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Michael Wimberly

@mcwimberly.bsky.social
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Prof of Geography | Geospatial data scientist studying global change🌎, wildfires🔥, and diseases🦠 | Passionate about music🎸, nature🌳, and public health🔬

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Eos @eos.org · 11/03/2026
Opinion: In many contexts around the world, illness is not just a consequence of environmental degradation but also a catalyst for it. eos.org/opinions/poo...
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Poor Health and Systemic Inequity Fuel Environmental Harm - Eos
Environmental degradation poses well-established risks to human health. But the relationship between the two isn’t a one-way street.
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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Some landscape art I accidentally made. Senegal River, Senegal and Mauretania. Sentinel 1 GRD, VV polarization, seasonal composite (R = January-May, G = June-August, B = September-December. Colors reflect seasonal changes in land cover/land use or in some cases inundation.
A river flood plain portrayed using synthetic aperture radar with many complex patterns of present and former channels and a patchwork of red, green, blue colors.
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Eos @eos.org · 15/02/2026
When you support Eos, you support ethical and accurate science journalism. bit.ly/SupportEos
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Dr. Brad Illston @bradillston.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Anyone want any Girl Scout cookies? My daughter is selling again this year so she can spend a night at a museum. I love that she chose that goal. You can also find me at the NWC or go to digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/olivia...
A truck full of Girl Scout cookies.
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Eos @eos.org · 13/01/2026
Help support high-quality science journalism. Please consider a one-time gift, recurring donation, or AGU membership to help Eos continue to provide ethical, accurate science reporting. bit.ly/SupportEos
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a boy in a blue shirt is sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor
Alt: A young boy at a computer (it appears to be the 90s) clicks a button on his screen that says "Donate Now," then turns to the camera and gives a thumbs up.
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Alex Koufos ❌👑 @exoticdft.dev · 18/12/2025
#AGU25: @agu.org has provided a system to quickly contact your representatives to show your support for #NCAR @ncar-ucar.bsky.social. There are already over 10k who have taken action. Follow the link below to begin! agu.quorum.us/campaign/151... #SaveNCAR #SupportNCAR #SaveScience
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Save NCAR from being dismantled today!
The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Excited to be at #AGU25! I’m eager to connecting with colleagues and looking forward to presenting later this morning in the NASA HAQ session. Stop by to hear the latest on malaria early warning systems and say hello!
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AGU GeoHealth Section @agugeohealth.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
🌍 Introducing GeoHealth Frontlines — the new AGU GeoHealth podcast! 🎙️ 🔗 Listen & subscribe: Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5o8TZGm...
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Happy Thanksgiving to all from Manhattan Beach!
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Dr. Courtney Murdock @ecodynvplab.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Excited to kickoff the @ASTMH 2025 meeting in Toronto. One day late due to teaching this term, but happy to be in the Presidential Plenary this morning with fellow colleagues discussing the unprecedented threats of global funding cuts on malaria elimination.
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I’m excited to be at the @astmh.bsky.social annual meeting here in Toronto and enjoying the winter wonderland! Looking forward to seeing some great presentations, connecting with old friends and making some new ones. Ping me if you’re here and would like to meet up.
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
I was just reviewing a document and the writers used the word “lodestar” very eloquently. As a lover of words, this made me happy. That is all…
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Department of Geographical Sciences at University of Maryland @umdgeography.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
📅 Join NASA's ARSET for a free online training on satellite remote sensing to study climate-sensitive infectious diseases, with GEOG Chair Tatiana Loboda tomorrow, Oct. 7, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. EDT. 2nd part with @mcwimberly.bsky.social on Thur. Register now: tinyurl.com/32zxw8yx
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Remote Sensing for Climate-Sensitive Infectious Diseases | NASA Earthdata
This ARSET training covers general approaches to apply satellite remote sensing data when studying or forecasting climate-sensitive infectious diseases.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Maybe not a stereotypical beach read, but just finished "Everything is Tuberculosis" by @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social. Quick, informative read with more emotional punch than I expected, & clear explanation of TB + social determinants of health (verboten to discuss in this admin).
