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email juniper [at] maths.cam.ac.uk to join the waitlist. please note that last year we only contacted the first 10 on the waitlist.
February 6, 2026 at 7:13 AM
iddconf.bsky.social
It's a tricky balance. We purposefully keep it small to generate a community atmosphere, which helps make it welcoming to ECRs. Yes tickets were fast, but we shared registration to everyone on the notification list at the same time, which is our other main tenet - fairness and transparency.
February 5, 2026 at 9:55 PM
iddconf.bsky.social
Sold out! We will be running a waitlist. Details to follow.
February 4, 2026 at 2:14 PM
iddconf.bsky.social
IDDconf 2026 registration is open! See IDDconf.org for details and registration link.
IDDconf 2026
A Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics. IDDconf is the second instalment of a new meeting series focussing on innovative research in infectious disease dynamics.
IDDconf.org
February 4, 2026 at 9:07 AM
iddconf.bsky.social
IDDconf 2026 - July 7-9 in Ambleside, UK.

A new summer date & a new ticketing system!
Plus, 2 exciting workshops this year!
See IDDconf.org for more info

Tickets will go on sale on 4th Feb. To be notified when, sign up at: tinyurl.com/IDDconf2026
IDDconf 2026
A Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics. IDDconf is the second instalment of a new meeting series focussing on innovative research in infectious disease dynamics.
IDDconf.org
January 30, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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brianmackenna.bsky.social
We are HIRING!

Researchers & analysts

Come and join us shipping code, papers and tools like OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...
We're hiring researchers to work on OpenSAFELY | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
Come and work with us! We’re looking for Epidemiologists / Health Data Scientists to join our growing research team.
www.bennett.ox.ac.uk
September 11, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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qedmathsnetwork.bsky.social
Hi, it’s us!!!
Come check out what we offer and don’t forget to sign up to our outlist or ally list! sites.google.com/view/qednetw...
September 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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biocarys.bsky.social
Back from a fab few days at @iddconf.bsky.social, where I presented a poster on my #SystemDynamics model of #AMR - preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...
September 5, 2025 at 11:16 AM
iddconf.bsky.social
Hearing about the importance of co-production from Zviiteyi Chazuka.
Slide about coproduction of modelling research with stakeholders
September 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
iddconf.bsky.social
Great to hear about this community initiative in the field of maths and applied maths to increase equality and diversity in the field.
Slide about the Queer Equality and Diversity Network for mathematicians and applied mathematicians
September 4, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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edmhill.bsky.social
🧪 Engaging science continued on the second day of IDDconf 2025! @iddconf.bsky.social #IDsky #IDepi

🗣️ Today’s contributions included a talk by PhD student Fateen Yasir on “The challenges of modelling contemporary measles dynamics”

🔗 Fateen’s webpage: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/math...
Date: Wednesday 03 September 2025 Session chair: Julia Gog Time: 09:00 Presenter: Rebecca Underwood Title Identifying relationships between care home outbreaks and the local area using SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequence data Time: 09:15 Presenter: Muhammad Bilal Title: Evaluating the effect of sampling bias on genetic estimate of disease transmission Time: 09:30 Presenter: Jake Carson Title: Incorporating epidemiological data into the genomic analysis of partially sampled infectious disease outbreaks Time: 09:45 Presenter: Hannah Lepper Title: Multiple mechanistic models of strain competition are needed to capture pneumococcal serotype-specific antibiotic resistance patterns Time: 10:00 Presenter: Greg Barnsley Title: The impact of Azithromycin mass drug administration on bacterial carriage in humanitarian settings Time: 10:15 Presenter: Fateen Yasir Title: The challenges of modelling contemporary measles dynamics 10:30-11:15 Coffee Session chair: Graham Medley Time: 11:15 Presenter: Julia Bicker Title: A hybrid modeling framework to combine agent- and population-based epidemiological models Time: 11:30 Presenter: Simon Spencer Title: A Bayesian modelling framework with model comparison for epidemics with super-spreading Time: 11:45 Presenter: Lloyd Chapman Title: Non-centered Bayesian inference for discrete-time individual-level epidemic models: the Rippler algorithm Time: 12:00 Presenter: Daniel Higgins Title: A doubly stochastic approach to compartmental modelling Time: 12:15 Presenter: Julia Gog Title: What I learned during my sabbatical Time: 12:30 Presenter: Anna Wendler Title: An extension of age-of-infection models: A SECIR model based on integrodifferential equations for epidemic outbreaks Time: 12:45 Presenter: Melissa Iacovidou Title: Spatially explicit individual-based model for schistosomiasis Fateen introducing his talk on “The challenges of modelling contemporary measles dynamics”. Supervised by Matt Keeling & Ed Hill. Three challenges: 1. Contact matrices 2. Vaccine heterogeneity 3. Data quality and integration Key takeaways Challenges 1. Justify the use of contact matrix for current times 2. Accurately model the immunisation landscape 3. Work with the UKHSA to overcome data quality issues Questions: 1. Effect of a changing demography 2. Implementing localised models 3. Impact of immune amnesia
September 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Historical deep dives showing the importance of Hilda Hudson in the field of epidemiological modelling.
Slide giving background of how Ronald Ross and Hilda Hudson started working together. Slide showing text from old paper showing development of mathematical modelling theory in 1916/17
September 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Julia Gog telling us what she did during her sabbatical.
We are learning about Hilda Hudson!
September 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Fab day at IDDconf 2025
We’ve seen a lot of great talks and just before the poster session and reception, Martin Wolfender from @unibe.ch is telling us about forecasting hospital bed use.
September 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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Jon Read kicking things off at IDDconf 2025 telling us neat things about contact patterns in England during the COVID pandemic.
September 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Day 1 schedule.

Reminder: talks are chosen at random from submitted titles using a RNG, and we have a 44% F:M ratio. All posters are accepted.
Screengrab of the IDDconf 2025 schedule. The schedule will get added to IDDconf.org as well for screenreaders. Apologies I cant put it all in the alt text.
August 26, 2025 at 11:33 AM
iddconf.bsky.social
IDDconf 2025 registration is open!

Information and sign up at IDDconf.org

Looking forward to it already!
IDDconf 2025
A Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics. IDDconf is the second instalment of a new meeting series focussing on innovative research in infectious disease dynamics.
IDDconf.org
May 23, 2025 at 2:12 PM
iddconf.bsky.social
2025 here we come!
iddconf.org
IDDconf will be September 2-4 2025 in Ambleside.
Ticket info coming soon.
IDDconf 2025
A Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics. IDDconf is the second instalment of a new meeting series focussing on innovative research in infectious disease dynamics.
iddconf.org
April 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM