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Grégoire Lurton

@grlurton.bsky.social
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Developing data systems for epidemic surveillance. Generally interested in Global Health, Data, African and Latino American affairs. Brussels based European. pp Alexis Dormal

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Luc-André Biarnais @labiarnais.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Où est Moussa Kaka ? "Sadibou Marong, [de] Reporters sans frontières (RSF), dénonce le silence des autorités, évoque désormais une « disparition forcée » et demande que tout soit mis en œuvre pour le retrouver." #Niger #journalisme www.africaradio.com/podcasts/pod...
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Niger. Le journaliste Moussa Kaka porté disparu : Sadibou Marong
Trois semaines après la disparition du journaliste nigérien Moussa Kaka, aucune information officielle ne permet à ce jour de connaître son sort. Sadibou Marong, directeur du bureau de l’Afrique subsa...
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Love this picture for a tirailleur with his children from 1921/22 in the oasis town of Iferouane in Niger. Part of the ANOM's online image collection.
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Gorik Ooms @gorikooms.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
1/4 Today, Ghent University suspended Nathan Cofnas. It was about time. There’s a fundamental difference between facts and opinions. Statements about facts are either true or false. Opinions are right or wrong, or somewhere in between. Opinions are always subjective, at least to some extent.
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Vivek Nityananda @viveknityananda.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Are you not entotained!
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Alan Burns @alanburns.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Happy note change day in 70 year long Part 1 of 639 year long John Cage organ piece to all who celebrate. The next change will be in October 2027
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As Slow as Possible - Wikipedia
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Michael J. Kane @michaeljkane.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Vocal harmonies are the best thing that human beings have ever done.
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 23/07/2026
Vote between different options for the new euro bank notes.
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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We must remember the Utøya massacre, and remember it for what it was: a far-right attack specifically targeted against democratic socialist activists. Today, the ideologies of its perpetrator are openly espoused by a global network of nationalist oligarchs as they wage war on democratic societies.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
My gosh. Yesterday, Egypt Coach Hossam Hassan asked FIFA to use its "soft power" to help Palestinians. Then today, just as the Egypt-Argentina match began, Israel killed Mohammed al-Wahidi of the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza — a group that also organized Gaza screenings of the FIFA matches.
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Eugène Boudin @eugeneboudin.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Brussels, the Louvain Canal www.wikiart.org/en/eugene-boudin/br…
Brussels, the Louvain Canal
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Bluesquare @bluesquarehub.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
4/4 Cette mobilisation s'appuie sur une infrastructure déjà active au sein de l'INSP : construite dès 2025 pour soutenir la riposte contre #Mpox, elle est aujourd'hui réutilisée pour #Ebola. Une même fondation, mobilisée d'une épidémie à l'autre, pour un renforcement durable du système de santé.
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Bluesquare @bluesquarehub.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
3/4 L'objectif : des données rapides et fiables, pour que chaque décision sur le terrain repose sur une image fidèle de l'épidémie et permette d'agir plus efficacement pour en contrôler la transmission.
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Bluesquare @bluesquarehub.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
2/4 En #RDC, Bluesquare s'est mobilisé en tant que partenaire technique, aux côtés de ses partenaires : INSP, INRB, l'OMS, HISP WCA, RTI International, pour appuyer le Ministère de la Santé avec une infrastructure de données, des capacités d'intégration et des outils analytiques nécessaires.
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Bluesquare @bluesquarehub.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
1/4 #RiposteEbola : une infrastructure de données pensée pour durer Ecoutez le Dr G. Ngonga, Country Lead Bluesquare en RDC, qui nous explique comment Bluesquare se mobilise aux côtés des équipes du Centre d'opérations d'urgence de santé publique. 🎥https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hj6dP1wGFg4&t=18s
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Richard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
'From a window at night.' (1896) Towards the end of her life, Maria Yakunchikova wrote that her work from the late 1890s attempted to convey the fleeting preoccupations of other lives - 'the flashes of another world, the perception of which is blended into the landscape.'
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Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
🧑‍💻🧑‍🏫 I'm recruiting a post-doc to work on Tabular Foundation Models, one of the hotest topics in AI, where we are at the leading edge team.inria.fr/soda/files/2... This is an opportunity to develop the next-level tabular AI, blending deep learning and tables.
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WorldPop Project @worldpop-uos.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
📍From maps to impact: at #DAC2026 WorldPop on how their population data in #DHIS2 is helping countries reach missed communities, improve vaccination planning, and make smarter health decisions. www.worldpop.org/blog/from-ma... #GlobalHealth #DigitalHealth #DataForGood
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From Maps to Impact at DAC2026: How WorldPop Population Data is Powering Smarter Health Decisions in DHIS2
Discover how WorldPop population data integrated with DHIS2 is helping countries improve vaccination planning, identify underserved communities, and make smarter public health decisions.