Book "Everything is Tuberculosis" standing on a table with a beach/lake in the distance
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Excited to share a new paper by former postdoc Dan Wanyama (now Asst Prof at UCONN) on dynamics of West African forests. Dan fused Landsat time series, GEDI Lidar, and VIIRS/MODIS active fires to assess the effects of forest loss, degradation, and recovery on biomass. doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I'm pleased to share a new article on climate variation and West Nile virus transmission in SD and LA. Eric Bump extended previous work on temperature, humidity and rainfall to explore windspeed. Thanks to Eric and to our collaborators at the SD and LA Depts. of Health! doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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Integrating Wind Speed Into Climate‐Based West Nile Virus Models: A Comparative Analysis in Two Distinct Regions
Integrating wind speed into climate models consistently improved model performance for WNV cases in Louisiana and South Dakota Higher than normal wind speeds decreased reported WNV cases in both ...
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
The manuscript offers new insights into spatial and temporal patterns of urban microclimate, emphasizing contrasts between dry- and wet-bulb temperatures and indoor and outdoor microenvironment. We would be interested to hear your feedback!
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Larry Hunter @proflhunter.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
NLM is soliciting input on the future of its extramural funding. If you have a vision of how NLM should advance informatics research, speak up now! Comments due July 14. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-LM-25-002: Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments on the Future of the National Library of Medicine Biomedical and Data Science Extramural Research Programs
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Request for Information (RFI): Inviting Comments on the Future of the National Library of Medicine Biomedical and Data ...
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
I'm shocked and saddened by today's news from Ahmedabad. I have a malaria research project there and have flown in and out of that airport many times. Some of my colleagues in the city government are on the ground at the crash site helping with the response. My heart goes out to all of you!
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Gigi Gronvall @ggronvall.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
My thoughts on the defunding of disease cure research, origin of COVID, the executive order on so-called gain of function research, China’s advances in biotech, the spread of avian flu, and why the US needs to shed this fictional worldview ASAP. www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/gain...
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Gain of Fiction: How COVID Origins Motivated Defunding of U.S. Science | Think Global Health
Defunding scientific research in the United States has halted disease cure studies amid multiple infectious crises
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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Final call www.linkedin.com/posts/geogra...
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#hiring #datascience #geospatial #llm #ukri #smartdata #researchjobs… | Geographic Data Service
🚀 We’re hiring TWO Senior Data Scientists! 🚀 Help us unlock the power of smart data to tackle regional inequalities and improve lives across the UK. About the roles 📍 Based at the University of Liver...
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Baj Mihal @bajmihal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
You are speed running what happened in Eastern Europe in the 90s. When My father was fired from his science job his next gig was guarding a scrap metal depo. Because he had kids to feed. Luckily he was able to find a science job a few years later, but in industry not in academia.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?"
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
'As much as the science and education communities may disregard post-truth as an annoying inconvenience, it is here, and it is about more than denial of scientific knowledge, methods, and reasoning. It is more than a problem of rationality and objectivity.' www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The post-truth era and how science education keeps ignoring it
The term “post-truth” has been used to characterize the contemporary era. Designated as the word of the year in 2016 by the Oxford English Dictionary, “post-truth” refers to “relating to or denoting c...
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Blog Oklahoma @blogoklahoma.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Amid Oklahoma tornado season, scientists warn NOAA cuts could impact forecasting, public safety | KGOU www.kgou.org/weather-and-... #Oklahoma
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Amid Oklahoma tornado season, scientists warn NOAA cuts could impact forecasting, public safety
Norman is a nexus of national weather and climate science. But swift layoffs and deep budget cuts could disband it and other organizations nationwide.
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
New Biogeosciences paper on geographic and seasonal patterns of photosynthesis across African tropical forests using satellite-measured chlorophyll fluorescence. Results highlight distinctive environmental drivers of productivity in West vs. Central Africa. @egu.eu bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/...
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Seasonality and synchrony of photosynthesis in African forests inferred from spaceborne chlorophyll fluorescence and vegetation indices
Abstract. Global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are largely driven by changes in fossil fuel emissions and terrestrial photosynthesis, of which tropical forests account for one-third. Relat...
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
As a proud member of the @agu.org, I’m happy to see the society take a stand for science, effective government, and federal employees!
