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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro

@juliethebatgirl.bsky.social

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Research scientist (Chargée de recherche) @anses-fr.bsky.social 🇫🇷 All things animal disease, epidemiology & surveillance. Fan of bats, cats & scicomm 🇺🇸 🇭🇺 🇪🇺✡️ www.jtshapiro.com

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · Apr 15

Super excited to share the first paper from my work @anses-fr.bsky.social - Current Practice and Future Directions in Syndromic #Surveillance for #AnimalHealth: A Scoping #Review and Analysis, now in press 🥳
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#Epidemiology #veterinary #OneHealth #EpiSky #VetEpi

Current Practice and Future Directions in Syndromic Surveillance for Animal Health: A Scoping Review and Analysis

Syndromic surveillance, the monitoring of non-specific indicators or symptoms, is a powerful tool for monitoring health or well-being. We conducted a …

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · 2d

I know! How is it so bad from all sides???

Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · 2d

Totally. Luckily I haven't gotten any LLM papers, which I think I would just refuse to review TBH, but I get at least one request to review per week from legit journals. Even when I definitely want to do it, they make me regret accepting almost instantly 😭

Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · 2d

Journals : No one wants to do review articles anymore!
Also Journals : Please drop everything and get this review back to us in 10 days.

#PeerReview #AcademicPublishing #SciSky #AcademicSky

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · 21d

I try not to pay too much attention to metrics, citations, etc. but I was quite pleased to see the first citation of our review on #SyndromicSurveillance for #AnimalHealth in a #preprint addressing the House of Commons Public Accounts Select Committee 😄

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Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social · Aug 12

As humans face record-breaking heatwaves, our new research led by Max Kotz shows intensified heat extremes caused a 25–38% decline in the level of abundance of
tropical birds since 1950. These impacts often exceed those of average temperature rise and direct human pressures.
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Long-term changes in the abundance levels of terrestrial bird
populations attributable to climate change and human pressure.

Heterogenous and persistent impacts of hot temperature extremes on
the interannual growth rate of terrestrial bird population abundance.

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · Jul 30

The universal experience of realizing your #code would be so much more efficient with some functions but you're too far done the path you've taken to go back and change it all 🤦‍♀️😭🤷‍♀️

#Rstats #code #coding #DataAnalysis #SciSky #AcademicChatter #PhDChat

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · Jul 7

Had an amazing week in Denmark 🇩🇰 Super busy, but it was great to catch up with old colleagues & supervisors @ucph.bsky.social , find & organize my samples 🧪, and make a plan moving forward 🤓
Thank you @sieravirus.bsky.social and the kittehs for hosting me! ☺️
#AcademicsWithCats #SciSky

Me holding Muffin, a mostly white cat with black splotches, who is doing a BIG YAWN

Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · Jul 2

I just felt a bit under pressure and stressed in general about trying to get papers out FAST since I was still a postdoc but (honestly!) Best Reviewer 2 ever! Super constructive and I totally agree that your suggestions did actually improve the paper.

Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · Jul 2

Nothing could be more flattering, thank you so much @gmknght.bsky.social for highlighting our paper!
We found that for some #bacteria 🧫 , connectivity between hospital wards is as / more important for explaining #AMR as antibiotic consumption, especially for highly resistant 🏥 endemics

Gwen Knight @gmknght.bsky.social · Jun 30

The complexity of #AMR is rarely understated but few studies tackle the selection vs. transmission challenge.

That's what makes this this analysis from 2020 led by @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social so great - look how much could be done with well linked hospital data ... doi.org/10.7554/eLif....

Metapopulation ecology links antibiotic resistance, consumption, and patient transfers in a network of hospital wards

Patterns of antibiotic use and the connectivity between wards are independently associated with the incidence of antimicrobial-resistant infections in hospital networks.

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · Jul 2

Thank you Tjibbe! Your comments were super helpful for us!

Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · Jul 2

Oh my goodness, thank you so much! 😊 I'm so happy that you found our analysis interesting!

Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · Jun 4

When you're so excited about your project, you practically stream-of-consciousness draft your introduction.
I feel so lucky that I still get to do science that gets me this excited!

#SciSky #AcademicSky #PublishOrPerish #PhdChat #ECRchat

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · May 28

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · May 28

Xippie *daring* me to move my arm. One-handed typing and coding it is I guess...

