Every time I fly back home

I have individual-level data on people + their sexual contacts.
It is easy to look at age/sex mixing. But from a network perspective,I can also study assortativity in number of reported partners.

Anything else that I can check? Thinking of excess degree distribution and age/sex dynamics consistency

Belated intro post: Hi, I'm Liz, interested in social influences on infectious disease dynamics, particularly in sexual health and always in the interests of health equity. We are looking for an ID modeller postdoc to work on co-production of epidemic models: join us! tinyurl.com/24ze4x5c

Position with @mert0248.bsky.social and me in modelling the potential impact of next generation flu vaccines: iddjobs.org/jobs/modelli...

I am followed by so many infectious disease modellers that I am now afraid of even using the word SIR, in any context 😅

A list of bands in order of efficacy:

3. Placebo
2. The Cure
1. Prevention

🇮🇹 Da oggi comincia l'avventura di @comunelab.bsky.social e il nostro modello predittivo per #influenza A/B/ILI 🦠🧪 su dati ISS, come parte dell'hub nazionale #influcast🇮🇹: influcast.org

Congratulazioni a @tommasobertola.bsky.social per questo 1° significativo traguardo del suo progetto.

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If you have the feeling that @bsky.app is different, maybe you are right.

The current migration is breaking the typical rich-get-richer effect wrt other platforms #scaling

Data:

Twitter: 10.9M users
BlueSky (Mar 2024): 4.1M users, 🙏 @andreajpg.bsky.social
Mastodon: 3.8M users, 🙏 @tiago.skewed.de

1/ Hello, BSky community! 👋
I’m an incoming Wellcome Trust Early Career Fellow & Group Leader at the University of Oxford. My research focuses on the molecular evolution of pathogens, especially viruses with pandemic potential. You can find out more about our work here: users.ox.ac.uk/~univ4613

"The first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult"

Preliminary #scaling of the number of followers vs the number of follows in @bsky.app from a random sample of about 20,000 users.

This is ~linear (provided this sample is representative), while it was very different for Twitter, or am I wrong? @emilioferrara.bsky.social @estebanmoro.bsky.social

Does it count?

"you should remain on Twitter because there is still a lot of good science discussed over there"

The science

As a computational social scientist I could not miss to follow this beautiful creature: the BlueSky social network during its growth in the last hours!

In this video I show just a snapshot for about 210k users and their 500k-ish connections #academicsky

Zoom in the next post

youtu.be/JcmYZtWGnjQ

Reminder we have a post-doc position open in our lab @invcomplexity.skewed.de, at IT:U, Linz, Austria 🇦🇹!

Deadline is Nov 30. Spread the word!

#AcademicSky

Question I was asked this morning during a mock-up interview: how many six digit numbers of the form

abcab(c+1) [E.g. 123124]

are perfect squares?

there are civilians left, starving them is a war crime and forcible displacement of a civilian population is a war crime.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

🚨Job alert!🚨
Come join us at the Inverse Complexity Lab! @invcomplexity.bsky.social

We’re hiring a post-doctoral researcher to join our group at IT:U, Linz, Austria.

skewed.de/lab/call.html

Deadline is 30 Nov 2024.

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Hello blue people, I will start using this more often.

I have also run out of things to share, so I will probably read and comment.