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Pleuni Pennings @pleunipennings.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

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Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The world is literally burning. All because the oil industry got us all addicted to burning their product. In other news: Airbus and Qantas flex about how they are able to fit an additional 20.000 liter of fossil fuel into an airplane: www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Qantas plane flies for more than 24 hours in record-breaking flight

The A350 landed in Toulouse 24 hours and 24 minutes after leaving Melbourne as airline plans direct London service

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Marco Mancastroppa @marco-mancastroppa.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

🚨📣Call for abstracts now open! ARCANE Workshop on Adaptive Healthcare Networks & Antimicrobial Resistance 📍 Paris | 19–21 Oct 2026 arcane.sciencesconf.org?lang=en Scientific Committee: @pascalcrepey.bsky.social, @tjibbed.bsky.social, @andkarch.bsky.social, @vcolizza.bsky.social, Laura Temime

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CARB-X @carb-x.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

If you're in London, don't miss CARB-X Executive Director @koutterson.bsky.social’s Fleming Initiative guest lecture at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social this Thursday, May 21 at 5:30 PM BST. #IDSky 🧪 🔗 Register here: bit.ly/4cVSEt9

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Vittoria Colizza @vcolizza.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

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

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Proactive vs. reactive COVID-19 screening in schools: Lessons from experimental protocols in France during the Delta and Omicron waves

Abstract. The COVID-19 pandemic prompted diverse policies to manage safety in schools, balancing transmission control with educational continuity. We evalu

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Ursula Hofer @hoferu.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Robert Read from Journal of Infection describing AI in publishing as a tsunami of custard 😂 #ESCMIDGlobal2026

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

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.

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Vittoria Colizza @vcolizza.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

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

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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.

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Fun fact: the first draft of this paper was written November 2019, but somehow, something came in between.

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

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...

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MESuRS Lab @mesurs-cnam.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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).

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 16/09/2023

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.

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Raywat Deonandan 🍁🇨🇦 @deonandan.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

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. Thread [1/9]

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Shweta Bansal @bansallab.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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.

CDC disinformation about the link between autism and vaccines

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Kat Holt @katholt.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

#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...

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]

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HydrOrth Lab @hydrorth-lab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🌳💻 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 🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

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HydrOrth Lab @hydrorth-lab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

🌳📢 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 🔗 uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00004...

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HydrOrth Lab @hydrorth-lab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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 👇

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Jaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 27/10/2025

“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…

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Tanja Stadler @tanjastadler.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics: We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics apply.refline.ch/499599/0346/... I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and

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Director, Center for Pathogen Bioinformatics

The Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) is a unit of SIB which offers expertise and services in pathogen bioinformatics, computational molecular epidemiology and related multi-site project manage...

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

Herr Blume sorgt dafür, dass alle Porsche-Fahrer in 35 Jahre ein H-Kennzeichen führen können.

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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

"The possibility of prompt injection" was not on my list of the dangers of using LLMs for peer review" ( www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ). Then again, I didn't actually include a list, because I didn't use AI to write the bloody text.

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The dangers of using large language models for peer review

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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 04/07/2025

PhD position (Rennes, France) Model hospital preparedness for infectious disease crises (PReViX project) with @pascalcrepey.bsky.social @Nicolas @Sirven @mtsofonea.bsky.social at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP) More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2330

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Nothing could be more flattering, thank you so much @gmknght.bsky.social for highlighting our paper! We found that for some #bacteria 🧫 , connectivity between hospital wards is as / more important for explaining #AMR as antibiotic consumption, especially for highly resistant 🏥 endemics

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James Calbraith @jamescalbraith.co.uk · 01/07/2025

"it was the summer of 1918 and I was feeling a bit under the weather for no reason at all."

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Modernising Medical Microbiology @modmedmicro.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Just like buses, here is a third role we are advertising for! Come and help @philipwfowler.bsky.social use the large TB datasets we hold to help the OxCoD4TB consortium develop new therapeutics for tuberculosis. Grade 7, funding until 28 Feb 2028, deadline noon Fri 4 July bit.ly/4ndKOhF

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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 18/06/2025

Postdoc (Paris, France) Modelling the spread of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria over healthcare networks with Laura Temime at @mesurs-cnam More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2323

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 12/05/2025

You are a "citizen of nowhere", they said. A "queue-jumper", they said. Now I am a "squalid chapter", they say. A risk as I might make this an "island of strangers", they say. I am "pulling the country apart", they say.

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

We left the UK 6 years ago, because we could not see a long-term future there. It's a shame, because I loved it there, but as a young immigrant family, we needed to plan ahead and make some tough choices.

