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Targeted vaccination is effective for mpox clade Ib in England despite increased household transmission: Predictions from a modelling study Mpox is an emerging infectious disease with increasing global relevance. In 2024, a new clade, mpox clade Ib, was associated with high household attack rates and case fatality, raising concerns about ...

NEW research in PLOS Global Public Health from Ellen Brooks-Pollock and @leondanon.bsky.social at @bristoluni.bsky.social:

Targeted vaccination is effective for mpox clade Ib in England despite increased household transmission: Predictions from a modelling study

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

📢 PhD Opportunity – Join Us at INTERTRYP (CIRAD)! 🌍🧪
🔬 Mathematical modeling of vector-borne diseases

📆 Apply before: July 15, 2025
📍 More info & apply: umr-intertryp.cirad.fr/en/news/2025...

The schadenfreude index is through the roof here!

As mpox cases surge once more we assess potential spread and control in England. With @3113n.bsky.social #idsky

Incidence of community acquired lower respiratory tract disease in Bristol, UK following the emergence of SARS-CoV-2: a prospective cohort study 2020-2024 Surveillance of acute lower respiratory tract disease (aLRTD) is fundamental for understanding population health burden and healthcare needs. COVID-19 altered the epidemiology of respiratory infection...

A culmination of many years of hard work, very pleased to share this: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Postdoc (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Two year Fellowship for a mathematical modeller to pursue interdisciplinary research with the long-term goal of reducing health inequalities.
with @tah-sci.com
at Manchester University
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2282

Improving the accuracy of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) incidence among hospitalised adults in Bristol, UK https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.25321075v1

UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI Survey of 1,000 students shows ‘explosive increase’ in use of generative AI in particular over past 12 months

UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI www.theguardian.com/education/20...

After a wee break, here are some more Tips for Early Career Academics - this time on writing research proposals (the previous tips on giving talks, job interviews etc, are here: bsky.app/profile/seth...)
#AcademicSky #ECRs #GrantWinning #Research

Pacific beetle-mimic cockroach and her newly born nymphs

Overview of project on Nutrition and immunity in pregnancy: picture of pregnant woman on one side, viviparous insects on the other; 3 boxes linking project components (evolutionary models, insect experiments and human cohorts)

View of cormorant drying its wings by the Bristol harbour: light reflecting off the water

Researchers at an insect outreach event, standing at the stall

Job! 2-year postdoc position in EVElab, Bristol UK on nutrition and infections in pregnancy (FLF-funded)
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV631/r...

Apply if you are enthusiastic about:
- experiments on insects which get pregnant
- relevance of evolution to public health
- a vibrant city & research environment

PhD position (Bristol, UK)
Developing AI methods for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics
with @leondanon.bsky.social
at @bristoluni.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2250

Seems legit.

Seems legit.

China’s cheap, open AI model DeepSeek thrills scientists DeepSeek-R1 performs reasoning tasks at the same level as OpenAI’s o1 — and is open for researchers to examine.

A Chinese-built large language model called DeepSeek-R1 is thrilling scientists as an affordable and open rival to ‘reasoning’ models such as OpenAI’s o1

https://go.nature.com/3WroTb1

📦 [A package a day - data access 80]

Today's data access package is nomisr

Access Nomis UK Labour Market Data
🙏 Maintained by Evan Odell
📝 https://docs.ropensci.org/nomisr/

Check out this article: Introduction to {nomisr}
🔒 https://docs.ropensci.org/nomisr/articles/introduction.html […]

Modelling salivo-surveillance for detecting population immunity, transmission dynamics and changes in vaccine effectiveness at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Modelling salivo-surveillance for detecting population immunity, transmission dynamics and changes in vaccine effectiveness at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com

We are advertising an exciting PhD position with a super team: Modelling salivo-surveillance for vaccine programmes. Happy to answer questions. With @anu_goenka @leondanon.bsky.social @rajlaz.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Socioeconomic status and the risk for colonisation or infection with priority bacterial pathogens: a global evidence map Low socioeconomic status likely exacerbates risks for bacterial infections; however, global evidence for this relationship has not been synthesised. We systematically reviewed the existing literature for studies detailing the socioeconomic status of participants and their risk for colonisation or community-acquired infection with priority bacterial pathogens that are increasingly becoming antibiotic resistant. 50 studies from 14 countries reported outcomes by the participants’ educational attainment, access to health care, income level, residential crowding status, socioeconomic status deprivation score, community setting, or access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene.

