1/ 📰 Fantastic to see the official website for the Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD) is now live! #GSIDD #IDsky #EpiSky 🧪 🗺️ GSIDD serves the global community of researchers, practitioners and educators in infectious disease dynamics. 🔗: www.gsidd.org

Excellent to see success and leadership in the AFRO region. For too long the refrain has been for AFRO to recapitulate the "PAHO Strategy" for elimination. PAHO's success was tremendous, but is now decades old and the world and tactics have changed. These counties can lead the charge for AFRO.

Jumping spiders can recognise one another. This ability to learn, remember and represent images is quite surprising for such a tiny-brained animal! buff.ly/dCkwPr0

Proud to be part of #FUTURES2025 Discovery Day! We used bubbles & our game “Can you beat the snot monsters?” to show children & young people how far germs travel & how public health research helps stop the spread. More➡️ tinyurl.com/3vjpz9hn @engagebristol.bsky.social @wethecurious.bsky.social

Want to do a PhD on syphilis diagnostics? In collaboration with @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social & @ukhsa.bsky.social we have a funded studentship available via the Health Protection Research Unit on Blood Borne & Sexually Transmitted Infections. Deadline for applications: Friday 5th December 2025.

Want to come and do a PhD on mathematical modelling & sexually transmitted infections? Apply for an MRC funded PhD to come to @lshtm.bsky.social and work on understanding STI transmission dynamics in low resource settings & how we can optimise partner notification as a public health intervention.

New Paper🚀! Our work analysing the Swiss national SARS-CoV-2 wastewater 🚱 monitoring data is now published in PLOS Water 💧 @plos.org journals.plos.org/water/articl... (Julien Riou, @tanjastadler.bsky.social @trj2.bsky.social Christoph Ort et al)

📰News!📰Great to see our collaborative research shared by GOV.UK! Thousands with undiagnosed hepatitis and HIV found in A&E testing. Read more ➡️ tinyurl.com/y7h3d926 @jhorwood.bsky.social @nhsengland.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social

New awareness campaign

Nighttime polar orbiter satellite photos of Jamaica before and after #Melissa show how the power grid was affected. Melissa knocked out power to about 77% of Jamaica’s customers, said Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie. Photos from worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

📢New website launch!🎉 Six months into our new chapter of funding, we’re thrilled to unveil our new digital home! Explore our refreshed look, designed to make accessing our latest projects, research & collaborative opportunities easier than ever. More➡️ tinyurl.com/bdfyyvf2 @nihr.bsky.social

PhD position (Bristol, UK) Epidemiology of blood borne viruses among migrant communities in the UK with Clare French Aaron Lim Matt Hickman at @hpruebs.bsky.social More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2383

PhD position (Bristol, UK) UK Black heritage scholarship: Constructing an epidemiological modelling framework to maintain health security against resurgent infectious diseases with @ewancolman.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Jack Stone at U... More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2381

JOB: Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 using a very large dataset of more than 120,000 viral genomes generated as part of the ONS Covid Survey in Prof Katrina Lythgoe's Ecology and Evolution of Viruses Research Group. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The annual FluSurvey is now open! 📝 Dr Matthew Quinn shares how you can help our scientists track seasonal viruses & strengthen national surveillance. Find more info in our blog post. 🤧💬 🔗 https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/22/join-the-fight-against-flu-by-taking-part-in-our-citizen-science-project/

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...

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...

I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...

Read the full paper here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our new study shows HIV infections look set to significantly increase in sub-Saharan Africa, as a result of funding for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) being halted under the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. Published in Lancet #HIV hpruebs.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

📢New blog📢Shaping a migrant health research agenda through public involvement. Long-term infections like Hep B, C, HIV & TB are more common among migrants than in those UK born. Tackling these infections is vital to address unfair differences. More➡️ bit.ly/3Isktg9 @carmel93.bsky.social

Cheap supplies of HIV-prevention jab for poorer countries hailed as ‘genuine chance to end’ global epidemic

We are back for a whole season about the story of socialism. In the first episode we explain socialism(s) and communism(s) before Marx, featuring the French Revolution, Chartists, anarchists, the birth of the co-operative movement, utopian novels, America's experimental communes and seas of lemonade

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...

