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Otavio Ranzani

@otavioranzani.bsky.social
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Group Leader - DataHealth Lab Global Health | Epidemiology | RCTs Critical Care, Infections, Climate Change #DecolonizeGH 🇧🇷 At IR Sant Pau, Barcelona / USP, São Paulo datahealthlab.org

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The Lancet Microbe @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Our September issue is now online: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... Our journal is #OpenAccess, so you are free to explore all of our content. But these hashtags offer a flavour: #malaria #Aspergillus #hantavirus #tuberculosis #AMR #typhoid #mpox #IDSky #ClinMicro #MicroSky #ViroSky #MycoSky #OA
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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
A reportagem do Breno sobre os repasses inéditos do Vorcaro ao Pangaré das Trevas está muito boa, mas percebo que ninguém está chegando à parte final dela, onde ele liga pontos muito importantes sobre repasse de emendas e contratos da prefeitura de São Paulo com a produtora.
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Em cartaz, a caixa-preta
Como Flávio Bolsonaro se enredou no maior escândalo bancário do país em nome de um filme sobre o pai
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Celso Rocha de Barros @npto.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Na coluna de hoje agradeço Nikolas Ferreira por trazer de volta a discussão sobre a pandemia. E aproveito para atualizar o números de mortes que Bolsonaro causou. www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/cels...
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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
(O que me espanta é que um marmanjo de mais de 40 que publica a sucessão de asneiras que o Joel publica toda semana ainda seja tratado como garotão provocador.)
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Dear senior scientists and tenured/full professors of this network, hello! I'm looking for researchers with a long way down the road who have a story (or stories) of mistakes or errors made (especially if these involve funny stories, so bloopers are more than welcome!). >>
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Alexander Gibson @alexdgibson.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🚨 Protocol -> preregistration -> preprint -> publication 🚨 125 clinical prediction model articles developed on unreliable data on stroke and diabetes. Since preprinting our results 7 articles have been retracted. doi.org/10.1186/s129...
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Marcelo Soares @msoares.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Que magnânimo da parte do preso ele abrir mão de ter arma no lugar onde está ficando
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Does anyone update to RStudio this week to the just released one and experiencing weird delays and bugs for simple things? 2026.06.0+242 #rstats #rstudio @posit.co
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Please, have a read at this thread on "automation" using AI in peer review.
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Luchuo Engelbert Bain @luchuobain.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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How to communicate health in catastrophic times
Nature Health - Everyone working in health is a potential communicator, but training, research and resourcing are needed to match the scale of the challenge.
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 06/06/2026
Oh and of course the editorial that was not supposed to be shared: diabetesjournals.org/care/article...
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Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!
The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent
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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 06/06/2026
If the goal was to not let them share reprints of an editorial, maybe having the police escort them out was not the best choice 😭😭 @altmetric.com www.altmetric.com/details/1954...
America showing 818 BlueSky posts, 7 news outlets, and 93 X users.
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Thiago @csthiago.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
causal meditation folks. Help! I have a scenario in which Rcde / Rpnde / Rtnde are <1, and Rpnie/Rtnie >1 (way weaker than the direct ones). It's VAX (exp), infection (med), and MACE (outcome). I m struggling to interpret this. #episky #rstats
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Alex Partridge @alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Anakin and Padme. Top left corner “British houses are poorly insulated and cold in winter” top right “so they’re cool in the summer right?”
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Truth
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Abigail Goben @hedgielib.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The senior faculty at my place today had a really good starting conversation about concerns/expectations as we mentor colleagues re: GenAI (and other algorithmic tools -- but that's the big one) Here's the starter thoughts I had last week about all this: hedgehoglibrarian.com/2026/05/04/w...
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What Guidance Do We Give Junior Colleagues & Peers on use of AI?
