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Adrian Arnaiz @adri-arnaiz.bsky.social · 1d

I've defended my PhD 🎓🙂

Huge thanks to @nuriaoliver.com for her guidance over these years and to the committee @ccattuto.bsky.social , Isabel Valera, and G. González Serrano for their time, insights, and an inspiring discussion 🙏

Excited for what's coming next!

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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations and best wishes for your future work!

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 5d

PubMed is in trouble

This is beyond bad for medical research

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 7d

“If the social platforms and language models that increasingly shape our understanding of the world are inscrutable black boxes, Wikipedia is the opposite, maybe the most legible, endlessly explainable information management system ever made." www.theverge.com/cs/features/...

Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive

The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

www.theverge.com

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𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝙽𝚎𝚝 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟼 @complenet.bsky.social · 9d

📢 Keynotes unlocked: 4/12. Thrilled to have Anna Levina as a keynote speaker in Complenet’26! Join us to learn more about #networks, #neurons and #criticality!

🌐 Info & registration: complenet.weeblysite.com
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 9d

Based on the body of evidence, what happens if pregnant women do not receive Covid booster vaccination?
Thousands of hospitalizations of infants and expectant mothers
@nathanlo.bsky.social @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.bsky.social · 9d

Read more ↘️
NASA scientists have spoken out about how cuts to NASA funding and staff costs irreplaceable personnel, and dismantles their vital research.

Read their Voyager Declaration here: www.standupforscience.net/nasa-voyager...

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Nino Cartabellotta @cartabellotta.bsky.social · 11d

Sino a quando i cittadini (incazzati) non scenderanno in piazza, la politica non rimetterà mai la #sanità pubblica tra le priorità del Paese
#SalviamoSSN

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 17d

WHAT IS MIGRATION? Joining a migrant family through the deadly Darién jungle connecting South and North America

vimeo.com/943626138

PROMO: WHAT IS MIGRATION? Joining a migrant family through the deadly Darién jungle connecting South and North America

vimeo.com

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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · 17d

Join us in Zaragoza!

𝙲𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚕𝚎𝙽𝚎𝚝 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟼 @complenet.bsky.social · 17d

📢 Keynotes unlocked: 2/12. Thrilled to have Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social as a keynote speaker in Complenet’26! Join us to learn more about empirical contact #networks and their dynamics!

🌐 Info & registration: www.complenet.org
🚨 Call for contributions open – submit by Nov 15, 2025!

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 22d

“Vaccines represent one of humanity’s greatest achievements”

@adamratnermd.bsky.social

www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

Public Health Success Is Fragile - The Return Of Measles Is Proof

Measles is surging and vaccine hesitancy is up. In his book "Booster Shots," Dr Adam Ratner explains why measles is back and how we can control this deadly infectious killer.

www.forbes.com

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 23d

Some findings of note: ChatGPT has a global and diverse user base, with usage growing faster in poorer countries than in wealthy ones. And people are increasingly using it in their personal lives rather than for help at work. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Here’s what the data says people ask ChatGPT

OpenAI released the first detailed public study on who uses its chatbot and what they most often ask it to do.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · 24d

Delighted to have contributed to this effort led by @gfalbery.bsky.social with our SocioPatterns data on animal social networks.

Greg Albery @gfalbery.bsky.social · Sep 8

Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)

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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · Aug 22

This was a great collaboration, combining high-resolution data from wearable proximity sensors, virological data, air quality data and more. Delighted to see it out there.

James Munday @jdmunday.bsky.social · Aug 22

New Preprint! Co-led with Nicolas Banholzer *The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools* on MedRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2025... (YET TO BE PEER REVIEWED)

The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools.

Close-proximity interactions are considered a key risk factor for respiratory virus transmission, but their importance relative to shared space and air quality remains unclear. We conducted a six-week...

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James Munday @jdmunday.bsky.social · Aug 22

New Preprint! Co-led with Nicolas Banholzer *The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools* on MedRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/2025... (YET TO BE PEER REVIEWED)

The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools.

Close-proximity interactions are considered a key risk factor for respiratory virus transmission, but their importance relative to shared space and air quality remains unclear. We conducted a six-week...

doi.org

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · Jul 14

The mechanisms by which ultra-processed foods (UPF) drive obesity, an outstanding review article
"the evidence is sufficiently strong to justify immediate public health efforts to reduce UPF consumption."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · Jun 26

Capturing the complexity of human strategic decision-making with machine learning www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Capturing the complexity of human strategic decision-making with machine learning - Nature Human Behaviour

Zhu et al. use machine learning to reveal complex insights into human strategic decision-making.

www.nature.com

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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · Jun 26

Optimal sampling frequency and site selection for wastewater and environmental surveillance of infectious pathogens: A value of information assessment journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Optimal sampling frequency and site selection for wastewater and environmental surveillance of infectious pathogens: A value of information assessment

Author summary For decades, wastewater and environmental surveillance (WES) has helped public health officials track and eradicate poliovirus and recently, WES has shown promise for other diseases. Im...

journals.plos.org

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · Jun 24

RFK Jr. essentially wants to force every person to enroll in the kind of programs run by insurers that tie your moral worth and market value to behavioral data from wearable trackers. They don’t work. I wrote about that corporate infrastructure and ideology here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · Jun 16

People not only form social networks, they construct mental maps of them. People think about the ties between other people, including ties among individuals to whom they are not themselves directly connected. These “cognitive social networks” have rarely been studied. 1/

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WIRED @wired.com · Jun 16

Today, people—from students to federal workers, from immigrants to the LGBTQ+ community—find themselves forced to fight deportations, surveillance, and the drastic erosion of fundamental human rights.

So, WIRED dedicated a whole issue on How To Win A Fight. Start ⬇️:
www.wired.com/story/editor...

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Valigia Blu @valigiablu.it · Jun 16

🧵 Aborto e diritti riproduttivi: la radicalizzazione dei movimenti anti-scelta | @alevescio.bsky.social
www.valigiablu.it/aborto-movim...

Aborto e diritti riproduttivi: la radicalizzazione dei movimenti anti-scelta - Valigia Blu

Dagli Stati Uniti all'Europa, i movimenti che si battono per limitare il diritto all'aborto e i diritti riproduttivi stanno adottando strategie sempre più repressive.

www.valigiablu.it

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Ciro Cattuto @ccattuto.bsky.social · Jun 8

Thanks! Re 1), as long as you install the elftools module you’re fine, venv or not - I’ll update the documentation: re 2) well spotted, will fix 🙏

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Valigia Blu @valigiablu.it · Jun 7

I referendum su cittadinanza e lavoro, il "decreto sicurezza" che avvicina l'Italia all'Ungheria di Orban, i palestinesi in coda per il cibo uccisi a Gaza, gli attacchi ucraini con i droni in Russia, il voto in Polonia e tanto altro nella newsletter di Valigia Blu di questa settimana 👇

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Jun 6

Very smart, high ROI initiative from the Spencer Foundation.

Providing bridge funding for canceled NSF grants:

1) directs funds to projects already screened by a top-noch review process.
2) avoids imposing proposal prep costs on researchers.
3) ameliorates the disruption from GOP sabotage.

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

www.spencer.org

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