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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Today and yesterday I've had the rare luxury of sitting down to code; properly really absorb myself in the task. It really is my happy place. Coding, I love you 😀

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Tell me you don't know what you're doing when offering a funding scheme to academics without telling me you don't know what you're doing.

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

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. 🎉

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TB Centre LSHTM @tb-lshtm.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

@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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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!

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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!

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

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...

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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:

A funky and fun handmade collage card that says 'SME' on it and that SME stands for 'Serving Maths Every day', as well as a personal message.

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

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...

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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 😭

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

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...

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Autoimmune disease breakthrough as virus is found to cause lupus as well as MS

The virus that causes glandular fever may be an unsuspected cause of several autoimmune conditions, lending hope for new treatments and vaccines

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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

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The International Statistics & Epidemiology Group & Partnership @iseglshtm.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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...

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International Statistics and Epidemiology Group | LSHTM

Collaborating with international research partners to improve health in low and middle-income countries

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The International Statistics & Epidemiology Group & Partnership @iseglshtm.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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...

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MRC International Statistics and Epidemiology Partnership | LSHTM

The International Statistics and Epidemiology Partnership aims to define and implement a sustainable strategy to expand capacity in applied medical statistics in sub-Saharan Africa

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The International Statistics & Epidemiology Group & Partnership @iseglshtm.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

👋 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.

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

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.

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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.

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

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. 😶😳😭

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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...

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Sophie Lloyd - Imposter Syndrome (feat. Lzzy Hale) Official Music Video

YouTube video by Sophie Lloyd

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

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

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TAG - Treatment Action Group @treatmentactiongroup.org · 14/07/2025

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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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...

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BABYMETAL - Kon! Kon! feat. Bloodywood (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

YouTube video by BABYMETALVEVO

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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!)

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

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 😆

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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.

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

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.

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

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.

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TAG - Treatment Action Group @treatmentactiongroup.org · 20/06/2025

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

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

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."

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

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

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Lightyear Foundation @lightyear-fdn.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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... 📩 hannah@lightyearfoundation.org #DisabledInSTEM #NeurodivergentVoices #STEMStories

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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).

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

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.

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Massive NIH study challenges use of race as a proxy for genetic ancestry in research

A large government study shows that Americans’ self-reported race is a poor proxy for their genetic ancestry.

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Professor H R Stagg (she/her/hers) @hr-stagg.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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.

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