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Barbara A. Han

@bahanbug.bsky.social
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Disease ecologist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies. Zoonotic disease, predictive analytics, machine learning, AI. www.hanlab.science.

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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Please reach out for more details or if you're interested in applying for this new program at Cary! We love visitors :)
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BF Francis Ouellette @bffo.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
From @jdrakephd.bsky.social & @bahanbug.bsky.social in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | How to write a scientific paper in fifteen steps | #Education #Science 🧪 🔓 #GoodReadingForAll CC/ @ppalagi.bsky.social ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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How to write a scientific paper in fifteen steps
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Breakthroughs happen when diverse expertise is woven together. Collaboration can be messy—different vocabularies, different tools—but it’s worth it. We made a video with @MinuteEarth about it. 🎥 @fviromics.bsky.social @payeldas.bsky.social & Drew Kramer #EEID
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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪
Multiple Early Career Faculty Positions in Ecology
 
The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for multiple, tenure-track assistant professor positions that will enhance existing institutional excellence in ecology. We are searching broadly for creative and collaborative individuals (1) working at any spatial scale, from local to global, in any system, (2) studying any level of biological organization, from genes to ecosystems, and (3) using any mode of inference, from empirical to theoretical. Applicants should demonstrate research excellence that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries; ongoing growth in the department will emphasize new hires that use quantitative and/or integrative approaches to study ecological processes. Postdoctoral experience is desirable in applicants. Successful candidates will engage with and benefit from UNDERC, Notre Dame’s 8000-acre environmental field station and home to NEON’s Great Lakes domain, superb on-campus chemical and genomic analytical facilities, an experimental research facility located close to campus, cross-disciplinary interactions through multiple centers and institutes including the Environmental Change Initiative, and a unique Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program in Environment and Society. New faculty will benefit from Notre Dame’s recent campus-wide Strategic Framework that included the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative. Modern research facilities exist in a new environmental research building, which opened in 2025.
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Steph N. Seifert, PhD @stephseifertphd.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
🚨 Our team just released a reproducible Docker pipeline for RNAseq assembly and annotation designed for nonmodel organisms! We're using it to explore how bats manage viral infections, but it's built for broad utility in wildlife transcriptomics. @viralemergence.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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TATAT: a containerized software for generating annotated coding transcriptomes from raw RNA-seq data
Motivation: Many transcriptome creation workflows are not standardized, are difficult to install or share, prone to breaking as dependencies update or cease to be maintained and are resource intensive...
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Kiran Basava @incertaesedis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...
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HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
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America's Lab @americas-lab.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team. publicusaresearchbenefits.com please re-post so we get more great stories in there!
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Searchable database of tangible benefits that federally-funded research gave us.
A crowd-sourced site. Health and Well-being. National Security. Prosperity.
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Marc Lipsitch @mlipsitch.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Time Sensitive: Public comment on Schedule F (removing civil service protections for many federal employees INCLUDING THOSE WITH AUTHORITY OVER GRANTS) ends tomorrow. Notice is here: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... . Comment here (green button) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... .
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Slashing $23B from NIH & NSF isn't fiscal responsibility—it's a $32B economic loss. Science investments return 140–210%, compounding over time. No single administration can claim the credit, but any can cause the damage. Cuts like this aren’t just shortsighted—they’re bad business. bit.ly/dogefail
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Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Happy to announce that @alexvespi.bsky.social joined the list of amazing invited speakers at the 2nd British NetSci Symposium! If you are a PhD student or Post-doc send us an abstract! The morning of the event will be entirely devoted to you! All info: www.netsci.uk/events.html
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Calling all virologists: my lab is hiring a tech for high containment work! Come work with our amazing team at 🇨🇦's National Pandemic Research Centre, using experimental, systems biology, & AI-driven approaches to study infection & pathogenesis of emerging viruses.
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
I love this. Let’s illuminate the reverberating impacts of our scientific enterprise.
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
NSF is stating that DOGE has the authority to give thumbs up or down to grant applications that experts have systematically vetted. Closed-door deliberations are being observed by DOGE 'consultants', who have accessed the NSF awards system to block the dispersal of approved grants. bit.ly/3Szvv4D
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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Kaushi @onehealth-kk.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🌱📊 Join the FAO One Health ICT CoP! 🌍 Launch: 21 May 2025 | 14:00–15:30 CET 💻 🔗 Register: fao.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Connect, share, and innovate with peers using ICT to boost One Health data flow & early warning. #OneHealth #ICT #GlobalHealth #Innovation
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Launch of the One Health Knowledge Nexus Community of Practice on Information and Communication Technology for One Health Intelligence. After registering, y...
This project is funded with UK International Development from the UK government.
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Avery @averypickford.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
An interesting story about the psychology of changing people's minds, with a dash of data visualization. ♾️
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”
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The NSF Is Being Dismantled — With Broad Implications For The American Economy
The economic consequences of cuts to the National Science Foundation and restricting scientific inquiry on this scale could be far-reaching.