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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 09/04/2025

PhD position (Paris, France) Socioeconomic inequalities in the individual response to the 2014–2015 Ebola epidemic in Guinea: Insights from mobile phone data (SES-EBOLA) with Vittoria Colizza at INSERM Sorbonne Université More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2300

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Marion Koopmans @marionkoopmans.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Please share with people interested in arbovirology. We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague to strengthen our team please share if you know of scientists interested in arbovirology, ready to make a move to Rotterdam! www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3508...

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Assistant professor Arbovirology

We are looking for a passionate researcher interested in basic arbovirology to join our team!

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Dr Joel C Miller @joelcmiller.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Looking for potential PhD students - DEADLINE SOON: Mar 31 (Australia time - that's Mar 30 for US). Do you know a strong candidate who might like to spend 3-4 years outside the US on a PhD? Modeling epidemics &/or network dynamics? Let me know. www.latrobe.edu.au/research/gra...

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La Trobe graduate research scholarships

Browse our available research projects.

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Me: crafting a well-balanced review report, thinking twice about each of its 400 words, making sure that I understand the paper correctly to deliver constructive comments. Reviewer 2: "The paper is well organized and has potential to be considered for publication." Oh come on!

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MESuRS Lab @mesurs-cnam.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

😲 What if fighting climate change could save millions of lives? Our systematic review reveals additional benefits of #NetZero policies: ✅ Less air pollution 🏭➡️🌱 ✅ More years to live 🏥💚 ✅ Health benefits that outweigh costs 💰 Numbers don’t lie. Key findings below 👇 📖 Read: doi.org/10.1016/S254...

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

I treat flying like an addiction. I used to fly a lot, although I was fully aware of its detrimental effects. But I just loved it. And if you'd asked me, I'd make a strong case why my next flight was absolutely needed. Flying to London and back on the same day for a 5 hour meeting? Essential.

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Anne Cori @anne-cori.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Amazing opportunity: a few PhD positions in Health Analytics, Epidemic Modelling and Health Economics available with myself and colleagues from @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social, @ccmid.bsky.social and @ukhsa.bsky.social. Please apply/circulate widely!

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Pietro Coletti @pietro-coletti.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I’m looking for a PhD student to work at the intersection of modelling infectious diseases and climate change. Deadline of applications: 31st of May, but applications are evaluated on a rolling basis. Please repost and help me spread the words! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/311728

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PhD Position in mathematical modelling of infectious diseases and climate change

Climate change is reshaping our world, and its impact on the spread of infectious diseases is profound. Rising temperatures, shifting precipitation patterns, and increasingly frequent extreme weather ...

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Sandra Reuter @sandrareuter.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

📣Our latest paper is out now in mSystems: Not quite as it may seem - investigating #plasmid diversity and evolution in #Klebsiella pneumoniae at a single institution over time. A short thread 🧵 @zaminiqbal.bsky.social

Composite of the paper header showing all authors and an equation showing phylogenetic trees plus plasmids give a complex plasmid picture.

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Another day, another review written by chatGPT. This is very quickly undermining the complete scientific endeavour. As an aside: do LLMs generally produce positive reviews, even if presented with clear nonsense?

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Simon Cauchemez @scauchemez.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

If you’ve just arrived on BlueSky and are interested in infectious disease modelling, these starter packs are for you. 👇 I update them regularly, but I am sure I’ve missed many colleagues so don’t hesitate to send suggestions!

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Our wonderful ARCANE project coordinator Marie-Rachel Garal has put together an advent calendar of previous research papers on the project website, showcasing the consortium's expertise in (temporal / healthcare) network analysis: arcane-project.eu/2024/12/02/a... Some light reading until Christmas

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

A fox closely approaching a human... The only thing I can think of is the potential for rabies transmission here.

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

As I gained "a couple" of followers since posting this, maybe now is a good time to repost this short thread on our recent work on fitness changes in SARS-CoV-2.

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

On my way to the first ever SWIM meeting (South-West German Infectious Disease Modelling Workshop) to present our recent work on estimating SARS-CoV-2 fitness gains without the use of lineage classification. swim.codeberg.page

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SWIM 2024 -

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Tjibbe Donker @tjibbed.bsky.social · 21/10/2024

As our TGV creeps across the border towards Strasbourg, the sun rises. Should be another 2 hours to Paris.

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 16/10/2024

This is spot on. Scientists cant bemoan lack of climate action then take multiple flights per year for a meet up or a 30 minute talk. I made a call post Covid to take no more than 1 return flight for work per year. Its train or I dont go

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