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Kirsty Short @krenfreeshort.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🎧 Excited to announce two new UQ Women in Science episodes! 🐴 A/Prof Wendy Goodwin: veterinary anaesthesia, animal welfare and life in the operating room open.spotify.com/episode/35gi... 🐔 Dr Ellie Assadi Soumeh: animal nutrition and the journey from farm to plate open.spotify.com/episode/2vwQ...

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Lessons from the veterinary operating room

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Kirsty Short @krenfreeshort.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

We will be holding the Australian Long COVID conference in Brisbane on the 2nd of October. In-person attendance is by invitation only but everyone is invited to join ONLINE FREE. We will feature lived experience participants, clinicians and researchers - please spread the word!

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Kirsty Short @krenfreeshort.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We will be holding the Australian Long COVID conference here in Brisbane on the 2nd of October. In-person attendance is by invitation only but everyone is invited to join ONLINE FREE. This conference will feature lived experience participants, clinicians and researchers focused on PASC therapeutics

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Kirsty Short @krenfreeshort.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Please share this study far and wide and contact us if you have any questions. *One other thing to note about this study is its an all female author list – a rare find for a paper that’s a combination between mathematics and infectious disease

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Kirsty Short @krenfreeshort.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Measles is a very serious illness so please make sure that your children are vaccinated. I say this not only as a scientist but also as the mother of a child who is too young to be vaccinated and depends on everyone else taking the vaccine to keep him safe

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Kirsty Short @krenfreeshort.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The reason I say I have mixed feelings about this work is that we shouldn’t have to be modelling measles outbreaks in 2025. Measles was eliminated in 2000 in the US. We have a safe and effective vaccine that protects against measles.

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Kirsty Short @krenfreeshort.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Whats even more impressive is that our model really accurately forward predicts measles cases that occurred after our model was created (22 March 2025). Our model says that the measles situation is going to get worse before it gets better.

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Kirsty Short @krenfreeshort.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Whats really cool about this is that we can use historical cases of measles in the EU for feature selection (made possible by DTW), train on earlier cases of measles in the US and then have an incredibly accurate yet simple neural network that performs extremely well on our test data

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Kirsty Short @krenfreeshort.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Its with mixed feelings that I announce our new paper on the current measles outbreak in the US, a collaboration between myself and the amazing Meagan Carney. Here we use machine learning to model and forward predict current measles cases in the US. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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A simple feed forward neural network to predict the 2025 outbreak of measles in the USA

Background Measles is a highly contagious viral disease associated with a variety of severe complications. Since 1963, widespread usage of a highly effective vaccine has made measles a largely prevent...

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Kirsty Short @krenfreeshort.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

People of Brisbane and Melbourne we need your help! We are trying to develop a new diagnostic for Long Covid and so we are asking people with Long Covid to kindly join our study - please DM me if you have any questions about the study or Long Covid in general! Please repost!

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GrasLab @graslab.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

🚨Roll up your sleeves for ME/CFS, COVID, Long COVID Research Blood sample – NO fasting please and/or Stool sample (on site or at home, $20 reimbursement) Wednesday 2nd April, 8am-6pm @latrobeuni.bsky.social Bundoora, HS1-101 register graslab.com.au/covid-19-stu... for Blood draw day

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