IDDconf 2025 is next week! Very exciting! Follow us on @iddconf.bsky.social where I will post updates on the neat infectious disease dynamics research presented!

The UKHSA and @lshtm.bsky.social’s UK Public Health Rapid Support Team worked with the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) to deliver a 3-day training event in Trinidad, expanding regional public health emergency response capacity in the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA).

Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities

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.

Great to see our work on the value of better influenza vaccines published in Plos Med today. Led by the amazingly talented @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social, together with @rozeggo.bsky.social, @markjit.bsky.social and other colleagues @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social and elsewhere. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Charlotte Rae telling us about the benefits of and methods to implement the 4 day working week.

Very exciting! Michael is a star!

Hurray! Come join a fun infectious disease modelling conference near Lake Windermere!

The amount of money that @who.int is asking for an entire year in its already reduced budget, $2.1 billion, is what the world spends on its military every 8 hours, @drtedros.who.int says in his opening remarks at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. #globalhealth #IDsky

I know that the US has seen worse life expectancy trends than other high income countries in recent years, but I hadn't realised things were so bad across all ages - particularly people of working age. US 20-59 year olds are dying at several times the rate of their peers, and it's getting worse.

This is neat! And the music in the linked youtube video is by my cousin. 😀 (which I did not know when I clicked it!)

The impact of the PEPFAR funding freeze on HIV deaths and infections: a mathematical modelling study of seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa The sudden cessation of #PEPFAR funding likely results in tens of thousands of #HIV deaths and new infections www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl... #MedSky

Given discussions at I had at #ESCMIDGlobal, it might be useful for new researchers to know how a journal editor screens submissions (obviously this is my approach and so it might differ for others).

So, to the infectious disease modellers: how are we feeling about Epidemics conference this year? (So sorry to US colleagues for what is happening. A true nightmare. )

MSCA Postdoc Fellowships - happy to hear from infectious disease epis/modellers who want to come to LSHTM. Eligibility: "researchers of any nationality who wish to engage in R&I projects by...coming to Europe from any country in the world" marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p...

2025 here we come! iddconf.org IDDconf will be September 2-4 2025 in Ambleside. Ticket info coming soon.

The richest Americans have survival rates similar to the poorest in northern/western Europe. That’s the striking finding from a new study tracking 74,000 adults (50–85 yrs) in the US & 16 European countries (2010–2022). #MedSky 🧪 www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Great to be able to finally get this work out, closing out my time with @lshtm-tbmod.bsky.social

Exciting 2 year postdoc position with Ed Parker at LSHTM working on vaccines in EHR: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Closes April 7. Visa eligible.

🚀 #rstats package of the week {finalsize} Looking for an open-source solution to calculate the final size of a SIR epidemic? #finalsize is part of the #EpiverseTRACE ecosystem, designed to support epidemiologists and public health professionals in tackling infectious disease challenges. 🧵 (1/5)

There are numerous reasons why Trump and his government’s pervasive blathering about turning Canada into the “51st state” shouldn’t be dismissed as a “Madman Theory”-negotiating tactic, or as performative MAGA trolling. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

PhD studentship, deadline March 7. Incorporating ethnicity into mathematical models of respiratory virus transmission iddjobs.org/jobs/incorpo... Supervised by me and Neil Ferguson (Imperial). Home fees only (sorry).

Did not know where this was going, but I liked it. 👏 👏

When it comes to epidemic analysis software, there's documentation and there's documentation... Having talked with hundreds of learners and practitioners as part of the Epiverse initiative in recent years, it's clear it's not enough to just publish code - or even just document what functions do.

British Scientists! The Royal Society is one of our great institutions, Fellowship of which is regarded as one of the highest honours. Please sign this to encourage them to revoke Elon Musk's fellowship; he is antithetical to our values. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

PhD position with me and Neil Ferguson (Imperial) starting in September. March 7 deadline. Home fees only (unfortunately). Looking for an enthusiastic student looking to learn new things. Please get in touch for more info or an informal conversation.

Read this article, looked up the person, and his earliest papers were co-authored with my Mum. Before the wrangling lizards stuff. Small world!

