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Shenglai

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Postdoc in OU | Work on disease ecology, animal movement, biodiversity | Meditator | Marathon runner | Ramen and tea lover

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Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Aug 18

Landscape changes elevate the risk of avian influenza virus diversification and emergence in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Landscape changes elevate the risk of avian influenza virus diversification and emergence in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway | PNAS

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIV) persistently threaten wild waterfowl, domestic poultry, and public health. The East Asian–Austral...

www.pnas.org

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Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · 14h

Miao is inspiring!
#ultramarathon #marathon #trailrunnig
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No Life Defined: Yao Miao ’s Rise as a Trail Running Icon | Salomon TV

YouTube video by Salomon TV

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Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · 1d

I just listened to the lead author talking about this work, a fabulous work

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · 1d

The 2021–2025 North American #H5N1 outbreak evolved through successive lineage replacements and each new reassortant virus outcompeted its ancestor (😯😯😯), and the Prairie Pothole Region (Minnesota and Dakota area) is the hub for spreading.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Spatiotemporal reconstruction of the North American A(H5N1) outbreak reveals successive lineage replacements by descendant reassortants

Phylodynamics show the reassortant progeny of Eurasian H5 clade 2.3.4.4b and American LPAI viruses outcompeted their ancestors.

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Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · 7d

It is a big loss to all sentient beings on this planet. Dr. #JaneGoodall R.I.P 🕯️

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · 10d

Wichita Bison Trail 🦬 hiking

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · 26d

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Flood exposure and intimate partner violence in low- and middle-income countries - Nature Water

Flood exposure can increase the risk of intimate partner violence. Intra-household and societal gender inequalities can further exacerbate this vulnerability.

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Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · 26d

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Drought, Extreme Heat, and Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

This cross-sectional study of survey data from women in low- and middle-income countries examines the association of drought and extreme heat with intimate partner violence.

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Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · 26d

I saw two studies that are interesting to reflect on. They are talking about the drought/heat and flooding are associated with Intimate Partner Violence in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · 28d

It is such a great pleasure to have @mariusgilbert.bsky.social visiting us here at U of Oklahoma. Learnt a lot about science communication and #avianinfluenza transmission.

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Aug 18

The new PNAS paper adds the landscape dimension: landscape configuration sets the timing and locations of contacts of different host groups, while species traits influence which hosts are most likely to act as effective “mixing vessels.” 10/10

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Aug 18

Bouns: How is this connected to our prior work?
Our 2023 study in Ecology Letters (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....) showed that waterbird functional traits (e.g., diet and movement capacity) predict HPAI susceptibility and subtype diversity. 9/10

Functional traits explain waterbirds' host status, subtype richness, and community‐level infection risk for avian influenza

This worked studied the effects of waterbird functional traits on both species-level and community-level infection patterns of avian influenza. We found that functional traits could explain waterbird...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Aug 18

💡Implication: Protect and restore wetlands to reduce winter crowding and cross-species contact; strengthen poultry biosecurity—especially at rice–poultry interfaces; and build an early-warning system that links remote sensing, bird tracking, and outbreak data. #OneHealth 🙌 8/10

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Aug 18

Risk hotspots expanded across SE China, the Yellow River basin & NE China, highlighting places where new AIV subtypes could emerge. 7/10

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Aug 18

That winter compression, together with dense poultry (often in rice-growing regions), increased modeled wild–poultry contact, co-infections, and influenza reassortment in 2015 than in 2000. 6/10

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Aug 18

🍎Our Sims showed that, from 2000 to 2015, northern wetland expansion dispersed birds during breeding, while winter wetland loss in the mid-lower Yangtze and South China compressed wintering habitat, forcing wild birds into fewer sites and reshaping migration connectivity. 5/10

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Aug 18

We then embedded an SIR transmission module to simulate virus transmission within wild birds and within poultry, plus cross-species spillover and opportunities for viral reassortment (when different strains co-infect the same host). 4/10

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Aug 18

Why focus on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway #EAAF, which is the migration corridor for millions of migratory waterfowl with some of highly dense poultry, an ideal hotspot for avian influenza to transmit and spread. 2/10

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Aug 18

🎉 Big news: our study is out in @pnas.org.
We illustrated how shifting landscapes can reshape #avianinfluenza #virus evolution. 🧵1/10

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Aug 18

Landscape changes elevate the risk of avian influenza virus diversification and emergence in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Landscape changes elevate the risk of avian influenza virus diversification and emergence in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway | PNAS

Highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIV) persistently threaten wild waterfowl, domestic poultry, and public health. The East Asian–Austral...

www.pnas.org

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Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Jul 31

Strava is becoming highly popular for studying human activities and distributions.
An observation from #GRC conference #movementecologyofanimals

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Jul 15

One of my favorite singer X one of my favorite scholar/writer

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Jul 15

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The Evolution of AI and Creativity: Yuval Noah Harari × Hikaru Utada / AIの進化と創造性【ユヴァル・ノア・ハラリ×宇多田ヒカル】

YouTube video by NewsPicks /ニューズピックス

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Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Jul 14

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H5N1 virus invades the mammary glands of dairy cattle through “mouth-to-teat” transmission

Abstract. H5N1 influenza outbreaks have been reported on more than 1,070 dairy farms across 17 states in the US. Damage to the mammary gland and high level

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Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Jul 14

“Given that some lactating cows’ "steal milk" through self-nursing or mutual-nursing, they speculated that "mouth-to-teat" transmission may be the route by which the H5N1 virus initially infects the mammary glands of dairy cows.”
I have so many questions about the cow's behavior...

Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · Jul 14

The H5N1 influenza outbreaks in the US dairy cattle likely triggered by the "milk-stealing" behavior of lactating cows | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

The H5N1 influenza outbreaks in the US dairy cattle likely triggered by the "milk-stealing" behavior of lactating cows

H5N1 influenza outbreaks have been reported on more than 1.070 dairy farms in the United States since 2024. The virus severely affects the mammary glands and contaminates the milk, posing a threat to ...

www.eurekalert.org

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