PhD position (London, UK) Real-time modelling of infectious disease outbreaks. with @sbfnk.bsky.social @anne-cori.bsky.social @seabbs.bsky.social at @epiforecasts.io @cmmid-lshtm.bsky.social More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2440

My in depth 10 minute interview on the collapse of America’s vaccine ecosystem and more with @npr.org @wbur.org Robin Young www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

I always wonder where the "other side" gets (mis)information and then I come across book lists like this:

I shared this on air today on MS NOW : measles and flu are resurging, but prevention is straightforward. Get vaccinated. Wear a mask in crowded indoor settings. Stay home when sick. These small actions protect communities—and they add up.

FWIW, my student health insurance cost just jumped up 30% next semester.

Do we have any reading lists for next year yet? #idsky #episky

Interestingly, an ACIP member just contradicted the CDC's claim from today that "There have been 3 confirmed deaths from measles." Strange times.

Excited to launch the new improved Reproducible Code guide from @britishecologicalsociety.org @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social FREE online here! www.britishecologicalsociety.org//wp-content/... Amazing work by some very talented ECRs. We hope it’s useful!

🦇 Two PhD positions available on our new ARC Discovery Grant: "From Diversity to Disease: Viral Ecology, Evolution and Persistence in Bats" The project will investigate how viral diversity evolves and persists, with a particular focus on recently discovered henipaviruses in Australian flying foxes.

Am I reading this wrong? Did Virginia get their vaccine budget cut to a third of the proposed? budget.lis.virginia.gov/item/2025/1/...

Is this our path to universal healthcare?

Following #ACIP - apparently, ACIP combined the immunization schedule and hepatitis B workgroups - a change not reflected in the ACIP workgroup list, and it was chaired by Dr. Vicki Pebsworth, a director in an anti-vaccine organization, the National Vaccine Information Center.

CDC CFA director has resigned. As signals go, that's not a good one.

1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.

Scoop: The apparent new #2 at CDC is a top ivermectin prescriber who ended Louisiana’s vaccine-promotion media campaigns. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

The modRNA vaccine had statistically superior efficacy over the control vaccine, with greater immune responses to A/H3N2 and A/H1N1 strains, but was associated with more reactogenicity events. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

“It’s the latest decision in a head-spinning saga that federal workers with disabilities and temporary health needs say has hindered their job performance and weakened their faith that the federal government is a place for them.”

Just a reminder that Pence also messed with the website plenty back in COVID times. CDC isn't an independent agency so a lot of actors have the ability to manipulate public communications.

Oof, confirmed contamination in retains. They are cooked. arstechnica.com/health/2025/...

On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5

CDC would get banned from science subreddits for this misinformation. www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...

Wonder how Wyomingites feel about 400% hikes? www.kff.org/affordable-c...

When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.' people.com/donald-trump...

This is what happens when DOGE bros handle databases. www.al.com/news/2025/11...

I'm not sure what it is but I'm loving Pluribus so far

This is designed to tank public health & primary care by excluding public health professions, advanced nursing practice, physical & occupational therapy from loans that can cover the cost of education. This is going to make an existing workforce crisis worse. aspph.org/department-o...

The WHO Global tuberculosis report 2025 is out! TB is the world’s deadliest infectious killer, claiming over 1.2 million lives and affecting an estimated 10.7 million people last year www.who.int/news-room/re...

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)

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Wonder how many people will forever forego public service after all this www.npr.org/2025/10/24/n...

POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California 2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin. ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003

Nothing to see here, just Indiana trying to unilaterally annex most of the rural Illinois counties... www.wthr.com/article/news...

Utah seeing measles outbreaks and <80% vaccination rates. I predict we lose elimination status next year. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/w...

Dismantling CDC will for sure have a higher death toll but this doesn't feel good either. www.cnn.com/2025/10/19/p...

People voted for this guy? "The Pelosi precedent" certainly sounds good until it's pointed out the Representative requested that date. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIhI...

It's funny that OSC isn't on that list and the US attorneys office isn't shitposting Hatch Act Violations. In fact, OSC has a sane closure announcement

I did my MPH thesis as a vignette-based KAP study but we decided early on to not use exam style questions, is there better engagement with one vs the other? #episky

How is this not a blatant Hatch Act violation? www.usda.gov

I'm getting the sense that IU is aiming for the worst university for free speech. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Rejection kind of depends on perspective, my MPH wasn't published but I still got an MPH. CDC made me write reports without an author, but I still claim them. I had a paper take 5 years to publish but it got there eventually. My PhD has been a tough journey but I see light.

Pregnancy doubles the risk of severe COVID-19. Infants < 6 months old have approx = risk of severe disease as those 65-74 yrs old. ➡️ Pregnancy = priority for COVID 💉 Modeling the Health Impact of Discontinuing COVID-19 Vaccination During Pregnancy in the US : jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Holy shit, how are conservatives not grabbing for their guns?!? www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Good thing those don't exist.

Safety and efficacy of early medical abortion at home between 10+0 and 11+6 weeks' gestation: a retrospective review srh.bmj.com/content/earl...

Can't believe I missed that the @societyforepi.bsky.social podcast recently had stochastic modeling episodes, kinda glad they send out those summary email blasts. seriousepi.blubrry.net

This is pretty crazy, study models millions of indirect hurricane deaths potentially driving/contributing to the life expectancy disparity in the US: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This reminds me of the fetal cell lines used for testing, at what point does religion say, "maybe our >1,000 year old book doesn't cover this"? apnews.com/article/indo...