In my sphere there have started being a number of new conversations about use of GenAI in the use of scholarship and how that will impact assessment for promotion and tenure. We’re having the…
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Critical Care Reviews @criticalcarereviews.com · 11/05/2026
Just 4 weeks to #CCR26 ➡️ 13 major RCTs presenting their results ➡️ Independent editorials & discussion ➡️ Full free livestream ➡️ But it's so much better in person! ➡️ Join us in June! criticalcarereviews.com/meetings/ccr26
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Camille A. Clare MD MPH @cclaremdmph.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I’m a President now. @acog.org @acogd2.bsky.social
President of ACOG pictured
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Amazing post and must read for those ever plotting a map!
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Clinical Infectious Diseases @cidjournal.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Making Invisible Illnesses Visible: Recognizing and Responding to Infection Associated Chronic Conditions ✅ Just Accepted 🔗 bit.ly/4tvicmA
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Critical Care Reviews @criticalcarereviews.com · 25/04/2026
Today's Paper of the Day is: Management of Severe Acute Pulmonary Hemorrhage in Children criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evid… Join us to read 1 paper per day and stay up-to-date as we cover the spectrum of critical care across 2026
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Honoured to be part of the new The Lancet Sepsis Commission. Sepsis remains a major global killer, with huge gaps in diagnosis, treatment, and long-term care. Looking forward to working with an incredible group to help reshape the field. @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The Lancet Commission on Sepsis: transforming sepsis care and outcomes
Sepsis, a life-threatening organ dysfunction, is caused by dysregulated host responses to infection1 and is common, and often deadly.2,3 The current standard of care for the acutely unwell patient wit...
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Honoured to be part of the new The Lancet Sepsis Commission. Sepsis remains a major global killer, with huge gaps in diagnosis, treatment, and long-term care. Looking forward to working with an incredible group to help reshape the field. @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The Lancet Commission on Sepsis: transforming sepsis care and outcomes
Sepsis, a life-threatening organ dysfunction, is caused by dysregulated host responses to infection1 and is common, and often deadly.2,3 The current standard of care for the acutely unwell patient wit...
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
250 participants, 33 models: we have preliminary winners of our machine-learning competition to forecast depression onset! We're now looking into variable importance & will write up the paper. Preliminray results here (click "Development & Testing" left side). www.codabench.org/competitions...
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lorenagbarberia.bsky.social @lorenagbarberia.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Today in the #Lancet, #SandraLey, #AishaJafri, #Adnan Hyder and I write about the global challenges for research on gun violence. As part of the ongoing work of the Lancet Commission on Global Gun Violence and Health, we identify 3 key challenges: 1/
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
New open access book! Case Studies in Global Health: Illuminating Theory and Practice www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
This is a fascinating study! Researchers developed an incredible new approach to prevent pandemic spillovers by vaccinating BATS themselves using mosquitoes and salt traps. It comes with some risk and caveats and will need robust regulation for prime time.🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/....
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Ecological vaccination: A strategy to prevent zoonotic spillover from bats
Harnessing natural behaviors to vaccinate wild bats reduces zoonotic spillover risk while supporting conservation.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
New @plosmedicine.org "eliminating all external funding for tuberculosis could lead to nearly 80 billion US dollars in additional household costs and more than 40 million extra households facing catastrophic costs" journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...
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The potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: A modeling study
In a modelling study, Allison Portnoy and colleagues investigate the potential impact of reduced international donor funding on the household economic burden of Tuberculosis in low- and middle-income ...
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. True
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The tuberculosis epidemic continues to thrive because of the neglect and reluctance to invest in social protection Our new comment in @thelancetph.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Social protection for tuberculosis—how can we make it universal?
Tuberculosis is strongly associated with social determinants such as undernutrition, poor housing, and poor access to health care. Moreover, tuberculosis rates declined in high-income countries well b...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
France just cut its contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria by 58 percent! And here we are, writing: European nations must continue to stay engaged in global health, continue to provide humanitarian assistance... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Three reasons why the European region should worry about tuberculosis
Despite decades of experience, advanced health systems, and deep medical knowledge, the WHO European region is still at risk from the global epidemic of tuberculosis. There are at least three pressing...
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Hi folks! For a methods validation paper, we're looking for a large, cross-sectional, psychometric dataset that will show considerable heterogeneity in item responses, preferably, based on different classes/clusters/groups of people. Open access optimal, but if you have one you'd share w me ...
