Sebastian Funk

@sbfnk.bsky.social

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Professor of Infectious Disease Dynamics at @lshtm.bsky.social. Developing methods for making sense of outbreak data. Outside of work trying to make sense of the rest of the world.

Word cloud from the workshop introduction. Positive qualities like transparent, open, reproducible, honest in blue and green at the top; negative ones like biased, overconfident, closed, opaque in orange and red at the bottom.

Improving Estimation of
Reproduction Numbers in Dynamic
Outbreak Contexts

Improving Infectious Disease
Forecasts and Forecast Evaluation

Improving Estimation and Analysis of
Epidemiological Delays for Infectious
Disease Outbreaks

Peer review is an essential, uneven, and flawed process at the heart of scientific publishing practices. Whether a study has been published in a journal with reputable peer review practices is often one of the first questions other scientists, journalists, or policy makers have when discussing a new study. However, a few minutes of online searching will turn up countless items on shortcomings in the process, with examples of quackery and outrageous, humorous, fraudulent, or just unreliable research articles that passed review and got published in the scientific literature.