The most common COVID question I get now is: how many cases are we missing? Here, I attempt to answer that question in detail. And importantly, does it matter if we don’t know the true infection numbers? abc.net.au/news/2022-12-2…

Congratulations Adriana Zanca on MBSIG's best paper prize #MBSIG

NUMBAT hackathon 2023 in San Remo. Lots of coding happening, and watching pelican feeding.

It's Day 2 of the #SPECTRUMSPARK EDUCATION workshop in Infectious Diseases Modelling. Working on model parameterisation, led by Eamon Conway. Great to be partnered with OUCRU, Doherty Institute, AITHM and University of Melbourne.

Great to be teaching about maximum likelihood estimation with Eamon Conway, Trish Campbell and A/Prof RI Hickson at the #SPECTRUMSPARK workshop for infectious diseases modelling in Indonesia. Great support from Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne & AITHM #datascience #rstats

It's ACTION on Day 4 at the #SPECTRUMSPARK workshop for infectious diseases modelling in Indonesia. Today we're covering Vector-borne diseases, buit in R. Training led by Trish Campbell Doherty Institute with assistance from Eamon Conway A/Prof RI Hickson #rstats

This is #teamwork #SPECTRUMSPARK workshop for infectious diseases modelling in Indonesia. Trish Campbell Doherty Institute Eamon Conway Michael Lydeamore

Last day of the #SPECTRUMSPARK workshop for infectious diseases modelling in Indonesia. Michael Lydeamore is teaching us how to include interventions, with Eamon Conway, Trish Campbell and the Great support from Doherty Institute, University of Melbourne & AITHM

❗️We're hiring❗️ Two year postdoc position Melbourne Mathematical Biology with myself, Matt Faria and James Osborne developing multiscale biological models and connecting these models with new organoid data. Details here: jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/912150/… Feel free to message/email me with any questions.

Cost-effective boosting allocations in the post-Omicron era of COVID-19 management medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #medRxiv

Academics the morning after the conference social

Morning fog on the way to Sydney looking like a marshmallow river. There are, I think, rivers under here, and so the surface temperature is probably colder than on the surrounding lands. Great display of thermal physics in practice! And a pretty good view.