PhD opportunity in @mche-uom.bsky.social looking at the economic impact of risk prediction in endometrial cancer diagnostics, closing January 15th: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Possible example of the principle that if someone gets something wrong in your own area of expertise, you should exercise caution when they make claims outside of that area. I read Sacks' books as a maths undergrad and thought the prime numbers stuff sounded iffy, but brushed it off at the time.

So, some people here are concerned with the sentence in this document that, "it will not be possible to halt the spread of a new pandemic virus, and it would be a waste of public health resources and capacity to attempt to do so" - what does it this mean? 🧵/1 www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/fr...

Conservation, genomics, ecology, *and* bats all in the same PhD!

If anyone's teaching an intro to probability course and needs a good example of something non-Markovian, I bought a pack of clothes pegs in 2020 and half of them have spontaneously exploded within the past month.

1/ @juniper-network.bsky.social runs a seminar series Wednesday 14:00-15:00 (UK time) during academic term-time 🎤 Talks on interdisciplinary topics related to interface between modelling, infectious disease control & public policy 🔗 maths.org/juniper/semi... 🧵 summary of talks from Sep/Oct 2025

Opportunity for UK based PhD students to spend 3 months in the Infectious Disease modelling team at UKHSA. It's a great chance to see how modelling is used in public health decision making. If your interested see below for more details: gateway.newton.ac.uk/media/news/u...

1/ Congrats to first 3️⃣ awardees of a new JUNIPER fellowship scheme supporting early career researchers (ECRs) 🧪 #IDsky JUNIPER fellowship scheme aims: ▶️ Support ECR epidemic modellers to develop leadership skills ▶️ Grow their research network as they transition to becoming independent researchers

A PhD opportunity to work on real-time modelling and calibration methods with me and Chris Jewell at Lancaster University iddjobs.org/jobs/real-ti...

We're really excited to announce the first awardees of the new JUNIPER fellowship scheme focused on supporting ECRS: @kathsherratt.bsky.social @joebhilton.bsky.social & @emiliefinch.bsky.social . Find out more about our new fellows here: maths.org/juniper/arti...

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When thinking about causal inference, mechanistic or process models are important. I think that the association of “causal” with black-box models leads to lots of problems. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/19/w...

An AI for an AI - new paper by @liambrierley.bsky.social on machine learning approaches to predict avian influenza viruses are zoonotic based on sequence information: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New jobs for modellers at at UKHSA: Senior Mathematical Modeller (NIHR HPRU - EPR); Senior Mathematical Modeller / Research Software Engineer. A great team looking at emerging threats. www.healthjobsuk.com/job/v7430503 www.healthjobsuk.com/job/v7397991

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

My theory is that AI boosters grew up playing strategy games where the AI lets your opponent field a 10,000-strong army in the time it takes you to build one farm, whereas sceptics grew up playing JRPGs where the AI makes your party burn all their MP on useless debuff spells and then die instantly.

Abstract submissions are now open for the 2025 Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Diagnostics, Digital, Data and Devices (MEED) Research Forum. Date: 20 November 2025 Location: The Milner Hotel, York www.meed-hta.org

📣 Funded PhD opportunity (UK tuition fee rate) in @hpruezi.bsky.social. #PhDSky 🧪 "Predict & Prepare for Arbovirus Introduction to the UK" #IDSky 👥 Supervisors: @mosquitomicrobe.bsky.social | @baylism.bsky.social | Jolyon Medlock ⏳ Deadline: 17 Jul 2025 🔗: www.lstmed.ac.uk/study/resear...

the next time someone tells you to "touch grass" please check their profile. they may be a tick

The Manchester Centre for Health Economics has three new Research Associate positions in Health Economics (£37,174 - £41,671 p/a). These are 24-month fixed-term contracts from July 2025 to June 2027. For full details and to apply, visit www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Come and work with us! Postdoctoral research job to look at methods for working with early pandemic "First Few X" datasets in resource-limited contexts. Please consider applying if of interest and circulate around your networks. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Postdoc (Manchester, UK) Working on methods for “First Few X” studies in resource-limited contexts. with Thomas House @tah-sci.com, Lorenzo Pellis, Christopher Overton at Univ. of Manchester More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2310

Shouldn't need saying, but clearly it does "Reporting guideline checklists are not quality evaluation forms: they are guidance for writing" --> onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... ...quality/risk of bias assessment is aided by transparent reporting though.

