Today, our #SCIMaP team released an impact analysis of the White House proposed FY 2027 NIH and NSF budgets. Bottom-line: if enacted, cuts to science and medical research would lead to $35B in economic losses and 150,000 lost jobs in communities all across the US. scienceimpacts.org 🧵

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...

I need this to be real, so I can get around NAUs rules against spending funds on coffee machines/accessories

I have been playing with Codex and Claude extensively for about 6 months now, and while they are clearly impressive, I don't see them replacing software engineers in the near future and I don't understand how people can trust their work without knowing how to code

I really like this idea of multiple baselines with different contexts. some relationship to this basket of baselines idea I was chatting about a while ago community.epinowcast.org/t/a-basket-o...

🚨 New preprint from our lab! How much does the design of “simple” baseline models matter for forecast hubs? We show that small design choices in baseline models can substantially change model performance, and thus the relative rankings of the other models www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Attending the @gs-idd.bsky.social launch seminar. Couldn't be more excited to see this effort take shape and can't wait to see how it helps push the infectious disease dynamics community forward! Thank you to all of the founding members and organizers 🙏

Republicans in Arizona want voters to get rid of childhood vaccine requirements for school entry. They are planning to add a ballot proposition for November’s election in the hopes of ending the requirements, which they are framing as an issue of “medical freedom”. This would be catastrophic.

Today we’re excited to announce a new product: COI Pond is a tool for faculty and grant staff that converts an academic CV into a draft NSF Collaborators and Other Affiliations (COA) Form. COA forms are tedious work, and COI Pond makes it a snap. Try it for free, here cevianlabs.io/coipond/start/ /1

You know that annoying NSF form "List every coauthor/co-PI from the last 4y" ? At @cevianlabs.io we built a free tool that drafts the COI form from your PDF CV in minutes. Check it out 👇

Who is this for? If you don't know the material from the class, how can you review the outputs? If you have it auto-submit why are you even paying for the class? companion.ai/einstein

Interested in learning outbreak analytics and modelling, with a focus on real-life case studies and tools actively used in responses? Apply for the popular @lshtm.bsky.social R shortcourse, led by @jwlambert.bsky.social & @andreevallecam.bsky.social More: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/course...

If anyone is interested in writing an NSF PRFB applications on the intersection of AI, disease forecasting, and understanding drivers of transmission (or related topics), please reach out! I think it would be a great fit with the work happening in our lab: www.nsf.gov/bio/updates/...

We have to protect our public lands at all costs! This is a great summary of the current plans to infringe on Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, a truly ecologically important, beautiful, and culturally significant region of Southern Utah. writersontherange.org/a-utah-monum...

Really cool that @kaitejohnson9.bsky.social is giving a keynote at the next Stan conference!

We are hiring at UGA! We’re looking for a full professor & director of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (based right on the coast in Savannah, GA). Please pass on the job ad to anyone in your networks who may be interested: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/468...

Excited for the sixth instalment of our meeting on infectious disease dynamics!

If you are a student whose NSF GRFP application was returned without review for vague 'eligibility' reasons: 1) Let your department chair & Graduate School know. Encourage them to contact NSF & congress 2) Write to your congressional reps. 3) Write to [email protected] to request re-consideration;

Howdy y'all! I'm planning to graduate in May. If you are in need of a postdoc with knowledge of phylogenetics, graph databases, and Nextflow pipelines (or know of someone who is), please send them my way!

IDDconf 2026 - July 7-9 in Ambleside, UK. A new summer date & a new ticketing system! Plus, 2 exciting workshops this year! See IDDconf.org for more info Tickets will go on sale on 2nd Feb. To be notified when, sign up at: tinyurl.com/IDDconf2026

Final week to apply for SFI’s 2026 immersive, summer programs in complexity science: Apply by Feb 4, 2026 CSSS and GWCSS : www.santafe.edu/engage/learn... Journalism Fellowship: santafe.edu/journalism-f...

In a new preprint, we combine modeling with school-level vaccine data to contextualize the risk of 'breakthrough infections' and impacts on the ongoing US measles outbreak. #idsky #episky www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

🧪 💉 Bill Foege is an absolute #PublicHealth legend And furious to the end about the destruction of US public health “Kennedy’s words can be as lethal as the smallpox virus,” he wrote… “I had no idea I would be this angry at the age of 89.” Ht @boghuma.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Our latest study in @jama.com on trends in county-level vaccine exemptions, demonstrating geographic pockets of high vaccine exemptions and high susceptibility to vaccine-preventable diseases. Great collab with @nbcnews.com colleagues and our Stanford team. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

*New paper in Nature Health* Why did the 2022 mpox outbreak in Paris decline so abruptly? rdcu.be/eZ24H

Dont miss the ESPIDAM summer program in June 2026 in Stockholm, covering many key concepts for ID modelling: stochastic models, AI for ID control, nowcasting and forecasting, phylodynamics, data analysis, network models, within-host models, health economics www.statistics.su.se/english/divi...

