For this week’s #epinowcast seminar (as ever the first Wednesday of the month at 3pm UK time) we have Lina Cristancho Fajardo talking about:

Why heterogeneity in mosquito exposure is necessary to forecast chikungunya outbreaks in Reunion Island.

www.epinowcast.org/seminars/202...

@betanalpha.bsky.social quick question. Is an uncertainty interval an expectation? I think I’ve seen it as an expectation using an indicator function.

This week, @emiliefinch.bsky.social and @jandraor.bsky.social from our team delivered a hands-on workshop on infectious disease modelling.
Participants from KAUST were introduced to the fundamentals of transmission dynamics.

Huge thanks to all the participants for their curiosity and engagement.

This one has been a long time coming: we delivered this through institutional changes and the team incubated two babies 👶 👶 alongside this phenomenal work dissecting the genomic epidemiology of a globally important Salmonella serovar causing iNTS disease worldwide! 🧬 🧫 💊

Ipswich looking glorious in the sun. Brilliant 48h with the @pducambridge.bsky.social solving the pressing questions in infectious diseases, competing in penalty shoot outs and cooking up a storm #PDURetreat

New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June.
research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Kevin is taking about multiplexing in the time and mass domains.

Final one before the weekend ... check out this amazing new preprint from @charlotteechong.bsky.social where she uncovers what the dominant forces are shaping accessory genome dynamics in the WHO AMR priority pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa 🧫 🛡️💊

Sexually transmissible shigellosis has gone from an obscure cause of sporadic outbreaks to a sustained endemic AMR priority in only two decades! 🧫💊 Check out our latest preprint to understand how this happened 1/11
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

El hombre que midió el mundo… con un palo y una sombra

Hace más de 2000 años, un sabio griego que vivía en Egipto hizo algo que parece de ciencia ficción: calculó la circunferencia de la Tierra con gran precisión… usando solo observación, geometría y un palo. Su nombre era Eratóstenes 👇🏻

The MIMIC lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join my team at @Cambridge_Uni!
Exploration and engineering DNA-mimicking proteins (wet-lab position.) 🧬
Details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50652/
Please get in touch / circulate !

One of the more surprising things about doing science is that answers are often found in places that seem strange without knowing why a scientist has chosen this.

No one best way to measure #infection risk in populations.

Cross-sectional sero: weak temporal signal, CXR, waning as we know. Extra care needed for longitudinal #serology as Ab kinetics and assay noise can mess up estimates by a lot. Cases can be powerful!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2411768121

Hello world! After a year in the making, the Pathogen Dynamics Unit is ready to launch! Check out our website (pdu.gen.cam.ac.uk) and follow the team (bsky.app/profile/did:...) to keep up with the latest from our infectious disease supergroup based at @geneticscam.bsky.social

The process of producing flu vaccines with eggs:

I didn't realise that 1 egg supplies only around 1 dose.

We are very proud to share that @hsalje.bsky.social has been awarded an #ERC Consolidator Grant 🎉

He will be exploring how host, immunity and mosquito factors combine to determine the evolving fitness of the #dengue virus 🦠

The #AMR2024 conference report is out! www.nature.com/articles/s44... Read to re-live a great meeting or see what you missed! Thanks @charlotteechong.bsky.social and the amazing ECR team who led on this, and pls bookmark Mar 23 - 25 2026 in your calendars for #AMR2026 by @eventswcs.bsky.social