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Latest episode of our podcast is out: "What Kind of Intelligence is an LLM?" We talk with two brilliant scholars who have thought a lot about that question: Tomer Ullman and Murray Shanahan I hope you will give it a listen! complexity.simplecast.com/episodes/natur…

Avian flu infects 2 more dairy workers in California's Central Valley In other developments, Quest Diagnostics today it will introduce an H5 molecular test by the end of the month, which should increase testing capacity. ow.ly/V6og50TRZtc Photo: Morten Just/Flickr cc

I’m really glad to see this. Clinicians should easily be able to test their patients for H5 specifically.

Great that Quest will (at some point) roll out H5 bird flu tests. But seeing as a slow test rollout was perhaps the biggest failure in Covid, why didn't the CDC & FDA push for this to happen sooner? Like back in June, when CDC said it mattered. ICYMI kffhealthnews.org/news/article/c…

Marta C. Gonzalez receiving her Lagrange Prize from ISI Foundation. Well well well deserved!!

We’re thrilled to see Dean Beth sporting Professor Hofmann’s inovative creation! Check out the article to learn how it came to be 💫

Huge congratulations to C. Brandon Ogbunu!!! His work continues to inspire me and demonstrates how someone can thread the needle of being a world-class scientist and world-class science communicator 🔥🔥🔥

Emails reveal gaping holes in surveillance for human bird flu infections. “I have been distressed and depressed by the lack of epidemiologic data and the lack of surveillance,” says a former head HHS ASPR. My latest San Francisco Chronicle KFF Health News gift link shorturl.at/B12Vz

The last influenza pandemic we had--the 2009 pandemic--likely went from pigs to humans. Here's a famous paper by Robert Webster on the pigs as "mixing vessel" for avian/human influenza viruses hypothesis: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/insta…

Thrilled to see our work tracking the routes and means of SARS-CoV-2 variant spread in Chile and South America in PNAS Nexus! academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/adva…

The pattern stays the same: close contact with animals and mild presentation. Good that the testing of humans seems to be done more consistently. But with winter season coming, not a comfortable situation. Intense surveillance needed

This is what great public health looks like! If you detect H5 in the wastewater, figure out where it came from!

"Self-reinforcing cascades: A spreading model for beliefs or products of varying intensity or quality" New preprint from the team arxiv.org/abs/2411.00714

Re-upping: Postdoc position (two-to-three years) at Santa Fe Institute on cogsci-inspired AI approaches to multimodal reasoning. Start date flexible: target is Summer / Fall 2025. PhD in AI, ML, CogSci, or related area (by start date) Apply by Nov. 22. santafe.edu/about/jobs/pos…

Latest out: "Bridging the digital divide: mapping Internet connectivity evolution, inequalities, and resilience in six Brazilian cities". Great collaboration with Nicolò Gozzi Niccolò Comini. Grateful to World Bank and Speedtest by Ookla for the support! epjdatascience.springeropen.com/articles/10.11…

Novavax data from South Korea 2022, 2 doses Novavax vs 3 doses of Pfizer. Novavax - 19,485 infected within 6 months out of 104,004. Pfizer - 10,445 infected out of 33,841, within 6 months. Severe infection was similar. 🧵 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Latest out: Comparative Evaluation of Behavioral-Epidemic Models Using COVID-19 Data. Great collaboration with Nicolò Gozzi and Alessandro Vespignani medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

I'm excited to present my work "LLM Unlearning Evaluation using Knowledge Graphs" at the WiML at NeurIPS Conference next week! This work was done at Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern with my advisor Sam Scarpino. Come checkout my poster at West Ballroom D from 6:30pm-8pm on 10th Dec!

How can network science help us better evaluate what an LLM "knows" and what it does not "know?" If you're attending NeurIPS Conference, you can learn the answer from one of our amazing Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern masters students, Rushali Mohbe, at the WiML poster session!

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