‼️ New pre-print alert ‼️ In our paper "Classifying and Differentiating Individuals with Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Influenza, and COVID-19 Cases in OpenSAFELY" we designed and implemented phenotypes for three key respiratory viruses in Electronic Health Records (EHRs).

The poster that went on tour! Happy to present my work at the Vaccinology symposium held at Nagasaki University after I completed the Vaccinology short course this week. Grateful to have had the opportunity to hear from so many brilliant people working in the world of vaccines

Had the opportunity to present my poster today at #iscb46 where I have detailed the methods we've been using to identify respiratory virus outcomes in the #OpenSAFELY secure analytics platform from @bennettoxford.bsky.social

Which medicines are being used the most, in which hospitals? We made OpenPrescribing.net for GP data... And now you can also use... hospitals.openprescribing.net too! Here's a blog about our first public outing www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...

NEW ONLINE: long-term #kidney outcomes after COVID-19 in the OpenSAFELY platform www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The British Medical Association Resident Doctors are the backbone of the NHS, they look after us all in hospital. They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces. They call it “scientifically illiterate” and “biologically nonsensical” 1/3

New post about qualifications with qualifications: kucharski.substack.com/p/incredible...

Happy to share the publication of our work "Estimating social contact rates for the COVID-19 pandemic using Google mobility and pre-pandemic contact surveys", huge thanks to my co-authors @christopherjarvis.bsky.social @ngdavies.bsky.social @pietro-coletti.bsky.social Jantien Backer and John Edmunds

Our first #WorldImmunizationWeek podcast episode is live now! Tune in to hear from @emprestige.bsky.social about their journey from MSc to PhD @lshtm.bsky.social. They also share insider tips on the best lunch spots in central London, so don't miss this. soundcloud.com/user-7893872...

Listen along today to my short feature on the podcast series for #worldimmunisationweek

trans rights forever

The @nytimes.com just discovered parallel computing.

Yesterday, a Government press release claimed the number of people “considered too sick to work” had "quadrupled" since the pandemic (a "383% rise"). This is incorrect. In fact, it’s not even close. It's more like 40%. This thread explains why 🧵1/7

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

OpenPrescribing for Hospitals Live! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...

You Are Unvaccinated and Got Sick. These Are Your Odds. Comparing the dangerous effects of three diseases with the minimal side effects of their corresponding vaccines. www.nytimes.com/2020... 1/5

When it comes to false claims about vaccines and autism, it was never really about the wellbeing of the population and whether vaccines were safe - fundamentally, it was about whether the alternative could be profitable to the people promoting nonsense:

Fiona Fox’s recent article in Research Professional News cautions that expelling Elon Musk from the Royal Society could undermine public trust in science. I disagree... 🧵 1/25 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

Nature covers @scurry.bsky.social open letter to @royalsociety.org "which calls for the society to stand up for the science community and “the values it claims to believe in”" ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My piece in @statnews.com on creating a better environment for autistic researchers in science. Great comments from researcher Greg Siegle on his journey. #ActuallyAutistic @thekibosch.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/a...

Amazing opportunity: a few PhD positions in Health Analytics, Epidemic Modelling and Health Economics available with myself and colleagues from @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social, @ccmid.bsky.social and @ukhsa.bsky.social. Please apply/circulate widely!

Looking for a position - postdoc, PhD, faculty - in infectious disease dynamics (broadly defined)? Follow @iddjobs.bsky.social and check IDDjobs.org This is a community site started in 2017 for open positions in our wide and varied field. Add your jobs, look for jobs, share opportunities!

1/ 📢 In our new PREPRINT - tinyurl.com/2pmudzrk - we evaluate how symptom-agnostic, population-wide screening interventions could significantly reduce the TB burden in Viet Nam. These require a substantial front-loaded investment but yield lasting cost savings. 🧵 #Tuberculosis #TBSky

Do consider joining an amazing team of individuals and get the chance to build something worthwhile

This is excellent, and a great example of where 'none of the above' can perform better than a 'yes/no' question becoming-a-teacher.design-history.education.gov.uk/apply-for-te... #accessibility

Women more likely to need mobility aids but less likely to use them, LSHTM & @uclofficial.bsky.social study finds Shereen Hussein explains gender gap in access to equipment & how cost, design bias, & social stigma may disproportionally affect women.👥 #PublicHealth www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

In light of the ‘vaccines cause autism’ claims once again surfacing in the US, would recommend reading ‘The Doctor Who Fooled the World’ by Brian Deer - reveals how astonishingly fraudulent and unethical some of those original (now thoroughly discredited) claims were.

Updated @lshtm.bsky.social starter pack go.bsky.app/R9P96qR Excited see colleagues from Zimbabwe inc @thruzim.bsky.social @chidodc.bsky.social @kkranzer.bsky.social & Gambia inc @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social @karennyongesa.bsky.social - Hope more of our globally based colleagues will join too.

Update to the CMMID at LSHTM starter pack! go.bsky.app/625gwoG

We did a conference @bennettoxford.bsky.social OpenSAFELY Community Symposium 2024 It was great THANK YOU to those who came If you couldn't make it....................... Read our conference booklet Sneak a peak at speaker videos www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/12...

Great to run a codelist construction best practices workshop today with Chris Wood from @bennettoxford.bsky.social good attendance and great discussion around everything codelist!

Good to see my BSc dissertation supervisor, Yinghui Wei, at the OpenSAFELY community symposium @bennettoxford.bsky.social being reunited by cool science!

"Endometriosis must be reframed as a chronic condition in which many women will have symptoms that persist or recur across their lifespan, even if they have had surgical treatment." Why women need better coordination between primary and secondary care www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Love these science Starter Packs! If you're making one, please take a moment to make sure it's balanced on gender, ethnicity, geography or other factors relevant in your area, otherwise we risk entrenching inequalities in reach and impact and driving rich-get-richer in scientific visibility.

Why we should stop looking for an NPI miracle - new post on underpowered trials and future disease threats: kucharski.substack.com/p/stop-looki...

We're running workshops in December and January, to hear people's views on health research with OpenSAFELY. We need help spreading the word. Health and data professionals: please share widely with patient and community groups you know! Thanks! More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/have-your-...

#Sudan war deaths are likely much higher than recorded Reuters covers new LSHTM study estimating over 61,000 deaths in Khartoum State alone during first 14 months of war & death rate up 50%. These deaths have "largely gone undetected". 👇 #PublicHealth www.reuters.com/world/africa...

Keen to see what Bluesky is about - haven't had science twitter for a long time so I'm hopeful this can fill the void 🤞