I'm excited to share my latest preprint: Stochastic modeling of yield losses due to bacterial leaf streak on corn. Our study examined the impact of bacterial leaf streak (BLS) on corn yield. Thanks to Prof. @edelponte.bsky.social and Dr. Adriano. Preprint: osf.io/8zq4y_v1 Code: lnkd.in/d2DFmpje

In 2023 I painted coffee rust, caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix This is one of my favourite plant disease paintings and was used for the cover @edelponte 's book Plant Disease Epidemiology (R4PDE) https://r4pde.net www.hgpenningtonart....

More on cover letters! Hat tip to @edelponte.bsky.social for the blog post. planteditors.com/cover-letter... #SciComm #SciPub

Check out my latest blog post: emersondelponte.netlify.app/posts/2025-0...

Preprint alert! Safer and Smarter: Leveraging Transfer Learning and Data Fusion of Disease and Environmental Data for Modeling Plant Disease Risk osf.io/9tgau

This time of year, the campus feels quiet and lifeless as students have yet to return. Yet, the beauty of Viçosa's campus remains vibrant, and I look forward to seeing these sidewalks bustling with life next week.

Missed opportunity!! We edit a lot of cover letters to address exactly these points––it's your chance to explain why your paper is cool, so don't blow it by pasting in your abstract (which should also explain why your paper is cool but differently!).

Machine learning in plant disease diagnosis: are we getting there? www.linkedin.com/posts/emerso...

🚨Check it out! 🚨

🚨 Preprint by my PhD student @tomazrg.bsky.social who developed yield loss modeling studies and identified tolerance to target spot (Corynespora cassiicola) in Brazilian soybean cultivars. Economic returns were simulated under various scenarios. 🔗 osf.io/a3z7j

More opportunities! Besides a PhD student (other post) we are looking for postdocs! One on Quantitative Disease Resistance mechansims! One on Population Genomics of barley pathogens! The positions can start Feb 2025. For extremely well-fitting candidates can delay the date.

The recent CAPES normative banning fully online courses and asynchronous activities in Brazilian graduate programs is a setback for modern education. It limits opportunities for internationalization, like the remote course (epidemiology) I offer in English, attended by students from abroad 1/3

It was great fun working with Emerson on this paper. Meta-analysis has occupied a major portion of my research time over the past 15+ years. Many plant pathologists are now seeing the benefits of this approach to quantitative research synthesis.

Did you know we have a topical collection called Disease Profile? It currently features 14 articles highlighting emerging plant diseases in the tropics and subtropics. 🔗 link.springer.com/collections/...

The Dec 2024 issue is online, featuring an exceptional collection of 21 articles. This expanded volume is due to an upcoming change: the journal will adopt a sequential article numbering system, moving away from the traditional issue-based structure in 2025. link.springer.com/journal/4085...

Excited to share here our review on the use of meta-analysis in Plant Pathology. Now available open access in Plant Disease volume 108, number 11. apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/...

Just did my first Starter Pack, I think it can be useful. Let me know if you miss any journal and I will add it. Enjoy!! go.bsky.app/QPFZpj9

We have a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer position in Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash with a focus on education: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo.... You can see more about our Business Analytics group and courses that we offer at numbat.space.

Had a great time yesterday presenting an online seminar (short title: Meta-analysis in plant pathology) for the department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University. Find my slides here: www.linkedin.com/posts/emerso...

Hi BlueSky! 👋 I am a spatial statistician & university professor working on methods & #rstats packages for disease surveillance 🌍💻📊 I wrote books on #Geospatial Health Data & Spatial Statistics for #DataScience 📚 👉 bit.ly/bookspatial Excited to connect, share, and learn with you all here! 💜 ✨

New faculty position in climate change ecology at UW-Madison, applications due in four days for full consideration. Come join us! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

Wheat blast is a severe yield-damaging disease. We developed weather-based prediction models based on data collected in Brazil. We built a Shiny app that uses nasa power data via {nasapower}. Note that predictions were not evaluated outside Brazil. epidemiologiaufv.shinyapps.io/wheatblast/

Hey all, please RT this new starter pack for locating our fellow ecological modellers on Blue Sky! And please reply to this post if you'd like to be added to the starter pack! go.bsky.app/EfUQaM2

Tidyplots for data visualization. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out our latest paper on the epidemiology of #Fusarium #wilt of #banana. This was a three-year analysis of disease progress and spatial dynamics conducted in the field. #plantpathology #fitopatologia link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We are thrilled to bring the latest in plant pathology science to this vibrant platform! As the journal of the Brazilian Phytopathological Society, we aim to advance knowledge on plant diseases. link.springer.com/journal/40858

Welcoming the official journal of the Brazilian Phytopathological Society @tppajournal.bsky.social

We’ve been working hard on next quarto version and it is coming out soon. It is already available so if you are ok to try it please do ! Feedback welcome to find the remaining bugs that could still be hidden. Thanks !

We need more plant disease epidemiologists and modellers here!

What a week! two new members of our research team, a talented Masters student and a dedicated postdoc, have secured funding for the next two years! 🎉

New CRAN package tidyplots with initial version 0.1.2 #rstats https://cran.r-project.org/package=tidyplots

I initiated a plant pathology/plant microbe starter pack, feel free to self-nominate 🥀 go.bsky.app/LbYaW8k

A comunidade #RStats fala português! Junte-se à rOpenSci para uma chamada comunitária em 6 de novembro com líderes construindo recursos em português para pessoas usuárias de R. Saiba como você pode participar, começando com a nossa reunião de tradução na LatinR! ropensci.org/commcalls/tr...

Check out the new `pastum` extension for Positron (and VS Code I guess)—it's {datapasta} for Positron! It works with both R (base R, tibble, and data.frame) and Python (pandas and polars) github.com/atsyplenkov/... #rstats #python

A few things I've been working on lately: elmer, elmer.tidyverse.org, is a new package to make it easier to work with LLMs (hosted and local) from #rstats. It includes helps for structured data extraction and tool calling, and an easy way to upload a plot. Joint work with Joe Cheng.

To celebrate the one-year anniversary 🎂 of my online book R for Plant Disease Epidemiology (R4PDE), I’m excited to announce the addition of two new chapters: one on remote sensing and another on disease modeling. r4pde.net