𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀? Applications are now open for the 2027 cohort of the #ECDC Fellowship Programme, offering two paths: 🔎 #EPIET – field epidemiology 🧫 #EUPHEM – public health microbiology. Check the criteria and apply before 𝟮𝟲 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗮𝘁 𝟮𝟰:𝟬𝟬 𝗖𝗘𝗧 ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Call for application for ECDC Fellowship Programme EPIET and EUPHEM paths, EU-track, Cohort 2027

The goal of the ECDC fellowship programme is to develop an European network of public health epidemiologists that share concepts and methods.

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If you have experience in public health, applied epidemiology or microbiology and want to take the next step towards becoming a disease detective, explore the EPIET and EUPHEM paths. 📅 Applications close: 𝟮𝟲 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗮𝘁 𝟮𝟰:𝟬𝟬 𝗖𝗘𝗧 🔗 Apply and check the full eligibility criteria: bit.ly/4xvvnVL

Call for application for ECDC Fellowship Programme EPIET and EUPHEM paths, EU-track, Cohort 2027

The goal of the ECDC fellowship programme is to develop an European network of public health epidemiologists that share concepts and methods.

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#IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #MicroSky 🛟🧪 Help us shape #Europe's #PublicHealth response & setting the #scientific direction of our publisher @ecdc.europa.eu as the new ECDC Chief Scientist In this role, you will also host the Eurosurveillance editorial office in your Unit Apply by 30 Sept 2026 ⤵️

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control@ecdc.europa.eu · 3w ago

We are looking for the person who will help set the scientific direction of #ECDC. Our next Chief Scientist will safeguard the quality and independence of our scientific work, and help turn evidence into public health action across Europe. 📅 Apply by 30.09 🔗 Criteria: bit.ly/4qPQSPw #IDsky #EpiSky

Our new issue features an outbreak report from #France on a nationwide #outbreak of #Salmonella Enteritidis linked to #pumpkin seeds So far, 81 patients have been notified & cases are still being identified. Traceback continues incl for export 🎃 bit.ly/EUS3138 #EpiSky #IDSky #FoodSafety #MedSky🧪

You could still get the chance to present your research at ESCAIDE 2026! The call for late breakers is now open, and the deadline for submissions is 23 September 2026. We welcome abstracts in all areas applied to infectious disease and public health. Learn more: www.escaide.eu/en/abstracts...

As @ecdc.europa.eu Chief Scientist, you will host the Eurosurveillance editorial office Help ensure the journal's editorial independence, serving #PublicHealth with high quality, #OpenAccess information & data relevant for timely action 🗓️ Application deadline: 30 Sept 26 #IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky 🧪🧫

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control@ecdc.europa.eu · last mo.

𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗽 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗖𝗗𝗖’𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗳 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁. The role will help set ECDC’s scientific direction & safeguard the quality, integrity & independence of scientific work. 📅 Apply by 30.09 🔗 bit.ly/4qPQSPw #EpiSky #IDsky #PublicHealth #Epidemiology

"Elon Musk is, like a lot of LLMs, frequently wrong and never in doubt." garymarcus.substack.com/p/elon-musks...

Elon Musk’s preposterous and possibly harmful claim about robotic surgery

Some predictions are off. This one is way off.

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1. A bit of evolutionary biology. I'm really intrigued by a new perspective piece from Steve Frank that explores connections between how natural selection creates systems that generalize and recent work in machine learning about the surprising capabilities of massively overparameterized systems.

Generalization as the great leap in evolvability: insights from machine learning

Abstract. Natural selection encodes learned information in the genome. Learned solutions may be tuned specifically to past challenges, failing in altered e

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❗ Un cas d'#Ebola a été recensé en France, un médecin humanitaire de retour de mission en République démocratique du Congo. Il est isolé et hospitalisé dans un état "stable", ses éventuels cas contact devront s'isoler à domicile pendant 3 semaines.

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

In the end, researchers were left with a list of 14 pathogens that they are sharing “to help state health departments say, ‘OK, what are the priority pathogens we should keep on our radar?’” @alexvespi.bsky.social says. My @science.org story on a preprint assessing outbreak risks at the World Cup.🧪

Will the World Cup kick off disease outbreaks?

Don’t expect pathogens to steal the show, says research group that studied the risk of visiting fans spreading infections

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“But while the need for better tests has been clear for years, there has been little investment to develop them because there is no high-income market, said Sonjelle Shilton, who works [] for the aid group Doctors Without Borders.” Great story on Ebola diagnostics in current outbreak 🧪 #giftlink

Only the Right Tests Can Stop This Ebola Outbreak. Congo Has Hardly Any.

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🎉 This year, we’re celebrating 125 years of Epidemiology & Infection! 🏛️🔬 Curious to know why the journal has endured for more than a century? 🎥 Watch our anniversary video to find out: 👉 https://cup.org/48DCdiD

On the year's hottest day, a thread on why this infographic misleads (1/n)

Goldstein (still not a pseudonym)@goldstein.latinsky.app · 5mo ago

The Proximal Origin of the MV Hondius Andes virus outbreak. virological.org/t/potential-...

