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Anita Devineni @anitadevineni.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Emory Biology department is hiring a tenure-track ecologist at any rank. Deadline is Nov 1, link below! As I've said many times before, I couldn't ask for a more supportive department. Our faculty colleagues, dept chair, and admin staff are truly awesome ❤️ apply.interfolio.com/191783

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I was wondering why Fridays redeye was still making me so tired, and how it was making me lightheaded and giving me chills and ear ringing Then I remembered Sunday's COVID booster

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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

TT Assistant Professor position in Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease at University of Florida

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University of Florida - Details - Assistant Professor of Biology

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Attending SOVE for the first time, and realizing that so much vector research involves torturing either arthropods or grad students

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Just so y'all know - this happens occasionally. Horror story they told us in vet school was about a horse with rabies they thought had choke. I don't remember how many vet students (small hands) they had reach down its throat to try to remove the obstacle before diagnosis

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Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Briefly popping my head back in to unveil the cover of my upcoming book, LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale. It’ll be out on April 6 in the U.S. and April 29 in the U.K. and you can pre-order it right now! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757705... 1/

A book cover featuring a beautiful closely cropped portrait of an Anna's hummingbird. The cover says LIFE BEYOND MEASURE: Nature's Hidden Wonders at Every Scale, by Ed Yong. The image also says US: 4/06/27 and UK: 4/29/27

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: It's a golden age for dashboards NASS: Uh huh Me: Data sharing and visualizations NASS: Yeah, sure Me: Documentation? NASS: Mmm Me: Data dictionaries?!?! NASS: <Snort>

quickstats.nass.usda.gov

USDA/NASS QuickStats Ad-hoc Query Tool

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How many ways can I tell a reviewer "the survey text is in the supplement"? At least 5 questions about our exact wording when it's right there (and sometimes in the table, too)

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I know goldenrod can be annoying in a small garden, but I just ID'd 3 bee species, 2 wasp species, a bee fly, 2 beetles, and an orb weaver on one patch in 2 minutes. There were others, but too small for my camera and I use iNaturalist for IDs

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Toe beans AND air biscuits? Yes please!

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Yesterday, at the Labor Day parade, a Republican marching dared to tell us that if we weren't voting for her candidate "then just don't vote" She didn't dare to have any party affiliation visible

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The Audacity!

Alt: A white man giving a dirty look while walking away. Text says "The Audacity!"

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Summer intern debrief: There are fieldwork fails. And then there's your fieldwork project getting hit by a tornado. Twice.

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Berna Devezer @devezer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

in scientific discourse, what we often mean by "the study didn't work" is that it didn't yield a desired/pre-committed result or statistic (p < 0.05). that's a distortion of scientific practice and essentially a cry for help. for a study to not work, it should not have produced meaningful knowledge.

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Now available: Genomics for Public Health! A free short course on genomics, designed specifically for public health practitioners and students. We take you from "What is DNA?" to molecular epi and vaccine development.

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Genomics for Public Health - Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Who doesn't love a little mystery in their lives? We're clearing out the older designs over at Skype a Scientist HQ, so I'll be sending out mystery sticker grab bags! Each pack will have 1 postcard, 1 tattoo, & 2 stickers. I'll also include zines while supplies last! Get 'em here: SquidFacts.net

a large assortment of stickers, feating squid facts, everything sucks let's do something zines, milfs for mother earth zines, pollinator postcards, snake, squid, and bat facts postcards, plant native plants goth girl stickers, squid stickers that say squid have donut shaped brains, "please plant native plants or go to hell" bumper stickers, OG Squid facts stickers, and bug facts stickers, and shrimp tatts. Oh also plant native plant stickers with milkweed and a monarch, and "Save our freaks don't mine the deep" stickers.

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Sharing again for the morning crowd. Should post today

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

FYI, USDA will be posting a wildlife biologist position in disease ecology tomorrow at NWRC. Career ladder position (GS-12, basically a PI) Job Announcement Number: DH-13053349-26-WSH

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What a week to be teaching outbreak investigation

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Having to explain to my students that their departmental expo presentations didn't win awards because they don't do lab work and my fellow faculty (the judges) don't understand statistics or modeling 😮‍💨

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Enjoyable take - we don't often look at the positive about what we do, but non-linear works in both directions

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The Great Thing about Infectious Disease

YouTube video by vlogbrothers

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

He has thoughts about the lap part of the laptop

A black cat sits on the back of a gray chair, one paw on a bare shoulder, one claw sticking into the skin

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This is a really good book, and it's on sale!

