Symposium & workshop on inequalities in infectious disease dynamics at LSHTM in April 2026. We aim to will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to share ideas, discuss recent advances, and reflect on future directions. Details & application: iddconf.org/lshtm-sympos... Closing 21 Jan
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UK Reproducibility Network Local Network Leads engaged in discussion around a table.
UK Reproducibility Network is having a conference, July 2026 in Manchester!
Please register your interest: www.ukrn.org/conference/
Bringing together researchers, institutions and research stakeholders from the UK and beyond to drive collaborative change within the UK #research sector.
"Two major publishers have begun to automatically reject the vast majority of papers based on public health data sets, following revelations that unscrupulous actors use these data sets to churn out nonsense scientific papers."
www.science.org/content/arti...
🚨 Job Vacancy Alert 🚨
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Pharmacoepidemiology
Looking for an experienced postdoc to join my team to study the safety and effects of medicines in populations previously underrepresented in clinical research.
Apply Here: qmul-jobs.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...
HIRING!
We offer 3 fully funded PhD positions to work on research methodology with experts in a great medical research environment.
More info: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
PhD position with me and Neil Ferguson (Imperial) starting in September. March 7 deadline. Home fees only (unfortunately).
Looking for an enthusiastic student looking to learn new things.
Please get in touch for more info or an informal conversation.
11 PhD studentships now available in Health Analytics, Epidemic Modelling and Health Economics, jointly between LSHTM, Imperial and UKHSA, to start autumn 2025. Deadline 7 March: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
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💡 Have an idea to improve research culture & practice?
📝 Submit a project proposal for the Responsible Research in Action Unconference (Sep. 22-24, Berlin)
⌚ Due Jan. 26!
🙌 If selected, you'll lead a team of 20, working together to make it happen!
rr-in-action2025.org/info-for-app...
Peer Review in the Age of Large Language Models – Call for Abstracts
https://cdt-art-ai.ac.uk/news/events/peer-review-in-the-age-of-large-language-models-call-for-abstracts/
#MetaResearch #PeerReview
📣 Do you want to learn about recent advances in causal inference?
Colleagues at INSERM are organising a workshop gathering international experts in the field. Bonus: it's happening in two amazing locations 🌇🇫🇷
Fantastic news - huge congratulations!!! 🎉🍰🍾
I can't say I totally understand everything but the maps are beautiful. Congratulations! 🎉
🚨 Publication alert 🚨
Ursodeoxycholic acid and severe COVID-19 outcomes in a cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform
Paper here: doi.org/10.1038/s438...
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I'm sure there's more than one regression model people have strong opinions about 😅
Cox regression vs. pooled logistic regression? I'd need another coffee before getting into this...
Cardamom bun availability is arguably the most important aspect to assess here!
Karolinska? Bristol? I guess we're not meant to self-nominate 😂 Honestly though I think there's excellent people spread across so many different institutions - you might be better of finding one or two people whose work you'd like to emulate and just see if you can work with them...
Ultimately it was arbitrary for us, but the review isn't a clinical meta-analysis but an overview of methodological approaches to a specific problem... Good point about the double screening - unclear!
I've only used it informally - so for reviews going into background sections/funding applications etc. We've got a PhD student writing up a paper where we've used it though so I'll report back! I think it's probably more suited for some kinds of questions than others...
Not an ML expert so not sure! I never got beyond this cartoon level of understanding: www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-a2.... The stopping rule is the tricky part, I've only used it for informal reviews. Seems there are some papers though... systematicreviewsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Yes - I've used ASreview and I love it (asreview.nl). It uses ML to present you with more relevant papers earlier on, and then you only screen until a stopping role. You train the model yourself. Free! Open Source!
People diagnosed with #cancer at a greater risk of #mentalhealth problems even five years after their diagnosis.
LSHTM analysis of UK GP data from more than 850,000 patients suggests more psychological support is needed.👥
👉 bit.ly/4d48j6w
#publichealth
Thanks! Just goes to show how important a deep understanding of context is for Epi studies, doesn't it! We're slowly starting to see more use of centre and/or GP practice as IVs in pharmacoepi, the idea being that it's basically a proxy for clinician preference. Validity of that likely varies..!
This is interesting to me although I don't work in this area of epi specifically - does centre affect outcome other than through exposure in this context? I've been worried about centre adjustment in my field (RxEpi) in case it's more of an IV - as in: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
"The university has an obligation to interrogate the proposition that a world in which AI is widely used is desirable or inevitable. We don’t need to cheer for a vision of tomorrow in which scientists feel comfortable with not personally reading the articles …”
uniavisen.dk/en/cut-the-a...
Serious funding for open science. With exquisitely good focus areas:
Improving Data Infrastructure
Novel Publishing Models
Improving the Persistent Identifier Ecosystem
Four tiers of funding from $20k to $5M
Scientific racism is a blight on science & isn’t going to go away if scientists ignore it. So I’ve teamed up w/ Magdalena Hurtado, @drsarahmyers.bsky.social & @abbeyepage.bsky.social to highlight & counter this problem by editing a special collection of Evolutionary Human Sciences. Please share CfP👇
Rigour, imagination & production in data-driven science
20 Jun 5.30–8.30pm
Andrew Gelman, Jessica Hullman, Hadley Wickham
www.turing.ac.uk/events/publi...
Wiley closing 19 journals and retracting ELEVEN THOUSAND academic publications for being fake
archive.ph/ouZUd (Wall Street Journal)
