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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

Our paper on US contact patterns is now published in The Lancet Digital Health! doi.org/10.1016/j.la... Thanks to my brilliant coauthors @zsusswein.bsky.social, @vcolizza.bsky.social, & @bansallab.bsky.social for their help with this project. Read on for an overview of our findings... 🧵

📊🤔 Are your scientific figures cluttered or confusing? Join @midas-network.bsky.social trainees & speaker @jessica-davis.bsky.social at 11AM ET on Aug 1 to practice designing visuals that effectively tell your story. Bring a figure draft to revise! Register: tinyurl.com/MIDASFigures

Today we’re releasing Epydemix (www.epydemix.org), a Python package for flexible, modular, and data-driven epidemic modeling. Designed for researchers, students, and public health professionals. 🧵👇

🚀 Now accepting applications for the new MS in Complex Network Analysis at Northeastern! Study real-world systems—social, financial, biological, public health—using cutting-edge network science tools. 🌐 Info: shorturl.at/bKUZV 📅 Live Webinars (starting April-May): shorturl.at/xrory

Wastewater from airplane toilets? We introduce a global Aircraft-Based Wastewater Surveillance Network (WWSN) for pandemic monitoring in Nature Medicine 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s415... Aircraft-based wastewater surveillance allows for real-time, non-invasive monitoring of global pathogen spread Short 🧵