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...

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

🚨 This event is TODAY -- join us!

Passionate about equity in public health? PhD opening at Sorbonne Université and INSERM to explore SES disparities in behavioral response to Ebola via mobile phone data. Apply by April 21: www.epicx-lab.com/open-positio...

Redefine epidemic response in LMICs! Join us at Sorbonne Université and INSERM for a PhD on data-driven strategies to tackle Ebola in Guinea using mobile phone & epidemiological data. Apply by April 16: www.epicx-lab.com/open-positio...

Are you struggling with post-PhD plans? Unsure about academia vs. industry positions amidst changes in science funding? Join the @midas-network.bsky.social Trainee Network on Tues 4/8 at 4PM ET to hear from others who have navigated this transition! 🔗 Register at umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Masking discourse is on again and I’ll just say if you see people masking when few others are it’s likely because they’ve determined that for them, in that setting, the benefit of not catching (or spreading) whatever’s going around is worth the cost of masking. It’s rarely more complicated than that

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

I'm funded by one of the COVID-19 era grants used for pandemic preparedness they are working to pull back. Part of what I do is develop methods to continue to track COVID-19, These methods are leveraged for other diseases and will be invaluable to have ready for next pandemic. calcat.covid19.ca.gov

...a “pointless, ill-advised move that will hurt U.S. science and pandemic readiness,” says Charles Rice, a Nobel Prize–winning virologist at Rockefeller University www.science.org/content/arti...

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

White House pulling Weldon’s nomination as #CDC director, over concerns about his anti-vax background. Not sure how that squares with having an overtly anti-vax #HHS secretary. www.statnews.com/2025/03/13/t...

No words www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

NIH is abruptly terminating at least 33 research grants for projects studying why some people are hesitant to receive vaccines or evaluating strategies that could encourage vaccine uptake. scim.ag/4how23i

The Texas-New Mexico #measles outbreak has claimed a second life. Unvaccinated adult. Measles is not a benign ailment. The only way to prevent it is vaccination. www.nmhealth.org/news/alert/2...

WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?

In occupied France, people would drop their used matches folded into a V, as a secret sign of resistance. People who opposed the Nazis would see them, knew they weren't alone, & felt emboldened to take action. Some modern day equivalents here--small but powerful actions you can absolutely do:

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations that determine access to vaccines in the US. The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed. This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

HHS has ordered CDC to stop its influenza vaccine “Wild to Mild” media campaign. This is an award-winning campaign that effectively explains how influenza vaccine may not prevent infection but does decrease illness severity. We are currently having one of the worst influenza seasons in 15 years.