#epidemiology — Public Fediverse posts

What is the future of nutritional epidemiology?

Open Access
doi.org/10.59717/j.x...

#Nutrition #Diet #Epidemiology #health #aging #food

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:uqeu4u5bjwieganft5z42pkk/post/3muuetkyaas2m

Challenges, advances and futur...

Comparison of the gut microbiota of people in France and Saudi Arabia https://www.diningandcooking.com/2799185/comparison-of-the-gut-microbiota-of-people-in-france-and-saudi-arabia/ #bacteria #ClinicalNutrition #Diabetes #Epidemiology #francais #france #French #FrenchDiet #general #InternalMedicine #Medicine/PublicHealth #MetabolicDiseases #PolicyAndPublicHealthInMicrobiology

Idyllic rural NSW is a hotspot for motor neurone disease

"Our recent mortality paper shows that if you live in rural and regional Australia, you are 40 per cent more likely to die from motor neurone disease. This cannot be genetic."
"Much attention will be focused on MND hotspots which include regional centres such as Griffith, Leeton, Wagga Wagga and Narrandera in the Riverina where rates of the degenerative illness are estimated to be five to seven times the national average. Other areas of concern include Tamworth, Coffs Harbour and Port Macquarie." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-01/mnd-notifiable-disease-starts/107097432
#environment #diseases #MDN #NSW #CoffsHarbour #PortMacquarie #RuralNSW #MidNorthCoast #water #pollution #ExtremeHeat #runoff #HABs #pesticides #epidemiology

Dietary intake of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and the risk of obesity in the French E3N cohort

Study popul…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchdiet #Epidemiology #francais #france #French #frenchdiet #general #HealthPromotionandDiseasePrevention #InternalMedicine #Medicine/PublicHealth #MetabolicDiseases #obesity #publichealth #Riskfactors
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2783207/dietary-intake-of-polybrominated-diphenyl-ethers-pbdes-and-the-risk-of-obesity-in-the-french-e3n-cohort/

Dietary intake of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and the risk of obesity in the French E3N cohort https://www.diningandcooking.com/2783207/dietary-intake-of-polybrominated-diphenyl-ethers-pbdes-and-the-risk-of-obesity-in-the-french-e3n-cohort/ #Epidemiology #francais #france #French #FrenchDiet #general #HealthPromotionAndDiseasePrevention #InternalMedicine #Medicine/PublicHealth #MetabolicDiseases #obesity #PublicHealth #RiskFactors

What’s the risk of humans getting sick from bird flu?
#BirdFlu #H5N1 #Health #AvianFlu #Virus #Influenza #Pandemic #Australia #Biosecurity #Poultry #Wildlife #FoodSafety #Virology #Epidemiology #DiseasePrevention #GlobalHealth #FlueVaccines #Research
https://the-14.com/whats-the-risk-of-humans-getting-sick-from-bird-flu/

Toxoplasmosis is a widespread parasitic infection caused by Toxoplasma gondii, which affects approximately one-third of the global population and can cause severe ocular and neurological damage.
#Parasitology #Ophthalmology #Epidemiology #PublicHealth #Cats #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/06/epi06252601.html

Bir üniversite mülkünde menenjit çıkması, 1 can kaybına ve 2 akut hastalığa yol açtı. Sağlık ekipleri hızlı bir şekilde tanı koydu, tedavi devam ediyor. Risk düşüyor, güvenlik önlemleri devam ediyor. Resmi kanallar en yeni bilgiler için takip edilmeli. #Meningitis #HealthNews

🚩 #Meningitis #PublicHealth #DiseaseOutbreak #HealthNews #SchoolSafety #Epidemiology

We Now Know How Many People the CDC Is Monitoring for Hantavirus

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/how-many-people-cdc-is-monitoring-for-hantavirus/

Hantavirus, COVID, norovirus, legionnaires’: why are cruise ships so prone to disease outbreaks?
#CruiseShips #PublicHealth #Health #Norovirus #COVID19 #Hantavirus #LegionnairesDisease #TravelHealth #HealthAwareness #Epidemiology #DiseasePrevention
https://the-14.com/hantavirus-covid-norovirus-legionnaires-why-are-cruise-ships-so-prone-to-disease-outbreaks/

