rdcu.be/euiRS. Spatial patterns of COVID-19 2nd booster uptake is well predicted from 1st booster patterns via deprivation, age & gender. Spatial patterns deviated w/ later boosters, w/ men under 60 showing markedly lower uptake than predicted. Kudos to Anthony Wood for his excellent analysis.

Interested in applying data science to practical health problems? At Lancaster University learn a mix of programming, stats, and health economics. For an international flavour there is a summer school on Pemba just beside Zanzibar. www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Very proud of the links I have with scientists in BioSS - long may it continue

@ewancolman.bsky.social analysed the impact of individual person shedding variability on virus detection in #wastewater-based epidemiology and ability to identify rises and falls in COVID-19 trajectories in Scotland during the pandemic journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Elegant analysis Ewan!

Great PhD opportunity with @edmhill.bsky.social @profbuchan.bsky.social and others, please circulate to anyone interested! www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...

📰 DEFRA avian influenza update: 28 Mar 2025 #IDSky #IDEpi #OneHealth 2️⃣ premises with HPAI H5N1 confirmed 🐔 Commercial poultry at premises near Wymondham, Norfolk 🐦 Poultry & captive birds at premises near Blaydon, Durham (previously suspected case) 🔗 Avian influenza: latest situation in England👇

With proper development Wastewater surveillance could be used to track epidemics even when driven by asymptomatic infections www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc....

H5N1 found in sheep for the first time - no obvious immediate risks but another indication of the potential for a well known virus to surprise. No indication yet of whether or not its an isolated case or evidence of onward transmission. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Increasingly thinking about my research groups computing energy use. We are generating only a tiny fraction of the consumption of course but it’s just far too easy to let the computers do the work rather than thinking through what really needs to be done www.oneninenine.agency/articles/the....

It's been coming - but its still the end of an era: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

if you have to bet on when a randomly occurring event will occur always bet on the 1st day; any other day is conditional on the event having not yet occurred and therefore has lower probability. I.e. the 1st allowable day is the mode of the distribution

📰 Recent highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 confirmations in other captive birds in England #IDSky #IDEpi 🐔 25 Feb 2025: Confirmed case at premises near Fownhope, Herefordshire 📊 22 cases of HPAI H5N1 in England in 2025 🔗 Avian influenza: latest situation👇 www.gov.uk/government/n...

PhD position (Glasgow, UK) Quantifying the contribution of livestock movements to AMR in East Africa with @researcherJess at University of Glasgow More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2277

Some answers to my question about what would trigger use of #H5N1 vaccine being purchased by Canada. #NACI, the advisory group that recommends vaccine policy in Canada, has issued preliminary guidance on how/when to use H5 vaccine in a non-pandemic context. www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Giving poultry workers bird flu vaccines protects them and reduced the chances for either recombination with seasonal flu or further strain adaptation in humans www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

New spillover of HPAI into cattle. A regular event now ... www.aphis.usda.gov/news/program... - hard to know how much is about looking for it harder, how much is because there is so much circulating HPAI in US birds, and how much is due to the strain of virus itself.

Given his approach to Gaza I’m sure we are in good hands www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Permanent PDRA position @pirbrightinst.bsky.social working in one of the most important disease systems/challenges we face lnkd.in/eR-27gNY

#USDA reported 5 new #H5N1 #birdflu infected herds today, 4 in ... wait for it ... Nevada! & 1 in California. The Nevada herds are the first there since early December. I hope the people who study sequences can find these & figure out if they are all part of the same outbreak or new introductions.

Workshop for younger researchers interested in complexity science. There is a nice list of projects here in #complexsystems

Our study on pasteurising influenza viruses in milk is now out! It's a nice simple story: influenza viruses (including H5N1) are killed really effectively by pasteurisation, but in raw milk they stay infectious - obvious public health implications of both points... (1/2) rdcu.be/d73te

New EU dashboard for Wastewater surveillance for infectious diseases joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

Further twists in the bird flu saga www.reuters.com/business/hea...

1/ 📣 Two funded PhDs available as part of UKRI Research Hub in AI for Collective Intelligence (ai4ci.ac.uk) #PhDSky 🧪 Interdisciplinary work between infectious disease epidemiology & AI (Pandemic Resilience research theme) #IDSky #IDEpi 🏫 Based at University of Bristol & supervised by Leon Danon

I’m very pleased and honoured to continue my involvement with Defra’s Science Advisory Council - slightly daunted that it is now as Chair www.gov.uk/government/n...

