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The dangerous rise of 'wellness' misinformation in veterinary health

🔈We are hiring: postdoctoral position as part of the #TrackFLU project! Interested in fieldwork and #phylodynamics of avian influenza viruses, this is for you! Deadline: April 13th More info at lnkd.in/dJYeeEsC @epidesa.bsky.social @pasteur.fr @inrae-france.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

New Correspondence - Wang et al - Pathogens don’t respect politicians: US federal disruption poses a new threat to global public health https://buff.ly/4hsVANG #MedSky #IDSky #GastroSky #HepSky @pippa-matt.bsky.social @suwang88.bsky.social

📢 This is my first post! 🧪 We are recruiting a postdoc to work on modeling vaccination strategies for epizootic haemorrhagic disease, transmitted by midges. Duration ~ 18 months Start ~ spring 2025 Please share & if interested find more info here: iddjobs.org/jobs/constra...

When misinformation and lack of trust in institutions lead to fear about a feed additive designed to reduce GHG emissions from cattle. www.bbc.com/news/article...

In the past decade, there has been a massive increase in the number of scientific publications. The following paper by Hanson et al. provides an interesting analysis of the factors associated with this increase.

New blog post! Have you (like me!) wondered what the ATT means and how it's different from average treatment effects? I use #rstats to explore why we care about the ATE, ATT, and ATU + how to calculate them with observational data! #polisky #episky #econsky www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/03...

New blog! I describe the many reasons to be disheartened in academia, incl. bad papers, broken peer-review, the publishing industry, & precarious contracts. I argue that it's so important not to become cynical, and provide my personal antidotes to cynicism creep. 🧪⚒️ #stats #AcademicSky #PsychSciSky

We have a new paper out on the seasonality of tick abundance in France. We show different patterns in different sites that can be related to local climatic conditions.