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Join us for the launch of this new Community of Practice that aims to support technical exchange and co-development of solutions to One Health data flow and interoperability across sectors - a multistakeholder collaborative platform to enhance One Health Intelligence. bit.ly/43bI9f7
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Events detail
Join us for the launch of this new Community of Practice that aims to support technical exchange and co-development of solutions to enhance On...
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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 30/04/2025
Postdoc (Washington DC, USA) Rodent-borne virus risk in heterogeneous landscapes with @clfaust.bsky.social @jraghwani.bsky.social @bahanbug.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk @uofglasgow.bsky.social @royalvetcollege.bsky.social @ilri.org... More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2307
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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
France opens its doors to science researchers and scholars, including those fleeing the United States. anr.fr/en/latest-ne...
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Choose France for Science: launch of the dedicated platform for applications to host international researchers
As the international context creates the conditions for an unprecedented wave of mobility among researchers around the world, France aims to position itself as a host country for those wishing to cont...
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Excellent resource: christinapagel.substack.com/p/eight-thin...
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Eight things scientists can do right now to stand up to the Trump administration’s attacks on research, public health, and the environment
A guest post by Dr Anne Toomey, author of the book "Science with Impact: How to Engage People, Change Practice, and Influence Policy".
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Erik Karlsson @eakarlsson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Virology Unit at IPC has 3 positions open in #OneHealth: *Postdoc – Reconstructing Past Outbreaks *Postdoc – Environmental Surveillance *Clinical Manager These aren’t just jobs. They’re front-row seats to global health in action. Ready? tinyurl.com/57rvxcau #ViroSky #IDSky 🦠🔬🧬🥼🧪
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Institut Pasteur du Cambodge on LinkedIn: The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) is looking for: -…
The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) is looking for: - 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 – 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧-𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐥…
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.
A crowd of people demonstrating outside in front of the Lincoln Memorial on a clear, sunny day. Some of the signs read “Science over Stupidity,” “Science Makes America Great,” and “Team Public Health, Not Team Measles.”
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
@asn-amnat.bsky.social is proud to be a signature on this letter and grateful to UCS for putting this together.
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 04/03/2025
DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...
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DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers
NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Happening this evening. Register to attend or to receive the recording.
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Daniel Bolnick @danielbolnick.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Are there any: 1) legal funds / organizations giving aid/advice to scientists impacted by federal actions lately? 2) charities giving $ aid to recently laid off federal employees? (Curious, not that I currently require either myself)
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
A metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation @sloanfoundation.bsky.social sloan.org/programs/dig...
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Call for submissions: Metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship | Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Our mission is to make the world a better place through the advancement of scientific knowledge.
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Maria E. Orive @meorive.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
KU Center for Genomics is hiring a postdoctoral fellow! Choose a mentor among the Center's faculty and propose an original project. Two years funding and generous research budget included. Please share, retweet and apply! genomics.ku.edu/ku-center-geno…
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
📢 Call for papers: #TDR, GigaScience Press and @gbif.org announce third call for #data papers describing datasets on #vectors of human diseases 🦟🪰🕷️ Deadline 4 April 2025 www.gbif.org/news/70AuWTs...
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Third call for data papers describing datasets on vectors of human diseases
TDR, GigaScience Press and GBIF renew their partnership for a special journal issue focused on publishing new datasets that present biodiversity data for research on vectors of human diseases. **Deadl...
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Shenglai @shenglai.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Our next #IFEEAI webinar speaker is @lhmoncla.bsky.social , Assistant Professor @upenn.edu Title: Intensive transmission in wild, migratory birds drove rapid geographic dissemination and repeated spillovers of #H5N1 #birdflu into agriculture in North America.
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Bioinformatics Advances @bioinfoadv.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
By linking heterogeneous datasets, knowledge graphs can help track the spread of HPAI, identify knowledge gaps, and support hypothesis generation in ecological systems. This work included efforts from @bahanbug.bsky.social @guppy-stott.bsky.social  @jdrakephd.bsky.social
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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Have a bold idea to study pandemic expansion? We want to work with you! We are soliciting seed ideas, and have a cool way for you to populate anticipated team needs - have a think, follow the link, and thanks for stopping by! Learn more: appex.org/seed/
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Seed Solicitation – APPEX
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Rory Gibb @roryjgibb.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
New paper! 🦠🐭🦟 Perspectives on the route towards a 'people and nature' paradigm for biodiversity-disease research and action, with fantastic co-authors @profkatej.bsky.social, @dwredding.bsky.social and Sagan Friant. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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Towards a ‘people and nature’ paradigm for biodiversity and infectious disease | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Zoonotic and vector-borne infectious diseases are among the most direct human health consequences of biodiversity change. The COVID-19 pandemic increased health policymakers’ attention on the links between ecological degradation and disease, and sparked ...
