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Daniel Becker @danjbecker.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

we're hiring for a new research assistant to join our group at OU to manage field studies on migratory and Neotropical bats! please see the linked application on our website: beckerlab.weebly.com/join.html. applications will be reviewed in early August and the position can start in January.

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Cara Brook @caraebrook.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Hi all! The Brook lab is hiring a new lab manager, ideally starting sometime in summer 2026. Please submit a CV and cover letter to the linked application on our website to apply: brooklab.org/join. Application review begins on June 9 and will be rolling thereafter!

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 14/05/2026

Do you know Wildlife Health Ecology Research Organization? www.wildlifehero.org. We're focused on improving wildlife health through rigorous, ecology-based research. If you need someone to move your data forward with strong quantitative skills who understands field data, let's collaborate!

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Wildlife H.E.R.O.

Wildlife Health Ecology Research Organization

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 14/05/2026

Open for contracts, subawards, or (co-)PI roles. Examples of recent work: 🦭 Outbreak prediction dashboard for sea lion disease 🦇 Virus shedding dynamics in bats We can help finish that paper, build statistical models, communicate results, apply for grants, ... 📊 #EcoSky #RStats #ScienceSkies

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 14/05/2026

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Wildlife H.E.R.O.

Wildlife Health Ecology Research Organization

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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 02/02/2026

NSF GRFP applicants (and mentors): Was your application Returned Without Review and deemed ineligible despite fitting in the allowed topics? 1) Write NSF 2) Write your Congressperson 3) CC us at grfp@grant-witness.us so we can compile + follow up Details and template at grant-witness.us/grfp-letter

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Olivier Gimenez 🦦 @oaggimenez.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

📘 New book out soon ! I’m excited to share that 𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞-𝐑𝐞𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐯 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐬: 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐑 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐍𝐈𝐌𝐁𝐋𝐄 is being published by Chapman & Hall / CRC Press Hope it’s useful to students, researchers, and practitioners #StatisticalEcology #NIMBLE

Book cover for https://oliviergimenez.github.io/banana-book/

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Megan O'Driscoll @meganodris.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The final piece of my PhD work is now published in Science Translational Medicine! We present a new framework to jointly infer epidemiological and antigenic parameters from multi-pathogen population serological studies🦠 www.science.org/stoken/autho...

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Dr Alison Peel @alibat.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

🦇 Two PhD positions available on our new ARC Discovery Grant: "From Diversity to Disease: Viral Ecology, Evolution and Persistence in Bats" The project will investigate how viral diversity evolves and persists, with a particular focus on recently discovered henipaviruses in Australian flying foxes.

The torso and head of a black flying fox hanging upside down, looking directly at the camera, above the words "PhD positions available in bat viral ecology and evolution".

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Greg Albery @gfalbery.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)

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Corey Garza @profcgarza.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Last week the drone pilots in my lab captured this image (photo 1) of a large sea lion haul out @ San Carlos Beach in Monterey during our monthly surveys. Last year (photo 2) a large sea lion haul out was seen at the same beach. This might be turning into a new haul out site. @uwsafs.bsky.social

Aerial image of sea lions on a beach in Monterey during August 2025.

Aerial image of sea lions on the same beach in image 1 in August 2024.

Photo mosaic of sea lions on a Monterey Beach in August 2025.

Photo mosaic of sea lions on a beach in Monterey in August 2025.

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Sagan Friant @saganfriant.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

New review out in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social from our rodent-borne zoonoses workshop @ciddpsu.bsky.social 🐭🌍 Humans & rodents share a long history and many pathogens -from plague to mpox. Outbreak prevention needs socially + ecologically grounded solutions 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Reducing the threats of rodent-borne zoonoses requires an understanding and leveraging of three key pillars: disease ecology, synanthropy, and rodentation

Rodents have co-existed with humans for centuries, and frequently exchange pathogens. Historically, rodent-driven plague outbreaks scoured the Old Wor…

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 29/08/2025

Details: Emerging Zoonotic & Wildlife Pathogens, by Dan Salkeld, Skylar Hopkins @parasiteecology.bsky.social, David Hayman.

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 29/08/2025

Using this new textbook to prepare disease ecology lectures, it’s just fabulous! Smooth and clear writing, excellent topics highlighted, and beautiful figures and layout throughout. If you have any interest at all in wildlife pathogens and disease ecology, GET THIS BOOK. Seriously.

