What we choose to implement - and when - matters. Our work shows that proactive screening strategies can reduce transmission by ~40% vs reactive responses. A key lesson for preparedness. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/cLnu50YCrcn

Great speakers at this symposium - 22 April 2026 at LSHTM. Join online or in person (email if in person) to hear great talks at the cutting edge of Inequalities in infectious disease dynamics. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/e...

PhD opportunity at SUMOC (Sorbonne Université | INSERM), Paris, within the EPIcx lab. 🦠 Project: SPILL-AI (mobility data, AI, epidemic modeling) ⚠️ Selected candidate will be submitted to competitive funding (SCAI) Apply by April 12, 2026 www.epicx-lab.com/open-positio...

Not very active here but wanted to advertise this exciting position in my group, to characterise nosocomial transmission pathways of respiratory viruses: bit.ly/4759vGx. Applications close 12th April.

🧪Excellent advice for those applying to graduate school and also postdoc positions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨NEW BLOG ALERT🚨 For those of you who have enjoyed the back and forth with @holdenthorp.bsky.social, I present a bone and pick it! @standupforscience.bsky.social Site blog: www.standupforscience.net/blog/scienti... Substack: substack.com/@sciencefigh...

Two postdoc positions open at SUMOC (Sorbonne Université | INSERM), Paris, within the EPIcx lab. 🦠 Network epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections (ARCANE) 🧠 Coupled behavior–disease modeling (PREVIX) 2-y positions | Start June 2026 #epidemiology #networks #matrices

🎉 It's livestream day 🎉 Join me at 1700 (CET; 1600 UCT) today for two hours of GAM goodness 🤤 📽️ Youtube: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... Hit the Notify me 🔔 to get a reminder when I go live #RStats #mgcv #statistics #GAMs #DataScience 🧪

Launch of the Global Society of Infectious Disease Dynamics. 🎉 2 online webinars on Thursday 26th. Do join to see what it's all about, and get involved in the community as it kicks off! www.gsidd.org/post/join-us...

Get in, dorks. We're ready for round two. RALLY TO TAKE BACK SCIENCE! 🔬🧪✊ March 7th, 2026 in Washington, DC Learn more at www.standupforscience.net/ma... (link in our bio.)

Wow. This is devastating. www.science.org/content/arti...

There's a lot to take in today, but here's another outrage we shouldn't let pass by: they keep trying to shutter the public health system, and then reversing when too many people notice. Gotta keep pushing back. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.

There is nothing complicated or subtle or hard to understand about what is going on. Trump may not succeed. But he will only fail if patriots stand up and defend our democracy and the Constitution. We must act, as @mashagessen.bsky.social writes, while we still can. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

✨Africa CDC shuts down RFK's attempt to conduct a Tuskegee-like vaccine trial on children in Guinea-Bissau. The study exploited “the scarcity of a proven beneficial vaccine in a context where that vaccine is needed,” said Boghuma Titanji. @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Long overdue refresh of the SocioPatterns website! ✨ sociopatterns.org New content & datasets, and a chance to celebrate 17+ years of collabs, ~100 publications, 2000+ studies using our data. Thanks – more ahead! @alainbarrat.bsky.social @wouter-vdb.bsky.social @foolsdelight.bsky.social @isi.it

Whaaat?! The EPA's cost-benefit analysis of air pollution regulations can only consider costs to businesses but not health benefits?! This is nonsense. GIFT ARTICLE: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Should the US adopt Denmark's vaccine schedule for children? @jakescottmd.bsky.social argues no in a piece that points out the risks such a move would pose for American kids. www.statnews.com/2025/12/19/d...

The MIDAS Trainee Network Executive Committee is currently recruiting new members for 2026! Applications are due by 9am ET on January 1, 2026. Apply at forms.gle/16ZuG5oTBFwp....

The MIDAS Trainee Executive Committee is recruiting new members for 2026! 🤓 This is a great opportunity for grad students & postdocs in infectious disease modeling to gain experience organizing events & connect with peers. Applications are due by 9am ET on 1/1/2026, link in flyer & alt text.

Brilliant and inspiring talk by Shweta Bansal @bansallab.bsky.social at #Epidemics10 on contact patterns at the interface of data, modelling and public health — and even across species!

Late advertisement of our new pre-print: Contact structure and population immunity shape the selective advantage of emerging variants www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

One week left to apply to the UVA Biology PhD program! If you or someone you know are interested in contagion from a complex systems perspective, please reach out! I'm looking for a grad student! bio.as.virginia.edu/how-apply-gr...

