Seth Edmunds
@phealthy.bsky.social
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Epidemiology PhD candidate, interested in disease dynamics and novel surveillance systems
pinned post!
sethmund.github.io/measles-map/
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2026 North America Measles Tracker
An interactive, drill-down epidemiological map of laboratory-confirmed measles cases across North America.
https://sethmund.github.io/measles-map/
12 days ago
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Such a ridiculous take, I'm about to completely leave the platform because of the proliferation of bots. The only thing Reddit has the jump on is dead internet.
www.fastcompany.com/91502976/red...
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How Reddit CEO Steve Huffman got the upper hand with AI
Reddit isn't just striking deals with AI behemoths like OpenAI and Google. It's smartly using AI itself to serve users and marketers.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91502976/reddit-most-innovative-companies-2026-steve-huffman-jen-wong-openai-ai-google-gemini-answers-search
about 17 hours ago
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Simon Cauchemez
about 19 hours ago
Two postdoc positions for a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in my Unit at
@pasteur.fr
in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 13th April. More details at the following link:
research.pasteur.fr/job/two-post...
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Two postdoctoral positions in epidemic modelling - Research
Job description We are recruiting 2 postdocs to contribute to research projects in the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, at Institut Pasteur in Paris. The postdocs will develop state...
https://research.pasteur.fr/job/two-postdoctoral-positions-in-epidemic-modelling/
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Marco is fantastic!
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3 days ago
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Max Kozlov
5 days ago
π¨ BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled in favor of
@ameracadpeds.bsky.social
and issued a preliminary injunction against the CDC. The ruling pauses the Jan 2026 childhood immunization schedule revisions, blocks RFK Jr's 13 recent ACIP member appointments, and pauses all votes taken by the committee.
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Crazy when a satirical late show starts dropping serious journalism:
youtu.be/_uBZVJ-iNUQ?...
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"Like Looking Through A Keyhole" - Clarissa Ward On Reporting Amid A Communications Blackout In Iran
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
https://youtu.be/_uBZVJ-iNUQ?si=BxjwFd-Yl6eGR_S6
7 days ago
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Alicia Ault
9 days ago
The panel has voted to approve these flu strains for egg vaccines: A/Missouri/11/2025 (H1N1)pdm09-like; A/Darwin/1454/2025 (H3N2)-like; and B/Tokyo/EIS13-175/2025 (B/Victoria lineage) for cell and recombinant: A/Missouri; A/Darwin and B/Pennsylvania/14/2025 (B/Victoria lineage)
#IDsky
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Looks like normally circulating coronavirus have recently overtaken SARS-COV-2 on NREVSS test percent positivity.
www.cdc.gov/nrevss/php/d...
9 days ago
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Might have to get this cover framed
9 days ago
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Jonathan Howard
11 days ago
California boy dies of SSPE (measles complication) after being infected at age 7 months, when he was too young to be vaccinated.
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Boy, 7, dies of brain condition caused by worldβs most contagious disease β years after he had it as a baby
Even those who make a full recovery from the initial infection face a lurking threat: a deadly disease that remains latent until striking β and killing β years later.
https://nypost.com/2026/03/09/health/boy-7-dies-of-brain-condition-caused-by-measles-years-later/
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Wow that's a bad take.
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10 days ago
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This article gets worse the more you read it. Come on journalists.
www.ksl.com/article/5145...
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Vaccinated person contracts measles as outbreak continues
A measles outbreak continues across Utah, with new cases reported in Cache and Carbon counties, with one of the cases being a vaccinated person, which is rare, health care professionals say.
https://www.ksl.com/article/51458684/vaccinated-person-contracts-measles-as-outbreak-continues
11 days ago
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www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
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Alleged Legionella outbreak at Baltimore ICE facility prompts concerns from Maryland leaders
An alleged outbreak of Legionella bacteria at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Baltimore is prompting concerns from Maryland lawmakers.
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/legionella-outbreak-ice-immigration-gsa-maryland/
11 days ago
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Some good news at least.
www.emro.who.int/sdn/sudan-ne...
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Sudan declares an end to its cholera outbreak
WHO Sudan Risk Communication Officer Dr Muna Abdelgadir leads a Focus Group discussion on cholera prevention with women in Karama IDP and returnees gathering site in Blue Nile State. Photo credit: WHO8 March 2026,...
https://www.emro.who.int/sdn/sudan-news/sudan-declares-an-end-to-its-cholera-outbreak.html
12 days ago
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Science Magazine
about 2 months ago
The U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office. A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies. Read more:
https://scim.ag/4boPkq8
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U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
https://scim.ag/4boPkq8
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A little late but wowza, 200+ TB seroconversions at a high school is crazy. I remember the Hartsville, SC outbreak having like 50+ in 2025. Not a great time for our public health infrastructure to be collapsing.
missionlocal.org/2026/02/rior...
