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Jocelyn Colella

@jcolella.bsky.social
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Evolutionary genomics • Arctic diversification to desert adaptation • Outside enthusiast • All things mammal

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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
We need your help transcribing KU Mammalogy's historical field notes to makes these data available to the global research community! Join this week's "expedition" on Notes from Nature. We are 18% of the way through W. C. Stanley's field expeditions to Kansas and Mexico.
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W.C. Stanley's Field Notes 1961 - 1963 | Notes from Nature - Ranges: Mammal Traits from western North America | Zooniverse - People-powered research
The information we extract from these images will help scientists to better understand the remarkable diversity of mammals and how they live their lives. These data will transform our comprehension of...
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Museums and Emerging Pathogens in the Americas (MEPA) @mepa-social-media.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
MEPA 2026 Field+Genomics Workshop We are now accepting applications for the 2025 Field+Genomics Workshop in Guatemala June 24 - July 2 APPLY HERE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #research #science #onehealth
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2026 Field+Genomics Workshop Application (Guatemala June 24 - July 2)
English (scroll down for Spanish) Museums and Emerging Pathogens in the Americas (MEPA) is a virtual Community of Practice and branch of Project ECHO (Extensions for Community Healthcare Outcomes) t...
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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This could be a great standard to integrate into museum databases @arctosdb.bsky.social
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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
I'm adding a "using AI" component to my BioCS class. The goal is not to build neutral networks, but to educate users on how to write effective queries, validate output, etc. What resources and/or assignments are out there already?
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Laboratory of Functional Viromics (LETKO) @fviromics.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Anybody studying bat viruses and immunology knows there aren’t enough publicly available resources. You can only buy 3 bat cell lines at the moment and they aren’t suitable for many viruses. The first bat cell line was deposited with ATCC in 1967, btw. Link: tinyurl.com/53nvxkyx
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Viral susceptibility and innate immune competency of Carollia perspicillata bat cells produced for virological studies
Multiple viruses that are highly pathogenic in humans are known to have evolved in bats. How bats tolerate infection with these viruses, however, is poorly understood. As viruses engage in a wide rang...
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Genome Research @genomeresearch.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
SPECIAL ISSUE! This month Genome Research publishes a diverse collection of research and review articles in a special issue highlighting advances in long-read sequencing applications in biology and medicine. Full issue links here: tinyurl.com/Genome-Res-3....
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Benny Borremans 🇧🇪🇺🇸 @bennyborremans.wildlifehero.org · 19/11/2024
Building a starter pack with disease ecologists, reply/DM/tag me with people or feeds to add! #diseaseecology 🦠🦠🦇🐀🦭🦠🦠 go.bsky.app/RwAuiNT
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Denis Wirtz @deniswirtz.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Check out our updated database of 189 PhD fellowships and funding opportunities. For each fellowship, we provide a description, $ amount, deadline, link to funder and eligibility criteria (such as citizenship). Good luck! Download freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It was an honor to assemble and lead this talented group of Latin American scientists in the first ever *MEPA Field+Genomics Workshop* at Otongachi, Ecuador. #collectionsAreEssential @Museo_QCAZ @CISeAL_PUCE @PUCE_Ecuador @ResearchAtKU @kunhm @KU_EEB @UNM_MSB
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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Museum / Mammal Community: where are y'all buying canvas trap bags these days? #collectionsAreEssential @mammalogists.bsky.social
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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · 28/01/2024
This weekend the KUBI Division of Mammals is kicking off a new research project surveying microbial communities of small mammals at the KU Field Station. Pictured here is the Mammal Collection Manager, Dianna, skillfully placing a Sherman live trap #rockchalk
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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · 02/12/2023
My first book chapter came out this week! Honored to be among this group of authors and looking forward to new collaborations that emerged from this work. Big shout out to my coauthors Cook, Grieman, Kutz, and Lutz
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Applied Environmental Genomics
DNA is the essence of life and the original ‘big data’. New technologies are allowing scientists to access and make sense of this information like never before, and they are using it to solve the ...
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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
UW Genome Sciences is hiring a new Assistant Professor working in computational biology! apply.interfolio.com/135108
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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · 28/11/2023
KU BioGEM post-bacc applications are open now: biogem.ku.edu + great way to gain PAID research experience following graduation + the website features a bunch of Mammal students! ;)
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Jocelyn Colella @jcolella.bsky.social · 08/11/2023
Utah Natural History Museum really knows how to impress 😍
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Michael Landis @landismj.bsky.social · 02/11/2023
Hey Blueskiiers, I have an open position for a PhD student to study phylogenetic models. Topics include evolution, popgen, epidemiology, stats, machine learning, etc. Applications are due by Dec 1st. Please share! landislab.org (email address here) dbbs.wustl.edu/admissions/a... 🧪 #evosky #episky
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Landis Lab @ WUSTL
Modeling evolutionary histories
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Curtis Suttle @virosphere.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Please share: @UBCScience is searching for 15 TT faculty in diverse areas of expertise science.ubc.ca/about/careers. Included are 2 positions in Quantitative and Environmental Science as part of a hiring cluster for black faculty; you will join 6 current UBC faculty science.ubc.ca/blackscholars.
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Morgan Kelly @invertevoeco.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
One week left to apply! LSU is searching for a Population Geneticist. You'll have lots of awesome collaborators: www.lsu.edu/science/bios... Applications due Oct 30 lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/jo... Please spread the word--
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