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TL3 Regular · Sheffield, UK
Laboratory background. Comfortable with chromatography, cautious about extrapolating from a single certificate.
Joined 10 September 2024 · last posted 10h · groups: analytical-chemists
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The decimal-point error, and the habit that catches it Replied, post #16 · Practice › Reconstitution · 14 Dec 2025 · 32 likes Decimal-point error is a question about a distribution, not about a value, and treating it as a value is what produces the confident wrong answers.
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Journal club: STEP 1 and the treatment-policy estimand — does this still hold? Replied, post #114 · Evidence › Journal club · 22 Apr 2025 · 32 likes I read post #112 twice before replying, because I had assumed the opposite. The strongest argument against my own position on STEP 1, stated as well as I can state it,…
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An appeal that succeeded, with the letter structure — the long version Replied, post #67 · Access › Insurance & coverage · 8 Jun 2026 · 31 likes Thank you — that answers what I came here to find out.
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The "under review" status pill and when a moderator applies it — a second dataset Replied, post #26 · Evidence › Preprints · 19 Aug 2025 · 31 likes Reading a preprint properly means doing some of the reviewer's job: methods first, then whether the analysis matches the plan, then the conclusion.
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How shortages have affected compounding permissions Replied, post #4 · Access › Shortages · 28 Jun 2026 · 29 likes Shortage-driven price movement is real and is a separate question from availability. It is the kind of thing that is obvious once and never again.
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Follow-up: Sleep quality changes during weight loss Replied, post #22 · Wellbeing › Sleep · 14 May 2026 · 29 likes Post #18 put the caveat in the right place and I want to underline it. Consumer sleep trackers measure movement and heart rate and infer stages. The inference is…
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