Adam Kucharski
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Adam Kucharski is a professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine who studies emerging health threats and how they interact with behaviour and information.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Role: Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (opens wiqqi.app)
- Company: Co-founder and CTO, WholeSum (opens wiqqi.app)
- Earlier: Founding co-director of the Centre for Epidemic Preparedness and Response at LSHTM, from 2022 to 2025 (opens wiqqi.app)
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4 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Newsletter: Understanding the unseen (opens kucharski.substack.com)
“How I almost crashed out of an Oxford University poker tournament”
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GitHub: adamkucharski (opens github.com)
“pdf2plot — Extract raw underlying data from PDF figures in the browser”
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x.com: @AdamJKucharski (opens x.com)
“How do you perceive probability-based phrases? Take the quiz and see how you compare with the 500+ others who've done it so far...”
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Newsletter: Understanding the unseen (opens kucharski.substack.com)
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12 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Seasonal epidemics are driven by a combination of biological and epidemiological factors. (opens korrents.com)
“There will be a combination of biological and epidemiological factors behind the patterns we observe. And if that combination of factors changes, we shouldn't necessarily expect epidemics at the same time of year.”
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Unusually cool weather does not appear to be a valid explanation for the early rise in flu cases. (opens korrents.com)
“In short, unusually cool weather doesn't seem to hold up well as an explanation.”
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The early rise in flu is likely not driven by schools reopening. (opens korrents.com)
“If we look at school-age children (5 to 14), the rise was later and smaller, and began in late August, during the summer holidays (English schools go back in early September). Schools out... as a theory currently, it…”
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Seasonal epidemics are driven by a combination of biological and epidemiological factors. (opens korrents.com)