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Ecology matters: "while drought decreases #mosquito abundances, it paradoxically increases #WNV infection (...) probably stems from reduced water availability, which concentrates mosquitoes and pathogen-amplifying bird hosts around limited water sources" royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Great paper "Implications of successive blood feeding on Wolbachia-mediated dengue virus inhibition in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes", showing that successive feeding shortens #dengue EIP but #Wolbachia retains protective effects. doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Wondering what the potential of the #Qdenga #vaccine against #dengue infection and disease may be if delivered? This is a great paper to go to. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great. Can we start sooner?

Let’s just remind ourselves about Farage’s big meal ticket idea again. And no, this isn’t about how the Tories did it, this is just Brexit reality. And Farage would make the deal *even worse*. Pariah status, unreliable, ruined UK howling about immigration and moaning that everything is broken.

Today is the day Europeans are happy for not buying a Tesla

New work in Nature shows that a brief 5-day CIP course in (n=60) healthy adults can lead to emergence of AMR in ~10% of ~5600 gut microbial species. Most mutations in gyrA (known FQ hotspots), do not affect fitness & can be detected >10wks (projected to persist >1y) 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The key chart right now: Usually US economic pain is cushioned by falling bond yields and a strengthening dollar, which mean lower interest rates and more spending power for consumers. This time we’re seeing the opposite, meaning the pain will be amplified.

We have been exploring a bit whether #ClimateChange trends (1980-2019) in some Atlantic #archipelagos may have resulted in changes to climate-based #ecological suitability for #dengue virus - in short, yes; but with relevance only in tropical islands. We will put this and other results out ASAP.

Haven't used Xeeter for 7 months, and today I am purging my footprint. That is 2887 Xeets over the years. You can do the same using Luca Hammer's script. github.com/lucahammer/t...

"These countries aren’t just buying bonds to be nice; they’re bankrolling the U.S. government. And when they threaten to pull the plug, even slowly, Washington listens." Trump has been outplayed? Who knew.🙄

Really nice, straight to the point paper by @drrachellowe.bsky.social 's team. Short-term effect of temperature and precipitation on the incidence of West Nile Neuroinvasive Disease in Europe: a multi-country case-crossover analysis - www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

See the best of the 1st day of #EMBOcells4planethealth #EMBOClimateResilience youtu.be/KFRFSPHdjFM?..., amazing people and very inspiring discussions!! @embo.org. We will be posting interviews so that you can actually follow some of what is happening!!

For ~17y, my research has depended on #Dropbox. As part of a larger effort to skip USA-based soft services and hardware for which I have lost confidence in (e.g. security and ownership) this dependence ended today. From now on, all work, including data, code, and text will be hosted in Europe.

Please share with people interested in arbovirology. We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague to strengthen our team please share if you know of scientists interested in arbovirology, ready to make a move to Rotterdam! www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3508...

Archipelagos are often overlooked in West Nile virus ( #WNV ) studies, despite the risk to unique local avian species & humans. We train ecological niche #modelling on European data and project ecological #suitability across 5 Atlantic archipelagos.

To scale: #time. youtube.com/watch?v=nOVv...

Faculty job opportunity in Sweden in computational infectious disease!

Imagine the Enterprise getting anything done had there been a crew of only 8 Rikers. DEI is good.

38/250 is Regional variation in the landscape ecology of West Nile virus sentinel chicken seroconversion in Florida VBD landscape ecology needs to consider vector, host, and virus - nice to see it split out regionally to allow for that

Must watch. AI and Science. AI and the future public perspective of Science. The role of the Media. Spot on.

Very heartened to see this. And proud to be working with @plos.org

"We will not retract published articles on request by an author on the basis that they contain so-called banned words" @bmj.com takes a stand: "Medical journal editors must resist CDC order and anti-gender ideology" www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Our latest work on Wolbachia mosquitoes is now published! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

This is Kiddo. A Portuguese Podengo found abandoned in my street in Lisbon 1y ago. She is now 2 and a happy dog. Podengo's closest relatives are Egyptian hunting dogs (from which they inherit the Jackal looks). This time of the year is when pets get most abandoned. As a society we can do better.

