Ben Goldacre

Prof of EBM @UniOxford, author, Bad Science, more. I run making tools+papers from data

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

HISTORIC MOMENT

Today at 14:40 Dr Mark Russell from KCL pressed the button to execute the first ever job on the new OpenSAFELY service. Until today, OpenSAFELY was COVID only. Now we are open to critical analyses that improve all patient care, on GP records, securely, at scale.

PICS!

THREAD!

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

Huge thanks as ever to our platform collaborators at TPP/SystmOne, EMIS/Optum, NHS England... the RCGP & BMA... our close academic collaborator-users at LSHTM, KCL, Bristol, Manchester... our users at >20 more organisations.. our funders at Wellcome and more.. our PPIE groups.. and more

Thank you!

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

HISTORIC MOMENT

Today at 14:40 Dr Mark Russell from KCL pressed the button to execute the first ever job on the new OpenSAFELY service. Until today, OpenSAFELY was COVID only. Now we are open to critical analyses that improve all patient care, on GP records, securely, at scale.

PICS!

THREAD!

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

OpenSAFELY opened for non-COVID work in February. We got 100 applications in two months. We hope we can open to applications in England again very soon!

We're also building OpenSAFELY tools in other countries.

If you want our help, we are [email protected]

https://t.co/Bx7Rqk9Is3

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

Because of that, you can watch every line of code from Mark Russell as it executes in the system, live. He pressed the button with us all on a call (cheers! tearfulness!) at 1440. As of 1536, the dataset for incidence analyses is done, 3 more are running. Go!

https://t.co/VH0GAq2TKJ

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

planning a stern letter to the climate change denialists.

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

*EPIC FREE LECTURE ON THURSDAY IN OXFORD*

Our heroic CTO Seb Bacon on open science, open code, OpenSAFELY and more!

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

*EPIC FREE LECTURE ON THURSDAY IN OXFORD*

Our heroic CTO Seb Bacon on open science, open code, OpenSAFELY and more!

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

Inaugural Lecture Klaxon! Our magnificent CTO Seb Bacon is a hero of the modern age, and now PROFESSOR Seb Bacon... Come to his inaugural lecture in Oxford! OpenSAFELY! OpenPrescribing! TrialsTracker! OpenCorporates! Open Code! Open Everything!

https://t.co/WX2e9dkvMY

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

Inaugural Lecture Klaxon! Our magnificent CTO Seb Bacon is a hero of the modern age, and now PROFESSOR Seb Bacon... Come to his inaugural lecture in Oxford! OpenSAFELY! OpenPrescribing! TrialsTracker! OpenCorporates! Open Code! Open Everything!

https://t.co/WX2e9dkvMY

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

Inaugural Lecture Klaxon! Our magnificent CTO Seb Bacon is a hero of the modern age, and now PROFESSOR Seb Bacon... Come to his inaugural lecture in Oxford! OpenSAFELY! OpenPrescribing! TrialsTracker! OpenCorporates! Open Code! Open Everything!

https://t.co/WX2e9dkvMY

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

How you pop to the shops, if it's minus 64° Celsius in your town. This is what I want from the internet, and culture: other people's fascinating lives. Not lies about crime in London invented by boring racists.

https://t.co/xNzf1CG5lA

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

My old friend Patrick Mthews @HoxtonBeach slogged for years to build up a few small struggling cafes in London parks. Now they're a success, so the parks are rewarding him by giving the cafes to someone who offered them more money
https://t.co/4t2myAxzh2

https://t.co/pXAXlwuEr7

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@TPP_SystmOne @Optum @UniofOxford @OxPrimaryCare @NHSEngland @wellcometrust @OpenSAFELY If you'd like to learn more about how OpenSAFELY works...

The project https://t.co/hniecsaxOE
The code https://t.co/43lvNcPcuy
The documentation https://t.co/z8M0VQ6qwT
The outputs https://t.co/6k8C2EVG7O
And the 5 minute video!
https://t.co/fvSoF5aPNW

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

PING!

We've won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education with our work on OpenSAFELY, inventing new methods that let researchers analyse NHS GP data while protecting everyone's privacy, and with complete transparency, in a hugely productive platform!

https://t.co/O2AhrvKhpb

[Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre]

Huge thanks as ever to @TPP_SystmOne, @Optum, Peter Bennett Foundation, @UniofOxford @oxprimarycare @NHSEngland @wellcometrust and all the many users of @OpenSAFELY!

You can read more here
https://t.co/O2AhrvKhpb