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Brooke
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PhD candidate 🦇🌎 🧬 at the UC Davis One Health Institute • ARCS Scholar • ecoimmunology, comp bio, & #OneHealth ✨
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POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California

2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin.

ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003
Fredston Lab: Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucsc.edu
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Hi Mammalogists!

Reminder that the Black and Indigenous Scholars Award is open/accepting applications! Eligibility information/application link on our website: mammalsociety.org/committees/i...
Deadline is Oct 15.

Please share, we look forward to reviewing all applications.

IDEA Committee
Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Anti-Bias (IDEA) | American Society of Mammalogists
mammalsociety.org
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New cures feel sudden, but the seeds were planted decades ago by basic scientists.

Which seeds will turn into cures? Unpredictable looking forward, a straight line looking back. 🧪🧬 🧵
Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time
One of the most devastating diseases finally has a treatment that can slow its progression and transform lives, tearful doctors tell BBC.
www.bbc.com
Thanks to @ucdproteomics.bsky.social & the team at our core facility for training me from the ground up in all things proteomics & to the wonderful @nistara.bsky.social for everything I now know about using R ☺️
The first chapter of my dissertation work is finally out in @acs.org JPR🥲 we looked the impacts of different specimen inactivation methods (TRIzol, irradiation, heat) on the greater serum proteome. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
pubs.acs.org
Day 2 of #WDA2025 🌎 cool talks about #hantavirus in CA, wild ungulate health, Australian bats, and vector-borne diseases!

@onehealthinstitute.bsky.social
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A study in Nature Communications used AI to mine global venom proteomes and discovered novel peptides with antimicrobial activity. Several candidates showed efficacy against drug-resistant bacteria in laboratory and animal tests. go.nature.com/4f0zYb4 #medsky 🧪
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Healthspan has a proteomic signature!
About 3,000 plasma proteins assessed and validated in 2 cohorts. Immune response and inflammation proteins stood out.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Nautilus-shell bolo ties. Taxidermized coyote paws and preserved bobcat hearts. Art and jewelry made from butterflies' wings.

You can buy these things (and others) on Etsy or eBay.

We are calling on these platforms to commit to ending these sales by the end of the year. Add your voice ⬇️
Tell Etsy and eBay: Stop Selling Wildlife Products
The global wildlife trade poses a significant risk to animals and plants around the world. Yet you can buy wildlife products on Etsy or eBay — and every sale helps push species closer to extinction. C...
act.biologicaldiversity.org
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“wild animals navigating their natural world can provide new perspectives regarding important issues in reproductive health. …we should be looking to the extraordinary feats of wild animals -- they have often found the most innovative solutions,"
🧪 #Scicomm #ReproSky
www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...
Studying How Seals Adapt to Extreme Environments Could Lead to Benefits in Human Reproductive Health
What can wild animals teach us about human reproduction?
www.whoi.edu
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"A GO term analysis? how is this helpful?"
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Breaking news: Thousands of researchers and their supporters, including recently fired federal workers, have gathered across the U.S. in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration. scim.ag/41zlPv4
Thousands gather across U.S. in Stand Up for Science events
Scientists rally across the country in response to layoffs and funding cuts ordered by the Trump administration
scim.ag
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My undergrads were lucky to have had Dr. Peter Salk, Jonas Salk's son, lecture on polio and polio vaccine in class today. This moment with Peter in the foreground showing a picture of him as a little boy, being vaccinated by his father, struck me as unique and poignant.
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"For too long, bats have been perceived as a problem."

WCS Health is looking to generate a common understanding of the benefits that biodiversity brings to human health, writes Maricruz Jaramillo.

🌎 medium.com/one-planet-o...
Conserving Guardians of the Night
How Bats Benefit Ecosystems and Human Health
medium.com
As a Pitt alum, this is so devastating to see.
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Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.
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