This really is a beautiful piece of science! Congrats on unraveling the mystery! 👏 👏

We are very excited to have launched the establishment process for a global professional society for infectious disease dynamics. Join us!

We have launched! On February 26th, we officially launched the process to establish the Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD), and we could not be more energized by the response! We hosted two sessions...

1/ Update on the official launch process to establish the Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics

👥 Two online sessions on 26 Feb 2026 to officially launch the process had 230 attendees! #IDSky #EpiSky 🧪

🔗 'We have launched' post by @bansallab.bsky.social: www.gsidd.org/post/we-have...

Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD) | infectious disease dynamics GSIDD serves the global community of researchers, practitioners, and educators in infectious disease dynamics.

I'm excited to be co-hosting the launch with @bansallab.bsky.social!

And please note for some people around the world, one or both of these sessions will be on Friday 27th (your local time - so please check the website and use the calendar invites on that page).

Join us for the launch event! We are excited to invite you to the official launch of the Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD) on February 26th, 2026.This launch marks an important milestone for our global communi...

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...

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Today I presented our new work at #Epidemics10 on understanding the drivers of influenza seasonality, with a particular focus on the role of indoor crowding and the built environment. It was so exciting to discuss it with so many experts in human flu! 😷 @bansallab.bsky.social

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The field is only successful thanks to great work like yours!

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.

Thank you, @lizneeley.bsky.social! Very grateful for your work in these maddening times.

Lauer is super concerned about the demoralizing impact of low success rates…now that it is white folks being affected Mike Lauer, prior head of the Office of Extramural Research at the NIH, has been quoted in a recent Nature news bit by Max Kozlov on the Fiscal Year 2025 grant funding picture. Kozlov writes, in pa…

Lauer is super concerned about the demoralizing impact of low success rates...now that it is white folks being affected drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/09/30/l...

There is time to urge a change to the current #GRFP solicitation ( #NSF 25-547 ): reverse the eligibility restrictions and ensure applicants (including 2nd year PhD students) have a fair chance in the competition.

Feel free to sign and share this open petition:
laurenkuehne.github.io/grfpChanges/

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

NSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes

1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible.

2. "alignment with Administration priorities"

3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem.

a brief 🧵 w/receipts

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Tracy Beth Hoeg at FDA is highly likely to use the VAERS data to make spurious inferences on COVID vaccines. She comes with strong biases against childhood vaccination and no experience in infectious disease epidemiology. Beware what Hoeg, Makary and RFK are selling…

Yes! You made it happen!

Far too kind. ❤️ 🙏.

America Is Sliding Into the Abyss Our science and health infrastructure lies in tatters. Once-dead viruses are roaring back to life. Many people will die. In other words, we’ve reached the point of no return.

Dr. Gonsalves has written a piece that is equal parts brilliant and tragic. Read it and use it as motivation to keep fighting the destruction of US science infrastructure. @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

Private sector, philanthropy can’t replace Trump administration science cuts Weak plans that propose alternatives to NIH funding are giving false hope to researchers.

The great @jimalwine.bsky.social and I on the absolute necessity of restoring the NIH's funding. www.statnews.com/2025/06/26/n...

🙏🏽 Congrats, Giulia and the whole team!

Breathing synchrony shapes respiratory disease risk in bottlenose dolphins Communications Biology - Social network modeling of wild dolphins reveals how age- and sex-structured contact patterns shape infection risk, offering insight into disease vulnerability and...

New paper! Synchronized breathing data and network models show that age and sex shape infection risk in bottlenose dolphins—critical insight for protecting marine wildlife from future outbreaks. Collab w/ @bansallab.bsky.social
rdcu.be/epHE8

Disruption of outdoor activities caused by wildfire smoke shapes circulation of respiratory pathogens Author summary The effects of climate change on human health are becoming more evident, but we often overlook one crucial factor: how extreme weather events influence our behaviors and, in turn, the s...

🔥 When smoke from climate-linked wildfires drives people indoors, respiratory infections rise. But if 10% of people wear masks, this effect could be offset.

New research in PLOS Climate by Arregui-García and colleagues 👇

journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

Joining colleagues in backing NIH staff who wrote the Bethesda Declaration. Time to defend the research infrastructure that has made US biomedicine a global leader from harmful political interference.

Fareed’s Take: Trump is gutting what made American science great YouTube video by CNN

important historical perspective on the value of federal funding of basic research at universities: "These are the building blocks of America's extraordinary strength, created over the last 100 years, and they are now being dismantled in 100 days" 🧪

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Qk4...

Screenshot of NIMH BRAINS funding opportunity. The expiration date is now before the next application due date.

NIH moved up the expiration date for some funding opportunities, effectively *canceling* the next application date without removing it from the standard table. I can't even imagine how many people are still prepping these grants.

👀 List of impacted opportunities:
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

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Action Report #6 Understanding the Law and Policies for Grant Terminations for the National Science Foundation March 25, 2025 This informational guide is primarily intended for National Science Foundation (NSF)–funded principal investigators if NSF requests a change in your work. The level of detail assumes the reader has basic familiarity with the NSF’s two main review criteria (intellectual merit and broader impacts), in addition to the NSF’s Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG). However, this guide may also be relevant to research administrators, legal experts, or awards from other funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), given that the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) applies to all agencies, not just the NSF.

So what should NSF grantees, worried by terminated grants, do? That's something I've been thinking a lot about, given my own NSF grants.

First, I'd encourage to read this AAUP guide focused squarely on NSF grant termination policies: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

A Federal Lab That Tracked Rising S.T.I.s Has Been Shuttered (Gift Article) The United States can no longer keep tabs on drug-resistant gonorrhea, among other infections, scientists said.

Drug-resistant gonorrhea, a form of the widespread sexually transmitted infection, is considered an urgent health threat worldwide. The US has just lost its ability to detect it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

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UPDATE: Here's where we're at w/ NIH grant terminations:

❌ 429 NIH grants terminated*
❌ 137 related to HIV/AIDS prevention
❌ 27 on cancer
❌ 16 on Alzheimer's

The full Airtable, thanks to wizardry of @noamross.net👇

*This is just what we know. There are certainly more we don't know about yet.