1/❓ Are you passionate about tackling some of the world’s most pressing #PublicHealth challenges? 🚨 Funded DPhil opportunity at University of Oxford & @hpruezi.bsky.social #PhD #AcademicJobs [Funding conditions note: Only applications from individuals eligible for home (UK) fees can be considered]

🦆 High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza – WOAH Sit Rep 74 #IDSky #IDEpi 🧪 🗓️ Covers Aug 2025 📊 Outbreaks reported in Africa, Americas, Asia & Europe: 12 in poultry; 51 in non-poultry birds & mammals. ▶️ Reported total of 228,089 poultry birds died or culled in Aug 2025 🔗: www.woah.org/app/uploads/...

We're advertising a PhD position! 😎 Modelling the epidemiological impact of HIV prophylaxis on a backdrop of social, cultural, and behavioural complexity www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

1/ 🚨 Two fully funded #PhD studentships for UK students ❓ Are you passionate about making a difference for people’s health and wellbeing? Would you like to learn cutting edge data science skills for real impact? 🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/two-... #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs #PublicHealth

🐦 GW4 MRC funded PhD position on Modelling and communicating Avian Influenza spillover at the human-wild bird interface 🐦 Interdisciplinary One Health project! Infection histories, contacts and behavioural science. @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social @3113n.bsky.social @mtwhite.bsky.social, Louise Smith

Lessons for me: 1. none of us are right about everything 2. stay humble, you may be wrong 2a. history will be kinder to you if you acknowledge you were wrong (as Pettenkofer ultimately did…very late in his life) 3. the mistakes you make are part of your story, but they don’t define you

1/ Seasonal influenza summary from latest @ukhsa.bsky.social surveillance report. #IDSky #EpiSky 🧪 🗓️ Based on data up to week 36 2025 (01- 07 Sep 2025) 📊 Seasonal influenza continues to circulate at baseline levels in England Report 🔗: www.gov.uk/government/s...

Want a large language model that never hallucinates? Easy: just get it to always print “I don’t know”, regardless of the input. If you find this solution is a bit unsatisfying, you’re not alone. But it hits on a crucial trade-off with learning machines and decision-making more generally. New post:

1/ 📣 Preprint news: “Divergent antibody-mediated population immunity to H5, H7 and H9 subtype potential pandemic influenza viruses” #IDSky 🧪 👥 A privilege to be involved in this work led by Craig Thompson & as a PhD co-supervisor of Reanna Gregory. 🔗 to the study on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social 👇

A new review of studies. Nothing new to prove this route is a significant one, it one at all. But Mike nicely describes early on in his piece below why it's a very hard thing to prove.

We're looking forward to taking part in this year's British Science Festival (@britsciassoc.bsky.social) this Sun 14th Sept at The Museum of Liverpool, with colleagues from @livuniengagehls.bsky.social. Join us from 11:30, all events are free! Find out more britishsciencefestival.org/event/nature...

🎤 Talks by academics, inventors and writers! 🍄 Art installations! 🛼 Performances across the city! 🪨 British Science Festival X Liverpool Biennale! 👩🏽‍🔬 Meet the scientists! Five FREE things to do at the British Science Festival this week! #BSF25 #Liverpool www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/wha...

📣 Professor Sarah Rodgers Inaugural Lecture on 02 Oct 2025 🏙️ "Transforming Our Cities From the Ground Up Connecting the dots between communities, systems & data" 🔗: www.ticketsource.co.uk/university-o... 👤 www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/sarah... ⬇️ View past @livuni-iph.bsky.social inaugural lectures

49 farm outbreaks w <2000 infected wild birds detected in Denmark, 2020–2024. Constant hot spot of HPAIV spillover risk in southern Zealand. precision of 78%. Pop changes of Barnacle Geese important. 👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.pr...

My first paper got published a couple of weeks ago! It's part of my PhD work on modelling Integrated Pest Management adoption. I've presented the work at a few conferences this summer; EFPP2025, a BES Symposium, BMC-BAMC2025 and most recently IDDconf 2025. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013352

1/ One of the many interesting talks @iddconf.bsky.social! Remarked on seminal papers for development of infectious disease modelling theory: "An application of the theory of probabilities to the study of a priori pathometry" And huge thanks to the organisers & attendees for another great event 👏

Earlier this year, @rcpath.bsky.social kindly awarded me a research medal. They interviewed me on a broad range of topics, including my flu research, my career, the impact of COVID-19, and my thoughts on where the area is heading. Link: www.rcpath.org/discover-pat...