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
If you are interested, please contact me with a CV and a brief statement of research interests no later than 02/02/2026. datahealthlab.org/contact/
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity (Barcelona, Spain) I am seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral candidate (any nationality) to apply for the Sara Borrell Fellowship, 3 years postdoc funding, in the 2026 upcoming call (starts on Jan 2027 if funded). The project is on environmental health 👇
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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
New paper: ‘A fully-integrated Bayesian approach for the imputation and analysis of derived outcome variables with missingness’ Harlan Campbell, me and Paul Gustafson onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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A Fully‐Integrated Bayesian Approach for the Imputation and Analysis of Derived Outcome Variables With Missingness
Derived variables are variables that are constructed from one or more source variables through established mathematical operations or algorithms. For example, body mass index (BMI) is a derived varia....
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
📢 Postdoctoral Opportunity (Barcelona, Spain) I am seeking a highly motivated postdoctoral candidate (any nationality) to apply for the Sara Borrell Fellowship, 3 years postdoc funding, in the 2026 upcoming call (starts on Jan 2027 if funded). The project is on environmental health 👇
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Do you follow Oded? You must. Real life academia...
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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
You’re gonna love this one
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Jonathan Bartlett @jonathan-bartlett.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
'How to interpret hazard ratios', with @dominicmagirr.bsky.social and @timpmorris.bsky.social thestatsgeek.com/2026/01/15/h...
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How to interpret hazard ratios
Survival analysis of time-to-event outcomes is very commonly performed using Cox’s famous proportional hazards model. The model estimates hazard ratios for the ‘effects’ of covari…
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Tim Morris @timpmorris.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
New post on a topic you might have struggled with if you do simulation studies. For a given data-generating mechanism, you might wonder “What is the true value of my estimand?” This post describes four ways to learn it. tpmorris.substack.com/p/learning-t...
Banner for blog post, showing the title and part of the image in the post (with its own alt text in the post).
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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
After 5 years of data collection, our WARN-D machine learning competition to forecast depression onset is now LIVE! We hope many of you will participate—we have incredibly rich data. If you share a single thing of my lab this year, please make it this competition. eiko-fried.com/warn-d-machi...
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WARN-D machine learning competition is live » Eiko Fried
If you share one single thing of our team in 2026—on social media or per email with your colleagues—please let it be this machine learning competition. It was half a decade of work to get here, especi...
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 05/01/2026
Inspired by this post by @rmkubinec.bsky.social: What are your favorite project management tools for academic research? I mainly want to keep track of tasks and discussions, and I don't necessarily need file storage. So something that's free would be preferable. www.robertkubinec.com/post/notion/
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How to Use Notion for Academic Research – Homepage
I provide some advice for how to use Notion’s powerful management software for the unique challenges of academic research.
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Working with big spatial data in #rstats? #duckspatial 🦆
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Tom Kindlon @tomkindlon.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Highly recommended 👏 #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #PwME #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS
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Gary Collins @gscollins.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
"The making of a statistician: Doug Altman" - just published in @bmj.com celebrating his 1 million citations and reflecting on his remarkable career and legacy. One of the most influential statisticians in modern medical research. --> www.bmj.com/content/391/... #BMJChristmas #methodologymatters
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JAMA @jama.com · 17/12/2025
SOFA-2, validated in >3 million ICU patients, incorporates contemporary organ support and treatments, showing strong predictive validity for ICU mortality in diverse international settings. ja.ma/4s1nZ35
JAMA article shows graphs comparing SOFA-1 and SOFA-2 scores. Graph A: Score distribution; Graph B: ICU mortality; Graph C: Cumulative ICU mortality. Data presented for total SOFA-1 and SOFA-2 at ICU admission.
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Otavio Ranzani @otavioranzani.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
😂🤣
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
“tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide” www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
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The Plague That Won’t Die | Pria Anand
As my recent diagnosis shows, tuberculosis is not a relic of medical history. It remains the leading infectious cause of death worldwide—and America is hardly immune.
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