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Leon Danon

@leondanon.bsky.social
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Epidemiologist, AI, mathematical modeller, networks at Bristol University. <3 techno. Director of the Jean Golding Institute.

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Introducing Node to Node, a video podcast series by BriCS, unearthing the projects, policies and ideas shaping AI in the UK. 🎧 ▶️ Listen and watch: lnkd.in/eNVJnad9 @simonmcs.bsky.social
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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
One year ago, Isambard-AI powered up ⚡ 🎩 Since then, the UK's sovereign AI supercomputer has powered around 1,000 research projects for more than 4,000 users. Read: www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen... Watch: youtu.be/Day4mE4uQBM @bristoluni.bsky.social
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One year of Isambard-AI: July 2025-2026
YouTube video by BriCS
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Jean Golding Institute @jgibristol.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Job opportunity for Bristol Uni PhD students! We are recruiting a new team of PhD students for the Ask-JGI helpdesk to work from October 2026 until the end of September 2027! Find out more: jeangoldinginstitute.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/2026/07/06/a...
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Ask-JGI helpdesk is recruiting PhD students! – Jean Golding Institute News
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Leon Danon @leondanon.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
What happens if you mention Researchfish on Bluesky? 🤔
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PLOS Global Public Health @plosglobalpublichealth.org · 10/10/2025
NEW research in PLOS Global Public Health from Ellen Brooks-Pollock and @leondanon.bsky.social at @bristoluni.bsky.social: Targeted vaccination is effective for mpox clade Ib in England despite increased household transmission: Predictions from a modelling study journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Targeted vaccination is effective for mpox clade Ib in England despite increased household transmission: Predictions from a modelling study
Mpox is an emerging infectious disease with increasing global relevance. In 2024, a new clade, mpox clade Ib, was associated with high household attack rates and case fatality, raising concerns about ...
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Antoine Barreaux @antoinebarreaux.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
📢 PhD Opportunity – Join Us at INTERTRYP (CIRAD)! 🌍🧪 🔬 Mathematical modeling of vector-borne diseases 📆 Apply before: July 15, 2025 📍 More info & apply: umr-intertryp.cirad.fr/en/news/2025...
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PhD Contract Offer at INTERTRYP (Cirad) on the mathematical modeling of vector-borne diseases / 2025 - Intertryp Joint Research Unit
As a PhD student in mathematical modeling and epidemiology, you will contribute to an international, interdisciplinary project investigating how climate and environmental changes affect vector-borne d...
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Leon Danon @leondanon.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The schadenfreude index is through the roof here!
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Leon Danon @leondanon.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
As mpox cases surge once more we assess potential spread and control in England. With @3113n.bsky.social #idsky
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Leon Danon @leondanon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
A culmination of many years of hard work, very pleased to share this: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Incidence of community acquired lower respiratory tract disease in Bristol, UK following the emergence of SARS-CoV-2: a prospective cohort study 2020-2024
Surveillance of acute lower respiratory tract disease (aLRTD) is fundamental for understanding population health burden and healthcare needs. COVID-19 altered the epidemiology of respiratory infection...
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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 05/03/2025
Postdoc (Manchester, United Kingdom) Two year Fellowship for a mathematical modeller to pursue interdisciplinary research with the long-term goal of reducing health inequalities. with @tah-sci.com at Manchester University More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2282
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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Improving the accuracy of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) incidence among hospitalised adults in Bristol, UK www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Leon Danon @leondanon.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI
Survey of 1,000 students shows ‘explosive increase’ in use of generative AI in particular over past 12 months
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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
After a wee break, here are some more Tips for Early Career Academics - this time on writing research proposals (the previous tips on giving talks, job interviews etc, are here: bsky.app/profile/seth...) #AcademicSky #ECRs #GrantWinning #Research
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Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Job! 2-year postdoc position in EVElab, Bristol UK on nutrition and infections in pregnancy (FLF-funded) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV631/r... Apply if you are enthusiastic about: - experiments on insects which get pregnant - relevance of evolution to public health - a vibrant city & research environment
Pacific beetle-mimic cockroach and her newly born nymphsOverview of project on Nutrition and immunity in pregnancy: picture of pregnant woman on one side, viviparous insects on the other; 3 boxes linking project components (evolutionary models, insect experiments and human cohorts)View of cormorant drying its wings by the Bristol harbour: light reflecting off the waterResearchers at an insect outreach event, standing at the stall
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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 05/02/2025
PhD position (Bristol, UK) Developing AI methods for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics with @leondanon.bsky.social at @bristoluni.bsky.social More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2250
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Leon Danon @leondanon.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Seems legit.
Seems legit.
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Nature @nature.com · 23/01/2025
A Chinese-built large language model called DeepSeek-R1 is thrilling scientists as an affordable and open rival to ‘reasoning’ models such as OpenAI’s o1 go.nature.com/3WroTb1
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China’s cheap, open AI model DeepSeek thrills scientists
DeepSeek-R1 performs reasoning tasks at the same level as OpenAI’s o1 — and is open for researchers to examine.
