Science Communication with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz | Episode 05

01/09/20 • 83 min

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, an epidemiologist studying at the University of Wollongong and a science communication writer for the Guardian, Observer, and more!

Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode:

📝 Gideon's post on relative versus absolute risk

🐦 Gideon's twitter account @justsaysrisks

🎙 Everything Hertz Podcast

🎙Gideon's Sensationalist Science Podcast

✍️ Gideon on Medium

📧 Email Gideon for advice on getting started in Sci Comm: [email protected]

👩‍🏫 PeDAGogy

We discussed a paper recently published in BMJ on the association between arts engagement and mortality
Andrew Heiss tweeted a DAG with a proposed relationship between opera and longevity
Robert Platt also tweeted about this, suggesting that there may be an explanation other than confounding

📰 Global news

The New York Times wrote an article on the BMJ paper that we discussed in peDAGogy
Here is some info on the BMJ Christmas Issue
Lucy and Jeff Leek’s clickbait-y Ted-ed lesson on clickbait

Follow along on Twitter:

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats
Gid: @GidMK

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.👩‍🎨 Our artwork is by Allison Horst.

Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode:

📝 Gideon's post on relative versus absolute risk

🐦 Gideon's twitter account @justsaysrisks

🎙 Everything Hertz Podcast

🎙Gideon's Sensationalist Science Podcast

✍️ Gideon on Medium

📧 Email Gideon for advice on getting started in Sci Comm: [email protected]

👩‍🏫 PeDAGogy

We discussed a paper recently published in BMJ on the association between arts engagement and mortality
Andrew Heiss tweeted a DAG with a proposed relationship between opera and longevity
Robert Platt also tweeted about this, suggesting that there may be an explanation other than confounding

📰 Global news

The New York Times wrote an article on the BMJ paper that we discussed in peDAGogy
Here is some info on the BMJ Christmas Issue
Lucy and Jeff Leek’s clickbait-y Ted-ed lesson on clickbait

Follow along on Twitter:

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats
Gid: @GidMK

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.👩‍🎨 Our artwork is by Allison Horst.

Previous Episode

Quantitative Bias Analysis with Matt Fox | Episode 04

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Matt Fox from the Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health at Boston University.

Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode:

📄 Paper discussing a null association between smoking during pregnancy and breast cancer risk 📚 Matt's textbook on quantitative bias analysis 🔗 Bias analysis website: sites.google.com/site/biasanalysis/

📰 Global news

Wang and Blei's The Blessing of Multiple Causes
Obgurn, Shpitser, and Tchetgen Tchetgen's Comment
D'Amour's Comment

In this week's global news segment we mentioned M-bias. Here is an example DAG of this phenomenon:

Follow along on Twitter:

The American Journal of Epidemiology: @AmJEpi
Ellie: @EpiEllie
Lucy: @LucyStats
Matt: @ProfMattFox

🎶 Our intro/outro music is courtesy of Joseph McDade.👩‍🎨 Our artwork is by Allison Horst.

Next Episode

Internal and External Validity with Elizabeth Stuart | Episode 06

Ellie Murray and Lucy D'Agostino McGowan chat with Elizabeth Stuart from the Departments of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Here are some links to the content we talk about in this episode:

📝 Kern et al paper on Assessing Methods for Generalizing Experimental Impact Estimates to Target Populations

📝 Article by Sherri Rose on Liz Stuart (baby pics!)

🌐 Liz Stuart's website

📰 Local news