Billy Quilty
@bquilty.bsky.social
Infectious disease epidemiologist and modeller based at Charité Berlin, LSHTM (honorary), WHO Pandemic Hub (consultant) | PhD LSHTM | MSc ImperialCollege | Twitter: @BQuilty
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Billy Quilty
@bquilty.bsky.social
· Nov 28
Effect of a Reduced PCV10 Dose Schedule on Pneumococcal Carriage in Vietnam | NEJM
After pneumococcal disease and colonization have been controlled through vaccination
campaigns, a reduced pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) schedule may be sufficient
to sustain that control at ...
www.nejm.org
Very happy to share our new study out today in the New England Journal of Medicine, showing fewer PCV doses are non-inferior to standard schedules in maintaining control of vaccine-type carriage in Vietnam. This could make vacc programmes much more affordable for LMICs.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
I'm taking part in this webinar on Friday to discuss my experience in #SciComm as an ECR during the Covid-19 pandemic - should be a really interesting conversation! Sign up below:
On July 11th at 12pm UTC, join @researcheracad.bsky.social and @senseaboutsci.bsky.social for a webinar addressing how early career researchers can respond to opposition, misrepresentation, and harassment.
Register now: http://spkl.io/63321A6PJV
#AcademicSky #PhDSky #SciComm
Register now: http://spkl.io/63321A6PJV
#AcademicSky #PhDSky #SciComm
July 7, 2025 at 10:37 AM
I'm taking part in this webinar on Friday to discuss my experience in #SciComm as an ECR during the Covid-19 pandemic - should be a really interesting conversation! Sign up below:
For better or worse (and there's lots of arguments for both) the genie is out of the bottle - it's here to stay, and that means we should be trying to maximise it's usefulness to society, and at the same time, trying to minimise harms. This is just wishing it away.
‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home
Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
For better or worse (and there's lots of arguments for both) the genie is out of the bottle - it's here to stay, and that means we should be trying to maximise it's usefulness to society, and at the same time, trying to minimise harms. This is just wishing it away.
Great to see @christophraser.bsky.social discuss daily contact testing as a way of reducing quarantine burden at the UK Covid Inquiry. However, it is disappointing this is the only mention of this policy in the entire 12 days of the Test, Trace, and Isolate Module.
June 2, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Great to see @christophraser.bsky.social discuss daily contact testing as a way of reducing quarantine burden at the UK Covid Inquiry. However, it is disappointing this is the only mention of this policy in the entire 12 days of the Test, Trace, and Isolate Module.
Now to make the most mid latte art of all time 🤩
May 5, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Now to make the most mid latte art of all time 🤩
Just a few days left to apply for a PhD integrating behavioural data in infectious disease modelling using AI at Charité Berlin with me and Prof Stefan Flasche.
Deadline 6th April!
Deadline 6th April!
PhD position (Berlin, Germany)
AI-Driven Integration of Behavioural Data for Disease Modelling
with @BQuilty , Stefan Flasche
at Charité
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2285
AI-Driven Integration of Behavioural Data for Disease Modelling
with @BQuilty , Stefan Flasche
at Charité
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2285
April 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Just a few days left to apply for a PhD integrating behavioural data in infectious disease modelling using AI at Charité Berlin with me and Prof Stefan Flasche.
Deadline 6th April!
Deadline 6th April!
In Britain, we pride ourselves on authenticity, tradition, and cultural heritage.
*sips pint of Madri*
*sips pint of Madri*
March 28, 2025 at 11:28 AM
In Britain, we pride ourselves on authenticity, tradition, and cultural heritage.
*sips pint of Madri*
*sips pint of Madri*
My two pence on lockdowns/NPIs is that for high R resp. pathogens we should really talk about effectiveness in terms of capacity to delay, rather than prevent. So the question is then: what reduces R but also carries lowest societal costs so it can be maintained until we get vaccines/antivirals out?
March 24, 2025 at 11:39 AM
My two pence on lockdowns/NPIs is that for high R resp. pathogens we should really talk about effectiveness in terms of capacity to delay, rather than prevent. So the question is then: what reduces R but also carries lowest societal costs so it can be maintained until we get vaccines/antivirals out?
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Do we worry too much about misinformation? I've got a piece in today's Guardian about aliens, vaccines and social media - and the dual risks of believing falsehoods and ignoring truth: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
The big idea: do we worry too much about misinformation?
Seeing falsehoods everywhere is as damaging as believing too much. Our focus should be on helping people interpret information better
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Do we worry too much about misinformation? I've got a piece in today's Guardian about aliens, vaccines and social media - and the dual risks of believing falsehoods and ignoring truth: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/...
March 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/...
This photo in @theguardian.com looks like a screenshot from an isometric strategy video game:
March 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
This photo in @theguardian.com looks like a screenshot from an isometric strategy video game:
Interested in pursing a PhD in infectious disease dynamics, artificial intelligence, and behavioural science?
Come and join myself and Professor Stefan Flasche at the Charité Center for Global Health in Berlin:
karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan...
Come and join myself and Professor Stefan Flasche at the Charité Center for Global Health in Berlin:
karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan...
karriere.charite.de
March 7, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Interested in pursing a PhD in infectious disease dynamics, artificial intelligence, and behavioural science?
