Bram van Bunnik
@b-v-b.bsky.social
Infectious disease modeller | Quantitative epidemiologist @TheRoslinInstitute 🌍 | Passionate about disease transmission, Rabies, AMR, and other things🦠 | Making data work for global health 🌐
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New commentary on pandemic surveillance and the need to have it be repeatable/continuous for updating, out in @pnas.org with Freya Shearer of Uni Melbourne: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The importance of playing the long game when it comes to pandemic surveillance | PNAS
The importance of playing the long game when it comes to pandemic surveillance
www.pnas.org
April 9, 2025 at 6:24 PM
New commentary on pandemic surveillance and the need to have it be repeatable/continuous for updating, out in @pnas.org with Freya Shearer of Uni Melbourne: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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I enjoyed reading this review on Staph bacteremia by some giants in the field. Two highlights are the discussion of oral treatment options and the slight preference for cefazolin over ASPs.
I rarely do cefazolin 2g q6 dosing, but considering using it more
#IDSky
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...?
I rarely do cefazolin 2g q6 dosing, but considering using it more
#IDSky
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...?
Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia: A Review
This narrative review summarizes current evidence on the epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis, and treatment of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia.
jamanetwork.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
I enjoyed reading this review on Staph bacteremia by some giants in the field. Two highlights are the discussion of oral treatment options and the slight preference for cefazolin over ASPs.
I rarely do cefazolin 2g q6 dosing, but considering using it more
#IDSky
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...?
I rarely do cefazolin 2g q6 dosing, but considering using it more
#IDSky
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...?
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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🦠 New study shows impact of haulage drivers in Uganda’s COVID-19 Delta wave 🦠
Researchers from @roslininstitute.bsky.social led by Dr Adrian Muwonge identified haulage drivers as a transient but crucial risk group in the spread of COVID-19
edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Researchers from @roslininstitute.bsky.social led by Dr Adrian Muwonge identified haulage drivers as a transient but crucial risk group in the spread of COVID-19
edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
New study shows impact of haulage drivers in Uganda’s COVID-19 Delta wave
April 2025: Researchers from the Digital One Health Laboratory in the The Roslin Institute led by Dr Adrian Muwonge have been investigating the role of haulage during the Delta wave of COVID-19 in Uga...
edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk
April 9, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🦠 New study shows impact of haulage drivers in Uganda’s COVID-19 Delta wave 🦠
Researchers from @roslininstitute.bsky.social led by Dr Adrian Muwonge identified haulage drivers as a transient but crucial risk group in the spread of COVID-19
edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Researchers from @roslininstitute.bsky.social led by Dr Adrian Muwonge identified haulage drivers as a transient but crucial risk group in the spread of COVID-19
edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Hi #Drosophila folk: I'm advertising a 2-year #Postdoc, funded by a BBSRC grant on the genetic and immune determinants and evolutionary constraints underlying extreme pathogen transmission phenotypes. Deadline 29 April, details in the link below, or feel free to email:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ231/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ231/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh
Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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April 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Hi #Drosophila folk: I'm advertising a 2-year #Postdoc, funded by a BBSRC grant on the genetic and immune determinants and evolutionary constraints underlying extreme pathogen transmission phenotypes. Deadline 29 April, details in the link below, or feel free to email:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ231/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ231/p...
🧬 We're Hiring! 🐾
Join The Roslin Institute as a Postdoc Research Associate to study rabies virus evolution using nanopore sequencing!
📍 Edinburgh | ⏳ 12-month contract
🔬 Skills: Virology | Bioinformatics | Python/R | Nanopore Sequencing
Details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Join The Roslin Institute as a Postdoc Research Associate to study rabies virus evolution using nanopore sequencing!
📍 Edinburgh | ⏳ 12-month contract
🔬 Skills: Virology | Bioinformatics | Python/R | Nanopore Sequencing
Details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Postdoctoral Molecular Biologist
We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) at the Roslin Institute, under the supervision of Dr Stella Mazeri, to contribute to cutting-edge research in rabies evolution and control t...
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April 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
🧬 We're Hiring! 🐾
Join The Roslin Institute as a Postdoc Research Associate to study rabies virus evolution using nanopore sequencing!
📍 Edinburgh | ⏳ 12-month contract
🔬 Skills: Virology | Bioinformatics | Python/R | Nanopore Sequencing
Details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
Join The Roslin Institute as a Postdoc Research Associate to study rabies virus evolution using nanopore sequencing!
📍 Edinburgh | ⏳ 12-month contract
🔬 Skills: Virology | Bioinformatics | Python/R | Nanopore Sequencing
Details: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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I hate the clocks changing because it makes me feel stupid
![1 [Nurse talking to camera]
This is usually our busiest time of year at the centre
2 [Show a sign outside a medical institution reading:]
Centre for Adults Who Still Can’t Get Their Heads Round Daylight Savings
3
NURSE:
We have a spike in admissions when BST starts
4
CONFUSED PATIENT BEING LAID DOWN BY NURSES:
Is it forward or back?
NURSE:
Lie down love
5
We often see the same patients ever year
PATIENT:
So it’s like… time travel?
