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Graham Medley
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Father, grandfather,
infectious disease modeller.
Brother, husband,
Aspirant coffee gourmand
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parodypm.bsky.social
Richard Tice, March 2025:
"I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"
November 21, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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noelreports.com
The 16/11/25 Ukraine SitRep is live: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19901...

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November 16, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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tah-sci.com
It's shameful that this headline is appearing in 2025, primarily a result of grotesque global inequalities.
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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drmichaelmarks.bsky.social
Two syphilis/STI related UK PhD Studentships with our group:

Evaluating near-patient syphilis tests with @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social inyurl.com/aw9sapma deadline 5th Dec 2025

Mathematical models to understand partner notification tinyurl.com/2re7xasj deadline 14th Jan 2026

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A picture of the spirochete that causes Treponema pallidum
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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rbiek.bsky.social
Come join us - we are recruiting a postdoc in phylodynamics and epidemiological modelling to join an exciting project on foot-and-mouth-disease virus in African buffalo
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
Please share widely!
#jobs #disease #ecology #evolution #phylodynamics
Research Assistant/Associate
Job Purpose You will contribute to an international collaborative project entitled “Multi-scale infection dynamics from cells to landscapes: FMD in African buffalo”, working with Prof Roman Biek. T...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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iddjobs.org
Other (Stellenbosch, South Africa)
SACEMA Measles and Polio Policy Modelling Fellowships 2026
at Stellenbosch University
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2394
November 8, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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iddjobs.org
PhD position (Cordoba, Spain)
Smart surveillance of plant pathogens through epidemiological modelling, remote sensing and molecular tools
with @janavascortes.bsky.social @rcalderonmadrid.bsky.social
at @iascsic.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2398
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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iddjobs.org
PhD position (Toronto, Canada)
Modeling infectious disease dynamics + evolution (multiple projects)
with @alisonhill.bsky.social
at @utoronto.ca
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2396
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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iddjobs.org
Postdoc (Toronto, Canada)
Conduct advanced research in comparative evolutionary genomics, phylodynamic, phylogeographic, and etc.
at Public Health Ontario
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2397
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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iddjobs.org
Postdoc (Hangzhou, China)
Integrating genomic epidemiology with infectious disease modeling, modeling and statistical analysis of household cohort data, and RSV transmission modeling
with @sunkaiyuan.bsky.social
at Westlake University
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2399
November 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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iddjobs.org
PhD position (Oxford, UK)
HPRU-funded studentship (covers UK/home fees) in statistical epidemiology
with @christldonnelly.bsky.social @christophraser.bsky.social
at @oxfordstatistics.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2393
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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iddjobs.org
PhD position (Athens GA, USA)
Disease ecology modeling for an NIH funded, multi-institution project studying bat-virus dynamics.
with @andrew-w-park
at University of Georgia
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2395
November 8, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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iddjobs.org
PhD position (Cambridge, UK)
Modelling fungicide resistance dynamics for monocyclic plant pathogens
with @nikcunniffe.bsky.social
at University of Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2400
November 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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iddjobs.org
PhD position (Cambridge, UK)
Modelling pest and pathogen entry and spread pathways to enhance the UK Plant Health Risk Register
with @nikcunniffe.bsky.social
at University of Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2401
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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drmichaelmarks.bsky.social
Want to do a PhD on syphilis diagnostics? In collaboration with @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social & @ukhsa.bsky.social we have a funded studentship available via the Health Protection Research Unit on Blood Borne & Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Deadline for applications: Friday 5th December 2025.
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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hetanshah.bsky.social
Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
www.gov.uk/government/p...
The value of public R&D
www.gov.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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kathyburke.bsky.social
I remember Meera Syal saying on a tv chat show about twenty bleeding years ago about the lack of representation of poc on tv particularly in advertising. It’s taken this long to finally see a fair balance so that stupid women and others like her should just shut the fuck up.
October 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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jwsidders.bsky.social
Going to football in the 1980s was routinely terrifying inside and outside the stadium. Violence and racism were absolutely endemic in Brum and across the country. What's changed since then is that it's got so much safer. Jenrick is a liar. No-one who knew a thing about it would say what he said.
October 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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omaromalleykhan.bsky.social
Here's the relevant chart from the above report. It's rare to see such a clear, consistent slope in any social trend. That segregation is decreasing is perhaps the best evidence, least controversial social fact of modern Britain
October 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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globalvectorhub.bsky.social
📢 "Invasive #mosquito surveillance in the #UnitedKingdom 2020 to 2024: First detection of #Aedes aegypti eggs in the UK and further detection of Aedes albopictus 🦟" by Colin Johnston et al. @ukhsa.bsky.social published in @plosglobalpublichealth.org

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
October 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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dchodge.bsky.social
🚀 New tool: Reversible Jump MCMC running in your browser!
Built an interactive widget for fitting mixture distributions when you don't know how many components you need.

Check it out: dchodge.github.io/rjmc-widget-...
Dynamic Mixture Model Analysis
dchodge.github.io
September 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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dchodge.bsky.social
🔬 New to serological data? You’re not alone

When I first saw spreadsheets full of columns labelled ELISA_OD, PRNT50, HI_titre, and PVNT_ID50, I had no idea what they really meant.

That confusion inspired me to write a new blog post, “A Dummy’s Guide to Serological Assays”

👉 tinyurl.com/586dsy77
LinkedIn
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September 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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statsgeekclare.bsky.social
New CMO report out today on health trends and variation in England. My team delivered this using a RAP developed in R, which made a nice change from lots of people running around putting numbers into excel then pasting into powerpoint... Was not without challenges though! www.gov.uk/government/p...
Health trends and variation in England 2025: a Chief Medical Officer report
An overview of the health of England’s population, including trends over time and geographical variation.
www.gov.uk
September 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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politicsintheuk.bsky.social
Violent crime plunges 13% in London.
In 2024, London had 1.2 homicides per 100,000 residents - lower than New York at 4.0 and Toronto at 1.7.
Homicides in London are also lower compared to most north European cities such as Berlin (3.4), Brussels (3.2), Paris (1.4), and Copenhagen (1.5)
Violent crime plunges 13% in London as homicide rate less than Paris and Berlin
Despite there being ‘tens of thousands of fewer victims,’ Mayor of London Sadiq Khan acknowledged that ‘one death and one crime will always be too many’
www.standard.co.uk
September 11, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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contagionlive.bsky.social
“Fast change, little spread”

The University of Oxford’s Prof Katrina Lythgoe and Dr. Mahan Ghafari unpack ONS-CIS data on 576 persistent infections, rapid within-host evolution, and rare transmission after 1 month. #IDsky #MEDsky

Read our Q&A: www.contagionlive.com/view/persist...
Persistent SARS-CoV-2 Infections in the Community Show Fast Within-Host Change but Little Late Transmission
Oxford’s Prof Katrina Lythgoe and Mahan Ghafari, DPhil, report ONS-CIS data on 576 persistent UK infections with rapid within-host evolution and rare transmission after one month.
www.contagionlive.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:20 PM