Respiratory #infections due to #human common cold #coronaviruses, #SARS-CoV, #MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV-2: #epidemiology, #pathogenesis, clinical features, diagnostics, therapeutics, and vaccine landscapes, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/05/respiratory-infections-due-to-human.html

OMS monitora caso de hantavírus em navio de cruzeiro após mortes serem confirmadas

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2026/05/04/oms-monitora-caso-de-hantavirus-em-navio-de-cruzeiro-apos-mortes-serem-confirmadas/

We’re excited to announce our upcoming #Opioid #Archive National Symposium, Tues, May 12 – Thurs, May 14. Check out the lineup of speakers on topics including #HealthJournalism #HealthPolicy #Epidemiology #DataScience #Archives #ArtificialIntelligence #HistMed #ScienceHistory #HarmReduction #LivedExperience https://oida-resources.jhu.edu/oida-national-symposium-2026/

Astroturfing Is Pretty Pointless When Social Subgraphs Are Fragmented (e.g., the Fediverse)

I am seeing astroturfing in the fediverse again, by AT Protocol developers implicitly trying to shill their products. I think it is stochastic behavior by developers with too much time on their hands. Honestly, I do not care. I like the people on ActivityPub more, but I like the AT Protocol better, and I have developed for both. Astroturfing on ActivityPub networks is fascinating to me because it is so pointless.

I am actually a Computational Biologist and Computer Scientist whose specialty is combinatorics, social graphs, graph theory, etc. Specifically, I use this to create epidemiological models for the memetic layer of human behaviors that act as vectors for diseases, using the SIRS model. I do not just study germs; I study human behaviors.

The models I construct extend into a “memetic layer,” in which beliefs, norms, and behaviors (such as risk-taking, compliance with public health measures, or susceptibility to misinformation) spread contagiously through social networks. These behaviors function as vectors that modulate biological transmission rates. As a result, the spread of ideas can accelerate, dampen, or reshape the spread of disease. By running computational simulations and agent-based models on these graphs, I study how network structure, influential nodes, clustering, and platform-specific dynamics affect behavioral contagion. I also examine how these factors influence epidemiological outcomes.

To say it very concisely, I study how the spread of bat-shit insane beliefs, shit posts, and memes influences whether or not there is a measles outbreak in Texas. Ironically, this is an evolution of my studying semiotics, memetics, and chaos magick in high school. I got a job where I can use occult, anarchist techniques professionally.

I think a large reason why I do not care about astroturfing in the fediverse is that it’s so pointless, lol. Astroturfing to manipulate the narrative would actually work better on Bluesky to keep people there than trying to recruit from the fediverse. Furthermore, big instances are relatively small. Some people on Bluesky have follower lists larger than an entire large instance in the fediverse.

Within ActivityPub networks, astroturfing rarely propagates far, because whether information spreads depends on properties of the social graph itself. Dense connectivity, short paths between communities, and a sufficient number of cross-cutting ties support diffusion. ActivityPub’s architecture tends to produce graphs that are fragmented and highly modular. This limits the reach of coordinated activity.

ActivityPub is a system where each instance maintains its own local user graph and exchanges activities through inboxes and outboxes. This makes it autonomous and decentralized. The network consists of loosely connected subgraphs. Cross-instance edges appear only through explicit follow relationships. The ActivityPub protocol does not provide a shared or complete view of the network. Measurements of the fediverse consistently show uneven connectivity between instances, clustering at the instance level, and relatively long effective path lengths across the network. Under these conditions, large cascades are uncommon.

Instance-level clustering means that in ActivityPub networks, users interact much more with others on the same server than with users on different servers. Because each instance has its own local timeline, culture, and moderation, connections form densely within instances and only sparsely across them through explicit follow relationships. This creates a network made up of tightly connected local communities linked by relatively few cross-instance ties, which slows the spread of information beyond its point of origin.

