🚨The deadline for the 50% discount for this year’s Outbreak Analytics & Applied Modelling in R course is on Monday 27th April!
💡If you’re interested in learning practical skills for analysing infectious disease outbreak data, this course is for you.
Reach out if you have any questions.
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
Links to DAISIE and DAISIEprep R packages:
- github.com/rsetienne/DA...
- github.com/joshwlambert...
Pre-print: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The perks of visiting a Natural History Museum 🦖
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...
Photos of research group meetings and data collection
Previous papers published by MRC LID PhD students - you can also search Kucharski/Lowe/Hodgson on Google Scholar
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...
