As you may know, Binghamton will host #CCS2026. Although @binghamtonu.bsky.social ranks first among New York's public universities, let us introduce you to our hometown, often known as the "Parlor City" for its historic elegance 🏛️, and the "Valley of Opportunity" for its industrial past 🏭.

Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026. We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....

A study in Nature Communications suggests that SARS-CoV-2 circulation and vaccination have generated widespread immunity against related sarbecoviruses, creating an immunological barrier to novel sarbecovirus emergence in humans. go.nature.com/4sDW5Kk #medsky 🧪

Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel. Great work by Silvia de Sojo, @sunelehmann.com and Laura Alessandretti. arxiv.org/abs/2604.00943

Incredible work by Jonathan Pekar et al.: The emergence and molecular evolution of H5N1 influenza viruses in United States dairy cattle www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

1/ GSIDD Transmission Digest: March 2026 ℹ️ The GSIDD Transmission Digest keeps you in the loop on what is happening with GSIDD, from upcoming events to the latest announcements. 🔗: hustling-producer-1761.kit.com/posts/gsidd-... #IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #OneHealth 🧪

Biosecurity depends critically on the early identification of novel pathogens. Our international team developed a global multi-scale model of infectious diseases to evaluate the time to detection in aircraft wastewater vs. other surveillance modalities. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Excited to share our work w/ @justinlessler.bsky.social, Trevor Bedford & Amanda Perofsky: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.... We investigate when sequence datasets are informative about between-group transmission, and how this depends on the relative pace of mutation, between-group transmission and sampling.

Join ESPIDAM 2026 — the European Summer Program in Infectious Disease Analysis & Modelling! A unique training opportunity for early-career researchers in epidemic modelling 🦠📊 ⏳ Early bird deadline: March 31 www.su.se/english/divi...

We are very excited to have launched the establishment process for a global professional society for infectious disease dynamics. Join us!

💫 New paper out in @nathealth.nature.com 💫 Characterization and forecast of global influenza subtype dynamics www.nature.com/articles/s44... We analyzed the subtype compositions of countries' influenza waves globally to understand their drivers and test predictions of next season's composition.

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 🙏

Launch of the Global Society of Infectious Disease Dynamics. 🎉 2 online webinars on Thursday 26th. Do join to see what it's all about, and get involved in the community as it kicks off! www.gsidd.org/post/join-us...

Step 1: Insert bacteria ("Wolbachia") into mosquitoes. Step 2: Release mosquitoes. Step 3: Watch Dengue rates plummet. Phenomenal results from Singapore. Link: tinyurl.com/59c9t67u, by Lim et al.

What shapes parental vaccination intentions? Are sociodemographic predictors enough to understand this phenomenon? @dondenacentre.bsky.social Read more in the full paper link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Network map of Bluesky users flowingdata.com/2026/02/11/n...

Apply now to become a member of the Advisory Board!

Goddness, there's lots to say about this. Good to see the case pro laid out in detail. I wonder if Nature will be publishing the counter-argument too? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🔬 London 2026 🇬🇧 Complexity72h is open for applications! Young researchers in #ComplexSystems, come to London, June 22–26, 2026 @nunetsi.bsky.social What is Complexity72h? Participants form teams and work 72 hours on original research projects, guided by expert tutors.

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Globally, seasonal influenza kills an average of 700,000 people each year from respiratory disease or cardiovascular disease. During large flu pandemics, when influenza strains evolved substantially, the death toll was even higher.

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Neat work, showing that the entire evolution of a variant of concern can happen in one persistently infected individual over about a year.

Our Satellite Call for #CCS2026 is still open, but the clock is ticking. ⌛️ Want to spotlight a hot topic in #ComplexSystems? Submit your proposal by Feb 10 and help shape our community. Any methods, tutorials, debates, and demos are welcome! Apply here: bit.ly/3LUgTNc

Mobility-based synthetic contact matrices offer a promising alternative for real-time pandemic response modeling. How do they compare with traditional empirical contact matrices? We address this question in our latest study, now published in Nature Communications ⬇️ doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Projected impacts of climate change on malaria in Africa www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New collaborative study on the risk and interpretation of 'breakthrough infections' amidst declines in vaccination rates and a sustained, national measles outbreak.