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
New paper led by Rohan Simkin exploring global patterns of zoonotic hosts in the wildland-urban interface. WUIs are a complex and expanding contact zone with many potential host species that are likely to be consequential for spillover transmission on a rapidly urbanizing planet. bit.ly/WUI-zdx
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Zoonotic Host Richness in the Global Wildland–Urban Interface
In the wildland–urban interface (WUI), where human settlements abut or intermix with wildlands, people may encounter animals that host zoonotic pathogens, which can spillover to cause human disease. ...
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
New paper simulating how coinfection interactions influence parasite diversity estimates, with wonderful coauthors and big thanks to @tarasite-ecology.bsky.social for the insightful friendly review!
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Dr Liam Brierley @liambrierley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Glasgow's calendar is full of hosting some fantastic virology meetings this year! Register below for.... 📅 UK Pandemic Sciences Network conference (23 Apr): ukpsn.org/ukpsn-confer... Bringing together experts in the field to discuss key challenges and research developments in pandemic threats!
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UKPSN Conference 2025
The next UKPSN conference will be held in Glasgow on 23rd April 2025 at the Sir Charles Wilson Building, University of Glasgow. Further details and links below.
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Very excited to see this paper out in the world. Absolutely monumental effort by @gorkalasso.bsky.social et al. to predict which filoviruses are likely to infect which bat species. Check out the thread below for details!
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Christina Faust @clfaust.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
❗3 year postdoc - deadline Feb 9th. Please get in touch with any questions
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Please share this postdoc position based at the Royal Vet College working on a very cool US-UK EEID project with some wonderful people: @jraghwani.bsky.social + Christina Faust, James Hassell, Oli Pybus, Dan Streicker, Sarah Knowles. Reach out to Jayna directly for questions and details.
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Vasilakis Lab @vasilakislab.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Our collaborative work with our Brazilian partners was dropped. www.cell.com/iscience/ful.... Great work by Dr Hendy and the team. @createneo.bsky.social @bahanbug.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social
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Louise H. Moncla @lhmoncla.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Just in time for the holidays, our lab has just submitted our first lab led paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! We use phylodynamics to reconstruct how H5N1 got to North America and spread so rapidly. Full thread coming post holidays, but for now, super proud of @lambod50.bsky.social
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Intensive transmission in wild, migratory birds drove rapid geographic dissemination and repeated spillovers of H5N1 into agriculture in North America
Since late 2021, a panzootic of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus has driven significant morbidity and mortality in wild birds, domestic poultry, and mammals. In North America, infections i...
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Lambodhar Damodaran @lambod50.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Really excited to share that my postdoctoral work on HPAI in North America is now preprinted! Please feel free to reach out with any feedback and thoughts! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Intensive transmission in wild, migratory birds drove rapid geographic dissemination and repeated spillovers of H5N1 into agriculture in North America
Since late 2021, a panzootic of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus has driven significant morbidity and mortality in wild birds, domestic poultry, and mammals. In North America, infections i...
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Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies @caryinstitute.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
On Thu, Dec 12 @ 11am ET, join us for a virtual science seminar with @caryinstitute.bsky.social's Dr. Steward Pickett: Fifty Years in 50 Minutes and What's Next? Free + open to all. #urbanecology #cities #ecology For more info + to register: www.eventbrite.com/e/fifty-year...
View of Baltimore City with rowhouses in the foreground, trees and low buildings midway, and downtown skyscraper buildings on the horizon. In the upper left is a headshot of Dr. Steward Pickett, a bald lighter-skinned man with a gray beard wearing black glasses and a pale green shirt with a patterned bow tie. 
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
After a 50-year career, urban ecologist Dr. Steward Pickett is "retiring" (in quotes because his creativity and list of projects is seemingly endless). Register here for his public seminar today at 11 am EST: bit.ly/3ZQqyZG
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Fifty Years in 50 Minutes and What's Next?
Speaker: Dr. Steward Pickett, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
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John M. Drake @jdrakephd.bsky.social · 14/03/2024
Excited to share our latest paper with Kyle Dahlin and colleagues on temperature-dependent models of mosquito-borne transmission. We've updated the classic Ross-MacDonald model to address its limitations and uncovered significant findings: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
We’re hiring!! A data analyst to support multiple projects in zoonotic disease ecology: www.caryinstitute.org/about/career... Come and be creative with us at Cary Institute.
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Careers at Cary
Opportunities for employment at Cary Institute.
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Barbara A. Han @bahanbug.bsky.social · 20/08/2024
It's that time of year again at Cary Institute. Click below to apply for the Fundamentals in Ecosystem Ecology course: www.caryinstitute.org/eco-inquiry/...
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Graduate Opportunities
Dedicated to science education, our ecology courses taught by institute scientists and graduate study opportunities advance the institute's goal of supporting the scientists of tomorrow.
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