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I was recently asked to comment on superspreading for a BBC article. Little did I know, my quote would become the title! www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Join us on Tuesday at the Data Science Lab 🧪 We are joined by @sara-altman.bsky.social, who will show us how to explore and analyze data using AI assistants in #RStats or #Python! Feb 3 @ 12 pm ET: pos.it/dslab

It took me an embarrassingly long time to understand why this was called the warehouse. A really cool project with I think some great potential for making packages more discoverable/ surfacing user feedback.

I’ve been thinking about how to find R packages by functionality when you don’t already know the package name. So over the holidays, Claude Code and I built The Warehouse: a functionality-first R package directory that helps you find packages by what they do. rwarehouse.netlify.app #rstats

This is in 12 minutes!! Come see how to structure your R projects so that Future You doesn't hate Past You 😂 #rstats #databs Also, be nice to me, my eye is all messed up and I can't see well today 🙈 See you there!!

So excited to hear from @kylieainslie.bsky.social about Project Folder Structures in #RStats at the Data Science Lab, happening today at 12 pm ET! Come join us if the situation below feels familiar to you... pos.it/dslab

Join me, @libbyheeren.bsky.social, and @ivelasq3.bsky.social for @posit.co's Data Science Lab @ 12PM ET TODAY! I'll be walking through how I use the R package structure to work more efficiently and the tools I use to do it! events.zoom.us/ev/ApTgbXfay... #rstats #databs

Leon looking ever so chic 🧣

Can you see me? 🐾 🐶 #dogsofbluesky

All of the tools created as part of the @ec.europa.eu funded ESCAPE project on pandemic preparedness in one place (including {mitey}) 😁 www.escapepandemics.com/digitaltoolkit #EpiSky #IDSky #rstats #AcademicSky

rainbowR has grown massively over the last three years - we're now over 250 members. We're getting to be a well-established community, full of lovely, friendly LGBTQ+ folks, who enjoy hanging out and sharing our love of R. If that sounds like you, join us! rainbowr.org/join

Our paper is out in @natcomms.nature.com 🧵 We estimated key epidemiological parameters for scabies, a disease affecting 400M people globally that's been rising across Europe. These are the first estimates of serial interval, R0 and Rt. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #AcademicSky #EpiSky #IDSky

Non academic (Bilthoven / Utrecht, the Netherlands) Senior infectious disease modeller to lead and coordinate complex modelling projects with Jacco Wallinga at RIVM More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2380

Enjoying spring in Melbourne 🇦🇺

That's a wrap on my first #TidyDevDay, complete with ringing the gong! I was intimidated going into it, but everyone was super supportive. I had a great time and learned a lot. Thanks to all the folks @posit.co for organizing, especially @jennybryan.bsky.social - everyone's favorite Git therapist 😂

One week to go until #positconf2025! Tired of scattered analysis files and "which version is final?" anxiety? I'll be speaking about how R package structure can enhance ANY data project. A simple framework for data scientists that turns messy folders into transparent, reproducible work. #RStats

🎉 Excited to announce that {mitey} is now on CRAN (my very first CRAN submission)! 📦 A lightweight #rstats package for estimating infectious disease parameters: ✅ Serial intervals ✅ Time-varying case reproduction numbers ✅ Synthetic epidemic generation cran.r-project.org/package=mitey

Instead of doing what I should be doing, I procrastinated by updating the "About" page of my website with a scrollytelling career timeline, some fun stats, and a card grid of hobbies! It's amazing what you can do with @quarto.org! kylieainslie.github.io/about.html #rstats #AcademicSky

Hello #dataBS (& especially #TidyTuesday) fam! I'm trying to organize a thing to help me keep TidyTuesday running smoothly, but first I need to get a bit of a runway. Every week I curate a TT dataset, and it's wearing me down. Please see github.com/rfordatascie... for some ways you can help! #RStats

Come join me at @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social 💜

@rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social is looking for new organisers! I have loved being an organiser! The @rladies.org community is wonderful. I highly recommend organising. 💜 Please reach out if you have any questions about getting involved. #rladies

Last week marked the end of my time at @rivm-nl.bsky.social. I'm excited to be joining @thedohertyinst.bsky.social and The University of Melbourne as Modelling for Policy Lead!

Excited to announce a search for an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling at Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Details at link and below. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Leon is kicking things off at pawsit::conf(2025). Who's joining? 🐶 🐾 🎾

We are launching a project on improving code sharing in health and medical research funded by @ukri.org and working with @floriannaudet.bsky.social and @bmj.com Read more here: bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/08/help-us-improve-code-sharing-in-health-research/

Excited to share my newest quarto revealjs plugin: imagemover Easily reposition and resize images directly in your quarto revealjs slides for a much smoother slidecrafting experience github.com/EmilHvitfeld... #quarto

Happening in 15 minutes!

