Ewan Colman

Can you beat the snot monsters? Using an interactive game to engage with children and young people Discovery Day is the flagship event of the Futures Festival of Discovery. It is a free event aimed at showing children and young people what researchers at GW4 universities, including […]

Proud to be part of #FUTURES2025 Discovery Day! We used bubbles & our game “Can you beat the snot monsters?” to show children & young people how far germs travel & how public health research helps stop the spread. More➡️ tinyurl.com/3vjpz9hn @engagebristol.bsky.social @wethecurious.bsky.social

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Want to do a PhD on syphilis diagnostics? In collaboration with @uclglobalhealth.bsky.social & @ukhsa.bsky.social we have a funded studentship available via the Health Protection Research Unit on Blood Borne & Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Deadline for applications: Friday 5th December 2025.

Want to come and do a PhD on mathematical modelling & sexually transmitted infections?

Apply for an MRC funded PhD to come to @lshtm.bsky.social and work on understanding STI transmission dynamics in low resource settings & how we can optimise partner notification as a public health intervention.

Fig 3. (A) Adjusted time trends in SARS-CoV-2 wastewater viral load in seven regions of Switzerland (uncertainty is not shown for clarity). (B) Correlation between adjusted time trends in viral load and laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 hospitalisations in the same region. (C) Adjusted bias in viral load by wastewater treatment plant.

New Paper🚀! Our work analysing the Swiss national SARS-CoV-2 wastewater 🚱 monitoring data is now published in PLOS Water 💧 @plos.org journals.plos.org/water/articl... (Julien Riou, @tanjastadler.bsky.social @trj2.bsky.social Christoph Ort et al)

📰News!📰Great to see our collaborative research shared by
GOV.UK!
Thousands with undiagnosed hepatitis and HIV found in A&E testing.
Read more ➡️ tinyurl.com/y7h3d926 @jhorwood.bsky.social @nhsengland.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Nighttime polar orbiter satellite photos of Jamaica before and after #Melissa show how the power grid was affected. Melissa knocked out power to about 77% of Jamaica’s customers, said Minister of Local Government Desmond McKenzie. Photos from worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov

New website launch

📢New website launch!🎉
Six months into our new chapter of funding, we’re thrilled to unveil our new digital home! Explore our refreshed look, designed to make accessing our latest projects, research & collaborative opportunities easier than ever.
More➡️ tinyurl.com/bdfyyvf2 @nihr.bsky.social

PhD position (Bristol, UK)
Epidemiology of blood borne viruses among migrant communities in the UK
with Clare French Aaron Lim Matt Hickman
at @hpruebs.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2383

PhD position (Bristol, UK)
UK Black heritage scholarship: Constructing an epidemiological modelling framework to maintain health security against resurgent infectious diseases
with @ewancolman.bsky.social Hannah Fraser Jack Stone
at U...
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2381

JOB: Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 using a very large dataset of more than 120,000 viral genomes generated as part of the ONS Covid Survey in Prof Katrina Lythgoe's Ecology and Evolution of Viruses Research Group.

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The annual FluSurvey is now open! 📝
Dr Matthew Quinn shares how you can help our scientists track seasonal viruses & strengthen national surveillance. Find more info in our blog post. 🤧💬
🔗 https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2025/10/22/join-the-fight-against-flu-by-taking-part-in-our-citizen-science-project/

UKHSA PhD Student Internships - Newton Gateway to Mathematics

Opportunity for UK based PhD students to spend 3 months in the Infectious Disease modelling team at UKHSA. It's a great chance to see how modelling is used in public health decision making. If your interested see below for more details:
gateway.newton.ac.uk/media/news/u...

A PhD opportunity to work on real-time modelling and calibration methods with me and Chris Jewell at Lancaster University iddjobs.org/jobs/real-ti...

I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...

Cartoon of a man asking a receptionist for directions to Mr Escher's office. The receptionist replies ""Up the stairs. Keep turning right."

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The impact of cuts in the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief funding for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in sub-Saharan Africa: a modelling study Our projections show the substantial detrimental impacts that cuts to PEPFAR funding could have. Mitigation measures, including funding through alternative international donors or domestic government ...

Read the full paper here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our new study shows HIV infections look set to significantly increase in sub-Saharan Africa, as a result of funding for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) being halted under the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.

Published in Lancet #HIV

hpruebs.nihr.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

Shaping a migrant health research agenda through public involvement meeting

📢New blog📢Shaping a migrant health research agenda through public involvement.
Long-term infections like Hep B, C, HIV & TB are more common among migrants than in those UK born. Tackling these infections is vital to address unfair differences. More➡️ bit.ly/3Isktg9 @carmel93.bsky.social

Cheap supplies of HIV-prevention jab for poorer countries hailed as ‘genuine chance to end’ global epidemic

We are back for a whole season about the story of socialism. In the first episode we explain socialism(s) and communism(s) before Marx, featuring the French Revolution, Chartists, anarchists, the birth of the co-operative movement, utopian novels, America's experimental communes and seas of lemonade

This would be perfect for someone good at quantitative stuff - maths, coding, data science, etc - but also interested in the lived experience of people at risk of disease and tough decisions they have to make each day. If that is you, email me right now!!! 🙏😁

An interdisciplinary project across University of Bristol and Cardiff University with mathematical modellers (me and Hannah Fraser) - a psychologist, @dradamdnw.bsky.social, and a Medical Statistician - David Gillespie 😀

Modelling the epidemiological impact of HIV prophylaxis on a backdrop of social, cultural, and behavioural complexity at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Modelling the epidemiological impact of HIV prophylaxis on a backdrop of social, cultural, and behavioural complexity at University of Bristol, listed on FindAPhD.com

We're advertising a PhD position! 😎 Modelling the epidemiological impact of HIV prophylaxis on a backdrop of social, cultural, and behavioural complexity

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Modelling and communicating avian influenza spillover at the human-wild bird interface: a One Health approach

🐦 GW4 MRC funded PhD position on
Modelling and communicating Avian Influenza spillover at the human-wild bird interface 🐦

Interdisciplinary One Health project!
Infection histories, contacts and behavioural science.

@neeltjeboogert.bsky.social @3113n.bsky.social @mtwhite.bsky.social, Louise Smith

£2.3m to be invested to boost active travel across Bristol - South West Bristol City Council will work on five new projects following the approval of funding from the Department for Transport’s Active Travel Fund

Exciting to see the next wave of improvements to walking, wheeling and cycling in Bristol. We'd love to get some cycle hangars in St George Central as bike theft is still one of the most prohibitive aspects of cycling. www.thebusinessdesk.com/south-west/n...

Carla

Jo and Zack

🌍✊ The Green Party stands with UCU members.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social (Leader of the Green Party) and @carladenyer.bsky.social (former Co-Leader) are backing our campaign for fair pay and conditions.

We are the university. We are the movement. Vote YES. #WeAreTheUniversity

‘Almost unimaginable’: these ants are different species but share a mother Ant queens of one species clone ants of another to create hybrid workers that do their bidding.

woah this is genuinely, utterly WILD

Ant queens of one species produce males of another species, so she can then mate with them and produce hybrid workers!

This is so gloriously weird I can't quite compute it 🤯🧪🐜
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death.

And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.

Photo pf a large group of women in blue football strips posing together on a grass field, some wonen standing in a row while others are sitting on the ground in front

The Afghan women's football/soccer team, who relocated to the UK to escape the Taliban's removal of female rights, including exclusion from all public life #WomensArt #AfghanWomen