As you may know, Binghamton will host #CCS2026. Although @binghamtonu.bsky.social ranks first among New York's public universities, let us introduce you to our hometown, often known as the "Parlor City" for its historic elegance 🏛️, and the "Valley of Opportunity" for its industrial past 🏭.
View over the canal in Nyhavn, Copenhagen
Thrilled to announce CS2Nordics: the First Nordic Conference on Computational Social Science. Copenhagen, September 21-22, 2026.
We invite all CSS researchers in the Nordics as well as in the international research community to submit 2-page abstracts by June 19: nosocss.org/conference.h....
This is figure 3, which shows the probability of emergence of different SARS coronaviruses in the presence of vaccination and co-circulating SARS-CoV-2.
A study in Nature Communications suggests that SARS-CoV-2 circulation and vaccination have generated widespread immunity against related sarbecoviruses, creating an immunological barrier to novel sarbecovirus emergence in humans. go.nature.com/4sDW5Kk #medsky 🧪
Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel. Great work by Silvia de Sojo, @sunelehmann.com and Laura Alessandretti.
arxiv.org/abs/2604.00943
Incredible work by Jonathan Pekar et al.: The emergence and molecular evolution of H5N1 influenza viruses in United States dairy cattle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
1/ GSIDD Transmission Digest: March 2026
ℹ️ The GSIDD Transmission Digest keeps you in the loop on what is happening with GSIDD, from upcoming events to the latest announcements.
🔗: hustling-producer-1761.kit.com/posts/gsidd-...
#IDsky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #OneHealth 🧪
Biosecurity depends critically on the early identification of novel pathogens.
Our international team developed a global multi-scale model of infectious diseases to evaluate the time to detection in aircraft wastewater vs. other surveillance modalities.
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
Excited to share our work w/ @justinlessler.bsky.social, Trevor Bedford & Amanda Perofsky: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.... We investigate when sequence datasets are informative about between-group transmission, and how this depends on the relative pace of mutation, between-group transmission and sampling.
Join ESPIDAM 2026 — the European Summer Program in Infectious Disease Analysis & Modelling!
A unique training opportunity for early-career researchers in epidemic modelling 🦠📊
⏳ Early bird deadline: March 31
www.su.se/english/divi...
We are very excited to have launched the establishment process for a global professional society for infectious disease dynamics. Join us!
Deeply grateful to Francesco Bonacina for his enormous work and stamina, and to Pierre-Yves Boëlle, @vcolizza.bsky.social, Olivier Lopez, and Maud Thomas!
The joint analysis of spatiotemporal dynamics of influenza subtypes worldwide reveals a hidden structure in subtype circulation that can inform anticipation.
We leveraged this geographical structure with a Bayesian hierarchical vector autoregressive model to predict next year's subtype composition, obtaining improved performance compared to more naive approaches
This approach enabled us to analyze country-level subtype mixing across years and identify geographical patterns in subtypes' composition. Interestingly, we found that air travel is among the key factors driving subtype alternation.
We used compositional data analysis (CODA) to map trajectories of A/H1N1, A/H3N2, and B percentages in a bidimensional space, providing a new perspective for visualization and quantitative analyses.
💫 New paper out in @nathealth.nature.com 💫
Characterization and forecast of global influenza subtype dynamics
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
We analyzed the subtype compositions of countries' influenza waves globally to understand their drivers and test predictions of next season's composition.
Attending the @gs-idd.bsky.social launch seminar. Couldn't be more excited to see this effort take shape and can't wait to see how it helps push the infectious disease dynamics community forward! Thank you to all of the founding members and organizers 🙏
Launch of the Global Society of Infectious Disease Dynamics. 🎉
2 online webinars on Thursday 26th.
Do join to see what it's all about, and get involved in the community as it kicks off!
www.gsidd.org/post/join-us...
Step 1: Insert bacteria ("Wolbachia") into mosquitoes.
Step 2: Release mosquitoes.
Step 3: Watch Dengue rates plummet.
Phenomenal results from Singapore.
Link: tinyurl.com/59c9t67u, by Lim et al.
What shapes parental vaccination intentions? Are sociodemographic predictors enough to understand this phenomenon? @dondenacentre.bsky.social
Read more in the full paper link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Apply now to become a member of the Advisory Board!
Goddness, there's lots to say about this. Good to see the case pro laid out in detail. I wonder if Nature will be publishing the counter-argument too?
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🔬 London 2026 🇬🇧 Complexity72h is open for applications!
Young researchers in #ComplexSystems, come to London, June 22–26, 2026 @nunetsi.bsky.social
What is Complexity72h? Participants form teams and work 72 hours on original research projects, guided by expert tutors.
More details below:
Globally, seasonal influenza kills an average of 700,000 people each year from respiratory disease or cardiovascular disease.
During large flu pandemics, when influenza strains evolved substantially, the death toll was even higher.
Neat work, showing that the entire evolution of a variant of concern can happen in one persistently infected individual over about a year.
Our Satellite Call for #CCS2026 is still open, but the clock is ticking. ⌛️
Want to spotlight a hot topic in #ComplexSystems? Submit your proposal by Feb 10 and help shape our community. Any methods, tutorials, debates, and demos are welcome!
Apply here: bit.ly/3LUgTNc
Mobility-based synthetic contact matrices offer a promising alternative for real-time pandemic response modeling. How do they compare with traditional empirical contact matrices?
We address this question in our latest study, now published in Nature Communications ⬇️
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
