Important study found ag pesticides all throughout wildlife refuges in the Sacramento Valley. Location within reserves had no impact on pesticide presence, suggesting no place within these protected areas is safe from such contamination. Not great. 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California 2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin. ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003

Hi Mammalogists! Reminder that the Black and Indigenous Scholars Award is open/accepting applications! Eligibility information/application link on our website: mammalsociety.org/committees/i... Deadline is Oct 15. Please share, we look forward to reviewing all applications. IDEA Committee

New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists. Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵

Specimen Inactivation Methods for Proteomics─Comparisons of Irradiation, Chemical, and Heat Treatments on Downstream Serum Analyses #JProteomeRes #MassSpec pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

The first chapter of my dissertation work is finally out in @acs.org JPR🥲 we looked the impacts of different specimen inactivation methods (TRIzol, irradiation, heat) on the greater serum proteome. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

In one vote, headed to the senate, Congress could destabilize public lands conservation and Indigenous land stewardship. Native Alaskan tribes spent more than a decade shaping the Central Yukon plan to protect core habitat for caribou and spawning salmon. insideclimatenews.org/news/1209202...

Day 2 of #WDA2025 🌎 cool talks about #hantavirus in CA, wild ungulate health, Australian bats, and vector-borne diseases! @onehealthinstitute.bsky.social

A study in Nature Communications used AI to mine global venom proteomes and discovered novel peptides with antimicrobial activity. Several candidates showed efficacy against drug-resistant bacteria in laboratory and animal tests. go.nature.com/4f0zYb4 #medsky 🧪

Healthspan has a proteomic signature! About 3,000 plasma proteins assessed and validated in 2 cohorts. Immune response and inflammation proteins stood out. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nautilus-shell bolo ties. Taxidermized coyote paws and preserved bobcat hearts. Art and jewelry made from butterflies' wings. You can buy these things (and others) on Etsy or eBay. We are calling on these platforms to commit to ending these sales by the end of the year. Add your voice ⬇️

A new study shows #H5N1 avian flu could delay recovery of Argentina’s southern elephant seals until 2091—or longer. Once thriving, the colony now faces a vulnerable future. Climate change and disease are reshaping conservation. #OneHealth #avianflu #HPAI ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/news/avian-i...

“wild animals navigating their natural world can provide new perspectives regarding important issues in reproductive health. …we should be looking to the extraordinary feats of wild animals -- they have often found the most innovative solutions," 🧪 #Scicomm #ReproSky www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...

And in today's "Crying Wolf" reading www.bbc.com/news/article...

"A GO term analysis? how is this helpful?"

Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4

UC Davis is going all in on showing why federally funded research matters for everyone. Love to see it! Throwing in a pic of my lovely fam is for sure a win-win! 😎📚👨‍👩‍👧‍👦

#AvianFlu is wreaking havoc on wildlife—and it's a growing threat to humans. The virus is evolving fast, making it easier to jump between species. OHI’s Marcela Uhart warns that without monitoring its spread in wildlife, we risk being unprepared. #H5N1 #OneHealth @npr.org @ucdavis.bsky.social

My undergrads were lucky to have had Dr. Peter Salk, Jonas Salk's son, lecture on polio and polio vaccine in class today. This moment with Peter in the foreground showing a picture of him as a little boy, being vaccinated by his father, struck me as unique and poignant.

"For too long, bats have been perceived as a problem." WCS Health is looking to generate a common understanding of the benefits that biodiversity brings to human health, writes Maricruz Jaramillo. 🌎 medium.com/one-planet-o...

Great example of why One Health is so essential! "Rwanda’s success in containing its Marburg outbreak underscores the essential role of international partnerships & a strong health system in containing human-to-animal outbreaks." @kerrycullinan.bsky.social healthpolicy-watch.news/rwandas-marb...

As a Pitt alum, this is so devastating to see.

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

Folks in data rescue and archiving initiatives may find this #RStats package from @ropensci.org useful: `gitcellar` downloads and archives all repos, issues, and PRs from a GitHub organization in one shot: docs.ropensci.org/gitcellar/ #DataRescue @datarescue2025.bsky.social

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. Nature reports on the search to find out what they do. 🧪

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

Is Southern Resident Killer Whale Tahlequah mourning her dead calf? A thread.

On the list of ‘Things I’m Proud to have Accomplished in 2024’ is presenting my dissertation work at my first international conference, the World One Health Congress ( #WOHC ) in Cape Town, SA 🥲 nerve-wracking but also so cool to be included in a session with lots of innovative #OneHealth work! 🧪 🦇

“It said that eastern migratory monarchs have declined by about 80 percent while western monarchs have declined by more than 95 percent – giving the western group a 99 percent chance of going extinct by 2080.” thehill.com/policy/energ...

What surprised me the most was how *early* these divergences by STEM fields emerge. By age 6, kids already see girls as worse at computer science and engineering. But...there's no early male bias for math. (I made this graph for a broader audience). Six-year-olds have quite nuanced beliefs!

#TBT to 2021, the first year we held the Rx One Health Field Institute in CA! We had an amazing cohort from a vast range of #OneHealth fields. Since then, alums have gone on to lead impactful One Health careers, driving meaningful change to advance the health of people, animals, and our planet.

For #GivingTuesday, consider donating to the Ukrainian Bat Rehabilitation Center 🇺🇦 🦇 They do amazing work to save bats, even amoungst a war and they could use the financial support. You could even ‘adopt’ a bat, which would make for a great holiday present for kids! batsukraine.org/en/

New research shows the loss of bats across North America to white-nose syndrome is having a DIRECT impact on human health. On the latest episode of #WCSWildAudio, @wcscanada.bsky.social has an innovative solution to address the crisis. 🔊 t.co/11SIDTUrUK

This Thanksgiving, grateful to eBay & Etsy for acting on our recommendation to prohibit bat sales on their platforms. And for widespread community support. Pls consider supporting the petition to add painted woolly bats (Kerivoula picta) to the US Endangered Species Act. www.lubee.org/iamnotart

Join us on December 5th! 🌎🧪 Dr. Diego Montecino of WCS @thewcs.bsky.social and Dr. Martin Wikelski of the ICARUS initiative will discuss tools and technologies for monitoring wildlife health and the early detection of disease threats: alliance-health-wildlife.org/event/specia...

I wanted to share a recent paper out from some good friends Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Jeffrey J. Brooks, Ph.D. and Hillary Renick. The benefits of #Indigenous-led social #science: A mindset for #Arctic #sustainability It is free to access here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Rx One Health Field Institute app season is OPEN! Great 4 grad students (MS, MPH, PhD, DVM, MD, JD, RN and most everything in between) + early career professionals (incl. environmental sci, medicine, social sci, law, engineering, agriculture, animal sci, data sci, etc) 🧪 🌱 🦦 DEADLINE: 31 JAN 2025

My perspective on CVs for DIA-based #proteomics is out in JPR It explores how normalisation, the CV formula and software parameters affect the outputs. It suggests parameters to use for biological and technical studies and provides an R package to calculate CVs. doi.org/10.1021/acs....

On November 20, UC Davis Vice Provost Jonna Mazet visited our lab and PhD student Erim Kızıldere showed her our head mounted eye tracking setup. We enjoyed the opportunity to share with her the exciting work we do at the ICL. #infantcognition #ICL #science #research #ucdavis #centerformindandbrain

The beaches are quieter now. One year later, it's estimated a #birdflu outbreak killed more than 17,000 elephant seals, according to a new study, including 97% of pups. It was the first report of transmission between marine mammals. 🌎 bit.ly/3CiZAki