As one of the "we" very pleased to be part of this initiative. Thanks to @helcecilia.bsky.social @paulineezanno.bsky.social and @gaelbn.bsky.social for taking the lead on this one.

Hélène Cecilia, PhD@helcecilia.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I'm not very active here but I figured this would probably (hopefully?) interest some of you : We recently launched an international consortium of modelers in animal health, called ModAH Hub www.modah-hub.com 🦠💻🐄🐖🐓🦟

rdcu.be/euiRS. Spatial patterns of COVID-19 2nd booster uptake is well predicted from 1st booster patterns via deprivation, age & gender. Spatial patterns deviated w/ later boosters, w/ men under 60 showing markedly lower uptake than predicted. Kudos to Anthony Wood for his excellent analysis.

Long-term spatial patterns in COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake

Communications Medicine - Long-term spatial patterns in COVID-19 booster vaccine uptake

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Interested in applying data science to practical health problems? At Lancaster University learn a mix of programming, stats, and health economics. For an international flavour there is a summer school on Pemba just beside Zanzibar. www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Health Data Science MSc - Lancaster University

Find out more about studying Health Data Science MSc at Lancaster University

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Very proud of the links I have with scientists in BioSS - long may it continue

BioSS@bioss.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to BioSS associate @rowlandkao.bsky.social who was recently recognised with a CBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for his work in understanding infectious diseases! www.bioss.ac.uk/people/rkao

@ewancolman.bsky.social analysed the impact of individual person shedding variability on virus detection in #wastewater-based epidemiology and ability to identify rises and falls in COVID-19 trajectories in Scotland during the pandemic journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... Elegant analysis Ewan!

The impact of signal variability on COVID-19 epidemic growth rate estimation from wastewater surveillance data

Testing samples of wastewater for markers of infectious disease became a widespread method of surveillance during the COVID-19 pandemic. While these data generally correlate well with other indicators...

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Great PhD opportunity with @edmhill.bsky.social @profbuchan.bsky.social and others, please circulate to anyone interested! www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Optimising Vaccination Outreach Through Epidemiological-Behavioural Modelling and AI

Vaccine hesitancy is a complex, time-varying problem leading to suboptimal vaccination coverage for individuals, groups and populations. In turn, this has serious consequences for individuals and popu...

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📰 DEFRA avian influenza update: 28 Mar 2025 #IDSky #IDEpi #OneHealth 2️⃣ premises with HPAI H5N1 confirmed 🐔 Commercial poultry at premises near Wymondham, Norfolk 🐦 Poultry & captive birds at premises near Blaydon, Durham (previously suspected case) 🔗 Avian influenza: latest situation in England👇

Bird flu (avian influenza): latest situation in England

Find out about the latest bird flu situation in England and guidance for bird keepers and the public.

gov.uk

With proper development Wastewater surveillance could be used to track epidemics even when driven by asymptomatic infections www-cbc-ca.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.cbc....

H5N1 found in sheep for the first time - no obvious immediate risks but another indication of the potential for a well known virus to surprise. No indication yet of whether or not its an isolated case or evidence of onward transmission. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Influenza of avian origin confirmed in a sheep in Yorkshire

Influenza of avian origin (H5N1) has been confirmed in a single sheep in Yorkshire.

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Increasingly thinking about my research groups computing energy use. We are generating only a tiny fraction of the consumption of course but it’s just far too easy to let the computers do the work rather than thinking through what really needs to be done www.oneninenine.agency/articles/the....

The Cloud now has a greater carbon footprint than the airline industry

The internet is now responsible for up to 4% of all total carbon emissions. So how can we make The Cloud green with our growing dependence on technology and AI?

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It's been coming - but its still the end of an era: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Skype announces it will close in May

The internet chat and phone service, which is owned by Microsoft, made the announcement on X.

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if you have to bet on when a randomly occurring event will occur always bet on the 1st day; any other day is conditional on the event having not yet occurred and therefore has lower probability. I.e. the 1st allowable day is the mode of the distribution

📰 Recent highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 confirmations in other captive birds in England #IDSky #IDEpi 🐔 25 Feb 2025: Confirmed case at premises near Fownhope, Herefordshire 📊 22 cases of HPAI H5N1 in England in 2025 🔗 Avian influenza: latest situation👇 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Bird flu (avian influenza): latest situation in England

Find out about the latest bird flu situation in England and guidance for bird keepers and the public.

gov.uk

PhD position (Glasgow, UK) Quantifying the contribution of livestock movements to AMR in East Africa with @researcherJess at University of Glasgow More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2277

