Sam Scarpino

Assessing the risk of diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential in a changing world Human activities increase zoonotic disease risk.

Assessing the risk of diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential in a changing world | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Estimating behavioural relaxation induced by COVID-19 vaccines in the first months of their rollout Author summary The COVID-19 vaccines rollout initially faced significant challenges. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) complemented vaccinations in addressing these issues. However, the interpla...

Latest out: Estimating behavioural relaxation induced by COVID-19 vaccines in the first months of their rollout journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Our preprint “How Malicious AI Swarms Can Threaten Democracy” is now online.

We show how coordinated multi-agent LLM swarms can infiltrate communities, craft synthetic grassroots “consensus,” and erode institutional trust—and what we can do now to stop it.

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Amplicon sequencing of pasteurized retail dairy enables genomic surveillance of H5N1 avian influenza virus in United States cattle Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses with H5 hemagglutinin (HA) genes (clade 2.3.4.4b) are causing an ongoing panzootic in wild birds. Circulation of these viruses is associated with spill...

New in @plosone.org : Amplicon sequencing of pasteurized retail dairy reveals H5N1 avian influenza virus in U.S. cattle milk. Tiled-amplicon NGS achieved >90% genome coverage from pasteurized milk samples, enabling genomic surveillance of H5N1 spillover in cattle. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

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Thank you!!!

I’m looking forward to contributing to the hard work ahead of us leveraging science to advance the health and prosperity of our global communities.

While tenure and promotions are given to individuals, they are earned because of mentors, collaborators, students, friends, and family. I am immensely grateful for the support, fun, and great science this network has provided me.

Humbled and honored to announce that I’ve been granted tenure at Northeastern University and promoted to Professor in Public Health and Health Sciences in @nubouve.bsky.social

Postdoctoral positions in epidemic mathematical/statistical modelling - Research Job description We are recruiting postdocs to contribute to research projects in the Mathematical Modelling of Infectious Diseases Unit, at Institut Pasteur in Paris. The candidates will be expected t...

New postdoc positions with a number of exciting epidemic modelling projects opening in our Unit at @pasteur.fr in beautiful Paris. Deadline for applications: 26th June.
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Hand measuring mega bounty paper towels

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”

I noticed the same thing. They appear to be quite different in all the scaling figures.

On this day in 2023, the Vermont Complex Systems Institute (vermontcomplexsystems.org), TGIR Center (www.med.uvm.edu/tgircobre/home) & @sfiscience.bsky.social joined for an event on interacting contagions

Our work, "One pathogen does not an epidemic make," is now online: arxiv.org/abs/2504.15053

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One pathogen does not an epidemic make: A review of interacting contagions, diseases, beliefs, and stories From pathogens and computer viruses to genes and memes, contagion models have found widespread utility across the natural and social sciences. Despite their success and breadth of adoption, the approa...

One pathogen does not an epidemic make: A review of interacting contagions, diseases, beliefs, and stories arxiv.org/abs/2504.15053

🚀 Now accepting applications for the new MS in Complex Network Analysis at Northeastern!

Study real-world systems—social, financial, biological, public health—using cutting-edge network science tools.

🌐 Info: shorturl.at/bKUZV
📅 Live Webinars (starting April-May): shorturl.at/xrory

If you study networks, or have been stuck listening to people who study networks for long enough (sorry to my loved ones), you may have heard that open triads – V shapes – in social networks tend to turn into closed triangles. But why does this happen? In part, because people repost each other.

From this day forth, I shall be referred to as:

"Dr. Ian Malcom [X]"

Thrilled to formally join the "...Justice League for renegade geeks." Thanks to an army of supporters, mentors, mentees, friends. And very special thanks to @scarpino.bsky.social.

Time to go break some (scientific) norms.

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The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China Mobile phone data show that the spread of COVID-19 in China was driven by travel and mitigated substantially by local control measures.

Five years ago @scarpino.bsky.social

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@nunetsi.bsky.social is science and art…

Immune history shapes human antibody responses to H5N1 influenza viruses - Nature Medicine H5N1 strain-specific antibodies are higher in older individuals and correlate more with birth year than with age, suggesting that younger individuals are potentially more likely to benefit from H5N1 v...

Today @natmedicine.bsky.social published our study showing the older individuals born prior to 1968 have more antibodies that cross-react to #H5N1 relative to younger individuals. If H5N1 causes a pandemic, children will likely be the most susceptible. 1/2

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Great to see our paper presenting recall, a framework which calibrates clustering for the impact of data "double-dipping" in single-cell studies, out today in AJHG! Congratulations, @alandenadel.bsky.social and co-authors!

Especially this time of year! Truly no better feeling than warm sunshine and tables hitting the sidewalks.

How are things looking in East Lansing @davidlowry.bsky.social?