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Maya Juman

@mayajuman.bsky.social
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PhD student at Cambridge interested in fruit bat ecology, pathogen discovery, and museum collections | she/her 🦇 | mayajuman.github.io

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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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Collin Schwantes @collin-schwantes.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Help us build better data infrastructure and promote open research! Verena is looking for a full stack developer to assist with the maintenance, documentation, and development of the Pathogen Harmonized Observatory (PHAROS) data platform. See the details: www.viralemergence.org/blog/were-hi...
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We’re Hiring! — Verena
The Verena Institute is looking for a full stack developer or full stack development team (hereafter, the “Supplier”) to assist with the maintenance, documentation, and development of the Pathogen H...
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Tom Near @tjnear.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New primate species. Congratulations to my YPM colleague Prof. Eric Sargis and coauthors. news.yale.edu/2026/07/15/m...
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Meet ‘Likweli’: A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin
Yale researchers have helped to describe a new species of Colobus monkey living high in the forest canopies of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Maya Juman @mayajuman.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New preprint out on bat (and human? 👀) filoviruses in Ghana, leveraging a decade of serological data across species and sites ⬇️🔓 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Serological evidence of exposure to filoviruses in bats and humans in Ghana
Filoviruses, including the likely bat-borne Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV), cause severe hemorrhagic fevers in humans. The 2013-2016 EBOV outbreak caused >11,000 human fatalities in Guine...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Our lab website is updated with a new postdoc opening! This is a 2-year, in-person position looking at the relationships between climate change, pandemic risk, and policy choices over the 21st century. Please reach out (not on here)! www.carlsonlab.bio/join
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Opportunities — The Carlson Lab
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Mel Pardi @drpardi.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
@mayajuman.bsky.social is giving a seriously cool talk on using museum collections to detect pathogens @mammalogists.bsky.social
A presentation slide outlining the use of museum collections for detecting pathogens, includes several bat specimens
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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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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I barely understand immune systems, and it's my job... so how would you talk to an aspiring young scientist about them? Something we've had on the @viralemergence.org wish list from the start, now in Frontiers in Young Minds 🦇🧪 kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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Do Bats Get Sick From the Viruses They Carry?
When you think of bats, you might picture mysterious creatures flying around inside caves and drinking blood in the night, but bats are much more than that! Did you know that bats are the only mammals...
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David Simons @davidsimons.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
1/7 New #ecology preprint out. We’ve spent half a century searching for Arenavirus and Hantavirus reservoirs, but it turns out global surveillance is essentially just us looking under the nearest streetlight. It is decoupled from actual host biodiversity.🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202...
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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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Museums and Emerging Pathogens in the Americas (MEPA) @mepa-social-media.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Join our next MEPA session! Maya Juman (@mayajuman.bsky.social, Cambridge University) will present "Museum collections expand the spatial, temporal, and taxonomic scope of known host–virus associations". 🗓️ Wednesday - May 6 🕒 3pm US Eastern Time #science #pathogen #virus #museumcollections
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Maya Juman @mayajuman.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Really excited to finally share this preprint on using museum specimens @alaskamuseum.bsky.social to study the origins of borealpox in small mammals! 🦠🐀 🔓⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Danny Chambers MP 🔶 @dannychambers.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Pandemics don’t start in hospitals. They often start in animals. That’s why university vet schools matter so much for public health and pandemic preparedness. I’ve written about the proposed closure of Cambridge Vet School and why it has national consequences. open.substack.com/pub/dannycha...
Danny treating a calf
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Maya Juman @mayajuman.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
We created a database of all published paramyxovirus detection attempts in pteropodid bats! Lots of sampling gaps and avenues for future study ⬇️ Excited to share this PhD chapter with @danjbecker.bsky.social and @viralemergence.org, out last month in @plos.org 🦇🦠🔓 journals.plos.org/plosntds/art...
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Paramyxoviruses in Old World fruit bats (Pteropodidae): An open database and synthesis of sampling effort, viral positivity, and coevolution
Author summary Paramyxoviruses are a family of viruses that include the human measles and mumps viruses as well as emerging zoonoses like Hendra and Nipah henipaviruses. These henipaviruses spill over...
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Accelerate Programme for Scientific Discovery @acceleratescience.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Interested to find out more about research taking place in AI for Science? 🔬 Join us over pizza for our second @acceleratescience.bsky.social Lunchtime Seminar this term on 24 Nov, 12 - 1pm in Room SS03, William Gates Building! Register to attend for free: science.ai.cam.ac.uk/events/accel...
Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series event on Monday 24 November, Seminar Room SS03 in William Gates Building, 12:00-13:00, Register at the link
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Maya Juman @mayajuman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Super excited to finally share this! #CollectionsAreEssential
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Verena @viralemergence.org · 02/06/2025
An update from the team on the uncertain future of our program and the impact of NSF budget cuts. Please share and reach out 🦠
Some difficult news from the team:

In NSF's FY25-26 Budget Request to Congress, we learned that our program will take a whopping 50% cut - meaning that in September, we'll be $1.25m short of an operating budget that currently supports a cohort of seven PhD students, four postdocs, and three full-time staff.

Verena is one of the largest and last pandemic prevention-focused programs in the United States: since 2020, we've supported the training of over 60 postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates. Our researchers have established unique laboratory resources for studying animal immune systems, and discovered new antiviral immune adaptations in bats; developed risk assessment algorithms for wildlife and livestock viruses, and diagnostic algorithms for viruses like dengue, Ebola, and Zika; and quantified the effects of climate change, deforestation, and factory farming on spillover risk. Everything we develop is 100% open source, and our data has supported the research of nearly 150 external researchers in 21 countries to date.

We have three months to make up our budget shortfall. Every dollar spent on Verena supports not just our team, but the community of researchers who use our data, code, and resources. You can help us by sharing this post, and reaching out if you're able to support a unique and vulnerable program. Or just head over to viralemergence.org, and take a look at what we do. 🦟 🦇 🦠
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