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Dr. Matt Schabath (he/him/his)

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Ph.D Epidemiologist ~ Cancer Researcher ~ Guitarist ~ USN Veteran ~ Bourbon Enthusiast ~ Detroiter in FL ~ Ally Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=W_8qYaIAAAAJ&hl=en PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=schabath+m&sort=date

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Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper Last year, we wrote about a Walsh Medical Media journal that refused to withdraw an author’s paper unless he paid a fee — even though he didn’t write or submit the article. For one reader, some det…

🧪🧪 Publisher demands $500 from impersonated author to retract paper

retractionwatch.com/2026/03/05/p...

09.03.2026 21:25 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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The world’s salt lakes are drying up, but solutions are hard to come by An eclectic book asks how humans have shaped these ‘queer’ landscapes and how they can be restored.

🧪🧪 The world’s salt lakes are drying up, but solutions are hard to come by -- An eclectic book asks how humans have shaped these ‘queer’ landscapes and how they can be restored.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

09.03.2026 21:07 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Whoops. Slight typo. It should read "273"! :)

09.03.2026 15:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🧪🧪 Did anyone else notice their publication count change on Pubmed? Last week I had 275 publications indexed and today it is 237.

09.03.2026 14:55 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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A favorite album and album cover.

26.02.2026 17:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Billy Idol - Billy Idol Should Be Dead (Official Trailer)
Billy Idol - Billy Idol Should Be Dead (Official Trailer) YouTube video by Billy Idol

🎸 Official Trailer for "Billy Idol Should Be Dead", the definitive feature length documentary

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eByN...

26.02.2026 17:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Children’s Hospital in Tennessee Renamed to Honor Dolly Parton In an exclusive new video, the president and CEO of East Tennessee Children’s Hospital reveals it will be renamed to Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital to honor the queen of country. “When we come toget...

🎸 A Tennessee Children’s Hospital Has Been Renamed After Dolly Parton

www.today.com/video/exclus...

26.02.2026 15:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
JCI - The science of safety: adverse effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists as glucose-lowering and obesity medications

🧪🧪 The science of safety: adverse effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists as glucose-lowering and obesity medications

www.jci.org/articles/vie...

20.02.2026 14:55 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Coffee and Tea Intake, Dementia Risk, and Cognitive Function This prospective cohort study investigates whether coffee and tea intake are associated with dementia risk and cognitive function in female participants from the Nurses’ Health Study and male particip...

🧪🧪 Study: Greater consumption of caffeinated coffee and tea was associated with lower risk of dementia and modestly better cognitive function, with the most pronounced association at moderate intake levels.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

18.02.2026 16:40 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

I agree with your views. I use them as tool to help transform the way my lab conducts research from generating code/checking code, extracting discrete data from unstructured sources, synthesizing literature, etc. They are a means to an end.

18.02.2026 16:14 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In that case, I am also a shill for the Student's t-test, Fisher's exact test, Pearson's correlation coefficient, principal component analysis, logistic regression, Kaplan-Meier curves, Classification and Regression Trees, adaptive regression splines, LASSO....to name a few. ⌨️🖥️

18.02.2026 15:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Rural cancer patients do just as well as urban patients when having surgery close to home, study finds - The Cancer Letter Adults living in rural communities often travel long distances when seeking treatment for cancer, but distant travel may not always be necessary to receive high-quality surgical care. To access this subscriber-only content please log in or subscribe.If your institution has a site license, log in with IP-login or register for a sponsored account.**Not all site […]

Rural cancer patients do just as well as urban patients when having surgery close to home, study finds
https://cancerletter.com/clinical-roundup/20260213_9b/

17.02.2026 21:00 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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The science influencers going viral on TikTok to fight misinformation Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social media.

🧪 🧪The science influencers going viral on TikTok to fight misinformation -- Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social media. 👏👏👏👏

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

17.02.2026 15:25 👍 19 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0

🧪 My favorite moment to date on Bluesky was when I was called a "shill" for large language models. Is this even a thing? 😂😂😂

17.02.2026 15:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Robert Duvall, Oscar-Winning Acting Legend, Dies at 95 Robert Duvall, who died Sunday at his home in Virginia, became a household name as Tom Hagen in Francis Ford Coppola’s "The Godfather."

Robert Duvall, Oscar-Winning Acting Legend, Dies at 95

#RIP

www.thewrap.com/culture-life...