🧪 Engaging science continued on the second day of IDDconf 2025! @iddconf.bsky.social #IDsky #IDepi 🗣️ Today’s contributions included a talk by PhD student Fateen Yasir on “The challenges of modelling contemporary measles dynamics” 🔗 Fateen’s webpage: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/math...

1/ Great set of talks & posters on the first day of IDDconf 2025. Also with representation across career stages. #IDsky #IDepi 🧪 3️⃣ I share info on three contributions that I have the privilege to collaborate on

1/ 🚨 #JobOffer Two fixed term, Senior Executive Officer (PostDoc equivalent) Mathematical Modeller / Research Software Engineer positions at UKHSA. 🗓️ Appointment term: Fixed-term, available until Mar 2028 ⏳ Application deadline: 23:59 BST, Wed 10 Sep 2025 #AcademicJobs #ResearchJobs #PublicHealth

This new analysis of the spread of France's 1789 Great Fear in Nature is a very nice dataset (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), but a few things look off with the epidemiological modelling... 1/

📰 DEFRA avian influenza update on 31 Aug 2025 #IDEpi #OneHealth 🧪 🐔 HPAI H5N1 confirmed in poultry at a premises near Exminster, Devon. 📊 78 confirmed HPAI H5N1 cases in poultry & other captive birds in UK from 04 Nov 2024. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England: 69 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: 3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales: 2 🇬🇧 Northern Ireland: 4

📰 A free chickenpox vaccination will be offered for first time to children across England on the NHS from January 2026. 🔗 press release: www.gov.uk/government/n... 🔗 Scientists comments to @smclondon.bsky.social: www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react... #IDSky #EpiSky #PublicHealth 🧪

📰 DEFRA avian influenza update on 28 Aug 2025 #IDEpi #OneHealth 🧪 🐦 HPAI H5N1 confirmed in other captive birds at premises near Evercreech, Somerset. 📊 77 confirmed HPAI H5N1 cases in poultry & other captive birds in UK from 04 Nov 2024. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England: 68 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: 3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales: 2 🇬🇧 Northern Ireland: 4

1/ 🎧 New 'Health Data Decoded' episode! 🎧 #SciComm #DataScience ❓ How do health economists contribute to interdisciplinary research projects? 👥 Our guests: Liz Camacho & Will Whittaker, Senior Lecturers in Health Economics at UoL. 📹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0AN... 🔗 episode on Spotify👇

1/ Seasonal influenza summary from latest @ukhsa.bsky.social surveillance report 🗓️ Based on data up to week 34 2025 (18- 24 Aug 2025) 📊 Seasonal influenza activity in England at baseline levels, as is typical at this part of the calendar year #IDSky #EpiSky 🧪 Report 🔗: www.gov.uk/government/s...

Postdoc (anywhere in the UK) Modelling traumatic events and mass injury syndromic surveillance with Thomas Finnie at UKHSA More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2352

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!

Day 1 schedule. Reminder: talks are chosen at random from submitted titles using a RNG, and we have a 44% F:M ratio. All posters are accepted.

New Preprint! Co-led with Nicolas Banholzer *The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools* on MedRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2025... (YET TO BE PEER REVIEWED)

1/ 📰 Liverpool unveils prototype low-cost personal air pollution monitor for Africa 💨 Aim to reduce the burden of household air pollution 🇨🇲 Prototype launched at Central Africa LPG Expo in Cameroon 👥 Collaboration including PHPS colleague Prof Dan Pope #Science #Research #PublicHealth

❓ How effective may Integrated Pest Management controls be against Septoria (a damaging disease on UK winter wheat)? 📄 Our modelling study is now published in PLOS Computational Biology @plos.org 🔗: doi.org/10.1371/jour... 👇 For more on the study see a thread associated with an earlier preprint.

New pre-print looking at social contacts and mixing by age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status in the UK. We found that contacts have decreased since before COVID, but are up from figures found in 2022. We also show what this means for infectious disease dynamics in a novel pathogen outbreak 👇

AFD BLog `UK Defra: Heightened Avian Influenza Risk Warning Issued to Bird Keepers and Gamebird Rearers' #H5N1 afludiary.blogspot.com/2025/08/uk-d...

