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...

Two cases of Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a dangerous viral infection, detected in France in travellers from the Arabian Peninsula. Another reminder that our world is deeply interconnected & vigilance for imported infections is essential. tinyurl.com/4mdhwfdz

PhD call alert! Interested in #Complexity #Cognition #AlgorithmicBias or #PublicHealth? Want to join our ERC-funded @erc.europa.eu, SPAC Lisbon team @spac.bsky.social? We only need: CV + short motivation letter + contact of 2 refs EOE Apply by Dec 20, more info: lip.pt/files/rhuman... Please Share!

Wish I could be at #Epidemics10 this year. Thanks to all who are live-posting. Your updates are making me feel connected!

Submission link for the Italian Conference on Computational Social Science is LIVE! We welcome abstract submissions on #computerscience #netsci #complexsystems #sociology #economics #politics #cognitivesci #psychology and more Deadline: Jan 15 cs2italy.org

The "Crossroads in Epi Modelling" workshop organised by the Health Emergencies Analytics Lab, happening now in @bocconi.bsky.social!

Late advertisement of our new pre-print: Contact structure and population immunity shape the selective advantage of emerging variants www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Urban contact patterns shape respiratory syncytial virus epidemics with implications for vaccination | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Fascinating story about evidence that #H5N1 #birdflu infected vampire bats in South America, raising the prospect of a potential new & dangerous host for the virus. Some good news: The virus didn't appear to spread well among the bats. By @martinenserink.bsky.social. www.science.org/content/arti...

🌍 We are excited to announce that we are introducing a reduced registration fee for participants from developing countries. 🚨 Last days to send your contribution – submit by Nov 30, 2025 (sharp deadline)!

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...

H3N2 preprint: there are concerns of a severe incoming influenza season due to the drifted H3N2 K clade. We at @psioxford.bsky.social analysed epi data and ran scenario models to see what we could discern about K clade transmission dynamics: zenodo.org/records/1770.... (1/18)

Ready to shape the future of #ComplexSystems science? Propose a Satellite Session for #CCS2026 and put your topic in orbit!🛰️ Methods, tutorials, debates, you name it! Apply via link or scan the QR on the flyer. Please spread the word and reshare!🔁 📝 bit.ly/3LUgTNc

🔈 *Call for Participation* 🔈 Italian Conference on Computational Social Science – CS2Italy May 19-21, 2026 in Torino, Italy Premier venue for Computational Social Science in Italy: #sociology #polisci #economics #netsci #complexsystems ++ Submit your abstract by Jan 15: cs2italy.org plz reshare

Two days of great scientific discussions with >100 infectious disease modellers during the annual meeting of FRAME (the French Research Action on Modelling Epidemics), supported by @anrs-mie.bsky.social. What a fantastic research community!

Great to see a new FluView post from #CDC today after weeks without updates. It's not yet flu season in the US, but activity is starting to pick up. www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

Update on the wild #polio discovery in Germany: The virus was found in wastewater in Hamburg. @rki.de, the German public health agency, says the virus sequence is very similar to some isolated in Afghanistan, so the likely source was an infected human. (page 10 here: www.rki.de/DE/Aktuelles...)

⏳ Last days to submit your work to COMPLENET 2026! Don’t miss the opportunity to present your most interesting and recent research. 📄 Submission details: 👉 complenet.weeblysite.com/call-for-con... 🌐 More info: 👉 complenet.weeblysite.com We look forward to seeing you in Zaragoza next May!

Did you know 111111111 × 111111111 = 12345678987654321? 1/2

Day 1 of the AC modélisation annual meeting at @pasteur.fr 💻 First day is "early-career researchers day", with a round table on careers in academia in France, and now a discussion on the use of AI in scientific writing! Good to think about why we shouldn't list ChatGPT as an author on papers...

🚨 Last days to submit!!!! 👇

Low levels of influenza H5N1 HA and NA antibodies in the human population are boosted by seasonal H1N1 infection but not by H3N2 infection or influenza vaccination 👉 journals.asm.org/doi/full/10....