A new postdoc position just opened in our group at NAU! We are looking for someone to lead our current forecasting activities and the development of our next generation AI/ML models! Don't hesitate to reach out to me with any questions! careers.nau.edu/jobs/postdoc...

This month, no colloquium but a special session about careers in network science! Join us and an all-star panel on October 29. Register here for a Zoom link: iu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We are currently accepting submissions for lightning talks to showcase the wide variety of tools and visualizations people have created. All formats are welcome (dashboards, animations, graphics, story-driven websites, etc.). See the website for more info!

I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...

Newly expanded version of my guide to scientific writing -- known as the “15 steps” -- published in PLOS Computational Biology. Special thanks to Éric Marty for creating a fantastic visualization. Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol... #ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology

Hear more about it tomorrow at noon eastern in a webinar hosted by the @midas-network.bsky.social trainee network! georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Ever read a paper & think, "wow 🤩 that was well written"? Learn how to write your own *wow* paper with @midas-network.bsky.social trainees on Thurs 9/25 @ noon ET. We'll hear from @jdrakephd.bsky.social on strategies for crafting & communicating a good story. 🔗 georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Our paper on US contact patterns is now published in The Lancet Digital Health! doi.org/10.1016/j.la... Thanks to my brilliant coauthors @zsusswein.bsky.social, @vcolizza.bsky.social, & @bansallab.bsky.social for their help with this project. Read on for an overview of our findings... 🧵

Our paper on US contact patterns is now published in The Lancet Digital Health! doi.org/10.1016/j.la... Thanks to my brilliant coauthors @zsusswein.bsky.social, @vcolizza.bsky.social, & @bansallab.bsky.social for their help with this project. Read on for an overview of our findings... 🧵

Ever read a paper & think, "wow 🤩 that was well written"? Learn how to write your own *wow* paper with @midas-network.bsky.social trainees on Thurs 9/25 @ noon ET. We'll hear from @jdrakephd.bsky.social on strategies for crafting & communicating a good story. 🔗 georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

MIDAS Trainee Network Hosts Event on How to Write a Strong Manuscript. Register: georgetown.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)

Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

Join the MIDAS Network Trainee Committee for an interactive workshop. Register: tinyurl.com/MIDASFigures

📊🤔 Are your scientific figures cluttered or confusing? Join @midas-network.bsky.social trainees & speaker @jessica-davis.bsky.social at 11AM ET on Aug 1 to practice designing visuals that effectively tell your story. Bring a figure draft to revise! Register: tinyurl.com/MIDASFigures

To me, this is one of the most frightening moves so far in the dismantling of public health - stacking ACIP so it'll fall in line. Americans deserve evidence-based vaccine policy, lest we return to an age when childhood polio deaths were a routine event.

Don't forget about tomorrow's MIDAS Trainee Workshop.

Nearly 11 million Americans could lose health insurance as a result of the administration's effort to cut spending in order to finance tax cuts for the wealthy, the congressional budget office estimates. www.statnews.com/2025/06/04/t...

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

Don't forget about the MIDAS Trainee Network workshop this week.

Want to make your research presentations more compelling and accessible? Join @midas-network.bsky.social trainees for a workshop on how to give an effective research talk! We'll hear from @anaisabelbento.bsky.social on how to tailor talks for different audiences & then apply what we've learned.

Must-read post by Your Local Epidemiologist on new FDA COVID vax policy. 👉 "This is about how decisions are made—and who gets to make them. FDA political appointees are sidelining expert panels, bypassing transparency, & turning public health into a performance." open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...

ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years. 1/n

ACTION ITEM-----ACTION ITEM Implementation of Schedule F This is what a lot of us have been worried about. This allows for many civil service positions to replaced with political appointees. This could include NIH institute directors and even POs. BUT THERE IS A COMMENT PERIOD... 1/n

NEW 🧪🦠😷🚨 Vaccine-preventable diseases pose a resurgent threat, yet enforceable policies offer a chance to boost routine vaccination when paired with healthcare access. Here, we identify and analyze vaccination policies from 194 nations. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For the next 2 weeks, @defendpublichealth.bsky.social is asking for everyone to call their members of Congress about the cuts to and political interference at NIH by the Trump White House. 1/ 5calls.org/issue/nation...