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
Leon Danon
@leondanon.bsky.social
Epidemiologist, AI, mathematical modeller, networks at Bristol University. <3 techno. Director of the Jean Golding Institute.
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
One year of Isambard-AI: July 2025-2026
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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...
Ask-JGI helpdesk is recruiting PhD students! – Jean Golding Institute News
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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...
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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📢 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...
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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As mpox cases surge once more we assess potential spread and control in England. With @3113n.bsky.social #idsky
medRxivpreprint@medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · last yr.Targeted vaccination is effective for mpox clade Ib in England despite increased household transmission: predictions from a modelling study https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.27.25328398v1
A culmination of many years of hard work, very pleased to share this: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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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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: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2282
Improving the accuracy of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) incidence among hospitalised adults in Bristol, UK https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.25321075v1
UK universities warned to ‘stress-test’ assessments as 92% of students use AI www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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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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
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
PhD position (Bristol, UK) Developing AI methods for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics with @leondanon.bsky.social at @bristoluni.bsky.social More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2250
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 https://go.nature.com/3WroTb1
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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📦 [A package a day - data access 80] Today's data access package is nomisr Access Nomis UK Labour Market Data 🙏 Maintained by Evan Odell 📝 https://docs.ropensci.org/nomisr/ Check out this article: Introduction to {nomisr} 🔒 https://docs.ropensci.org/nomisr/articles/introduction.html […]
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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...
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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Bacterial infections are associated with low income status, not news but has important implications for antibiotic stewardship. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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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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
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...
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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#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
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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Efficient modelling of infectious diseases in wildlife: A case study of bovine tuberculosis in wild badgers journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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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