July 18, 1992: The First Photo Uploaded to the Web, of CERN’s All-Girl Science Rock Band "Les Horribles Cernettes" ("The Horrible CERN Girls" in English)
The group sang love songs about colliders, quarks, liquid nitrogen, microwaves, and antimatter in ’60s-inspired outfits.
(the article contains the songs and funny lyrics, it's not that bad! 😀 )
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One day everyone will recognize #selectionbias due to a #collider and the world will be a better place.
This time observational studies found a higher risk of omicron reinfection after a 3rd dose of #COVID19 vaccine. Alarms went off.
The obvious bias: Those who receive a booster and get infected are, on average, more susceptible to infection than those who don't get a booster and get infected.
No surprise that those who receive a booster and get infected are more likely to be reinfected
As Jonathan Sterne and colleagues say, if you understand “Among successful actors, being physically attractive is inversely related to being a good actor”, you understand collider bias. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19478-2