Dr Joel C Miller

This new #InterfaceFocus issue presents a selection of papers on emerging topics within an exciting new interdisciplinary domain combining #InfectiousDisease modelling and public health #ethics: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rsfs/202... @joelcmiller.bsky.social

PhD position (Dublin, Ireland)
Transmission of bovine tuberculosis: deciphering biological mechanisms with statistical and mechanistic models.
with Miriam Casey, Michael Fop
at UCD-CVERA
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2325

PhD position (Montpellier and Nairobi, France and Kenya)
Modeling of vector and pathogen under global change and the efficacy of surveillance and control
with @https://bsky.app/profile/antoinebarreaux.bsky.social
at...
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2324

And if you know someone who might want to do mathematical fluid mechanics (especially "soft matter"-style work), I might know someone in Australia who could supervise such projects.

La Trobe graduate research scholarships Browse our available research projects.

Looking for potential PhD students - DEADLINE SOON: Mar 31 (Australia time - that's Mar 30 for US).

Do you know a strong candidate who might like to spend 3-4 years outside the US on a PhD?

Modeling epidemics &/or network dynamics?

Let me know.

www.latrobe.edu.au/research/gra...

Outgoing head of heralded U.S. global HIV/AIDS program urges Trump to reverse cuts John Nkengasong, who had helmed PEPFAR since 2022, says “history will remember we showed humanity”

The former head of PEPFAR pleads for the preservation of the lifesaving program. @cohenjon.bsky.social speaks with John Nkengasong. www.science.org/content/arti...

Let’s triple check the earth is round while we’re at it…

Including frameworks of public health ethics in computational modelling of infectious disease interventions Decisions on public health interventions to control infectious disease are often informed by computational models. Interpreting the predicted outcomes of a public health decision requires not only hig...

A new important work by @camzachreson.bsky.social @joelcmiller.bsky.social on integrating ethical frameworks in epidemic modelling: arxiv.org/abs/2502.00071

A huge thank you to Nefel Tellioglu, Jessica Stockdale, Julie Spencer, Wasiur Rahman Khuda Bukhsh, @joelcmiller.bsky.social and Cameron Zachreson for including me on this @matrix-inst.bsky.social project we just preprinted results from

t.co/9ioaiNWMQa 🤓

Offer to become a state if you can get immediate representation in the House and the Senate.

You'd be the largest state. Immediate Dem control of the House. Huge number of safe Dem electoral votes. Large constituency that expects free health-care.

No way he could go along with it.

Trump: "Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State... Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada – AND NO TARIFFS!"

Come on Canada, call his bluff... Please?

Features of Adulthood

Anyways - here's the xkcd strip:

xkcd.com/3034/

One night a Marine who was on patrol outside the residence came in flustered because he had just been caught in a pit trap covered by sticks.

Prof Davis's wife noticed that one of their children seemed nervous and quiet. She asked if he knew anything about it. Turned out he had dug it that day.

@xkcd.com just reminded me of an amusing story from Ambassador Nathaniel Davis, who was a professor at @harveymudd.bsky.social when I was a student there. His family had a new posting in Latin America (I forget the country).

I remember a priest back in the early 90s telling a story about his experience in the 60s/70s after talking with students about the lives of the Apostles immediately after the ascension. He was reported for Communist sympathies.

The closing date for this position is 20 December 2024 and a direct link is here: usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_E...

I am here for the world.

hi

Most I've done is the paper in Infectious Disease Modelling. I'd like to do a broader one, but time, time, time...

‘We learned the hard way’: Samoa remembers a deadly measles outbreak and a visit from RFK Jr A few months before the outbreak in 2019, Kennedy travelled to Samoa and met with anti-vaccine figures, contributing to what health experts claim was a ‘significant disinformation campaign’

Well this is a depressing read. I knew RFK was an antivaxer. I hadn't realised he visited Samoa specifically to spread antivax disinformation months before the epidemic that needlessly claimed the lives of 83 babies and children 😡

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

So treating this as independent the probability of no-one getting it back is about
(364/365)^365
which is almost e^{-1}.

The probability at least one gets it back is about 1-e^{-1}. This is the large N limit.

The probability of me getting my own back is 1/365, and not getting it is 364/365.

Whether you get yours back has very little impact on whether I get mine back.

If we put some thought in, we can convince ourselves that they are almost independent.

A modified version of this question that is harder: Assume 365 students turn in an assignment, and they are then randomly handed back to the students. What is the probability that at least one student receives their own assignment?

Seasonality of births in South-Eastern Nigeria - PubMed Seasonality of births in South-Eastern Nigeria

Not wanting to be the pedant, but...

There can be significant seasonality in birth rates, which will mean the answer depends on what day it is. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/468866/

(okay, actually, I lied about not wanting to be the pedant)

Well, I'm making my first post here, and it is a fun one: I have recently advertised for up to 4 post-doctoral research positions, 3-5 years in duration. If you are interested please get in touch or apply. An opportunity to work in Melbourne, great team, great city! Details at iddjobs.org:

A note to all of my Infectious disease modelling followers - you should follow @iddjobs.bsky.social, and use them to advertise any new infectious disease dynamics^* positions you are hiring for.

* IDD = "Infectious Disease Dynamics"

Still looking. I'm going to go out and tell him it's all okay.

Our livestock guardian dog is not a fan. Video now muted. He'll stop looking for the threat sometime soon...

A man holds a sign in the street saying « stop asking for slides a week in advance of a talk »

I will not hide my inner convictions anymore. Be the change you want to see in the world !

#AcademicSky 🧪

kind of proves the point though, doesn't it?