🚨 Fully funded PhD opportunity 🚨

@lshtm.bsky.social offering a UK-funded PhD on lung cancer care for 2026/27 🎓

💰 Tuition + stipend covered
📍 London-based

This 4-year research degree is part of our @crukpolicy.bsky.social funded programme (2025 - 2030).

Apply now👇
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Closing the gap in women’s cancer care | LSHTM International Women’s Day, celebrated annually on March 8, recognises the achievements of women around the world while highlighting the ongoing need for equity in health, education and leadership. It

Ahead of #InternationalWomensDay, we’re celebrating @wmwanika2026.bsky.social, a Research degree student @lshtm.bsky.social, whose research shines a light on global inequalities in women’s cancer care and the need to close gaps in diagnosis and treatment.

Read more 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

A reminder that the call for abstracts for the 5th International Conference on Stepped Wedge Design 2026 is still open—deadline 13th Feb midday.

👉“NASH Methods in Action”

“Target trial emulation using data from cohorts and EHR”

Presenters: bsky.app/profile/clem... (LSHTM) and Jamie Wong (UCL)

Date: Mar 19, 1:00-2.30pm GMT

Place: G20 Seminar Room in Bentham House
4-8 Endsleigh Gardens, WC1H 0EG

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/target-tri...

Ahead of World Cancer Day, research funded by @cancerresearchuk.org led by @camaringe.bsky.social and @manuelaquaresma.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social shows that keyhole surgery for colon cancer is not reaching those who could benefit most.

Read more 👉 bit.ly/4tfn4N5

Dark and light blue graphic with inset image of female student taking notes. Text reads: Online short course: Design & Analysis of Cluster randomised and stepped Wedge Trials

Discover how to design and analyse cluster randomised and stepped wedge trials with LSHTM’s hybrid short course from 29 June – 3 July 2026.

Learn sample size calculation, analysis methods & how to interpret results with confidence.

Apply by 29 May 2026 👉 bit.ly/4t0wEDu

Prostate cancer screening: Committee says no to testing all men The UK National Screening Committee said there were more harms than benefits to using the PSA test for screening all men.

#ProstateCancer screening: Committee says no to testing all men

Bernard Rachet tells the Standard recommendations show urgent need for effective test or screening strategy that doesn't generate large numbers of false positives & add to burden on #NHS.

www.standard.co.uk/news/science...

RETRACTED ARTICLE: High Heels Increase Women’s Attractiveness - Archives of Sexual Behavior Research has found that the appearance of women’s apparel helps increase their attractiveness as rated by men and that men care more about physical features in potential opposite-sex mates. However, t...

link.springer.com/article/10.1... and many of Nicolas Gueguen's papers

🎫 Spaces still available for our day long event on target-trial emulation and other frameworks

Explore the role and potential of observational data for evaluating the effects of interventions in fields like #datascience #biostatistics #epoidemiology #rstats

Register 🔽
bit.ly/TTE_25

👨‍🔬 👩‍🔬 Are you working in #epidemiology #clinicaltrials or research using target trial emulation (TTE)?

Why don’t you join us and your colleagues in London for our symposium, exploring the latest methodological developments and applications of TTE and other frameworks?

Sign up 🔽
bit.ly/TTE_25

Just prompted @malte.the100.ci to look into the folder where he keeps his custom memes, which revealed a lot of forgotten gems. As it happens, my husband and I also have such a folder. If you also have one, please share some highlights! Here’s an old favorite of mine:>

👋 Hi Bluesky. We’re the Centre for Data and Statistical Science for Health (DASH) at @lshtm.bsky.social

We are the hub for data and statistical science in LSHTM, applying our expertise and data science resources to the biggest problems in global health

Find out more about us 👇

A recent @lshtm.bsky.social study led by Dr Ananya Malhotra examines how different immunotherapy treatments impact quality of life for advanced lung cancer patients over 18 months.

Findings highlight the need for a more personalised approach to care.

🔗 bit.ly/43FYPx5

🚨 Misrepresentation in Scientific Research: The Case of Uspecific Vaccine Effects 🚨
A recent investigative article exposes troubling patterns in the research of Peter Aaby and Christine Stabell Benn on the so-called "unspecific effects" of vaccines.

Le vaccin proposé contre la grippe pour les enfants en Angleterre est un spray nasal (et non une injection contrairement à la France), il est gratuit, et proposé proactivement à tous les enfants par courrier ou SMS aux parents, ce qui explique le meilleur taux de couverture.

Do you work on clinical trials?

We need your help to understand the challenges to designing & delivering greener trials. Only 30 responses so far but we can all have a say on this topic. Please take 10 minutes to tell us what you think tinyurl.com/GreenTrials

Please share across your networks

Curious to hear from people: it is common in research to give an Amazon voucher to participants (e.g. Delphi surveys). Do you see an ethical issue with it (because, well, it's Amazon) and if so, what could be a more ethical alternative (that can be used from any country)?

Three weeks left to register!

Methodological expectations for demonstration of health product effectiveness by observational studies Methodological expectations for demonstration of health product effectiveness by observational studies

Giens Workshops
Methodological expectations for demonstration of health product effectiveness by observational studies
#ObservationalStudies #RealWorldData #RealWorldEvidence #HealthTechnologyAssessment #CriticalReading #Decision #RegulatoryAgencies #MarketAccess
www.em-consulte.com/article/1710...

🗓️Deadline for registration: 31 January 2025!

I'm looking forward to it @bph-research.bsky.social @achatton.bsky.social

🗣️ Speakers: Els Goetghebeur, Karen Leffondré, Helene Colineaux, Benoît Lepage, Elise Dumas, Arthur Chatton, Linda Valeri, Raphaël Porcher, Jessica Young, Yohann Foucher Clémence Leyrat, Cécile Proust-Lima, Stijn Vansteelandt, Vanessa Didelez & Antoine Chambaz

Phase 1 (theoretical) will take place in Bordeaux, 5-7 May, and phase 2 (practical) in Poitiers 13-16 October.

The full programme and details for registration are here: ateliersinserm.dakini-pco.com/en/accueil-6...

📣 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 🌇🇫🇷

Updated @lshtm.bsky.social starter pack go.bsky.app/R9P96qR Excited see colleagues from Zimbabwe inc @thruzim.bsky.social @chidodc.bsky.social @kkranzer.bsky.social & Gambia inc @jaynesutherlandtb.bsky.social @karennyongesa.bsky.social - Hope more of our globally based colleagues will join too.

Simulating Data From Marginal Structural Models for a Survival Time Outcome Marginal structural models (MSMs) are often used to estimate causal effects of treatments on survival time outcomes from observational data when time-dependent confounding may be present. They can be...

New paper from Shaun Seaman and me on how to simulate data from marginal structural models (MSMs) for survival outcomes, including Cox MSMs. This can be useful in simulation studies evaluating causal inference methods that use MSMs. R code provided. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I’m hiring- info in the link below, or get in touch if interested
📣 JOB OPPORTUNITY! 
💻 Research Fellow in causal inference and machine learning, Statistical Science Department, UCL
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
📅 Deadline 5th December
#causality #stats

True. The lack of diversity among panel members contributes to the issue as well.

In the UK, things are improving, but somehow France still loves impact factor, H-index and SIGAPS points, despite DORA being now widely endorsed...

I made one for stats papers

Medical stats/ds/ai Join the conversation

Created a new group replacing and updating a list I enjoyed following on the bird site. Mostly people posting on medical stats and DS/AI

ICYI: go.bsky.app/ArqEz36