Just got review feedback on a collaborative proposal, and I am losing my mind🫠 One reviewer flagged a "massive red flag" in the methodology, and I think the reviewer is right.

#AI is scary 😨.

Mosquitoes seem to be getting over insect repellent. They learn to associate it with food www.economist.com/science-and-... #vectorbornedisease #diseaseecology #ecology #disease #onehealth #mosquito

Why the Ebola and Hantavirus Outbreaks Have Confounded Scientists www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/s...

My friend Dr. Yanjie Xu (U of Helsinki) just published her recent study in Conservation Biology on how to save Europe’s birds. It’s a literal roadmap for the global 30x30 conservation target. #Conservation #Ornithology conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Again…

Surprisingly found this book in my mail box yesterday. Many thanks to Nichola. It indeed looks like a very interesting book to read!

New publication is out 🎉🎉🎉! It is 2+ years in the making, now this work has finally out! 🎉 Feathers and flu: identifying data gaps in avian influenza host dynamics to prioritize wildlife conservation wildlife.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just got an email from a Korean peer fighting the #Saemangeum New Airport. They facing a critical appeal at Seoul High Court & urgently need expert testimony on bird strikes & habitat mitigation by May-end. Their sit-in has passed 1,550 days to protect Sura. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’ve been feeling the depth of Google’s reach into modern life and work lately. It’s way deeper than I ever thought. Im trying to migrate everything, such as browser bookmarks, passwords, Pay, Google Drive, Gemini, Gmail, to a new account, and it’s been a total nightmare.

I quickly went through the #ESA2026 website, but cannot find the specific conference location, except that it is in Salt Lake City...It could have been more specific... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social

Read the NYT review and just 3% of the book, and I’m already crushed by the heavy, helpless weight of it. Probably because of knowing the backstory, the loss of two sons to suicide, gives me that inevitable burden, but the narrative itself is just suffocating. 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/b...

3 Dead of Suspected Hantavirus Infections on Cruise Ship, W.H.O. Says www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/w...

Having reviewed a high volume of manuscripts lately from grad students to associate and even full professors, but I’m deeply concerned (reviewing a manuscript right now). It’s worrying how many people lack a grasp of basic research principles and professional definitions.

It was such a pleasure hosting THE Nichola Hill from @UMassBoston at OU these past two days! #AvianInfluenza #Ecology #Academia #OU #BirdFlu #Books

The US science community is currently under attack by the government, and it seems nobody can stop it. Sad, and the winner in various aspects of scientific competition is more likely to be China. Americans, WAKE UP! www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

Book Recommendation: Human civilization has leaped forward over the past two centuries, but our immune systems have failed to keep pace. #Allergic #Health #Evolution #Microbiome #BookRecommendation #ClimateChange #ModernLife

Been checking out the Atlas of the Americas’ Flyways—this thing is actually incredible. It maps the "invisible highways" in the sky for over 80 bird species across 56 countries. Seeing the sheer scale of these migrations is mind-blowing. #BirdMigration #Conservation #DataViz #eBird

SH*T! Just realized that he probably used #ChatGPT to write his manuscript and made up all those fake references! Pathetic!

I am so tired of these academic parasites in the US. They hide behind titles like “Professor” or “Senior,” but can’t even find a basic reference! The citations they sent me literally had made-up titles. Unbelievable!

The #Velocity theme for @obsidian.md looks so good， honestly can't stop using it. #Obsidian #Velocity #PKM #Productivity

I used to think I don’t need GitHub in my workflow since I code independently. But recently I started with a new account and I finally get it now: it is just so smooth to have @github.com in the flow. Committing and pushing every day feels like giving myself a little reward. Love it❤️!

I think I was right. This paper didnt integrate much with real-world scenarios or empirical data, it is too theoretical, and thatis why it was submitted to a mid-tier journal. In fact, it has a very strong model design and a good idea.

Im reviewing a manuscript and barely got into the Methods section before it made me sit up. I haven’t read something this relevant and inspiring in a while.

definitely fall in love with #obsidian, clean, small, fast, simple, customizable, and free.

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm. " @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

I have just upgraded to a new MacBook Pro (finally free from compute limits, temporarily). While organizing all my drives and cloud storage, I realized my file management has been an absolute mess. I survived all these years by relying purely on the memory of file paths.

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Final funding bill for NIH pushes back against Trump cuts | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

It is a challenging work to put all this information together and sort out the role of wild birds in HPAI dispersal. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A great work by our webinar speaker @lhmoncla.bsky.social and her team. They used phylodynamic analyses of H5N1 to reconstruct how the 2021–2023 North American HPAI outbreak started and spread across flyways, host groups, and agriculture. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Too much fucking violence in the world, let’s pray for peace.

We are excited to invite abstract submissions for talks and posters for the 2026 Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases meeting at Virginia Tech (June 2-4). Abstract submissions should be made by February 3, 2026 for consideration, using the google form here: cpe.vt.edu/eeid2026/abs...

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Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c...

Changing bird migrations threaten to bring new infectious diseases to humans | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

@ucdavis.bsky.social scientists made this amazing animation showing the timeline process of #HPAI spreading across North America. experience.arcgis.com/experience/7...

My new model in development is way too computationally intensive (millions of grid cells with daily environmental variable updates, times 10,000+ of agents' behaviors). #NetLogo (I still love NetLogo) cannot help me with this task.

wonderful story about people, tradition, religion, and #wildlife #conservation. I LOVE SNOW LEOPARD. "Who was it that first intruded: the wild animals into the herders’ “home,” or the herders into the wild animals’ habitat?" @initiummedia.bsky.social theinitium.com/20251205-mai...

Many thanks #Jifengbooks

after years of using #Evernote and #Notion, I can finally say: #Obsidian is the ONE.

some donation sources to support victims in the Hong Kong fire at Tai Po residential estate hongkongfp.com/2025/11/27/h... #hongkongfire #HongKong

First Human Dies of Rare #H5N5 #BirdFlu Strain in US, November 2025. #avianinfluenza #HPAI #zoonotic #epidemiology www.scientificamerican.com/article/firs...

Tracking individual monarch butterflies with polar-powered radio tag of 60mg, awesome! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Tracking individual µonarch butterflies with polar-powered radio tag of 60mg, awesome! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Meta-analysis finds that #TikTok use is associated with attention loss and higher stress/anxiety. Fast-paced content may come with real cognitive and mental health costs. (not surprising!) psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

what an interesting study. He Studied Why Some Female Birds Look Like Males www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/s...

amazing illustrations about the future Dutch poultry. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It was a great pleasure to record my research presentation and contribute to the #OneHealth Day seminar at the University of Minnesota. I was so surprised by this thoughtful gift from the organizers! THANK YOU!