the session, and I wrote up a blog post based on that:
That kicked off a flurry of social media comment, leading to another session on one of the examples I'd raised – open science badges – at the 2021 AIMOS conference. This time I did show up. The video of that 1-hour panel with Brian Nosek, Anisa Rowhani-Farid, and me, moderated by Steve Kambouris, is on YouTube.
And posts on Covid vaccines:
- Boosters and Mixed Schedules: Covid Vaccines at the 2-Year Mark (January)
- New Triumphs and Struggles for Non-Profit Covid Vaccines (January)
- The Latest 5 Covid Vaccines to Pass the Phase 3 Trial Results Milestone (January)
- Adapting for Variants: Early Results or Trials Underway for 38 Versions of 17 Covid Vaccines (February)
- Tracking the Covid Vaccine Race in the Wild First 2 Years: A Process Story (February)
Finally, for those who follow this website, but not my Twitter account, and are wondering about why there's been such a downturn in posting. My life crumpled in September 2021, when I was shattered by the death of my son, Adam. I'm grateful for all the kindness sent my way in these dreadful months. With a heartfelt hug to everyone going through this, or other, intense grief.