Bacterial infections are associated with low income status, not news but has important implications for antibiotic stewardship. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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The AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI) Research Hub: https://ai4ci.ac.uk

Big news today! ££ 👀 ai4ci.ac.uk/funding/
£1M of funding for #AI for #CollectiveIntelligence research projects across the UK is now available! Pls 🔁/💗!
Check the AI4CI website for info on how to apply.
If you have a question that's not answered in our FAQ, please get in touch! #AcademicSky #Research

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Poliovirus detections in European Region underscore importance of vaccination and vigilance 28 November 2024, CopenhagenPoliovirus has been detected through routine surveillance of wastewater systems in 3 countries in the WHO European Region (Germany, Poland and Spain) since September this y...

www.who.int/europe/news/...

Simon McIntosh-Smith on LinkedIn: The Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) team and our partners have… The Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) team and our partners have been doing an amazing job, building the Isambard-AI site in record time. Last week the…

Just posted on LinkedIn - see this video of how we installed the Isambard-AI modular datacenter in Bristol last week, during a snowstorm! This 5MW facility will soon be home to a new HPE EX4000 supercomputer, including 5,280 NVIDIA GH200 GPUs www.linkedin.com/posts/simonm...

Wastewater poliovirus detections in the EU call for continued strong surveillance and high vaccination coverage rates Following the recent detections of several wastewater samples positive for poliovirus in three EU countries between September and November 2024, ECDC urges all relevant stakeholders to remain vigilant...

#JustPublished!
ECDC: wastewater #poliovirus detections in the EU call for continued strong surveillance and high vaccination coverage rates.

Read full statement: bit.ly/49fIyQ9
#Polio #cVDPV2

I may never follow anyone ever again…

Rise in measles cases in Bristol prompts call for vaccination Health bosses are urging people to receive the full vaccination dose to prevent further outbreak.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Efficient modelling of infectious diseases in wildlife: A case study of bovine tuberculosis in wild badgers Author summary Wild animals commonly harbour infectious diseases with risk of spillover to humans and livestock. We fitted an individual-level stochastic spatial meta-population model of bovine tuberc...

Efficient modelling of infectious diseases in wildlife: A case study of bovine tuberculosis in wild badgers journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Posit AI Blog: Introducing mall for R...and Python We are proud to introduce the {mall}. With {mall}, you can use a local LLM to run NLP operations across a data frame. (sentiment, summarization, translation, etc). {mall} has been simultaneusly rele...

Introducing the mall package for running multiple LLM predictions against a data frame in #RStats or #Python!

mall is inspired by the SQL AI functions offered by vendors such as Databricks and Snowflake.

Learn more in this blog post by @theotheredgar.bsky.social: blogs.rstudio.com/ai/posts/202...

Leaving Twitter? Here are some alternatives to checking an online Nazi bot sewer every 20 minutes | First Dog on the Moon Plant a tomato bush then lecture it on how it should grow tomatoes

The epitome of preaching to the converted.

Combined multiplex panel test results are a poor estimate of disease prevalence without adjustment for test error Author summary During analysis of pneumococcal incidence data obtained from serotype specific multiplex urine antigen testing, we identified that despite excellent test sensitivity and specificity, th...

Now out in PLoS computational biology doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Economic burden of Long Covid in the UK estimated to be >$20 billion per year from real cohort data
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...