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Dr. Stephanie Henderson @drsahenderson.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Remember: NOAA is not its social media accounts. Do not let the takeover of NOAA communications take away your support of the real NOAA and the very real scientists behind it. The administration would want nothing more than for us to stop supporting our science agencies 🧪
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Dr. Courtney Murdock @ecodynvplab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
World Malaria Day. Progress has been made on malaria elimination but it remains a killer. Changing climate, invasive mosquitoes, and limited global funding are threatening efforts. Today, we are in India working to better understand the effects of climate on urban malaria. @mcwimberly.bsky.social
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Spent World Malaria Day with @ecodynvplab.bsky.social and colleagues in Surat, India studying mosquito microhabitats in urban construction sites. Best wishes to all who work to control and eliminate this terrible disease- your efforts are greatly appreciated!
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Alex Singleton @alexsingleton.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Exciting PhD opportunity alert!!!! 👇👇👇🌶️🌶️https://geods.ac.uk/2025/04/22/fully-funded-phd-opportunity-advancing-urban-analytics-through-ai-driven-geodemographic-classification/ 🌶️🌶️ #AI #GIS #DataScientist #GeoAI
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Dr. Courtney Murdock @ecodynvplab.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
We set another 36 loggers across construction sites today to monitor the microclimate mosquitoes experience during the pre-monsoon season. Here are some pics of construction trucks because they make me happy. Why can't we have colorful trucks in the U.S.? @mcwimberly.bsky.social
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Always a fun time in the urban construction dungeons of Surat with @ecodynvplab.bsky.social! This study will provide valuable data on the microclimatology of construction sites that will help us understand how they serve as foci for urban #malaria transmission.
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Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This would undoubtedly be the major story on Fox News for the next 24 hours if the Homeland Security Secretary worked in a Democratic administration.
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This saying has become very resonant for me in recent times...
Screaming possum with the text "The Horrors Persist But So Do I"
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Karin Kirk @karinkirk.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
This is such a good take.
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The “plan”, and I use that term loosely, seems to be to make-believe that that weather and climate don’t exist and hope that everyone will eventually stop noticing the tornadoes, droughts, hurricanes, floods, etc.
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Dr. Courtney Murdock @ecodynvplab.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
New paper out! A common computational approach to predict organismal fitness and distributions in the field could vastly overpredict the potential range of thermal suitability for malaria transmission relative to performance characterized at constant temperatures: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mean daily temperatures predict the thermal limits of malaria transmission better than hourly rate summation - Nature Communications
Malaria transmission is sensitive to temperature and models of malaria typically account for daily fluctuations in temperature through a ‘rate summation’ approach. Here, the authors conduct experiment...
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Hope Jahren @realhopejahren.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
"Democracy dies by gaslight" deserves to go viral
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The graphical abstract of this paper
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Nina @nvmk.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Some radical left-wing signs for the April 5 protest: NIH funding helps cure diseases. My parents' 401K helps them afford normal life. People should be able to call Social Security offices. NATO allies are the good guys. Measles is not a good thing.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
The only relevant political point is that Republican members of Congress are all supporting these tariffs 100%. They could stop them at any moment. Each day is on them. Everyone with a messaging bullhorn needs to make that clear. They can pull the plug now or pay the price at the polls next year.
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Rats are finally getting the respect they deserve, making the cover of Science magazine. Check this out @aliceleewimberly.bsky.social!
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Michael Wimberly @mcwimberly.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The GEO Health Community of Practice has another great webinar coming up on Friday, April 11 at noon EDT. Join to hear Bailey Magers talk about his work using satellites to monitor environmental risk factors and inform predictive models for outbreaks of cholera and related water-borne pathogens.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 02/04/2025
We deserved some good news!
Wisconsin State Supreme Court
PROJECTED WINNER
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
William Tate, a Black man who is President of LSU, has spoken out against the dangers of NIH cuts at his school. I’ve reached my limit of some faculty on here at “elite” schools falsely claiming that no one’s speaking up when folks are but they don’t see them because they don’t see those schools.
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LSU president warns of ‘crippling financial shortfalls’ from NIH cuts
LSU President William Tate warns that changes to the National Institutes of Health funding policies could have dire consequences for LSU and research institutions across the nation. In a statem… Alrea...
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Zach Peterson @zachprague.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
My mom died 25 years ago today. I was 18. It's really something to barely remember pretty memorable things from like 5 years ago but lucidly recall that entire day basically from the minute my dad picked me up at school to rush to Minneapolis. NIH research prolonged her life by at least 5 years.
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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
I worry about the thousands of international journalism students currently at US college campus
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