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Chiara Poletto

@chpoletto.bsky.social
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Assoc Prof University of Padova - network epidemiology, network physics, disease ecology, outbreak analysis chiara-poletto.github.io

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Complexity Next Gen @complexitynextgen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚀 The Complexity72h Call for Projects is OPEN! ✨ Got a project you’d love to explore? Bring it to Complexity72h! Turn your idea into a real project in 72 hours of collaboration, creativity, and constructive chaos 💥 🌐 complexitynextgen.org/complexity72h/call-for-projects
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Call for Projects - complexitynextgen
Menu Call for Projects Ideas are at the core of Complexity72h, and it’s time to hear yours! The call for project proposals for the next edition of
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Andrea Baronchelli @baronca.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Twenty years ago we published “Sharp transition towards shared vocabularies in multi-agent systems.” It feels unexpectedly current. New post on AI agents, conventions and what they might enable: baronca.substack.com/p/sharp-tran...
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Complexity Next Gen @complexitynextgen.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🎉 We’re happy to announce that Complexity72h is coming back to Northeastern University London! After the wonderful experience of last year, we’re excited to return to this beautiful venue for another edition! Save the dates! 📅 21–25 June 2027 ... and stay tuned for the Call for Projects opening!
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Dr Edward Hill @edmhill.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
📹 Talk recordings available from the two workshops within our satellite programme on “Maths of human behaviour”! 🔗 ‘The mathematics of behaviour: an interdisciplinary school’: www.newton.ac.uk/event/mhbw01/ 👇 ‘Modelling behaviour for global challenges: epidemics and energy systems’ talk playlist.
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Modelling Behaviour for Global Challenges: Epidemics and Energy Systems [MHBW02] - YouTube
10 August 2026 to 14 August 2026 University of Nottingham https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/mhbw02/ https://www.newton.ac.uk/event/mhb/
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ARTIC network @artic.network · 09/07/2026
139 genomes now sequenced from the ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in DRC, spanning 16 Health Zones. Led by INRB with support from the ARTIC network (Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation). Full analysis: virological.org/t/genomic-ep...
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Genomic epidemiology of the ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Genomic epidemiology of the ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB), Kinshasa – DRC and partners Conte...
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Vittoria Colizza @vcolizza.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The first Ebola case has been reported today in France. Our rapid risk assessment last month showed that France consistently ranked among the European countries at highest risk of importation if an Ebola case were to arrive in Europe from the ongoing Bundibugyo outbreak.
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ShitMyReviewersSay @shitmyreviewerssay.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
"I am afraid this manuscript may contribute not so much towards the field's advancement as much as towards its eventual demise."
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Grim Reaper: Death's Solitude
ALT: Grim Reaper: Death's Solitude
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Chiara Poletto @chpoletto.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Looking forward to an exciting week in Paris!! 👇 🥐 🙃
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Lionel @spiindoctor.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Since we just came out of #netsci2026 it's a good opportunity to find about every network science starter packs out there. Thankfully starterpacks search engines are here to cut down that work. bsky.app/starter-pack... by @nwlandry.bsky.social
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
1. New #Ebola numbers from DRC's National Institute of Public Health: — 18 new confirmed cases on 6/3; that brings the confirmed case count to 381. Two more deaths puts the death toll among confirmed cases at 64. Seven people have been deemed cured (+1). — 55.5% of case contacts are being followed.
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Hiroki Sayama @hirokisayama.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
#NetSci2026 2nd keynote of the day Alessia Melegaro argues the importance of considering complex factors (demographics, social structure, and behaviors) for epidemics modeling @netscisociety.bsky.social @netsciconf.bsky.social
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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
New #SocioPatterns study in PNAS: we studied how social behavior and psychological well-being evolve at Concordia Station in Antarctica during the extreme isolation and confinement of a 10-month overwinter mission. Lessons for deep-space crews. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #NetSci #NetworkScience
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Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The amazing teams around Dav Ebengo & Placide Mbala-Kingebeni, alongside the Institut National de Santé Publique and AfricaCDC have led an effort to improve understanding of the current #Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak. Data: github.com/INRB-UMIE/Eb... Dashboard: inrb-umie.github.io/EBOV2026_Epi...
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Dr Joel C Miller @joelcmiller.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Going to #NetSci2026 (@netsciconf.bsky.social)? Attend our contagions in networks satellite! Talks from: @nwlandry.bsky.social @lhd.bsky.social @leahkeating.bsky.social @julianataube.bsky.social @colincarlson.bsky.social and Jacob Liam Curran-Sebastian joelmiller.github.io/ContagionOnN...
