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Adam Hasik

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Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh. Lover of all things parasites, ecology, and evolution! He/him

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Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · 7d

New paper alert! In my second first-author paper from my work on the Isle of Rum Red Deer Project @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social we show, for only the second time in a wild population, that parasites mediate inbreeding depression.

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

Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer

Heredity - Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer

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Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · 7d

Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer

Heredity - Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer

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Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Aug 19

Thrilled to share my first first-author paper from my work with the Isle of Rum Red Deer Project! @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social

We found that host density acts to increase parasitism through two mechanisms: increased exposure and increased susceptibility.

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Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer | Parasitology | Cambridge Core

Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer

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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · Aug 18

Interested in the role of journals in supporting open, credible and diverse research? Come see my talk at #ESEB2025 Tuesday 3-3:30pm, symposium S11, room 122/123.

I will also be taking about our fantastic new data editor guidelines

Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Richard S. Turner @rsturner.bsky.social · Jul 22

📣 Hot off the press! 🔥🧪

'Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social'.

Proud to have played a small role on this one with an amazing team led by @hasikadam.bsky.social! 🦌🌱🪱

Read about it here 👇

Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer | Parasitology | Cambridge Core

Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer

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Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Jul 14

Laksa is some of the best food ever

Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Apr 24

This paper began as a project during a PhD course in 2018, and would not have been possible without the hard work by and collaboration with @adamsiepielski.bsky.social , @phylieu.bsky.social , @drilvonen.bsky.social , @tiziana-gobbin.bsky.social , Jukka Suhonen, and Robert Poulin (2/2).

Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Apr 24

It is with SUPREME pleasure that I can finally share my most recently-published paper in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com !

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We outline a framework for linking the microevolutionary effects of parasites to the macroevolutionary dynamics of their hosts (1/2).

Parasitism as a driver of host diversification - Nature Reviews Biodiversity

Parasites and their hosts can have complex ecological interactions and evolutionary histories. This Perspective argues that parasites are a major driver of host speciation and outlines an empirical fr...

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Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Apr 16

Publishing agreement is signed, and soon a project I've been working on since 2018 will be published!!!!

Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Feb 13

How many faculty jobs did people apply for before they got their first interview? Asking for a friend....

Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Feb 10

Thank you!

Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Feb 10

Annnnnd a desk rejection. Perfect topper to the grant rejection.

Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Feb 10

Nothing like starting the day with a grant rejection letter

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Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Jan 23

I'm so happy you enjoyed it!

Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Jan 23

Thank you so much for the amazing artwork!!!

Tilly S Scott @tillysscott.bsky.social · Jan 23

A great start to the 2025 seminar series with a talk from @hasikadam.bsky.social (thanks for organising @gretabocedi.bsky.social)
We heard about the importance of considering eco-evolution whilst looking at parasitology - with examples from odenates, deer and soay sheep

Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Jan 22

Super excited to give my seminar tomorrow at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social. If you're around and want to hear about my work on parasites, ecology, and evolution, come on by at 1pm!

Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Jan 13

Science during the week, video games on the weekend

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Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Dec 28

Anyone else have trouble settling in to the holidays and not thinking about work?

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · Dec 27

Disease ecologist starter pack -- reply with people/organizations to be added or with related lists/feeds

#diseaseecology

🦠🐀🦠🦇🦠🦭🦠🦆🦠 go.bsky.app/RwAuiNT

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Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Dec 17

Another day another desk rejection

a man with a mustache is looking at a washing machine with a small , medium , and large button .

ALT: a man with a mustache is looking at a washing machine with a small , medium , and large button .

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Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Dec 15

Exactly, they really did help!

Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Dec 15

Submitted paper, got some (mostly fair) rigorous comments, made an appeal to the rejection, appeal was accepted, brought in new data and redid a ton, the one original reviewer liked it, one of the new reviewers complained about things in the paper, the other asked us to do the impossible. Rejected.

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Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Dec 15

It's too real after the saga I've been through this year....

David Green, PhD @ecologistgreen.bsky.social · Dec 14

The current system of peer review, am I right? 🧪

A photo with a young Luke skywalker with the words manuscript submitted and an old Luke skywalker and the words manuscript accepted.

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Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Dec 15

Big fan of that one

Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Dec 14

Not too long I think, sadly

Devang Mehta🌱🧬 @mehta-lab.com · Dec 14

So how many years until we all decide it is too dangerous to travel to America for conferences and that all Americans need a health screening prior to travel because of the risk of polio?

(The latter is commonplace for citizens from the Global South trying to travel to the West.)

Adam Hasik @hasikadam.bsky.social · Dec 14

This is important

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Dec 14

Think carefully before buying a Greenland shark for the holidays. They are, after all, the world’s longest-living vertebrate.

Greenland shark with “I am not a toy, I am a 400 year commitment” text