Great speech by our #SSACAB director at the opening ceremony of #IBSSUSAN2025.

Opening ceremony of the #IBSSUSAN2025 conference in Addis Ababa. Looking forward to several days of exciting discussions with leading and up-and-coming biostatisticians in sub-Saharan Africa. Also great to see a strong #SSACAB representation, driving the future of biostatistics on the continent.

#ISCB46 very nice talk by Michael Kammer on COVID-19 prognostic models, which involved a ‘deep dive’ into the pond life of modelling. Bottom line: “If looking for reliable models, don’t hold your breath.”

Hepatitis B care must be overhauled to meet WHO 2030 elimination targets news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/08/19/g...

Happening now - STRATOS session at #JSM2025

📢 MSK/Ortho researchers in Malawi, South Africa & Tanzania! Stage 3 of the #POINTStudy is LIVE! 📝 Re-rate 25 MSK injury research challenges 🌍 View global & local results ⏱️ Takes <5 mins 👥 All welcome #GlobalInjuryGroup #MSK #InjuryResearch globalinjury.ndorms.ox.ac.uk/collection/s...

Ready for the #STRATOS session tomorrow at #JSM2025 💪 - if you are in Nashville, please come (6 August 2025, 10.30am, room CC-209B). (I realise that parallel session speakers include @tibshirani.bsky.social and @hadley.nz - still: you should come to ours 😉.)

New paper out: doi.org/10.1007/s106... This is outside of my usual focus area - the stuff your PhD students get you into ;-) This is work that Patrick is building on to investigate associations between urban plastic waste and human health using remote sensing - exciting and important stuff!

Exciting to have contributed to this important work.

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“The suboptimal performance of QIAreach QFT, particularly in young children, suggests that it cannot currently be recommended for wider use and that the urgent need for an accessible test of Mtb infection remains unmet”

That's a wrap for #IBC2024ATL. A week of great, stimulating talks and I am looking forward to IBC2026 in Seoul (but before that the IBS SUSAN Conference in Ethiopia).

After many online meetings, it feels great to meet fellow #Stratos colleagues in person #internationalbiometricconference #atlanta

Another exciting STRATOS session at #IBC2024ATL

Great STRATOS TG2 session with @georgheinze.bsky.social at #IBC2024ATL. Another session this afternoon at 2pm.

Very exciting to attend a Sander Greenland talk and being lectured on bad practices in epidemiology and biostatistics - and how to do better and change practice in the next generation of researchers. #IBC2024ATL

👀⤵️ - @altmetric.com further cementing Bluesky as a platform for sharing and quantifying academic discussions. ⭐ And, as this thread demonstrates, it's been achieved with a good dose of humour, which never goes amiss in life or academia! 👏 #AcademicSky #IDSky #ImmunoSky #clinmicro

Excited for #IBC2024 to get underway.