dopapus
@dopapus.bsky.social
no fixed abode field epidemiologist desperately trying to learn computational skills to answer the "oh no that's too hard" type research Qs on the social and structural drivers of M.tuberculosis transmission
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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
In this preprint we raise concerns that symptoms are an inadequate & inconsistent classifier of TB state, being highly influenced by context
⬇️link
August 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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
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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The true nature of the civilian suffering in #Gaza : 70% of war injuries were from explosive weapons.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan....
#Medski #Episky #conflict #amr @amrishbaidjoe.bsky.social @msf.ca
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan....
#Medski #Episky #conflict #amr @amrishbaidjoe.bsky.social @msf.ca
War wounds caused by explosive weapons in Gaza: data from a 2024 study by Médecins Sans Frontières
As of July 23, 2025, Israel's military assault on Gaza has killed over 59 219 Palestinians,
wounded an additional 143 045, and displaced nearly all of the 2·1 million people
who live there.1 Triangula...
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August 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The true nature of the civilian suffering in #Gaza : 70% of war injuries were from explosive weapons.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan....
#Medski #Episky #conflict #amr @amrishbaidjoe.bsky.social @msf.ca
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan....
#Medski #Episky #conflict #amr @amrishbaidjoe.bsky.social @msf.ca
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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
July 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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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A well-written protocol is key to quality scholarship. The SPIRIT guideline for protocols of randomized trials has just been updated - please share widely! 🗣️ #researchintegrity #openscience
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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SPIRIT 2025 statement: updated guideline for protocols of randomised trials
Importance The protocol of a randomised trial is the foundation for study planning, conduct, reporting, and external review. However, trial protocols vary in their completeness and often do not addres...
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April 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
A well-written protocol is key to quality scholarship. The SPIRIT guideline for protocols of randomized trials has just been updated - please share widely! 🗣️ #researchintegrity #openscience
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
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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 ⭐️
⭐️ Please share ⭐️
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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April 29, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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 ⭐️
⭐️ Please share ⭐️
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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.
April 29, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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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#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...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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...
www.medrxiv.org
April 27, 2025 at 6:16 AM
#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...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
April 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
trying to switch off the AI bloatware that has been pinned to the top of every single menu in every single app
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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 🧪
April 26, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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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“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
~ Carl Sagan
April 26, 2025 at 1:51 PM
“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
~ Carl Sagan
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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..
If only..
April 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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..
If only..
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…. 😔
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...
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...
gh.bmj.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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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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...
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...
gh.bmj.com
March 26, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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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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
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
It was a pleasure working with @tomayates.bsky.social on this comment in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social
It's time for new TB treatment trials to use a more focused primary outcome definition, moving on from the composite outcome that has prevailed for the last decade
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
It's time for new TB treatment trials to use a more focused primary outcome definition, moving on from the composite outcome that has prevailed for the last decade
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Primary efficacy endpoints in phase 3 non-inferiority trials to establish new tuberculosis treatment regimens should only include microbiological outcomes
Treatment regimens for tuberculosis remain protracted and burdensome, both for patients
to adhere to and for health-care providers to administer. Particularly, many current
regimens for drug-resistant...
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March 15, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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
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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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/
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/
A news release on the paper with C. Nieves & @clarerevans.bsky.social
@cuny.edu @cunysph.bsky.social
#Hispanic #PublicHealth #EpiSky #MAIHDA #SocialEpi
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@cuny.edu @cunysph.bsky.social
#Hispanic #PublicHealth #EpiSky #MAIHDA #SocialEpi
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February 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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/
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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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.”
“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.”
January 31, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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.”
“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.”
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Hot off the press! 📣📣In this tutorial we illustrate available multiple imputation approaches for handling longitudinal data including when they are clustered within higher level clusters. A reproducible example with R and Stata code provided! #OpenAccess
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Multiple Imputation for Longitudinal Data: A Tutorial
Longitudinal studies are frequently used in medical research and involve collecting repeated measures on individuals over time. Observations from the same individual are invariably correlated and thu....
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January 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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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
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
January 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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
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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"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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG79...
#EpiSky #CausalSky #WCE2025
WCE2024 - INT02 - Debate - Have DAGS fulfilled their promise?
YouTube video by World Congress of Epidemiology 2024
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January 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
"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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG79...
#EpiSky #CausalSky #WCE2025
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Please share widely. @madhupai.bsky.social @fvlscience.bsky.social @dopapus.bsky.social
@sgschumacher.bsky.social
@sgschumacher.bsky.social
Dept of Global Health and Social Medicine @harvardmed.bluesky.social recruits the first Cummings Professor in Global Health Equity. Position will lead HMS’s Paul Farmer collaborative w/ @partnersinhealth.bsky.social’s UGHE.
Apply at:
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14540 by April 1, 2025.
Cummings Professor of Global Health Equity
The Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (GHSM) at Harvard Medical School is an interdisciplinary department at Harvard Medical School. Our faculty of social scientists, quantitative resear...
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January 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Please share widely. @madhupai.bsky.social @fvlscience.bsky.social @dopapus.bsky.social
@sgschumacher.bsky.social
@sgschumacher.bsky.social
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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, 🙌🏾 :
I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :
November 24, 2024 at 4:02 PM
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, 🙌🏾 :
I’m totally patting “January 2021 Nnedi” on the back. Yes, Nnedi. So much yes, 🙌🏾 :
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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...
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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]
January 10, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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]
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]