DOCTOR:
No
6 Every year we try to explain BST to them in a fun and memorable way
[The patients are sat around a fun show, with people dressed in bunny suits jumping around a giant clock]
BUNNY: And now I *spring forward*...
7
[Bunny springs forward one hour on clock]
8
PATIENT WATCHING SHOW:
I don’t get it
9
The hardest patients are the Summer Time refusers
10 PATIENT [sat strapped to a chair as a doctor talks to him through a screen, through a tannoy]
PATIENT: But why is it better?
DOCTOR [talking through microphone]:
Because it complicates things.
11
PATIENT:
How is that good?
DOCTOR:
It makes you more tired.
12
DOCTOR [to assistant]:
Fetch the cattle prod](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreidhoxu7xpaujl7fvw4geaw45cu5qa2h5vcnrfxudj747fkesjix3m@jpeg)
March 30, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I hate the clocks changing because it makes me feel stupid
😮
Another Elsevier paper with obvious AI-written text.
“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “
“In summary, the management of bilateral iatrogenic I'm very sorry, but I don't have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model. “
January 17, 2025 at 9:40 PM
😮
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From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for good model-sharing practices | I like all of the rules, but particularly Rule 6: Publicly recognize and reward research software engineers | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Ten simple rules for good model-sharing practices
Computational models are complex scientific constructs that have become essential for us to better understand the world. Many models are valuable for peers within and beyond disciplinary boundaries. H...
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January 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
From @plos.org #Computational #Biology | Ten simple rules for good model-sharing practices | I like all of the rules, but particularly Rule 6: Publicly recognize and reward research software engineers | #Education #Bioinformatics #PLOSCBTSR 🧬 🖥️ 🧪
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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How can we address #AntimicrobialResistance (AMR) with a One Health approach in India and the UK?
Read our new report, following our symposium with the Indian Council of Medical Research, which summarises case studies and key priorities for taking global action against #AMR 🦠
🔗 bit.ly/4fmmhla
Read our new report, following our symposium with the Indian Council of Medical Research, which summarises case studies and key priorities for taking global action against #AMR 🦠
🔗 bit.ly/4fmmhla
December 16, 2024 at 12:26 PM
How can we address #AntimicrobialResistance (AMR) with a One Health approach in India and the UK?
Read our new report, following our symposium with the Indian Council of Medical Research, which summarises case studies and key priorities for taking global action against #AMR 🦠
🔗 bit.ly/4fmmhla
Read our new report, following our symposium with the Indian Council of Medical Research, which summarises case studies and key priorities for taking global action against #AMR 🦠
🔗 bit.ly/4fmmhla
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IT'S OFFICIAL! From today, @plos.org and its journals are no longer posting on Twitter/X. If you want to carry on hearing about great science in our journal, follow @plosbiology.org on Bluesky here: bsky.app/profile/plos...
December 16, 2024 at 6:59 PM
IT'S OFFICIAL! From today, @plos.org and its journals are no longer posting on Twitter/X. If you want to carry on hearing about great science in our journal, follow @plosbiology.org on Bluesky here: bsky.app/profile/plos...
Nice pre-print:
This study revisits (historically too low?) ℛ0 estimates, finding larger values with wider confidence intervals than previously thought.
Eliminating rabies may need greater vaccination efforts—still feasible!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This study revisits (historically too low?) ℛ0 estimates, finding larger values with wider confidence intervals than previously thought.
Eliminating rabies may need greater vaccination efforts—still feasible!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org
December 16, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Nice pre-print:
This study revisits (historically too low?) ℛ0 estimates, finding larger values with wider confidence intervals than previously thought.
Eliminating rabies may need greater vaccination efforts—still feasible!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
This study revisits (historically too low?) ℛ0 estimates, finding larger values with wider confidence intervals than previously thought.
Eliminating rabies may need greater vaccination efforts—still feasible!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🌍 Job Opportunity Alert! 🧬
Join the Roslin Institute’s LBEP in Edinburgh for a 3-year MRC-funded One Health study on antimicrobial resistance in UK/China. 🔬 PhD in microbial genomics, bioinformatics skills, & teamwork needed! 🌐 [Further Details](elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...)
Join the Roslin Institute’s LBEP in Edinburgh for a 3-year MRC-funded One Health study on antimicrobial resistance in UK/China. 🔬 PhD in microbial genomics, bioinformatics skills, & teamwork needed! 🌐 [Further Details](elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...)
PDRA in Bacterial Genomics
We are looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Bacterial Genomics at the Laboratory for Bacterial Evolution and Pathogenesis (www.ed.ac.uk/roslin/research/divisions/bacteriology/lbep) at The...
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December 2, 2024 at 11:20 AM
🌍 Job Opportunity Alert! 🧬
Join the Roslin Institute’s LBEP in Edinburgh for a 3-year MRC-funded One Health study on antimicrobial resistance in UK/China. 🔬 PhD in microbial genomics, bioinformatics skills, & teamwork needed! 🌐 [Further Details](elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...)
Join the Roslin Institute’s LBEP in Edinburgh for a 3-year MRC-funded One Health study on antimicrobial resistance in UK/China. 🔬 PhD in microbial genomics, bioinformatics skills, & teamwork needed! 🌐 [Further Details](elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...)