Richard Tice, March 2025: "I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"

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It's shameful that this headline is appearing in 2025, primarily a result of grotesque global inequalities.

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Other (Stellenbosch, South Africa) SACEMA Measles and Polio Policy Modelling Fellowships 2026 at Stellenbosch University More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2394

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PhD position (Toronto, Canada) Modeling infectious disease dynamics + evolution (multiple projects) with @alisonhill.bsky.social at @utoronto.ca More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2396

Postdoc (Toronto, Canada) Conduct advanced research in comparative evolutionary genomics, phylodynamic, phylogeographic, and etc. at Public Health Ontario More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2397

Postdoc (Hangzhou, China) Integrating genomic epidemiology with infectious disease modeling, modeling and statistical analysis of household cohort data, and RSV transmission modeling with @sunkaiyuan.bsky.social at Westlake University More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2399

PhD position (Oxford, UK) HPRU-funded studentship (covers UK/home fees) in statistical epidemiology with @christldonnelly.bsky.social @christophraser.bsky.social at @oxfordstatistics.bsky.social More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2393

PhD position (Athens GA, USA) Disease ecology modeling for an NIH funded, multi-institution project studying bat-virus dynamics. with @andrew-w-park at University of Georgia More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2395

PhD position (Cambridge, UK) Modelling fungicide resistance dynamics for monocyclic plant pathogens with @nikcunniffe.bsky.social at University of Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2400

PhD position (Cambridge, UK) Modelling pest and pathogen entry and spread pathways to enhance the UK Plant Health Risk Register with @nikcunniffe.bsky.social at University of Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2401

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Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term www.gov.uk/government/p...

I remember Meera Syal saying on a tv chat show about twenty bleeding years ago about the lack of representation of poc on tv particularly in advertising. It’s taken this long to finally see a fair balance so that stupid women and others like her should just shut the fuck up.

Going to football in the 1980s was routinely terrifying inside and outside the stadium. Violence and racism were absolutely endemic in Brum and across the country. What's changed since then is that it's got so much safer. Jenrick is a liar. No-one who knew a thing about it would say what he said.

Here's the relevant chart from the above report. It's rare to see such a clear, consistent slope in any social trend. That segregation is decreasing is perhaps the best evidence, least controversial social fact of modern Britain

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🔬 New to serological data? You’re not alone When I first saw spreadsheets full of columns labelled ELISA_OD, PRNT50, HI_titre, and PVNT_ID50, I had no idea what they really meant. That confusion inspired me to write a new blog post, “A Dummy’s Guide to Serological Assays” 👉 tinyurl.com/586dsy77

New CMO report out today on health trends and variation in England. My team delivered this using a RAP developed in R, which made a nice change from lots of people running around putting numbers into excel then pasting into powerpoint... Was not without challenges though! www.gov.uk/government/p...

Violent crime plunges 13% in London. In 2024, London had 1.2 homicides per 100,000 residents - lower than New York at 4.0 and Toronto at 1.7. Homicides in London are also lower compared to most north European cities such as Berlin (3.4), Brussels (3.2), Paris (1.4), and Copenhagen (1.5)

“Fast change, little spread” The University of Oxford’s Prof Katrina Lythgoe and Dr. Mahan Ghafari unpack ONS-CIS data on 576 persistent infections, rapid within-host evolution, and rare transmission after 1 month. #IDsky #MEDsky Read our Q&A: www.contagionlive.com/view/persist...

If you spend just 5 mins researching Nigel Farage's partner Laure Ferrari you will suddenly see clearly how much the media chooses to ignore the big stories for political gain. For a start no one seems to be asking where an unemployed former waitress found £900k to buy a house outright in Clacton

2 Junior Experts (Stockholm, Sweden) Support the design, development and application of models to address public health questions with ECDC's biostatistics and mathematical modelling team at ECDC/Randstad More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2354

Increasingly I feel that what once was considered the political mainstream in the U.K. has completely lost its moral compass. When did the question about concentration camps and mass deportations become one of practical feasibility?

2 x Postdocs (Berkeley, CA, USA) Infectious-disease modelling & phylodynamics for pandemic preparedness with ‪@charleswhittaker.bsky.social‬ at @petal-team.bsky.social‬ @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social‬ ‪@berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social‬ More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2351

PhD position (London, UK) Health inequalities in infectious disease transmission in the UK with @rozeggo.bsky.social Neil Ferguson at @cmmid_lshtm.bsky.social @LSHTM.bsky.social Imperial College London More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2343

PhD position for January start with me and Neil Ferguson, doing some neat model development for ethnicity-stratified transmission models. Please get in touch with any questions. Home fees (UK) only unfortunately.

Got a number in mind? A new pre-print by @lshtm.bsky.social colleagues surveyed 13,000 participants, and found it's about 9 per day in the current era. It also looks at how social mixing varies with age, ethnicity and social economic status. Link to paper:

Tuesday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

The elimination of an infectious disease is always a cause for celebration. Kenya has eliminated sleeping sickness as a public health problem. This the direct result of the years of work and the dedicated efforts of real life public health heroes. www.who.int/news/item/08...

Thinking back to a year ago when I got to re-read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by actual fjords. The book feels very, very relevant. So much of the plot and the humor is dealing with people’s deep need to understand themselves and the absolute absurdity of trying to farm that out to computers

NEW: Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff in Moscow on August 6, but concrete results from the meeting remain unclear.🧵(1/8) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar080625 Other Key Takeaways ⬇️

Postdoc (Exeter, UK) 5-year position on the epidemiology of bovine tuberculosis in wild badgers. with Trevelyan McKinley, Dave Hodgson at University of Exeter More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2342

Given the first 5mins I would taken 1-0 after 20 #SWEENG

‘MMR vaccination uptake rate for children by the age of five in Liverpool is just 73% ... The World Health Organisation says a threshold of 95% is needed to achieve herd immunity’ Please protect child by allowing them to be vaccinated. If you are worried, talk to your doctor. Misinformation kills.

I think we’ve had enough of exports

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ENT surgeon here. I don’t really ever want to pick up broken pieces of glass from your mouth, throat or oesophagus. Don’t do this. #ENT #Surgeon #surgery #ENTsurgery #ENTsecrets

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IDDconf 2025 registration is open! Information and sign up at IDDconf.org Looking forward to it already!

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Having a bit of a reminisce today. Five years ago an email arrived that changed my life - a request to produce a paper on what we knew about the environmental transmission of covid-19 for the UK SAGE committee. 1/