Gámbaro, @sdellicour.bsky.social et al. use simulations to evaluate an adjusted Bayes factor for discrete phylogeography that accounts for sampling bias, which lowers false positives and improves root inference. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msaf253 #evobio #molbio #phylogenetics

Our analysis of modelling practices, data use, and science-policy interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic is out on @eurosurveillance.org this week. www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2... Wonderful collaborative effort conducted in the context of mood-h2020.eu Read the thread below 👇

In the COVID-19 Omicron surge, #KULeuven combined contact tracing with sequencing. Only 1/3 of contacts shared the same strain 🤯, so most people misperceived where they got infected. @thibaut-jonathan.bsky.social and team show how to assess contact tracing accuracy in the future! #IDSky #EpiSky

Ongoing at the @ulbruxelles.bsky.social: the 4th edition of the Health Geography and Spatial Epidemiology workshop organised by the homonymous FNRS contact group (www.healthgeographygroup.eu)

BEAST X v10.5.0 finally released – you can't just do beta releases forever. github.com/beast-dev/be... Details and instructions for installing on the BEAST website: beast.community

Our study on the development and comparative performance of novel landscape phylogeography approaches has now been published in @pnas.org: lnkd.in/d5yuYwk6. A study led at the @ulbruxelles.bsky.social and @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social, and mainly conducted with the support of the F.R.S.-FNRS

Phylogenetic insights into the transmission dynamics of arthropod-borne viruses www.nature.com/articles/s41... Great work by Verity Hill and team

Interested in using phylogenetics to study arboviruses? Our new review in @natrevgenet.nature.com‬ by @viralverity.bsky.social‬, @sdellicour.bsky.social‬, and Marta Giovanetti has you covered! 📖 👉 rdcu.be/epH2U Short 🧵

#SFP2025 is just starting. Lets talk about plant pathology!

Sooo happy to finally have this one published!! (3 years in the making… 👀) A comprehensive investigation into the recency and geographical origins of both SARS-CoVs that spilled to humans in the past few decades, now in @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Comparative phylogeography and recombination patterns of SARS CoV-1 and SARS CoV-2 related viruses. Both are derived from recent recombinations in their host bats, and then emerged in human hundreds of miles from their wild reservoirs. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

🦇🦠 Nouvelle étude sur l’origine des virus de chauve-souris liés au SRAS et à la COVID-19 : le SARS-CoV-2 serait arrivé à Wuhan trop vite pour avoir été transporté naturellement par des chauves-souris. 👉 bit.ly/4m3Fb4Y @mariusgilbert.bsky.social @sdellicour.bsky.social

Check out our latest study "Comparative performance of novel viral landscape phylogeography approaches", which is now available as a preprint on bioRxiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1.... @ulbruxelles.bsky.social @ulbrecherche.bsky.social - 1/8

📢 New paper out! 🦆 Our latest study on HPAI in France and risk mapping has just been published doi.org/10.1371/jour... @epidesa.bsky.social @inrae-france.bsky.social @anses-fr.bsky.social ENVT ULB

Lecture essentielle pour comprendre ce qui est occupé à se passer dans l'administration américaine.

How fast are viruses spreading in the wild? Check out our latest study now published in @plosbiology.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1371/jour.... A study performed with Paul Bastide, Pauline Rocu, Denis Fargette, Olivier Hardy, @msuchard.bsky.social, @stephaneguindon.bsky.social, and Philippe Lemey (1/7)

Modeling the velocity of evolving lineages and predicting dispersal patterns www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

This is a brilliant article from @helenbranswell.bsky.social about H5N1 that I think everyone should read, but I’m a bit worried that people may have the wrong takeaway despite its thoroughness: www.statnews.com/2024/12/02/b...

I spoke to @mscribe.bsky.social @theguardian.com about the H5N1 case in BC. More and more human cases are occurring, along with mutations that indicate further human adaptation. We need to treat these cases like a warning, because that is what they are. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

Another opportunity to come work @universityofoxford.bsky.social on the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social project on *Digital Pandemic Preparedness* together with Profs. Christl Donnelly, Christophe Fraser, Melinda Mills, Michael Parker, Luca Ferretti and me. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/

[Job offer, a 4-year PhD student position at the @ulbruxelles.bsky.social] Please share, with Claire Guinat we are looking for a highly motivated PhD student to work under our co-supervision within the VIVACE Doctoral Network (1/5)

Nice "news & views" piece in Nature referring to and coming back on our recent study dedicated to the decline of European bumblebee populations: www.nature.com/articles/d41....