"Give the NHS some Slack" "Trust in People" "Try to keep schools open" "Defend the science..." Fascinating to see what my colleagues and friends prioritised among the lessons learned from lockdowns. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Now published in @plosglobalpublichealth.org ! "Epidemiological and phylogenetic analyses of public SARS-CoV-2 data from Malawi" - quantitative methods designed to work with data and computational resources available in the Global South, code available via GitHub. journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

🐔 Calling all backyard poultry keepers in England! We want to hear your thoughts on avian influenza control measures. If you have fewer than 50 birds, please share your experiences and suggestions for future strategies. Survey 🔗 tinyurl.com/e535naw4 #AvianInfluenza #AnimalHealth #OxfordStatistics

Postdoc (Manchester, United Kingdom) Two year Fellowship for a mathematical modeller to pursue interdisciplinary research with the long-term goal of reducing health inequalities. with @tah-sci.com at Manchester University More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2282

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... Healthier Futures Research Fellow - mathematical epidemiology is specifically involved in this exciting two-year position. @iddjobs.org #sciencejobs Deadline 17 March 2025, please apply and forward to others who may be interested!

New Preprint! We carried out a detailed spatio-temporal analysis of case data for the COVID-19 pandemic in Malawi, showing significant heterogeneity in associations over space, time, age and other factors. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/ 🗣️ Presented today at a UK epidemic analytics & modelling workshop #IDSky #IDEpi 🙌 Thanks to @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social & EpiVerse for invitation to present 🔗 Slide set: edmhill.github.io/talks/UK_epi...

A huge thank you to Nefel Tellioglu, Jessica Stockdale, Julie Spencer, Wasiur Rahman Khuda Bukhsh, @joelcmiller.bsky.social and Cameron Zachreson for including me on this @matrix-inst.bsky.social project we just preprinted results from t.co/9ioaiNWMQa 🤓

“Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body”: How much am I to blame for this? statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/02/06/f...

🧵 When Medicine and Science Ignores Diversity, People Die. 1/ Ignoring diversity in medicine and science is deadly. From unethical experiments to life-threatening misdiagnoses, history is replete with examples of how neglecting race, gender, and identity costs lives. A thread of concrete examples.

This 👇. Specifically, for people in the quantitative sciences, I recommend: - Have a well-tended ORCID - GitHub/GitLab repository with some of your research outputs - Personal webpage (e.g. quarto) on a static hosting service such as GitHub/GitLab Pages, Netlify, Posit Connect, ...

New paper! Semi- and non-parametric methods are a popular way of analysing infectious disease time series, as are fully mechanistic models - this work develops an approach combining elements of each. (Most credit to the first and last authors!) royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Hot(?) stats take: p-values make more sense as powers of 2 than %s. If you use the formula for the median of a geometric distribution, p=1/2^N tells you that under H0 you're more likely than not to see a false positive after N repeats - this seems much more interpretable than the classic p<0.05.

1/ 📣 Two funded PhDs available as part of UKRI Research Hub in AI for Collective Intelligence (ai4ci.ac.uk) #PhDSky 🧪 Interdisciplinary work between infectious disease epidemiology & AI (Pandemic Resilience research theme) #IDSky #IDEpi 🏫 Based at University of Bristol & supervised by Leon Danon

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!

🚨 Exciting PhD Opportunity with me and @adamjkucharski.bsky.social at LSHTM (MRC LID)! 🚨 Dive into cutting-edge in-host immunological modeling: ✨ Explore immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 & Influenza. ✨ Develop Bayesian models to analyse immune dynamics. more info: mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2025-26-proj...

**Please Circulate!** Opportunity to join the project team for the co-produced Mathematical Modelling of Epidemics Together (COMMET) project. We are looking for two people to join our team and help co-produce this project. www.coproductioncollective.co.uk/news/commetp...

🎓 Interested in a #PhD involving mathematical modelling, analysing data sets & using interdisciplinary approaches? #AcademicSky 🧪 ✍️ Applications open for 4-year funded PhD studentships starting July 2024 at Uni of Warwick MathSys CDT! 🗓️ Deadline: 01 Apr 2024 Apply 🔗: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/math...

🎓 Interested in studying for a PhD in Public Health? #AcademicSky 🧪 Current round of applications is open for the University of Warwick's Institute for Global Pandemic Planning PhD Programme. 💷 Recruiting students onto 4-year fully funded scholarships More info and application link below👇

Excellent new paper by @mieronen.bsky.social on whether psychologists actually measure anything at all. Lays out a minimal causal condition for measurement, argues that psych vars do not satisfy it & distinguishes between "hard" and "soft measurement."> www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Deadline of Fri 12 Jan for a postdoc role to develop models of avian influenza transmission & control in Great Britain. #EpiSky 🧪 Project team based at Uni of Oxford, @warwicksbider.bsky.social (I am involved as a co-investigator) & UK government’s Animal and Plant Health Agency. More details👇