@evolution_v2

Data Scientist at the Robert Koch Institute, Outbreak detection, R, Disease mapping. Views are my own.

 Berlin, Deutschland
Joined December 2009
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Are you working on infectious disease modelling in the south-west of Germany? Join us on 4 Dec for our workshop at @KITKarlsruhe: swim.codeberg.page/
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PhD position (Karlsruhe, Germany) Nowcasting and Short-Term Forecasting of Infectious Diseases with @johannesbracher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/phd-candida…
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Did you know: you can use R, a statistics-oriented programming language, in your document! Check out our guide and learn how. overleaf.com/learn/latex/Kni…

R code (knitr) | Overleaf docs

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🙇 Back to work! I'm developing 6 #dataviz projects, to simplify every step of your chart creation: 1️⃣ Pick the Right Chart Data To Viz is your go-to decision tree: describe your dataset, and it guides you to the most suitable chart type 🌐 data-to-viz.com 🧵
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It can be incredibly difficult to find official sub-national shapefiles. Luckily, there are a number of sources that make the job easier:
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Just published my short book 👣 6 Steps Towards Reproducible Research 👣 on Zenodo as epub and pdf. Feel free to reuse and cite: Seibold, H. (2024). 6 Steps Towards Reproducible Research. Zenodo. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12744…
Book cover 6 Steps Towards Reproducible Research

ALT Book cover 6 Steps Towards Reproducible Research

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PhD position (Münster, Germany) Infectious Disease Modelling / Network Analysis with @EileWoMiSa @TheMadChatter1 @andkarch at @ClinicalEpi More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/phd-student…
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Die Vorbereitungen für die „2nd National Conference on Infectious Disease Modeling 2024″ (13. – 15.03.2024) in der Leopoldina in Halle (Saale) #MONID2024 laufen auf Hochtouren! Per Livestream am 13. & 14. März auf unserem YouTube-Kanal youtube.com/@MONID_Modellier…
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In discussions of how to improve scientific publishing (especially with regards to health emergencies), it’s worth remembering that preprint servers like @biorxivpreprint and @medrxivpreprint probably added more value to the COVID response than every big name journal combined…
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🚨The R package `simulist`, to simulate individual-level outbreak and contact-tracing data, is now available to users. Whether you want to test your methods or models, or generate realistic teaching materials, check it out on the Epiverse website 👇epiverse-trace.github.io/sim…
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🤧 Schnupfen, Husten, Halsschmerzen, Fieber – oder gesund: Machen Sie mit bei GrippeWeb und unterstützen Sie die Wissenschaft! 📈 #GrippeWeb ist ein digitales, partizipatives Surveillance-Instrument für akute Atemwegserkrankungen. Jetzt anmelden ➡️ grippeweb.bund.de
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ALT Das Bild zeigt zwei Personen mit Erkältungssymptomen. Im Hintergrund ein elektronisches Gerät. Au dem Display ist eine Lupe zu sehen, die eine andere Person in der Hand hält. Der Text auf dem Bild: mitforschen, mitgewinnen. Mit Ihnen schaffen wir Wissen zu akuten Atemwegserkrankungen in Deutschland. Jetzt auf grippeweb.bund.de registrieren.

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PUBLICATION: Last year, together with the @WHO Hub for Pandemic & Epidemic Intelligence, we organized a workshop on advanced analytics to inform decision making during public health emergencies. The report is now live! 👇imperial.ac.uk/media/imperia… 🧵1/7
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From the recent SARS-CoV-2 wastewater surveillance report for 🇩🇪: BA.2.86 and its sublineage JN.1 (declared VOI since a week) continuously increase. Sequencing results shared from @Lackner_TUDa and team with @rki_de in the context of AMELAG - thx! ⬇️⬇️ rki.de/DE/Content/Institut/O…
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“Forecasting influenza hospital admissions within English sub-regions using hierarchical generalised additive models” our new publication out today! nature.com/articles/s43856-0…

Forecasting influenza hospital admissions within English sub-regions using hierarchical generalised...

Communications Medicine - Mellor et al. introduce a new method for forecasting hospital admissions with seasonal influenza in a resurgent season that can be used to inform policy makers. The...

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🔜 I’ll be recruiting a number of post-docs and Phd students to my new group in Berlin. If interested and keen on vaccine epidemiology, global health and disease dynamics, including eg modelling, stats, RSV, Pneumo, Dengue, pandemic preparedness, please get in touch
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Introducing the European Respiratory Diseases Forecasting Hub at #EPIDEMICS9 : respicast.ecdc.europa.eu – at Bologna, Emilia Romagna
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Today, we're launching the Pathogen Harmonized Observatory, or Pharos: a global platform for managing and sharing data on wildlife disease. You can explore some example datasets, or upload your own, by heading over to pharos.viralemergence.org 🖥️ More on the project... 🧵
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#AMELAG baut die #Abwassersurveillance in 🇩🇪 aus, um zusätzliche Informationen über die Verbreitung von Krankheitserregern zu sammeln. Webseite u.a. mit FAQ und Abwassersurveillance-Wochenbericht zu #SARSCoV2 ➡️ rki.de/abwassersurveillance Wie Abwassersurveillance funktioniert. ⬇️
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