We've extended the deadline for #NERCCS2026 ! Don’t miss it! ✅More affordable registration fee compared to other conferences ✅World-class researchers as keynote speakers ✅Conference proceedings published in a diamond open access journal 👉Submit here: shorturl.at/52o0q

Most clinicians hear about outbreaks from the news or even their patients. I'm building FOI Clinical to change that. Plain-language outbreak briefings, designed for busy clinicians. Launching February 2026. www.foiclinical.com/posts/announ...

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

The call for participants for Complexity72h is finally open! Apply by February 28 for the best collab ever! Why??? ✨ Amazing projects 👩‍🏫 Fantastic tutors 📍 A great location 👉 Apply now: www.complexitynextgen.org/complexity72... Do you REALLY need anything else to be convinced? We didn’t think so.

Block-Fitness Modeling of the Global Air Mobility Network arxiv.org/abs/2601.13867

🚨 Deadline Extended! 🚨 You’ve got until 28 Jan to submit to #DPH2026! Join us in Barcelona (24–26 June 2026) for the leading #DigitalPublicHealth conference! 💡 Share your bold ideas & latest research. 🔗 dphconf.org/calls-for-pa... #CFP #Paper #Abstract #DigitalHealth #PublicHealth

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...

Hey Copenhagen! Today at @cphsodas.bsky.social we will have the amazing Daniela Paolotti from @isi.it , talking about "Determinants for vaccine hesitancy and uptake: non-traditional data sources for innovation in public health". Join us! At 11am, KU CSS campus, room 1.1.12

1) Due to popular demand, the abstract deadline has been extended to 👉Jan 30👈 -- plz share! 2) We are delighted to announce our keynote speaker -- Taha Yasseri @tahayasseri.bsky.social Chair of Technology and Society @ Trinity College Dublin & Technological University Dublin ▶️ cs2italy.org

Long overdue refresh of the SocioPatterns website! ✨ sociopatterns.org New content & datasets, and a chance to celebrate 17+ years of collabs, ~100 publications, 2000+ studies using our data. Thanks – more ahead! @alainbarrat.bsky.social @wouter-vdb.bsky.social @foolsdelight.bsky.social @isi.it

Superstition xkcd.com/3191/

We find that subclade K viruses are antigenically advanced; however, this year's flu vaccine surprisingly elicited antibodies in many individuals that efficiently recognized these viruses. The implications are clear: go get this year’s vaccine if you haven’t already! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

In a brief 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 piece, E. Valdano and I discuss recent progress in automated scientific discovery of governing laws for complex networked systems, where neural symbolic regression can extract interpretable laws from high-dimensional dynamics. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Submit your abstracts to CS2Italy by 👉 Jan 15 👈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science to join us in Turin on May 19-21 We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more For more: cs2italy.org

When is a funding application not worth it? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Computational Social Scientists in the Nordics, unite! 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪🇮🇸 The brand new Nordic Society for CSS welcomes all researchers and practitioners based in the Nordics. The Society will promote student mobility, events, and education initiatives. Join for free: nosocss.org/join.html.

Some more evidence against the narrative published today by @ecdc.europa.eu Preliminary data indicate that the seasonal #vaccines available in EU are providing protection against #influenza A(H3N2) infection, with #VaccineEffectiveness ranging from 52% to 57% #EpiSky #MedSky #IDSky 🧪🛟

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

Our new issue features a rapid communication on unusally long #inlfuenza seasons in #Australia & New Zealand prolonged by #H3N2 subclade K outbreaks The source of an #outbreak of Ralstonia mannitolilytica in a hospital in Switzerland: contaminated water sprays 🗞️ bit.ly/EUS3049 #EpiSky #IDSky 🧪🛟⚕️🧫

Very interesting study on respiratory virus transmission in schools! "Prolonged exposure in shared, poorly ventilated spaces, which potentially includes several infectious sources, drives respiratory virus transmission more than close contact." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Just a few more days to apply to our 1-week course on Infectious Disease Modelling that will take place at Institut Pasteur, March 9-13 2026, in beautiful Paris! Application deadline: 15 December. www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

Kind reminder (the ominous kind 👀): Apply NOW to the Call for Projects to become a Complexity72h tutor in London. NOW. You’ve been warned.

Wonderful workshop! Thanks to the organisers for putting this together

A recombinant strain of mpox virus has been isolated from a patient in the UK containing fragments of clade I and clade II virus. Recombination occurs when two strains of virus infect a cell. These events tend to be rare but are well described in poxviruses. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...