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Wildlife Disease Association - Australasian Section @wdaa.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations to Dr Alison Peel, winner of this year‘s prestigious WDA-A Barry L Munday Award for her extraordinary and extensive contributions to the field of wildlife health. @alibat.bsky.social #wdaa2025

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Dr Simon Goodman @phoca-sapiens.bsky.social · 6d

The recently formed IUCN Parasite Specialist Group has just launched a Bluesky account. Give them a follow to get news about the conservation and amazing biology of parasites. Many parasite species are co-endangered with their hosts and need more conservation attention. 🌍🧪🪱

IUCN SSC Parasite Specialist Group @iucnparasites.bsky.social · 20d

Hello, Bluesky! We're the IUCN SSC Parasite Specialist Group, a part of the Species Survival Commission! We're just starting to understand the important roles parasites play in their ecosystems, and our goal is to determine the threats wildlife parasites face and to conserve rare and unique species!

Rhinoceros Stomach Bot Fly (Gyrostigma rhinocerontis), a black-and-orange bot fly specializing in White Rhinos (Ceratotherium simum) and Black Rhinos (Diceros bicornis) in Africa. Credit: Bernard Dupont, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gyrostigma_rhinocerontis_(Owen,_1830)_1(a)_-_iNaturalist.org.jpg

A Ryukyu Rabbit Tick (Haemaphysalis pentalagi), a brown tick that specializes on the Amami Rabbit (Pentalagus furnessi) on Amami Ōshima, one of the southern islands of Japan. Credit: Takamasa Nemoto

The Manx Shearwater Flea (Ceratophyllus (Emmareus) fionnus), a flea known only from the Isle of Rùm off the west coast of Scotland, where it specializes on nesting colonies of the Manx Shearwater (Puffinus puffinus). Credit: Olha Schedrina / The Natural History Museum

Rhinoceros Tick (Dermacentor rhinocerinus), a spotted orange-and-black tick species that specializes on White Rhinos (Ceratotherium simum) and Black Rhinos (Diceros bicornis) in Africa. Credit: Moira Fitzpatrick

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IUCN SSC Parasite Specialist Group @iucnparasites.bsky.social · 20d

Hello, Bluesky! We're the IUCN SSC Parasite Specialist Group, a part of the Species Survival Commission! We're just starting to understand the important roles parasites play in their ecosystems, and our goal is to determine the threats wildlife parasites face and to conserve rare and unique species!

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Maureen Laroche, PhD, FRES @tattooed-bug.bsky.social · 6d

New paper from our lab!

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

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ᴅʀ. ᴍᴏᴡɪɴᴄᴋᴇʟ'ꜱ @drmowinckels.io · 7d

Just published my new R article: 'Mapply: When You Need to Iterate Over Multiple Inputs'! 🚀 If `sapply` doesn't quite cut it for your multi-variable iterations, `mapply` is your friend. Learn to pair inputs beautifully. #RStats #Mapply
https://drmo.site/bhXeDb

A graphic showing the concept of mapply in R, with multiple input vectors being paired and processed by a function returning a single output vector.

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bioRxiv Ecology @biorxiv-ecology.bsky.social · 9d

The camtrapR R package: From data management to interactive ecological analysis of camera trap data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.26.678697v1

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Diego Silva @dsilvaphd.bsky.social · 13d

What are the ethical parameters of modelling infectious diseases, particularly during an outbreak or pandemic? Sara Del Valle, Michael Plank, & I answer this question in our new paper looking at the ethics of disease modelling for public health policy, particularly as it pertains to school closures.

Ethical considerations in infectious disease modelling for public health policy: the case of school closures | Interface Focus

Mathematical models of infectious diseases are frequently used as a tool to support public health policy and decisions around the implementation of interventions such as school closures. However, most...

royalsocietypublishing.org

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The Carlson Lab @ Yale @carlsonlab.bsky.social · 13d

🚨 We're about to start reviewing applications, but there's still time to reach out for our postdoc position on climate change impact attribution! If you have experience with attribution science or climate epidemiology, and want to help us launch the Global Burden of Climate Change Study, reach out!

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juli g pausas @jgpausas.bsky.social · 14d

Sequoia sempervirens (redwood; world's tallest tree) is well adapted to high-intensity crown fires (eg 2020), but Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia; world's most massive tree) is adapted to surface fires only!
bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🧪🌍🔥🌿🌳🔥🪴 @botsocamerica.bsky.social

Sequoia sempervirens (Coast redwood) resprouting epicormically after a high-intensity fire

Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia) with a fire scar in the base from a surface fire

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Ecography @ecography.bsky.social · 15d

Most mammals do not wander: few species escape continental endemism vist.ly/47xag #Mammals #Biogeography #Diet

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Sujatha Fernandes @sujathaf.bsky.social · 15d

Join us on Weds Oct 8, 2 - 4pm at USyd for a panel on the political economy of colonialism in South Asia, Palestine, and Australia with Ihab Shalbak, Suvendrini Perera and myself. Read more and register here:

events.humanitix.com/colonialism-...