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

9 has an #episky question I can't answer with enough precision: What is the likelihood of getting sick in your first week of school? He wants a probability, and all I can give is vague relative risk

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Describe your music tastes with only three artists? 🤔 1. Florence and the Machine 2. Le Vent du Nord 3. Kronos Quartet

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Rushing to finish making a shirt for the Ren Faire this weekend. Have I set seams backwards 2 nights in a row? Yes. But did my bobbin run out exactly at the end of a seam today? Also yes.

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Woman's Funny Balance Fail

Alt: Woman crossing a stream on a log, falls in halfway through, with the words "it's all about finding balance"

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New paper from my lab! Spatial and space–time trends of reported Shigella spp. outbreaks in the United States, 2009-2022 We partnered with the NORS group to analyze Shigella outbreaks over time (previously published) and space. Coming soon - individual case data!

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Spatial and space–time trends of reported Shigella spp. outbreaks in the United States, 2009-2022

Abstract. Shigella spp. are the leading cause of acute gastroenteritis, posing a public health concern in the United States. This study analyzed surveillan

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The last time I got a sunburn was because I was reading The Communist Manifesto on the beach and didn't notice how long I had been out My bigger problem is that I have multiple series in progress with Libby - it can be months between books. I manage, though.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...

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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab

Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/08/2026

I understand that funding bodies want to go all in on AI as the shiny new innovation thing. But if all the grants start going to AI at the expense of everything else then the research sector is going to end up looking like a farm with dozens of threshers hacking away in a field with no wheat.

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Great fundraiser I learned about from 13. They also have some great posters, stickers, and pins, including pro-masking designs youtube.com/shorts/rKYXY...

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let’s make sure everyone sees this post, friends! 💚

YouTube video by candycourn

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I pride myself on my ability to lecture from basic slides without a script, but based on the random pauses in the videos I'm editing today . . . maybe I should consider a script for recording . . .

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New article from our group! Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Beyond Pathogens: Mobile Genetic Elements We argue for the need to include MGEs in our AMR surveillance programs, and provide lots of information on tools and databases available to support that

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Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Beyond Pathogens: Mobile Genetic Elements - Current Epidemiology Reports

Purpose of Review Antimicrobial resistance genes (ARGs) are often transmitted among microbes via mobile genetic elements (MGEs), but few antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance programs incorporat...

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This thread pushed 13 into a massive cute aggression attack and squeals in an octave above her typical top note (A4)

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Just turned down a review request because the system was sending me daily reminders. I understand that's not the editor's fault (I've been yelled at for the reminder system not limiting itself to business days), but daily? Who thought that was a good idea?

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sound up! The partridge pea is such a joyful plant, even if it jumps around chaotically from year to year

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Your moment of zen for today

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Your Local Epidemiologist @ylepidemiologist.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

One day in 2020, I went to a coffee shop. I was so sick of working 100-hour weeks from home with a newborn that I loaded up the stroller, grabbed my laptop bag (the one with the big World Health Organization logo on it), and headed out. When I got there, I started typing a YLE post.

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

🚨 New today in Nature 🦟 After decades of debate, we show that climate change has probably made malaria worse in sub-Saharan Africa, causing about 1 extra case per 1,000 children. But: malaria eradication efforts have pulled the other direction 200 times harder. 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Graphical abstract for "The past and future impact of climate change on childhood malaria in Africa"

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Traded a collaborator a homemade scarf for this lovely gentleman - Culex pipiens

Acrylic painting with a wooden frame of a male mosquito upside down on a green leaf on a green background, hanging on a cream wall between a bookshelf and a full length window with plants on a middle shelf in pastel pots

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

POV you and your spouse have labs full of Brazilians. Round 1 of 6, plus sausage, pao de queijo, beans, and rice. And salad.

Grill with 7 steaks newly placed, a pair of tongs on the side

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Now that it's been announced at the college, I guess I can share here - as of August 16, I will be promoted to full professor at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine!

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Parents, please consider participating in our survey, “Associations Between Vaccine Hesitancy, Antibiotic and Over-The-Counter Use, and Trust in the Health Professions study”. We want to hear from you! redcap.link/VHAOT Also, please share with your friends!

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Consent

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Becky Smith @rlsdvm.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Live in the Midwest US? We are conducting a research study to understand what people in the Midwest know about mosquitoes and the diseases they spread. Just one online survey that takes about 10-20 minutes. Ready to participate? Scan the QR code or go to: redcap.link/mosquitocont...

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