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Epidemics on Networks Workshop
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Vittoria Colizza @vcolizza.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
As discussions on Ebola and border controls intensify, it is important to go back to what available scientific evidence actually shows. In @lefigaro.fr, I discuss what we learned from past Ebola epidemics and travel restrictions. www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/pas...
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«Passoire», «bombe sanitaire»... Mayotte doit-elle verrouiller ses frontières face au risque d’épidémie d’Ebola ?
DÉCRYPTAGE - Estelle Youssouffa, députée de l’archipel, reproche à l’État son «impuissance» et sa «passivité» en matière de lutte contre l’immigration clandestine. Le Figaro fait le point sur le risqu...
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Vittoria Colizza @vcolizza.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
On May 22 WHO reported 1 more #hantavirus case linked to the MV Hondius, while some high-risk contacts are still being located. We estimated that heterogeneous isolation + uncertainty on pre-sympt transmission leave a non-negligible risk of secondary clusters. Work led by @eugeValdano.
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Vittoria Colizza @vcolizza.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Our recent analyses on the international dissemination risk associated with the current Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak in eastern DRC are discussed in @lemonde.fr today: www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti... #SUMOC @inserm.fr @fac-sante-sorbonne.bsky.social
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Ebola : quel est le risque de propagation du virus au-delà de la RDC ?
L’estimation de la taille réelle de l’étendue de l’épidémie, tout comme le risque de dispersion dans la région et au-delà, met les chercheurs au défi d’une flambée épidémique aux multiples inconnues.
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Global approaches to infectious disease surveillance and modeling idp.nature.com/authorize?re...
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Global approaches to infectious disease surveillance and modeling - Nature Medicine
This Review discusses global approaches to infectious disease analysis and modeling, focusing on federated methods and addressing long-standing challenges in data interoperability, equity and trust.
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Chiara Poletto @chpoletto.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Truly excited about this collaboration with ‪@praty1931.bsky.social and @joelcmiller.bsky.social: Network structure induced bias in estimates of intrinsic generation times journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Network structure induced bias in estimates of intrinsic generation times
Author summary When a new infectious disease outbreak starts, mathematical epidemiologists find themselves building or using mathematical models to understand its propagation, predict its future cours...
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Andrew Rambaut (🐏🎀) @arambaut.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Initial genomic characterization of the Bundibugyo virus outbreak in Eastern DRC with cases in Uganda. Join work between INRB in DRC and CPHL in Uganda plus many partners. virological.org/t/initial-ge...
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CS2Italy @cs2italy.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
🔈 CS2Italy has been officially opened by @ccattuto.bsky.social at OGR Torino 🔹 AI and human behavior 🔹 Social and information networks 🔹 Urban science and mobility 🔹 Misinformation and digital platforms 🔹 Inequality, cooperation, and collective behavior 🔹 Science and society in the age of AI
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
There’s a LOT going on as researchers and public health experts race to respond to the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC and Uganda before it grows bigger. Some really important questions still open, but also a few answers coming into view🧪 My overview in @science.org is here (and thread coming):
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Scientists play catch-up to startling Ebola outbreak
Testing, sequencing, and clinical trial efforts spring to life as Bundibugyo virus spreads
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
#Ebola scoop: The Trump administration has imposed a travel ban on people who've been in DRC, South Sudan or Uganda in the past 21 days. The order does not apply to Americans. www.statnews.com/2026/05/18/c...
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U.S. bans entry for travelers from Ebola-affected countries
In response to an Ebola outbreak, the U.S. has banned entry for foreign travelers who have been in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, or South Sudan in the past 21 days.
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Alain Barrat @alainbarrat.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
PhD offer " Dynamics of collective motions of self propelled particles" at the Center for Theoretical Physics in Marseilles app.doctorat.gouv.fr/proposition?...
