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Excited to share our paper on integrating contact tracing data to enhance outbreak phylodynamic inference is out now Molecular Biology and Evolution academic.oup.com/mbe/article/do… With Dillon C. Adam, Ph.D Hu Shu Ben Cowling @vijay_lab Olivier Gascuel from @ISYEB_UMR Anna Zhukova from Institut Pasteur, since 1887

NEW: Flu levels dropped worldwide during COVID-19 pandemic restrictions - but flu bounced back rapidly, showing there was continued viral movements and accumulation of genetic diversity New research in Science Magazine 👇 bit.ly/4fGC92J

NEW: Global study reveals how movement restrictions during COVID affected flu evolution—and what it could mean for improving vaccine effectiveness & global health resilience. #PandemicGenomics Learn more: i.mtrbio.com/grpizpiboh Paper: i.mtrbio.com/pzkkbferna

🏛️ Join teams at the Oxford Martin School, Oxford Biology and Pandemic Sciences Institute! We're hiring up to 5 Pandemic Sciences Research Fellows in AI & Epidemiology, Phylodynamics, Climate & Infectious Diseases, and Global Health Data Science. 🗓️ Closes Dec 6 - Apply: i.mtrbio.com/despridvgn

I wrote a piece for Word on Fire pondering on how we may have stretched scientific thought beyond its capabilities, and how we can find its proper place once again

Land border crossings, rather than air travel, were a major pathway in COVID-19 spread in South America 🌎 Distinct variants emerged in late 2020 in South America. New research, focused on Chile, also gives insights into effects of local interventions 👇 bit.ly/3OjK8qH

Research led by the Oxford Martin Programme on Pandemic Genomics highlights how mobility data from Chile reveals land-based travel as key in viral spread—offering insights to improve global pandemic responses 🌍 Read more: i.mtrbio.com/tlgaybjcnv

How fast do #viruses spread in the wild? Simon Dellicour Philippe Lemey's lab &co compare dispersal metrics from #phylogeographic analysis of viral #epidemic genomes with dispersal capacity of diverse viruses, revealing host movement-related discrepancies #PLOSBiology plos.io/3VoeOex

What leads us to ignore experts isn't their knowledge. It's their arrogance. Evidence: Scientists are more credible when they admit what they don't know, acknowledge what they got wrong, and update their views. Trust is earned by expressing humility, not by asserting authority.

If you are interested in doing a #PhD with me at Imperial College London and qualify as a home student, please reach out (before end of 2024)! Potential topics: spatial statistics, deep generative models, probabilistic programming and more.

Thrilled to share our new PNASNews paper, where we use active learning 🤖 to optimize disease testing strategies during outbreaks 🦠, helping public health efforts worldwide 🌍. Press release Imperial College London Imperial School of Public Health: imperial.ac.uk/news/259573/op… Paper: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

More than 40 percent of #postdocs leave academia. Those who landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to have had a highly cited paper, changed their research topic between their #PhD and postdoc, or moved abroad after receiving their doctorate. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

A huge thank you to @nefeltellioglu, Jessica Stockdale, Dr. Julie Spencer, Wasiur Rahman Khuda Bukhsh, Dr. Joel C. Miller and Cameron Zachreson for including me on this MATRIX project we just preprinted results from doi.org/10.48550/arXiv… 🤓

AI is poised to accelerate understanding in infectious diseases, but its value needs to be demonstrated through close collaboration between research, industry, society, and policy. Paper free to read: rdcu.be/eaxEw Summary here: ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-2…

Excited to share our latest work: "Identifying and Characterising Higher Order Interactions in Mobility Networks Using Hypergraphs." Preprint available here: arxiv.org/abs/2503.18572 With Moritz Kraemer and Bernardo Gutierrez

Nueva publicación del IMUSFQ colaboración entre Ecuador, Nicaragua y EEUU journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…

Working around the clock these past days to make this ready on time! 🚨 In collaboration with public health labs in Pará and Minas Gerais, we investigated the reemergence of YFV in forest and peri-urban settings across Brazil! More here: lnkd.in/dAbwncsR

As we pray for the soul of Pope Francis, his reflective expression while listening to the Aramaic chanted Lord’s Prayer by Archimandrite Seraphim plays on a loop in my mind. May God have mercy on his servant (by his reinstatement) the Patriarch of the West youtu.be/locW-9S00VU

A lot of insights regarding the very human dimension of the College of Cardinals and the Conclave, fascinating work!

What turns a virus spillover into an epidemic? Join us at the Oxford Martin School where we explore how AI, genomics & ecology shape how pathogens emergence and spread and what we can do to improve health security. 📷 May 19, 5–6:15pm Register here: oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-tu…