Help me out, I’ve got another wastewater virus mystery. This one really blows my mind. 1/

🚨 Workshop Alert at #RSS2025 📅 Tues 2 Sept, 14:00–16:00 🗺️ Model-based Geostatistics for Public Health in R With Emauele Giorgi & myself Learn to go from spatial data to predictions with RiskMap using real case studies. 👉 https://t.co/fctd4QxPBU #RStats #Geostat

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PhD position (Lancaster, UK) Modelling the global spread and evolution of human viral infections with Sam Moore at University of Lancaster More details:

Postdoc position with me and @datcummings based at Lancaster University, to analyse human social contact and mobility patterns in UK/China, supported with unique observational data. Deadline Thu 20 Feb 2025.

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

Disease outbreak news on undiagnosed disease in #DRCongo https://t.co/iZgKKFIhU3

Come and work in the UK! Postdoc position available, in the @LancasterCHICAS group, modelling human mobility, social contact networks and epidemics. Closes *9th Nov*

Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍 @NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations! all freely available in the public domain. Retweet and spread the message! https://t.co/p1bD1kxO7H

The BBC sound effects library is now completely free to access. This is news. https://t.co/jsaSsrIVxB

The history of three infectious diseases — smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available. From my article on humanity's long fight against infectious diseases: https://t.co/YMC6WLbEQm

1 Thread on #mpox which is in the news again since a returning traveller was diagnosed in Sweden with a new more dangerous strain which reached Europe for the first time. In the 2022-23 global outbreak I was clinical advisor to @WHOEurope Here’s what I think you need to know.

.@WHO has issued a call for rosters of experts in epidemiology, statistics, data visualization, or bioinformatics to consult on AMR surveillance. The deadline for application is May 17th. Details below. #epitwitter #statstwitter https://t.co/r0TJ32e1qi

I’ve handled the review of > 1000 papers at @nature. Over time, you notice aspects of presentation on which reviewers tend to comment. In the interests of minimizing hassles during review, I offer the following suggestions (a bit targeted to climate papers).

The thing that most strikes me about the current #H5N1 #birdflu outbreak in cattle (and terrifies me to some extent) is how much the virus surprised us once again. And how cavalier our response seems in the face of that fact.

This is an important (and slightly surprising) story but very real ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Hepatitis on track to overtake TB as world's biggest infectious killer. The B and C strains of the virus now claim as many lives as tuberculosis, new WHO data shows. By 2040, they are projected to take

Please RT: I am looking for potential PhD students to work on infectious disease models. My university has a deadline of Mar 30. Australian students will have an advantage in the application, but I would welcome applications from strong foreign students.

A great opportunity to develop a next generation of transmission models, with a more detailed understanding of social interactions and network structure. with @SRileyIDD @GEMEpidemics and Sam Moore. Please register interest via https://t.co/PJxFBkrmEJ

NZE is the only country in the world with high vax, good death data and vax happening before and not in parallel with covid It saw no excess in the<60, which is not attributable to covid This de facto kills any claim of high vax deaths made elsewhere, let me explain⤵️