10¢ for your core philosophy in a tweet Max impact ⇒ mass harm prevention for relatively vulnerable & voiceless: 1. low-income countries (eg infectious diseases) 2. future generations (eg climate, ecosystem collapse) 3. sentient non-human life (eg decreasing meat & dairy)

"The data are consistent with hypothesis H" and "The data provide no evidence for hypothesis H" steer you in opposite directions but can mean the same thing: the data do not discriminate between hypotheses. Let's - explicitly consider multiple hypotheses - use clearer language

Two primers we wrote for UNAIDS now out: "Introduction to HIV phylogentics" https://t.co/4YDtpmbVqB "Practical uses of HIV phylogenetics in public health" https://t.co/jOmJRenyhr

Postdoc openings in our new PRESTO project: using modelling to explore in advance which types of vaccine trial will work best for future pandemics, with partners @CEPIvaccines. Join us at @PSIOxford Modeller https://t.co/Rtdwkn8bu4 Statistical modeller

Great to have @adamjkucharski open the new @PSIOxford seminar series. Here discussing our decomposition of R(t) into contributing factors & other epi monitoring through the covid app, led by @mishkendall + @LucaFerrettiEvo, out last month ICYMI https://t.co/9LAQznlWpk

What are the big questions that emerge during new epidemics? And how do we answer them? @dr_anne_cori and I have put together a new review of inference of epidemic dynamics in the modern era, from understanding dynamics to evaluation of interventions:

See also excellent explanation by @ChristoPhraser relating the phylogeny to the underlying process (a longer explanation than I can give here) https://t.co/r0citVxKKN

Am I OK as a single-slide introductory explanation of phylogenetic trees, by analogy with more familiar family trees? Not much room to add more. Will have verbal explanation of the continuous model of genetic change. Reusing me with attribution = 👌

Postdoc position opening in infectious disease genomics and computational microbiology in Sydney with @tanyagolubchik https://t.co/xI2CouYAQg

Delighted to see our research featured on the cover of @ScienceMagazine this week! Current issue: https://t.co/kD1hcAVJkW Our paper: https://t.co/96y07L6UB6 Photo: Catherine Ivill - UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images

Come see me keynote 🤗 https://t.co/PFnAOzRZzO

Stop using the widely-used discretised gamma rates model for your phylogenetics 👇

I'm very far from an expert in survival analysis - let me know if I said anything silly 😬

A quick worked example of plotting survival curves on simulated data, comparing the Kaplan-Meier estimator with the Cox proportional hazards model: https://t.co/DWAP2gQ79W

Crucial thread below. Several countries now have digital tools at the heart of their pandemic strategies, if they didn’t already (spoiler: these are countries that did relatively well against COVID). Meanwhile, many European countries seem to be taking a ‘play it by ear until

New in @ScienceMagazine: app-based contact tracing for covid 🤒🤳📲 as well as reducing transmission, generated data for epidemic monitoring & analysis in real-time with unprecedented resolution. Example below: sharp spikes in transmission in England during last Euros, 2021 🇪🇺⚽

Popping up from mat leave 👋👶 to share our new paper in @ScienceMagazine. Anonymised data from the @NHSCOVID19app provided rich insights into the drivers of the epidemic, at remarkable speed. ➡️ Quick read: https://t.co/LtZcW9Qa2k ➡️ Full details: https://t.co/4pw5C3W0LL

H5N1: international failures and uncomfortable truths - The Lancet

We are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in bacterial genomics to study commensal E. coli epidemiology and evolution in an ERC-funded project. Please retweet!

St Thomas The Martyr Church, Oxford #aurora #NorthernLights

..thanks Viktor Müller lab for that methods comparison. Thanks @notestaff and @gerrythill for maintaining shiver in bioconda till now. Sorry for delayed Python 2->3, not just automated, see commits Apr 1-10 😵‍💫 shiver here: