For the first time, we found phylogenetic evidence of importations and local transmission of Macrolide-resistant #pertussis strains in France. Needs further monitoring! Great work led by Valérie Bouchez, Carla Rodrigues and @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social! Paper: shorturl.at/2Npmm 🦠 🧪 🛟

Pathogen genomes can provide insights into underlying disease transmission patterns but new methods are needed to analyze large genome datasets. Our work using identical pathogen sequences to characterize fine scale SARS-CoV-2 transmission was just published in @nature.com tinyurl.com/bdzk9xjj 🥳

AI is poised to accelerate understanding in infectious diseases, but its value needs to be demonstrated through close collaboration between research, industry, society, and policy. Paper free to read: rdcu.be/eaxEw Summary here: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...

Building on the UShER tree of millions of SARS-CoV-2 genomes maintained by Angie Hinrichs, Hugh Haddox and Georg Angehrn (and others in @matsen.bsky.social lab and @jbloomlab.bsky.social) have looked into how the neutral mutation rate varies along the genome: [1/N] www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Incredibly excited to share that our manuscript was just published in @nature.com ! What a way to start the new year! 🎉 https://buff.ly/4gyYCzx We present phylowave, a framework that enables to learn the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies. 🧵 A thread... 1/n #IDSky #IDModelling

🦠🔍 Tracking Pathogen Evolution in Real Time A new tool, 'phylowave', has been developed to help scientists track how viruses and bacteria evolve. It identifies new variants with increased fitness, offering insights into diseases like #COVID19 and flu. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm 🧪

Incredibly excited to share that our manuscript was just published in @nature.com ! What a way to start the new year! 🎉 https://buff.ly/4gyYCzx We present phylowave, a framework that enables to learn the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies. 🧵 A thread... 1/n #IDSky #IDModelling

* rolls up newspaper * No Guardian! Bad Guardian! An infection is not a microbiome! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

Super resource to explore publicly available genome sequencing data! Currently supports H5N1, West Nile, RSV-A, RSV-B and SARS-CoV-2 GenSpectrum.org #IDSky

Thrilled to have received this award, thank you @gensocuk.bsky.social! Many thanks to @hsalje.bsky.social @julianparkhill.bsky.social, Sylvain Brisse and the amazing research groups without whom the work wouldn't have been possible!

Infectious Disease Modelling starter pack update! First pack is full so I created a second one. Pls keep on sending suggestions! (bio should contain experience relevant for this pack) IDModelling pack 1: go.bsky.app/86Ao1a5 IDModelling pack 2 : go.bsky.app/2oBB7KX

Hey bluesky! It's great to see so many new folks jumping on the #IDSky wagon. If you're at #TropMed24 drop by my poster tomorrow at 11am. We can talk all things chikungunya burden, sex and age-dependent disease risk, and potential vaccine impact!

Infectious Disease Modelling starter pack! Suggestions are welcome! go.bsky.app/86Ao1a5

New work led by Wei Wang characterises the dynamics of measles immunity in infant&child cohorts in China. @hsalje.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re hiring!! postdoc and research assistant (with potential for PhD) positions on mathematical modeling of infectious diseases at Cambridge (UK). Mainly of arboviruses including with longitudinal cohorts, disease mapping and models applied to multiplex serology in Africa. jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/44461/