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La plateforme nationale du doctorat
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Luís M. Rocha @lmrocha.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Hold dates for our ERA Chair Forum. It will include Reka Albert, @amarallab.bsky.social, @anaisabelbento.bsky.social, @clbockting.bsky.social, Luis Bettencourt, @ccattuto.bsky.social, Marta Gonzalez, Jörg Menche, Daniela Paolotti, @joanagsa.bsky.social, Marta Sales-Pardo, etc.Register below and pass
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David Chavalarias @chavalarias.org · 13/05/2026
📣 Vous avez soutenu votre thèse en 2025 dans une école doctorale française sur un sujet interdisciplinaire touchant aux #SystèmesComplexes ? Le prix de thèse de la Société Française des Systèmes Complexes est fait pour vous ! 🗓️ Soumission des dossiers de candidatures avant le 31 mai minuit
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Sam Scarpino @scarpino.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
1/ Yesterday I was more worried about #hantavirus than I am today. Why? Flight attendant who was exposed - Tested negative Viral genome - No concerning mutations Two Singaporean's exposed - Tested negative Data situation - We're tracking at Global.health (h/t @mugkraemer.bsky.social)
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
The #hantavirus outbreak onboard the MV Hondius is an rapidly evolving situation. Here are some takeaways from the #WHO press conference today. A key one for me: the US and Argentina, both recent WHO dropouts, are cooperating with the WHO-led efforts. www.statnews.com/2026/05/07/h...
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Key takeaways from WHO briefing on hantavirus cruise ship outbreak
Here are key takeaways from a WHO briefing on the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship.
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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
It is our great pleasure to announce this year's Erdős-Rényi Prize winner! Laurent Hébert-Dufresne @lhd.bsky.social
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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Big congratulations to the Euler Awardee of 2026: Albert-László Barabási @barabasi.bsky.social
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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
We are delighted to announce this year's Outstanding Service Award winner: Yamir Moreno @ymoreno.bsky.social
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Network Science Society @netscisociety.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A big round of applause for this year's Fellows: Filippo Radicchi, Tiziana Di Matteo, Stefano Boccaletti, Piet Van Mieghem, Dmitri Krioukov, Lise Getoor, and Danielle Bassett.
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Per-contact transmission risk was previously estimated as 3.4% in household (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17471425/), so below could imply [big assumption] a single case on average infects roughly 20x0.034 = 0.7 others per day infectious on cruise. Can see why cluster can occur.
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Since there's taboo around this, suggesting that cases of Andes virus may be caused by human-to-human transmission on a cruise ship is entirely uncontroversial: 1️⃣ We already know it's able to. 2️⃣ Conditions are "optimal". 3️⃣ This doesn't change the fact that a larger outbreak is extremely unlikely.
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Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Joseph Tsui, Ben Reddy and I are recruiting a postdoc @psioxford.bsky.social to work on AI methods for multi-pathogen and multi-country biosurveillance optimisation for epidemic and endemic pathogens. Closing date May 11th my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Toward optimal disease surveillance with graph-based active learning | PNAS
Tracking the spread of emerging pathogens is critical to the design of timely and effective public health responses. Policymakers face the challeng...
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Alain Barrat @alainbarrat.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Interdisciplinary PhD offer in Marseille, starting Oct. 2026, on "Collective Problem Solving in Guinea Baboons: From Dyadic Interactions to Group Dynamics" Project description and application website: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto... DM for more info on the position
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Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - Collective Problem Solving in Guinea Baboons: From Dyadic Interactions to Group Dynamics (M/F)
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Conference on Complex Systems @css-conference.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
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 🏭.
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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
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....
View over the canal in Nyhavn, Copenhagen
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 02/04/2026
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 🧪
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.
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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel. Great work by Silvia de Sojo, @sunelehmann.com and Laura Alessandretti. arxiv.org/abs/2604.00943
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Women's mobility networks enable more efficient travel
Our understanding of gender differences in mobility is marked by a clear tension: surveys portray women's movements as more complex than men's, while digital traces suggest less diverse travel. Here, ...
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Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
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...
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Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD) @gs-idd.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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 🧪
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GSIDD Transmission Digest: March 2026
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Moritz Kraemer @mugkraemer.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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...
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Cécile Tran Kiem @ceciletk.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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.
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Vittoria Colizza @vcolizza.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
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...
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Shweta Bansal @bansallab.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
We are very excited to have launched the establishment process for a global professional society for infectious disease dynamics. Join us!
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Chiara Poletto @chpoletto.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
💫 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.
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Characterization and forecast of global influenza subtype dynamics - Nature Health
A global analysis sheds light on the dynamics and features involved in influenza subtype composition in epidemic seasons between 2000 and 2023 and presents a series of tools to predict next year’s com...
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Spencer J Fox @foxandtheflu.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
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 🙏
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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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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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...
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Isaac Bogoch @isaacbogoch.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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.
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