After many months of hard work our analysis of the lineage structure and importation dynamics of the first wave of the #SARSCoV2 epidemic in the UK is out in @ScienceMagazine today! https://t.co/tglDeV20tX begin thread

One week left to apply to the Social Lives of Viruses 2024! 50-person meeting on viral sociality, from virology to evolution, in Puerto Rico this June. All welcome; free accommodation and registration. Apply here: https://t.co/OJkNrMOnh0 #LoveVirology #SocialViruses #NSFfunded

I'm so happy to see this paper finally out! I joined the project back in 2019 and by then it had already been going on for some time. Incredible effort from @StevenFiddaman and @EAntonisDim!

I think more conferences should have a plenaries like this. Relegating talks on these topics to optional lunchtime events (that you often have to sign up for in advance) keeps us from openly discussing and recognising the issues or making any progress!

The first chapter of my PhD is now live in preprint form 😊 We introduce EpiFusion, a technique for jointly modelling infectious disease outbreak trajectories from both case incidence and genomic (phylogenetic tree) data

Forgive me, for I am about to Bayes. Lesson: Don't trust intuition, for even simple prior+likelihood scenarios defy it. Four examples below, each producing radically different posteriors. Can you guess what each does? Revealed in next tweet >>

For all PhD and master students who are interested in computer science and public health: check out our upcoming @EPFL_en & @ETH_en summer school in Grindelwald. Please apply until 31 May. https://t.co/EbJHB84cBI

Don’t miss the talks by Louis du Plessis @laduplessis on #pathogen phylodynamics and by Katie Guzzetta @ktguzz on #GutMicrobiome at Pint of Science / Basel on 23 May! @TanjaStadler_CH @randall_platt

Also presenting are @sgagneux1 and @ktguzz on tuberculosis and gut microbiota!

Next Tuesday I'll be presenting in the Basel edition of #PintOfScience at Flanagan's, starting at 6pm. Come along and find out about some of the challenges we faced doing phylodynamic inferences of SARS-CoV-2! Full programme here:

@ETH_WPF sent an #open #letter to the editors-in-chief @NZZ, @SRF & @Sonntagszeitung who abused an unpublished study from @UZH_ch to claim that equality measures are useless as women don’t want a career - and rather look for a successful husband: https://t.co/0gbGmCz7AZ👇🧵(1/14)

I like how they chose to show an alignment of identical sequences to illustrate this story https://t.co/KstAwRnkSu

Less than a week left to apply for this year's Taming the BEAST! This is the first in-person Taming the BEAST since 2019 and I'm really looking forward to going back to Squamish! Sign up here by May 8th: https://t.co/KFGI7xhcyL

When reviewing multiple papers for the same journal at the same time check and check again that you are actually submitting the right review 😅

I'm hiring a 3 year postdoc @imperialcollege funded by @The_MRC. If adapting ideas from statistics and engineering (e.g. feedback) to better model and control epidemics sounds interesting do apply! Please share widely - thanks! Deadline 3rd Oct. https://t.co/S4E2BuC18A

Since she didn't experience any big drawbacks from downsizing and only got support from the leadership at her institution I wonder if these are truly the external expectations or if we impose these requirements on ourselves because of peer pressure and hyper-competetiveness 😕

This is a very important story to tell. Bigger isn't always better. But I'm concerned by the fact that a 45-50 hour work week is considered the absolute minimum, a 20-person lab to be on the small side and taking all your annual leave to be a very rare occurrence

Great work from @McCroneIV leading this paper! It's been a long time coming - we started working on this more than a year ago, ages in pandemic time. The pandemic's changed, but the dynamics we describe will stay relevant for future variants and other viruses.

Sarah Ann Nadeau (ETH Zurich) will be giving the next talk Wednesday, August 24 at 9:00 AM PDT on "Phylogenetic and phylodynamic evidence for the impact of major public health interventions on the Swiss SARS-CoV-2 epidemic"

Basel is a great place to live and work! It's a beautiful small and relaxed city, very international, well-connected to other European cities and only 2 hours from the Alps!

All 3 positions will be based in Basel, Switzerland and are fixed-term for 2 years, with the possibility of extension.