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

A realistic take on artificial so-called intelligence: "“It’s going to impact a bunch of office jobs that are about data summary, visual matching, pattern recognition, etc. And those are essentially about 5% of the economy" #AI www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Latest out in PNAS!! Comparative evaluation of behavioral epidemic models using COVID-19 data. Amazing collaboration with @ngozzi.bsky.social and @alexvespi.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Great ID modelling opportunity to aim for real impact on mitigating and monitoring AMR in sub-Saharan Africa. You'll work closely with us @ox.ac.uk, and Oxford’s Modernising Medical Microbiology group, as well as collaborators at CRUN (Burkina Faso) and KWRTP-KEMRI (Kenya). tinyurl.com/mry25kxe

“Tricked by the smell, worker bees may mistake the waiting predator for a trapped intruder and go straight toward its outstretched front legs, the researchers say.” #scicomm #sensoryecology #lure #deceit #tooluse www.sciencenews.org/article/assa... 🧪 🪲 🦑

Forecasting Seasonal Influenza Epidemics with Physics-Informed Neural Networks arxiv.org/abs/2506.03897

Here's one for those of you who love wastewater-based epidemiology and/or fitting simple models to noisy data. It also suggests a reason why WW data is difficult to use - because there is so much variability between people's shedding #episky #idsky 🚽🧬

@ewancolman.bsky.social analysed the impact of individual person shedding variability on virus detection in #wastewater-based epidemiology and ability to identify rises and falls in COVID-19 trajectories in Scotland during the pandemic journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Elegant analysis Ewan!

📣 Funded 3yr PhD opening for UK applicants in @hpruezi.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social. #PhDSky 🧪 On "Economic Evaluation of NPIs for the control of epidemics" #IDSky #EpiSky 👥 Supervised by our colleague @breconomics.bsky.social ⏳ Apply by 09 Jun 2025 🔗: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Viral #hepatitis is a neglected public health threat. Right at the bottom of the pile is #HDV #Delta virus, which coinfects with #HBV. As so often, #clinicaltrials are least done where most needed. @mariondelphin.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk #NoHep @who.int 🧪 www.journalofinfection.com/article/S016...

Hurray! Come join a fun infectious disease modelling conference near Lake Windermere!

📝Training Opportunity!📝Up & coming two-day online short course (23-24 June): Essentials of Infectious Disease Modelling & Economic Evaluation. The course will provide attendees with the ability to start understanding modelling studies & work with modellers. For more info ▶️ bit.ly/4mshtPW

🆕 Today, UKHSA and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) have confirmed the first detection of West Nile virus in mosquitoes collected in the UK. There is currently no evidence of wider circulation in birds or mosquitoes, and the risk to the public remains very low. 📰🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...

WE WON! The Supreme Court has upheld the right to wild camp on Dartmoor. This is a huge win for access to nature. But we're just getting started. It was never just about Dartmoor. We’re fighting to extend the right to roam, swim, and sleep under the stars - across all of England.

Join our Research Conversation! They're an informal event designed to give researchers & public contributors a chance to interact, ask questions & learn about local projects. Today's session is Sequencing bacteria & virus genomes for disease control: hprubse.nihr.ac.uk/events/ @carmel93.bsky.social

1/ 📣 #JobOffer Postdoctoral Research Associate in Infectious Disease Modelling (two posts) 📣 🧪 Develop data-driven mathematical models for modelling avian influenza outbreaks in Great Britain #IDSky #EpiSky ⏳ Application deadline: 12:00 noon BST, 04 July 2025 🔗: www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/71795

How network theory (somewhat) predicted the next pope: www.unibocconi.it/en/news/netw... Always nice when people write down a testable prediction ahead of the event! (via Oliver Johnson)

Today we’re releasing Epydemix (www.epydemix.org), a Python package for flexible, modular, and data-driven epidemic modeling. Designed for researchers, students, and public health professionals. 🧵👇

Looking for 2-day online course to learn the essentials of infectious disease modelling and economic evaluation? We are running this gentle introductory course on June 23 and 24 www.bristol.ac.uk/medical-scho... #IDSky #IDEpi

Now peer reviewed! "Probability of Extinction and Peak Time for Multi-Type Epidemics with Application to COVID-19 Variants of Concern" - we find a mathematically tractable approximation for the distribution of times to die out / peak for new COVID variants. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...