Some answers to my question about what would trigger use of #H5N1 vaccine being purchased by Canada. #NACI, the advisory group that recommends vaccine policy in Canada, has issued preliminary guidance on how/when to use H5 vaccine in a non-pandemic context. www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Interesting: Canada is buying 500,000 doses of #GSK 's #H5N1 vaccine "as part of ... contingency planning to protect people who may be at increased risk of being exposed to the virus through [infected] animals." Wonder what would trigger a decision to use it? www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Giving poultry workers bird flu vaccines protects them and reduced the chances for either recombination with seasonal flu or further strain adaptation in humans www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Ottawa purchases 500,000 doses of bird flu vaccine for people at higher risk of catching virus

The majority of the doses will be handed out to provinces and territories, which will decide when and where to deploy the shots

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New spillover of HPAI into cattle. A regular event now ... www.aphis.usda.gov/news/program... - hard to know how much is about looking for it harder, how much is because there is so much circulating HPAI in US birds, and how much is due to the strain of virus itself.

Given his approach to Gaza I’m sure we are in good hands www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump says he has spoken to Putin and agreed to negotiate Ukraine ceasefire

US secretary of defence Pete Hegseth says Ukraine would have to cede territory, alarming Kyiv and European allies

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Permanent PDRA position @pirbrightinst.bsky.social working in one of the most important disease systems/challenges we face lnkd.in/eR-27gNY

#USDA reported 5 new #H5N1 #birdflu infected herds today, 4 in ... wait for it ... Nevada! & 1 in California. The Nevada herds are the first there since early December. I hope the people who study sequences can find these & figure out if they are all part of the same outbreak or new introductions.

Workshop for younger researchers interested in complexity science. There is a nice list of projects here in #complexsystems

Complexity Next Gen@complexitynextgen.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌟 Applications are OPEN for Complexity72h 2025! 🌟 Ready to tackle cutting-edge problems in complex systems with researchers from around the world? Join us in Madrid for an unforgettable 72-hour workshop. 📍 Apply now: complexity72h.com Stay tuned for the full lineup of our tutors and projects!

Our study on pasteurising influenza viruses in milk is now out! It's a nice simple story: influenza viruses (including H5N1) are killed really effectively by pasteurisation, but in raw milk they stay infectious - obvious public health implications of both points... (1/2) rdcu.be/d73te

New EU dashboard for Wastewater surveillance for infectious diseases joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

Tracking diseases from the sewer

The EU Wastewater Surveillance Dashboard provides near real-time insights into the spread of pathogens.

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Further twists in the bird flu saga www.reuters.com/business/hea...

U.S. reported first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry, WOAH says

The United States reported a first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu on a poultry farm, the World Organisation for Animal Health said on Monday.

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1/ 📣 Two funded PhDs available as part of UKRI Research Hub in AI for Collective Intelligence (ai4ci.ac.uk) #PhDSky 🧪 Interdisciplinary work between infectious disease epidemiology & AI (Pandemic Resilience research theme) #IDSky #IDEpi 🏫 Based at University of Bristol & supervised by Leon Danon

Developing Artificial Intelligence methods for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics (AI for Collective Intelligence – Pandemic Resilience) at University of Bristol on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Developing Artificial Intelligence methods for infectious disease outbreaks and pandemics (AI for Collective Intelligence – Pandemic Resilience) at University of Bristol, listed on...

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I’m very pleased and honoured to continue my involvement with Defra’s Science Advisory Council - slightly daunted that it is now as Chair www.gov.uk/government/n...

Defra’s Science Advisory Council Chair appointed

Professor Rowland Kao has been appointed as the Chair of Defra’s Science Advisory Council

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It was an honor to write this contextualizing editorial with @drjeannem.bsky.social for the @nejm.bsky.social along with 2 important reports of recent human cases of influenza A(H5N1). #H5N1 #IDSky www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... 🧵1/3

The Emerging Threat of H5N1 to Human Health | NEJM

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A(H5N1) emerged in 1997.1 Since then, it has spread globally by migratory birds, resulting in infections in animals on every continent. HPAI A(H5N1) clade 2...

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Stunning!

Paul Eric@pauleric70.bsky.social · 2y ago

Meteor shower, Venus, Jupiter, Mars, Saturn and Milky Way ✨

Good to see Cal. taking this seriously. Shouldn't overestimate risk but need to acknowledge the high uncertainty that the combination of raw milk consumption, possibly short evolutionary pathways to human adaptation & interaction with seasonal flu really mean. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

Why California declared a state of emergency over bird flu

The virus has spread for years in wild birds and commercial poultry, and was detected for the first time in US dairy cattle in March

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#USDA reports 1 new #H5N1 #birdflu infected herd, in California. That brings CA's total to 650 herds, 56 of which have been released from quarantine, per CDFA. Cumulative national total: 866 herds in 16 states. Still no confirmations from the new national milk testing program.