This is a really lovely paper by @dopapus.bsky.social and team Self report of TB symptoms depends on lots of external factors and there are more robust markers of disease extent / severity available to inform surveillance and clinical management #TBSky #EpiSky

Join us 📆 9 Dec ⏰ 12.45 @tb-lshtm.bsky.social seminar Free & Open to all @kchorton.bsky.social @richardwhite321.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @dopapus.bsky.social @laragosce.bsky.social @danieljgrint.bsky.social tinyurl.com/2s4y3jcd

@mjsaunder.bsky.social @dopapus.bsky.social @laragosce.bsky.social @gasparrini.bsky.social @raclark18.bsky.social @juliapescarini.bsky.social @richardwhite321.bsky.social @reinhouben.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social @tb-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social

About half of people with #TB are asymptomatic (aTB). Calls have been made to stratify treatment and estimate incidence based on aTB case definitions In this preprint we raise concerns that symptoms are an inadequate & inconsistent classifier of TB state, being highly influenced by context ⬇️link

The true nature of the civilian suffering in #Gaza : 70% of war injuries were from explosive weapons. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan.... #Medski #Episky #conflict #amr @amrishbaidjoe.bsky.social @msf.ca

I’ve worked in data science for 25+ years—from graduate research to teaching at UCLA and serving as Editor-in-Chief of a major tech publication. The fundamentals haven’t changed: clean data, sound statistics, and reproducibility still win. #datascience #mathematics #statistics #machinelearning

A well-written protocol is key to quality scholarship. The SPIRIT guideline for protocols of randomized trials has just been updated - please share widely! 🗣️ #researchintegrity #openscience www.bmj.com/content/389/...

My dear health equity peers, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is doubling down on their DEI efforts. 💪🏽 Here’s a grant opportunity tinyurl.com/3pnxhy2d with a rapid response option those whose “health equity research projects have lost federal funding.” ⭐️ Please share ⭐️

Sheffield friends, please check out the Gaza Remains the Story exhibit. It’s curated by the Palestinian Museum in the West Bank and brought to Sheffield by Annapurna Menon as part of the Festival of Debate. The exhibit runs until 9 May (11am-4pm) at Soft Ground, The Moor.

#Tuberculosis prevention and care relies heavily on international donor funding in many settings. In our latest preprint, we examine the potential impact of reductions in international donor funding for #TB - by the US and by other major donor countries. 1/8 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app

In many ways, our future depends on science (e.g., medicine, mitigating global change, biodiversity loss, etc). However, increasing scientific knowledge, especially in new and unexpected ways, requires support. Support mostly exists in the form of grants & this work would be impossible #WithoutNSF 🧪

“We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.” ~ Carl Sagan

Leaders listen. Leaders don't take refuge in their comfort bubble. Leaders accept responsibility. Leaders work with their people to improve conditions, not over or against them. Leaders do not have favourites or lean towards their acolytes. Leaders are not vengeful. Leaders avoid cronyism. If only..

The apparent apathy to ongoing genocides (bar some), increased focus on maintaining arms sales by HIC governments and decimated funding landscape especially for TB only going to make things much worse…. 😔

In 2024, 68 million people were internally displaced by humanitarian crises, & are at increased risk of TB, the world's biggest infectious disease killer. We urgently need estimates to identify the scale of this problem & drive our response. We provide initial numbers here gh.bmj.com/content/10/3...

NEW COMMENT! TB trials with purely microbiological primary endpoints give greater weight to outcomes that matter most, generalise better to non trial settings, are less biased if regimens differ in duration, and are often better powered #IDSky @catherineberry.bsky.social @sgschumacher.bsky.social

A little story about this article & how teachers make a difference: In 2013, I was a student in a social epidemiology class taught by the esteemed David Williams. He observed, with some frustration while we looked at a series of graphs, that we often lump people into the “Hispanic” category — 1/

A USAID HR director sent out this email today to staff letting them know he was placed on administrative leave. “Today, representatives of the Agency's front office and DOGE instructed me to violate the due process of our employees by issuing immediate termination notices to a group of employees.”