Here's something I hadn't heard about the planned then cancelled then re-planned unethical Hep B trials: Bill Ackman is funding half the cost, who knew! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Nice to see the new NIAID vision laid out in a paywalled journal article. Since NIH funds contributed to it I am looking forward to reading the open access version soon... www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A few updates on the deeply unethical study to probe "non-specific" effects of the birth dose HepB vaccine in Guinea-Bissau by Danish investigators. 1️⃣ The study was canceled as per AfricaCDC - HHS disputes this. 2️⃣ Full protocol was leaked and it's bad. Quick 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is some great forensics. Good reminder that it is extremely difficult to know how many people are infected at any given moment in the absence of serology data.

Advance your research and expand your network at SFI's 2026 CSSS program with lectures, application-focused seminars, and team projects. Participants gain experience in transdisciplinary collaboration and explore real-world questions through complexity science. Apply by Feb 4, 2026 santafe.edu/csss

First day of my forecasting class at NAU. This is the first course I fully prepped (mostly) from scratch and I tried to have fun with it. ✅ Students are making flu forecasts. ✅ There’s a class leaderboard and competition. ✅ Plaque to commemorate annual winners.

Check out our new print that combines dense sequencing and phylodynamics to uncover a bunch of 😎 things about an understudied virus. - Doesn't evolve for 10 months a year ✅ - Uses some mossies for maintenance, others for spread ✅ - Established in Northeast for ~300 years ✅

We are still accepting applications for the postdoctoral scholar position here at NAU in my lab (with remote optional). Please reach out if you have any questions or would like more information: careers.nau.edu/jobs/postdoc...

Two more fully funded PhDs in real-time infectious disease modelling & forecasting — developing methods for operational use by @ukhsa.bsky.social and others in outbreak response. UK home students, starting April or September 2026. www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Symposium & workshop on inequalities in infectious disease dynamics at LSHTM in April 2026. We aim to will bring together leading researchers and practitioners to share ideas, discuss recent advances, and reflect on future directions. Details & application: iddconf.org/lshtm-sympos... Closing 21 Jan

I'm glad someone did the work to lay this concept out so nicely! Predicting the size of an influenza season is not as easy as seeing a new variant and extrapolating trends. This may be a bad flu season, but it's way too soon to tell! christinapagel.substack.com/p/is-it-real...

Become a colleague in my department! Applications close in four days, December 15.

UF Biology is searching for an Asst Prof in Evolution, Ecology of Infectious Disease - spread the word! @ufresearch.bsky.social @ufgeog.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Most of the Fox lab got to experience ~7000ft of elevation change going from #Epidemics10 in San Diego to Flagstaff, AZ for a writing retreat. Here we are on our celebratory visit to the Grand Canyon afterwards!

Considering going to the International Symposium on Forecasting (isf.forecasters.org/overview/abo...) in Montreal this summer - has anyone been before or have recommendations of whether it's useful/informative for disease forecasters?

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.

Precisely so, I look forward to convening a Wed AM panel on "Confronting Covid's Wake." We will explore the link between COVID responses, anti-science, and misinformation… and how & why to support evidence-based inquiry to confront disease threats. virtual.oxfordabstracts.com/event/public...

Federal government and Utah leaders are having a meeting this week to discuss co-management of national parks in Utah, setting a dangerous precedent for national parks across the nation. Read more: www.thetravel.com/us-governmen...

A challenge in epidemic forecasting is that ML models overfit while mechanistic models miss changing transmission conditions. Our new JR Soc Interface paper tests whether physics-informed neural networks—which embed an epidemiological ODE system inside a neural net—can address this.

ID folks, come find me at the poster session tonight (2.041) or dm me if you’re looking for a postdoctoral position and want to hear more about our work/group. #Epidemics10

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!

Good news! The Ebola outbreak in DRC has been contained

@bansallab.bsky.social gives a tour de force of behavioral models and theory as a keynote at #epidemics10. How COVID-19 and animal behavior have helped improve our understanding of human behaviors and disease dynamics

We’ve just released Epistorm-Mix, a new open dataset on how people in the U.S. mix across ages and settings in the post-COVID era. 📊 Contact-level data + contact matrices Built for epidemic modeling & forecasting Fully open data & code 🔗 www.epistorm.org/data/epistor...