In epidemiology, it's important to make sure you're actually comparing what you think you're comparing:

If you missed Vernon Lee's Centre for Epidemic Preparedness & Response, LSHTM talk last month on the COVID response in Singapore, full of fascinating details and reflections, you can now catch up here: lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/eve…

Did someone mention peer review? Every scientist should read this historical perspective from Melinda Baldwin. Scientific review practices are post-Cold War and not introduced to improve papers. The past is a strange land. The future maybe stranger. doi.org/10.1086/700070

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Congrats to CMMID members who received a SPI-M-O Award for Modelling & Data Support!

The awards are in recognition of their exceptional contributions to SPI-M-O in response to the #COVID19 pandemic.

They include:
Adam Kucharski
Billy Quilty
Carl A. B. Pearson
Christopher Jarvis

Hooray! My @domestika course ‘Analog Data Visualization for Storytelling’ has just opened for students! 🎉

Nice to finally get to this point ☺️, check it out here👇

domestika.org/en/courses/396…

The peer-reviewed version of our manuscript studying immune imprinting upon #SARSCoV2 vaccination & infection in humans is out! We provide an extensive analysis of plasma, mucosal and memory antibody responses

science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

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Looking for a strong candidate to take on exciting work at WarwickSBIDER University of Warwick using mathematical models to consider global vaccination against COVID. WHO-funded. atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/…

Massive news: eLife to abolish accept/reject decisions: papers will just be “peer reviewed”. Others can argue about this, but lots of interesting consequences. 1/9 elifesciences.org/articles/83889

I know what you're thinking, and yes, Truss' tenure did last less than Alastair Cook's combined career minutes batting in FC cricket

So bearing those issues in mind, and different factors currently influencing the situation, I'd re-emphasise the value in sketching out how you think these factors might combine to influence dynamics over the coming months: twitter.com/adamjkucharski… 8/8

Respect for Dr Adam Rutherford for sci-com engaging on this entirely counter-inuitive aspect of how many ancestors you have and when the genealogical isopoint is (the point back in time when everyone alive at that time is either the ancestor of everyone alive or of noone)

Honoured to be awarded the Frederick Murgatroyd prize by RCP for my work on tropical medicine. This is result of collaborations with colleagues in Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Cameroon & Ethiopia to whom I am eternally grateful

So here's my take on the BU experiments. I know you can't say this on Twitter, but it is my current state of understanding, possibly imperfect, subject to revision with better understanding, and trying to make sense rather than condemn opponents.