I was just reviewing a document and the writers used the word “lodestar” very eloquently. As a lover of words, this made me happy. That is all…

📅 Join NASA's ARSET for a free online training on satellite remote sensing to study climate-sensitive infectious diseases, with GEOG Chair Tatiana Loboda tomorrow, Oct. 7, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. EDT. 2nd part with @mcwimberly.bsky.social on Thur. Register now: tinyurl.com/32zxw8yx

Maybe not a stereotypical beach read, but just finished "Everything is Tuberculosis" by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social. Quick, informative read with more emotional punch than I expected, & clear explanation of TB + social determinants of health (verboten to discuss in this admin).

Excited to share a new paper by former postdoc Dan Wanyama (now Asst Prof at UCONN) on dynamics of West African forests. Dan fused Landsat time series, GEDI Lidar, and VIIRS/MODIS active fires to assess the effects of forest loss, degradation, and recovery on biomass. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

I'm pleased to share a new article on climate variation and West Nile virus transmission in SD and LA. Eric Bump extended previous work on temperature, humidity and rainfall to explore windspeed. Thanks to Eric and to our collaborators at the SD and LA Depts. of Health! doi.org/10.1029/2024...

The manuscript offers new insights into spatial and temporal patterns of urban microclimate, emphasizing contrasts between dry- and wet-bulb temperatures and indoor and outdoor microenvironment. We would be interested to hear your feedback!

NLM is soliciting input on the future of its extramural funding. If you have a vision of how NLM should advance informatics research, speak up now! Comments due July 14. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

I'm shocked and saddened by today's news from Ahmedabad. I have a malaria research project there and have flown in and out of that airport many times. Some of my colleagues in the city government are on the ground at the crash site helping with the response. My heart goes out to all of you!

My thoughts on the defunding of disease cure research, origin of COVID, the executive order on so-called gain of function research, China’s advances in biotech, the spread of avian flu, and why the US needs to shed this fictional worldview ASAP. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/gain...

Final call www.linkedin.com/posts/geogra...

You are speed running what happened in Eastern Europe in the 90s. When My father was fired from his science job his next gig was guarding a scrap metal depo. Because he had kids to feed. Luckily he was able to find a science job a few years later, but in industry not in academia.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

'As much as the science and education communities may disregard post-truth as an annoying inconvenience, it is here, and it is about more than denial of scientific knowledge, methods, and reasoning. It is more than a problem of rationality and objectivity.' www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Amid Oklahoma tornado season, scientists warn NOAA cuts could impact forecasting, public safety | KGOU www.kgou.org/weather-and-... #Oklahoma

New Biogeosciences paper on geographic and seasonal patterns of photosynthesis across African tropical forests using satellite-measured chlorophyll fluorescence. Results highlight distinctive environmental drivers of productivity in West vs. Central Africa. @egu.eu bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...

As a proud member of the @agu.org, I’m happy to see the society take a stand for science, effective government, and federal employees!

Remember: NOAA is not its social media accounts. Do not let the takeover of NOAA communications take away your support of the real NOAA and the very real scientists behind it. The administration would want nothing more than for us to stop supporting our science agencies 🧪

World Malaria Day. Progress has been made on malaria elimination but it remains a killer. Changing climate, invasive mosquitoes, and limited global funding are threatening efforts. Today, we are in India working to better understand the effects of climate on urban malaria. @mcwimberly.bsky.social

Spent World Malaria Day with @ecodynvplab.bsky.social and colleagues in Surat, India studying mosquito microhabitats in urban construction sites. Best wishes to all who work to control and eliminate this terrible disease- your efforts are greatly appreciated!

Exciting PhD opportunity alert!!!! 👇👇👇🌶️🌶️https://geods.ac.uk/2025/04/22/fully-funded-phd-opportunity-advancing-urban-analytics-through-ai-driven-geodemographic-classification/ 🌶️🌶️ #AI #GIS #DataScientist #GeoAI

We set another 36 loggers across construction sites today to monitor the microclimate mosquitoes experience during the pre-monsoon season. Here are some pics of construction trucks because they make me happy. Why can't we have colorful trucks in the U.S.? @mcwimberly.bsky.social

Always a fun time in the urban construction dungeons of Surat with @ecodynvplab.bsky.social! This study will provide valuable data on the microclimatology of construction sites that will help us understand how they serve as foci for urban #malaria transmission.

