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Registration now open (and free) The endemic-epidemic framework is a great way to model infectious diseases, combining statistical and epi approaches. And it's implemented in an R package. Find out all about it and applications to measles, covid etc in this hybrid workshop. 👇

Can humans beat computer models at predicting the spread of COVID-19? As part of #BSW22 Nikos Bosse shares findings from the UK COVID-19 Crowd Forecasting Challenge, a #citizenscience project inviting the public to predict #COVID19 infections & deaths ➡️bit.ly/3i7tzhu

Less than two weeks left to apply for these posts. This is an exciting project and I’d strongly encourage anyone with experience in software engineering (esp. using #rstats) and interested in helping prepare for future epidemics and pandemics to apply. Here's why: 1/8

We started this with the aim to provide both decision-makers and the general public with real-time information on how the epidemic was progressing So was it useful? Hard to tell. epiforecasts.io/posts/2022-03-…

Thoughts here from Sam Abbott (@[email protected]) & Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) (🧵) on Epiforecasts R(t) estimation dashboards. I really liked being a small cog in one widget of this larger machine - and recognise the work it takes to manage volunteers. I appreciate that effort - tx also to Kath Sherratt Joe Palmer

We had a great presentation/discussion on time management systems in our last group meeting led by Hannah Choi In this thread, Hannah (in her first 🐦) summarises her thoughts on the bullet journal system and contrasts it with other approaches. A must-read!

We’ve been investigating Ct values as a proxy for viral load of symptomatic (pillar 2) Covid-19 cases in England in the last 18 months. Work-in progress report (w/ Sam Abbott (@[email protected])) at epiforecasts.io/covid19_ct_pil… and a few observations in this thread. 1/9

Check out this #rstats package from lab member Nikos Bosse for evaluating forecasts. We have made lots of use of this in the group already so it's exciting to share.

It was an honour to present some Epiforecasts work at this event (if sad not to be there in person). Slides at epiforecasts.io/talks/birs_202…

New analysis led by lab member akiraendo investigating the hypothesis that network effects might explain why this monkeypox outbreak looks so different from previous ones.

In this week’s Epiforecasts group meeting, @grusonh got us chatting about contributing to #opensource projects on GitHub - why do it, how to contribute, and how we can encourage contributions to our own projects?👩🏻‍💻👨🏼‍💻 My takeaways ⤵️

Sophie Meakin Epiforecasts @grusonh Without getting into systematic reasons behind why, I think developers adding a clear path/encouragement for contributing that's explicitly neutral of dev or subject experience (confidence) can help.

📨New pre-print: Every week for over a year, we've collected and combined dozens of forecasts of COVID across Europe (Epiforecasts/ECDC). We've been taking a deeper look at how we've performed, and what we can learn from it medrxiv.org/content/10.110… /1

Interested in public health? Want to contribute to #rstats 📦 development? We are working on {epinowcast} 0.1.0 and have some issues for you. github.com/epiforecasts/e…

🔍👀 Searching for users of the covid19.nhs.data R package!🎁 Have you used the mapping between local authorities and NHS Trusts that is included in the package? If yes, I would LOVE to hear what you used it for, and if you’re still using it! epiforecasts.io/covid19.nhs.da… 1/3

{epinowcast} 0.1.0 📦 now live on main. 🎉🥳🍾 In this release, we focus on the user experience and prepare the ground for extensions enabling a range of real-time IDE questions to be answered. PRs from: Adrian Lison, Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]), and Sam Abbott (@[email protected]) epiforecasts.io/epinowcast/new… 1/n

📢Three jobs available in the Epiforecasts group CMMID London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, working on broad topics in real-time modelling for decision making in infectious disease outbreaks. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i… jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i…

Postdoc (London, United Kingdom) Real-time outbreak modelling and forecasting with Sebastian Funk (@[email protected]) at Epiforecasts CMMID More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/research-…

And if R programming is your thing you should also consider this Research Software Engineer post jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?i… RStatsJobsBot @RStatsJobs