Measles outbreaks not explained by scapegoating immigrants Careful @factcheck.org report by @kateyandell.bsky.social finds no evidence that unauthorized immigration is driving the U.S. resurgence. Falling vaccination coverage and concentrated pockets of susceptibility are the drivers surl.li/zldkws

Rising Measles Cases Driven by Falling Vaccination, Not Illegal Immigration - FactCheck.org

Rep. Byron Donalds, a Republican from Florida who is running for governor, has blamed “rampant illegal immigration” during the Biden administration for measles outbreaks. But we found no link to illeg...

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The Cornell Atkinson Postdoc Fellow program is an amazing opportunity to do an independent project. 3 year fellowships. Deadline Oct 20 www.atkinson.cornell.edu/cornell-atki... All nationalities. Reach out if you have ideas and want to discuss the possibility of being hosted in my lab.

Averages can make measles risk look safer than it is. In our new @NatureMedicine paper, we found that school-level transmission potential crossed the epidemic threshold in 2022 to 2023. A blog post about it communities.springernature.com/posts/the-hi... #Measles #PublicHealth #Epidemiology #Vaccines

Ana Bento@anaisabelbento.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The committee reviewing US measles elimination status met this month. PAHO decides in November. Our new paper in @NatureMedicine shows this wasn’t sudden. It was visible years ago, in data nobody was looking at. 🧵

The committee reviewing US measles elimination status met this month. PAHO decides in November. Our new paper in @NatureMedicine shows this wasn’t sudden. It was visible years ago, in data nobody was looking at. 🧵

🚨 New preprint: we solved the “Darién paradox.” Oropouche virus stayed quiet in Panama’s Darién corridor nearly a YEAR after Brazil’s peak. Cryptic spread, or a fresh arrival? We integrated clinical + genomic + climate surveillance to find out 🧵👇

New preprint from our group on flu forecasting, led by my postdoc Tijs Alleman. historical learning & ED visit data outperform strain structure & cross-season immunity for 4-week-ahead hospital admission forecasts. doi.org/10.64898/202... #Influenza #Forecasting #Epidemiology #Bayesian

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

CBeRa - Strategic Integration of Complex Networks and Systems fo@cberaproject.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Save the Date | CBeRa Forum 2026 Join us in Lisbon from June 19–24! More information and registration details coming soon on the CBeRa website: www.cberaproject.eu/cbera-forum/ #CBeRa #ComplexSystems #NetworkScience

Our study made the cover 🤓

Ana Bento@anaisabelbento.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our new study bit.ly/4srWRKd looks beyond “where could the virus survive?” and asks a more practical question: if Oropouche is introduced into a community, where is it most likely to ignite an outbreak. #orov #arbovirus #brazil

Our new study bit.ly/4srWRKd looks beyond “where could the virus survive?” and asks a more practical question: if Oropouche is introduced into a community, where is it most likely to ignite an outbreak. #orov #arbovirus #brazil

Ecological and demographic drivers of Oropouche virus transmission - Nature Health

Nationwide analysis of 30,086 confirmed Oropouche virus cases in Brazil between 2014 and 2025 shows that rural municipalities had over 11-fold-higher incidence than urban areas and identifies demograp...

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Happy International Women’s Day! Grateful for the incredible women in my life and special shout out to the women in my lab whose ideas, creativity, and perseverance make our science and our community stronger every day. It’s a joy to learn from and work alongside you.

Our new study shows that it is not just county‑level MMR coverage but the spatial clustering of unvaccinated kids that separates a contained outbreak in TX (414 cases) from sustained transmission in SC (>900 cases, with ~5.7x higher local susceptible density) www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... #measles

Spatial Clustering of School Susceptibles Drives Divergent US Measles Outbreaks

Spatial Clustering of School Susceptibles Drives Divergent US Measles Outbreaks ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. ### Funding Statement Atkinson See...