Potential geographical and ecological origin of the MV Hondius Andes virus outbreak

The recent outbreak aboard the MV Hondius caused by Andes virus raises two key questions [1]: (i) where do the outbreak genomes cluster geographically, and (ii) how can the phylogenetic signal be reco...

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There's been some high profile criticism of test-negative method for vaccine effectiveness, as well as counter-criticism. Yet remarkably little in media saying what the method actually does, why it's useful, what the limitations are, and how we can improve it. Great that John Drake wrote this:

Jay Bhattacharya Called Test-Negative Study Design ‘Crap.’ Here’s How We Know Whether Vaccines Measured With It Are Effective

Jay Bhattacharya dismissed the test-negative design as 'crap.' The biostatistics literature tells a different story.

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Someone brought up variable naming and it reminded me of how much fun I had writing this blog post #rstats #databs benharrap.com/post/2025-03...

What makes a good variable naming convention – Ben Harrap

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We do not currently have a vaccine for Bundibugyo ebolavirus. BUT! There are vaccine candidates that have ben tested in animals and could go forward more quickly to human trials. Eg VesiculoVax doi.org/10.1093/infd... and another VSV-based vaccine journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...

A Highly Attenuated Panfilovirus VesiculoVax Vaccine Rapidly Protects Nonhuman Primates Against Marburg Virus and 3 Species of Ebola Virus

AbstractBackground. The family Filoviridae consists of several virus members known to cause significant mortality and disease in humans. Among these, Ebola

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A Canadian passenger from the cruise ship Hondius has likely tested positive for hantavirus, a health official told CBC. The patient, with mild symptoms, was hospitalized and is currently in stable condition. Again, this concerns a passenger.

Marc Veldhoen@marcveld.bsky.social · 5mo ago

WHO reports no new suspected cases on the ship heading to the Netherlands. They remain in regular contact with the captain, who says no one onboard currently shows symptoms.

How have UK social contact patterns changed post-pandemic? How assortative are they by age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status? Pleased to share our new @plosmedicine.org paper, jointly led by @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social and myself, with @kevinvzandvoort.bsky.social and John Edmunds. #IDSky

A great Perspective piece from @joelmossong.bsky.social on the evolution of social contact surveys, from the POLYMOD study he led in 2008 (which became the template for all others), to CoMix during the pandemic, and now on to Reconnect: journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Billy Quilty@bquilty.bsky.social · 5mo ago

How have UK social contact patterns changed post-pandemic? How assortative are they by age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status? Pleased to share our new @plosmedicine.org paper, jointly led by @lucygoodfellow.bsky.social and myself, with @kevinvzandvoort.bsky.social and John Edmunds. #IDSky

Bringing some of my thoughts together. And explaining why hantavirus is emphatically not COVID news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Hantavirus likely to be fully contained but may take time — Harvard Gazette

The disease is much deadlier than COVID, but much harder to spread.

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"WHO’s assessment continues to be that the risk to health globally is low. So far, 11 cases have been reported, including 3 deaths. All 11 cases are among passengers or crew on the ship. 9 of the 11 have been confirmed as Andes virus, and the other two are probable", says @drtedros.who.int.

Join our live update on #hantavirus with Olivier Le Polain, Unit Head, Epidemiology & Analytics for Response, TODAY at 17.00 CEST [GMT+2] It will be livestreamed on WHO's X, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube

🔴 La passagère française symptomatique et rapatriée hier est positive à l'#hantavirus, annonce Stéphanie Rist sur France Inter. Son état de santé "s'est dégradé" dans la nuit, elle est hospitalisée à Bichat.

After 15 years of reporting on infectious disease outbreaks, what continues to fascinate me about them is the challenge of making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius is a perfect example My story in @science.org is here (and a thread to come): 🧪 #IDsky

What to do with the passengers on the cruise ship hit by hantavirus?

Past studies of Andes virus offer scant evidence on transmission risks, and have sparked debate

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I am hosting a media briefing on #hantavirus today at 15:00h CEST. You can join and watch via @who.int and my social media channels across X, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

I've spent yesterday and today talking to researchers across the globe trying to understand the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. My story in @science.org is here (and some threaded thoughts coming): www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 #IDsky

Cruise ship’s hantavirus outbreak puts researchers in uncharted territory

Questions about the culprit virus and its route of spread remain as health officials make plans for stranded passengers

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Updates on the hantavirus situation from WHO (which we, beyond belief, are no longer part of). Seven suspected cases, three deaths. Case 1 boarded Apr 1, got sick Apr 6, died Apr 11. Likely Andes virus, given Argentina link. Consistent with infection before boarding. www.who.int/emergencies/...

The hantavirus outbreak is a stress test for WHO's IHR. Cape Verde should allow disembarkation if it has capacity The IHR requires a risk assessment, and there is no risk to the local pop. This happened during COVID & it's why the IHR were amended. We haven't learned our lesson