So happy to share my interview with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social on his book that will be out this month!

Thank you, John, for your inspiring work!!

John Green Tackles An Injustice Called Tuberculosis

www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

This looks quite interesting - domain examples of descendants, mediators, confounding, measurement biases, and quasi-experiments for understanding (or calibrating confusion) of role of climate in infectious disease dynamics www.nature.com/articles/s41...

In an Eurosurveillance editorial, @ecdc.europa.eu Director Pamela Rendi Wagner and @who.int Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge have called for urgent action to keep Europe polio-free. #EpiSky

Read it here: www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

"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

I ❤️ science!

Bedaquiline is an amazing drug for tuberculosis, greatly shortening DR-TB treatment

But it also works for leprosy (another ancient mycobacterial infection)!

In patients with multibacillary leprosy, bedaquiline cleared M. leprae in 4 weeks

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Completely agree. Teaching Stata is especially problematic for students from LMICs who often can’t afford it and are forced to use cracked versions. As a grad student from Myanmar in the UK, I experienced this too. Switched to R after a few years and never looked back!

Once again reminded of @rmcelreath.bsky.social's "Science as Amateur Software Development" (www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qzV...). I know that time is a finite resource, but better coding would definitely be worth it -- it's a genuinely useful skill, outside of academia as well.

Our JSS article is out!

And now I get to focus on {marginaleffects} 1.0.0. Stay tuned.

www.jstatsoft.org/article/view...

I am running my statistical rethinking course again starting in January. But this time just for Leipzig locals, so I can work with a smaller group this year and track individual progress better. I think that will help me tune the material, espeically homework, better. Materials still open however.

DYK in 1957, Glasgow, Scotland ran the largest ever screening campaign against #tuberculosis?

715,000 people (76% of entire adult population) were X-rayed over just 5 weeks!

In a new study, we looked at the long-term impact of this campaign. journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

#episky #idsky 🧪🛟

🎉 New: Create arrow (aka "swing") maps in Datawrapper!

Just in time for U.S. elections, arrow maps show positive & negative data as arrows pointing in different directions. Perfect for visualizing increase and decrease — or swing between two categories 🗳️

https://blog.datawrapper.de/arrow-maps/

"Reading and conducting instrumental variable studies: guide, glossary, and checklist" - nice new paper in the @bmj.com from @tfeend.bsky.social and colleagues!

#EpiSky #StatsSky

www.bmj.com/content/387/...

Video tutorial on how to use 3Blue1Brown's (Grant Sanderson) python animation tool Manim. Looks extremely useful for talks/teaching. youtu.be/rbu7Zu5X1zI 🧪

🎉 New blog post! Choosing colors for a #dataviz on race, ethnicity or continents can be tricky. I collected lots of examples and wrote down 6 guidelines to help ensure all your readers feel respected by your color choices: blog.datawrapper.de/colors-for-r...

48% reduction in cardiometabolic multimorbidity just by drinking coffee!

Except that authors adjusted for hypertension, renal function and energy intake. Aren't they MEDIATORS for caffeine effect, do flawed analysis from the beginning?

academic.oup.com/jcem/advance...

Help me creating one!

go.bsky.app/N1569Qh