However, with the AT Protocol, global indexing and aggregation are explicitly supported. Relays and indexers can assemble near-complete views of the social graph. Applications built on top of this infrastructure operate over a graph that is denser and easier to traverse. There are fewer structural barriers between communities. The diffusion dynamics change substantially when content can move across the graph without relying on narrow federated paths.

Astroturfing depends on coordinated amplification, typically through tightly synchronized clusters of accounts intended to manufacture visibility. Work on coordinated inauthentic behavior shows that these tactics gain traction when they intersect highly connected regions of the graph or bridge otherwise separate communities. In networks with strong modularity, coordination remains local. ActivityPub’s federation model produces this kind of modularity by default. Coordinated clusters stand out clearly within instances. Their effects remain confined to those local neighborhoods.

Astroturfing on ActivityPub therefore tends to stall on its own because of the underlying graph topology. Without dense inter-instance connectivity or any form of global indexing, coordinated campaigns have a hard time moving beyond the immediate regions where they originate. Systems built on globally indexable social graphs, including those enabled by the AT Protocol, expose a much larger surface for viral spread. Network structure and connectivity account for the divergence where that is independent of moderation, cultural norms, ideology, or intent.

It’s just really funny to me how these stochastic techbro groups waste so many resources. I personally don’t want to go viral, which is why I avoid platforms where I can. The fact that it’s harder to achieve high virality on ActivityPub is exactly why I prefer the fediverse over the Atmosphere. One way to think about it is that you can change the ‘genetics’ of a system with a retrovirus, where memetic entities act as cultural retroviruses to reprogram the cultural loci of a space. That is their end goal. They are trying to hijack cultures memetically. You see this a lot with culture jamming.

Basically, the astroturfing on ActivityPub networks is designed to jam and subvert the culture. But, as I have already said, the topological structure makes memetic virality stall. They cannot achieve that kind of viral spread in the fediverse, which is why I cannot understand why they do this every year.

Mediterranean diet linked to dramatically lower odds of endometriosis

#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood ##inflammation #alcohol #backpain #chronic #Dysmenorrhea #endometriosis #Epidemiology #estrogen #fattyacids #Fish #Genetic #Infertility #Meat #Mediterranean #nutrition #Pain #PelvicPain #ReproductiveHealth #smoking #uterus #Vegetables
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2345369/mediterranean-diet-linked-to-dramatically-lower-odds-of-endometriosis/

A workshop of the MLTC Cross- #NIHR Collaboration programme suggests three challenge themes in #multimorbidity research #methodology:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/26335565251372222

Wired:
Transparency, standardisation, reproducibility of multimorbidity research made the list!

Tired:
Bullet points in figure 1 have more detail on building methodological capacity than the text. Investing in methodologists (of any kind) is not part mentioned as far as I can see.

#Training #ECRs #Epidemiology #Statistics

Ancient #DNA solves #Plague of #Justinian mystery to rewrite #pandemic history. https://phys.org/news/2025-08-ancient-dna-plague-justinian-mystery.html #science #biology #epidemiology #history

Judith Rosen is opening The First International Conferencia on Anticipatory Systems #bio #biology #philsci #complexity #Rosen #comp #phy #sci #science #theory #TheoryOfMind #theory #mind #psy #psychology #epidemiology #medicine #ecology #evo #evolution #evolutionarybiology #evo

Preparing for the Next Pandemic https://hackaday.com/2025/05/02/preparing-for-the-next-pandemic/ #infectiousdiseases #contacttracing #MedicalHacks #epidemiology #medicine #pandemic #birdflu #Disease #flu

Preparing for the Next Pandemic - While the COVID-19 pandemic wasn’t an experience anyone wants to repeat, infection... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/02/preparing-for-the-next-pandemic/ #infectiousdiseases #contacttracing #medicalhacks #epidemiology #medicine #pandemic #birdflu #disease #flu

All #active #tick #stages (including #Larvae !) feed on #deer , thus enabling #cofeeding #transmission of tick-borne #Diseases

