Lots of focus on the impact of #funding cuts on #HIV but there are wider repercussions. Here we report 'Voices from the frontline: how global funding cuts are reshaping the viral #hepatitis response' 🧪 @lancetgastrohep.bsky.social @worldhepalliance.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Check out this new paper by Gavrila Puspitarani (with small contribution from me). It’s about networks and the spread of diseases, and Austrian pigs www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Exciting new Research Fellow position in modelling infectious diseases to reduce inequities in health outcomes in Africa! Join a multidisciplinary 4 year project with me at UCL and partners in Zimbabwe, Zambia, The Gambia, South Africa, Kenya and the UK. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Postdoc (Lancaster, UK) School-based social contact study for transmission-dynamic modelling with Trystan Leng at Lancaster University More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2461

New funded PhD available! Health Service evaluation of maternal RSV vaccine uptake. This is a 3 year HPRU funded PhD project led by Dr Clare French, Prof Ellen Brooks-Pollock, & Dr Hannah Christensen. CLOSES 26/01/26. More info➡️ tinyurl.com/48f2j337 @bristoluni.bsky.social @findaphd.bsky.social

New funded PhD available! Optimising access to routine childhood immunisation in general practice. This is a 3 year HPRU funded PhD project led by Dr Hannah Christensen & Dr Clare French. CLOSES 26/01/26. More info ➡️ tinyurl.com/bdebe9ae @bristoluni.bsky.social @findaphd.bsky.social

New funded PhD available! Identifying & evaluating opportunities to improve influenza vaccine uptake in adults with chronic respiratory disease. This 3 year project is led by Dr R Lazarus & Dr H Christensen. CLOSES 26/01/26. ➡️ tinyurl.com/zvvwew74 @bristoluni.bsky.social @findaphd.bsky.social

New funded PhD available! Personalised risk assessment to improve protective behaviours in emergency contexts. This 3 year project is led by Dr Holly Carter, Dr Dale Weston, Dr Freya Mills & Dr Sarah Denford. CLOSES 26/01/26. ➡️ tinyurl.com/2j6tkk5a @bristoluni.bsky.social @findaphd.bsky.social

The other aspect of this story is, academics and NHS staff could and would have done this better and essentially for free if they were given the same data access as Faculty, but they are not allowed it. Government policy is deliberately to frustrate pro bono / non-profit health data research.

“Communicable diseases know no borders." A sad reminder: no one is safe until everyone is safe. #PublicHealth is a global issue www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/w...

This video will probably get fewer likes than my posts on taxing billionaires. That difference says it all. Factory farming only survives if we don’t look. It’s time to hold these companies accountable. Every donation is matched, so $1 becomes $2 through Dec 31, 2025. Donate: MoralAmbition.org/food

Glad to share our latest study, led by Han Yong Wunrow @hwunrow.bsky.social, on estimating time-varying reproduction numbers (Rt) using data assimilation methods, now published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface! Link: royalsocietypublishing.org/rsif/article...

Symposium & workshop on inequalities in infectious disease dynamics at LSHTM in April 2026. We aim to will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to share ideas, discuss recent advances, and reflect on future directions. Details & application: iddconf.org/lshtm-sympos... Closing 21 Jan

Lots of PhD positions on @iddjobs.org with Jan deadlines:

📰News! A new evidence review identifies the most effective ways to increase vaccine uptake. 💉 The comprehensive review combined data from more than 200 trials comprising over 6 million participants. More➡️ tinyurl.com/yuy7xse3 @ukhsa.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

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