Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl
@palaeoepidemiology.bsky.social
📑Biology PhD student at the University of Sussex
📖 Epidemiologist working on viral disease transmission and One Health
📍 Brighton, UK
👩💻she/her
📖 Epidemiologist working on viral disease transmission and One Health
📍 Brighton, UK
👩💻she/her
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Hi, I'm Alice!
I'm a PhD student in Biology at the unversity of Sussex working on rabies in Eptesicus serotinus as part of the Wessex One Health BBSRC.
My research in general is on extant and ancient viral transmission and I work with a combination of field data and maths models
I'm a PhD student in Biology at the unversity of Sussex working on rabies in Eptesicus serotinus as part of the Wessex One Health BBSRC.
My research in general is on extant and ancient viral transmission and I work with a combination of field data and maths models
Today, I had to grab a stepping stool at the library, because apparently Paul Dirac is a top shelf author.
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Today, I had to grab a stepping stool at the library, because apparently Paul Dirac is a top shelf author.
After trying to get a grasp a more global perspective on disease ecology in the species I'm working on, I'm never again complaining about overly localised studies.
November 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
After trying to get a grasp a more global perspective on disease ecology in the species I'm working on, I'm never again complaining about overly localised studies.
Reposted by Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl
"The hyperreal bat: more vivid, more coherent, and more narratively satisfying than any bat in nature."
Why does the idea of bats as special viral reservoirs endure?
New Substack post:
robertjgifford.substack.com/p/bats-and-v...
Why does the idea of bats as special viral reservoirs endure?
New Substack post:
robertjgifford.substack.com/p/bats-and-v...
Bats and Viruses: Rumour, Intrigue, Deception, and Spectacle
Bats as Hyperreal Reservoirs of Viral Disease
robertjgifford.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"The hyperreal bat: more vivid, more coherent, and more narratively satisfying than any bat in nature."
Why does the idea of bats as special viral reservoirs endure?
New Substack post:
robertjgifford.substack.com/p/bats-and-v...
Why does the idea of bats as special viral reservoirs endure?
New Substack post:
robertjgifford.substack.com/p/bats-and-v...
My supervisors are the best. They managed to get me out of a whole bunch of rabbit holes that would have delayed my lit review indefinitely.
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
My supervisors are the best. They managed to get me out of a whole bunch of rabbit holes that would have delayed my lit review indefinitely.
Reposted by Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl
I've been processing my lit review notes and the amount of times I've written "ref verify with", because I caught the textbooks slacking with their references one too many times is giving me trust issues.
November 22, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I've been processing my lit review notes and the amount of times I've written "ref verify with", because I caught the textbooks slacking with their references one too many times is giving me trust issues.
Reposted by Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl
A reminder to all #palaeoartists; the deadline for the Marsh Palaeoart Award is fast approaching!
If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅).
Anyway, good luck to y'all!
#paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social
If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅).
Anyway, good luck to y'all!
#paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A reminder to all #palaeoartists; the deadline for the Marsh Palaeoart Award is fast approaching!
If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅).
Anyway, good luck to y'all!
#paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social
If you want to submit I'd recommend doing it ASAP as, while it says 25th Nov here, the webpage specifies the 21st (I'm glad I checked😅).
Anyway, good luck to y'all!
#paleoart @palaeontosoc.bsky.social
Reposted by Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 2:01 PM
when will the lesson finally get learned? #cloudflare
Timezones are fun: I just got an email for a seminar on "Let’s talk about work-life balance"... at 5am my time.
November 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Timezones are fun: I just got an email for a seminar on "Let’s talk about work-life balance"... at 5am my time.
Loved seeing people post their graduation pictures today, so throwback to my Genetics master
"Just look at the degree on that chick"
"Just look at the degree on that chick"
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Loved seeing people post their graduation pictures today, so throwback to my Genetics master
"Just look at the degree on that chick"
"Just look at the degree on that chick"
Today's count of algorithms being made worse after the companies that made them started to use genAI like a crutch is up to 2...
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Today's count of algorithms being made worse after the companies that made them started to use genAI like a crutch is up to 2...
Shoutout to Sussex Library! After stressing out over not finding a key reference, they found it in 4 four days and sent me the pdf.
November 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Shoutout to Sussex Library! After stressing out over not finding a key reference, they found it in 4 four days and sent me the pdf.
Why do new versions need to ruin things?!
I used to find every paper I had in my bibliography on research rabbit. One algorithm change later and it can't even find references Zotero was able to export from Google Scholar.
I used to find every paper I had in my bibliography on research rabbit. One algorithm change later and it can't even find references Zotero was able to export from Google Scholar.
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Why do new versions need to ruin things?!
I used to find every paper I had in my bibliography on research rabbit. One algorithm change later and it can't even find references Zotero was able to export from Google Scholar.
I used to find every paper I had in my bibliography on research rabbit. One algorithm change later and it can't even find references Zotero was able to export from Google Scholar.
Reposted by Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl
We're advertising an MRC-LID PhD studentship on modelling measles outbreak risk in teenagers and adults, with me, @amsuffel.bsky.social and @rozeggo.bsky.social
You'll design mathematical models using vaccine data and Electronic Health Records to analyse recent transmission patterns, get in touch!