#FREE #Full #text #PDF available at https://goo.gl/gEAbfN

#Ixodes #ricinus #Capreolus #capreolus

#EU #FP6 #EDEN #Project #Emerging #Diseases in a changing #European #eNvironment #Epidemiology #Ticks #Parasites #Pathogens #Science #Scientific #Research #Data #OpenAccess #DOI #Germany #Deutschland #Europe #Europa #TBD #Zoonoses #ZoonoticDiseases #TickBorneDiseases

My opening credits for #ISOQOL

#1/
Greeted on the Hohenzollernbrücke with a statement from the results of the #SoliMed #Gesundheitsatlas #Köln 👇
https://solimed-koeln.de/gesundheitsatlas-koeln/
#SDoH #SocialDeterminants #Epidemiology

#2/
Then my final meeting as Editor in Chief of Quality Of Life Research. Counting down the issues, with the October one just out (two more to go):
https://link.springer.com/journal/11136/volumes-and-issues/33-10

#ISOQOL2024 #HRQL #HealthEconomics

#GabbyThomas can claim to be the #FastestWomanInTheWorld after her Gold Medal in the 200 meter race at the #ParisOlympics. She can also claim to the smartest athlete on #TeamUSA with a #Neurobiology degree from #Harvard and being on the way to a Master's degree in #Epidemiology from the University of #Texas at Austin. https://time.com/6086644/gabby-thomas-olympics-tokyo/

It was a really excellent first day at #MWMsymposium, thank you to all presenters!

I have posted some reflections and resources from the presenters in my🟦feed:
https://bsky.app/profile/jrboehnke.bsky.social

Tomorrow you will find me posting here about the talks.

#SDoH #HRQL #Epidemiology #ISOQOL

#Zoonotic #infections by avian #influenza virus: changing global #epidemiology, #investigation, and #control, Lancet Infect Dis.: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00234-2/abstract

Avian influenza virus continues to pose zoonotic, #epizootic, and #pandemic #threats worldwide, as exemplified by the 2020–23 epizootics of re-emerging #H5 #genotype avian influenza viruses among #birds and #mammals and the fatal jump to humans of emerging A(#H3N8) in early 2023.

Senior Postdoctoral Researcher

Tuebingen University

Postdoctoral Researcher in Population-Based Medicine in Tuebingen, Germany

See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/tuebingen-university-27778-senior-postdoctoral-researcher/?feed_id=72218

#biostatistics #epidemiology #population_health #public_health #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/tuebingen-university-27778-senior-postdoctoral-researcher/?feed_id=72218

Climate Change, Society, And Pandemic Disease In Roman Italy Between 200 BCE And 600 CE
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1033 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #romanempire #ancientrome #climatechange #spatialanalysis #rome #society #pandemic #diseases #plagues #socialstability #sampling #socialresponse #publichealth #publicsecurity #environment #spread #epidemiology #epidemic #paleoclimate #model #reconstruction #climate #temperature #precipipation #marine #sedment #sampling #climaterecord #RomanClimateOptimum #LateAntique #LittleIceAge #coldweather #coldtemperatures #extremeweather #climatextremes #coldphases #climatestress #social #biology #riskassessment #risk #hazard #Italy #spatiotemporal

@RikerGoogling

As a #Pulmonary #Epidemiologist I agree that this is a reasonable question to ask!

#NIH #NHLBI #CDC #Epidemiology

Research finds strong support for cell phone app-based contract tracing for COVID-19 in both the US and Europe across all population subgroups, irrespective of regional COVID-19 mortality rates.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32759102

#NICHDImpact #COVID19 #App #ContactTracing #Epidemiology #PublicHealth

In acknowledgement of #WorldTBDay, I wanted to share this article I enjoyed:

https://harvardpublichealth.org/disease/tb-not-covid-19-is-the-plague-of-the-century

For those in more privileged parts of the world, tuberculosis (TB) might not be so visible, but TB remains one of the most deadly infectious diseases worldwide.

Especially with drug resistant TB strains constantly evolving, mitigating further TB burden should be an urgent priority.

