Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)

Last week the drone pilots in my lab captured this image (photo 1) of a large sea lion haul out @ San Carlos Beach in Monterey during our monthly surveys. Last year (photo 2) a large sea lion haul out was seen at the same beach. This might be turning into a new haul out site. @uwsafs.bsky.social

New review out in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social from our rodent-borne zoonoses workshop @ciddpsu.bsky.social 🐭🌍 Humans & rodents share a long history and many pathogens -from plague to mpox. Outbreak prevention needs socially + ecologically grounded solutions 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Using this new textbook to prepare disease ecology lectures, it’s just fabulous! Smooth and clear writing, excellent topics highlighted, and beautiful figures and layout throughout. If you have any interest at all in wildlife pathogens and disease ecology, GET THIS BOOK. Seriously.

Sharing this starter pack again with lots of great disease ecologists, contact me if you'd like to be added or know someone who should be on this list! Feel free to forward to fresh bluesky arrivals who may be interested. bsky.app/starter-pack...

Preprint and the website by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @vincentab.bsky.social are great, and I got inspired to illustrate Bayesian workflow for model checking and comparison *before* model interpretation following their friendship importance example users.aalto.fi/~ave/casestu...

Excited to announce a search for an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling at Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Details at link and below. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Last chance to get your abstracts in for the 20th International Bat Research Conference (IBRC) in Australia in August! It's shaping up to be an exciting program, in an incredible world heritage location, with diverse workshops and field trips. Abstracts due this Wednesday 14th May!! www.ibrc.org

Does anyone know of a good brief overview/summary of bad for-profit publishing practices that people can use to share with co-authors who are on the fence about choosing a ‘lower-impact’ but ethically better alternative? I feel like everyone agrees things are bad, but worry too much about CV impact.

Excited to share this new paper led by PhD student Cinthia Pietromonaco, exploring age estimation in bats, with a focus on Australian flying foxes. doi.org/10.1071/WR24... 🦇 Turns out, that we don't all mean the same thing when we use the term "adult" or "juvenile". Why should we care? 1/

Welcome to Bluesky to my fab Bat One Health collaborators Raina Plowright @rainap.bsky.social & Tamika Lunn @tamika-lunn.bsky.social 🦇 Looking for more disease ecologists? Check out this starter pack by the equally fabulous Benny Borremans

New bat paper from our lab. Small changes in bats' diet can decrease influenza shedding and alter cytokine expression. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #bats #influenza #iav photo credit: José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca

Serological data provide key insights on pathogen circulation. We introduce a new R package, Rsero, which is a pipeline to store and analyze age-stratified sero data, estimate the history of pathogen circulation and compare different transmission models. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

I just heard from a colleague that his friend's NSF panel was canceled last minute "to confirm they are in compliance with presidential directives". We know the NIH is being politically targeted; it seems the NSF may be affected as well. A goal of diminishing American science.

Disease ecologist starter pack -- reply with people/organizations to be added or with related lists/feeds #diseaseecology 🦠🐀🦠🦇🦠🦭🦠🦆🦠 go.bsky.app/RwAuiNT

Lucid insights on where we’re at on actually understanding pandemics, and where we’re not (yet) at:

Please share this postdoc position based at the Royal Vet College working on a very cool US-UK EEID project with some wonderful people: @jraghwani.bsky.social + Christina Faust, James Hassell, Oli Pybus, Dan Streicker, Sarah Knowles. Reach out to Jayna directly for questions and details.

New paper! 🦠🐭🦟 Perspectives on the route towards a 'people and nature' paradigm for biodiversity-disease research and action, with fantastic co-authors @profkatej.bsky.social, @dwredding.bsky.social and Sagan Friant. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Disease ecologist starter pack -- reply with people/organizations to be added or with related lists/feeds #diseaseecology 🦠🐀🦠🦇🦠🦭🦠🦆🦠 go.bsky.app/RwAuiNT

The Oregon Department of Agriculture announced that Portland's Morasch Meat’s Northwest Naturals brand 2 lb. Turkey Recipe raw frozen pet food tested positive for a H5N1 strain of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) virus. 1/5

Bat-derived viruses have been afflicting humanity with disturbing frequency in recent decades. Why bats? Why now? And how can we stop it? My latest in @sciam.bsky.social 🧵 Some cool facts about bats and fascinating science 1/ www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Excellent review on the spread of avian influenza H5N1 in recent years, that reads like a scary detective story. Incredible what can be reconstructed from genetics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Over 5 years of writing code, collating metadata, processing, QCing, reprocessing, QCing, reprocessing…… not to mention the weeks, months, & years of field work by a small army of researchers. I am SO excited that we’re sharing this incredible dataset. 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

HIV-1 has, for decades, been called, well, HIV-1. But no, according to the ICTV, that will no longer do, so the new name for this virus is "Lentivirus humimdef1". Yup, you read that right. Somebody needs to take away whatever drugs the committee is on. All viruses renamed - it's insane.

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New NERC DTP PhD opportunity on social networks and demography in Soay sheep with me, Dan Nussey, Amy Sweeny and others (Autumn 2025 start). Apply by January 6th. Project and application details: e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

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Okay I started a wildlife health starter pack! Please share and let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/MFMtaMw

𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 0.6.1 for #Rstats is out! It's an ultra simple, super flexible, and 0-dependency package to draw beautiful tables in HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Word, PDF, and PNG. And for those who ❤️ documentation, 𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢𝚝𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 ships with a billion pages of tutorials: vincentarelbundock.github.io/tinytable/

New study tracking epidemic dynamics using cycle threshold values (a proxy for viral load) from routine hospital and community testing. This is the next step of our work from 2021 showing that the population distribution of Ct values over time is related to SARS-CoV-2 epidemic growth rates.

Building a starter pack with disease ecologists, reply/DM/tag me with people or feeds to add! #diseaseecology 🦠🦠🦇🐀🦭🦠🦠 go.bsky.app/RwAuiNT

Building a starter pack with disease ecologists, reply/DM/tag me with people or feeds to add! #diseaseecology 🦠🦠🦇🐀🦭🦠🦠 go.bsky.app/RwAuiNT

NSF makes you say who you got conflicts (coauthored) with. We (really just Jordan Matelsky) just built you a tool for that. Literally one click: bib.experiments.kordinglab.com/nsf-coa

Great article by Katharine Walter on expanding range of #ValleyFever. Fungal diseases have unique #epidemiology driven by climate change, natural and human disturbance, and biological and ecological processes that we don't understand well! www.noemamag.com/the-making-o... #OneHealth #Epidemiology 🧪

Great paper showing mammal-mammal and mammal-bird (elephant seals and terns) transmission and mammalian adaptations in both mammals and birds. Study in Argentina and reviews S American viruses. #H5N1 #influenza www.nature.com/articles/s41...