Investing in people, creating lasting impact #EDCTP-supported researcher Prof. Abdoulaye Djimdé has been featured in Nature for his contribution to advancing the fight against malaria and strengthening African-led research capacity. 🔗 Read the article: www.nature.com/articles/d44...

🎓Fully funded PhD opportunity! 🔬Ready to make an impact in child health research? Apply for the PhD studentship under the RECOVER study and help improve care for children with severe acute malnutrition. 🔗Apply here👉: shorturl.at/RqNiS 🗓️Deadline : July 3, 2026

Come work @lshtm.bsky.social modelling STIs in UK & evaluation of new interventions. 3yr research fellow modelling post - feel free to get in touch to discuss. Current closing date 30th June @rozeggo.bsky.social @adamjkucharski.bsky.social @grahammedley.bsky.social @drlouisedyson.bsky.social

Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Fellow

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

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"[...] as of May 27, 2026, approximately 280–2520 cases of Bundibugyo virus disease might have occurred in [DRC] (estimate range 306–2521 with the back-calculation model and 282–1345 with the geographical spread model); however, there is considerable uncertainty around these estimates."

Updated modelling of the current size of the Ebola outbreak by Imperial and collaborators. Ruth McCabe and co-authors did an incredible job at integrating continuously changing case data 👇

Estimation of the Ebola outbreak size in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The ongoing outbreak of Bundibugyo virus disease, a form of Ebola virus disease caused by the Bundibugyo virus, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is evolving rapidly. As of May 27, 2026, 1031 su...

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🚨Vaccinology webinar alert!🚨 🧪Curious about how vaccines are developed and standardized? Join our next webinar session with Dr. Selorm Avumegah, @cepi.net, and learn how standards ensure the quality, safety, and effectiveness of vaccines. 🗓️June 24th, 2026 🕑2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EAT 🔗: shorturl.at/4zUWK

🫀How can Africa tackle the growing burden of hypertension? 📚Our latest research highlights why combining proven interventions with locally generated evidence is key to developing solutions that work for African populations. 🔗Read more here 👉: shorturl.at/7FAf4

NIHR webinar on BashTheBug on YouTube BashTheBug was originally a large international citizen science project that invited anyone to help us classify how well different samples of M. tuberculosis grew in the presence of a range of antibiotics. It ran from 2017 to 2021 and in that time 46,427…

NIHR webinar on BashTheBug on YouTube

BashTheBug was originally a large international citizen science project that invited anyone to help us classify how well different samples of M. tuberculosis grew in the presence of a range of antibiotics. It ran from 2017 to 2021 and in that time 46,427 people took part and collectively they classified 4,746,420 images of M. tuberculosis growing on different concentrations of one of 13 antibiotics. 

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NEW: An Oxford-developed vaccine candidate targeting the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola has received backing from CEPI, accelerating efforts to respond to the epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda. More info ➡️ https://bit.ly/4uif4KI

Thanks to the team for all their hardwork preparing and delivering the activities, especially in this heatwave! 🌞🌞🌞

And our DNA detective programme was a smash🕵‍♀️ Follow the bioinformatic instructions to figure out which patient in a ward has which infection, and work out from the hints which drugs will help the patient get better!

The Mystery Outbreak poster was a hit! A cluedo-esque mystery where you had to follow the clues to find the source of illness in the hospital 🔍

Everybody loved the strawberry DNA extractions!🍓 Participants learnt how this technique can be used by scientists to diagnose infections in patients and the data used by doctors to see if the infection has any resistance and then choose which antibiotics to prescribe🧬 @oxfordbrc.bsky.social

We had an amazing time in Westgate, Oxford today! We had many attempts to 'bash the bug' and get the high score for the day on our dance mat 💃🕺 where overusing antibiotics causes resistance so you have to be careful what you're prescribing!💊 #AMR #ScienceOutreach #Microbiology #Oxford

Today, Coefficient Giving is launching the Strep A Vaccine Fund, a multi-donor initiative to accelerate vaccine development against one of the world's most neglected infectious diseases relative to its scale. Strep A kills ~639,000 people a year. There is no vaccine. I think that can change 🧵

NEWS: New rabies vaccine could provide protection for adults and children with a single dose The vaccine could provide an affordable way to protect vulnerable populations.

