Today, we're launching the Pathogen Harmonized Observatory, or Pharos: a global platform for managing and sharing data on wildlife disease. You can explore some example datasets, or upload your own, by heading over to pharos.viralemergence.org 🖥️ More on the project... 🧵

Introducing the European Respiratory Diseases Forecasting Hub at #EPIDEMICS9 : respicast.ecdc.europa.eu

🔜 I’ll be recruiting a number of post-docs and Phd students to my new group in Berlin. If interested and keen on vaccine epidemiology, global health and disease dynamics, including eg modelling, stats, RSV, Pneumo, Dengue, pandemic preparedness, please get in touch

“Forecasting influenza hospital admissions within English sub-regions using hierarchical generalised additive models” our new publication out today! nature.com/articles/s4385…

From the recent SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance report for 🇩🇪: BA.2.86 and its sublineage JN.1 (declared VOI since a week) continuously increase. Sequencing results shared from LacknerLab and team with Robert Koch-Institut in the context of AMELAG - thx! ⬇️⬇️ rki.de/DE/Content/Ins…

[🇩🇪Tweet]: +++STELLENANGEBOT+++ Das Robert Koch-Institut sucht Verstärkung für das Team der Integrierten Genomischen Surveillance (IGS). Das IGS Team bietet vielfältige und relevante Projekte für Bioinformatiker*innen und Data Scientists! Link: jobs.rki.de/SharedDocs/ste…

PUBLICATION: Last year, together with the World Health Organization (WHO) Hub for Pandemic & Epidemic Intelligence, we organized a workshop on advanced analytics to inform decision making during public health emergencies. The report is now live! 👇imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial… 🧵1/7

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🚨The R package `simulist`, to simulate individual-level outbreak and contact-tracing data, is now available to users. Whether you want to test your methods or models, or generate realistic teaching materials, check it out on the Epiverse website 👇epiverse-trace.github.io/simulist/

Our examination of modellers' working practices during COVID-19 is now out in WellcomeOpenResearch. Frustratingly, I think it's at least as relevant now as when we conducted the work ~year ago. Let's make it obsolete. wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/9-12 Anna Carnegie Yang 刘扬 Sam Abbott (@[email protected])

In discussions of how to improve scientific publishing (especially with regards to health emergencies), it’s worth remembering that preprint servers like bioRxiv and medRxiv probably added more value to the COVID response than every big name journal combined…

Die Vorbereitungen für die „2nd National Conference on Infectious Disease Modeling 2024″ (13. – 15.03.2024) in der Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) #MONID2024 laufen auf Hochtouren! Per Livestream am 13. & 14. März auf unserem YouTube-Kanal youtube.com/@MONID_Modelli…

PhD position (Münster, Germany) Infectious Disease Modelling / Network Analysis with Veronika Jaeger Madhav Chaturvedi André Karch at Clinical Epi Group at University of Münster More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/phd-stude…

Just published my short book 👣 6 Steps Towards Reproducible Research 👣 on Zenodo as epub and pdf. Feel free to reuse and cite: Seibold, H. (2024). 6 Steps Towards Reproducible Research. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…

It can be incredibly difficult to find official sub-national shapefiles. Luckily, there are a number of sources that make the job easier:

🙇 Back to work! I'm developing 6 #dataviz projects, to simplify every step of your chart creation: 1️⃣ Pick the Right Chart Data To Viz is your go-to decision tree: describe your dataset, and it guides you to the most suitable chart type 🌐 data-to-viz.com 🧵

Did you know: you can use R, a statistics-oriented programming language, in your document! Check out our guide and learn how. overleaf.com/learn/latex/Kn…

PhD position (Karlsruhe, Germany) Nowcasting and Short-Term Forecasting of Infectious Diseases with Johannes Bracher (@[email protected]) at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/phd-candi…

Are you working on infectious disease modelling in the south-west of Germany? Join us on 4 Dec for our workshop at Shmoopy: swim.codeberg.page