This would undoubtedly be the major story on Fox News for the next 24 hours if the Homeland Security Secretary worked in a Democratic administration.

This saying has become very resonant for me in recent times...

This is such a good take.

The “plan”, and I use that term loosely, seems to be to make-believe that that weather and climate don’t exist and hope that everyone will eventually stop noticing the tornadoes, droughts, hurricanes, floods, etc.

New paper out! A common computational approach to predict organismal fitness and distributions in the field could vastly overpredict the potential range of thermal suitability for malaria transmission relative to performance characterized at constant temperatures: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

"Democracy dies by gaslight" deserves to go viral

The graphical abstract of this paper

Some radical left-wing signs for the April 5 protest: NIH funding helps cure diseases. My parents' 401K helps them afford normal life. People should be able to call Social Security offices. NATO allies are the good guys. Measles is not a good thing.

The only relevant political point is that Republican members of Congress are all supporting these tariffs 100%. They could stop them at any moment. Each day is on them. Everyone with a messaging bullhorn needs to make that clear. They can pull the plug now or pay the price at the polls next year.

Rats are finally getting the respect they deserve, making the cover of Science magazine. Check this out @aliceleewimberly.bsky.social!

The GEO Health Community of Practice has another great webinar coming up on Friday, April 11 at noon EDT. Join to hear Bailey Magers talk about his work using satellites to monitor environmental risk factors and inform predictive models for outbreaks of cholera and related water-borne pathogens.

We deserved some good news!

William Tate, a Black man who is President of LSU, has spoken out against the dangers of NIH cuts at his school. I’ve reached my limit of some faculty on here at “elite” schools falsely claiming that no one’s speaking up when folks are but they don’t see them because they don’t see those schools.

My mom died 25 years ago today. I was 18. It's really something to barely remember pretty memorable things from like 5 years ago but lucidly recall that entire day basically from the minute my dad picked me up at school to rush to Minneapolis. NIH research prolonged her life by at least 5 years.

I worry about the thousands of international journalism students currently at US college campus

Excited to read this. People who know me know I’m always yapping about the social construction of data; data are made, not gathered! What we call “bias” in observational data in epi is actually a byproduct of the social construction process!!

Democrats are the worst communicators in the history of politics. They're going to "well the fascists have a point" us into the dark ages.

It is alarming that trade associations aren't getting meetings with the new administration about the future of NOAA. Per a Feb. letter, "Perhaps no other federal entity facilitates greater economic and commercial activity than NOAA and its data sources." susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/only-the-p...

This is really one of the best takes I have seen on the current state of US politics… “just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns”

Occasional reminder that Don Quixote is so full of good jokes and punch lines that people still use the same joke patterns 420 years later!

I wish NPR would run fewer science stories like "how our brains work, part 43" or "the nature of time itself" and more on, say, climate change and ecosystems, fire, or extreme floods. And slip in a mention of how many fired fed employees or grant $ pulled focused on "exactly what we're discussing."

Check out this wonderful series of articles on the challenges of agriculture and the Chesapeake Bay by the legendary journalist Karl Blankenship in the Chesapeake Bay Journal. www.bayjournal.com/ag-and-the-b...

A doc in Texas is promoting useless measles remedies that do nothing except delay essential care for kids with serious infections. 👉Pseudoscience and magical thinking do not save lives. 👉Vaccines save lives.

If you are as desperate for political hope as I am right now, you will find some in @hcrichardson.bsky.social's post chronicling how abolitionist's outrage over the Missouri Compromise eventually led to the formation of the Republican party. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

This is scary. Targeted with anonymous, AI-generated accusations. Then the University quickly gets on board to undercut its own scholar before figuring out if they are true. This could happen to any of us…

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Some early, subjective verification for the Level 4 - Moderate risk severe weather outbreak across the Mississippi Valley. Storm reports will continue to come in over the next day or two.