New rabies vaccine could provide protection for adults and children with a single dose

A new clinical trial led by researchers at the Jenner Institute in collaboration Ifakara Health Institute Tanzania, suggests that a single-dose rabies vaccine could provide safe, long-lasting protection in both adults and children. The research could lead to a simpler, lower-cost approach that could transform rabies prevention in high-risk regions.

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Congratulations to Prof. Isabella Oyier and Prof. Ambrose Agweyu on their appointments as Deputy Director, Kilifi and Nairobi, respectively, following the completion of a competitive recruitment process. Read more below 🔗Isabella's profile: shorturl.at/TFiMP 🔗Ambrose's profile: shorturl.at/MHtO1

Congratulations to Prof. Charles Agoti on being awarded the title of Associate Professor at @ox.ac.uk in recognition of his research achievements and contribution to academic excellence in the @ndm.ox.ac.uk!

🎓Congratulations to Dr. Fatuma Guleid on successfully defending her PhD thesis! Her research explores how knowledge translation can be reframed to strengthen evidence-informed health policy making in Kenya. Fatuma was supervised by Prof. Edwine Barasa, Dr. Jacinta Nzinga & Prof. Gilbert A. Abiiro.

Great intervention - makes everything better, malaria, respiratory infection, diarrhoea, growth - and low carbon footprint. Nothing not to like.

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“This exciting finding shows the potential of novel house designs to improve children’s health and survival on a wide scale.” Learn more: https://scim.ag/4cEDhDT

Claude has started refusing to give citations. Yes, this technically means fewer hallucinations. But it doesn’t mean that AI is now hallucination-free in the way a careful researcher is.

For decades, the Programme has led malaria research, generating evidence, shaping policy, and driving progress. This upcoming #WorldMalariaDay, we reflect on impact, progress, and priorities ahead to move closer to a malaria-free future. As captured by leading malaria researcher Prof. Bob Snow:

"We find that current LLMs are unreliable delegates: even frontier models corrupt an average of 25% of document content over long workflows, with sparse but severe errors that silently compound over time." 👉"Silently" arxiv.org/abs/2604.15597

LLMs Corrupt Your Documents When You Delegate

Large Language Models (LLMs) are poised to disrupt knowledge work, with the emergence of delegated work as a new interaction paradigm (e.g., vibe coding). Delegation requires trust - the expectation t...

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🚨Vaccinology webinar alert!🚨 How can we empower local manufacturing through vaccine technology transfer ? Register for the upcoming Vaccinology career webinar to learn more! 🗓️ April 30th, 2026 🕑 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM EAT 🔗Register here👉: shorturl.at/q7Vvz

Clinical PhD opportunity @lshtm.bsky.social through @hpruezi.bsky.social Applications now close on 17th April. Ideal for UK Infection registrars wanting to do a PhD in clinical application of metagenomics in returning travellers. Collaboration with @emcat1.bsky.social & @ukhsa.bsky.social

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Biomedical publishing: Past historic, present continuous, future conditional

Academic journals have been publishing the results of biomedical research for more than 350 years. Reviewing their history reveals that the ways in which journals vet submissions have changed over tim...

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On #WorldTBDay, it’s important to reflect on the scale of the challenge we’re facing. In 2024 alone, tuberculosis (TB) caused 1.23 million deaths worldwide, remaining the leading cause of death from a single infectious agent, according to WHO @ndm.ox.ac.uk

This rarely-seen Glass Octopus was caught by an underwater robot during an expedition off the Phoenix Islands.

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Google Has a Secret Reference Desk. Here's How to Use It.

40 Google features to find exactly what you need, the alternative search engines that do things Google won't, and the reference desk framework underneath all of it.

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It was fantastic to see so many people getting involved, asking great questions, and learning about microbiology in the sunshine. Thanks to everyone who came to say hello, and to our brilliant team for all their enthusiasm! #BashTheBug #Microbiology #PublicOutreach #ATOMFestival