Dan Lewer

New paper explores patterns and perceptions of vaping among adults living in social housing🏠 Despite higher vaping rates in social housing residents, harm perceptions of vaping products vs cigarettes were more inaccurate among smokers in social housing link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Among people who use heroin, tobacco smoking and illegal drugs cause a similar number of premature deaths buff.ly/tIC0Fqp @danlewer @TattanBirch @Sharon_ACox

📷 We did some life table modelling among people who use heroin. Tobacco smoking causes as many premature deaths in this group as illegal drugs. Yet public health policies overlook smoking: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… New research with @Sharon_ACox and @TattanBirch

If it sounds too good to be true it probably is. Before you stock up on dark chocolate read this response from @mendel_random ieureka.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2024/12/04/dar…

Please do find me at @danlewer.bsky.social

Inflation is usually measured the change in prices compared to one year previously. Therefore, a reducing but still positive inflation figure often means REDUCING pricing month-on-month. A positive inflation figures does not always mean prices are going up.

Let's talk about the "5%" model. You just can't contribute meaningfully to a research project with 5% of your time. If you have 20 parallel projects, you literally just go to meetings and do nothing.

it is a dark and twisted tongue, made as a mockery to all that is beautiful

Regular reminder that we almost had the meat axe.

We're recruiting a senior research fellow (£43,742 to £50,056) to join Bradford Centre for Health Data Science - the leading centre for applied epidemiology and quantitative health research in the north of England - jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba…

In principle I'm fine with students and job applicants using chatGPT to help them. But I can't bear to read any more of the utter rubbish it generates. I find the gramatically correct nonsense lists particularly infuriating