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Brian

@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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Q.E.D Network

@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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Carys Redman-White

@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

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@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

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@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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Ed Hill

@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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@iddconf.bsky.social

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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@iddconf.bsky.social

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.