Colonialism, Labor, Ecologies

This panel talk is a part of an event series: Land Justice and Climate Futures, presented by Sujatha Fernandes.

events.humanitix.com

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Andrés Baselga @andresbaselga.bsky.social · 16d

Our paper on how to use the spatial scaling of community phylogenetic uniqueness came out during the summer but we haven't posted it yet:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Areas of High Biodiversity Value Evidenced by the Spatial Scaling of Phylogenetic Uniqueness

Phylogenetic endemism is the most efficient single criterion to maximise global phylogenetic diversity within the smallest land area, and can be complemented with the spatial scaling of phylogenetic ...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Dr James Kite @jdkite.bsky.social · 15d

Please consider signing this petition to save the UTS public health program and our colleagues. Public health is so important and our colleagues deserve better! chng.it/b7yV6tywPd

Cambia algo. Firma esta perición.

Save UTS Public Health – For Students, Communities, and Equity

chng.it

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Navneet Dhand @ndhand.bsky.social · 15d

So grateful to Vet Record for sharing my journey. Thankful to the mentors, colleagues, collaborators, and students who’ve been part of it.

Read the full story in Vet Record:
bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

#Veterinary #Epidemiology #OneHealth #Gratitude #VetMed #Journey #Career

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Maya Juman @mayajuman.bsky.social · 16d

Super excited to finally share this! #CollectionsAreEssential

Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 16d

🦇🦠 New preprint - in a long-term effort led by the amazing @mayajuman.bsky.social, we've shown that the ML tools developed by @viralemergence.org let us efficiently screen museum collections for pathogens with pandemic potential

🎉🔓 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Museum collections and machine learning guide discovery of novel coronaviruses and paramyxoviruses

Natural history museum collections are valuable but underutilized resources for viral discovery, offering opportunities to test hypotheses about viral occurrence across space, time, and taxonomic grou...

www.biorxiv.org

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Ed Jegasothy @edjegasothy.bsky.social · 16d

Reducing hazards ≠ justice. Unless we tackle the inequalities that shape who suffers harms & who benefits, inequity persists. My new blog on false equity arguments and why “doing one without the other is the injustice”:
👉 edjegasothy.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/d...

The dangerous allure of false equity arguments

Over the past few years, something to which I have kept returning is how often equity is invoked in debates about public health and the environment – and how often those claims don’t really hold up…

edjegasothy.wordpress.com

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Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. @arctomet.bsky.social · 18d

How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge url: academic.oup.com/jmammal/arti...

How many mammal species are there now? Updates and trends in taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geographic knowledge

The Mammal Diversity Database 2.0, listing 6,759 mammal species and 50,230 species-level synonyms, unifies 267 yr of taxonomic, nomenclatural, and geograph

academic.oup.com

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Rebecca C Christofferson @rchristo.bsky.social · 18d

Happy 21st of September!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs06...

Earth, Wind & Fire - September (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by EarthWindandFireVEVO

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Ecological Dynamics Dept. | IZW Berlin @ecodynizw.bsky.social · 20d

Please RT!

📢 #Doctoral / #PhD position available with us at Leibniz-IZW for 4 years working at the interface of #wildlife + #disease #ecology, #veterinary sciences and #modelling.
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Training within #DFG #RTG 3069 led by @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

▶️Apply here for P7: tinyurl.com/j2ehtz7m

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 21d

Across 97% of forest area from eight million sampled forested locations, the density of aboveground biomass is lower near forest edges than in forest interiors. This edge effect is estimated to be responsible for 9% reduction in forest aboveground biomass.🧪🌲🌴🌳

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

A globally consistent negative effect of edge on aboveground forest biomass - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Across 97% of forest area from eight million sampled forested locations worldwide, the density of aboveground biomass is lower near forest edges than in forest interiors. Given widespread forest fragm...

www.nature.com

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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 20d

“Indefensible” cuts to public health at University of Technology Sydney will have wide-ranging impacts, key groups warn
www.croakey.org/indefensible...
With comments from AHPA & article by Holly Donaldson, Executive Director of CAPHIA

“Indefensible” cuts to public health at University of Technology Sydney will have wide-ranging impacts, key groups w

Introduction by Croakey: Associate Professor Ben Harris-Roxas published an article at Croakey yesterday, urging readers to engage with lobbying and

www.croakey.org

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Jemma Geoghegan @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social · 20d

Our latest preprint evaluates sampling strategies for the detection of avian influenza virus from the environment @profgemmell.bsky.social @dwinter.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Evaluating sampling strategies for the detection of avian influenza viruses in the environment

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses threaten humans, livestock and wildlife, highlighting the urgent need for early warning surveillance. Environmental RNA (eRNA) monitoring provides a sa...

www.biorxiv.org

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Dr Liam Brierley @liambrierley.bsky.social · 21d

🚨📝 New work via @thepandemicinst.bsky.social now preprinted!

We took ~19000 sequences of avian influenza virus and trained machine learning models on >40000 genomic/proteomic features - the resulting ensemble can predict zoonotic potential with AUC=0.95. More below!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

An AI for an AI: identifying zoonotic potential of avian influenza viruses via genomic machine learning

Avian influenza remains a serious risk to human health via zoonotic transmission, as well as a feasible pandemic threat. Although limited zoonotic cases have resulted from the current epizootic outbre...

www.biorxiv.org

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 20d

Our software paper on SpeciesDistributionToolkit.jl is now published in @peercomjournal.bsky.social - peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

A Julia toolkit for species distribution data

peercommunityjournal.org

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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 20d

Important new paper from
@marshallburke.bsky.social
on the devastating toll of wildfire smoke in
@nature.com

"climate-driven smoke deaths result in economic damages that exceed existing estimates of climate-driven damages from all other causes combined in the US"
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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