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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · Jul 3

This could be a great standard to integrate into museum databases @arctosdb.bsky.social

The Carlson Lab @ Yale @carlsonlab.bsky.social · Jun 23

Do you study wildlife disease? Don't just share your sequences - share your testing data! We've developed a minimum data standard and an R package to help you, and wrote a little how-to-share-data handbook for disease ecology and One Health surveillance projects 🦇🦟🦠🗺️🔢

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance - Scientific Data

Scientific Data - A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance

www.nature.com

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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · Dec 17

I'm adding a "using AI" component to my BioCS class.

The goal is not to build neutral networks, but to educate users on how to write effective queries, validate output, etc. What resources and/or assignments are out there already?

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Laboratory of Functional Viromics (LETKO) @fviromics.bsky.social · Nov 20

Anybody studying bat viruses and immunology knows there aren’t enough publicly available resources. You can only buy 3 bat cell lines at the moment and they aren’t suitable for many viruses. The first bat cell line was deposited with ATCC in 1967, btw.

Link: tinyurl.com/53nvxkyx

Viral susceptibility and innate immune competency of Carollia perspicillata bat cells produced for virological studies

Multiple viruses that are highly pathogenic in humans are known to have evolved in bats. How bats tolerate infection with these viruses, however, is poorly understood. As viruses engage in a wide rang...

tinyurl.com

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Genome Research @genomeresearch.bsky.social · Nov 20

SPECIAL ISSUE! This month Genome Research publishes a diverse collection of research and review articles in a special issue highlighting advances in long-read sequencing applications in biology and medicine. Full issue links here: tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3....

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · Nov 19

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

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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · Nov 19

Check out our updated database of 189 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities.

For each fellowship, we provide a description, $ amount, deadline, link to funder and eligibility criteria (such as citizenship).

Good luck!

Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · Nov 19

It was an honor to assemble and lead this talented group of Latin American scientists in the first ever *MEPA Field+Genomics Workshop* at Otongachi, Ecuador. #collectionsAreEssential

@Museo_QCAZ @CISeAL_PUCE @PUCE_Ecuador @ResearchAtKU @kunhm @KU_EEB @UNM_MSB

Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · Mar 19

Museum / Mammal Community: where are y'all buying canvas trap bags these days? #collectionsAreEssential
@mammalogists.bsky.social

Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · Jan 28

This weekend the KUBI Division of Mammals is kicking off a new research project surveying microbial communities of small mammals at the KU Field Station. Pictured here is the Mammal Collection Manager, Dianna, skillfully placing a Sherman live trap #rockchalk

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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · Dec 2

My first book chapter came out this week! Honored to be among this group of authors and looking forward to new collaborations that emerged from this work. Big shout out to my coauthors Cook, Grieman, Kutz, and Lutz

Applied Environmental Genomics

DNA is the essence of life and the original ‘big data’. New technologies are allowing scientists to access and make sense of this information like never before, and they are using it to solve the ...

www.publish.csiro.au

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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · Dec 2

ha too true!

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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · Oct 31

UW Genome Sciences is hiring a new Assistant Professor working in computational biology! apply.interfolio.com/135108

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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · Nov 28

KU BioGEM post-bacc applications are open now: biogem.ku.edu

+ great way to gain PAID research experience following graduation
+ the website features a bunch of Mammal students! ;)

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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · Nov 8

Utah Natural History Museum really knows how to impress 😍

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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · Nov 2

Hey Blueskiiers, I have an open position for a PhD student to study phylogenetic models. Topics include evolution, popgen, epidemiology, stats, machine learning, etc. Applications are due by Dec 1st. Please share!

landislab.org (email address here)
dbbs.wustl.edu/admissions/a...

🧪 #evosky #episky

Landis Lab @ WUSTL

Modeling evolutionary histories

landislab.org

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Curtis Suttle @virosphere.bsky.social · Oct 27

Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.

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Morgan Kelly @invertevoeco.bsky.social · Oct 24

One week left to apply!

LSU is searching for a Population Geneticist. You'll have lots of awesome collaborators:
www.lsu.edu/science/bios...

Applications due Oct 30
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo...

Please spread the word--

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