Fascinating qualitative study on beliefs London parents hold about child weight. Main viewpoints identified, with my thoughts: academic.oup.com/jpubhealth/a...

A landmark moment for #PublicHealth: people born after 2008 will be banned from buying tobacco in the UK – once they turn 18 and forever, even when they will be 30, 40, and older. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Every day is a good day for sharing one of the most useful papers about research data ever written. PLEASE get your people to understand and follow this advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Trying to analyse seven semi‑structured interviews for my health needs assessment and honestly... why is this taking longer than an entire epi dataset? Never going to look down on qual research ever again!

A question for social epidemiologists. #episky #publichealth As we know, the English Index of Multiple Deprivation is a composite metric, including domains such as education, income, environment, etc. And these are often closely linked. 1/6

If you push hard enough, anything can squeeze into a logistic regression model

Annual epi update on bloodstream infections and C. difficile infections in England. Continuing worrying trend of increasing rates of most of these infections, especially for community-onset cases

People are less likely to believe conspiracy theories when they get clear, simple, and early information from trusted sources. Using tools like “prebunking” and reaching people where they are (like on social media) can help build trust and reduce misinformation. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

An interesting piece by @johnlauner.bsky.social in the @bmj.com recently. I know GP trainees who have done this too. Not all our younger doctors are leaving for Australia & NZ. Some are staying here but leaving the NHS. Somehow, the system has gone horribly wrong that this is happening. #MedSky

First day as Public Health Medicine Registrar (=resident) done ✅ Exciting to start!

This podcast episode has some interesting commentary of the "nanny state" critique against public health policies.

In its 10 Year Health Plan, the government recommitted to halving the gap in healthy life expectancy (HLE) between the poorest and richest regions. But how? Our new analysis with the ONS points to the underlying factors which any plan will need to take account of. 🧵

"And when the number of years of experience in the workforce were taken into account, master’s holders in any field earned slightly more than those with PhDs." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model. What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it? A 🧵 the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...

Cancer Research UK today published a report which highlights changes in cancer survival rates over the last 50 years. Many headlines (like this one from the Guardian) have chosen to report the ‘doubling of cancer survival rates’ since the 1970s. But that's misleading... 1/18

There is a much stronger evidence base to support measles vaccination in all children and COVID vaccination during pregnancy, compared to annual COVID vaccination in healthy children. I think this is important distinction, and we should be cautious about mixing levels of evidence in discussions.

Joined Parkrun and it's great! I don't enjoy running by myself but doing it with 500 other people in a park makes it much more fun

Oh wow. On reflection, shouldn't surprise me – I definitely use Stack Overflow less since I started asking coding questions to LLMs. Not necessarily a good thing...

At ‪@uhsft.bsky.social‬, a project to make food on the wards more sustainable showed that small changes, such as more vegetarian and plant-based options, not only improved menu approval ratings but also educed their carbon footprint: ow.ly/IevF50VXHa9

Some personal news: I've accepted a Public Health Medicine specialty training post here in London 🎉 @fphuk.bsky.social I'm so looking forward to starting in August! Sad to leave my team @ukhsa.bsky.social but I should be back soon enough for my health protection rotation!

"My island of strangers" – this poem by @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social moved me

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Any thoughts? 💭 #HealthInequality

Are you a UK psychiatrist with views to share about self-diagnosis? We’re looking for UK-based psychiatrists who work with young people aged 10–24 and would be available to take part in a 45-minute online interview (cont below) PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🤩

Men are disproportionately affected by nany diseases, including bloodstream infections, and have shorter life expectancy than women. DHSC is looking for the views of the public and healthcare staff to inform a Men's Health Strategy for England. Have your say: www.gov.uk/government/c...