Image of a textbook on a black desk, titled Emerging Zoonotic & Wildlife Pathogens, by authors Dan Salkeld, Skylar Hopkins, David Hayman

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 27/08/2025

Sharing this starter pack again with lots of great disease ecologists, contact me if you'd like to be added or know someone who should be on this list! Feel free to forward to fresh bluesky arrivals who may be interested. bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Aki Vehtari @avehtari.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Preprint and the website by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci and @vincentab.bsky.social are great, and I got inspired to illustrate Bayesian workflow for model checking and comparison *before* model interpretation following their friendship importance example users.aalto.fi/~ave/casestu...

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Friends model checking case study

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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Excited to announce a search for an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling at Penn State's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics. Details at link and below. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

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Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 01/07/2025

Thanks @alibat.bsky.social! And here is a related starter pack that also includes modelers: bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Dr Alison Peel @alibat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Last chance to get your abstracts in for the 20th International Bat Research Conference (IBRC) in Australia in August! It's shaping up to be an exciting program, in an incredible world heritage location, with diverse workshops and field trips. Abstracts due this Wednesday 14th May!! www.ibrc.org

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 30/12/2024

Does anyone know of a good brief overview/summary of bad for-profit publishing practices that people can use to share with co-authors who are on the fence about choosing a ‘lower-impact’ but ethically better alternative? I feel like everyone agrees things are bad, but worry too much about CV impact.

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Dr Alison Peel @alibat.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Excited to share this new paper led by PhD student Cinthia Pietromonaco, exploring age estimation in bats, with a focus on Australian flying foxes. doi.org/10.1071/WR24... 🦇 Turns out, that we don't all mean the same thing when we use the term "adult" or "juvenile". Why should we care? 1/

A young black flying fox pup peeking out at the camera from amongst a blanket

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Dr Alison Peel @alibat.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Welcome to Bluesky to my fab Bat One Health collaborators Raina Plowright @rainap.bsky.social & Tamika Lunn @tamika-lunn.bsky.social 🦇 Looking for more disease ecologists? Check out this starter pack by the equally fabulous Benny Borremans

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dancrowley.bsky.social @dancrowley.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

New bat paper from our lab. Small changes in bats' diet can decrease influenza shedding and alter cytokine expression. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #bats #influenza #iav photo credit: José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca

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Simon Cauchemez @scauchemez.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Serological data provide key insights on pathogen circulation. We introduce a new R package, Rsero, which is a pipeline to store and analyze age-stratified sero data, estimate the history of pathogen circulation and compare different transmission models. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

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RSero: A user-friendly R package to reconstruct pathogen circulation history from seroprevalence studies

Author summary Antibodies are immune markers of past infections. Seroprevalence studies that characterize the seropositivity status in the population have been used for decades in epidemiological stud...

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 27/01/2025

Many similar messages here, e.g. bsky.app/profile/caba...

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Rob Patro @robp.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

I just heard from a colleague that his friend's NSF panel was canceled last minute "to confirm they are in compliance with presidential directives". We know the NIH is being politically targeted; it seems the NSF may be affected as well. A goal of diminishing American science.

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 27/12/2024

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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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 15/01/2025

Lucid insights on where we’re at on actually understanding pandemics, and where we’re not (yet) at:

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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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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 06/01/2025

Hi Skylar, all good here, hopefully we'll meet up again soon! Added you to the list.

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 30/12/2024

Motivating text, thanks for sharing. Agree re grant writing. Trying to grow a new research organization, I'm learning that the "sales" part is indeed important and not a dirty word -- it's a matter of conveying your honest conviction that you can contribute quality. (regardless of introvert status).

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 27/12/2024

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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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 27/12/2024

Yes. I started submitting to PCI Ecology, and recently published a paper in their Peer Community journal. High quality peer review, free publication, full open access. ecology.peercommunityin.org

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PCI Ecology

Peer Community in Ecology

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Oregon Veterinary Medical Association @oregonvma.org · 24/12/2024

The Oregon Department of Agriculture announced that Portland's Morasch Meat’s Northwest Naturals brand 2 lb. Turkey Recipe raw frozen pet food tested positive for a H5N1 strain of the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) virus. 1/5

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Jane Qiu, PhD @janeqiu.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Bat-derived viruses have been afflicting humanity with disturbing frequency in recent decades. Why bats? Why now? And how can we stop it? My latest in @sciam.bsky.social 🧵 Some cool facts about bats and fascinating science 1/ www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 23/12/2024

Horrible outbreak (>10k dead) in sea lions in South America, lots of mammal-to-mammal transmission. Are marine mammals particularly susceptible, or is it mainly bcs of the haul out behavior — close and repeated contact with sea birds?

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