Just published in JOSS: 'simulist: An R package to simulate disease outbreak line list and contacts data' https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08781

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...

📢Join the "Outbreak Analytics & Applied Modelling in R" short course!🌍📊 This will be the 2nd edition! 📅 Online | July 2026 🔹 Clean & validate data for Epicurves 🔹 Quantify transmission & severity 🔹 Account for superspreading 🔹 Simulate interventions 📌 Learn more: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...

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.

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...

Want to easily simulate plausible outbreak data for tutorials or testing methods? {simulist} is now on CRAN! epiverse-trace.github.io/simulist/ind... ⏳ Delay distributions 🏥 Population-wide or age-stratified risks 📊 Age-structured populations 📈 Time-varying CFR 📋 Vary case types and contact tracing

Amazing couple of days visiting @naturalis.bsky.social with @evoisland.bsky.social! Working on open-source software for island biogeography.

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...

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...