#Epidemiology #InfectiousDiseases #PublicHealth

Nota Técnica nº 7/2023-CGGRIPE/DEIDT/SVS/MS

Informa sobre a identificação no Brasil da variante de preocupação (VOC) Ômicron - linhagem recombinante XBB.1.5; e orientações para a vigilância epidemiológica.
Atualizado em 13/01/2023 17h31

Link para download (pdf - 53 páginas ):

https://www.gov.br/saude/pt-br/coronavirus/notas-tecnicas/2023/nota-tecnica-no-7-2023-cggripe-deidt-svs-ms/@@download/file/NOTA%20T%C3%89CNICA%20N%C2%BA%207-2023-CGGRIPE-DEIDT-SVS-MS.pdf

#epidemiology
#CovidIsNotOver
#COVIDisAirborne
#DavosStandard

UK #NIHR's Programme Development Grants are available for researchers to undertake preparatory work to develop a future programme of research. Broad ranging development work is permitted, with less detail required about the future programme of research.

Pre-programme topics can include now work on outcome selection, psychometrics and epidemiological work!

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/explore-nihr/funding-programmes/programme-development-grants.htm

#HRQL #Epidemiology #Funding

It's taken me a while to figure out how to write an #Introduction. Here goes:

I’d appreciate a boost to help meet like-minded here.

I’m a professor of medicine at McMaster University #MacDeptMed, #McMasterU

Clinically, I work as a #KidneyDoctor (#Nephrology)

I’m an associate member of #HEI (#Epidemiology) at #McMasterU

I’m a member of the Centre of Excellence in Protective Equipment and Materials (#PPE, #N95, #CEPEM) at #McMasterU

My #ClinicalResearch is in #KidneyDisease #KidneyEpi (#CKD, #Potassium, #CKDProgression) and #Masks

I’m editor-in-chief of #CJKHD (@CanJKHD on the birdsite, not here yet) an #OpenAccess kidney journal with #PublishingPolicy:

#SupportiveReview (#Kindness, #KidneyKindness) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20543581221080327
https://theconversation.com/peer-review-can-this-critical-step-in-the-publication-of-science-research-be-kinder-182142

#PortableReview (was your hard work rejected by a journal with IF>=4? Submit clean, redline, point-by-point response-to-reviews, and tell us which journal and undertake that you responded to all reviews received)
https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/canadian-journal-of-kidney-health-and-disease/journal202590#aims-and-scope

I’m editor-in-chief of https://maskevidence.org/ which curates evidence on #BetterMasks and #MasksWork

For the pandemic, we need #SystemsApproaches because #CovidIsAirborne and #CovidIsNotOver. #DoAllTheThings #ventilation #filtration #PaidSickDays #BringBackMasks #WearAMask #MasksSaveLives #MaskeAuf #MaskUp #MaskMandate #MaskMandateNow #CovidLong #LongCovid

I’d like to see #KidneyVerse as the tag to find others with interest in #KidneyHealth and #KidneyDisease. #AskKidney #AskRenal

Also trying to be #LGBTQ #LGBTQ2 ally, working on #EDI #equity #diversity #inclusion, interested in #SocialJustice #UrbanPlanning.

Treaty 3|Dish with One Spoon, Turtle Island; Hamilton ON Canada. She/her

This is my #introductorytoot.
I am a #ClinicalLecturer with @NIHR #NIHR @SheffieldUniversity #sheffield and @SheffieldTeachingHospitals.
Interests include #TyphoidFever #Vaccines #GlobalHealth #AMR #Epidemiology #Serology #Malawi #Africa #Asia

I trained as a child psychologist and statistician. I am a professor of #Epidemiology & #Psychiatry at #uOttawa, where I study #child and #adolescent #populationhealth and #mental_health.

I am also a #cancer patient #writing in the first person about the #end_of_life. Please subscribe at https://billgardner.substack.com/.

Time to post my research interest to find more likeminded people:
#mathematicalmodelling
#bioninformatics
#evolution
#wholegenomeduplication
#epigenetics
#bioinformatics
#palaeontology
#ankylosauridae
#epidemiology
#phenotypicplasticity
#onehealth
#bats
#haemorrhagicfevers
#quantumbiology
(Yes, that list is so long because of the mathematical modelling)
What are your research interests?