#AcademicsWithCats #PhDCat #PhDChat #FelidFriday #CatsofBluesky #SkyCats #SciSky

Smol and gorgeous grey tabby giving major side-eye, daring me to move my arm while she's settled on it in a tiny ball.

Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · May 12

J-5 avant le Festival Pop'Science à #Lyon ! Et notre atelier EpiEscape où les lycéens et collégiens auront besoin de decouvrir l'agent pathogène d'un nouvelle #épidémie, le bon remède, et s'échapper du laboratoire pour sauver le monde!

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · May 5

Monday morning POV 😍 🦐

#AcademicsWithCats #WFH #WorkFromHome #PhDChat #AcademicChatter #CatsofBluesky #SkyCats #SciSky

Beautiful gray tabby curled up in shrimp mode on the couch next her human's lap, with a computer on top. Her little nose and mouth are prefect and we see just a glimpse of back toe bean

Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · May 5

All the naps! 😂

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Brian Lovett @lovettbr.bsky.social · May 3

I am extremely pleased to share this feature articulating why I have lost my sanity lately. www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. scientists’ lives and careers are being upended. Here are five of their stories

As the second Trump administration sends U.S. science into upheaval, countless researchers are fighting for their futures

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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Apr 30

"I would not have dared to dream that metastatic melanoma would become a treatable disease in my lifetime. Yet here we are today, with 43% of people diagnosed with metastatic melanoma living 10 years or more, due to treatments that we broadly refer to as cancer immunotherapy." Barry P. Sleckman, UAB

Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · Apr 12

The Senate Committee on Appropriations is holding a hearing on Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation on April 30 at 10:30am ET, chaired by Senator Susan Collins 🧪

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Biomedical Research: Keeping America’s Edge in Innovation | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

United States Senate Committee on Appropriations

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · Apr 25

No one and I mean NO ONE puts in more work than this one. Just *look* at the exhaustion.

#AcademicsWithCats #PhdChat #FelidFriday #CaturdayEve #CatsofBluesky #SkyCats #AcademicChatter

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Jack Hooker @jackhooker.bsky.social · Apr 24

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill begins the next step in its passage through parliament.

I cannot stress enough how disastrous this would be for UK wildlife.

We are asking all supporters to contact their MPs to ask them to support key amendments.

♥️🦇

www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04...

Ask your MP to help protect wildlife in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill - News - Bat Conservation Trust

By contacting your MP today, you can help ensure key wildlife protections aren’t swept aside in the name of ‘streamlining’ planning.

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · Apr 23

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Eric Ness @eric.ness.net · Apr 23

@astrokimcartier.bsky.social reported that NOAA is set to decommission 14 earthquake, marine & coastal datasets by mid-May. Data’s not being merged—it’s disappearing. Scientists urge you to download now before it’s gone! #OpenData #Science eos.org/research-and...

NOAA Datasets Will Soon Disappear - Eos

NOAA has quietly reported that they will soon decommission 14 datasets, products, and catalogs related to earthquakes and marine, coastal, and estuary science.

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · Apr 23

Choose R 😂

Jeffrey Perkel (he/him) @jperkel.bsky.social · Apr 22

Science is increasingly computational. But with so many languages to choose from, how to pick the right one? New @nature.com, I talked to @yabellini.bsky.social @titus.idyll.org @robp.bsky.social @gregwilson.tech & more to learn the key questions you can ask to help make your choice. #rstats 🧪

Which programming language should I use? A guide for early-career researchers

Computer scientists and bioinformaticians address four key questions to help rookie coders to make the right choice.

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · Apr 23

Thrilled my article was accepted but by God, I have never had a worse experience with proofing. Spent hours last night correcting mistakes in the reference list just to find all the same errors in the pdf version this morning 😫

#PublishAndPerish #AcademicChatter #PhdChat #AcademicSky #SciSky

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Dr. Julie Teresa Shapiro @juliethebatgirl.bsky.social · Apr 15

Finally, while there has been a lot of development in #SyndromicSurveillance, there is still a gap between #research & implementation. We also found that even established systems are vulnerable to funding cuts and lack of support 😢
#surveillance #EpiSky #VetEpi #SciSky