You'll design mathematical models using vaccine data and Electronic Health Records to analyse recent transmission patterns, get in touch!
2026-27 Project (Robert & Eggo & Suffel) - MRC London Intercollegiate Doctoral Training Partnership Studentships
Modelling measles transmission risk in adults SUPERVISORY TEAM Supervisor Dr Alexis Robert at LSHTMFaculty of...
mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 1:21 PM
We're advertising an MRC-LID PhD studentship on modelling measles outbreak risk in teenagers and adults, with me, @amsuffel.bsky.social and @rozeggo.bsky.social
You'll design mathematical models using vaccine data and Electronic Health Records to analyse recent transmission patterns, get in touch!
You'll design mathematical models using vaccine data and Electronic Health Records to analyse recent transmission patterns, get in touch!
Got to read an exciting new study on a new method of outbreak cluster detection including an application to probably animal rabies cases in Tanzania today:
Hayes et al. in @royalsociety.org Open Science
#episky
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Hayes et al. in @royalsociety.org Open Science
#episky
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Generalizing an outbreak cluster detection method for two groups: an application to rabies | Royal Society Open Science
Identifying linked cases of an infectious disease can improve our understanding of its epidemiology by distinguishing sustained local transmission from frequent introductions with little onward transmission. This evidence can, in turn, inform decisions on ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Got to read an exciting new study on a new method of outbreak cluster detection including an application to probably animal rabies cases in Tanzania today:
Hayes et al. in @royalsociety.org Open Science
#episky
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Hayes et al. in @royalsociety.org Open Science
#episky
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
The pile of old textbooks on my desk is growing a delightful amount.
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
The pile of old textbooks on my desk is growing a delightful amount.
Someone said to me they're don't believe in the COVID vaccine and I lowkey went into epidemiologist sleeper agent mode. They were really receptive to the information though.
#episky
#episky
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Someone said to me they're don't believe in the COVID vaccine and I lowkey went into epidemiologist sleeper agent mode. They were really receptive to the information though.
#episky
#episky
Working on a species named in 1775 is all fun and games until you're trying to find out when we went from calling the virus they carry just rabies to European Bat Lyssavirus 1. Like, what do you mean thre's a textbook describing rabies spillover from bats and then a 30 year gap!?
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ALT: a close up of a cartoon cat with a sad look on his face
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Working on a species named in 1775 is all fun and games until you're trying to find out when we went from calling the virus they carry just rabies to European Bat Lyssavirus 1. Like, what do you mean thre's a textbook describing rabies spillover from bats and then a 30 year gap!?
It's @palaeoverse.bsky.social day!
Very excited to be listening to Dr Oskar Hagen about biodiversity modelling beyond statistical approaches.
Very excited to be listening to Dr Oskar Hagen about biodiversity modelling beyond statistical approaches.
🚨Palaeoverse Lecture Series🚨
🗓️30th October 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️
Join us next week to hear from Dr Oskar Hagen, on “Mechanistic biodiversity modelling with gen3sis: population-based simulations across regional and global domains to deep and shallow time” 🌐
Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
🗓️30th October 2025, 15:00 UTC🗓️
Join us next week to hear from Dr Oskar Hagen, on “Mechanistic biodiversity modelling with gen3sis: population-based simulations across regional and global domains to deep and shallow time” 🌐
Register here: bit.ly/palaeoverse-...
October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It's @palaeoverse.bsky.social day!
Very excited to be listening to Dr Oskar Hagen about biodiversity modelling beyond statistical approaches.
Very excited to be listening to Dr Oskar Hagen about biodiversity modelling beyond statistical approaches.
Brilliant talk by @drjmiddleton.bsky.social at Uni of Sussex today, providing some insights into the intersection between conservation and local population health.
October 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Brilliant talk by @drjmiddleton.bsky.social at Uni of Sussex today, providing some insights into the intersection between conservation and local population health.
I was browsing some references today and would you look at that:
The Russian I took in high school to get some easy marks is coming in handy once again.
The Russian I took in high school to get some easy marks is coming in handy once again.
October 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I was browsing some references today and would you look at that:
The Russian I took in high school to get some easy marks is coming in handy once again.
The Russian I took in high school to get some easy marks is coming in handy once again.
I raised my weekly budget a little bit (rip my savings), so I could have a little bit of stationery here and there just as a treat and that honestly feels like a peak grad school choice.
October 26, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I raised my weekly budget a little bit (rip my savings), so I could have a little bit of stationery here and there just as a treat and that honestly feels like a peak grad school choice.
Reposted by Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl
Entering my dark academia phase (the lights in my office are broken)
October 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Entering my dark academia phase (the lights in my office are broken)
The urge to put all the open papers I have in my browser into colour-coded tabs while they metaphorically compile dust...
October 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The urge to put all the open papers I have in my browser into colour-coded tabs while they metaphorically compile dust...
Reposted by Alice de Sampaio Kalkuhl
Notably this problem is also solved 100% without any AI and instead, at zero cost, by journals adopting format-agnostic initial submissions (as many journals have already done)
Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Notably this problem is also solved 100% without any AI and instead, at zero cost, by journals adopting format-agnostic initial submissions (as many journals have already done)