There have been no federal funding opportunities in the infectious disease space for close to 1.5 years. A while back, a few "forecasted" opportunities popped up, however, all of those just went the way of the dodo 👇 Good read on what's happening here: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/inside-the...

My laptop is a relic from a time when I didn't know what ~/.bashrc was and I know have just enough knowledge to fix old problems as I encounter them while also holding onto this piece of hardware for as long as possible.

Fun tasks that will run on my laptop today: - reinstall anaconda from scratch, because it corrupted on the last windows update (If I didn't like gaming so much, I'd have a full Linux PC by now) - try to make a spatial raster of the UK that is only Wales and England without getting errors in R

🎙️ PODCAST | CVR Meets: Professor Akiko Iwasaki In this ep of Research Goes Viral, Bailey & Charlotte speak with Prof Akiko Iwasaki, 2025 Sir Michael Stoker Award winner, about Long COVID and how the pandemic transformed research overnight. 🎥 youtu.be/Iqbhq6dLLJs 🔈 open.spotify.com/episode/3spW...

We have very little idea about what plastics ACTUALLY do to wildlife

Nevermind the problem is so severe it got its name. Twice.

Protein Language Models (PLMs) could transform outbreak response New research from @kieranlamb.bsky.social & colleagues show that PLMs can identify mutation hotspots and key features of viral proteins - even from a single sequence. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Giving my harddrives silly names to get some whimsy into my research: - echo (accoustic analysis raw data backup) - democritus (external storage for rabies research) - eve (endogenous viral elments genome data storage)

Using applied mathematics in epidemiology research is all fun and games until I have to not repeat a variable name. #MathSky #EpiSky

I went on an academically inspired shopping spree (textbooks, external storage, a bat shaped coin purse to store all my external storage) and as a little treat, I bought more bat stickers. If you ever see me around, ask for a bat.

The entire infrastructure of my professional online presence as an academic 🤝 Trinity College Dublin letting me have an alumni account, so I don't have to update my email address for everything any time I switch institutions.

Vibe coded amazon starting to break itself is pissing me off: - Tried to order a book. - It got added twice in a glitch during checkout. - Shows up only once in the confirmation email - Only way to fix it was to partially cancel the order and reorder the book. Fingers crossed the refund works

Using applied mathematics in epidemiology really means I have the value of an integral, the derivation of one variable, and a lot of audacity in trying to find analytical solutions to my models.

I took all the textbooks I've been meaning to read to the beach today. Brighton really was a lucky location to end up at for my DTP.

Update: I've unbricked it with some very risky directory deleting that luckily did not blow up in my face.

ANOTHER JOB!! Research Leader in Economic Geology - come work on our minerals collection! jobs.nhm.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

. #MatshSky #EpiSky What would be some good resources to learn more as someone who has only ever worked with compartmental models and oscillators to get started learning how to get analytical solutions to models?

I have succesfully bricked part of my laptop wsl by essentially nesting ubuntu systems within ubuntu systems and then overwritting the mounted /mnt/c/ drive in a way that only affects ubuntu and only when you load it through the app fro the microsoft store. Wish me luck untangling this

I'm really loving the wrtiting in @vanityfair.com these days. There's an art to the subtlety on display.

Excited to be at another ESCES course. This time, it's advanced Essential Scientific Computing for Environmental Scientists

I have made it back to Oxford once again for academic reasons (at least one more time to come this year): Now, I just need some food recommendations.

I'd love for Birdsongs of the Mesozoic to make a new album that just incorporates everything we found out about dinosaur sound

I think I might talk about my PhD a lot, because auto correct just changed "bag" to "bat"

I've got a big hard drive to re-run some palaeovirology research with new data, so the methods can be finally published (work going since 2018). Now, the question is: Do I submit an abstract for @thepalass.bsky.social 2026 to put a little pressure on the project? And when are the abstract deadlines

After deciding to collect acoustic data from sundown to sunrise, I have now unlocked a new fear: - Write "from dusk til dawn" somewhere in the write-up that isn't a catchline for a title.

