Sir David Norgrove has today replied to Matt Hancock, Secretary of State for Health and Social Care regarding the Government’s COVID-19 testing data ow.ly/pw4c50zWpO8

Well deserved!

Aaand - congrats Dr Ellis for passing the #PhD VIVA today! Some good grilling by Jon Pitchford and myself ... and very impressed for having already published 4 chapters!

If populations are highly vaccinated, we'd expect a higher proportion of future cases to have been previously vaccinated (because by definition, there aren't as many non-vaccinated people around to be infected). But what sort of numbers should we expect? A short thread... 1/

PhD complete ☑️ Thank you Uni of Birmingham for a brilliant 7.5 years

Keith Walters Harper Adams University describing work to reduce pesticide usage by targeting only patches of higher densities of slugs in arable fields #aabipm21

Excited to present a poster today at #EPIDEMICS8! We have two in poster session 5 on my my work modelling FMDV at The Pirbright Institute

Any writer who claims 'UK models always overestimate COVID numbers' is either lazy or trying to mislead their readers. A few illustrations... 1/

I've seen a few people recently shouting about how new ONS data shows that the "true" death toll from COVID in England & Wales is only 17,371, rather than the ONS figure of 157,816. This is obviously nonsense, but evidently still needs debunking, so here goes...

This is absolutely crucial. Watch the video. Energy is a basic necessity and cannot be left to the market in the way the Tories have setup.

How to change the world with data visualisation... A (long) thread ⬇️ (or read the post)... timharford.com/2022/02/how-to…

Our latest paper on slug distributions with some of the work from my thesis has just been published. My last involvement in slug modelling for a while! 😔 nature.com/articles/s4159…

Huge congratulations to our three best-poster prize awardees Marina Meester, John Ellis and Jonas Brock! Their three posters combined both high scientific merit and visual impact. Congratulations!

Had a great time presenting my work as a (prize-winning!) poster at #SVEPM2022 this week! Also got to explore Northern Ireland and fittingly visit this monument to the last animal culled during the 2001 FMD outbreak.

Our amazing volunteers have been showcasing Pirbright's research this week at The Royal Society #SummerScience Exhibition, talking about all things to do with #Zoonoses and #VectorBorne disease. There's still time to join the #DiseaseDetectives ... 👉pirbright.ac.uk/disease-detect…

Inferring transmission routes for foot-and-mouth disease virus within a cattle herd using approximate Bayesian computation biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #bioRxiv

Some of my work last year with The Pirbright Institute has just been published. We used a model of within-herd transmission of foot-and-mouth-disease to estimate how sampling in the environment could be used as a means of detection.

Now we have John Ellis from Imperial College London discussing the use of models to evaluate the impact of new drugs on schistosomiasis elimination.

The results from my recent postdoc with Nik at @plantsci is now out as a preprint!

Today, we had the pleasure of hosting guests from Ethiopian Public Health Institute and Imperial College London , sharing insights from our work on #schistosomiasis, #snails, and #diagnostics