Come and join myself and Professor Stefan Flasche at the Charité Center for Global Health in Berlin:
karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan...
Come and join myself and Professor Stefan Flasche at the Charité Center for Global Health in Berlin:
karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan...
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When an epidemic hits, how long does it take to get going with common epidemic analysis tasks?
A couple of weeks ago, we asked representatives from over a dozen UK organisations and universities who work actively on epidemic analysis and modelling how long the below tasks would take them....
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A couple of weeks ago, we asked representatives from over a dozen UK organisations and universities who work actively on epidemic analysis and modelling how long the below tasks would take them....
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February 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
When an epidemic hits, how long does it take to get going with common epidemic analysis tasks?
A couple of weeks ago, we asked representatives from over a dozen UK organisations and universities who work actively on epidemic analysis and modelling how long the below tasks would take them....
1/
A couple of weeks ago, we asked representatives from over a dozen UK organisations and universities who work actively on epidemic analysis and modelling how long the below tasks would take them....
1/
February 23, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Wastewater from airplane toilets?
We introduce a global Aircraft-Based Wastewater Surveillance Network (WWSN) for pandemic monitoring in Nature Medicine 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Aircraft-based wastewater surveillance allows for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of global pathogen spread
Short 🧵
We introduce a global Aircraft-Based Wastewater Surveillance Network (WWSN) for pandemic monitoring in Nature Medicine 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Aircraft-based wastewater surveillance allows for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of global pathogen spread
Short 🧵
Pandemic monitoring with global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks - Nature Medicine
By simulating the implementation of airport-based wastewater surveillance sites at the global level, a modeling study shows how this early warning system would perform in identifying sources of pandem...
doi.org
February 12, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Wastewater from airplane toilets?
We introduce a global Aircraft-Based Wastewater Surveillance Network (WWSN) for pandemic monitoring in Nature Medicine 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Aircraft-based wastewater surveillance allows for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of global pathogen spread
Short 🧵
We introduce a global Aircraft-Based Wastewater Surveillance Network (WWSN) for pandemic monitoring in Nature Medicine 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Aircraft-based wastewater surveillance allows for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of global pathogen spread
Short 🧵
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The success of and belated market response to DeepSeek doesn’t really prove many AI-skeptic takes right. This is evidence of powerful generative AI being easier and cheaper to make and run than anyone expected so soon.
January 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
The success of and belated market response to DeepSeek doesn’t really prove many AI-skeptic takes right. This is evidence of powerful generative AI being easier and cheaper to make and run than anyone expected so soon.
Ryanair: we should limit people to two drinks at European airports
Berlin airport: BIERTOWER
Berlin airport: BIERTOWER
January 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Ryanair: we should limit people to two drinks at European airports
Berlin airport: BIERTOWER
Berlin airport: BIERTOWER
Today I learnt Charlie Brooker was one of the founders of CeX, and designed their logo?!
January 13, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Today I learnt Charlie Brooker was one of the founders of CeX, and designed their logo?!
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Compared to its own overall price levels, housing in the UK is more expensive than anywhere in the OECD. www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
January 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Compared to its own overall price levels, housing in the UK is more expensive than anywhere in the OECD. www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...
Glastonbury ticket from 1986. Seems a bit steep...
January 12, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Glastonbury ticket from 1986. Seems a bit steep...
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"The utterly plausible case that climate change makes London much colder" by @henrymance.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com: www.ft.com/content/7711...
The utterly plausible case that climate change makes London much colder
For some climate scientists, global warming threatens Britain with a more unexpected scenario
www.ft.com
January 11, 2025 at 8:22 PM
"The utterly plausible case that climate change makes London much colder" by @henrymance.bsky.social for @financialtimes.com: www.ft.com/content/7711...
Very sad to see the loss of such an effectively explanatory pub sign in Nine Elms (June vs. now in December)
December 20, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Very sad to see the loss of such an effectively explanatory pub sign in Nine Elms (June vs. now in December)
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Are superspreaders always social butterflies? 🦋🦠
Our new study on temporal social contacts showed most people are highly connected only for brief periods. Crucially, this challenges the idea that respi outbreaks naturally subside once highly connected people becomes immune.
doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
Our new study on temporal social contacts showed most people are highly connected only for brief periods. Crucially, this challenges the idea that respi outbreaks naturally subside once highly connected people becomes immune.
doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
Temporal contact patterns and the implications for predicting superspreaders and planning of targeted outbreak control | Journal of The Royal Society Interface
Directly transmitted infectious diseases spread through social contacts that change over time, but outbreak models typically make simplifying assumptions about network structure and dynamics. To assess how common assumptions relate to real-world ...
doi.org
December 18, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Are superspreaders always social butterflies? 🦋🦠
Our new study on temporal social contacts showed most people are highly connected only for brief periods. Crucially, this challenges the idea that respi outbreaks naturally subside once highly connected people becomes immune.
doi.org/10.1098/rsif...
Our new study on temporal social contacts showed most people are highly connected only for brief periods. Crucially, this challenges the idea that respi outbreaks naturally subside once highly connected people becomes immune.
doi.org/10.1098/rsif...