Steven Ramondt

It's remarkable how fast buying a house goes from "Fuck yeah! I just bought a huge fort to play in! Awesome!"

Day 4 with a 4-year old at the airport thanks to KLM. Given their incompetence a sequel to The Terminal is becoming a real possibility. #KLM #ThanksKLM #TheTerminal2

Low awareness of past SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthy plasma donors cell.com/cell-reports-m…

Whole blood donor behavior and availability after deferral: Consequences of a new ferritin monitoring policy onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tr…

New blood donors in times of crisis: Increased donation willingness, particularly among people at high risk for attracting SARS‐CoV‐2 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Read my recent open access paper in Transfusion here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tr… #OANetherlands / @WileyInResearch

check out our newest paper on blood donation barriers discussed on social media onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… with great colleagues @stevenramondt @PeterKerkhof @sanquin

"Forty-eight percent of antibody-positive persons did not suspect having had COVID-19, in spite of most of them reporting symptoms." medrxiv.org/content/10.110… 3/n

Barriers to blood donation on social media: An analysis of Facebook and Twitter posts …elibrary-wiley-com.vu-nl.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.11… #Blooducation #BloodDonation #bloodbank

Als middelmatige wetenschapper ben ik het hier uiteraard niet mee eens.

New Preprint: The practical alternative to the p-value is the correctly used p-value. psyarxiv.com/shm8v

Me: As you can see from the results of this nonlinear Bayesian analysis, your risk of stroke is 7.5% for SBP of 140, 17% for SBP 175, and 10% for SBP 185. Pt: So should I start medication? Me: ... Pt: Yes or no? Me: I can’t say. I don’t believe in dichotomization. Pt: ...

"Leave a light on so that we can find our way home" ICYMI: Scottish MEP @AlynSmith gave a impassioned speech at the European Parliament (via @tictoc) Read the latest on @Brexit as the negotiations continue ➡️ bloom.bg/2FGMUUl

That was easy. Fixed it for you @NEJM.

Statisticians: "scientists are idiots for not following the advice of statisticians, who will not agree on anything because you can make a minor disagreement into a career"

The special issue in The American Statistician, and the Nature commentary on p-values, reveal how far statisticians are from being able to provide actionable advice on how empirical researchers should improve their statistical inferences. The solution will not come from them.

I did a deep dive into the research on whether attempts to rebut misinformation backfire. See the full report at fullfact.org/blog/2019/mar/…. Here's an overview of what I found - THREAD 👇

Stemmen is een belangrijk recht. Toch laten sommigen hun stembiljet ongeopend in de envelop zitten. We vroegen @andrekrouwel, politicoloog aan de VU en bedenker van het Kieskompas, de veelgehoorde argumenten van niet-stemmers onderuit te halen. bit.ly/2ueDusE

Now Norway has cancelled its @Elsevier journals, following Germany, Sweden, Max Planck, U of California, and others. mynewsdesk.com/no/unit/pressr…

Ever need a quick Lancet publication?