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Em Prestige

@emprestige.bsky.social

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(they/them) | PhD student at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine using Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to investigate health inequalities. Currently on a 6-month part-time secondment with the Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science.

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Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · Sep 5

The poster that went on tour! Happy to present my work at the Vaccinology symposium held at Nagasaki University after I completed the Vaccinology short course this week. Grateful to have had the opportunity to hear from so many brilliant people working in the world of vaccines

Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · Aug 27

If you'd like to see the poster in detail then you can take a look on my github pages: emprestige.github.io/files/ISCB_P...

Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · Aug 27

Had the opportunity to present my poster today at #iscb46 where I have detailed the methods we've been using to identify respiratory virus outcomes in the #OpenSAFELY secure analytics platform from @bennettoxford.bsky.social

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Ben Goldacre @bengoldacre.bsky.social · Jun 18

Which medicines are being used the most, in which hospitals? We made OpenPrescribing.net for GP data... And now you can also use... hospitals.openprescribing.net too! Here's a blog about our first public outing
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/06...

OpenPrescribing Hospitals Meets the Public | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Brian MacKenna demonstrated OpenPrescribing Hospitals at the 2025 Clinical Pharmacy Congress last month. Here’s his thoughts on how it went.

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk

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The Lancet Reg Health-Europe @lancetrh-europe.bsky.social · Jun 19

NEW ONLINE: long-term #kidney outcomes after COVID-19 in the OpenSAFELY platform www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Long-term kidney outcomes after COVID-19: a matched cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform

We observed increased long-term kidney outcomes in people hospitalised with COVID-19, as well as notable ethnic differences. Our results suggest strategies to minimise severe COVID-19 should continue ...

www.thelancet.com

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · Apr 29

The British Medical Association Resident Doctors are the backbone of the NHS, they look after us all in hospital.

They passed this motion at their conference which pulls the “supreme” court judgement to pieces.

They call it

“scientifically illiterate”
and
“biologically nonsensical”

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This meeting condemns the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' with respect to the Equality Act as being based on 'biological sex', which they refer to as a person who 'was at birth of the female sex', as reductive, trans and intersex-exclusionary and biologically nonsensical.
We recognize as doctors that sex and gender are complex and multifaceted aspects of the human condition and attempting to impose a rigid binary has no basis in science or medicine while being actively harmful to transgender and gender diverse people. As such this meeting:
i. Reiterates the BMA's position on affirming the rights of transgender and non-binary individuals to live their lives with dignity, having their identity respected.
Reminds the Supreme Court of the existence of intersex people and reaffirms their right to exist in the gender identity that matches their sense of self, regardless of whether this matches any identity assigned to them at birth.
iii. Condemns scientifically illiterate rulings from the Supreme Court, made without consulting relevant experts and stakeholders, that will cause real-world harm to the trans, non-binary and intersex communities in this country.
iv.
Commits to strive for better access to necessary health services for trans, non-binary and gender-diverse people.

Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · Apr 29

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Apr 28

New post about qualifications with qualifications: kucharski.substack.com/p/incredible...

Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · Apr 28

Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...

Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · Apr 28

- A measure created using this supplementation can then be used to inform estimates of social contact rates during epidemics in countries without any contact survey data available.

Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · Apr 28

- Formal surveys, which measured the number of setting-specific contacts, were conducted in some countries during the COVID-19 pandemic

- Supplementing mobility data with contact data collected during pandemic times can improve transmission prediction capabilities

Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · Apr 28

See some of the highlights below!

- Mobility data is a measure of human interaction and is often considered a good approximation of contact rates

- Google mobility data was regularly used as a tool to estimate the potential spread of COVID-19 in the absence of formal contact surveys

Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · Apr 28

Happy to share the publication of our work "Estimating social contact rates for the COVID-19 pandemic using Google mobility and pre-pandemic contact surveys", huge thanks to my co-authors @christopherjarvis.bsky.social @ngdavies.bsky.social @pietro-coletti.bsky.social Jantien Backer and John Edmunds

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LSHTM Vaccine Centre @lshtm-vaccines.bsky.social · Apr 24

Our first #WorldImmunizationWeek podcast episode is live now!

Tune in to hear from @emprestige.bsky.social about their journey from MSc to PhD @lshtm.bsky.social. They also share insider tips on the best lunch spots in central London, so don't miss this.

soundcloud.com/user-7893872...

Em Prestige @emprestige.bsky.social · Apr 24

Listen along today to my short feature on the podcast series for #worldimmunisationweek

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ceej @ceej.online · Jan 29

trans rights forever

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Mar 17

The @nytimes.com just discovered parallel computing.

NY Times graphic.

Conventional computer: One task starts after another completes

AI computing: tasks are divided into small parts and happen at the same time.

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Iain Porter @iainkporter.bsky.social · Mar 14

Yesterday, a Government press release claimed the number of people “considered too sick to work” had "quadrupled" since the pandemic (a "383% rise"). This is incorrect. In fact, it’s not even close. It's more like 40%.

This thread explains why 🧵1/7

Image of Government press release stating a "383% rise in less than five years" in the number of people considered too sick to look for work.

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Mar 11

Big news: we are setting up a new non-profit organization to run bioRxiv and medRxiv. It's called openRxiv [no it's not a new preprint server; it's dedicated organization to oversee the servers] openrxiv.org 1/n

Homepage - openRxiv

openRxiv is an independent non-profit, the new organizational home for bioRxiv and medRxiv, enabling researchers to instantly share groundbreaking findings with the global scientific community.

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Brian @brianmackenna.bsky.social · Mar 3

OpenPrescribing for Hospitals

Live!

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/03...

OpenPrescribing Hospitals - now live, and open for your feedback | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

We’ve made OpenPrescribing Hospitals platform to all with our first feature. Read more to see how you can access it.

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk

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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · Feb 19

You Are Unvaccinated and Got Sick. These Are Your Odds.

Comparing the dangerous effects of three diseases with the minimal side effects of their corresponding vaccines.

www.nytimes.com/2020...

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Feb 19

When it comes to false claims about vaccines and autism, it was never really about the wellbeing of the population and whether vaccines were safe - fundamentally, it was about whether the alternative could be profitable to the people promoting nonsense:

Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · Feb 19

As it happened, the whole false MMR and autism claims came about in part because people with an undeclared conflict of interest wanted a *switch* in vaccines, not a suspension. Hoax-peddlers were trying to get a cheap, effective & overwhelmingly safe vaccine replaced with one they would profit from.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · Feb 18

Fiona Fox’s recent article in Research Professional News cautions that expelling Elon Musk from the Royal Society could undermine public trust in science.
I disagree...
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www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-v...

If the Royal Society expels Musk, it could harm trust in science - Research Professional News

Scientists might achieve more for the public by staying out of politics, writes Fiona Fox

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

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Elisa Fadda @elisafadda.bsky.social · Feb 13

Nature covers @scurry.bsky.social open letter to @royalsociety.org "which calls for the society to stand up for the science community and “the values it claims to believe in”" ⬇️

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Royal Society will meet amid campaign to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship

More than 1,300 scientists have signed a letter calling on the world’s oldest science society to reassess the billionaire’s membership following cuts to US science.