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Brian @brianmackenna.bsky.social · 29d

We are HIRING!

Researchers & analysts

Come and join us shipping code, papers and tools like OpenSAFELY and OpenPrescribing

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk/blog/2025/09...

We're hiring researchers to work on OpenSAFELY | Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science

Come and work with us! We’re looking for Epidemiologists / Health Data Scientists to join our growing research team.

www.bennett.ox.ac.uk

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Q.E.D Network @qedmathsnetwork.bsky.social · Sep 5

Hi, it’s us!!!
Come check out what we offer and don’t forget to sign up to our outlist or ally list! sites.google.com/view/qednetw...

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Carys Redman-White @biocarys.bsky.social · Sep 5

Back from a fab few days at @iddconf.bsky.social, where I presented a poster on my #SystemDynamics model of #AMR - preprint here: doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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iddconf.bsky.social @iddconf.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hearing about the importance of co-production from Zviiteyi Chazuka.

Slide about coproduction of modelling research with stakeholders

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iddconf.bsky.social @iddconf.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great to hear about this community initiative in the field of maths and applied maths to increase equality and diversity in the field.

Slide about the Queer Equality and Diversity Network for mathematicians and applied mathematicians

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Ed Hill @edmhill.bsky.social · Sep 3

🧪 Engaging science continued on the second day of IDDconf 2025! @iddconf.bsky.social #IDsky #IDepi

🗣️ Today’s contributions included a talk by PhD student Fateen Yasir on “The challenges of modelling contemporary measles dynamics”

🔗 Fateen’s webpage: warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/math...

Date: Wednesday 03 September 2025

Session chair: Julia Gog

Time: 09:00
Presenter: Rebecca Underwood
Title Identifying relationships between care home outbreaks and the local area
using SARS-CoV-2 whole genome sequence data

Time: 09:15
Presenter: Muhammad Bilal
Title: Evaluating the effect of sampling bias on genetic estimate of disease
transmission

Time: 09:30
Presenter: Jake Carson
Title: Incorporating epidemiological data into the genomic analysis of partially
sampled infectious disease outbreaks

Time: 09:45
Presenter: Hannah Lepper
Title: Multiple mechanistic models of strain competition are needed to capture
pneumococcal serotype-specific antibiotic resistance patterns

Time: 10:00
Presenter: Greg Barnsley
Title: The impact of Azithromycin mass drug administration on bacterial carriage in
humanitarian settings

Time: 10:15
Presenter: Fateen Yasir
Title: The challenges of modelling contemporary measles dynamics

10:30-11:15 Coffee

Session chair: Graham Medley

Time: 11:15
Presenter: Julia Bicker
Title: A hybrid modeling framework to combine agent- and population-based
epidemiological models

Time: 11:30
Presenter: Simon Spencer
Title: A Bayesian modelling framework with model comparison for epidemics with
super-spreading

Time: 11:45
Presenter: Lloyd Chapman
Title: Non-centered Bayesian inference for discrete-time individual-level epidemic
models: the Rippler algorithm

Time: 12:00
Presenter: Daniel Higgins
Title: A doubly stochastic approach to compartmental modelling

Time: 12:15
Presenter: Julia Gog
Title: What I learned during my sabbatical

Time: 12:30
Presenter: Anna Wendler
Title: An extension of age-of-infection models: A SECIR model based on integrodifferential equations for epidemic outbreaks

Time: 12:45
Presenter: Melissa Iacovidou
Title: Spatially explicit individual-based model for schistosomiasis

Fateen introducing his talk on “The challenges of modelling contemporary measles dynamics”. Supervised by Matt Keeling & Ed Hill.

Three challenges:
1. Contact matrices
2. Vaccine heterogeneity
3. Data quality and integration

Key takeaways

Challenges
1. Justify the use of contact matrix for current times
2. Accurately model the immunisation landscape
3. Work with the UKHSA to overcome data quality issues

Questions:
1. Effect of a changing demography
2. Implementing localised models
3. Impact of immune amnesia

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iddconf.bsky.social @iddconf.bsky.social · Sep 3

Historical deep dives showing the importance of Hilda Hudson in the field of epidemiological modelling.

Slide giving background of how Ronald Ross and Hilda Hudson started working together.

Slide showing text from old paper showing development of mathematical modelling theory in 1916/17

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iddconf.bsky.social @iddconf.bsky.social · Sep 3

Julia Gog telling us what she did during her sabbatical.
We are learning about Hilda Hudson!

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iddconf.bsky.social @iddconf.bsky.social · Sep 2

Fab day at IDDconf 2025
We’ve seen a lot of great talks and just before the poster session and reception, Martin Wolfender from @unibe.ch is telling us about forecasting hospital bed use.

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iddconf.bsky.social @iddconf.bsky.social · Sep 2

Jon Read kicking things off at IDDconf 2025 telling us neat things about contact patterns in England during the COVID pandemic.

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iddconf.bsky.social @iddconf.bsky.social · Aug 26

Day 1 schedule.

Reminder: talks are chosen at random from submitted titles using a RNG, and we have a 44% F:M ratio. All posters are accepted.

Screengrab of the IDDconf 2025 schedule. The schedule will get added to IDDconf.org as well for screenreaders. Apologies I cant put it all in the alt text.

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iddconf.bsky.social @iddconf.bsky.social · May 23

IDDconf 2025 registration is open!

Information and sign up at IDDconf.org

Looking forward to it already!

IDDconf 2025

A Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics. IDDconf is the second instalment of a new meeting series focussing on innovative research in infectious disease dynamics.

IDDconf.org

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iddconf.bsky.social @iddconf.bsky.social · Apr 9

2025 here we come!
iddconf.org
IDDconf will be September 2-4 2025 in Ambleside.
Ticket info coming soon.

IDDconf 2025

A Conference on Infectious Disease Dynamics. IDDconf is the second instalment of a new meeting series focussing on innovative research in infectious disease dynamics.

iddconf.org

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