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 😀

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.

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

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. 🎉

@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

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!

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!

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...

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

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:

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...

Has anyone actually got a copy of this policy/memo from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, before my level of irate goes truly apocalyptic? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Cambridge college to target elite private schools for student recruitment

Exclusive: Trinity Hall’s new policy described as a ‘slap in the face’ for state-educated students

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

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

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 😭

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

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

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...

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

inews.co.uk

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

IDDjobs@iddjobs.org · 9mo ago

PhD position (London, UK) Modelling the impact of climate change on TB with @cfmcquaid.bsky.social @mjsaunder.bsky.social @hr-stagg.bsky.social at @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2388

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

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...

International Statistics and Epidemiology Group | LSHTM

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

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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...

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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👋 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.

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

Moderna are hiring a summer intern for 2026 to work on their latent viruses programme. I'm totally jealous of anyone who gets this post. 😆 www.linkedin.com/posts/jdiazd...

2026 Intern, Latent Viruses Intern, Infectious Disease Epidemiology | John Diaz-Decaro

🚨 Come work with us for the summer! We’re hiring a Summer 2026 Intern in Infectious Disease Epidemiology (Latent Viruses) at Moderna in Cambridge, MA. This 11-week program (June–August) is a chance t...

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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.

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

As the science heats up re: future anti-EBV vaccines, delighted to have Marisa Muckian's paper on age at infection, data gaps, and how countries can provide proxy data for one another published. More coming, watch this space! gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...

Equity in protection: bridging global data gaps for an EBV vaccine—a systematic review and meta-analysis

Introduction Epstein–Barr virus (EBV) is linked to multiple malignancies and autoimmune conditions, with different disease burdens globally. Pharmaceutical companies and researchers are placing substa...

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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.

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