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Tuberculosis tests reveal 204 latent cases at Riordan High in S.F.
San Francisco health officials confirmed 204 latent tuberculosis cases at Archbishop Riordan High School, about 16% of those tested.
https://missionlocal.org/2026/02/riordan-high-tuberculosis-latent-cases-san-francisco/
12 days ago
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Anyone else feeling conspiratorial that PAHO postponed the measles status review meeting until likely after the US election?
#episky
#idsky
www.paho.org/en/news/2-3-...
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Update on the review of measles elimination status
Washington, D.C., 2 March 2026 (PAHO) β The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) informs that the review of the measles elimination status in the United States and Mexico will take place in Novembe...
https://www.paho.org/en/news/2-3-2026-update-review-measles-elimination-status
12 days ago
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sethmund.github.io/measles-map/
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2026 North America Measles Tracker
An interactive, drill-down epidemiological map of laboratory-confirmed measles cases across North America.
https://sethmund.github.io/measles-map/
12 days ago
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Okay, map is back and working again. Mexico data is pulled from:
www.gob.mx/salud/docume...
Canada:
health-infobase.canada.ca/measles-rube...
USA:
github.com/CSSEGISandDa...
13 days ago
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I feel like I'd get cancelled if some circles saw this right now
13 days ago
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Apologies for kind of breaking the measles map, trying to expand it to Canada and Mexico but I'm bad at anything web coding.
14 days ago
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coloradosun.com/2026/03/04/m...
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Measles cases in Broomfield now an outbreak, unvaccinated students at two schools sent home for 21 days
Unvaccinated students and staff at Broomfield High School and Broomfield Heights Middle School have been told to stay home for 21 days.
https://coloradosun.com/2026/03/04/measles-cases-in-broomfield-now-an-outbreak-unvaccinated-students-at-two-schools-sent-home-for-21-days/
16 days ago
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CIDRAP
16 days ago
Rapid RSV tests linked to less antibiotic prescribing in kids An Italian study finds an RSV-positive rapid antigen test in children aged nine to 36 months was associated with a 48% reduced risk of receiving an antibiotic.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/r...
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Joseph Marcus
16 days ago
The second eliminated disease of 2026: Leprosy in Chile π¨π± The last reported locally acquired case was in 1993
www.who.int/news/item/04...
#IDSky
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State-level queens adjacency INLA seems MAUP-ish to me.
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17 days ago
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Interesting set of tools:
www.sph.umn.edu/research/cen...
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Modeling and Analytic Tools - Midwest Analytics and Disease Modeling Center (MADMC) - School of Public Health - University of Minnesota
https://www.sph.umn.edu/research/centers/midwest-analytics-and-disease-modeling/tools/
17 days ago
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www.militarytimes.com/news/your-mi...
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3 US troops killed, 5 seriously wounded in actions against Iran
U.S. Central Command officials announced Sunday that three U.S. service members were killed in action during combat operations.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/03/01/3-us-troops-killed-5-seriously-wounded-in-actions-against-iran/
20 days ago
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Having lost a brother to a Middle Eastern conflict, it definitely opens up some old wounds to see us marching right back in.
21 days ago
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Seth Edmunds
Dongmin (Dennis) Kim
22 days ago
Published in
@jappliedecology.bsky.social
!π We show how (Hierarchical) Hidden Markov Models ((H)HMMs) can be tailored to different epidemiological scenarios to infer disease status directly from animal movement data. π ttps://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.70323
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Detecting disease progression from animal movement using hidden Markov models
We demonstrate how (H)HMMs can be tailored to different epidemiological scenarios and provide a template workflow for developing and selecting Hidden Markov models to infer disease status from animal...
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.70323
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It's quite a time when NEJM is dropping a primary measles case presentation in their latest issue. Time to handle the new reality it looks like.
23 days ago
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I honestly don't even really understand the point to this list, you could get a full PhD on just surveillance. And SER just lumps disease dynamics in like it's a blip.
academic.oup.com/aje/article/...
24 days ago
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Seth Edmunds
Bloom lab
28 days ago
We have posted data providing real-time measurement of human neutralizing antibody landscape to seasonal influenza. Data explain spread of subclades K (H3N2) & D.3.1.1 (H1N1), identify subclade K subvariants w reduced neutralization, & can inform choice of strains for next vaccine.
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The saddest part is the complete denial and zero remorse.
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28 days ago
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www.wishtv.com/weather/weat...
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Bloomington tornado damages airport, homes, bank
Tornado damage reported in Bloomington, Indiana, with homes, a bank, and the county airport affected. Over 1,800 customers were without power.
https://www.wishtv.com/weather/weather-stories/bloomington-tornado-damages-airport-homes-bank/
29 days ago
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This was absolutely written with ChatGPT.
