That feeling that your local bookshop has it in for you and your wallet. Large number of copies, right by the front door 😭

The sweet, sweet joy of discovering that a journal has created a 'redline PDF' for you so you can see the changes they've made to your paper when you're checking the proofs. 🎉

@tb-lshtm.bsky.social amazing #StudentAmbassadors 2025-26 highlight why everyone interested in TB should join us for these two amazing events marking #WTBD2026 PS: they are both free and open to all! @ucltb.bsky.social @mrcunitgambia.bsky.social @mrcctu.bsky.social @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social

TB peeps- I'm updating the (hour-long) lecture on all things TB that we give to our master's students on the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases module @lshtm.bsky.social. Out of curiosity, what new innovation/finding/knowledge from the past year do you think the students most need to hear? Thanks!

One of my bugbears in the English language is the word 'by' before a deadline that is given as a date but no time. Is that including that date? Is that before that date? Confused!

Some preparatory reading for my & Molebogeng Rangaka's upcoming @ucltb.bsky.social/@tb-lshtm.bsky.social World TB Day panel 'Should high-income country institutions have a declining role in TB research?' Really looking forward to a detailed discussion! www.ucl.ac.uk/tb/events/wo...

Me, writing a talk for my old college's science society, to a mixed audience of alumni and current students: - starts with examples of when science has and has not influenced policy and the ins and outs of that - continues with when policy hasn't influenced practise

For the last four weeks, @ellenlbradley.bsky.social, Palwasha Khan @dopapus.bsky.social & I have been running the Statistical Methods for Epidemiology module @lshtm.bsky.social for 180 students. Today the students gave us the most beautiful handmade card:

Impressed/astounded to have submitted a paper on 19th Dec and to have received initial reviews back 6th Jan. Really thorough ones, too. Even aside from various country's holidays, we've had many experiences recently of peer review taking 3-6 months! Journals: this is how to keep academics happy...

Has anyone actually got a copy of this policy/memo from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before my level of irate goes truly apocalyptic? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

EXTREMELY proud of my friend Prof. Berit Lange @ideberitlange.bsky.social doing her inaugural lecture today. Wishing I could be there in person! Congratulations!

Don't we all love free-form article submission that genuinely is free-form?

It's one of those days where I'm despairing about how beautiful my grant application looks until I put it into the funder's form, and then how all my careful formatting is stripped out and there's nothing I can do to fix it 😭

Very proud of my PhD student Katherine Hill for her Union conference presentation on comorbidities and PTLD today!

Delighted to see the celebrity Henry Reider talking at the Union conference opening succession this morning. Oh, and also @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social 😉

As well as working in tuberculosis, some of you will know the Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) is one of my passions, so it was nice to have The i newspaper reach out yesterday to talk about EBV and lupus. We really need to be getting more impetus behind EBV work. inews.co.uk/news/autoimm...

Fancy a PhD at the interface between one of the biggest existential threats ever faced by humanity and tuberculosis? Then come apply!

The phrase that's been going round my head for several months? One impossible thing at a time.

ISEG, established in 1972, conducts studies on the epidemiology and control of major public health issues, with a strong focus on intervention studies and real-world applications. www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

ISEP brings together collaborating institutions to strengthen research capacity in applied medical statistics in sub-Saharan Africa, improving health outcomes through training, and a variety of capacity strengthening initiatives. www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...

👋 Hello Bluesky! We’re the International Statistics & Epidemiology Group (ISEG) and the MRC International Statistics & Epidemiology Partnership (ISEP) - two connected groups working to improve global health through applied medical statistics and epidemiology.

And I thought we prided ourselves on being a quantitatively strong institute.

Moderna are hiring a summer intern for 2026 to work on their latent viruses programme. I'm totally jealous of anyone who gets this post. 😆 www.linkedin.com/posts/jdiazd...

A couple of weeks ago I was at the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, and found out that the Nazis did tuberculosis treatment-related experiments on prisoners there. A horrible part of the history of work in tuberculosis that I was not previously aware of.

This time yesterday, I did not know how to make maps in Stata, nor that I needed to learn. This time today, I'm able to make maps in Stata. #CelebratingTheSmallWins

As the science heats up re: future anti-EBV vaccines, delighted to have Marisa Muckian's paper on age at infection, data gaps, and how countries can provide proxy data for one another published. More coming, watch this space! gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...