📈 C. difficile infections have been rising in England, both in hospitals and outside – by a third in three years. A new report by the UK Health Security Agency 👇 #episky #idsky

Two articles from @ukhsa.bsky.social in @eurosurveillance.org this week 1. Developing surveillance for antibiotic resistance prior to widespread use is important; detect resistance prior to use of ceftazidime - avibactam (unsurprising but important ) www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2... 1/3

My colleague Olisa has a new article out in Eurosurveillance looking at the epidemiology of Gram-neg BSI in England. Loads of interesting data: incidence, mortality rates and CFRs for E. coli, Klebs and P. aeru. www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

🚨 We've just published new data showing the current state of health inequalities in England caused by infectious diseases & environmental health hazards. Our blog post explores how factors like location, job or ethnicity can damage people's health ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/02/h...

One of the issues with the staggering amount of vaccine disinformation peddled by RFK jr is that health experts are then left to say (for example) that no, vaccines do not contain aborted foetuses To an uninformed person, this becomes a legitimate debate And we end up amplifying the disinformation

"My experience has been that patients who are assessed go on to receive an ADHD diagnosis without exception, which leads me to question the rigour of the process." @helensalisbury.bsky.social discusses the problem with outsourced diagnosis of ADHD www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Wikipedia hosts over 64 million articles that are seen more than 15 billion times a month, all while operating on only a fraction of the resources that other websites have. Discover what it takes to run Wikipedia in #AWikiMinute

📚 The diagnosis explosion: an important new book tries to understand what’s happening “Darcie is a woman in her early 20s with migraine, hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, anorexia, irritable bowel syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome..” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/...

I've put on my hob nailed boots and given the Supreme Court decision the kicking it deserves. goodlaw.social/vd3a

Calling all statisticians: we need your help. We'll soon be running an RCT comparing ceftazidime + iv fosfomycin to ceftaz alone in septic patients. Our hospital's stats unit is small & overworked. If you're available to freelance, we have a budget for this! #IDSky #Clinmicro #EpiSky #MedSky (1/2)

On March 28 and 29, settlers and Israeli forces stormed and attacked the Jinba community in #MasaferYatta, #WestBank, #Palestine. Five Palestinians were hospitalized —two in intensive care, including a child.

NEW PAPER: Updated CONSORT-2025 for reporting randomised trials is now available in the @bmj.com @jama.com , @thelancet.bsky.social, @plos.org and @naturemedicine.bsky.social —> www.bmj.com/content/389/... #openscience #transparency #medsky #statssky #episky

That's a wrap on #ESCMIDGlobal! I'm going to miss the Viennese bread.

I went to ESCAIDE two years ago and I really enjoyed it: a relatively compact conference so not exhausting, great focus on infectious disease epidemiology. Really recommend it if you have a relevant abstract ready-ish!

Given discussions at I had at #ESCMIDGlobal, it might be useful for new researchers to know how a journal editor screens submissions (obviously this is my approach and so it might differ for others).

Interesting #ESCMIDGlobal poster by @seanong.bsky.social showing how often ID trials do not report on key social factors. Which is absurd, as we know how important social determinants are for infectious diseases!

How to safely use LLM (like ChatGPT) in your daily work, by @joserrapa.bsky.social. Fantastic talk on AI use for antibiotic stewardship in #ESCMIDGlobal! #AMSky

Our review of novel antimicrobial surveillance for the novel drug subscription model pilot - ceftazidime/avibactam use and susceptibility testing increased in the lead up to the pilot, as did (low) levels of resistance, and in the context of treatment www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

Just a thought: English today is the internat’l language of science, fine. But native English speakers almost never adjust their speech when presenting. No slowing down, no simpler phrasing. It's often assumed that non-native speakers will just keep up. Bit unfair, no? #ESCMID2025 but wider issue!

And yet she mentioned that outcomes aren't substantially different in women vs men - so there are some unanswered questions there On the other hand, incidence of BSI is much higher among men across almost all pathogens - I wish the speakers discussed this further #escmidglobal

Great presentation by Prof Mike Sharland on global AMR policy Excellent reminder that 90% of total antibiotic use is in the community, not in hospitals! Yet infection specialists seem focussed on the hospital setting #escmidglobal #escmid2025

The devastating effects of recklessness. No words. #escmid2025