Looking forward to an exciting week in Paris!! 👇 🥐 🙃

Since we just came out of #netsci2026 it's a good opportunity to find about every network science starter packs out there. Thankfully starterpacks search engines are here to cut down that work. bsky.app/starter-pack... by @nwlandry.bsky.social

1. New #Ebola numbers from DRC's National Institute of Public Health: — 18 new confirmed cases on 6/3; that brings the confirmed case count to 381. Two more deaths puts the death toll among confirmed cases at 64. Seven people have been deemed cured (+1). — 55.5% of case contacts are being followed.

#NetSci2026 2nd keynote of the day Alessia Melegaro argues the importance of considering complex factors (demographics, social structure, and behaviors) for epidemics modeling @netscisociety.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social

New #SocioPatterns study in PNAS: we studied how social behavior and psychological well-being evolve at Concordia Station in Antarctica during the extreme isolation and confinement of a 10-month overwinter mission. Lessons for deep-space crews. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #NetSci #NetworkScience

The amazing teams around Dav Ebengo & Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, alongside the Institut National de Santé Publique and AfricaCDC have led an effort to improve understanding of the current #Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak. Data: github.com/INRB-UMIE/Eb... Dashboard: inrb-umie.github.io/EBOV2026_Epi...

Going to #NetSci2026 (@netsciconf.bsky.social)? Attend our contagions in networks satellite! Talks from: @nwlandry.bsky.social @lhd.bsky.social @leahkeating.bsky.social @julianataube.bsky.social @colincarlson.bsky.social and Jacob Liam Curran-Sebastian joelmiller.github.io/ContagionOnN...

As discussions on Ebola and border controls intensify, it is important to go back to what available scientific evidence actually shows. In @lefigaro.fr, I discuss what we learned from past Ebola epidemics and travel restrictions. www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/pas...

On May 22 WHO reported 1 more #hantavirus case linked to the MV Hondius, while some high-risk contacts are still being located. We estimated that heterogeneous isolation + uncertainty on pre-sympt transmission leave a non-negligible risk of secondary clusters. Work led by @eugeValdano.

Our recent analyses on the international dissemination risk associated with the current Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC are discussed in @lemonde.fr today: www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti... #SUMOC @inserm.fr @fac-sante-sorbonne.bsky.social

Global approaches to infectious disease surveillance and modeling idp.nature.com/authorize?re...

Truly excited about this collaboration with ‪@praty1931.bsky.social and @joelcmiller.bsky.social: Network structure induced bias in estimates of intrinsic generation times journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Initial genomic characterization of the Bundibugyo virus outbreak in Eastern DRC with cases in Uganda. Join work between INRB in DRC and CPHL in Uganda plus many partners. virological.org/t/initial-ge...

🔈 CS2Italy has been officially opened by @ccattuto.bsky.social at OGR Torino 🔹 AI and human behavior 🔹 Social and information networks 🔹 Urban science and mobility 🔹 Misinformation and digital platforms 🔹 Inequality, cooperation, and collective behavior 🔹 Science and society in the age of AI

There’s a LOT going on as researchers and public health experts race to respond to the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC and Uganda before it grows bigger. Some really important questions still open, but also a few answers coming into view🧪 My overview in @science.org is here (and thread coming):

#Ebola scoop: The Trump administration has imposed a travel ban on people who've been in DRC, South Sudan or Uganda in the past 21 days. The order does not apply to Americans. www.statnews.com/2026/05/18/c...

PhD offer " Dynamics of collective motions of self propelled particles" at the Center for Theoretical Physics in Marseilles app.doctorat.gouv.fr/proposition?...

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

📣 Vous avez soutenu votre thèse en 2025 dans une école doctorale française sur un sujet interdisciplinaire touchant aux #SystèmesComplexes ? Le prix de thèse de la Société Française des Systèmes Complexes est fait pour vous ! 🗓️ Soumission des dossiers de candidatures avant le 31 mai minuit

1/ Yesterday I was more worried about #hantavirus than I am today. Why? Flight attendant who was exposed - Tested negative Viral genome - No concerning mutations Two Singaporean's exposed - Tested negative Data situation - We're tracking at Global.health (h/t @mugkraemer.bsky.social)

The #hantavirus outbreak onboard the MV Hondius is an rapidly evolving situation. Here are some takeaways from the #WHO press conference today. A key one for me: the US and Argentina, both recent WHO dropouts, are cooperating with the WHO-led efforts. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/h...

It is our great pleasure to announce this year's Erdős-Rényi Prize winner! Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social

Big congratulations to the Euler Awardee of 2026: Albert-László Barabási @barabasi.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce this year's Outstanding Service Award winner: Yamir Moreno @ymoreno.bsky.social

A big round of applause for this year's Fellows: Filippo Radicchi, Tiziana Di Matteo, Stefano Boccaletti, Piet Van Mieghem, Dmitri Krioukov, Lise Getoor, and Danielle Bassett.

Per-contact transmission risk was previously estimated as 3.4% in household (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17471425/), so below could imply [big assumption] a single case on average infects roughly 20x0.034 = 0.7 others per day infectious on cruise. Can see why cluster can occur.

Since there's taboo around this, suggesting that cases of Andes virus may be caused by human-to-human transmission on a cruise ship is entirely uncontroversial: 1️⃣ We already know it's able to. 2️⃣ Conditions are "optimal". 3️⃣ This doesn't change the fact that a larger outbreak is extremely unlikely.

Joseph Tsui, Ben Reddy and I are recruiting a postdoc @psioxford.bsky.social to work on AI methods for multi-pathogen and multi-country biosurveillance optimisation for epidemic and endemic pathogens. Closing date May 11th my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Interdisciplinary PhD offer in Marseille, starting Oct. 2026, on "Collective Problem Solving in Guinea Baboons: From Dyadic Interactions to Group Dynamics" Project description and application website: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto... DM for more info on the position

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...