Josh Lambert
@jwlambert.bsky.social
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Software Engineer @ LSHTM π¨πΌβπ», ex evolutionary biologist πΈπ§¬
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Josh Lambert
Journal of Open Source Software
about 1 month ago
Just published in JOSS: 'simulist: An R package to simulate disease outbreak line list and contacts data'
https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08781
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Josh Lambert
Adam Kucharski
about 2 months ago
Interested in learning outbreak analytics and modelling, with a focus on real-life case studies and tools actively used in responses? Apply for the popular
@lshtm.bsky.social
R shortcourse, led by
@jwlambert.bsky.social
&
@andreevallecam.bsky.social
More:
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...
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Josh Lambert
Epiverse TRACE
about 2 months ago
π’Join the "Outbreak Analytics & Applied Modelling in R" short course!ππ This will be the 2nd edition! π Online | July 2026 πΉ Clean & validate data for Epicurves πΉ Quantify transmission & severity πΉ Account for superspreading πΉ Simulate interventions π Learn more:
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...
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Fun project with
@evoisland.bsky.social
,
@theoevobio.bsky.social
, Lizzie Roeble and Rampal Etienne from my
@unigroningen.bsky.social
PhD days, out now in MPE.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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Josh Lambert
Adam Kucharski
over 1 year ago
What should the early lines of code written during a new outbreak look like? We've got a new viewpoint piece in Lancet Digital Health on how to improve early outbreak analytics, with a great group of contributors:
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...
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Josh Lambert
Adam Kucharski
over 1 year ago
Want to easily simulate plausible outbreak data for tutorials or testing methods? {simulist} is now on CRAN!
epiverse-trace.github.io/simulist/ind...
β³ Delay distributions π₯ Population-wide or age-stratified risks π Age-structured populations π Time-varying CFR π Vary case types and contact tracing
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Amazing couple of days visiting
@naturalis.bsky.social
with
@evoisland.bsky.social
! Working on open-source software for island biogeography.
over 1 year ago
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Josh Lambert
Thijs Janzen
over 1 year ago
Non-homogenic lineage diversification models are the way to go, and Tianjian is taking a first step towards more realistic diversification models like those. Great read!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Impact of evolutionary relatedness on species diversification and tree shape
Slowdowns in lineage accumulation are often observed in phylogenies of extant species. One explanation is the presence of ecological limits to diversiβ¦
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022519324002777
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reposted by
Josh Lambert
Adam Kucharski
over 1 year ago
Come do a PhD with us at
@lshtm.bsky.social
! We're advertising two projects: Understanding and predicting vector-borne epidemics (with Rachel Lowe):
mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2025-26-proj...
Kinetics of immunity to influenza and SARS-CoV-2 (with
@dchodge.bsky.social
):
mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2025-26-proj...
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