I'm having a great amount of fun figuring out the mathematical notation of my models. The maths bit really is my favourite part of outbreak investigation.

Just as I was ready to crash out over the size of my To-Do list, I managed the following in 3 days: - finish and evaluate two separate preliminary models and plot the outcomes - complete the newest drafts of survey and associated ethics application - collect all data from the field tests

After joining BES in October last year, this is a welcome crossover: I'm definitely hyped for the next BES hackathon now.

🚨New preprint out @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social (under review elsewhere!) 🧵 No global collapse of food webs across the Permian–Triassic Mass Extinction (PTME) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Don't miss the chance to submit an abstract to the IEA European Congress of Epidemiology 2026 / 70th Annual Conference of the Society for Social Medicine & Population Health! Deadline: 02 Mar 2026 at 23:59 GMT Submission website: tinyurl.com/ssmeuroepi2026 Location: London, UK Dates: 09-11 Sep 2026

Our new paper is now out on "Temperature-sensitive incubation, transmissibility and risk of Aedes albopictus-borne chikungunya virus in Europe". Chikungunya has a lower thermal threshold for transmission than previously thought, carrying a higher risk of outbreaks across Europe. lnkd.in/g79PzgqJ

Trying to detach all of the spatial layers I downloaded to resample is taking just long enough that I can read whole papers while they're plotting. 🫠

The @seabbs.bsky.social Juniper seminar has me conviced. I'm finally learning Julia and actually using it for my modelling approaches. Any learning resources #EpiSky & #MathSky ?

PhD position (London, UK) Real-time modelling of infectious disease outbreaks. with @sbfnk.bsky.social @anne-cori.bsky.social @seabbs.bsky.social at @epiforecasts.io @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2440

Off to redo two weeks of spatial data processing, because the temp files corrupted 😮‍💨

Sometimes, I run on what feels like German logic: - If I'm late, it's rude and my meeting will be cancelled. - If I'm early and wait outside until the meeting is officially supposed to start, either I get noticed and the meeting starts early, or I don't get noticed and I'm perfectly on time.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

The Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) is seeking a scientist in wildlife biology, ecology, or a closely related discipline, with a focus on movement ecology, spatial data analysis, and/or scavenger and carnivore systems. Read and apply here: tinyurl.com/mr3x7uwk

I might or might not have tried to load all of openrivers into ArcGIS onto a 24Gb Ram computer without cropping to my area of interest and it might or might not have crashed the whole system.

Brilliant talk by Dr Johannes De Groeve today, perfectly timed to the time I was working on my spatial analysis. I'll definitely be keeping TABS on the package.

Spatial data preparation is simultaneously some of the most fun and some of the most boring work I've ever done.

New PhD Opportunity. We are advertising for a modeller to model the impacts of mosquito-borne disease in the Americas. The project is funded by The Leverhulme Trust via University of Glasgow, and supervised by Christina Cobbold, Dom Brass and myself. Deadline 6th March 2026. t.ly/Z-tqt

Today, I found a place that had fries with friends sauce and then I got a coffee from Leonidas. I think it's safe to say that I sometimes do miss Belgium.

An absolute highlight of collecting occurrence data from the literature has been to add location tags to all of the coordinates and postcodes while finding out a bunch of town names in the UK.

As someone who has a whole Genshin Impact gaming channel, having to cite Escofier and Escoufier in a methods section without misspelling them as Escoffier is going to be interesting.

Found out today: I read and processed 161 papers during my lit review.

The lawyer in the rom com I'm watching with my mum just cited a law in courst that I cited in my lit review.

Questions I have asked myself today, rabies research edition: - How do I bibtex cite the UK government? - Why is this list of rabies cases missing that 1985 lethal spillover from C. nilsonii to a bat worker that was followed by researchers not finding a single seropositive bat?