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Barney I. Potter

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

What's behind this tidal wave of epidemics? In the largest study ever conducted on emerging infectious diseases, we show that the popular explanation - "our relationship with nature is out of balance" - doesn't hold up. Out now in Nature, after half a decade of work: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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The anthropogenic fingerprint on emerging infectious diseases - Nature

Emerging infectious disease outbreak risks are ubiquitous worldwide, and highest in landscapes where people, livestock and fragmented natural ecosystems coexist, but detection and data ...

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Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

And here is the preprint, available online on Baltic Unity Day (Sep 22). Happy citing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Thanks again to @barney-potter.bsky.social, @gkarthik.com, @sidneymbell.bsky.social, and @mftorresj.bsky.social

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baltic: the Backronymed Adaptable Lightweight Tree vIsualisation Code

For ten years, baltic (Backronymed Adaptable Lightweight Tree vIsualization Code) has been used to make annotated phylogeny figures in molecular epidemiology, including during the West African Ebola e...

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Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

baltic v1.0.0 is live! Get it via pip or clone from Github repo. Now with documentation (baltic.readthedocs.io) & a gallery of tutorials & examples (phylo-baltic.github.io/baltic-gallery, still WIP). Huge thanks to @barney-potter.bsky.social for all the initiative & help along the way. #ViroSky

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