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  • Immunization against vaccine-preventable diseases not only protects the individual but also has a social benefit. A study now shows that communicating this effect, known as herd immunity, can have a substantial impact on a person's inclination to vaccinate, an insight that could be leveraged in vaccine advocacy.

    • Dirk Brockmann
    News & Views
    Nature Human Behaviour
    Volume: 1, P: 1-2

  • Humans tend to explore unknown locations, but preferentially return to familiar places. The interplay between these two basic behaviours accounts for many of the scaling relations observed in human-mobility patterns.

    • Dirk Brockmann
    News & Views
    Nature Physics
    Volume: 6, P: 720-721

  • The complexity in patterns of human mobility, migration and communication has been difficult to unpack. Researchers have now come up with a simple theory that captures the intricacy of such phenomena. See Letter p.96

    • Dirk Brockmann
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 484, P: 40-41

    • Dirk Brockmann
    Research Highlights
    Nature
    Volume: 451, P: 111

  • Methods to study the structure of complex networks often rely on case-sensitive parameters that have limited applications. In this study, a new method—link salience—is used to classify network elements based on a consensus estimate of all nodes, finding generic topological features in many empirical networks.

    • Daniel Grady
    • Christian Thiemann
    • Dirk Brockmann
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 3, P: 1-10

  • Honey bee workers take on different tasks for the colony as they age. Here, the authors develop a method to extract a descriptor of the individuals’ social networks and show that interaction patterns predict task allocation and distinguish different developmental trajectories.

    • Benjamin Wild
    • David M. Dormagen
    • Tim Landgraf
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 12, P: 1-12

  • Maier et al. develop a mathematical model to examine the contributions of vaccinated vs. unvaccinated populations to the wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections in Germany in autumn 2021. They report that the unvaccinated population were the main drivers of transmission and that targeted non-pharmaceutical interventions would likely have mitigated this.

    • Benjamin F. Maier
    • Marc Wiedermann
    • Dirk Brockmann
    ResearchOpen Access
    Communications Medicine
    Volume: 2, P: 1-9

  • Smartphones, smartwatches, linked wearables, and associated wellness apps have had rapid uptake. These tools become ever ‘smarter’ in sensing intimate aspects of our surroundings and physiology over time, including activity, metabolites, electrical signals, blood pressure and oxygenation. Proposed EU law stipulates the ‘involuntary donation’ of depersonalized health and wellness data. There has been pushback against the ever-increasing gathering and sharing of wellness data in this context, increasing with every app purchased or updated. Is the potential of this data now lost to research? Consent-led COVID-19 data donation projects signpost a participative, standardized, and scalable approach to data sharing.

    • Stephen Gilbert
    • Katie Baca-Motes
    • Dirk Brockmann
    News & ViewsOpen Access
    npj Digital Medicine
    Volume: 7, P: 1-3