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Sam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Estimating the current size of the 2026 DRC Bundibugyo virus outbreak: a joint Bayesian re-analysis of the McCabe et al. report w/ @kathsherratt.bsky.social Sam Brand and @sbfnk.bsky.social

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Sebastian Funk @sbfnk.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🎓 One last PhD studentship on offer on health analytics and modelling, jointly between @hpruham.bsky.social and @hprurespinf.bsky.social. Real-time use of data from household studies to inform pandemic and epidemic preparedness, with Anne Cori, @seabbs.bsky.social and Chris Overton. Link ↓

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Sebastian Funk @sbfnk.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Really enjoyed this thought-provoking workshop this week at @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social on evaluation & responsibility in infectious disease modelling. Brilliantly organised and led by @kathsherratt.bsky.social, with Erica Thompson. Great discussions on both practice and training.

Word cloud from the workshop introduction. Positive qualities like transparent, open, reproducible, honest in blue and green at the top; negative ones like biased, overconfident, closed, opaque in orange and red at the bottom.

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Sebastian Funk @sbfnk.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Great talk on composable infectious disease modelling. Making real-time outbreak modelling more principled and flexible has been a long-standing challenge, and Sam has been leading the charge on solving it. With a growing group of people keen on this it feels like we're finally getting somewhere.

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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 02/01/2026

PhD position (London, UK) Real-time modelling of infectious disease outbreaks. with @sbfnk.bsky.social @anne-cori.bsky.social @seabbs.bsky.social at @epiforecasts.io @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2440

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Sebastian Funk @sbfnk.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Two more fully funded PhDs in real-time infectious disease modelling & forecasting — developing methods for operational use by @ukhsa.bsky.social and others in outbreak response. UK home students, starting April or September 2026. www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

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The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Imperial College London and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) are pleased to invite applications for two PhD studentships in real-time

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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 15/07/2025

2 PhD positions (London, UK) In real-time infectious disease modelling with @‪@sbfnk.bsky.social‬ @‪@anne-cori.bsky.social‬ @‪@seabbs.bsky.social‬ at @‪@lshtm.bsky.social‬ @‪@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social‬ @‪@ukhsa.bsky.social‬ More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2336

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Sam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I was speaking about the epinowcast package, ecosystem, and community with a little bit of a pitch for modelling in Julia at the end. If any of this work takes your interest this PhD on delay estimation may interest you. bsky.app/profile/iddj...

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Sam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The new epidist release just dropped which includes support for the marginal model as well as lots of other goodies epidist.epinowcast.org/news/index.h... TLDRP: its 20-lots faster depending on number of stratifications in the data and not approximate.

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Sebastian Funk @sbfnk.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

It's rare to have so many PhD studentships open at the same time that are fully funded at the project level - do apply if any of these strike your interest (unfortunately, UK home fee eligible candidates only). I'll describe the 3 projects that involve me / @epiforecasts.io in a bit more detail.

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Kaitlyn Johnson @kaitejohnson9.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Excited to share that today was my first day as an Assistant Professor at LSHTM @lshtm.bsky.social working in the @epiforecasts.bsky.social group! Looking forward to working with so many talented people, acquainting to London life, and maybe actually posting some content on here 🇬🇧☔️

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