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One of the things my team does at the FSA is commission and manage contracts for research projects. Just up, a post on the FSA blog about...

One of the things my team does at the FSA is commission and manage contracts for research projects. Just up, a post on the FSA blog about *IID3*, a large project to estimate levels of intestinal infectious disease in the UK population! What the project involves, why it's important, and how we'll use the outputs:
https://food.blog.gov.uk/2023/09/18/iid3-why-research-into-infectious-intestinal-disease-matters/

@juergen_hubert I'm struggling to find where we talked about this but in case it's useful the Free League/Year Zero (Vaesen etc)...

@juergen_hubert I'm struggling to find where we talked about this but in case it's useful the Free League/Year Zero (Vaesen etc) license is up now:
https://freeleaguepublishing.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Year-Zero-Engine-License-Agreement.pdf

The papers for the public session today are available at: https://acmsf.food.gov.uk/102acmsfmtg

The papers for the public session today are available at: https://acmsf.food.gov.uk/102acmsfmtg

A sunny morning in York and I'm heading into York centre, past the chocolate-scented Nestlé Rowntree plant, to the first plenary...

A sunny morning in York and I'm heading into York centre, past the chocolate-scented Nestlé Rowntree plant, to the first plenary meeting of 2023 of the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food! Have a good day, everyone.

(I know I can download my data but that wouldn't migrate followers, right?)I assume eventually some governments and organisations will...

(I know I can download my data but that wouldn't migrate followers, right?)

I assume eventually some governments and organisations will set up (e.g.) @gov.uk servers to host official, stable, verified accounts, unless I'm misunderstanding how that could work.

New user question: my biggest concern about Mastodon is still server persistence - how do I know (e.g.) mstdn.social isn't going to...

New user question: my biggest concern about Mastodon is still server persistence - how do I know (e.g.) mstdn.social isn't going to disappear overnight? Can I do anything if it does? And are any of the servers necessarily any more stable?

I've seen a lot of new ones appear, and I assume it's only a matter of time until one meets some kind of accident.

(And if I've picked a "bad" server and should migrate somewhere, please tell me.)

In #dengue news today (well, Monday - only just seen...

In #dengue news today (well, Monday - only just seen it):
https://eu.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-health/2022/11/14/dengue-fever-reported-maricopa-county-health-officials/10700418002/

Interesting read to start the morning! Public Accounts Committee finds the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) in Weybridge “continually...

Interesting read to start the morning! Public Accounts Committee finds the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) in Weybridge “continually vulnerable to a major breakdown” because the Defra had “comprehensively failed” in its management of the site:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/16/uk-vulnerable-to-major-animal-disease-outbreaks-report-finds

If you're planning to use Mastodon to talk about:- disease ecology & epidemiology - arthropod- or food-borne pathogens- science...

If you're planning to use Mastodon to talk about:
- disease ecology & epidemiology
- arthropod- or food-borne pathogens
- science communication or using science to develop policy
...then reply below for a follow and a boost!

Still finding my way on here, but I've noticed for some accounts the total following/followers is wildly different to the number I can...

Still finding my way on here, but I've noticed for some accounts the total following/followers is wildly different to the number I can see when I click on it (e.g. over 100 followers, but I can see less than ten). Is this something to do with which server I'm on - or privacy settings, maybe?

Hi Mastodon! I'm an epidemiologist and disease ecologist interested in #scicomm, currently leading microbiological risk assessment at...

Hi Mastodon! I'm an epidemiologist and disease ecologist interested in #scicomm, currently leading microbiological risk assessment at the UK Food Standards Agency. I have a background in vector- and (more recently) food-borne disease, particularly viruses, and an interest in food more generally. I'll be sharing interesting research and issues around food, risk and epidemiology. Please say hi - especially old friends from Twitter, it'll take a while to find you all!