Here's how I'm thinking about this in <offline> actualization: I MUST submit my own public comment. I will work with two offline colleagues to help them submit their comments. I will spam network. Hit rate 1-5% would add at least 1-2. Gotta get my R0 >4. We all do that, the numbers will arrive.

Either the grad students need to space out their babies more, or I need to just pre-emptively knit a bunch of baby blankets and sweaters - last time, it was 2 in 2 weeks in my lab, this time it's 3 in 3 months across my lab and my husband's, and I am once again speeding to finish before the showers

Is it passive-aggressive to correct a reviewer's mis-used colloquial phrase in your response?

Okay, who's going to tell them? #episky www.tpr.org/government-p... "These findings support voting as a potential social determinant of health."

Welcome to Shrimp City! Teach your friends about a variety of crustaceans with this helpful visual aid - and set the record straight... bugs is shrimp. Shrimp is not bugs These shirts are designed by @the666cat.bsky.social & printed in Philly! Get one at SquidFacts.net (pls RT!)

Parents, please consider participating in our survey, “Associations Between Vaccine Hesitancy, Antibiotic and Over-The-Counter Use, and Trust in the Health Professions study”. We want to hear from you! redcap.healthinstitute.illinois.edu/surveys/?s=4... Please share!

Currently recording voiceovers for a series of training videos (Genomics for Public Health, coming soon!) I have so much respect now for all voiceover artists, and anyone who records their own audiobook. All the kudos.

WFH day (storms possible, so I'm staying off my bike) is appreciated

I got stopped in the grocery store yesterday with a compliment for my Plant Native Plants shirt - the merch is awesome

31, and would only reread the Austen and LeGuin

8 had a good long cry tonight because I read a paragraph about the extinction of the golden frog. He now wants to lobby for legislation to ban the killing of frogs.

I'm going to share an efficiency hack that I realized a lot of people don't know about: If you use Outlook, you can set multiple signatures (one default, but other options you can switch to). These are great for responses you use a lot - reply to the email, switch the signature, hit send.

Chad Johnson is CEO of 'Grain Weevil'. His son did robotics competitions in high school, which inspired this little fella that breaks up hardened surfaces & levels grain to ensure it behaves like a liquid, avoids clumping. This probably saves 10-30 human lives a year. NO BOOTS IN THE GRAIN.

Great work by student journalists! ticksinillinois.web.illinois.edu

Courtesy of my sister

Dinosaur comics doing the good work Ticks . . . are a thing now

Organising a global health conference/summit? Not sure where to start? Here's a helpful guide 😉 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

If we're supposed to be an ag school, why were the local media reporting a cow loose on campus when it was clearly a bull? www.reddit.com/r/UIUC/comme...

I guess I should re-post from the Bird Site "The Rules For Academic Success here": I always get asked for advice about starting/surviving the tenure track. Here are the rules I've found useful. Thought I'd put it out there for the masses... This list gets longer all the time

I understand logistic difficulties, but the fact that I can't remotely participate in the university senate without 4 hours notice just flies in the face of modern life and caregiving, not to mention technology

Ever have jello salad? Lime jello, carrots, peas - at least you know what you're getting. Even worse is the ones with fruit, served with a big bowl of whipped topping. J/k, that's mayo

TFW your dean is clearly sleeping in the front row of a college research day talk

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

This paper is finally out! Were counties with higher food insecurity at risk for higher COVID-19 mortality? Depends on the data we used, but probably yes

🧪 🦟 🎨Based on a recent post by @nmoiroux.bsky.social‬ I decided to post something I did a couple of years ago on the bird site. Enjoy! Keep reading for amazing mosquito paintings! bsky.app/profile/nmoi...

What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté "I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved."

Whenever I see a talk from our wildlife epidemiology lab, I get jealous. I wish I could include cute turtle pictures and videos in MY science talks

This is a cool One Health finding: www.gpb.org/news/2026/04...

Re-upping for the evening crowd - any advice at all is welcome!

Okay #sciArt community, do you have reccs for a print on demand site? 13 is already preparing for an art career and thought it might be time to start a merch store for her best work. My favorite shared in thanks. Also taking advice on scanning pencil sketches!

Just to share that the prairie smoke and woodland stonecrop I planted last fall are starting to bloom.

I gotta say, droning construction equipment in the background plus a lunchtime immunology seminar (even a really good one I could mostly follow) is not good for my wakefulness

Why am I seeing 4 or 5 reviewers on some papers?!?! Leave some for the rest of us editors!

TIL I've been pronouncing Likert wrong all this time. Apparently, it's "lick-ert", not "like-ert"

Well, this could be not good Truck carrying bird flu-positive dead birds overturns, shuts down Indiana interstate

I also just finished this piece by @vimoh.bsky.social and I have lots of thoughts that I want to pen down, but honestly this is such a great piece, and you should read it.

Oh hey, I am once again going to talk about lack of distress tolerance, specifically for shame, and how it ties together AI, the “male loneliness epidemic,” Trumpism, and yes, people’s indignation that anyone might think they’re a bad person for continuing to buy Harry Potter merch.

I was just tempted to write in a review that phenotypic resistance is the lived experience of bacteria . . .

<sigh> www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Nice coverage of our latest article! entomologytoday.org/2026/03/24/n...

The world is hard right now, but the spring flowers are coming #NativePlants

Very grateful we can road trip in our EV Also, Ionna chargers are the best

Attention Science Communicators! We are conducting a survey on the landscape of science communication & need your help gathering experiences. Please send this to #SciComm ppl you know. We want to get as thorough a sense of the state of the field as we can. umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! Computational lab. Message me if interested, and can apply here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/32547

Last session at Vector Week is highlighting the new communication resource from AMCA: solutions.mosquito.org

More Vector Week tick surveillance and control!

New Vector Week session on tick surveillance and control (with IT issues - we were not planning on remote!)

Vector Week session on strategic communication for WNV, led by Carl Raasch to cover the plan and its analysis Used focus groups to determine needed messages, then worked with LPH to roll out campaigns around those messages, focused on 55+

Vector Week continues online, since campus is still closed for wind damage (!) Starting with a discussion of KABP survey questions

New paper! Do you do longitudinal environmental sampling across an array of locations? Do you want to know how valuable each site is for forecasting an outcome? Do you want to know the factors associated with good sites? Then this paper is for you! Coming soon, an Rshiny app!