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
La page d’accueil de @lemonde.fr ce matin c’est la voix de Trump partout, du journalisme nulle part. - Trump et le MMA, une histoire d’amour et un grand spectacle pour son anniversaire - la communication de Trump sur l’arène à la Maison Blanche - la n-ieme annonce d’un accord par la voix de Trump
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Adam Isacson @adamisacson.com · 20/05/2026
A question for fellow Latin Americanists… - Pinochet kept something like $12 million in secret accounts at Riggs Bank. - Nicaragua's Arnoldo Aleman allegedly embezzled $100 million. What Latin American presidential self-dealing approaches $1.8 billion? Somoza? Duvalier?
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
WHO has declared the #Ebola outbreak in DRC and Uganda a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). First time this has been done without consulting an emergency committee. Extraordinary move that speaks to how concerning the facts on the ground look right now
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Joshua Cherniss @jcherniss.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Schubert's Hungarian Melody, played by Andras Schiff, who has been refusing to return to his native Hungary under Orban (out of principle, and also b/c pro-regime elements were threatening to break his hands if he returned). www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm39...
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András Schiff - Schubert - Hungarian Melody in B minor, D 817
YouTube video by Classical Vault 1
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas
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Lebanon: ICRC outraged by deadly strikes in densely populated areas
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is outraged by the devastating death and destruction in densely populated areas across Lebanon today following intensified military operations.
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Bita Moghaddam @bita137.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west
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Martin @joyouscoding.com · 30/03/2026
I was looking for something like that: sign the petition for no Palentir in EU: action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-03... Peter Thiel company has been used by govs all over the world to terrorize their own population and others - including in Gaza. No surveillance state in the EU
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Say No to Palantir in Europe
A powerful US spy-tech company run by billionaires is linked to genocide in Gaza, helps ICE separate families, and fuels Trump’s war with Iran. And now it’s quietly expanding across Europe gaining acc...
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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
In this short essay in BMJ Global Health, we draw attention to how standardised “global”measurement approaches obscure diversity, marginalise locally relevant insights needed for effective interventions, and create fragile measurement monocultures. gh.bmj.com/content/11/3...
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The richness of urban health realities lost in measurement monocultures
The question seems simple enough: how can a rapidly growing African city improve the health and care of its pregnant women and their babies? But ask this question while navigating the humid, traffic-c...
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Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This is an excellent read and what a dream team of authors! "It is important to distinguish between 'making global data'-collating sources from across the globe-and 'making data global'-computing global metrics through modelling[...] disproportionate focus on the latter marginalises alternatives"
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Pete Macharia, PhD @pete-m-m.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬? 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐥𝐞: gh.bmj.com/content/11/3... Co-authored with @jilmolenaar.bsky.social, @lenkabenova.bsky.social , @seyeabimbola.bsky.social , @onykepe.bsky.social & @grlurton.bsky.social illustration by Namrata Narendra.
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Paul Guinnessy @paulguinnessy.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Probably the most exciting news you'll read today. A single-dose oral treatment for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis (HAT)--also known as sleeping sickness--has been recommended for approval by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
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Single-dose treatment approved for sleeping sickness
Regulatory backing for acoziborole could simplify care in central and west Africa, where gambiense infections persist.
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Sarah Perez @sarahp.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores available in the EU and elsewhere
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Move over, Apple: Meet the alternative app stores available in the EU and elsewhere | TechCrunch
A list of some of the alternative app stores iPhone users in the EU can try today. 
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Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
France hands stolen colonial-era 'talking drum' back to Côte d'Ivoire. The Djidji Ayokwe was looted by colonial troops in 1916. Used by the Ebrie people to transmit messages, it’s among hundreds of objects France is to repatriate to Africa.
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France hands stolen colonial-era 'talking drum' back to Côte d'Ivoire
France has handed over the Djidji Ayokwe or "talking drum" back to Côte d'Ivoire after it was looted by colonial troops in 1916. Used by the Ebrie tribe to transmit messages, the drum is one of hundre...
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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The French translation of The Foreign Gaze is now out! It is titled “Le regard étranger: Réflexions sur la santé mondiale” You can download it for free or order a print copy here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/731/... Please spread the word to your French-speaking friends, colleagues, and partners.