#statssky #stats #episky

Check the @lshtm.bsky.social January free webinars on environmental epidemiology: 22.01 Causal inference in environmental health www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e... 29.01 Innovative methods for studying the health effects of #airpollution www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e... #episky

I'm just saying this is syntatically correct #rstats code

"Have directed acyclic graphs fullfilled their promise?" - the recording of my debate with @margaritamb.bsky.social at the World Congress of Epidemiology 2024 is now available on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG79... #EpiSky #CausalSky #WCE2025

Please share widely. @madhupai.bsky.social @fvlscience.bsky.social @dopapus.bsky.social @sgschumacher.bsky.social

This was my response in The Guardian 3 years ago when I was asked if my work was a response to the prevalence of whiteness in science fiction. I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :

NEW PREPRINT! Enjoyed working with @tom-parks.bsky.social and @petedodd24.bsky.social on immortal time bias In its simplest form, ITB results from misallocation of person time, i.e. pre treatment time in intervention group being counted as time on treatment www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... [1/n]

This program reduced TB incidence by 50+%. Trusting families to spend this money as *they* saw fit (with some stipulations about kids going to school and receiving priority, proven public health services), with no stipulations about how that $$ is spent = another argument for UBI. #episky #IDsky

OK, here is a very rough draft of a tutorial for #Bayesian #SEM using #brms for #rstats. It needs work, polish, has a lot of questions in it, and I need to add a references section. But, I think a lot of folk will find this useful, so.... jebyrnes.github.io/bayesian_sem... (use issues for comments!)

When & where did syphilis emerge? When & where did the bacteria evolve into its sexually transmitted form? Has the epidemiology’s most enduring mystery—and controversy—been resolved? Great articles by @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com and @ @spoke32.bsky.social @science.org 🧵

"We adjusted for race": now what? A systematic review of utilization and reporting of race in American Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiology, 2020-2021 Whew 😥 “Race was most often used as a confounder (52%).” pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37789703/

Extremely happy that our 'Safe Causal Inference' consortium was granted! We will be hiring 8 PhD students to tackle causal assumption violations, triangulation and causal model selection. With Jesse Krijthe, @jeremylabrecque.bsky.social, Aad vd Vaart & Stephanie vd Pas www.nwo.nl/en/news/64-m...

Great opportunity for those interested in #causalinference #causalsky #statsky #stats #episky

Interesting discussion below on causal inference in #quantitative sciences 👇 #episky #statsky

Key challenges in #epidemiology seem to include paying OA fees... The fact that this paper is behind a paywall speaks volumes. #publishorperish

Fact! And also dominate the TB research & implementation landscape

“Pandemics and epidemics continue to be a global threat, further amplified by climate change. There is urgent need for equitable access to these tools and capabilities to protect lives in vulnerable communities.” www.who.int/news/item/26...

I could 100% make a large audience weep by showing them the data quality and measurement problems in healthcare records. I spend a lot of time lately thinking about where we go with research / policymaking given the problems

The "replication crisis" is yet to reach medical research. Not because we're free from it, but because we prefer the 🙈🙉🙊 approach.

International law is like racism. From the mid-20th century until recently, you had to pretend you wanted equality or at most sort of dogwhistle. Now you just openly say "oh yeah, there should be one set of rules for The Good People and another for The Bad People"

Non-native English speakers need 50% more time to write a paper When they do, they face a 2.5 times higher chance of being rejected because of language journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

As part of the Unite4TB collaboration, we're running the PARADIGM4TB trial, which will test new #tuberculosis drug regimens. 💊 This aims to make treatment more manageable for patients with drug-resistant #TB. Ilaria Motta explains more in this video👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K93q...

yes pls 🙏🏾

this week's column www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...

Intro ...first time on here. Hi! Expect queer & decolonial studies discourse, unmaking the Englit canon, commentary on current events esp. India, UK, France, Aus - origin/fam/residence. Plus US. My reads, food & scarves. Receive flak from all sorts of constituencies. No hate-follows please; I don't.

How it started: "AI is going to replace randomized clinical trials" How it is going: ai.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

New research article in The Lancet Microbe Performance of stool-based molecular tests and processing methods for paediatric #tuberculosis diagnosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #MicroSky #TB #OpenAccess #OA

This is Céline Haidar, a Lebanese national team footballer. Céline now lies in intensive care, critically injured after being struck in the head by Israeli shrapnel in Beirut. If she were Ukrainian, her story would be everywhere. But because she’s Lebanese, the world is silent.