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rOpenSci @handle.invalid · 31/12/2024
📦 [A package a day - data access 80] Today's data access package is nomisr Access Nomis UK Labour Market Data 🙏 Maintained by Evan Odell 📝 docs.ropensci.org/nomisr Check out this article: Introduction to {nomisr} 🔒 docs.ropensci.org/nomisr/articles/i… […]
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Ellen Brooks Pollock @3113n.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
We are advertising an exciting PhD position with a super team: Modelling salivo-surveillance for vaccine programmes. Happy to answer questions. With @anu_goenka @leondanon.bsky.social @rajlaz.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Modelling salivo-surveillance for detecting population immunity, transmission dynamics and changes in vaccine effectiveness at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Modelling salivo-surveillance for detecting population immunity, transmission dynamics and changes in vaccine effectiveness at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Leon Danon @leondanon.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Bacterial infections are associated with low income status, not news but has important implications for antibiotic stewardship. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Socioeconomic status and the risk for colonisation or infection with priority bacterial pathogens: a global evidence map
Low socioeconomic status likely exacerbates risks for bacterial infections; however, global evidence for this relationship has not been synthesised. We systematically reviewed the existing literature for studies detailing the socioeconomic status of participants and their risk for colonisation or community-acquired infection with priority bacterial pathogens that are increasingly becoming antibiotic resistant. 50 studies from 14 countries reported outcomes by the participants’ educational attainment, access to health care, income level, residential crowding status, socioeconomic status deprivation score, community setting, or access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene.
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Leon Danon @leondanon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Uh oh
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Seth Bullock @sethbullock.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Big news today! ££ 👀 ai4ci.ac.uk/funding/ £1M of funding for #AI for #CollectiveIntelligence research projects across the UK is now available! Pls 🔁/💗! Check the AI4CI website for info on how to apply. If you have a question that's not answered in our FAQ, please get in touch! #AcademicSky #Research
The AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI) Research Hub: https://ai4ci.ac.uk
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Leon Danon @leondanon.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Perfect 🤩 no more followers plz
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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
www.who.int/europe/news/...
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Poliovirus detections in European Region underscore importance of vaccination and vigilance
28 November 2024, CopenhagenPoliovirus has been detected through routine surveillance of wastewater systems in 3 countries in the WHO European Region (Germany, Poland and Spain) since September this y...
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Simon McIntosh-Smith @simonmcs.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Just posted on LinkedIn - see this video of how we installed the Isambard-AI modular datacenter in Bristol last week, during a snowstorm! This 5MW facility will soon be home to a new HPE EX4000 supercomputer, including 5,280 NVIDIA GH200 GPUs www.linkedin.com/posts/simonm...
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Simon McIntosh-Smith on LinkedIn: The Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) team and our partners have…
The Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) team and our partners have been doing an amazing job, building the Isambard-AI site in record time. Last week the…
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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 29/11/2024
#JustPublished! ECDC: wastewater #poliovirus detections in the EU call for continued strong surveillance and high vaccination coverage rates. Read full statement: bit.ly/49fIyQ9 #Polio #cVDPV2
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Wastewater poliovirus detections in the EU call for continued strong surveillance and high vaccination coverage rates
Following the recent detections of several wastewater samples positive for poliovirus in three EU countries between September and November 2024, ECDC urges all relevant stakeholders to remain vigilant...
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Leon Danon @leondanon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I may never follow anyone ever again…
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Healthcare-Global @healthcare-global.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Rise in measles cases in Bristol prompts call for vaccination
Health bosses are urging people to receive the full vaccination dose to prevent further outbreak.
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Efficient modelling of infectious diseases in wildlife: A case study of bovine tuberculosis in wild badgers journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Efficient modelling of infectious diseases in wildlife: A case study of bovine tuberculosis in wild badgers
Author summary Wild animals commonly harbour infectious diseases with risk of spillover to humans and livestock. We fitted an individual-level stochastic spatial meta-population model of bovine tuberc...
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Posit @posit.co · 21/11/2024
Introducing the mall package for running multiple LLM predictions against a data frame in #RStats or #Python! mall is inspired by the SQL AI functions offered by vendors such as Databricks and Snowflake. Learn more in this blog post by @theotheredgar.bsky.social: blogs.rstudio.com/ai/posts/202...
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Posit AI Blog: Introducing mall for R...and Python
We are proud to introduce the {mall}. With {mall}, you can use a local LLM to run NLP operations across a data frame. (sentiment, summarization, translation, etc). {mall} has been simultaneusly rele...
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Leon Danon @leondanon.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The epitome of preaching to the converted.
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Leaving Twitter? Here are some alternatives to checking an online Nazi bot sewer every 20 minutes | First Dog on the Moon
Plant a tomato bush then lecture it on how it should grow tomatoes
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Economic burden of Long Covid in the UK estimated to be >$20 billion per year from real cohort data bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...
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Simon Cauchemez @scauchemez.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Infectious Disease Modelling starter pack! Suggestions are welcome! go.bsky.app/86Ao1a5
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Doug McNeall @dougmcneall.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Repost this if you’re old enough to remember when they tried to convince us that “global warming stopped in 2008” (or whenever).
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Jemma Geoghegan @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
RSV was eliminated in New Zealand in 2020 but made quite the come back. Our latest paper out today www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spatial and temporal transmission dynamics of respiratory syncytial virus in New Zealand before and after the COVID-19 pandemic - Nature Communications
Non-pharmaceutical interventions for COVID-19 control impacted transmission of other pathogens including respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). Here, the authors perform phylodynamic analyses of RSV genom...
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Sam Abbott @seabbs.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Really enjoyed the first IDM conference in Thailand! Some great talks and a great way to meet a whole lot of new folks at once.
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Leon Danon @leondanon.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
We’re hiring! We are hiring postdoctoral researcher(s) who are ready to advance their career in infectious disease modelling: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...
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Details | Working at Bristol | University of Bristol
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Thomas House @tah-sci.com · 25/01/2024
Job opportunity! Research Fellow in Mathematical Modelling - working in Health Economics in collaboration with Mathematical Epidemiology. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Fellow in Mathematical Modelling :Oxford Road
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Leon Danon @leondanon.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
So pleased that this one is out: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Multiplex panel tests have an inherent uncertainty that is typically ignored when calculating prevalence, and develop methods to fix it.
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Combined multiplex panel test results are a poor estimate of disease prevalence without adjustment f...
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