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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One Pivotal Trial, the New Default Option for FDA Approval β Ending the Two-Trial Dogma | NEJM
This Sounding Board announces a new FDA policy that the default requirement for FDA approvals will be one robust pivotal trial plus confirmatory evidence, rather than two trials.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsb2517623
29 days ago
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I missed a couple of wastewater papers in the January MMWR, interesting temporality:
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
30 days ago
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"median incubation period from exposure to rash was 13.6 days (95% credible interval [CrI], 9.6 to 19.0 days). Five percent of cases are expected to develop a rash within 3.1 days (CrI, 1.3 to 5.5 days) and 95% within 32.3 days (CrI, 22.4 to 45.8 days)."
www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...
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The Incubation Periods of Mpox Virus Clade Ib | Annals of Internal Medicine
Background: Mpox virus (MPXV) clade Ib, first detected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) in September 2023, spread internationally within months, prompting an emergency declaration from th...
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-01016
about 1 month ago
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I just noticed South Carolina published a county level measles dashboard a few weeks ago
public.tableau.com/app/profile/...
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https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/population.health.dhec/viz/MeaslesDashboard_17689445394830/MeaslesDashboard?showOnboarding=true
about 1 month ago
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Never thought I'd be making a measles case tracker:
sethmund.github.io/measles-map/
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2026 Measles Tracker
https://sethmund.github.io/measles-map/
about 1 month ago
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Outstanding leadership there.
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about 1 month ago
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www.cnn.com/world/live-n...
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At least 8 killed and dozens injured in Canada shootings - latest updates | CNN
At least eight people have been killed and dozens have been injured after a shooting at a school and home in northeast British Colombia, Canada. Follow for live updates
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/tumbler-ridge-canada-shooting-02-11-26
about 1 month ago
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Here's a fun causal paper, it's every bit out there as the title would indicate.
#episky
academic.oup.com/nc/article/2...
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A quantum microtubule substrate of consciousness is experimentally supported and solves the binding and epiphenomenalism problems
Abstract. Recent experimental evidence, briefly reviewed here, points to intraneuronal microtubules as a functional target of inhalational anesthetics. Thi
https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2025/1/niaf011/8127081
about 1 month ago
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Seth Edmunds
Marwin Meier
about 1 month ago
Global
#AidCuts
could lead to at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.π±
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#GlobalHealth
#ChildMortality
#Under5Deaths
#PreventChildDeaths
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Impact of two decades of humanitarian and development assistance and the projected mortality consequences of current defunding to 2030: retrospective evaluation and forecasting analysis
ODA funding has played a decisive role in reducing preventable mortality across LMICs over the past two decades, and the abrupt withdrawal of this support threatens to cause millions of avoidable deat...
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(26)00008-2/fulltext
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I hate to say it but I bet Google Earth AI would've really helped this paper:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Links between infrastructure for human movement and early Ebola outbreak trajectories - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Links between infrastructure for human movement and early Ebola outbreak trajectories
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-33688-y
about 2 months ago
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EEID 2026 at Virginia Tech
about 2 months ago
Learn about building & simulating spatial epidemiological models! Apply for the EEID 2026 workshop at Virginia Tech May 30-Jun 1, 2026 by Mar 2nd:
forms.gle/DbQDpxBSYjzJ...
This workshop immediately precedes the EEID conference & runs concurrently with a VectorByte training workshop (separate app!)
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https://forms.gle/DbQDpxBSYjzJUvFP8
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Dr. Hinman on Reddit 10 years ago to talk about vaccines:
www.reddit.com/r/science/s/...
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From the science community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the science community
https://www.reddit.com/r/science/s/Cik4G8svKO
about 2 months ago
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Wonderful man and excellent advisor, his lessons will live on throughout my entire career.
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about 2 months ago
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Could always start screening red state border crossings for VPDs. Would certainly get the point across.
www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
about 2 months ago
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I highly recommend this chat if anyone liked listening to Paul Farmer and Bill Foege. RIP legends.
#episky
#idsky
youtu.be/18k2ggYzkTw?...
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GGHA Member Meeting: A Conversation with Doctors Paul Farmer & Bill Foege
YouTube video by GGHA Administrator
https://youtu.be/18k2ggYzkTw?si=pay_6VbRAfTH-zla
about 2 months ago
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Looks like ABC News actually did some great work with collaborators to set up this iteration of the tool:
abcnews.go.com/Health/new-m...
Here's the study which goes into much more depth, the tool is just the dose coverage.
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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about 2 months ago
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John M. Drake
about 2 months ago
New paper out today π§΅ Flexible methods for species distribution modeling with small samples (Ecography, OA).
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Flexible methods for species distribution modeling with small samples
Species distribution models (SDMs) predict where species live or could potentially live and are a key resource for ecological research and conservation decision-making. However, current SDM methods o....
https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecog.08112
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