Matt Keeling
@mattkeeling.bsky.social
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Academic, Epidemiologist, Mathematician, Runner
IGPP (Institute for Global Pandemic Planning) Warwick is now advertising for fully-funded PhD students. Happy to chat to anyone that is interested.
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FindAPhD : PhD in Mathematical Epidemiology, Public Health or Behavioural Science (Pandemic Planning) at University of Warwick
Apply for a PhD: PhD in Mathematical Epidemiology, Public Health or Behavioural Science (Pandemic Planning) at University of Warwick
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about 1 year ago
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Michael Plank
about 1 year ago
Good update on the bird flu situation ttps://www.sciencenews.org/article/bird-flu-avian-flu-h5n1-virus
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What bird flu experts are watching for in 2025
Since early 2024, the U.S. has logged 66 human cases of H5N1. Scientists are keeping a watchful eye on the virus’s spread as we enter a new year.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bird-flu-avian-flu-h5n1-virus
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Fantastic paper by SBIDER member Yulia Timofeeva - showing that diversity in neurotransmitter response is governed by just a few key proteins.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Minimal presynaptic protein machinery governing diverse kinetics of calcium-evoked neurotransmitter release - Nature Communications
The efficiency and kinetics of neurotransmitter release are tightly regulated by calcium. Here, the authors explore how Synaptotagmin isoforms 1 and 7 work together to regulate this process, enabling ...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54960-1
about 1 year ago
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I found this article an excellent summary of the current situation with pandemic-planning. Many have forgotten how bad COVID-19 was and how much worst a future pandemic could be. There seems to be a collected desire to pretend the SARS-2-CoV pandemic never happened.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
Five years after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced, scientists reflect and look ahead to the next threat
https://www.science.org/content/article/covid-5-years-later-learning-pandemic-many-are-forgetting?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_content=alert&utm_campaign=SCIeToc&et_rid=35359116&et_cid=5481552
about 1 year ago
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Massive congratulations to Rosemary Collier, Gavin Perkins and Siobhan Quenby (all at Warwick University) for their well-deserved awards in the 2025 New Year’s Honours list.
about 1 year ago
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Rosa Ritunnano
about 1 year ago
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
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Yet more proof of how carefully vaccines are scrutinised and regulated, unfortunately I expect it will be used to support the anti-vaccine propaganda.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
about 1 year ago
Vaccine exemptions in Michigan have nearly doubled since 2020, increasing from 3.2% to 6.2% in 2023. Cases of whooping cough in Michigan are currently higher than they’ve been for 20 years. This is what happens when vaccine misinformation flourishes.
www.bridgemi.com/michigan-hea...
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Whooping cough cases skyrocket in Michigan, as vaccinations decline | Bridge Michigan
A potentially deadly disease in infants, whooping cough — pertussis — has exploded in Michigan this year, in part because of decreased vaccination rates.
https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/whooping-cough-cases-skyrocket-michigan-vaccinations-decline
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Two new papers from the SBIDER group: Bryon & Nigel, on tumour growth and circadian rhythms:
www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/12...
James & the team at KEMRI, on the spatial distribution on rhinovirus in Kenya:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Aperiodic Optimal Chronotherapy in Simple Compartment Tumour Growth Models Under Circadian Drug Toxicity Conditions
Cancer cells typically divide with weaker synchronisation with the circadian clock than normal cells, with the degree of decoupling increasing with tumour maturity. Chronotherapy exploits this loss of...
https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/12/22/3516
over 1 year ago
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Probably the scariest thing I've read recently:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The one reassurance is that "The bovine airway and mammary gland epithelium have predominantly avian-type receptors", so there should not be strong evolutionary pressures while H5N1 is in cattle.
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A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors
In 2024, several human infections with highly pathogenic clade 2.3.4.4b bovine influenza H5N1 viruses in the United States raised concerns about their capability for bovine-to-human or even human-to-h...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adt0180
over 1 year ago
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Ben Barr
over 1 year ago
We have 4 post-doctoral positions, working with linked data to improve public health and health services with
www.liverpool.ac.uk/population-h...
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www.liverpool.ac.uk/civic-health...
#episky
#econsky
#AcademicSky
@profbuchan.bsky.social
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Health Inequalities Policy Research Group (HIP-R) | Institute of Population Health | University of Liverpool xlinkedinUniversity of Liverpool on FacebookLivUni on InstagramLivUni on XLivUni on ...
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/population-health/research/groups/health-inequalities-policy/
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Truly brilliant news, and a fantastic example of vaccination in action.
add a skeleton here at some point
over 1 year ago
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I still can't work out why it seems to take weeks to go from a pre-print to the submitted version. Surely there's a better way. (Although I'm certainly not the first to say this).
over 1 year ago
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Really pleased to have finally submitted the work on Cost-Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines to a journal.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
This work helped to underpin the JCVI decision on vaccination for 2025.
www.gov.uk/government/p...
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JCVI statement on COVID-19 vaccination in 2025 and spring 2026
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/covid-19-vaccination-in-2025-and-spring-2026-jcvi-advice/jcvi-statement-on-covid-19-vaccination-in-2025-and-spring-2026
over 1 year ago
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Hi All. Inspired by the brilliant day at the Isaac Newton Institute on Thursday (21st Nov) about communicating mathematics - I'm going to force myself to post something at least every week.
over 1 year ago
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