I'm not yet used to this culture of journals creating my account on my behalf, without consent, to ask for peer review. I have many duplicate accounts that I can't keep track of because of this! 😩
Like, you'd consider it as a spam or fraud if you got an email saying someone made your Amazon account?

Realising that Turing.jl is actually quite powerful and handy IF you manage to overcome the poor documentation

I've been grappling with a likelihood that can't be auto-differentiated and trying to find a good MCMC alg without requiring gradient... Maybe there are, but in the end HMC, even with forced numerical differentiation, turned out to be the most (labour-)efficient approach 😂

It's rare to have so many PhD studentships open at the same time that are fully funded at the project level - do apply if any of these strike your interest (unfortunately, UK home fee eligible candidates only). I'll describe the 3 projects that involve me / @epiforecasts.io in a bit more detail.

Just realised that a manuscript I flagged a serious issue for was published without re-review (or even a notice), where the authors' response to my comment was essentially "don't know what you mean" 🙄

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Important article but I don't really agree with the authors on having "evolving epidemiology" in the title when the main evolving thing discussed is just the number of cases...🤔
I imagined there was something changing during 2024

With China 7th on the country list--this fig remains (to my surprise TBH) still quite relevant to the ongoing situation apparently.

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Applications are now open for the Joint PhD Programme for #GlobalHealth from LSHTM & Nagasaki University

This international collaboration connects students with a global community of researchers in the UK and Japan.

Apply by 10 January 2025 👉 www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/resear...

Infectious Disease Modelling starter pack update! First pack is full so I created a second one. Pls keep on sending suggestions! (bio should contain experience relevant for this pack)
IDModelling pack 1: go.bsky.app/86Ao1a5
IDModelling pack 2 : go.bsky.app/2oBB7KX

Finally landed on this platform (or should I say took off?) to join the scientific community that diverged from the good old Twitter.

Roles of community and sexual contacts as drivers of clade I mpox outbreaks https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.15.24315554v1

Our new preprint on clade I MPXV (co-led by Akira Endo, Toshiaki Asakura & myself) is out!

Using mathematical models accounting for contact patterns, we estimated the relative roles of community and sexual contacts in clade I transmission dynamics.

🔗 doi.org/10.1101/2024.1…

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