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Em Prestige

@emprestige.bsky.social
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(they/them) | PhD student at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine using Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to investigate health inequalities. Currently on a 12-month part-time secondment with the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science.

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Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
‼️ New pre-print alert ‼️ In our paper "Classifying and Differentiating Individuals with Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Influenza, and COVID-19 Cases in OpenSAFELY" we designed and implemented phenotypes for three key respiratory viruses in Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
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Classifying and Differentiating Individuals with Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Influenza, and COVID-19 Cases in OpenSAFELY Between 2016 and 2024
Electronic health records (EHRs) are a rich source of data which can be used to analyse health outcomes using computable phenotypes. With the approval of NHS England we used the OpenSAFELY secure anal...
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Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The poster that went on tour! Happy to present my work at the Vaccinology symposium held at Nagasaki University after I completed the Vaccinology short course this week. Grateful to have had the opportunity to hear from so many brilliant people working in the world of vaccines
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Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Had the opportunity to present my poster today at #iscb46 where I have detailed the methods we've been using to identify respiratory virus outcomes in the #OpenSAFELY secure analytics platform from @bennettoxford.bsky.social
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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Which medicines are being used the most, in which hospitals? We made OpenPrescribing.net for GP data... And now you can also use... hospitals.openprescribing.net too! Here's a blog about our first public outing www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals Meets the Public | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
Brian MacKenna demonstrated OpenPrescribing Hospitals at the 2025 Clinical Pharmacy Congress last month. Here’s his thoughts on how it went.
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The Lancet Reg Health-Europe @lancetrh-europe.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
NEW ONLINE: long-term #kidney outcomes after COVID-19 in the OpenSAFELY platform www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Long-term kidney outcomes after COVID-19: a matched cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform
We observed increased long-term kidney outcomes in people hospitalised with COVID-19, as well as notable ethnic differences. Our results suggest strategies to minimise severe COVID-19 should continue ...
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
The British Medical Association Resident Doctors are the backbone of the NHS, they look after us all in hospital. They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces. They call it “scientifically illiterate” and “biologically nonsensical” 1/3
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This meeting condemns the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the Equality Act as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who 'was at birth of the female sex', as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical.
We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender diverse people. As such this meeting:
i. Reiterates the BMA's position on affirming the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals to live their lives with dignity, having their identity respected.
Reminds the Supreme Court of the existence of intersex people and reaffirms their right to exist in the gender identity that matches their sense of self, regardless of whether this matches any identity assigned to them at birth.
iii. Condemns scientifically illiterate rulings from the Supreme Court, made without consulting relevant experts and stakeholders, that will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country.
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Commits to strive for better access to necessary health services for trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people.
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
New post about qualifications with qualifications: kucharski.substack.com/p/incredible...
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Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Happy to share the publication of our work "Estimating social contact rates for the COVID-19 pandemic using Google mobility and pre-pandemic contact surveys", huge thanks to my co-authors @christopherjarvis.bsky.social @ngdavies.bsky.social @pietro-coletti.bsky.social Jantien Backer and John Edmunds
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Redirecting
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LSHTM Vaccine Centre @lshtm-vaccines.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Our first #WorldImmunizationWeek podcast episode is live now! Tune in to hear from @emprestige.bsky.social about their journey from MSc to PhD @lshtm.bsky.social. They also share insider tips on the best lunch spots in central London, so don't miss this. soundcloud.com/user-7893872...
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Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Listen along today to my short feature on the podcast series for #worldimmunisationweek
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Vaccine Centre Spotlight on Em Prestige: Getting Started in Vaccine Research
During World Immunisation Week 2025, we are catching up with researchers at different stages of their career from across the Vaccine Centre at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. We talk
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ceej @ceej.online · 29/01/2025
trans rights forever
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 17/03/2025
The @nytimes.com just discovered parallel computing.
NY Times graphic.