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New study from my group on measles in the US helps explain why South Carolina’s 789‑case outbreak is exactly what you’d expect when under‑vaccinated schools and cross‑county school‑district corridors are invisible to county‑level surveillance Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202... #measles #surveillance

Multiscale Modelling Reveals Accelerating Community Outbreak Risks of Measles in the United States

Measles resurgence in high-income countries that previously achieved elimination reveals a critical surveillance failure: current systems rely on county-level aggregates that obscure fine-scale cluste...

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The U.S. will very likely lose its measles-elimination status next month, and Americans will have to confront how difficult this virus can be to control, @katherinejwu.com reports:

Measles’ Most Deceptive Trait

Most cases are mild, obscuring the disease’s worst outcomes.

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So happy to have this out! #bordetella #adaptation

sylvain Brisse@sylvainbrisse.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It’s out ! Evolution of Bordetella parapertussis, the second agent of whooping cough: many parallelisms with Bordetella pertussis, including rapid adaptation by loss of the pertactin vaccine antigen. Just published in @microbiosoc MGen journal www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

📌 Save the Date! The flagship conference of the Network Science Society - 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝗦𝗰𝗶 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - is coming to Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute, 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝟭-𝟱, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲. Prepare to share ideas, discoveries & challenges in network science. Registration opens soon! 🔗 www.netsci2026.com

Visited @lmrocha.bsky.social today at #gimm #universidadecatolica in Oeiras. We are cooking exciting ideas 💡

Want to make your research presentations more compelling and accessible? Join @midas-network.bsky.social trainees for a workshop on how to give an effective research talk! We'll hear from @anaisabelbento.bsky.social on how to tailor talks for different audiences & then apply what we've learned.

Beyond excited to attend the British netsci symposium. Can’t wait to meet the next generation of scientists!

NetScience@netscience.bsky.social · last yr.

Amazing list of invited speakers at the 2nd British NetSci Symposium. If you are a PhD student or a Post-doc, please consider sending an abstract! The morning will be entirely dedicated to contributed talks from young researchers. Info and submission link: www.netsci.uk/events.html

Although there is no photo evidence Carla Mavian (@cmavian.bsky.social) was visiting me this week, it was amazing to have her 😊 shame it was so short but we got lots done stay tuned!

Carla Mavian@cmavian.bsky.social · last yr.

Had a blast visiting @anaisabelbento.bsky.social at Cornell! Had a good time meeting her colleagues, had nice chats about modeling and new exciting frontiers in science, and of course the famous gelato from cow Cornelia! Thanks Ana 😊

The vaccine against Shingles helps protect against dementia, results of a natural experiment, adding to prior evidence "implications are profound" New @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41... nature.com/articles/s41...

A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia - Nature

Using a natural experiment that avoids common bias concerns, this study finds that the live-attenuated shingles vaccine reduced the probability of a new dementia diagnosis within a follow-up period of...

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Emerging infectious diseases conference 60th anniversary of the US - Japan cooperative sciences program so excited to be here in Tokyo as guest speaker thanks to the NIH

Contracting measles isn't great at any time of life, but it can be a pretty nasty infection for adults. And increasing numbers of adults are susceptible to this vaccine-preventable illness. https://www.statnews.com/2023/08/02/adult-measles-infection/

For the roughly 60% of US adults who haven’t gotten their flu shot yet this year, and the 80% who haven’t gotten an up to date COVID booster: now would be an excellent time before the holidays. www.cdc.gov/respvaxview/...

RespVaxView

Get access to the weekly COVID-19, flu, and RSV vaccination data.

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🦟" #Chikungunya prompts travel notice for Telangana, #India🇮🇳" via @outbreaknewstoday.substack.com.web.brid.gy outbreaknewstoday.substack.com/p/chikunguny...

Chikungunya prompts travel notice for Telangana, India

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a travel notice recently (Level 2 - Practice Enhanced Precautions) for Telangana state, in south-central India due to a higher-than-expected...

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Good day to remind everyone Around the globe the measles vaccine has saved nearly 94 million lives over the past 50 years www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

For my first post 🤓 a quick note on the final days to apply for postdoc positions in my lab Cornell University details here: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/Cornell/...