🚨 New preprint: we solved the “Darién paradox.” Oropouche virus stayed quiet in Panama’s Darién corridor nearly a YEAR after Brazil’s peak. Cryptic spread, or a fresh arrival? We integrated clinical + genomic + climate surveillance to find out 🧵👇

New preprint from our group on flu forecasting, led by my postdoc Tijs Alleman. historical learning & ED visit data outperform strain structure & cross-season immunity for 4-week-ahead hospital admission forecasts. doi.org/10.64898/202... #Influenza #Forecasting #Epidemiology #Bayesian

Hold dates for our ERA Chair Forum. It will include Reka Albert, @amarallab.bsky.social, @anaisabelbento.bsky.social, @clbockting.bsky.social, Luis Bettencourt, @ccattuto.bsky.social, Marta Gonzalez, Jörg Menche, Daniela Paolotti, @joanagsa.bsky.social, Marta Sales-Pardo, etc.Register below and pass

Our study made the cover 🤓

Our new study bit.ly/4srWRKd looks beyond “where could the virus survive?” and asks a more practical question: if Oropouche is introduced into a community, where is it most likely to ignite an outbreak. #orov #arbovirus #brazil

Happy International Women’s Day! Grateful for the incredible women in my life and special shout out to the women in my lab whose ideas, creativity, and perseverance make our science and our community stronger every day. It’s a joy to learn from and work alongside you.

Our new study shows that it is not just county‑level MMR coverage but the spatial clustering of unvaccinated kids that separates a contained outbreak in TX (414 cases) from sustained transmission in SC (>900 cases, with ~5.7x higher local susceptible density) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #measles

New study from my group on measles in the US helps explain why South Carolina’s 789‑case outbreak is exactly what you’d expect when under‑vaccinated schools and cross‑county school‑district corridors are invisible to county‑level surveillance Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... #measles #surveillance

The U.S. will very likely lose its measles-elimination status next month, and Americans will have to confront how difficult this virus can be to control, @katherinejwu.com reports:

So happy to have this out! #bordetella #adaptation

📌 Save the Date! The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science. Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

Visited @lmrocha.bsky.social today at #gimm #universidadecatolica in Oeiras. We are cooking exciting ideas 💡

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.

Beyond excited to attend the British netsci symposium. Can’t wait to meet the next generation of scientists!

Although there is no photo evidence Carla Mavian (@cmavian.bsky.social) was visiting me this week, it was amazing to have her 😊 shame it was so short but we got lots done stay tuned!

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

Emerging infectious diseases conference 60th anniversary of the US - Japan cooperative sciences program so excited to be here in Tokyo as guest speaker thanks to the NIH

Contracting measles isn't great at any time of life, but it can be a pretty nasty infection for adults. And increasing numbers of adults are susceptible to this vaccine-preventable illness. https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/02/adult-measles-infection/

For the roughly 60% of US adults who haven’t gotten their flu shot yet this year, and the 80% who haven’t gotten an up to date COVID booster: now would be an excellent time before the holidays. www.cdc.gov/respvaxview/...

🦟" #Chikungunya prompts travel notice for Telangana, #India🇮🇳" via @outbreaknewstoday.substack.com.web.brid.gy outbreaknewstoday.substack.com/p/chikunguny...

Good day to remind everyone Around the globe the measles vaccine has saved nearly 94 million lives over the past 50 years www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

For my first post 🤓 a quick note on the final days to apply for postdoc positions in my lab Cornell University details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/Cornell/...