Announcing details for our second IDD Connect Series event! #IDsky #EpiSky 🧪
🌏 Region: Africa
🗓️ Time & date: 12:00-13:00 East Africa Time, 13 May 2026.
🔗 Zoom link | Add to calendar link | Time zone guide: To be added on www.gsidd.org/events.
Project on developing ethnicity-stratified transmission models with me and Neil Ferguson. Please get in touch with any questions!
Limited to home fees eligible students.
Credited with saving 26 million lives, PEPFAR suffered big blows to its impact after the Trump administration’s abrupt stop and restart of its activities last year, according to the first tranche of data from the program since 2024.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/h...
Id like to end put in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they are not hurting anyone insofar as the time they take off from work is spend with friends and family enjoying and caring for those they love. They are probably improving the world more than we acknoledge.
Being unemployed is not always a bad thing.
Other (Delhi and Bristol, India and UK)
Research assistant in infectious disease modelling of structural factors on HIV risk.
with Peter Vickerman, Shruti Mehta, Jack Stone, Sunil Solomon, Aditya Singh
at John Hopkins India and...
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2509
Wildlife trade drives animal-to-human pathogen transmission over 40 years
New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Really pleased that the model fitting and inference for infectious disease modelling short course is running again this year (7-10th September) at #LSHTM and is now all in #julialang.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...
PhD opportunity at SUMOC (Sorbonne Université | INSERM), Paris, within the EPIcx lab.
🦠 Project: SPILL-AI (mobility data, AI, epidemic modeling)
⚠️ Selected candidate will be submitted to competitive funding (SCAI)
Apply by April 12, 2026
www.epicx-lab.com/open-positio...
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📢New funded PhD available!📢 led by Professor Peter Vickerman and Dr Jack Stone.
Modelling the impact of homelessness and related social exclusions on health in the UK
More➡️ tinyurl.com/33tnjujc
@bristoluni.bsky.social
Looking forward to this debate on Monday night. So crucial that our neoliberal universities transform into cooperative communitues of scholars working for the common good
@scottishgreens.org
uk.news.yahoo.com/university-e...
The size of the world population over the long-run. A line chart of world population from 10,000 BCE to present with a short projected extension into the 21st century. It shows a very slow, nearly flat increase for millennia, a small bump around 2,000 years ago, and a rapid exponential rise after about 1800 leading to roughly 8 billion in 2022. Key labeled milestones: about 4 million in 10,000 BCE; 595 million in 1700; 983 million in 1800; 1.6 billion in 1900; 2 billion in 1927; 3 billion in 1960; 4 billion in 1975; 5 billion in 1987; 6 billion in 1998; 7 billion in 2010; 8 billion in 2022. The chart includes a UN Population Division projection that reaches 9 billion in 2037, 10 billion in 2061, and a peak of about 10.3 billion in 2084 before declining. Annotations note that average growth from 10,000 BCE to 1700 was about 0.04 percent per year and that the mid-14th century Black Death killed between a quarter and a half of the population of Europe.
How has the world's population changed over the last 12,000 years? What do projections tell us about the rest of this century?
We've refreshed four of our most popular static charts that show you answers to these questions, updating them with the latest data from the UN. 🧵
A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all
Are you interested in the connections between #maths and #art? Then you'll probably like @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social 's new book "Blueprints". Here's an excerpt: plus.maths.org/blueprints-h...
PhD position (Bristol, UK)
Modelling the impact of homelessness and related social exclusions on health in the UK
with Peter Vickerman, Jack Stone
at University of Bristol
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2501
A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow. A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk. It crashes into a rental scooter. It backs up. It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles. The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again. A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.
The Amazing World of Tomorrow
My full quote to the Times on why it’s bananas to let landowners release 50m pheasants into the British countryside without proper regulations, given their ecological impacts and role as a vector for bird flu:
Excited to share our work w/ @justinlessler.bsky.social, Trevor Bedford & Amanda Perofsky: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.... We investigate when sequence datasets are informative about between-group transmission, and how this depends on the relative pace of mutation, between-group transmission and sampling.
Loved this conversation - Dr Keon West is a joy to listen & learn from.
This is the science of racism:
youtu.be/F1MA19DsbQs?...
1/ 👋 Hi all, we are the Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD). #GSIDD #IDsky #EpiSky 🧪
🗺️ GSIDD serves the global community of researchers, practitioners and educators in infectious disease dynamics.
➕ Follow us for updates on our activities!
🔗: www.gsidd.org
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📢New funded PhD available!📢 led by @universitypress.cambridge.org supervised by us & UKHSA.
Determining the level of combination prevention needed to reduce HIV transmission in African heritage heterosexuals in England.
More (penultimate on list)➡️ tinyurl.com/ctpy3bp3
@bristoluni.bsky.social
Two postdoc positions open at SUMOC (Sorbonne Université | INSERM), Paris, within the EPIcx lab.
🦠 Network epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections (ARCANE)
🧠 Coupled behavior–disease modeling (PREVIX)
2-y positions | Start June 2026
#epidemiology #networks #matrices
1/ 👥 Two online sessions to officially launch process to establish the Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics had 230 attendees! @gs-idd.bsky.social #IDsky 🧪
🔗 'We have launched' post by @bansallab.bsky.social: www.gsidd.org/post/we-have...
CLOSING SOON: Early career faculty (Lyon, France)
Tenure-track position in epidemiological modelling of animal and zoonotic diseases
with @gfournie.bsky.social
at INRAE (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the...
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2469
Lots of focus on the impact of #funding cuts on #HIV but there are wider repercussions.
Here we report 'Voices from the frontline: how global funding cuts are reshaping the viral #hepatitis response' 🧪
@lancetgastrohep.bsky.social @worldhepalliance.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Using exclusive swine trade data, Gavrila found the most likely place a disease like ASF would enter the country and simulated how it would spread to other regions. Rare long-range pig movements turn out to be highly significant - useful insights if you’re trying to contain the disease
Check out this new paper by Gavrila Puspitarani (with small contribution from me). It’s about networks and the spread of diseases, and Austrian pigs www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Exciting new Research Fellow position in modelling infectious diseases to reduce inequities in health outcomes in Africa! Join a multidisciplinary 4 year project with me at UCL and partners in Zimbabwe, Zambia, The Gambia, South Africa, Kenya and the UK. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Postdoc (Lancaster, UK)
School-based social contact study for transmission-dynamic modelling
with Trystan Leng
at Lancaster University
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2461
newborn in mothers arms in hospital
New funded PhD available! Health Service evaluation of maternal RSV vaccine uptake. This is a 3 year HPRU funded PhD project led by Dr Clare French, Prof Ellen Brooks-Pollock, & Dr Hannah Christensen. CLOSES 26/01/26.
More info➡️ tinyurl.com/48f2j337
@bristoluni.bsky.social @findaphd.bsky.social
