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Tom Yates @tomayates.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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

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Reported Tuberculosis Symptoms: An Inadequate Classifier of Disease State

We provide evidence that self-reported symptoms are an inadequate classifier of disease state, heavily influenced by context and substantial interviewer va

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Peter MacPherson @petermacp.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

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

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Daniel Gutierrez @ddgutierrez.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

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

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Jenny Zhen-Duan, PhD @drjennyzd.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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 ⭐️

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Research to Advance Racial and Indigenous Health Equity

We seek to build an actionable body of evidence to construct fair systems that determine resource distribution and support health equity. Deadlines: Rapid Response brief proposal 5/28/25; New Research...

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Amna Kaleem @amnakaleem.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

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.

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Katherine Horton @kchorton.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

#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...

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The potential impact of reductions in international donor funding on tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries

Background Tuberculosis services in many settings rely heavily on international donor funding. In 2025, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) was dismantled, and other countri...

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

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

A business woman in a grey skirt suit, pointing a rifle at a boxy 90s PC

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Dr. Davey F. Wright ⛏️🦕🧬 @daveyfwright.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

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 🧪

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

“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

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Esther Mondragón @e-mondragon.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

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..

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dopapus @dopapus.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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…. 😔

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Finn McQuaid @cfmcquaid.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

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...

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Thinking fast and slow: the urgency of crisis response must not lead us to overlook chronic needs such as tuberculosis

The number of people facing displacement due to humanitarian crises worldwide is increasing rapidly and is likely to continue. An average 10% year-on-year increase in the last 5 years resulted in 68.3...

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Tom Yates @tomayates.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

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

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Clare Evans @clarerevans.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

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/

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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.”

Farewell and Thanks (Again) - Illegal Activity in the USAID Front Office
Inbox
Nicholas Gottlieb
to amsofficercouncil, ALL, HCTM.ELR, Alpana, Danielle, Sheila, Sepideh, William, Anya, Stephanie, Lindsey -
All:
4:19 PM (4 minutes ago) #
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 without due process. I refused and have provided Acting Administrator Gray with written notification of my refusal. I have recommended in that written notification that his office cease ar desist from further illegal activity.
It is and has always been my office's commitment to the workforce that we ensure all employees receive their due process in any of our actions. I will not be party to a violation of that commitment.
I was notified moments ago that I will be placed on administrative leave, effective immediately. It has been an honor working with all of you at this Agency, which i treasure.
Please be kind and considerate of my staff at hctm.eir@usaid.gov. who will be very short-staffed and pressed over the coming months. Until you hear otherwise, Kirsten Gunsolus will be acting in my absence.
If you would like to stay in touch, I can be reached a
wish you all the best.
Sincerely,
Nicholas Gottlieb
Director, Employee and Labor Relations
US AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
HCTM, Rm. 4.07A RRB, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20523
USAID gov | @USAID

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joão araújo lima @ounaojoao.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

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

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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

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

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

"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

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WCE2024 - INT02 - Debate - Have DAGS fulfilled their promise?

YouTube video by World Congress of Epidemiology 2024

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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, 🙌🏾 :

My worlds are African worlds. I'd love to take credit for the culture that is in my worlds' DNA, but I can't. Those cultures existed long before me;I didn't have to imagine them. And my stories certainly don't exist because white male (or female ... let's not forget that white female perspectives also dominate female perspectives in science fiction and fantasy) perspectives refused to imagine them first. My stories aren't a " to whiteness. They exist wholly outside of white-male-anything. These stories that come from my own culture, experiences, from within me, from reflections of specific African cultures. By existing, I'd hope they help bring cultural, ethnic and gender balance to science fiction and fantasy, but that is not my work's reason to exist.

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Tom Yates @tomayates.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

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]

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viadya @mishapsandmayhaps.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

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

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Jarrett Byrnes @jebyrnes.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

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!)

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Full Luxury Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling with brms

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Jane Qiu, PhD @janeqiu.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

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 🧵

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Nan van Geloven @gelovennan.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

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...

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64 million euros for groundbreaking fundamental research projects | NWO

21 research consortia have the chance to reach a breakthrough thanks to funding from the ENW-XL Open Competition. From fundamental research on the effects of certain materials on the methane cycle to ...

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Michelle Kelly-Irving @mkellyirving.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

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

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Jess Rohmann @jlrohmann.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

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

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dopapus @dopapus.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Fact! And also dominate the TB research & implementation landscape

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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

“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...

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International Pathogen Surveillance Network announces first recipients of grants to better understand disease threats

The World Health Organization (WHO) and partners announced ten projects that will receive almost US$ 2 million in grants to improve capacities in pathogen genomic surveillance.

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Jess Butler @jessbutler.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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

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Peter Tennant @pwgtennant.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

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

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

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"

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

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/...

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UCL Innovative Clinical Trials Unit @innovative-ctu.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

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...

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UNITE4TB Phase 2B/C clinical trial program: Dr. Ilaria Motta, MRC Clinical Trials Unit, UCL

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 23/11/2024

yes pls 🙏🏾

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Sandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

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.

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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

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

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