In what might be the greatest thing to happen to the APEAL Lab (at least since we published a paper in the Christmas edition of the BMJ), one of our own has won the Epidemiology Monitor haiku contest! Many congratulations to PhD student, François Thériault, for his brilliant win. His haiku was both whimsical and poignant, cutting to the core of the science. Read more about it here: http://www.epimonitor. net/Epi-Haiku-Contest-Winners. htm