Infectious Disease Modelling starter pack update! Many more modellers have joined Bluesky recently so this update is overdue. Pls keep on sending suggestions! (bio should contain experience relevant for this pack) IDModelling pack 1: go.bsky.app/86Ao1a5 IDModelling pack 2 : go.bsky.app/2oBB7KX

Great example of #quarto website, with JS and CSS features, and an amazing readme file! If you have time, give Kylie some feedback!

I created a @quarto.org website for a new collaborative ID modelling platform in NL: codemap-nl.github.io/codemap-nl-w... Still developing, but want to crowdsource feedback (following @cecibaldoni.bsky.social's lead)! What do you think? Code: github.com/codemap-nl/c... #IDSky #EpiSky

📣 Funded 3.5yr PhD opportunity (UK tuition fee rate) in @hpruezi.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social. #PhDSky 🧪 On "Optimising testing & control strategies in the early stages of infectious disease outbreaks" #IDSky #EpiSky ⏳ Deadline to apply: 07 Jul 2025 🔗: www.liverpool.ac.uk/courses/opti...

New piece on why it’s unhelpful to characterise COVID debate as ‘lockdowns are bad’ vs ‘lockdowns are good’ when it was really about people who claimed that COVID was 100x less fatal than it was + optimal to have a massive epidemic immediately before vaccine… vs those who sense checked these claims.

I'm still not sure exactly what an API is (explanations welcome), but I looked at the number of APIs in each category on apis.guru for this week's #TidyTuesday. Top 3 API categories: ☁️ Cloud: 34.4% 🎬 Media: 12.3% 📊 Open Data: 11.5% Code: github.com/kylieainslie... #pydytuesday @dslc.io

I decided to change up my working conditions and camped out at Amsterdam's Marineterrein. Here is an action shot of my call with @seabbs.bsky.social 👇

We're hiring! We are looking for a Research Fellow to join us in the Infectious Disease Modelling Group at La Trobe University to work on Strep A transmission modelling. Full details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/533/caw/en/j...

Excited to give this talk in a few weeks for the @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social community 😄

🚨 New Event 🚨 From Code to Crisis Response: Using #rstats for Public Health Impact at the CDC w/ @kcharniga.bsky.social 📅 July 1, 2025 ⏰ 16:00-17:00 CET 🔗 www.meetup.com/rladies-amst... Join us to learn practical R applications in crisis response and beyond! #rladies #EpiSky #IDSky @rladies.org

We're looking for more curators for the second half of 2025! Want to share your voice or know someone who should? 📝 Sign up to curate: airtable.com/appjkZZgtF0i... 📖 Learn what curating involves: guide.rladies.org/rocur/guide/ 💌 Nominate someone you admire: airtable.com/appFIBzsk2Ax...

Did you miss my talk about Scrollytelling with Quarto? 🥲 Well, despair no more! You can find it in the @rladiesamsterdam.bsky.social Youtube channel! Check out also the Github repo I built for this talk, you can find a working example and the slides I used: github.com/cecibaldoni/... <3

R-Ladies Amsterdam now has a YouTube channel! Our first video is @cecibaldoni.bsky.social's excellent talk about how to use @quarto.org and Closeread for scrollytelling science. This talk was excellent! If you missed it, check it out now! youtu.be/ytKZ357Xtqw?... #rladies #rstats #scicomm

I have definitely sent the explainer video about "What are infectious disease models?" to people. It's really well done. The video doesn't seem to work on the website, so here's the link to the youtube. youtu.be/IUpsekOsIxQ?...

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...

Several of my colleagues have decided not to attend conferences in the US this year*. I'm curious how other non-US-based researchers are approaching this decision. *I will still be attending conferences in the US because it's an opportunity to see family and friends. #EpiSky #AcademicSky #IDSky

📚 This week's #TidyTuesday: Project Gutenberg authors! By visualizing 8 centuries of literary lifespans we can see that authors lived progressively longer A surprising finding: works from authors born in 19th century (orange) completely dominates the collection 🧡 #pydytuesday #dataviz @dslc.io

I just came across this article in @nature.com which offers advice to ECRs about which programming language to use. It tackles 4 key Qs: What do you mean by ‘programming’? What are your colleagues using? Which tools are available? How big are your data? www.nature.com/articles/d41... #rstats #python

For the June #epinowcast seminar on the 4th at 3pm UK time we have Alba Halliday speaking about “Modelling diseases with delayed reporting and nested structures using a hierarchical framework” More here and joining info: www.epinowcast.org/seminars/202...

Next week! ⬇️ #rstats #rladies @quarto.org

Call for papers! 📢  We are inviting papers that discuss, explore or evaluate the (potential) use of LLMs in any step of an epidemiological outbreak investigation, for the planned special issue of Epidemiology & Infection: Using large language models in outbreak response 👇

"Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites. All members are encouraged to attend." ♥️♥️♥️ #QuartoPub