🧬 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 - 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗮𝘁 𝗘𝗖𝗗𝗖 This week, #ECDC is bringing together virologists from across Europe to strengthen surveillance of respiratory viruses – including influenza, SARS-CoV-2 and RSV. #ECDC #RespiratoryViruses #Virology #Influenza #RSV #COVID19 #Flu

Human Mobility in Epidemic Modeling arxiv.org/abs/2507.22799

Delighted to have contributed to this article. 👇 COVID19 hasn’t gone away, and continued SARSCoV2 surveillance is critical.

New Paper🚀! Our work analysing the Swiss national SARS-CoV-2 wastewater 🚱 monitoring data is now published in PLOS Water 💧 @plos.org journals.plos.org/water/articl... (Julien Riou, @tanjastadler.bsky.social @trj2.bsky.social Christoph Ort et al)

Abstract and satellite submissions are open! Join us this summer in Boston for the 20th anniversary of @netsciconf.bsky.social netsci2026.com For some bonus content, here’s the 2006 conference homepage :)

The global return of childhood vaccine-preventable infectious diseases Truly outrageous that we are failing children everywhere in this day and age! www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...

The collateral benefits of the Covid pandemic response was a marked decrease in airborne and aerosol-transmitted infections via masking and non-pharmaceutical interventions @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

CDC FluView hasn't been updated in a month, so I will start posting Philadelphia flu activity updates weekly. It is especially important to track flu in the US this year, since there are reports of a severe early flu season in parts of Asia. The PA department of health also has a nice website. 1/2

JOB: Postdoctoral Research Associate to work on the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 using a very large dataset of more than 120,000 viral genomes generated as part of the ONS Covid Survey in Prof Katrina Lythgoe's Ecology and Evolution of Viruses Research Group. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

🎉 ISI Foundation is thrilled to announce that the Lagrange Prize – CRT Foundation Edition 2025 has been awarded to Professor Iyad Rahwan @iyadrahwan.bsky.social, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin!

Nice podcast by WorldPop of our recent article on modelling practices during COVID-19 👇 (link to the article www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...)

In the past 2 weeks several European countries have reported locally acquired cases of #mpox clade Ib. This is new. There had been patients before but those infections likely happened elsewhere. Now it looks like mpox Ib is spreading here in the sexual networks of men who have sex with men. #IDsky

Our analysis of modelling practices, data use, and science-policy interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic is out on @eurosurveillance.org this week. www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2... Wonderful collaborative effort conducted in the context of mood-h2020.eu Read the thread below 👇

As one of the "we" very pleased to be part of this initiative. Thanks to @helcecilia.bsky.social @paulineezanno.bsky.social and @gaelbn.bsky.social for taking the lead on this one.

International Workshop on Social Contacts for Epidemic Modeling Paris, Dec 8-9, 2025 epicontacts2025.weebly.com Dec 8: Training session on contact data for ID modeling. Dec 9: Workshop on methodological advances in the field, featuring a strong lineup of invited speakers. @anrs-mie.bsky.social

Why has H5N1 not been as deadly as we were expecting so far? Really liked this summary of the evidence and possible explanations by @jdrakephd.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Latest out: Social inequalities in vaccine coverage and their effects on epidemic spreading. Great collaboration with Adriana Manna and @martonkarsai.bsky.social journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

We're organizing a special session called "The Art of Epidemics" at #Epidemics10! The session focuses on how thoughtfully designed visualizations and communication tools can make complex epidemiological data more impactful. artofepidemics.wixsite.com/epidemics10

Coming Monday 13 October, WHO will launch the latest Global antibiotic resistance surveillance report. Don't miss it, register here! www.who.int/news-room/ev...

🚨 Only 3 days left to apply to join us in Mallorca! Don’t miss out—apply now and come along! wwcs2026.github.io/application/