Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at Centre for Global Health Research, Oxford. 🤓🧀☕️🚴🏼🦠💉💊https://bsky.app/profile/bugwonk.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/bugwonk.bsky.social/post/3msxgkankvc2pAfter all the faffing about with shoeboxes and foil, it turns out all you need for a decent pinhole camera is a tree. Here the tree is behaving like a giant colander and light coming through gaps between the leaves is creating hundreds of images of the eclipse projected onto Abingdon County Hall13 Aug 2026 10:25 +0000at://did:plc:bjbqp3fdbwlpbutxce5fruuj/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxgkankvc2phttps://bsky.app/profile/bugwonk.bsky.social/post/3m6ytiawxxs2bSuper exciting opportunity to work on an ambitious project both developing novel statistical methodology for infectious diseases and applying it to real world AMR problems in the UK: https://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=SCI26812502 Dec 2025 11:26 +0000at://did:plc:bjbqp3fdbwlpbutxce5fruuj/app.bsky.feed.post/3m6ytiawxxs2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/bugwonk.bsky.social/post/3lrkariq3ns2pCongratulations to Sai Thein Than Tun @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk ‬for passing his PhD viva & overcoming some formidable obstacles in the process. Sai’s work on malaria elimination is a great example of simple models supporting clear thinking about complex processes https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12936-021-03726-x14 Jun 2025 05:46 +0000at://did:plc:bjbqp3fdbwlpbutxce5fruuj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrkariq3ns2phttps://bsky.app/profile/bugwonk.bsky.social/post/3lo3n4ybpos2eMany hospitals in LMICs lack access to microbiology services. @cherrylim128.bsky.social et al asked if such services are a good use of limited resources. The answer: emphatically yes. Such services are likely to improve patient outcomes & reduce overall costs. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S277236822500053801 May 2025 06:02 +0000at://did:plc:bjbqp3fdbwlpbutxce5fruuj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lo3n4ybpos2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/bugwonk.bsky.social/post/3lm4rskw4hs2jKudos to 16yo son, Joe, who has a learning disability due to #ADNP syndrome, for completing his 50th #parkrun last week in Abingdon. Inspired by @johnharris1969.bsky.social ’s new book Maybe I'm Amazed https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m0029hcx Joe’s post-run chill-out was spent drumming to Kraftwerk’s Autobahn.06 Apr 2025 06:07 +0000at://did:plc:bjbqp3fdbwlpbutxce5fruuj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm4rskw4hs2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/bugwonk.bsky.social/post/3lki57rnqos2bJust back from teaching on a 4 day policy-focused AMR workshop in Nairobi hosted by the brilliant cema-africa.uonbi.ac.ke (with generous funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social). Great to meet so many inspiring people from throughout Africa working to reduce the number of lives lost to #AMR.16 Mar 2025 07:41 +0000at://did:plc:bjbqp3fdbwlpbutxce5fruuj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lki57rnqos2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/bugwonk.bsky.social/post/3lbani6uvyc25Read more about this here -> https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-41542-w [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Nov 2024 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:bjbqp3fdbwlpbutxce5fruuj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbani6uvyc25https://bsky.app/profile/bugwonk.bsky.social/post/3lb7sfe6r3k2kToday 3pm GMT, 4pm CET: webinar to discuss latest Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance study https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01867-1/fulltext with panelists Dr. Mohsen Naghavi, Dr. Tomislav Mestrovic,  Dr. Gisela-Robles Aguilar. Register here https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vM6ecYgCTduD9oymbX3dfA#/registration18 Nov 2024 11:19 +0000at://did:plc:bjbqp3fdbwlpbutxce5fruuj/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb7sfe6r3k2k