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Here’s the paper I cited in that comment: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #AFSummit2018
I recalled that paper in particular because I wrote a little about it and why I think earlier partnership with users may have helped their design #AFSummit2018 holly.witteman.ca/index.php/2014…
Though very honestly I think just sending people their A1c without also tackling other issues like access to meds, equipment, education, support, etc. is kind of pointless anyway. #AFSummit2018
In Canada, access to meds, blood glucose monitoring, insulin pumps, continuous glucose monitoring, retinopathy, etc. is extremely uneven in our so-called public health care system. (And in the US, people are dying because they can’t afford insulin priced 10X the cost here.)
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Yesterday: PhD student’s paper is accepted! Yay! But also, other PhD student’s paper is returned by the journal after nearly 6 months due to inability to get reviewers. This happened to another trainee’s paper last year as well. Anecdotally, it sounds more & more common.
Journals: Please improve your processes. Make your default review times longer. See if you get all reviews in faster if you ask for reviews within 4 weeks rather than 2. Also: invite more junior people to review. They’re often more eager to review & are up on newest methods.
Publishers: Make your websites easier to use. Don’t make people log in to say yes or no. Make keyword selection easy.
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Finally did the book cull that I should have done *before* we moved, uh, six years ago. Out of all the books we read related to parenting, these are the two that influenced us most. Photo of book entitled “Becoming The Parent You Want To Be” by Laura Davis and Janis KeyserBook entitled “Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health” by Susan B. Roberts, Ph.D., and Melvin B. Heyman, M.D., with Lisa Tracy
“Becoming The Parent You Want To Be” was ahead of its time, I think. What I loved about it is the way it presents both parents and kids as full humans, with human emotions & reactions. I have a quick temper but didn’t want to yell at my kids. I really appreciated the strategies.
I picked up “Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health” on a bargain shelf when pregnant with kid 1. It had one key fact that influenced us: you may need to introduce a food 15-20X before they’ll take to it. So we did. There may be some luck here, too, but our kids eat *everything*.
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Congrats @Bell @Bell_Support you win my ‘worst customer service experience this year’ contest! 🥇 You’re up against medical device companies who hold my life in their hands (and aren’t always nice about it) so it was tough competition! I hope you’re proud of your achievement.
I called on behalf of my inlaws to solve a problem re: rural internet. After I asked, "So if I understand correctly, you don’t have the authority to resolve this problem?" your rep *hung up on me*.
Please don’t bother expressing sorrow or asking me to DM you. I’m not interested in wasting any more of my time. Check your logs & train your people better.
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Here are links to some of the papers that are included in that photo from 12 months of publications. And that photo is only *some* of our published papers.

This is an epic thread because our team are awesome. This is while they work on a PhD. Casually--on the side--like you do.
Elisabeth Vogel and Rachelle Meyer, ‘Climate Change, Climate Extremes, and Global Food Production—Adaptation in the Agricultural Sector’ in Zinta Zommers and Keith Alverson (eds), Resilience (Elsevier, 2018) 31 <sciencedirect.com/science/articl…>

Here's @evbln and @meyer_rachelle.
Niina Kautto, Alexei Trundle and Darryn McEvoy, ‘Climate Adaptation Planning in the Higher Education Sector’ [2018] International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education <emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.110…>.

Go @AlexeiPT!
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Here is our 2009 paper on the history of the US presidential science advisor:
Pielke, R., & Klein, R. (2009). The rise and fall of the science advisor to the president of the United States. Minerva, 47(1), 7-29.
sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publicat…
And here is our edited volume on the US presidential science advisor:
Pielke, R., & Klein, R. A. (Eds.). (2010). Presidential science advisors: Perspectives and reflections on science, policy and politics. Springer Science & Business Media.
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And here is a paper from a project that I collaborated with Kelvin Droegemeier @kdroege (& others) back in the day on the weather research needs of the private sector, published in BAMS:
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I've been reading up on the 3 UUK nominees for the UUK–UCU Joint Expert Panel: Ronnie Bowie, Sally Bridgeland, and Chris Curry ipe.com/countries/uk/u… #USSStrike 1/
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By popular demand, #NeuroThursday will tackle last weekend's big psychological finding in the author world: this study that supposedly claims people read faster with 2 spaces after a period. washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-…
The upshot is: some researchers got a group of people who naturally write with 1 space or 2 space, and made them read both kinds of text. The two-spacer people read a tiny bit faster when they saw 2-space text. But.
Now, there's an easy answer why this article is wrong. Let me start there and get it out of the way so I can then tell you something more subtle & interesting.
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Let's talk Lipoprotein(a) and cardiovascular disease risk.

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Lp(a)=Lipoprotein(a),
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Here's a thread for @Noahpinion on how economists have studied African development. We can divide this into i) long-run causes: (pre) colonial history, slavery, political institutions, ethnicity, and ii) proximate causes: mkt and govt failures. I'll focus on the first.
First, does pre-colonial history matter? Big time. The slave trade had long-lasting effects on development (Nunn 2008) dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/hand… . The likely mechanism was reduced trust among tribes. Nunn and Wantchekon (2011) aeaweb.org/articles?id=10….
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