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Ben Cooper

@bugwonk.bsky.social
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Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Centre for Global Health Research, Oxford. 🤓🧀☕️🚴🏼🦠💉💊

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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
After all the faffing about with shoeboxes and foil, it turns out all you need for a decent pinhole camera is a tree. Here the tree is behaving like a giant colander and light coming through gaps between the leaves is creating hundreds of images of the eclipse projected onto Abingdon County Hall
Image of light patterns on County Hall, Abingdon showing hundreds of overlapping images of the partial solar eclipse as well as shadows of branches of a tree and shadows of people standing to look at the images. The photo is blurry due to being taken with phone camera with a shattered lens.
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Congratulations to Sai Thein Than Tun @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk ‬for passing his PhD viva & overcoming some formidable obstacles in the process. Sai’s work on malaria elimination is a great example of simple models supporting clear thinking about complex processes link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Screenshot from viva for DPhil candidate Sai Thein Than Tun with examiners Ben Cooper and Jennifer Flegg. All are smiling as Sai has just passed his viva with minor corrections and the examiners were hugely impressed at the quality of the work .
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
A final feeling. While walking by the Thames in Abingdon last Sunday evening Joe heard drums in the distance & led me to this fallen dismembered tree, the site of an amazing one performer free festival and, despite all the amputations, a moment of pure contemplation & sensory delight.
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
but since Joe doesn’t believe in lying back & saying how bad his luck is he’ll be running his first 10k in July to support amazing local charity, Yellow Submarine www.yellowsubmarine.org.uk. Please sponsor him if you can bit.ly/3G24aF9 repost if you can’t & visit their awesome Oxford cafe.
board full of text explaining all the amazing things Oxfordshire charity Yellow Submarine does to support young people and adults with learning disabilities and autism to lead full lives
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Kudos to 16yo son, Joe, who has a learning disability due to #ADNP syndrome, for completing his 50th #parkrun last week in Abingdon. Inspired by @johnharris1969.bsky.social ’s new book Maybe I'm Amazed www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie... Joe’s post-run chill-out was spent drumming to Kraftwerk’s Autobahn.
Joe running in a parkrun event in a field next to the Thames in AbingdonJoe lost in music while listening to Kraftwerk's Autobahn and drumming on a small Kenyan drum. In the background is John Harris's book Maybe I'm amazed next to lava lamp
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
This is Joe at a glampsite in Hay-on-Wye last summer. My cousin, an in-demand bohemian luthier and (naturally) resting actor who lives in Frome (www.linkedin.com/in/laurence-...) calls him a lumber drummer 🤩
Joe, a 16 year old neurodivergent boy, deeply lost in music, plays a drum set assembled from from roughly cut lumber in front of a tree covered with ivy in a style that combines the instinctual energy of Moe Tucker, legendary drummer from the Velvet Underground, with the distinctive hi-hat style of Topper Headon, legendary drummer from The Clash.
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Thanks to Oraya Srimokla & cherrylim128.bsky.social for making the pictured Shiny App at such short notice (based on this paper www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...). Also to other Oxford faculty Gisela Robles Aguilar and @missotuko.bsky.social & to IHME colleagues who we shared the teaching with.
Rachel Otuko (@missotuko.bsky.social), on the left of the picture, an Oxford DPhil student and teacher on the workshop explains a graph plotted on the laptop screen to a student from the Africa CDC attending the workshop. The room is filled with other students who are deep in thought while staring at computer screens which are running the same R Shiny Application.
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Just back from teaching on a 4 day policy-focused AMR workshop in Nairobi hosted by the brilliant cema-africa.uonbi.ac.ke (with generous funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social). Great to meet so many inspiring people from throughout Africa working to reduce the number of lives lost to #AMR.
students on short course point at laptop screens which is running an R Shiny web application about cost-effectiveness of maintaining a microbiological diagnostic lab which is based on this paper https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.14.24307355v1
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I know this is pedantic, but surely that's #TreeByTrike This is #TreeByBike :
Christmas tree being carried on the basket of a green Elephant Bike (a reconditioned posties bike)
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Ben Cooper @bugwonk.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Love it! Thank you for doing this.
screenshot of Chernoff smiley face plotted with ggChernoff package in R and running from within Obsidian
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