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Le regard étranger - Réflexions sur la santé mondiale - Seye Abimbola (EAN13 : 9782709930567) | IRD Editions
Le regard étranger - Réflexions sur la santé mondiale - Seye Abimbola (EAN13 : 9782709930567)
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Saskia Popescu @saskiapopescu.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89 www.statnews.com/2026/01/25/w... via @statnews.com
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Public health giant William Foege, who helped eradicate smallpox, has died at 89
‘I wish we could have spared him from seeing that’: Friends of Bill Foege on his legacy, and his anger over anti-vaccination.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 20/01/2026
Paul's back and he nails it here
There was no particular reason why the United States might not have managed a gradual relative decline while still reaping the benefits of its privileged position over the course of the next decade. The great irony of “America First” is that the international order—every international institution—was designed to ensure that the United States would always be, if not first, at least never last, and almost always on the podium. It was a great gig, and the relic of a time when the United States was genuinely first—the aftermath of the Second World War, when the United States accounted for half of global output and was the last power standing with global reach. Any institutions that will be built from scratch today will either be less extensive in scope or less favorable to the United States, just as a function of global power realities.
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Michela Wrong @michelawrong.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The UN Group of Experts has published its latest report on eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which - as expected - makes Trump's entire peace process in that country look like a work of pure fantasy. documents.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GE...
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Grégoire Lurton @grlurton.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Happy Birthday Francis Poulenc. Snowy Music for a snowy day www.youtube.com/watch?v=25ks...
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Voktett Hannover: Un soir de neige (Francis Poulenc)
YouTube video by VOKTETT HANNOVER
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Simon Cauchemez @scauchemez.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Few years ago, an intern in the team explored historical archives and identified a fascinating report describing with great detail the large French cholera epidemic of 1892. The modelling analysis of these data has now been published in Epidemics. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪
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Modeling the spatio-temporal spread of cholera in France in 1892
From an historical perspective, it is important to understand how past epidemics spread; but such a task is complicated by limited data availability. …
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Yvan Guichaoua @yguichaoua.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
See, EU?
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Gerardo Fortuna @gerardofortuna.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
This may be the EU’s lowest foreign-policy point yet (and the bar was already low). After rumors of a joint statement (so EU governments speaking with one voice), the outcome is: -a statement by Kallas “supported” by 26 countries -not even all EU members, as Hungary opted out
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Gerardo Fortuna @gerardofortuna.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
It’s striking that Spain's government had to express what it really thinks about on the U.S. strikes via a joint declaration with Latin American countries, while members in the same political union called them 'legitimate' or said it’s 'too complex' to judge their legality
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Pierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
L'attaque du Venezuela est le terrible sequel de la guerre en Ukraine : les puissances fossiles en sont réduites à revenir au modèle impérial classique pour sécuriser leur modèle politique. La décarbonation comme garantie de sécurité reste en haut de l'agenda.
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Puño @puno.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Esto comenzó rebautizando el Golfo de México.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/01/2026
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Arnaud Orain @arnaudorain.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
When the rules of the « free market » and so-called « comparative advantages » no longer work as well for the hegemonic power (because a systemic rival is doing better), that power attempts to quickly rebuild or strengthen its imperial silo #finitudecapitalism www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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Live Updates: U.S. Captures Venezuelan Leader, Trump Says
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La CGT @cgt.fr · 03/01/2026
La France et la communauté internationale via l'ONU doivent réagir sans délai La CGT réaffirme son attachement à la démocratie, au droit des peuples à disposer d'eux-mêmes, à la paix et à la régulation internationale. Elle affirme sa solidarité avec le peuple vénézuélien. #Venezuela
https://www.cgt.fr/comm-de-presse/la-cgt-condamne-lagression-des-etats-unis-contre-le-venezuela
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Michaël Zemmour @michaelzemmour.cpesr.fr · 03/01/2026
C'est utile que les médias d'information nous tiennent au courant de la situation au Venezuela. Il serait aussi necessaire qu'ils caractérisent l'attaque US aux termes du droit international, en fonction des informations disponibles, indépendamment de ( l'absence de) qualifications officielle.
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Rob H&ynes @robonabike.eurosky.social · 03/01/2026
We're going to need a bigger Hague.
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Marc Morris @marcmorris.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Aujourd’hui sort mon nouveau livre «Les milliardaires ne paient pas d’impôt sur le revenu et nous allons y mettre fin.»🧵
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Bart Penders @penders.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Our data stewards have started recommending that we no longer use US-based infrastructure for #openscience practices, given the risk of (near-future) censorship, from pre-print and data hosting to preregistration and more. That includes OSF.
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