🪰Fitness consequences of parasitism in a changing world: A case study with bird blow flies and sagebrush songbirds. The authors provide an empirical example of how parasitism can combine with extrinsic stressors to affect host fitness

📖 Read the full paper here ➡️ buff.ly/PWTfZLJ

We know that wildlife provisioning can promote or inhibit infectious disease spread, depending on things like food quality.

What about pathogen evolution? Using math with a focus on birdfeeders and house finches, we found that high quality food selects for higher virulence!

doi.org/10.1086/738726

I haven’t been on social media much but I wanted to share the limited OS link to our new review in Trends in Parasitology.

Net positive effects of early-life parasitism on wild animal host fitness

@ashley-love.bsky.social

The link will work until Decembet!

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Some literally amazing research on parasite coextinction and recovery in the kakapo - makes me so happy to see this www.cell.com/current-biol...

New paper out modelling how the nutritional content of wild bird foods could affect disease transmission - a nice follow-up application of our Molecular Ecology study showing that food quality can affect immune function and disease tolerance.
doi.org/10.1093/icb/... @durantlab.bsky.social

🧪 New paper out at Molecular Ecology! We find that diet quality impacts host ability to tolerate infection and use transcriptomics to determine the molecular mechanisms underlying these diet-driven differences. This was a fun collab between @durantlab.bsky.social & @lewislab.bsky.social labs.

Thread with an email being sent to @asn-amnat.bsky.social @sse-evolution.bsky.social @systbiol.bsky.social members today calling for a Tri-society week of action for NSF:

Dear members:
The tri-societies (ASN, SSE,SSB) are running a ‘Week of Action for NSF’. Your engagement is crucial.

How vulnerable are #amphibians to extreme heat? 🐸🌡️

Our paper in @nature.com shows that many amphibians are already overheating, and many more species will be impacted by climate warming globally.

See the thread below for a digest 🧵

Link to the paper: doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#Nature

A high lipid diet leads to worse infectious disease outcomes. Interesting implications for wildlife food supplementation. Always exciting to have a new manuscript out! Congrats @ashley-love.bsky.social @sauerscientist.bsky.social
@jexpbiol.Bsky.social

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Welp this is horrifying. These researchers quantified the "stratigraphy" of plastic waste used in Common Coot nests. Using expiration dates, they found one nest that contained 635 (!!!) pieces of trash, including plastic dating back to 1991.

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Raptors highly impacted by HPAI, but to they survive infection? Antibodies to H5 and N1 were detected in 60/316 individuals across 6 species, where Bald Eagles have highest seroprev = higher survival rate post-HP H5N1 than expected.
👉 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Just a few more days to apply for a PhD with me! Use new technologies to study movement and ecology of serotine bats in UK. Evidence can guide future rabies control strategies, helping bats and people. Click on project 'Understanding transmission..' here: www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex... #PhD #bats

Our next Student Research Grant Seminar is at noon (ET) on Monday, 3/3: "The impact of wildfires on the vocal output of boreal birds communities in Alaska" with Brendan A. Graham, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Arctic Biology
INFO: americanornithology.org/professional...
#AOS_SRGS #AOSmembers

2025. Replacing native grazers with livestock influences arthropods to have implications for ecosystem functions and disease esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New Research Highlight: citizen science observations shed light on how anthropogenic food sources influence wildlife disease - https://buff.ly/48C9ucE 🦠
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"Feather mites have been known to consume microbes from their host feathers, but here, for the first time, we demonstrate that they selectively consume feather-degrading microbes from feathers...."🪽
Read the full paper here: https://buff.ly/3OmCOKN 🧪 🌏