Starlings

The advert is now live here: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/EPH-EPED-202... Until August 2027 we would be working on data analysis and modelling to try and untangle the dynamics of #AMR by age and sex exploring electronic health records 🧫📑👩‍💻. Get in touch if any questions!

🦠🧪 Interview with virologist Wendy Barclay, head of the infectious disease department at Imperial College London. “on the risk of humans contracting bird flu, how people would cope with new lockdowns and being asked to pour the tea because she is a woman” (via Jeremy Farrar at X)

The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here. HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻 archive.org/details/2025...

Senior post at LSHTM closes in 2 days (31st Jan). Do apply if you want to lead/join a department focussed on infectious disease epi and dynamics. Unrelated: the UK doesn’t have executive orders.

Please spread the word - a funded (home fees) DPhil (PhD) studentship available in @oxfordstatistics.bsky.social Social optimisation of public-facing digital tools for health protection and trial frameworks for non-pharmaceutical interventions www.stats.ox.ac.uk/research-stu...

IDDjobs.org is for non-academic positions too - welcome jobs and opportunities from government or industry. We don’t advertise unpaid internships/volunteer roles, etc.

Latest post on my new book, why you might be interested in pre-ordering a copy: kucharski.substack.com/p/announcing...

Looking for a position - postdoc, PhD, faculty - in infectious disease dynamics (broadly defined)? Follow @iddjobs.bsky.social and check IDDjobs.org This is a community site started in 2017 for open positions in our wide and varied field. Add your jobs, look for jobs, share opportunities!

Ok! BSky handles should now properly auto-post from IDDjobs.org. Please add your handles when you add your jobs! Ones prior to this message won’t link properly (sorry). Shall I turn off X/Twitter?

Open Recruitment of a Full Professor and Head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology & Dynamics: jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Good research culture, friendly colleagues, inspiring public health leaders, great connections across epi & PH, & very dedicated students. Join!

Are you London ID trainee post-PhD & interested in an ACL. May be able to create posts in 2025. Opportunities in Syphilis & STIs (UK & Global), Group A Strep (Global), Leishmaniasis & NTDs. If interested get in touch. @gpollara.bsky.social @drneilstone.bsky.social @thushan-desilva.bsky.social

Join a supportive and focussed team as an Assistant Professor (fixed term, 4 years) using OpenSAFELY to model respiratory viruses and assess socioeconomic inequality. Closes Jan 12. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

“Women leave or consider leaving [faculty positions] because of workplace climate more often than work-life balance.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Upgrade your #causalinference arsenal. A revision of our book "Causal Inference: What If" is available at miguelhernan.org/whatifbook Thanks to everyone who suggested improvements, reported typos, and proposed new citations and material. Enjoy the #WhatIfBook plus code and data. Also, it's free.

Postdoc position in EHR research on infections and socioeconomic and ethnic inequalities in England, using OpenSAFELY jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... 4 year post with me & working with @ruthcostelloepi.bsky.social, Daniel Grint + many other collaborators. Join a supportive & enthusiastic team!

The Institut Pasteur is recruiting group leaders! Pasteur is an absolute incredible environment to start your lab. Surrounded by so many great scientists, in the beautiful city of Paris. Come eat 🥐 and conduct awesome science. Contact me if you want info ! research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...

Finishing 2024 on a high note: delighted to be appointed Professor at LSHTM. Thanks to many many people for support & advice along the way. 🙏 Looking forward to more exciting research, collaborations with amazing scientists, work with my fantastic team & PPIE colleagues. Exciting times ahead! 🎉

Update to the CMMID at LSHTM starter pack! go.bsky.app/625gwoG

There are few better feelings than when former students go off and do great things, and then write to you and let you know about them. Students: never wonder if you should get in touch with a former teacher or supervisor to share this kind of thing. It is one of the purest rewards there is. /1

A comment on the taste of water: - If you are a cat, the most delicious is a scraggy old garden puddle. The quality is inversely proportional to the amount your owner has spent on a fountain. - If you are a baby, water sucked from a facecloth that someone is trying to clean you with is god tier.

A thread🧵 on application systems for postdoc jobs in the UK (applies to my university, but I've seen others and they're similar). I have seen (too many times) good applicants who don't seem to understand how recruitment is done on our side - not their fault! it's a privilege! - so here's how