We’re laying the foundations for a shared digital future in the Liverpool City Region 🌍✨ Be part of the journey — what datasets would you like to see on the Liverpool City Region Data Commons? #DigitalCommons #LiverpoolCityRegion #DataInnovation

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:

Excited to welcome colleagues to TPI Scientific Meeting 2025 in Liverpool this October - a chance to share research, build collaborations & advance pandemic preparedness. Submit abstracts or book your place: www.thepandemicinstitute.org/collaborate/... #GlobalHealth

My thoughts on what can be helpful advice for new Undergraduate students based on a little experience.

1/ Seasonal influenza summary from latest @ukhsa.bsky.social surveillance report 🗓️ Based on data up to week 32 2025 (04-10 Aug 2025) 📊 Seasonal influenza activity in England at baseline levels, as is typical at this part of the calendar year #IDSky #EpiSky 🧪 Report 🔗: www.gov.uk/government/s...

🦟 Chikungunya is a serious global health concern with a sizeable outbreak unfolding in Guangdong province, China. 🔗 Scientists comment provided to @smclondon.bsky.social: lnkd.in/dZgS5Y-q 🔗 World Health Organization Chikungunya fact sheet: lnkd.in/dcknbZ96 ❓ Q&A by @runningmadprof.bsky.social 👇

🦆 High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza – WOAH Sit Rep 73 #IDSky #IDEpi 🧪 🗓️ Covers July 2025 📊 Outbreaks reported in Africa, Americas, Asia & Europe: 10 in poultry; 38 in non-poultry birds & mammals. ▶️ Reported total of 12,410 poultry birds died or culled in Jul 2025 🔗: www.woah.org/app/uploads/...

📰 DEFRA avian influenza update on 08 Aug 2025 #IDEpi #OneHealth 🧪 🐔 HPAI H5N1 confirmed in commercial poultry at two premises in Devon 📊 76 confirmed HPAI H5N1 cases in poultry & other captive birds in UK from 04 Nov 2024. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England: 67 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: 3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales: 2 🇬🇧 Northern Ireland: 4

📰 DEFRA avian influenza update on 06 Aug 2025 #IDEpi #OneHealth 🧪 🐔 HPAI H5N1 confirmed in commercial poultry at premises near Attleborough, Norfolk. 📊 74 confirmed HPAI H5N1 cases in poultry & other captive birds in UK from 04 Nov 2024. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England: 65 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: 3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales: 2 🇬🇧 Northern Ireland: 4

Cambodia has confirmed its 15th human case of #H5N1 in 2025. That brings the year’s total to 15 cases and 7 deaths (CFR: 46.6%). Since 2005: 87 cases, 50 deaths (CFR: 57.5%). 🧪🧬🥼🦠🔬😷🐓💉 #AvianInfluenza #Zoonoses #BirdFlu #Spillover

🧪 My Tenure Track Fellow in Health Protection Data Science role at the University of Liverpool is supported by The Pandemic Institute (TPI)! 🔗 to blog about my TPI strategic post: www.thepandemicinstitute.org/news/meet-ou...

#USDA reports another #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herd in California, the 771st such detection in the state. The cumulative national total of detected/confirmed herds is 1,078 in 17 states. The true number of infected herds? Who knows? www.aphis.usda.gov/livestock-po...

Closing date tomorrow!

1/ 📰 DEFRA avian influenza updates 30 Jul-01 Aug 2025 #IDEpi #OneHealth 🧪 🦠 Four confirmations of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) reported 📊 74 confirmed cases of HPAI H5N1 in poultry & other captive birds in UK from 04 Nov 2024 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England: 65 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: 3 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales: 2 🇬🇧 Northern Ireland: 4

1/ Seasonal influenza summary from latest @ukhsa.bsky.social surveillance report 🗓️ Based on data up to week 30 2025 (21-27 Jul 2025) 📊 Seasonal influenza activity in England at baseline levels, as is typical at this part of the calendar year #IDSky #EpiSky 🧪 Report 🔗: www.gov.uk/government/s...

🎧 New 'Health Data Decoded' episode! 🎧 #SciComm #DataScience #PublicHealth ❓ How have the public been contributing to research projects in health data science? 👤 Discussed with Emily Rempel, a Research Fellow in Public Participation and Data Practices! 📹 YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1gs...