After deciding to collect acoustic data from sundown to sunrise, I have now unlocked a new fear:
- Write "from dusk til dawn" somewhere in the write-up that isn't a catchline for a title.
I'm having a great amount of fun figuring out the mathematical notation of my models. The maths bit really is my favourite part of outbreak investigation.
Just as I was ready to crash out over the size of my To-Do list, I managed the following in 3 days:
- finish and evaluate two separate preliminary models and plot the outcomes
- complete the newest drafts of survey and associated ethics application
- collect all data from the field tests
After joining BES in October last year, this is a welcome crossover:
I'm definitely hyped for the next BES hackathon now.
🚨New preprint out @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social (under review elsewhere!) 🧵
No global collapse of food webs across the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Alongside every other horrible thing they're doing, this administration is going to diminish so many bright minds to the detriment of all grad schools in the country.
Don't miss the chance to submit an abstract to the IEA European Congress of Epidemiology 2026 / 70th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health!
Deadline: 02 Mar 2026 at 23:59 GMT
Submission website: tinyurl.com/ssmeuroepi2026
Location: London, UK
Dates: 09-11 Sep 2026
Our new paper is now out on "Temperature-sensitive incubation, transmissibility and risk of Aedes albopictus-borne chikungunya virus in Europe". Chikungunya has a lower thermal threshold for transmission than previously thought, carrying a higher risk of outbreaks across Europe.
lnkd.in/g79PzgqJ
Trying to detach all of the spatial layers I downloaded to resample is taking just long enough that I can read whole papers while they're plotting. 🫠
Thank you! This looks like a great start.
The @seabbs.bsky.social Juniper seminar has me conviced. I'm finally learning Julia and actually using it for my modelling approaches. Any learning resources #EpiSky & #MathSky ?
PhD position (London, UK)
Real-time modelling of infectious disease outbreaks.
with @sbfnk.bsky.social @anne-cori.bsky.social @seabbs.bsky.social
at @epiforecasts.io @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2440
Off to redo two weeks of spatial data processing, because the temp files corrupted 😮💨
Sometimes, I run on what feels like German logic:
- If I'm late, it's rude and my meeting will be cancelled.
- If I'm early and wait outside until the meeting is officially supposed to start, either I get noticed and the meeting starts early, or I don't get noticed and I'm perfectly on time.
they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
The Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) is seeking a scientist in wildlife biology, ecology, or a closely related discipline, with a focus on movement ecology, spatial data analysis, and/or scavenger and carnivore systems.
Read and apply here: tinyurl.com/mr3x7uwk
I might or might not have tried to load all of openrivers into ArcGIS onto a 24Gb Ram computer without cropping to my area of interest and it might or might not have crashed the whole system.
Brilliant talk by Dr Johannes De Groeve today, perfectly timed to the time I was working on my spatial analysis. I'll definitely be keeping TABS on the package.
Spatial data preparation is simultaneously some of the most fun and some of the most boring work I've ever done.
New PhD Opportunity. We are advertising for a modeller to model the impacts of mosquito-borne disease in the Americas. The project is funded by The Leverhulme Trust via University of Glasgow, and supervised by Christina Cobbold, Dom Brass and myself. Deadline 6th March 2026.
t.ly/Z-tqt
Today, I found a place that had fries with friends sauce and then I got a coffee from Leonidas. I think it's safe to say that I sometimes do miss Belgium.
An absolute highlight of collecting occurrence data from the literature has been to add location tags to all of the coordinates and postcodes while finding out a bunch of town names in the UK.
As someone who has a whole Genshin Impact gaming channel, having to cite Escofier and Escoufier in a methods section without misspelling them as Escoffier is going to be interesting.
Found out today:
I read and processed 161 papers during my lit review.
Hard agree with the writer who got reminded of Black Mirror. I had to chuckle a little though, when it said the first app is for straight people. It probably would have gotten to complicated to code to have it actually reflect real human interaction.
Congratulations! Hope you have a great time
The lawyer in the rom com I'm watching with my mum just cited a law in courst that I cited in my lit review.
1. I found a solution to the citation by going into the Oxford standards of law citations and just using misc for the bibitem in my LaTeX. Reading laws is definitely one of the more tedious parts of my research though.
2. Tbf, it was published in 1987 conference proceedings.
Questions I have asked myself today, rabies research edition:
- How do I bibtex cite the UK government?
- Why is this list of rabies cases missing that 1985 lethal spillover from C. nilsonii to a bat worker that was followed by researchers not finding a single seropositive bat?
