Brilliant and inspiring talk by Shweta Bansal @bansallab.bsky.social at #Epidemics10 on contact patterns at the interface of data, modelling and public health — and even across species!
New paper! "Modelling the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 during the first 14 days of infection" - we use Approximate Bayesian Computation and the theory of stochastic boundary hitting to provide a possible explanation for infectious doses in challenge data.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Assuming that the aim of group brainstorming is idea generation and information transfer -- more often I've found that group brainstorming is just a vehicle for participants to chat on a technical topic and get to know each other's expertise?
We're hiring a modelling postdoc at PSI Oxford for two exciting projects: 1) modelling the early immune responses to Nipah vaccination, and 2) joining the PRESTO team working on immunobridging in vaccine evaluation studies.
tinyurl.com/5abbxrjh
Get in touch for more info! Deadline 4th August.
I think if I've done my fair share that's enough, I have no obligation to compensate for freeloaders (and certainly not to the extent of assuming all my co-authors will be freeloaders).
New preprint!
We use pooled Ct values from mosquito surveillance to estimate West Nile virus prevalence—without binarising the data.
Joint work with Ian Marchinton, Joseph R. Fauver & James Hay.
Check it out: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
I do number of submissions * 3 / mean number of co-authors on my submissions. If all my co-authors did number of submissions * 3, then collectively we have far exceeded the reviews required?
Please circulate to anyone interested: Senior Statistician role at UK Health Security Agency national Real-time Syndromic Surveillance Team. This would be a great job for any modellers or statisticians with an interest in surveillance.
www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Londo...
Important result from CDC research team: H5N1 flu virus from a dairy farm worker transmitted by direct contact in ferrets with 100% efficiency (6/6 animals infected) and by droplets/aerosols in ferrets, physically separated, with 50% efficiency (3/6 animals infected).
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June.
research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
Great opportunity to work on influenza virus-host factor interactions in a brand new lab at Imperial (led by a friend and collaborator, Carol Sheppard)
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
Come and work with us! Postdoctoral research job to look at methods for working with early pandemic "First Few X" datasets in resource-limited contexts. Please consider applying if of interest and circulate around your networks.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Interesting looking set of talks on 'What turns spillovers into epidemics?' w @jessmetcalf.bsky.social @danielstreicker.bsky.social @aineotoole.bsky.social @peacockflu.bsky.social @HouriyahTegally - 19th May www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-...
📢 New preprint!
We estimate the serial interval of scabies and characterise its transmission dynamics in the Netherlands over >10 yrs —offering new insights into the spread of a neglected but re-emerging disease. (1/4)
🔗 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
#IDSky #EpiSky #AcademicSky #NTD
Increased distrust of health system due to polarised beliefs?
New Preprint! There has been a lot of work on models coupling behaviour with disease dynamics, typically (and understandably) agnostic about the exact behaviour. Here we consider specifically testing and isolation, providing mathematical and numerical analyses.
arxiv.org/abs/2504.02488
I think part of the problem in that case is that performance management is underused in academia, in favour of just waiting out someone's contract and not renewing. Perhaps if formal performance management were done more effectively, frustrations would not spill out onto a more personal level.
I agree when it's a case of personality clash. More difficult cases I have witnessed have been when a junior colleague is underperforming, and senior colleagues stop offering opportunities in a way that could be perceived as unsuppportive.
...a “pointless, ill-advised move that will hurt U.S. science and pandemic readiness,” says Charles Rice, a Nobel Prize–winning virologist at Rockefeller University
www.science.org/content/arti...
The UK has announced a case of avian flu virus #H5N1 detected in a sheep (on a farm with infected birds). I think some of the significance of this (and the wider picture) is being missed in a lot of the reporting. So a short thread...
🧪 #IDsky
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Excited to share @joelrc.bsky.social 's new paper examining the factors underlying cell-to-cell heterogeneity in interferon induction during flu infection:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Fully-funded PhD opportunity in mathematical biology and applied mathematics with Pascal Buenzli and me at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Details at smb.org/Member-Forum... @smbmathbiology.bsky.social
I wrote and published a review for a new book “A stitch in line: mathematics and one-stitch Sashiko” by Katherine Seaton.
If you’d like to read it, Taylor & Francis gave me 50 free online copies of the article to share with friends and colleagues. Get one here:
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CUDBX...
The candidate will have the opportunity to analyse the behaviour of these models, and infer model parameters using Bayesian statistics. Data for existing antivirals and/or antivirals under development will be generated by collaborators at the WHO Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza.
We are advertising a PhD position! The project will develop mathematical models for influenza infection within the host, incorporating the effects of antiviral treatment. Domestic and international applicants welcome.
Excited to announce that registration for UK Maths Bio 2025 is open. We have an exciting list of confirmed speakers and are looking for more exciting talks and posters from the community. Please submit your abstract by 31 March 25.
ukmathbioconference.github.io
School closures?
Just out: PhD opportunity with Dr Marie Di Placido, Dr Stephen Dunham, Prof Munir Iqbal, Prof. Janet Daley and myself looking at how different livestock species make antibody responses to H5N1.
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
[Please share] We're hiring a postdoc in Mathematical Biology at The University of Melbourne! Come and work with us on a collaborative project looking at how to predict biological behaviour across multiple scales. Feel free to reach out, details are here: jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91913...
A huge thank you to Nefel Tellioglu, Jessica Stockdale, Julie Spencer, Wasiur Rahman Khuda Bukhsh, @joelcmiller.bsky.social and Cameron Zachreson for including me on this @matrix-inst.bsky.social project we just preprinted results from
t.co/9ioaiNWMQa 🤓