We - CLIMADE (climade.health) - participated in COP29 with a summary of our work (climate driven pathogens) and proposed recommendations for the near future. www.linkedin.com/posts/ceri-s...

Curious on the #ecological conditions associated with the recent emergence of #Oropouche in #Brazil ? We explore this in a new #preprint currently under review [1]. Huge team effort, with support of the CLIMADE consortium [2]. [1] www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... [2] climade.health

This is what we estimate to be the typical seasonality of environmental suitability for West Nile virus ocurrence in Portugal. We look at Portugal, 2 other EU countries and 5 Atlantic archipelagos. Results will be on preprint pretty soon. #WNV

The One Health concept turns 20 today 🎈🦇🌴 To celebrate, I wrote about a new proposal that would pivot the pandemic treaty from vaccine sharing to investments in nature conservation, and what it tells us about where One Health is (and has maybe always been) headed www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/rou...

'To our knowledge, this paper provides the first empirical evidence for the existence of dialect prejudice in language models; that is, covert racism that is activated by the features of a dialect' www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Population at risk of #dengue virus increased over 40y due to coupled #climate & population growth factors. Global South: increases due to pop growth in areas w/ historically high climate suitability. Global North: increases in climate suitability in areas w/ limited pop growth. rdcu.be/dSu4w

Excited about the epidemiology of emerging viruses? We're looking for one or more postdocs in - count em - FOUR areas. Join us right as we move into the Public Health Modeling Unit, a beautiful office full of brilliant and kind colleagues from across Yale's campus. apply.interfolio.com/153039

Behold the marketplace of ideas

'Many were young men with genital lesions, and many also had HIV. Ultimately, tests revealed those patients had monkeypox, a viral disease that had only been documented in Nigeria three times, with the last case occurring 39 years earlier.'

More studies like this are needed in #Portugal: red-legged partridge individuals sampled 2018-2022 tested positive using VNT: 28.8% #WNV, 8.1% #BAGV, 2.1% #USUV. As such, long-term serological surveillance revealed likely endemic circulation of WNV. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"This is related, I believe, to the fact that people assume everything is dengue. And because dengue is well known, they hydrate and send the patient home. We need to understand that this is not the case. We are in a different situation now." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Rapid Spatial Expansion Beyond the Amazon Basin: Oropouche Virus joins other main arboviruses in epidemic activity across the Americas - we x2 publicly available genomes, characterize recent recombination and spatial spread. #CLIMADE #OROV climade.health/2024/08/04/r...

We apply ecological niche modelling using WNV historical evidence & environmental variables in #Portugal. Backgrounds compatible with #WNV had a warmer+drier #climate, high avian diversity, specific #avian species & land types. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is really, really good.

Known as EPINEST, the model was developed and tested by tracking the spread of avian #influenza viruses (AIVs) through networks of farms, markets and transport systems of broiler chickens in #Bangladesh. One Health Poultry Hub + Fantastic effort from Francesco Pinotti at Oxford

North-south pathways, emerging variants, and high climate suitability characterize the recent spread of dengue virus serotypes 2 and 3 in the Dominican Republic. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

"Brazil was due for a bad dengue year — numbers of cases of the virus typically rise and fall on a roughly four-year cycle — but experts say a number of factors, including El Niño and climate change, have significantly amplified the problem this year." www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/h...

The 2nd chapter of my dissertation is officially published! It's about anti-vaccine misinformation on Twitter. I'll share a thread about it tomorrow. SciSky MedSky academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

In 2023 #Italy had the highest #dengue virus local activity to date. We integrate epidemiological, #genomic & climatic spatio-temporal data of the past eight years related to circulating viral lineages, geographic distribution, hotspots of reporting & the contribution of local #climate.

Modelling of West Nile virus (#WNV) in #Portugal reveals: (1) past circulation characterized by warmer/drier #climate, high avian diversity, specific avian species & land types; and (2) climate change will push adequate #ecological suitability northwards, toward regions with higher human density.