Delighted that our first paper from Tanzania on the temporal complexity of non-adherence to anti-TB treatment came out today- we started this collaboration in difficult circumstances back in covid times, building our relationships from scratch via videocall; I'm so delighted at how far we've come.

It's honestly one of the great joys and privileges of my existence that I get to work with motivated, smart, and caring people from all around the world at this juncture of my life, hear their stories, and experience what's meaningful to them. Last week I was in Sabah, Malaysia with people from

You know it's serious when I get the big bits of paper out.

After whining today that a really useful piece of functionality for EndNote would be if you could import a PDF into it and then it could extract the reference, I have now discovered that EndNote can, in fact, already do this. 😶😳😭

On an entirely different note, I don't think Sophie Lloyd and Lzzy Hale meant to write a banging metal/rock anthem about the imposter syndrome that I often feel in academia, but there you go. www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_dk...

I've been having some really interesting conversations recently about our future AI teaching. I've personally been finding AI incredibly helpful for an array of tasks, but my experience means it's much easier for me to build in failsafes. How do we teach checks and balances to students who've

Help us understand the impact of USG funding cuts on TB research and inform advocacy to save important research initiatives! TAG is asking scientists to submit information on terminated awards and at-risk funding applications via a secure, encrypted form, here: taglink.info/FundingCuts

In things I adore about the modern-day world, Babymetal (Japanese kawaii metal) have done a joint release with Bloodywood (Indian folk/rap metal with a great feminist slant). Thank you, internationalism www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxRl...

It's one of those mornings where you need to share the fur out of your notebook before you can start working. (Yes, yes- I still use paper notebooks!)

So excited to be starting my R training with a 3 hour course today. There's several things I'm looking forward to as we revamp our master's teaching over the next few years, and being forced to learn R is definitely one of them 😆

As much as I laud our contractors for the extensive research they must have put in to create the evidence base that led to them warning us only about the dangers of men working overhead, I felt a more equitable version was called for.

Very much enjoyed this Target Trial Emulation event today, and I met @pwgtennant.bsky.social for the first time in person! Looks to think about and hopefully implement.

Does anyone happen to know of any studies that have done repeated salivary sampling of a cohort of people (the denser the better, ditto over months/a year better than over a week) where those samples are in storage and usable for something else? Re-posts appreciated, many thanks.

DEADLINE for TAG + WHO's Community Perceptions and Preferences Regarding Long-Acting Technologies for TB Treatment and Prevention Survey is Monday, June 23 at 5 PM NYC. taglink.info/m/TBLATs

Sincere thanks to @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social- I finished 'Everything is Tuberculosis' today and it reminded me why I get up in the mornings and strive to do what I do. A Paul Farmer quote appeared on here a few days ago: "We do not have the luxury of being pessimistic on other people's behalf."

The absolute gift of being asked to review a paper that it turns out you totally love. 🎉

We're looking for disabled or neurodivergent STEM role models! Especially in engineering but all fields welcome. Let’s show that STEM is for everyone. Apply: forms.gle/eHzFwm9G779y... 📩 [email protected] #DisabledInSTEM #NeurodivergentVoices #STEMStories

It was my last appointment as a clinical trial participant today! It's been fascinating to see research from the other side- can't wait to be unmasked and discover what mpox vaccine dose I had (or whether it was a placebo).

One of the things I love about running our stats module is the number of people who thank us for running our stats module.

Yep. Race a social construct. Massive NIH study challenges use of race as a proxy for genetic ancestry www.statnews.com/2025/06/05/n... Lead author: “all communication related to the paper is under review by HHS, and we do not have approval to participate in press interviews.” Sigh.

It is one of the great joys of being here that there's a man called Gareth to whom I can send my DMPs when I'm applying for grants and he gives me detailed, expert, critique on them and sets me on the right path. Hats off to Gareth.

Samurai Bear @carlrmay.bsky.social?

Second time's the charm- after trying out the habit and not managing to stick to it last year, this month I've been winning with the @casualinfer.bsky.social podcasts as an easy & informative way to fit CPD into my life. Big thanks to @epiellie.bsky.social & @lucystats.bsky.social!

Delighted to have caught up with @ideberitlange.bsky.social this week- more than a decade since our MScs @lshtm.bsky.social; future project plans in the pipeline 🤞