Louise Dyson

I found out that the Netherlands has been running a Covid-19 infection survey continuously since October 2020!

Let’s have a look!

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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

What exactly is it that you do anyway, Michael? with Professor Michael Marks | Professor Michael Marks’ inaugural lecture will explore his portfolio of research in global health, starting from his time as a clinical fellow at LSHTM living and working in the Pacific to his

Inaugural recording @lshtm.bsky.social now online.

Thanks to collaborators across years & around world who made it possible.

Thanks to participants who have taken part in all our studies.

Most importantly love & thanks to @sarahvmarks.bsky.social who has supported me through good times & bad.

Probability of Extinction and Peak Time for Multi-Type Epidemics with Application to COVID-19 Variants of Concern During the COVID-19 pandemic, the emergence of novel variants of concern (VoCs) prompted different responses from governments across the world aimed a…

Now peer reviewed! "Probability of Extinction and Peak Time for Multi-Type Epidemics with Application to COVID-19 Variants of Concern" - we find a mathematically tractable approximation for the distribution of times to die out / peak for new COVID variants.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Whether that is worth it in the long term is more up for debate, and depends on the specifics of the situation, the specifics of the infection and what you believe to be the costs and benefits of the intervention. 2/2

I really wish people would be clear what they mean when they say things like "lockdowns work" or "NPIs don't work". It is pretty clear, I think, that stopping people from seeing each other reduces cases of an infectious disease during that measure. In that sense they have the effect we expect. 1/2

It still feels very surreal looking back, and weirdly hard to remember precisely what happened when. I'm glad we kept a pretty good record of what we submitted when!

Professor Dame Angela McLean Professor Dame Angela McLean DBE FRS is the Government Chief Scientific Adviser having taken up the role in April 2023. She is also Head of the Government Science and Engineering Profession. Prior to ...

On International Women's day, maybe a good time to highlight the UK's current chief scientist who was also particularly inspirational during COVID.

www.gov.uk/government/p...

When I become King all boundaries will be fixed & the NHS will be forced to follow administrative structures. Any organisation trying to create a new set of geographies for its own ends will be abolished. Milton Keynes will be placed in the South East and Glossop in Derbyshire and that will be that.

Are you London ID trainee post-PhD & interested in an ACL. May be able to create posts in 2025. Opportunities in Syphilis & STIs (UK & Global), Group A Strep (Global), Leishmaniasis & NTDs. If interested get in touch. @gpollara.bsky.social @drneilstone.bsky.social @thushan-desilva.bsky.social

This seems like the most interesting graph - how are different cohorts changing their habits over time / age. Do you have a similar graph for men? I wonder if the dip and rise for women reflects when they are giving birth / breastfeeding / raising young kids

The manifold costs of being a non-native English speaker in science This study reveals that non-native English speakers, especially early in their careers, spend more effort than native English speakers in conducting scientific activities, from reading and writing pap...

This is a very big problem, that we need to discuss...
As a non-native English speaker I find AI tools help a lot in making my writing sound much more like proper English.

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ICYMI our paper from earlier this year where we used census data to estimate a household contact matrix for Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Deputy Director of Modelling - Civil Service Jobs - GOV.UKGOV.UK Search and apply for jobs in the UK Civil Service

UKHSA hiring a Deputy Director of Modelling: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

#TropMed24 @dndi.bsky.social Sleeping sickness trials are amazing.

Original NECT RCT www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Fexinidazole RCT & paediatric studies
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Now acoziborole 1 dose treatment!!
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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UK National Data Library | Wellcome We are seeking technical visions and architectures for a UK National Data Library to make public sector datasets more accessible to researchers and enable future science to thrive.

The UK government has ambitious plans for a National Data Library, and a lot of the important technical choices remain to be made.

Together with Wellcome, ESRC is running a Technical White Paper challenge to invite proposals for how to make it work best - more below!

wellcome.org/what-we-do/o...

The Effect of Repeated Mass Drug Administration on the Transmission of Yaws: A Genomic Epidemiology Study Background: Yaws, a neglected tropical disease caused by Treponema pallidum subspecies pertenue, has evaded eradication, in part due to a high proportion of asymptomatic cases. A cluster-randomised tr...

Pleased to share this preprint on Yaws transmission dynamics following mass azithromycin administration, led by Amber Barton www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Following MDA campaign, we sequenced >half of infections, showing recrudescence driven by existing lineages & persistence linked to key SNPs.

I find it easier with something on making noise - tv or radio or whatever. But also it does just get a lot easier over time because you learn what the house usually feels and sounds like when it's empty.

Obligatory "dipping my toes in BlueSky" post *waves at everyone* 👋