Conventional computer: One task starts after another completes

AI computing: tasks are divided into small parts and happen at the same time.
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Iain Porter @iainkporter.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Yesterday, a Government press release claimed the number of people “considered too sick to work” had "quadrupled" since the pandemic (a "383% rise"). This is incorrect. In fact, it’s not even close. It's more like 40%. This thread explains why 🧵1/7
Image of Government press release stating a "383% rise in less than five years" in the number of people considered too sick to look for work.
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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n
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Homepage - openRxiv
openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.
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Brian @brianmackenna.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
OpenPrescribing for Hospitals Live! www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...
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OpenPrescribing Hospitals - now live, and open for your feedback | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
We’ve made OpenPrescribing Hospitals platform to all with our first feature. Read more to see how you can access it.
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
You Are Unvaccinated and Got Sick. These Are Your Odds. Comparing the dangerous effects of three diseases with the minimal side effects of their corresponding vaccines. www.nytimes.com/2020... 1/5
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
When it comes to false claims about vaccines and autism, it was never really about the wellbeing of the population and whether vaccines were safe - fundamentally, it was about whether the alternative could be profitable to the people promoting nonsense:
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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Fiona Fox’s recent article in Research Professional News cautions that expelling Elon Musk from the Royal Society could undermine public trust in science. I disagree... 🧵 1/25 www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...
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If the Royal Society expels Musk, it could harm trust in science - Research Professional News
Scientists might achieve more for the public by staying out of politics, writes Fiona Fox
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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Nature covers @scurry.bsky.social open letter to @royalsociety.org "which calls for the society to stand up for the science community and “the values it claims to believe in”" ⬇️ www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship
More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the world’s oldest science society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science.
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Holden Thorp @holdenthorp.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
My piece in @statnews.com on creating a better environment for autistic researchers in science. Great comments from researcher Greg Siegle on his journey. #ActuallyAutistic @thekibosch.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/12/a...
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Science editor-in-chief Holden Thorp’s advice for other scientists with autism
“Building a much better scientific enterprise means embracing the idea of collaboration across all aspects of neurodiversity,” writes Science editor-in-chief Holden Thorp, who was diagnosed with autis...
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Anne Cori @anne-cori.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Amazing opportunity: a few PhD positions in Health Analytics, Epidemic Modelling and Health Economics available with myself and colleagues from @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social, @ccmid.bsky.social and @ukhsa.bsky.social. Please apply/circulate widely!
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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Looking for a position - postdoc, PhD, faculty - in infectious disease dynamics (broadly defined)? Follow @iddjobs.bsky.social and check IDDjobs.org This is a community site started in 2017 for open positions in our wide and varied field. Add your jobs, look for jobs, share opportunities!
Screenshot of IDDjobs.org showing the header description.
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Alvaro Schwalb @aschwalbc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
1/ 📢 In our new PREPRINT - tinyurl.com/2pmudzrk - we evaluate how symptom-agnostic, population-wide screening interventions could significantly reduce the TB burden in Viet Nam. These require a substantial front-loaded investment but yield lasting cost savings. 🧵 #Tuberculosis #TBSky
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Potential impact, costs, and benefits of population-wide screening interventions for tuberculosis in Viet Nam: a mathematical modelling study
Background Population-wide screening may accelerate the decline of tuberculosis (TB) incidence, but the optimal screening algorithm and duration must weigh resource considerations. Methods We calibra...
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Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Do consider joining an amazing team of individuals and get the chance to build something worthwhile
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Joe Lanman @joelanman.com · 16/12/2024
This is excellent, and a great example of where 'none of the above' can perform better than a 'yes/no' question becoming-a-teacher.design-history.education.gov.uk/apply-for-te... #accessibility
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Changing how we ask about disabilities and health conditions
Why we no longer ask people if they are disabled, and instead show everyone a list of disabilities and health conditions.
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Women more likely to need mobility aids but less likely to use them, LSHTM & @uclofficial.bsky.social study finds Shereen Hussein explains gender gap in access to equipment & how cost, design bias, & social stigma may disproportionally affect women.👥 #PublicHealth www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
In light of the ‘vaccines cause autism’ claims once again surfacing in the US, would recommend reading ‘The Doctor Who Fooled the World’ by Brian Deer - reveals how astonishingly fraudulent and unethical some of those original (now thoroughly discredited) claims were.
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Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Updated @lshtm.bsky.social starter pack go.bsky.app/R9P96qR Excited see colleagues from Zimbabwe inc @thruzim.bsky.social @chidodc.bsky.social @kkranzer.bsky.social & Gambia inc @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social @karennyongesa.bsky.social - Hope more of our globally based colleagues will join too.
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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Update to the CMMID at LSHTM starter pack! go.bsky.app/625gwoG
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Brian @brianmackenna.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
We did a conference @bennettoxford.bsky.social OpenSAFELY Community Symposium 2024 It was great THANK YOU to those who came If you couldn't make it....................... Read our conference booklet Sneak a peak at speaker videos www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2024/12...
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A successful symposium - thank you for coming! | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
Last week we hosted the OpenSAFELY Community Symposium in London - and it was a fantastic success.
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Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Great to run a codelist construction best practices workshop today with Chris Wood from @bennettoxford.bsky.social good attendance and great discussion around everything codelist!
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Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Good to see my BSc dissertation supervisor, Yinghui Wei, at the OpenSAFELY community symposium @bennettoxford.bsky.social being reunited by cool science!
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 20/11/2024
"Endometriosis must be reframed as a chronic condition in which many women will have symptoms that persist or recur across their lifespan, even if they have had surgical treatment." Why women need better coordination between primary and secondary care www.bmj.com/content/387/...
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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Love these science Starter Packs! If you're making one, please take a moment to make sure it's balanced on gender, ethnicity, geography or other factors relevant in your area, otherwise we risk entrenching inequalities in reach and impact and driving rich-get-richer in scientific visibility.
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Why we should stop looking for an NPI miracle - new post on underpowered trials and future disease threats: kucharski.substack.com/p/stop-looki...
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Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science @bennettoxford.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
We're running workshops in December and January, to hear people's views on health research with OpenSAFELY. We need help spreading the word. Health and data professionals: please share widely with patient and community groups you know! Thanks! More info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/have-your-...
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Have your say on the future of health research
We are running a series of online workshops to hear your views about the future of health research and OpenSAFELY
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
#Sudan war deaths are likely much higher than recorded Reuters covers new LSHTM study estimating over 61,000 deaths in Khartoum State alone during first 14 months of war & death rate up 50%. These deaths have "largely gone undetected". 👇 #PublicHealth www.reuters.com/world/africa...
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Sudan war deaths are likely much higher than recorded, researchers say
More than 61,000 people are estimated to have died in Khartoum state during the first 14 months of Sudan's war, according to a new report.
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Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Keen to see what Bluesky is about - haven't had science twitter for a long time so I'm hopeful this can fill the void 🤞
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