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Josh Lambert @jwlambert.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

🚨The deadline for the 50% discount for this year’s Outbreak Analytics & Applied Modelling in R course is on Monday 27th April! 💡If you’re interested in learning practical skills for analysing infectious disease outbreak data, this course is for you. Reach out if you have any questions.

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Journal of Open Source Software @joss-openjournals.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Just published in JOSS: 'simulist: An R package to simulate disease outbreak line list and contacts data' doi.org/10.21105/joss.08781

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Interested in learning outbreak analytics and modelling, with a focus on real-life case studies and tools actively used in responses? Apply for the popular @lshtm.bsky.social R shortcourse, led by @jwlambert.bsky.social & @andreevallecam.bsky.social More: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...

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Epiverse TRACE @epiverse-trace.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

📢Join the "Outbreak Analytics & Applied Modelling in R" short course!🌍📊 This will be the 2nd edition! 📅 Online | July 2026 🔹 Clean & validate data for Epicurves 🔹 Quantify transmission & severity 🔹 Account for superspreading 🔹 Simulate interventions 📌 Learn more: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...

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Josh Lambert @jwlambert.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Fun project with @evoisland.bsky.social, @theoevobio.bsky.social, Lizzie Roeble and Rampal Etienne from my @unigroningen.bsky.social PhD days, out now in MPE.

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

What should the early lines of code written during a new outbreak look like? We've got a new viewpoint piece in Lancet Digital Health on how to improve early outbreak analytics, with a great group of contributors: linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii...

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Want to easily simulate plausible outbreak data for tutorials or testing methods? {simulist} is now on CRAN! epiverse-trace.github.io/simulist/ind... ⏳ Delay distributions 🏥 Population-wide or age-stratified risks 📊 Age-structured populations 📈 Time-varying CFR 📋 Vary case types and contact tracing

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Josh Lambert @jwlambert.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Amazing couple of days visiting @naturalis.bsky.social with @evoisland.bsky.social! Working on open-source software for island biogeography.

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Thijs Janzen @thijsjanzen.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Non-homogenic lineage diversification models are the way to go, and Tianjian is taking a first step towards more realistic diversification models like those. Great read! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Impact of evolutionary relatedness on species diversification and tree shape

Slowdowns in lineage accumulation are often observed in phylogenies of extant species. One explanation is the presence of ecological limits to diversi…

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Come do a PhD with us at @lshtm.bsky.social! We're advertising two projects: Understanding and predicting vector-borne epidemics (with Rachel Lowe): mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2025-26-proj... Kinetics of immunity to influenza and SARS-CoV-2 (with @dchodge.bsky.social): mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk/2025-26-proj...

Photos of research group meetings and data collection

Previous papers published by MRC LID PhD students - you can also search Kucharski/Lowe/Hodgson on Google Scholar

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