It was an honor to write this contextualizing editorial with @drjeannem.bsky.social for the @nejm.bsky.social along with 2 important reports of recent human cases of influenza A(H5N1). #H5N1 #IDSky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... 🧵1/3

Stunning!

Good to see Cal. taking this seriously. Shouldn't overestimate risk but need to acknowledge the high uncertainty that the combination of raw milk consumption, possibly short evolutionary pathways to human adaptation & interaction with seasonal flu really mean. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

#USDA reports 1 new #H5N1 #birdflu infected herd, in California. That brings CA's total to 650 herds, 56 of which have been released from quarantine, per CDFA. Cumulative national total: 866 herds in 16 states. Still no confirmations from the new national milk testing program.

As I sit in a funding panel meeting reminds me how unfair reliance on English as the international language of science is, even for funding bodies in non English speaking countries

⚠️ BREAKING: Nevada reported its first case of H5N1-infected dairy herds, becoming the 16th state to be affected, according to the Department of Agriculture.

⚠️ BREAKING: H5 bird flu has been found at 3 wastewater testing sites in Iowa, according to WastewaterSCAN. The state doesn't have any known active outbreaks of bird flu in dairy cattle or poultry.

LA Times' Susanne Rust reports that Raw Farms LLC has been ordered to stop distributing raw milk products after 2 recalls of product containing #H5N1 #birdflu. She reports testing of commercial product has been positive, though the farm's bulk tank testing is not. www.latimes.com/environment/...

About 1% and rising of the UK has mixed European and Asian heritage, and the trend is towards younger people being more positive about immigration across the board. Multiculturalism works and voters want Labour to improve public services not chase Farage's coat tails. natcen.ac.uk/how-are-atti...

**Please Circulate!** Opportunity to join the project team for the co-produced Mathematical Modelling of Epidemics Together (COMMET) project. We are looking for two people to join our team and help co-produce this project. www.coproductioncollective.co.uk/news/commetp...

📢 NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Jari Saramäki, Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Aalto University "Networks in Time and Space" #NetSci2025 @jsaramak.bsky.social

As I use this paper once again, though I’d share this absolute classic - if you want to know more about the reasoning behind R0 and what it really means (with a bit of math) you could do much worse than this doi.org/10.1098/rsif... ignore the beetle!

UKHSA hiring a Deputy Director of Modelling: www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

⭐NEW PUBLICATION⭐ Modelling plausible scenarios for the Omicron SARS-CoV-2 variant from early-stage surveillance @banks.ac @rowlandkao.bsky.social Read the full publication below ⤵️ pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39571488/

Last wastewater readings found H5 bird flu in Davis, Los Angeles, Marina, Napa, Novato, San Francisco, Ontario, Paso Robles, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, Sunnyvale and Turlock.

📢 NetSci 2025 Speaker announcement: Manlio de Domenico, Associate Professor at UniPD & Head of CoMuNe Lab & President of CSS Italy & Co-founder and Co-director of MSCX "Network science in a complex world: broken, lost and future links" #NetSci2025 @manlius.bsky.social

Congratulations to the newly minted Dr Tijani Sulaimon @tijanis.bsky.social - Edinburgh/Glasgow PhD with Paul Johnson on future RVF risks in Tanzania under land use and climate change. Well done on an excellent PhD

BREAKING: #CDC reports it has confirmed that a child in California tested positive for #H5N1. The child had no known exposures to infected animals or poultry. The child had mild illness and is recovering. I discuss in this video what cases like this mean, and why they are a bit unsettling.

As @banks.ac said - Tom Doherty was a fantastic software engineer, a good man and a fine friend who contributed to so many projects - you are missed Tom.

Welcome to our brand new Blue Sky page! We are really excited to be here to engage with our network in friendly, informative and productive ways! Join us 😊

Welcome to all the newcomers! I will maintain the list of folks in animal health/animal welfare/veterinary medicine. If you want to be included, please message me or reply to this post and i'll add you. Also, please share with your network! go.bsky.app/6wvTJFK

Originally seen post by @hmpxvt.bsky.social here is the original story www.statnews.com/2024/11/18/b...

The H5N1 bird flu virus in Canadian teenager displays mutations that would make it easier to infect people, according to STAT News. There have been no further cases associated with the teenager with the infection.

Announcing our first speaker for NetSci 2025... Linda Douw, Associate Professor at Amsterdam UMC and Head of the Multiscale Network Neuroscience Lab 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗧𝗶𝘁𝗹𝗲: "𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘯𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦: 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘪𝘳𝘤𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴"

⚠️ BREAKING: California reported one new human case of H5N1 bird flu, bringing the statewide total to 27. 56 cases have been reported nationwide this year.