16.02.2026 18:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Metformin for patients with metastatic prostate cancer starting androgen deprivation therapy: a randomised phase 3 trial of the STAMPEDE platform protocol We did not find significant evidence of an overall survival benefit of adding metformin to standard of care in the overall population of patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. The...

🧪🧪 No evidence of an overall survival benefit of adding metformin to standard-of-care in the overall population of patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer: Results from the randomised phase 3 trial of the STAMPEDE platform protocol

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

16.02.2026 14:29 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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NIH’s Bhattacharya acknowledges absence of causal link between vaccines and autism - The Cancer Letter Pressed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya acknowledged that he is not aware of any study pointing to a causal link between vaccines and autism. “I have not seen a study that...

🧪 🧪 NIH’s Dr. Bhattacharya acknowledges absence of causal link between vaccines and autism

cancerletter.com/cancer-polic...

13.02.2026 15:47 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Common genetic variants affect risk of a major cause of pregnancy loss Biopsies from human embryos fertilized in vitro enabled testing of factors that influence risk of abnormal chromosomal number.

🧪🧪 Common genetic variants affect risk of a major cause of pregnancy loss -- Genetic data from 139,416 human embryos were used to characterize chromosomal abnormalities, called aneuploidies, that underlie many cases of pregnancy loss.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

05.02.2026 14:49 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

A beaut!

03.02.2026 19:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Shibboleth Authentication Request

🧪🧪 Happy to advertise our new publication in BMC Proceedings: "Proceedings from the inaugural conference on the science of cancer health equity for Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) communities."

link-springer-com.moffitt.idm.oclc.org/article/10.1...

03.02.2026 19:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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How learning handwriting trains the brain: the science behind the cursive wars Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

🧪🧪 Handwriting requirements were cut from school curricula around the world. Now it’s looping back, riding on a wave of evidence.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

03.02.2026 15:33 👍 20 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1
Kings of Leon - “Back Down South* - Tampa, FL (Jan 31, 2026}
Kings of Leon - “Back Down South* - Tampa, FL (Jan 31, 2026} YouTube video by The Replay Room

🎸🎸 Kings of Leon killed it on Saturday night in Tampa! Here is “Back Down South" from that show.

youtu.be/7TzC_Yp9R4M?...

02.02.2026 16:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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As humans return to the Moon, scientists confront the dangers of deep-space radiation Shields and biological countermeasures could help protect astronauts during prolonged missions beyond Earth's magnetic bubble

🧪🧪 As humans return to the Moon, researchers are trying to understand—and thwart—the biological toll of deep-space radiation

www.science.org/content/arti...

02.02.2026 16:25 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

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Today in History January 30 | The Beatles Play Their Final Concert Together | Britannica On January 30, 1969, the Beatles played what would be their final concert together on the rooftop of Apple Corps headquarters.

🎸🎸 Today in History—January 30: The Impromptu Concert that Became the Beatles’ Last on January 30, 1969

www.britannica.com/today-in-his...

30.01.2026 19:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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48 hours without lungs: artificial organ kept man alive until transplant The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.

🧪 🧪 48 hours without lungs: artificial organ kept man alive until transplant -- The external, artificial-lung system could be used to treat other people who are critically unwell and awaiting transplants.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

30.01.2026 17:19 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 2
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The surprisingly big health benefits of just a little exercise ‘Exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death.

🧪🧪 The surprisingly big health benefits of just a little exercise -- ‘Exercise snacks’ and other forms of everyday movement can greatly reduce the risk of heart disease and death.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

28.01.2026 20:20 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

🧪 🧪 The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since the end of 2024 -- A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies

www.science.org/content/arti...

28.01.2026 19:21 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 3
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2026 Stadium Series Rink and Tent Build Timelapse | NHL.com See Day 6 of the rink and tent build for the first outdoor NHL game in Tampa, as the Bruins face the Lightning in the 2026 Stadium Series at Raymond James Stadium February 1 on ESPN and Sportsnet

2026 Tampa Stadium Series Rink and Tent Build Timelapse www.nhl.com/video/2026-s...

26.01.2026 22:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Global burden of amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine and opioid use in 204 countries, 1990–2023: a Global Burden of Disease Study - Nature Medicine Global Burden of Disease estimates show that between 1990 and 2023, the prevalence and burden of drug use disorders, inclusive of amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine and opioid use, have been increasing in...

🧪🧪 Global burden of amphetamine, cannabis, cocaine and opioid use in 204 countries, 1990-2023.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

21.01.2026 16:40 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0