What we choose to implement - and when - matters. Our work shows that proactive screening strategies can reduce transmission by ~40% vs reactive responses. A key lesson for preparedness. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/cLnu50YCrcn
Posts by Tjibbe Donker
Robert Read from Journal of Infection describing AI in publishing as a tsunami of custard 😂
#ESCMIDGlobal2026
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Inderdaad! Ook in Amsterdam zijn er betere voorbeelden te vinden (Nieuwezijds Voor, bijv.).
Ik heb vooral een probleem met het geschetste beeld dat er in NL bijna geen auto's rijden.
Goed, het is beter dan in de meeste buitenlandse steden, maar dit gaat tegenvallen als mensen dit beeld krijgen.
Het was een interessante puzzel die ik niet kon laten liggen
Voor "kijk hoe Amsterdam een prachtige fietsstad geworden is" is het echt een slecht gekozen voorbeeld... Dat fietspad houdt precies bij dat busje op, en er kan daarna blijkbaar gewoon legaal op straat geparkeerd worden, waardoor de fietsers zich tussen de auto's en trams moeten drukken.
It's the Zeilstraat, looking west from the Amstelveenseweg.
Still not the most beautiful street to be cycling, to be honest.
We're on a long trip in our EV, and more than ever before, non-EV drivers are (literally) lining up to ask questions about charging speed and costs. Not a lot of questions about range this time... I guess it's a matter of priorities.
Me as well! Before a talk, I usually take everything (keys, phone, etc.) out of me pockets, because I know that otherwise I'll be fumbling around with it the entire time.
Two postdoc positions open at SUMOC (Sorbonne Université | INSERM), Paris, within the EPIcx lab.
🦠 Network epidemiology of healthcare-associated infections (ARCANE)
🧠 Coupled behavior–disease modeling (PREVIX)
2-y positions | Start June 2026
#epidemiology #networks #matrices
I found this profoundly difficult to read, also because I have a 7-year-old daughter, and I would gladly spend eternity in hell to prevent this happening to her.
That's amazing!
The best Kate Bush 😉:
youtu.be/LswKizinfJY?...
Cool graph, particularly from the point of view of the physics of accelerating / regenerative braking.
One question though: what's the basis of the (regression) lines through the data points? Especially for ICE-petrol it looks really weird, with most of the data points below the line.
Fun fact: the first draft of this paper was written November 2019, but somehow, something came in between.
As part of the NeWIS project, we wrote a commentary in @cmijournal.bsky.social on the need for hospital network reconstruction for the control of antimicrobial resistance.
"Towards a Europe-wide reconstruction and analysis of hospital networks"
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mXF1,RGPg...
Nouvelle publication, avec la participation de Laura Temime, directrice du laboratoire MESuRS, sur les réseaux de soins et la prévention de la propagation des bactéries multirésistantes (RAM).
The Met Office seems to grasp the gravity of the situation.
Dave Grohl, throughout the years.
I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl.
Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.
Years ago, my mother had the chance to join one of his workshops. Together, we prepared by going through the available "scientific literature".
So, immediately she started asking the right questions...
After 10 minutes, she was kicked out because "this was clearly not for her"
So proud of her
This motherfracker wants us to prove a negative. In science, you can prove a negative about causation by showing the causal pathway does not exist.
“Vaccines do not cause autism” has been proven in every scientifically meaningful sense. Read on.
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CDC disinformation about the link between autism and vaccines
The CDC updated its vaccine page to claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is "not evidence-based" and studies were "ignored." This is an outrage. Decades of research have found no link. This isn't science, it's RFK Jr. using the CDC as propaganda. Children will die because of this.
figure showing estimated proportion of cases in clusters, for each site. range from 0.04 to 0.93, mean estimate in random effects model is 0.57 [0.46,0.68]
#AMR #Klebsiella cause >100,000 neonatal deaths globally each year.
Our new preprint shows more than half of #Klebsiella pneumoniae neonatal sepsis cases in African and South Asian are nosocomial, acquired through transmission in neonatal units. #WAAW
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
🌳💻 Scientific Programmer position (7 years, TVöD E13)
Play an important role in the Cluster by making a contribution to the integration of process models for all components of the forest system, and by helping to shape research in this area.
📅 Apply by 3 Dec 2025
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🌳📢 Modeling Coordinator position (7 years, TVöD E13)
Help coordinate modeling activities, develop synergies and collaborations, as well as contribute to socio-ecological modeling research, including your own studies.
📅 Apply by 3 Dec 2025
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Exciting news from the Future Forests Cluster of Excellence at the University of Freiburg (@uni-freiburg.de)! 🌲🌳
Applications are invited for two (7-year) positions in the Socio-Ecological Systems Modeling Lab of the Cluster:
1️⃣ Modeling Coordinator
2️⃣ Scientific Programmer
Find details below 👇
“Basically, no matter what anyone tells you, a plug in hybrid is just a more complex petrol car. You are always either hauling a useless engine around or hauling a useless battery around. It will require the same amount of servicing as any petrol or diesel vehicle, it has 1000s more components…
Sounds plausible.
And looks beautiful, btw.
Both my plantnet app and Google lens say it's a tobacco species... Weird. I'd love to hear from someone with proper botanical knowledge indeed.
Or see what this turns into.