Our software paper on SpeciesDistributionToolkit.jl is now published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social - peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

🚨 NEW: Climate change is already causing 30,000 deaths per year - a global annual economic loss of $100-350B USD - but the true damage is probably 10x higher. Out TODAY in Nature Climate Change: the first systematic look at the science of "health impact attribution" 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Really insightful post from Julie Tibshirani (spotted in LinkedIn, can't find on Bsky) reflecting on #rstats 's unique governance structure and what can be learned for other languages jtibs.substack.com/p/if-all-the...

The @panaction.bsky.social just published a fantastic briefing paper about the Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing system - take a look if you want the full perspective on what PABS is, and why it matters for both health equity and fair data governance. www.pandemicactionnetwork.org/news/briefin...

As someone who had only ever written packages in R, the PyOpenSci package tutorial made writing my first python package really easy. Can't wait to check this out. www.pyopensci.org/learn.html

Honored to be working to defend science against authoritarianism alongside so many inspiring colleagues such as @audreydrotos.bsky.social, @bnwolford.bsky.social, @scott-delaney.bsky.social.

Book launch TODAY! Please join the CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Health Security today at 4:00 pm EDT for the book launch of "The Big One: How We Must Prepare for Future Deadly Pandemics," the latest from @mtosterholm & Mark Olshaker www.csis.org/events/...

R Consortium ISC Grant Applications are OPEN w/a deadline of Oct. 1st! Get funded to contribute to the 🐇 R ecosystem. At Esri, we're a proud member of the R Consortium and the ISC's Grant program has been pivotal in growing the Rspatial ecosystem. www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/... #GISchat #geogchat

✍️ [blog post] rOpenSci Champions Second Cohort: Projects Wrap-Up 🏆 Our second cohort of Champions completed the program. In this blog post, we share each champion’s projects, their achievements, and outreach activities. Read the wrap-up by @yabellini […]

Taller de hoy para el programa de Campeon(a|e)s de @ropensci.org @yabellini.bsky.social ¡Código hermoso, porque lo valemos! 💅 ¿Quién conoce al teorema fundamental de la legibilidad? 🤓 codigo-hermoso.netlify.app#/ #RStats

Unnerving: The USDA has been seriously concerned about the devastating animal parasite New World screwworm crossing into the US from Mexico/Central America. Now there has been a *human* case, in MD. Farm Policy News aggregates several stories: farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/08/huma...

As a descendant of the #Stockbridge-#Munsee #Mahican, #Oneida, #Lenape, #Brothertown and #Montauk peoples, I struggle to express how much it means—personally and professionally—to support the work of the task group and @localcontexts.bsky.social in shaping #IDGov #IDSov within the @gbif.org network.

🚨 NEW today in Nature Genetics: the LISTEN principles are a FAIR-compatible framework that will allow genetic sequence databases to seamlessly participate in new multilateral access and benefit-sharing systems, such as the CBD Cali Fund and the WHO PABS System. 🧬🧪 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 Our team just released a reproducible Docker pipeline for RNAseq assembly and annotation designed for nonmodel organisms! We're using it to explore how bats manage viral infections, but it's built for broad utility in wildlife transcriptomics. @viralemergence.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Open call: If you are a researcher working on a project estimating a cause-specific burden of disease attributable to climate change at regional to global scales, please reach out! We're looking for researchers who might be interested in joining a new collaborative network / workshop series.

In an unconscionable decision, the Smithsonian Institute has decided to no longer support the Biodiversity Heritage Library from 1 Jan 2026. Please someone step up and take it over.

🦠🌿🐦🧪 How can biodiversity monitoring help global efforts in disease surveillance? With ✨ fantastic ✨ colleagues from @viralemergence.org and the @geobon.org working group on One Health, we try to identify three key lessons for the future. 🧵 A short thread! academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Infectious disease researcher Hailey Robertson writes home to Kansas, where bird flu reached four dairy cattle herds in 2024, to urge support for American science 🧪 🏠

Check out our new paper describing a wildlife disease data standard!

📣 Current and former #USgov data scientists! Join @ropensci.org + @openscapes.bsky.social on May 6 for a community support and networking event: ropensci.org/events/datas... Co-hosted by former feds (NOAA, NASA, DOE, NSF, NIH + Federal Reserve) to discuss their paths to other sectors. #dataBS

Updated preprint: "A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance." With: ✏️ A new version of the standard 💻 A new R package to help you format your data 🦇 A retrospective mini-study of data sharing rates Preprint here: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Got data? Reach out! 🦠🧪