🐦 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

Exciting to see the next wave of improvements to walking, wheeling and cycling in Bristol. We'd love to get some cycle hangars in St George Central as bike theft is still one of the most prohibitive aspects of cycling. www.thebusinessdesk.com/south-west/n...

🌍✊ The Green Party stands with UCU members. @zackpolanski.bsky.social (Leader of the Green Party) and @carladenyer.bsky.social (former Co-Leader) are backing our campaign for fair pay and conditions. We are the university. We are the movement. Vote YES. #WeAreTheUniversity

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers! This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

The Afghan women's football/soccer team, who relocated to the UK to escape the Taliban's removal of female rights, including exclusion from all public life #WomensArt #AfghanWomen

How enormously sophisticated is the #Biodiversity that we are fast trashing phys.org/news/2025-08...

We've announced a £1.3m programme to evaluate how wastewater monitoring could help detect a wide range of dangerous pathogens 🔬 https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ukhsa-launches-development-programme-for-wastewater-monitoring-techniques-which-could-catch-pandemic-threats-early

Roslin Reels - The Roslin Institute's Professor Rowland Kao, CBE talks about his team's work on data and disease spread. For more information on our research, check out our website:https://vet.ed.ac.uk/roslin @rowlandkao.bsky.social @uoe-eid.bsky.social #RoslinReels #InfectiousDiseases

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)

UK Government's Chief Veterinary Officer, Dr Christine Middlemiss claims: "Strong biosecurity is our best defence". It isn't. Not releasing 60 million gamebirds is. #AvianFlu #Ornithology raptorpersecutionuk.org/2025/08/21/d...

📢Blog!📢Increasing #HIV testing & improving access to PrEP using a Dragon’s Den style collaboration. The project had two objectives; develop & refine training for healthcare professionals & to create public information to aid HIV testing, prevention & reduce stigma. ▶️ tinyurl.com/bdepr666

I wonder if this will work? Bristol Uni is making a short online course on AI - what it is, how it works, what it can do, how we can think critically about it. No maths, no coding, no hype, just simple information and explanations available to all students and staff and members of the public. 1/2

📰News!📰 New research shows worldwide scale of HCV among babies & children. “Given the availability of effective medicine & further progress in this field, it’s vital that testing & diagnosis rates improve so more people can be treated & cured.” ➡️ bit.ly/4oh4zFI #WorldHepatitisDay @nihr.bsky.social

Another New PhD studentship opportunity alert! Please share with your networks. We are recruiting a PhD student to work in the new University of Birmingham-led Emergency Preparedness and Response Health Protection Research Unit, a partnership with UK Health Security Agency. Details below: (1/7)

there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3

1/ 📣 Workshop save the dates 📣 👥 Mathematics of Behaviour: an interdisciplinary school 🗓️: 20-24 Jul 2026 🦠 🔋 Modelling Behaviour for Global Challenges: Epidemics & Energy Systems 🗓️: 10-14 Aug 2026 🏫 Venue: University of Nottingham ✍ Expression of interest to attend opens approx Dec 2025/Jan 2026

Latest out: Estimating behavioural relaxation induced by COVID-19 vaccines in the first months of their rollout journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

📰In the news!📰 📢Continuing to #vaccinate for #mpox through a routine targeted programme for #gay & #bisexual men delivered by sexual health services will greatly reduce the number of cases & save the #NHS millions, new research has found. More➡️ bit.ly/402nw4m @bristoluni.bsky.social

📣 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...

Optimal sampling frequency and site selection for wastewater and environmental surveillance of infectious pathogens: A value of information assessment journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Learn more about the history of TB, the progress we’ve made against it in the US and Europe, and the progress still to make: ourworldindata.org/tuberculosis... This is the first article of a three-part series by @hannahritchie.bsky.social and @spoonerf.bsky.social.

Tuberculosis (TB), an infectious disease caused by bacteria, was responsible for as many as one-quarter of all deaths in the US and Europe during parts of the 18th and 19th centuries. However, as we see in the chart for England and Wales, deaths from TB have declined dramatically in rich countries.

📣 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...

We have a new preprint 📝 *Post-sampling degradation of viral RNA in wastewater impacts the quality of PCR-based concentration estimates* Now on bioRxiv doi.org/10.1101/2025... with @tanjastadler.bsky.social, trj2.bsky.social, Christoph Ort and others